“The Lord Knows I’m Drinking” (Cal Smith, 1972). I’m currently reading Whisperin’ Bill Anderson: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music, the 2016 memoir by the author of this song, who’s been a county star and Grand Ole Opry mainstay since the late 1950s. In it, he writes that he and his then-wife were having … Continue reading Program Notes on ‘Tennessee Walt’s A Distant Country 3′
Month: June 2020
Me and ‘Me and Bobby McGee’
Way before I ever got into country music—let alone started to think about performing it—I knew and loved a handful of country songs that I’d come across in one fashion or another. I didn’t necessarily recognize them as country songs, but I’d heard “Can the Circle Be Unbroken,” “The Wabash Cannonball” and “Tennessee Waltz,” and … Continue reading Me and ‘Me and Bobby McGee’
Tennessee Walt 