I grew up listening to George Jones. I kinda had to because we're family. I was born a Jones He was my daddy's cousin. I remember when he used to come out to the ranch where I was raised. He used to bring us kids presents from places he had been. When I was 8 yrs old he was sitting in one of those woven lawn chairs that sucked...and I was in his lap and he had a glass of whiskey in his hand and that chairs legs buckled and down we went. I never hit the ground and he never spilled a drop. Lot's of memories from back then. The last time I talked to him was at my momma's funeral. The last time I saw him was at his. ❤
50s had the greats from both Country and Rock in their early days on the same buses, doing the same venues and learning from each other. Such an awesome time for music
@@BourbonCountryReacts don't get me wrong. the 60's is wrong country and rock started to drift and get their own identity. As you mentioned, Hendrix and the Stars Spangled Banner was a whole different musical language.
In the 1960s the record producers in Nashville made a concerted effort to differentiate themselves from rock & roll so that's when you stopped hearing the electric guitars and heard more orchestra in the background. It was called the Nashville Sound. That's one reason Waylon was called an outlaw because he wanted to make his music the way he wanted and not how Nashville wanted him to do it.
This is what they were calling Rocka Billy. Country music keeps evolving and reinventing itself. I grew up with country music and listened to it all through my adulthood, And you can hear the music change each decade with whatever popular at the time And yet there's still just be something about it that says country...
My great uncle was famed in the area we live for his moonshine. His moonshine was so good, that once, he and a friend of his got arrested for what was an accidental fire. The charges were dropped because the judge was one of his most frequent customers. Story goes that before the trial started, several jugs appeared in the judge’s barn on his property overnight with a note that just said enjoy. He concluded he could not send his best moonshine maker away. He dismissed the case. My dad says that after all these years, he can remember the location where my uncle use to make it. This song always makes me think of my uncle. He was one of the coolest men you could ever met. Never knew a stranger, would help anyone, and could spin a story so wild you never knew if it was real, something he made up on the spot or a little bit of both.
Conway Twitty recorded "It's Only Make Believe" in 1958 as a rock n roll song. It was not re-recorded but became a #1 country song in the 70s. Just like White Lightnin', the only thing that made it country was time and the artist
Early rock and roll had a lot of country influence. My examples would be the Everly Brothers and Roger Miller. I've heard both classified as country and rock stars. A fun reaction. As others have said George Jones has many great songs: The One I Loved Back Then", "The Grand Tour"
I was raised in NE Indiana. I married a guy from Virginia. When he got out of the Air Force in 1964, we moved to his home area in Virginia. It was total culture shock. 2 of his uncles were making illegal whiskey up on the Potomac River just outside of Quantico Marine Base. So in 1959 when this song dropped, they were doing that. You don't have to go back to Prohibition. I think there's still some going on down in Franklin County, Virginia.
George Jones was at one point married to Tammy Whynette there's a kind of funny story George was a notorious drunk and one day George needed a drink and Tammy took the keys so he wouldn't be able to go to the barand so he'd grab a different set of keys and jump in the tractor and drove the tractor to the bar
This is 2 days in a row that someone's reaction reminded me of the movie "Thunder Road", starring Robert Mitchum as a moonshine runner, who also sang the theme song of the same title. Probably won't be asked for by anyone, but that movie hit my young boy's developing "car crazy" right in the gut. Very cool for the time. Two minutes of listening to the song tells the whole story.
@@BourbonCountryReacts Hope you've gotten to see it. I first saw it as a kid at the Drive-in in my PJs. The scene where he rolls that '50/'51 (forget which) Ford and the feds say they are bringing the license plate number in on their front bumper was cool with a capital K to my young eyes.
when I was a teenager the radio station use to play the Friday song every Friday it was one of my favorite traditions growing up.... and yes one of my favorite songs as well.
