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Post by Nashviller on Dec 30, 2022 9:43:24 GMT -5
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Post by Nashviller on Dec 30, 2022 9:53:14 GMT -5
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Post by Nashviller on Dec 30, 2022 9:57:16 GMT -5
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Post by Nashviller on Dec 30, 2022 9:59:00 GMT -5
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Post by youneverknow on Jan 15, 2023 3:17:04 GMT -5
I really enjoyed all the clips Michael.
I could listen to Ronnie talk all day. He's so relaxed and real. I love his latest album.
We saw Loretta Lynn in concert about a decade ago. It was definitely a family affair. Her family was both on stage and busy selling t-shirts in the lobby. The jokes her family members told on stage were some of the dirtiest I've heard. It was a small venue, about 500 people.
Alan Jackson gave an AARP Veteran's concert this past year. It was a live online event and was totally awesome. You could tell he was having trouble standing. It breaks my heart that he struggles.
I loved his suit in the videos. It was perfect for him.
And George. George is always just right.
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Post by nashviller on Jan 19, 2023 10:58:57 GMT -5
I really enjoyed all the clips Michael. I could listen to Ronnie talk all day. He's so relaxed and real. I love his latest album. We saw Loretta Lynn in concert about a decade ago. It was definitely a family affair. Her family was both on stage and busy selling t-shirts in the lobby. The jokes her family members told on stage were some of the dirtiest I've heard. It was a small venue, about 500 people. Alan Jackson gave an AARP Veteran's concert this past year. It was a live online event and was totally awesome. You could tell he was having trouble standing. It breaks my heart that he struggles. I loved his suit in the videos. It was perfect for him. And George. George is always just right. Call going back and listening to these threads kind of make me weepy eyed. Where in the hell did all the time go… blink and you wake up older and wiser but yet heartbroken for all the ones that left you on this cold earth all alone. I'm so glad you got to see Loretta… I have a few autograph photos from her… she was such a gracious Lady that we should all aspire to be like. Well maybe not an old cowboy butI think you get my drift.😂 |
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Post by nashviller on Jan 19, 2023 11:04:13 GMT -5
Here is Nuke Bushner who has been welcomed into the country music genre for the obvious reason… he is country plain and simple. Maybe it's time that we cleaned house in country music with one voice that says… fill in the blank. I don't care what country music says I should listen to I'm gonna listen to what a damn well please. And that's music with the twang and spurs Janglin!
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Post by nashviller on Jan 19, 2023 11:45:14 GMT -5
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Post by nashviller on Jan 23, 2023 10:58:39 GMT -5
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Post by youneverknow on Jan 26, 2023 0:31:05 GMT -5
Dang, Nuke is good. He sang the song exactly as it should be and his eyes are so expressive. He's one to watch.
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Post by youneverknow on Jan 26, 2023 0:36:24 GMT -5
George at Gruene Hall. It just doesn't get any better. : )
I'm sure you know this Michael but for the non Texas folks, Gruene is Green in German. Texas Hill Country had a lot of German settlers in the day. It's a nice little place to visit and spend some time.
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Post by nashviller on Jan 31, 2023 11:54:20 GMT -5
George at Gruene Hall. It just doesn't get any better. : )
I'm sure you know this Michael but for the non Texas folks, Gruene is Green in German. Texas Hill Country had a lot of German settlers in the day. It's a nice little place to visit and spend some time.
Yes yes Texas is a country all in and of itself… so I'm taking it that you have some German ancestry? I found out that I am 97% scotch Irish and related to Half of the Cowboys out in West Texas. It is so interesting to see the roads that I had no idea were there all along. |
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Post by youneverknow on Jan 31, 2023 13:46:51 GMT -5
Michael,
My maiden name means half-royal in German. The farming town I grew up in was largely of Swiss/German ancestry. The whole area was homesteaded by largely veterans after the US Civil War.
My great-grandfather immigrated with his brother as a teenager and then spent 5 years as a Union soldier to get his US citizenship. Like most Germans (though technically he was from a border area which was Swiss at the time) he saw the worst of it. Since very few of them spoke English they segregated them into units and sent them into the worst of the battles and the fighting. Then, after they hadn't been home in years, Abe Lincoln said we'll let you go home for Christmas if you re-enlist. Most of them did and so the war was extended for them.
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Post by nashviller on Feb 5, 2023 11:58:53 GMT -5
Michael,
My maiden name means half-royal in German. The farming town I grew up in was largely of Swiss/German ancestry. The whole area was homesteaded by largely veterans after the US Civil War.
My great-grandfather immigrated with his brother as a teenager and then spent 5 years as a Union soldier to get his US citizenship. Like most Germans (though technically he was from a border area which was Swiss at the time) he saw the worst of it. Since very few of them spoke English they segregated them into units and sent them into the worst of the battles and the fighting. Then, after they hadn't been home in years, Abe Lincoln said we'll let you go home for Christmas if you re-enlist. Most of them did and so the war was extended for them.
That is so cool that you know the roots of your ancestry... My god what a rough road we all hoed. I wish I knew more but my dad was on the orphan train in the 1920s right before the Great depression.. So he doesn't have any documentation who is kinfolk was. Not until the DNA tests… now I know Texas is where most of his people has settled… I guess they're my people too ...I just don't know them. Also the abstract my place shows that it was built by revolutionary war veterans who moved west after the revolutionary war. Then the civil War moved through town and the union burnt down everything except for my house and a few others which was used as a army hospital and staff housing. You know I would've went home for Christmas if I had the opportunity. Life with so fleeting back then... That was probably a once in a lifetime chance to go home. |
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Post by youneverknow on Feb 6, 2023 1:00:24 GMT -5
Michael,
My mom’s dad came from a family of a dozen kids. When his mom died they farmed out most of the older kids to neighboring farms as labor. My grandpa was one of the kids who was farmed out. They lived in the rural area around Fort Worth. My grandpa was a quarter Cherokee. Which wasn’t unusual for Texas.
One of my mom’s sisters had babies all over the place with a variety of men. We knew about some of them but others have popped up with DNA. She gave several away at birth after having a couple of the older ones taken away because she couldn’t feed them.
I wish your dad hadn’t been on an orphan train but I understand how it was a thing for more people than people today realize.
An elderly lady (long since passed now) lived next door to us here for years was also a quarter American Indian. Her grandmother was on the Trail of Tears and then was sold on the auction block. Her grandfather bought her and she became his wife.
History was indeed a rough road.
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