The painful, booze-sodden detour from Lovers’ Lane
It’s a simple, classic recipe:
One (1) broken heart.
One (1) bottle of booze. (Add more as needed).
The result is the drunken break-up, heartbreak song, presented here by the recently reunited Mavericks. I love their sound: Rockabilly beats, backed by a powerful blast of Latino horns, probably due to the influence of lead singer Raul Malo out of Miami. Good stuff.
– Jay Bookman
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TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faWRUevPHno
josef
March 1st, 2013
6:15 pm
speaking of vacations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u2G6OyZyCI
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
6:16 pm
pogo! Doubling down??!!
C’mon man, play some Utopia or something righteous!
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEgQKRK9g0
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
6:18 pm
Buffalo’s Rick James was a HUGE talent.
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqi3CSGJnds
kayaker 71
March 1st, 2013
6:22 pm
Maxine Waters…… BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 1st, 2013
6:23 pm
Well, I still hurt over Bessie Mae Lumpkin dumping me back when I was 16 and in my last year in the 5th grade. Matter of fact, I can’t hardly think of that without thinking about this song by these boys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0Sscke9z4
Things is hopping up here at Billy Bob’s tonight. Tell you the truth, I’m kinda glad y’all ain’t here to start fussing and getting everybody riled up. Have a good weekend everybody.
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:24 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPLaUkaigoo
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 1st, 2013
6:24 pm
“the t*rd on the FNM punchbowl…
You Rang?
Anyway, back in the day…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LFcI3VBJS0
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
6:31 pm
Great 6:02 deep cut tune, TBS. And another KILLER rock-a-roller Dixie band.
Hiya, Normal. (Sorry, you may always be that to me. And GO NAVY!) If I’m not being to nosy, may I inquire about whether you would tell us about the meaning of your name? (Not the Descartes part.)
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
6:32 pm
For R C (R–apoi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MS9fk1u6kA
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipUS_W57nGU
josef
March 1st, 2013
6:36 pm
for Maxine AND her fans here tonight…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9S7yhD5M9A
josef
March 1st, 2013
6:45 pm
GO NAVY!
Okay, how could I resist…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68
and Corbin…don’t forget, I’ve got photo evidence!!!
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 1st, 2013
6:55 pm
Well, long as you’re talking about weird cars, backatcha, Kam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4pAwosnIQE
TBS
March 1st, 2013
6:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQQ_vl47CGc
To all the FMNers have an awesome night and and even better weekend. Stay warm
peace out
Soothsayer
March 1st, 2013
7:04 pm
Rest in Peace, Bonnie Franklin.
I hear that train a comin’ . . .
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
7:11 pm
Wow, this may be a first. The bluenose autobot moderated my previous, very innocuous post. Too funny.
Listening to some Robin Trower on – http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/radioplayer2/index.html
Two more bottles of wine
March 1st, 2013
7:11 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWCi8_ObPNU
Soothsayer
March 1st, 2013
7:13 pm
For Bonnie Franklin as she makes her journey home.
You Never Even Call Me by My Name
March 1st, 2013
7:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sco_eBvXGTQ
Cold ones...
March 1st, 2013
7:18 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MGfJ3eMGA
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
7:19 pm
RC
I recall once’d that you played this little number, a song that my late Da would hum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBi_CyJe604
Get your motor running
March 1st, 2013
7:20 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWRypqz5-o
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
7:29 pm
Sooth, that vid of those long freight trains out on the lonely Great Plains, where Metheny and I are from, made me almost hear that whistle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4d0R0uI79Y
josef
March 1st, 2013
7:43 pm
ZamVet
Got your “old damned rodeo…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrrsLZaY9s
Soothsayer
March 1st, 2013
7:43 pm
Jam-man, your beautiful post mad me think of this one.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
7:48 pm
I saw Coe once in some dive in Decatur. Some bikers I was with told the cops we were gonna go behind the bus and get high and not to f&ck with us. I was scared sh*tless that I was going to jail. (But I didn’t!)
Mr. Jedi Mind Meld It's Not My Fault
March 1st, 2013
7:49 pm
The first four years of economic bad news is Bush’s fault and now it’s the fault of congressional Republicans.
I’m Not a Dictator or Judge–Any Bad Econ News During Sequester Is All GOP’s Fault
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 1st, 2013
7:52 pm
Jam,
I’m back for a bit. I’m actually thinking about going back to my “Normal” name, but Corbin Sharpe is a combination of a birthplace and a special family name. 2012 was a bad year for my Kentucky relatives and I was feeling nostalgic. The things (and people) you thought would be there forever…but now aren’t.
