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Topic: Touched by the small town life.....

I just had a real Saturday warm-fuzzy treat......walked into the local guitar shop to pick up guitar....while waiting a somewhat grizzled-faced man, hands stained with a life of hard work, disheveled dirty clothes , brings in an old guitar in an old beat up guitar case.....looks like it's seen some miles, too...and all the young axe heads light up......"Play us some Johnny Cash..." they call out......he gets his "old friend" out of the case, settles in on a bar stool,  and starts playing & singing "Get Rhythm" and I thought to myself.......bet Johnny is smiling down right now on this humble looking man... What a touching moment I thought in this fast-paced life we lead.........
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Re: Touched by the small town life.....

Wow, that's pretty awesome. Patty, I didn't know you played!! smile Rock on!

Mary

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Re: Touched by the small town life.....

it's_all_about_apples wrote:

Wow, that's pretty awesome. Patty, I didn't know you played!! smile Rock on!

I don't play Mary sad .......wish I did...use to play bass guitar...had a little chat with Carmine about playing upright bass smile ......maybe  one of these days........ Patty

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Re: Touched by the small town life.....

pattyluvsjoe wrote:

I just had a real Saturday warm-fuzzy treat......walked into the local guitar shop to pick up guitar....while waiting a somewhat grizzled-faced man, hands stained with a life of hard work, disheveled dirty clothes , brings in an old guitar in an old beat up guitar case.....looks like it's seen some miles, too...and all the young axe heads light up......"Play us some Johnny Cash..." they call out......he gets his "old friend" out of the case, settles in on a bar stool,  and starts playing & singing "Get Rhythm" and I thought to myself.......bet Johnny is smiling down right now on this humble looking man... What a touching moment I thought in this fast-paced life we lead.........
                                                                                      pattyluvsjoe

P.S.  Ain't that America.

Awesome Patty - what a coincidence - the opening band last night for Frank Marino was
a Jonny Cash tribute band - so Jonny was smiling down last night too.  With a throwback
to the 70's crowd I didn't think they'd go over, but everyone loved them.  Jaci

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Re: Touched by the small town life.....

I was at a good friends house for dinner recently with my wife. Around the table were a few other local guitarists and their wives and sure enough, after dessert, out came a selection of guitars, mandolins and ukuleles all owned by my friend.  We were jamming in to the early hours as the whisky and brandy was passed around.... old blues songs, Dylan, Springsteen etc etc.... but the highlight of the night was the one guy who only played a little and didn't gig. He sang and played Hurt so much like Johnny Cash that he got the biggest round of applause and brought a tear to everyone's eye.

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Re: Touched by the small town life.....

An awesome song (very, very special to some of us) done in an awesome man's way by an obviously awesome friend...brings a tear just wanting to have been there and reading about it here...By the way, just asking gsj, was that guy you???

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I was at a good friends house for dinner recently with my wife. Around the table were a few other local guitarists and their wives and sure enough, after dessert, out came a selection of guitars, mandolins and ukuleles all owned by my friend.  We were jamming in to the early hours as the whisky and brandy was passed around.... old blues songs, Dylan, Springsteen etc etc.... but the highlight of the night was the one guy who only played a little and didn't gig. He sang and played Hurt so much like Johnny Cash that he got the biggest round of applause and brought a tear to everyone's eye.

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Re: Touched by the small town life.....

Play me a song Curtis Lowe, Curtis Lowe...

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Yeah I've seen the dude bunches of times, Patty.  Curtis Lowe too. Not literally for these guys, but literally with many others. An almost identical incident (used a guitar and no accompaniment and no karoake track) at a karaoke night about a year & a half ago. I think IT was a Johhny Cash song too, but everyone (else) was drinking or zoomin' too much to even give a fair listen.  Guy ran outta the place like the Cops TV show cameras and hellhounds were on his tail before I could chat him up! Literally saw Carlos Guitarlos down and mostly out (He was in the band Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, yes THAT Top Jimmy Van Halen sang about, substances killed Top Jimmy btw and Carlos almost went too) and he sings from the heart (check him out now, if you ever gave money to a "bum", here's your ROI) attack he's "trying" to recover from.

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Re: Touched by the small town life.....

No it wasn't me Rocket. I could never sound like The Man In Black even if my life depended on it big_smile

Rocket wrote:

An awesome song (very, very special to some of us) done in an awesome man's way by an obviously awesome friend...brings a tear just wanting to have been there and reading about it here...By the way, just asking gsj, was that guy you???

gsj wrote:

I was at a good friends house for dinner recently with my wife. Around the table were a few other local guitarists and their wives and sure enough, after dessert, out came a selection of guitars, mandolins and ukuleles all owned by my friend.  We were jamming in to the early hours as the whisky and brandy was passed around.... old blues songs, Dylan, Springsteen etc etc.... but the highlight of the night was the one guy who only played a little and didn't gig. He sang and played Hurt so much like Johnny Cash that he got the biggest round of applause and brought a tear to everyone's eye.

never give up, never slow down
never grow old, never ever die young