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Country song that's well done..

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angminas said:
I think I'm the only person in the western hemisphere who doesn't prefer Mr. Cash's version of Hurt to the original. His rendition of Rusty Cage, however, is a notable improvement on the forgettable original.
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Trent Reznor's recording of Hurt had no emotion. No feeling. It meant absolutely nothing till Johnny Cash covered it. Cash put a lifetime of pain and emotion into the song and transformed it from nothing to amazing.
 
Raduque said:
Trent Reznor's recording of Hurt had no emotion. No feeling. It meant absolutely nothing till Johnny Cash covered it. Cash put a lifetime of pain and emotion into the song and transformed it from nothing to amazing.
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It wasn't written to be a hit single. You have to take it in the context of the album. He hurts so much that he's forced to choose between turning his back on his old feelings or killing himself. In order to survive, he severs the twisted emotions like a gangrenous limb. He stares at the stump in an anesthesia haze and is left wondering who he is now.

Mr. Cash performed it as an ending song, full of regrets. Mr. Reznor was still young and trying to make a new life, so he performed it as a beginning song, full of regrets, but also full of possibilities. Both have their own meaning, but tie goes to the songwriter.
 
No one mentioned Patsy Cline... She's one of the few country singers I can listen to just about any time. I don't have to be in a particular mood to dig her sound.
 
lxskllr said:
No one mentioned Patsy Cline... She's one of the few country singers I can listen to just about any time. I don't have to be in a particular mood to dig her sound.
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Yea, excellent point, Patsy was one of a kind. Here's her singing "Walking after midnight"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWeCdxZlU5E

Also gotta through this in from '96, "Blue" by LeAnn Rimes, the song was originally written for Patsy who was tragically killed by an idiot pilot who was trying to fly in extremely bad weather and was an not instrument-rated pilot. Geez, we've lost so many legends due to idiot pilots I get sad just thinking about it. Anyway, here's "Blue", Leann's voice was so similar to Patsy's people were shocked when it was released and it rushed to #1..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxpY8KLA-Y
 
David Allen Coe has more XXX than about any country musician out there.

Are many, many.

Guy I used to play in a band with that played Rythm guitar and was the front man was a Coe fanatic.
 
alkemyst said:
It's Sally G, by Paul McCartney. It actually reached #20 on the Billboard charts.

I still don't know what the G means and I couldn't google it.
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Neither did Paul, though he did say "I never thought to ask her what the letter "G" stood for,
But I know for sure it wasn't good."

Footnote, Sally G was also a '65 Mustang in the series "King of the hill" owned by Boomhauer and accidentally crashed by Hank and Bill into a local pond in their High school years. Hank felt so bad he never told Boomhauer about it but they pumped the pond some 20+ years later for some environmental issues and there it was and they had to confess to Boomhauer what really happened to his beloved Mustang.
 
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