written and recorded by Jim Matt


https://youtu.be/pXWi0sQ6aGo

Often times I hear how it's hard to get all the words to fit into line. Either they try to cut a few words out or they slip out of time. Sometimes you can switch a few words and the line still works but barring that, you'll just have to find a way to make the proper lyrics fit. You can't afford to slip out of time. So what can...

written & recorded by Tom T. Hall


https://youtu.be/HFkBMaZEwMs

Now first of all, I want to make this PERFECTLY CLEAR! I did not chose this tune to record because of any current state of politics in the United States. I may or may not think much of Donald Trump as President, but he's not my President so it's not for me to comment upon that.

I chose this song because it...

written and recorded by 'Stomping' Tom Connors


https://youtu.be/VnISwYTeicU

This is not the first Tom Connors tune that I have featured and it likely won't be the last. What I like about Tom is that he is a story teller through and through. Be it a funny story or a serious one, Tom knows how to tell it in song. Naturally when you start telling tales they have a way of stretching a bit...

written by Pat Bunch, Doug Johnson and Dave Berg
recorded by Ty Herndon


https://youtu.be/dE-ziSJuu3s

During the summer of 1995 a funny, 'Forgive Me I Was Wrong.' song came over the air waves and took my quite by surprise. First, it doesn't take the task of apologizing very seriously, which is a strike against it in my book and secondly, it was a quick, rocky song and I'm a slow,...

written by Carl Belew & Van Givens
recorded by Charlie Walker


https://youtu.be/FepCOl3HzvA

My Uncle Charlie was the only brother in my father's family who did not sing or play an instrument. He was a real cowboy like figure. A loner and always separate from the rest in certain ways. He once told me that his out-right favorite Country song was 'Don't Squeeze My Sharmon'. He laughed...