There are other performances where he adds in hiccups before he says "White Lightning". He's pretty good at it. It's pretty funny. But the performance y'all reacted to is how the original recording sounded.. It's interesting to see how different George sounded back then. Not exactly the sound and style that most people remember him for, although many know this song well.. Perhaps George was still honing or searching for his style. I remember watching an interview with George in which he talked about meeting Hank Williams Sr when he was 15. A lady walked him into the house and told Hank that George could sing just like him.. Then Hank told George, "I used to sing like Roy Acuff.. But then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff." I guess basically saying he should find his own style, instead of trying to sound like somebody else.. Glad he did, because like Hank, George found his own unique style that no one can replicate. And people love him for it.
Couple more quintessential whiskey songs: Mountain Dew by Grandpa Jones (many others); Chug a Lug by Roger Miller; Dooley by the Dillards (from Andy Griffith); Time to Switch to Whiskey (with Rye Whiskey) Five Dollar Bill, I Think You Oughtta Try Whiskey, Pour Em Kinda Strong and Drink It Like You Mean it all by Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans ... Of course there's more too
Given that it was Keith who said there was nothing country about that except the singer, I'm gonna give him the benefit of believing that he was talking about the music, instruments, chord combos, etc & not the song because moonshining, hiding from the law, etc are def country. And I still think this would have been the perfect song to have been paired with the bribe you got early on that turned out to be moonshine but I'm happy all the same that you two have reacted to it now.
George Jones was stuck in a rock and a hard place back then was a great singer but lousy husband drunk all the time abusive failed to come to concerts or came to them drunk it was an uphill climb but after he stopped loving her today he started to get sober
I do have to say that it's almost tragic that you've been doing these reactions for so long and you have yet to listen to anything from Randy Travis. 'Forever and ever Amen' 'On the other Hand,' 'Deeper than the Holler.'
And yeah everything is good with the pairing. I rarely pair bourbon with songs, exceptions were the songs Yellow Rose with Yellow Rose bourbon, Paridise with 82nd Airborne Bourbon that Dustin screwed up, and the Horse Soldier currently waiting. When I pair bourbons with songs it has meaning.
Nice reaction, gentlemen! Early Possum! ❤️🔥 One of the original GOATs! ❤ Next: "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)". ;-) It's right up y'alls alley 😁! Also just Have to mention, Alan Jackson does a great cover of George's "Revenooer Man". (off AJ's 'Under The Influence' album, one of my personal all time fav albums)
A good number of country music Oggi's names you'd never recognize Marty Robbins and George Jones why do you think rock and roll borrow so much your mother genres if we like it we take it we don't we don't. Was a great reaction guys.
Possibly the most accurate/appropriate song for the channel! 😂 (White lightning isn't really bourbon I know, but...) I knew an old man who used to make moonshine, said he didn't know what the big fuss was about aging; said he let some sit for two whole weeks and couldn't tell a damn bit of difference! 🤪🤔🤣
Steven needs to come to Indiana and sit on the couch. Pretty sure he's spent as much money on bribes as a plane ticket would cost.😅 He's practically the third guy on the channel 😉. Keep up the good work guys.
I grew up listening to George Jones. I kinda had to because we're family. I was born a Jones He was my daddy's cousin. I remember when he used to come out to the ranch where I was raised. He used to bring us kids presents from places he had been. When I was 8 yrs old he was sitting in one of those woven lawn chairs that sucked...and I was in his lap and he had a glass of whiskey in his hand and that chairs legs buckled and down we went. I never hit the ground and he never spilled a drop. Lot's of memories from back then. The last time I talked to him was at my momma's funeral. The last time I saw him was at his. ❤
yeah, it's rockabilly I love george Jones. you should check out "the one I loved back ( the corvette song) and "the Friday song "
I also love The Race Is On and He Stopped Loving Her Today
Rockabilly is the right word and is a genre ot country music
Could be, but that was rock. - Keith
Back then they didn't have the history of then till now like we do when we are listening to them
50s had the greats from both Country and Rock in their early days on the same buses, doing the same venues and learning from each other.
Such an awesome time for music
I never really got into much from the 50s. My tastes really start in the mid to late 60s, which is still years before I was born. - Keith
@Bourbon Country Reacts 50's music actually got me into rock and roll, so many greats plus Elvis
Amen!!!