Anyway I think it’s time to lock away the memories and go back to be me, what’ll y’all think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xTQpPiO3_E
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 1st, 2013
7:54 pm
Well, put a couple PBRs in me and you make me think of another sad song. Here’s to all the guys that couldn’t find good jobs down South and had to move up north to put cars together that they couldn’t afford theirselfs. There was hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them. Sing it, Bobby Bare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6dP1xLk4rQ
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 1st, 2013
7:57 pm
I got your cowboys right here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2f8gf6HHo
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
8:00 pm
I’ve never been to Amarillo, but I’ve been damn close. (As in the Oklahoma panhandle.)
Corbin, nice ELO! I love Kentucky! (Who wouldn’t?) GREAT memories of special friends and camping! More than once. You hang tough. buddy.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 1st, 2013
8:01 pm
This guy was born yesterday, 1940. He’s gone now, but happy birthday to him anyway…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsR1k453SA
Soothsayer
March 1st, 2013
8:04 pm
Well, ol’ Sooth’s gonna leave you now. But I wanted to share this one with you. I have to admit I was torn between this one and another one. But the other one will have to wait. The sound quality is not very good, but the message is humble and honest.
Goodnight everyone, sleep well!
td
March 1st, 2013
8:05 pm
A good old one with some fresh faces and some old faces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyRLTzdEv_k
josef
March 1st, 2013
8:09 pm
CORBIN
Always up for some of that highly underrated fellow when I’m in this mood…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGyENr3_44
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
8:12 pm
RC, are you HD?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 1st, 2013
8:19 pm
RC, are you HD?
Nope. Me and Hillbilly never seemed to get along. I’d mention the Rev. Jim Bob Buice and he’d say he knew alot of Buices and never heard of a Jim Bob. I’d mention Countryland Golf Club and he’s come back with saying he knew the people that sold the land to the club. It’s just as well he took off for Kyle Wingfield’s place. He just never took to me.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
8:20 pm
td, good call. Not much of a cornball country music fan (so tonight has been a bit of a challenge for me, LOL at me!) but even so, I liked that.
We were young and starry eyed and optimistic about the future. Our futures. The country’s future. Sometimes I wonder if the more reactionary of us ever had that. Or if they were just more focused on looking backwards…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZRYzZsOOs
josef
March 1st, 2013
8:24 pm
Du-k-sha-nee
And I can see why. He’s the real deal. A Southern Gentleman of Culture and Breeding.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
8:28 pm
RC, I think I’ve played Golfland. But then again, I think I’m wrong.
St. Marlos, White Columns, Lanier, a few others. but there are only a hundred different courses around here to mix up.
td
March 1st, 2013
8:30 pm
You can not have a country drinking night without this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2V4UUjYBsA
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
8:37 pm
td, good call. Not much of a cornball country music fan (so tonight has been a bit of a challenge for me, LOL at me!) but even so, I liked that.
That was some fine string bending. Glad to see groups like Blackberry Smoke keeping good country alive.
Check out Robbie Folks’ take on the Nashville Scene.
http://youtu.be/Pmq1xOh6YRk
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 1st, 2013
8:38 pm
RC, I think I’ve played Golfland. But then again, I think I’m wrong.
Well, you’d remember Countryland if you played it. It’s the one with the clubhouse made out of about four double-wides nailed together. Here’s a link to the web page:
http://www.countrylandgolf.com/
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
8:39 pm
Oops. Damn. Sorry! Didn’t realize that I was restarting another non-Civil War between two grey boys! (BWAHAHAHA!)
Well, the Internet Nazis have taken away Prince’s Sexy MF FROM THE youtube thingamabob.
So. i’ll have to go for some Fahrenheit 451…(White punk.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1hojKl0r9M
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
8:41 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUiSP5JMoEY
td
March 1st, 2013
8:42 pm
godless heathen – owner of many things he does not need
That was some fine string bending. Glad to see groups like Blackberry Smoke keeping good country alive.
I went to High School with the Drummer and the Bass player (Brit and Richard Turner). Nice guys that are finally getting their chance to make it.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
8:43 pm
I have an idea who RC is, but I’ll never reveal it on a public board.
td
March 1st, 2013
8:43 pm
This one will make you want to drink a beer or cry in a beer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIuAQPKp4×0
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
8:46 pm
jonix, I know it was a crazy guess, but musically, they are pretty close.
I wish I was a fat cat. I’d golf and fish a lot more.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
8:47 pm
td: It doesn’t take a lot to get the heathen to want to drink a beer but that Bosephus cut is fine.
josef
March 1st, 2013
8:48 pm
HEATHEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVQsQBenvs
josef
March 1st, 2013
8:50 pm
HEATHEN
Oh, I know who he is, too…and I don’t much care for his other persona on here either…
ZamVet
Nope. HD is far more ecclectic and far more knowledgeable in his music as well as other areas.
