Vern Scott
Jul 8, 2022

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What? No mention of:

Jerry Jeff Walker's "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother" (ok, lotsa Oklahoma in there) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBOcwgb4OA

Kinky Friedman's "I'm Proud to be an Asshole' from El Paso" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50gPRSi3Ic

"All the Sexists Live in Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqU6qsMiBzg

Satires yes, but thanks to Willie Nelson etc. hippies/rednecks can drink/laugh in harmony? I realize that Texaphiles Walker and Friedman are from NY (Oneonta) and Chicago respectively, (the others I have no idea) so I guess I broke the rules. So many great ones from Beaumont/Port Arthur area, incl. Winter Brothers, Janis Joplin, Big Bopper, but no great Texas songs from them? (except https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA8IPdJKLbQ)

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Vern Scott
Vern Scott

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