@@BourbonCountryReacts don't get me wrong. the 60's is wrong country and rock started to drift and get their own identity. As you mentioned, Hendrix and the Stars Spangled Banner was a whole different musical language.
In the 1960s the record producers in Nashville made a concerted effort to differentiate themselves from rock & roll so that's when you stopped hearing the electric guitars and heard more orchestra in the background. It was called the Nashville Sound. That's one reason Waylon was called an outlaw because he wanted to make his music the way he wanted and not how Nashville wanted him to do it.
Omg i love George and this song rip George
This is what they were calling Rocka Billy. Country music keeps evolving and reinventing itself. I grew up with country music and listened to it all through my adulthood, And you can hear the music change each decade with whatever popular at the time And yet there's still just be something about it that says country...
Classic
"Hot Rod Lincolin" is another good one of the same style. Rockabilly is so much fun to listen to.
I enjoyed the nerding out on the music
My great uncle was famed in the area we live for his moonshine. His moonshine was so good, that once, he and a friend of his got arrested for what was an accidental fire. The charges were dropped because the judge was one of his most frequent customers. Story goes that before the trial started, several jugs appeared in the judge’s barn on his property overnight with a note that just said enjoy. He concluded he could not send his best moonshine maker away. He dismissed the case. My dad says that after all these years, he can remember the location where my uncle use to make it. This song always makes me think of my uncle. He was one of the coolest men you could ever met. Never knew a stranger, would help anyone, and could spin a story so wild you never knew if it was real, something he made up on the spot or a little bit of both.
I actually found the remains of one of my grandfather's stills way back in the day. - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts I have no idea how anyone drank/drinks the stuff. LOL.
It was originally released by a 50's rock star named the Big Bopper.
Nice! And you didn't even interrupt the song before your reaction / assessment. That's pretty rare.
Glad I found your channel.
Be aware, we actually do stop videos for commentary most times. - Keith
Song was written by the big bopper and released a couple weeks before he died in the plane crash with buddy holly
A lotta people don't realize or know that Johnny Paycheck is the guy singing next to George here.
It was a Rock-a-billy song hit for the Big Bopper. He died in the plane crash with Biddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.
It was written by the Big Bopper
Written by the Big Bopper, who died with Buddy Holly in 1959
Another country song that talks about revenuers and moonshine is "Rocky Top" by Dolly Parton.
This song was written and recorded by The Big Bopper first.
My husband could dance to this! I couldnt keep up.
Conway Twitty recorded "It's Only Make Believe" in 1958 as a rock n roll song. It was not re-recorded but became a #1 country song in the 70s. Just like White Lightnin', the only thing that made it country was time and the artist
Early rock and roll had a lot of country influence. My examples would be the Everly Brothers and Roger Miller. I've heard both classified as country and rock stars. A fun reaction. As others have said George Jones has many great songs:
The One I Loved Back Then", "The Grand Tour"
Thank you, great way to start my morning, great reaction.
Thanks!
Rockabilly!
George did do some rockabilly stuff for s hort while that was done under the name Thumper Jones
I was waiting for Keith's one time at band camp comment after needing out on the song.
I was raised in NE Indiana. I married a guy from Virginia. When he got out of the Air Force in 1964, we moved to his home area in Virginia. It was total culture shock. 2 of his uncles were making illegal whiskey up on the Potomac River just outside of Quantico Marine Base. So in 1959 when this song dropped, they were doing that. You don't have to go back to Prohibition. I think there's still some going on down in Franklin County, Virginia.
I flat promise you there is some going on in Franklin County. - Keith
'One Woman Man' is my favorite George Jones song. Love to see it on here.
My Grandfather was a Jones county Ga. Moonshiner and dairy farmer in the 40s.gotta feed them younguns
I have to agree, the ECBP is delicious.
We love it. - Keith
Reba actually does a great cover of White Lightning
There are so many sub genres of country music you should listen to.
The Big Bopper wrote this song not long before he died. So the rock you're hearing is definitely his writing influence.