Soothsayer
March 1st, 2013
8:51 pm
Redneck: best not bad-mouth Tommy Bagwell’s golf course. He might turn you into dog food like everything else he gets his hands on!
td
March 1st, 2013
8:53 pm
godless heathen – owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
8:47 pm
That song was a early piece before he hit the commercial market. Never thought it got its proper due for the raw feelings in it.
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
8:55 pm
td, you drink beer? (You know what Mr. Franklin wrote about that, right?!)
I was into that Luckenbach, Texas thing for about 10 minutes. (I bought the record.)
How embarrassing, I. never even try to figure out who is who and when I do, I get murdered. Thanks, fellow hebe, jo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HGP2Jg1XYA
td
March 1st, 2013
8:59 pm
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
8:55 pm
td, you drink beer?
No, not in 30 years (except for twice sitting in the hot sun on the beach and trying to pass a kidney stone about a year ago.)
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
9:02 pm
THE Nashville scene song.
http://youtu.be/czu_8e6J-R8
td
March 1st, 2013
9:07 pm
One of the best country songs written and performed by non country artist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XmUHnBlf48&NR=1&feature=endscreen
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
9:07 pm
and trying to pass a kidney stone about a year ago.
heathen believes in preventive medicine. gh never had any kidney stones.
josef
March 1st, 2013
9:08 pm
ZamVet
No comment, fellow Hebe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDn0qjjB-80
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
9:09 pm
Are we going to get a bill some day for YouTube?
td
March 1st, 2013
9:16 pm
Here is a good one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1fX-FvKW8
td
March 1st, 2013
9:19 pm
One more good one for this evening entertainment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ
Mick
March 1st, 2013
9:26 pm
jay
I know bobby reynolds, bass player for the mavericks and who was once married to trisha yearwood. I’ve jammed with him many times, never could have predicted that he would “make” it. He forgot about all his old friends that he hung with when he was a young maverick. Interesting the way things turn out-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VhfY_5YNV4
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
9:33 pm
…and I don’t much care for his other persona on here either…
And yet you are on real good terms with another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxVXNWdHDq8
josef
March 1st, 2013
9:36 pm
K’CHAK
Perhaps…I’ve been surprised before…
They call me MISTER JamVet.
March 1st, 2013
9:56 pm
A little life pushes away a lot of darkness…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0d1HilfLxA.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 1st, 2013
10:03 pm
RC is always here
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 1st, 2013
10:04 pm
Well, it’s always nice when a big guy remembers and thanks the little folks that work for him:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/pope-benedict-stops-by-prayer-writers-room-to-say,31486/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2013
10:09 pm
Starting to get some light flurries of snow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFPzI1t6MRU
td
March 1st, 2013
10:27 pm
An instant country classic the first moment it was played.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErhiOFgvRkc&NR=1&feature=endscreen
Mick
March 1st, 2013
10:28 pm
Think everybody needs some-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJhAemx7HiQ
td
March 1st, 2013
10:46 pm
Got to add the man in black.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df9lIfWSqTE
Just Saying..
March 1st, 2013
10:47 pm
Rave review in today’s Tampa Bay Times, downloaded ASAP. Malo as good as ever, these guys have been apart way too long…
td
March 1st, 2013
10:48 pm
Another good one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr3o7KPh8LE
nomaj
March 1st, 2013
10:54 pm
“When whiskey and blood run together, did you hear anyone pray?”
Flyboy
March 1st, 2013
10:56 pm
Jay, I don’t care for your politics, but I sure like your taste in music.
td
March 1st, 2013
11:01 pm
Can not have a drinking song night without the original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=4WXYjm74WFI&feature=fvwp
td
March 1st, 2013
11:04 pm
Have to Willie to the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7f189Z0v0Y&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Rabbit
March 1st, 2013
11:15 pm
why is congress cheering? Here’s a bit from the NYT (nytimes.com) “FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS By the end of the fiscal year, on Sept. 30, the Labor Department estimates that $2.3 billion will be cut from federal jobless benefits. Those benefits provide 14 to 47 weeks of aid after state-provided benefits run out, generally after 26 weeks. The support is critical. The share of unemployed workers who have been out of work for more than six months was 38.1 percent in January, with the worst levels of long-term unemployment occurring among workers 45 or older. That group is likely to have substantial family and financial obligations, even as it is often shunned by employers. According to an Urban Institute survey last year, workers in their 50s are about 20 percent less likely to be rehired than workers ages 25 to 34.
It will probably take the states, which administer the benefits, at least until April to make the program changes. While that will postpone the immediate pain, it means that the cuts, when they come, will be concentrated over an even shorter period.
