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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Porter Wagoner
On the Road 
(RCA / Legacy)




After Sunday morning preaching, family and friends broke bread in celebration. Simple dishes covered the dining table. Laughter bounced off faded clapboard walls.

All later gathered in the living room. Time for The Thin Man From West Plains, Missouri. His sequined Nudie suits, ingratiating grin, and rustic drawl matched his faithful renditions of regular-folks airs, ones to which the hardworking who believed in something better could relate.

His eyes fixed on the flickering screen, a shy kid vowed to buy a guitar. 

Recommended: "Dooley," "One Way Ticket To the Blues," "I Wouldn't Buy a Used Car From Him" (Norma Jean), "Turkey In the Straw" (Mack Magaha and Buck Trent), "Old Camp Meeting Time," "Where the Old Red River Flows" (George McCormick), "Country Music Has Gone To Town," "Camptown Races" (George McCormick), "Don't Ever Take No For An Answer" (Speck Rhodes), "Green, Green Grass of Home," "Katy Hill" (Mack Magah and Buck Trent).

Videos: "Green, Green Grass of Home"
           "Turkey In the Straw"
           "I Wouldn't Buy a Used Car From Him"
           "Don't Ever Take No For An Answer"
           "Old Camp Meeting Time"



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FORMER staff writer for Rockabilly and Pin Up America magazines. FREELANCE credits include Daily Caller, American Thinker, Free Republic, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Independent Political Report, USA Today, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Waterloo Courier, Cedar Falls Times, Marshalltown Times Republican, Cincinnati.com, IndyStar, Arizona Republic, No Depression, Goldmine, Blue Suede News, Rock and Rap Confidential, Crackerjack, Blues News, Wrecking Pit, Punk Globe, Prairie Sun, Music and Sound Output, BAM, New Music, and 1980s NYC fanzines Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Rebel Rouser, and Off the Wall. AUTHOR: Shake, Rattle and Rocket!, Ghost Saucers in the Sky!, Stratosphere Boogieman!, Flesh Made Music, That a Man Can Again Stand Up: American spirit vs, sedition during the incipient Trump Revolution, and Ideas Afoot: Political observations, social commentary, and media analyses. WORKED as 2004 Iowa coordinator for Ralph Nader independent presidential campaign; co-founded Iowa Green Party, also served as statewide media coordinator; press coordinator, 2002 Jay Robinson (Green) IA gubernatorial effort. Wrote extensively re Trump campaign..