James linked a piece by Sippican Cottage on happy songs. (Thanks to Tex, I knew of them from the Borderline Sociopathic Blog for Boys). He warns that "The possibility of a thousand-way tie is more likely than a Top Ten list."
Fair enough! But it strikes me as odd that there are no bluegrass songs on the list. It's the happiest music of all!
Well, as long as you don't pay close attention to the words.
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Long time ago I was working alongside an older man,with a curious combination of skills- A union ironworker who had trained as a watchmaker... and a slightly built, sort of quiet guy- .anyway, we had some country station playing during lunch and he made the wry comment- "them damned cowboys must be awful poor lovers, their women are always running off with some other guy". Somehow we kept ourselves from choking on the laughter!
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Long time ago I was working alongside an older man,with a curious combination of skills- A union ironworker who had trained as a watchmaker... and a slightly built, sort of quiet guy- .anyway, we had some country station playing during lunch and he made the wry comment-
"them damned cowboys must be awful poor lovers, their women are always running off with some other guy".
Somehow we kept ourselves from choking on the laughter!
Yeah, country music is often sad even when it’s about something good. Bluegrass is almost exclusively major-chord upbeat murder ballads.
It is wonderfully cheerful music. Sippican's a great writer, isn't he?
Indeed, although what really pleased me was the insanity of the stunts he captured.
Steve Martin used to do a routine about how you can't play sad music on a banjo. He'd strum cheerfully to lyrics about doom and catastrophe.
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