NUTRITION AID The federal government has yet to issue specific guidance on how states should handle an estimated cut to the WIC program of $340 million this fiscal year. Little will happen until April, but, after that, priority is likely to be given increasingly to pregnant and breast-feeding women and to infants, while women not breast-feeding are put on an indefinite wait list, along with many children over 1 year old. The cutbacks to mothers would affect African-Americans disproportionately, because their breast-feeding rates are lower than other groups’. The cuts in aid to children will fall disproportionately on Hispanic families, who tend to have more children.”NYT
Rabbit
March 1st, 2013
11:22 pm
http://www.allmusic.com/album/country-drinking-songs-direct-source-mw0001272197
a pretty good taste of broken drinking hearts
td
March 1st, 2013
11:32 pm
The perfect country and western song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAOVRkSCWmg
td
March 1st, 2013
11:41 pm
The night two huge country stars told the CMA to kiss their butts on national TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3K9irFC5k
td
March 1st, 2013
11:50 pm
One more to end the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExw77xJsBQ
Orange13
March 2nd, 2013
6:44 am
Sequestration hits and now this
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/chivas-whisky-spill-scotch-sewer_n_2788767.html
Lynn K
March 2nd, 2013
7:10 am
Thanks for sharing, Jay.
Tom Middleton
March 2nd, 2013
7:28 am
The Blues came this morning….from a few years ago. What a family!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0TLP_DCB3I
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 2nd, 2013
7:50 am
Good morning all y’all…Just because it’s thay kind of day…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM7BRP7uzFk
Common Sense is Uncommon
March 2nd, 2013
9:03 am
I awoke this morning, birds were singing, my electricity is still on, my car is in the drive way, I am healthy, my family are happy, no Obama predicted catastrophe. I realize Obama will do everything he can over the next few weeks to cause catastrophes so he can blame it on the Pubs and his dumbed down minions will go along, but for now now no economic failure. Keep an eye on Obama’s new spending programs for the truth, like golf outings, vacations for his family, travel for his constant complaining and other give aways like financial aid to the Al Quaeda Syrian rebels. Note the thousands of crimnal and dangerous prisons he has already released prior to any budget cuts. With his prisoner release program coupled with his warning of police losing their jobs, we need to reduce restrictions on gun ownership.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 2nd, 2013
9:12 am
We get it Common, you don’t like President Obama. To that I say “so what?” A large majority of Americans did. He won. Period. Get over it. You’ll feel better in the long run. As to the sequester, I’ll just wait and see. I do hope it will all be a big nothing, but I doubt it. There WILL be job loss and economic down turn. How bad? Who know yet? But I do know this…any loss at all will fall to the feet of the Republicans. Social media is a wonderful thing.
Soothsayer
March 2nd, 2013
9:13 am
Good morning.
Wow -- never saw this one coming....
March 2nd, 2013
9:16 am
Ga. NAACP Accuses Gov. Deal of Racism For Suspending DeKalb School Board Members – See more at: http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/03/01/ga-naacp-accuses-gov-deal-of-racism-for-suspending-dekalb-school-board-members/#sthash.NKrOrAQc.dpuf
indigo
March 2nd, 2013
9:28 am
Common – 9:03
Obama did NOT say that, the second sequestration became a reality, all these bad things you allude to would immediately take place.
If this sequestration continues, and nothing is done to stop it, there will be hardships for many. No one knows how long this will go on and how widspread the pain will be.
Using persuasive explanations to try and bolster your viewpoints only shows how shaky they are to start with.
Common sense is certainly NOT one of your strong points.
Orange13
March 2nd, 2013
9:31 am
“But I do know this…any loss at all will fall to the feet of the Republicans.”
And of course the dems and obama have no culpability in this?
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 2nd, 2013
9:49 am
Orange,
If you look at ALL of the things being said on this subject and not just the right wing media, you would see. Remember just how correct the right wing media was in predicting the Presidential election.
The foot dragging, the actions of a spoiled four year old, the willful misuse of the filibuster, etc….all of those things point to just one thing. The GOP does not care about the average American…and I will say it again…The GOP is very good at slapping you on the back, calling you a fine patriot, and thanking you for your vote, but if you do not make over 250,000.00 a year, they will screw you royally…That y’all can’t see that must say something about our educational system too. There is no critical thinking being taught. If one would just open his eyes and look around at ALL of the evidence out there.,..
Recon 0311 2533
March 2nd, 2013
9:50 am
Sadly the president talks as though he’s merely an outside observer as to how the government is functioning. The sequestration should be a test of the nations chief executive and commander-n-chief as to how effective he is as its leader. In all probability Obama will continue running from office, while behaving as though he’s still running for office by blaming the opposition party for the nations woes. When will the majority of voters see this president for what he really is, just plain bad for America.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
March 2nd, 2013
10:02 am
Del,
Bottom line. The Sequester WAS a BI-Partisan endeavor. Everybody signed it. There is no getting over that. And one other thing, tell me exactly what the President can do, now that it is a law?