Makes sense. - Keith
The possum another good song the window up above
There were still a lot of dry counties in the south into the 80's. I used to hear some funny stories.
I may or may not have had an uncle that paid his way through college running things with the same dudes that founded NASCAR. - Keith
Robert Mitchum sings "Thunder Road"
George Jones was at one point married to Tammy Whynette there's a kind of funny story George was a notorious drunk and one day George needed a drink and Tammy took the keys so he wouldn't be able to go to the barand so he'd grab a different set of keys and jump in the tractor and drove the tractor to the bar
This is 2 days in a row that someone's reaction reminded me of the movie "Thunder Road", starring Robert Mitchum as a moonshine runner, who also sang the theme song of the same title. Probably won't be asked for by anyone, but that movie hit my young boy's developing "car crazy" right in the gut. Very cool for the time. Two minutes of listening to the song tells the whole story.
I very much like car things. Maybe I should find that movie and have a watch this evening. - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts Hope you've gotten to see it. I first saw it as a kid at the Drive-in in my PJs. The scene where he rolls that '50/'51 (forget which) Ford and the feds say they are bringing the license plate number in on their front bumper was cool with a capital K to my young eyes.
Finally Friday by George is my favorite song by him:)
when I was a teenager the radio station use to play the Friday song every Friday it was one of my favorite traditions growing up.... and yes one of my favorite songs as well.
@@Melody-bourbonite4life … same here… I’d here it every Friday morning too:)
@Melody Ravenwolf same back in early nineties they would play it around 5pm
@King Bourbonite (Rickroll) yeah I was a teenager in the 90's but it was always in the morning where I lived. before I left for school.
@Melody Ravenwolf well I wasn't a teenager but I remember it playing ever friday afternoon at 5pm cause that was the official start of the weekend
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes is a really good George Jones song if its not already on your list.
Great song
"CHEROKEE FIDDLE "Johnny Lee
Had me grin'in from the beginning! Great reaction..
Thanks!
Hank Jr.'s version is the bomb.
Makes you wonder how good that corn whiskey was
There are other performances where he adds in hiccups before he says "White Lightning". He's pretty good at it. It's pretty funny.
But the performance y'all reacted to is how the original recording sounded.. It's interesting to see how different George sounded back then. Not exactly the sound and style that most people remember him for, although many know this song well.. Perhaps George was still honing or searching for his style.
I remember watching an interview with George in which he talked about meeting Hank Williams Sr when he was 15. A lady walked him into the house and told Hank that George could sing just like him.. Then Hank told George, "I used to sing like Roy Acuff.. But then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff."
I guess basically saying he should find his own style, instead of trying to sound like somebody else.. Glad he did, because like Hank, George found his own unique style that no one can replicate. And people love him for it.
This will always be connected to Jones,but Hank Jr does a good version that’s less rockabilly and more of an outlaw sound
You need to check out....The one I loved back then (the Corvette song). It's a great song!!
Couple more quintessential whiskey songs: Mountain Dew by Grandpa Jones (many others); Chug a Lug by Roger Miller; Dooley by the Dillards (from Andy Griffith); Time to Switch to Whiskey (with Rye Whiskey) Five Dollar Bill, I Think You Oughtta Try Whiskey, Pour Em Kinda Strong and Drink It Like You Mean it all by Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans ... Of course there's more too
Ooh Chug A Lug
There used to be quite a few moonshine in these parts. Don't know if there are any more
Pretty sure they were talking about moonshine in the song
Please react to Who's gonna fill their shoes. You won't be disappointed.
I agree
rockabilly music
Given that it was Keith who said there was nothing country about that except the singer, I'm gonna give him the benefit of believing that he was talking about the music, instruments, chord combos, etc & not the song because moonshining, hiding from the law, etc are def country.
And I still think this would have been the perfect song to have been paired with the bribe you got early on that turned out to be moonshine but I'm happy all the same that you two have reacted to it now.
Love George. You should check out the live version of I don't need Your Rocking Chair by George with Tracy Lawrence and Mark Chestnut
Hank Jr.s KAWLIGA.
Check out "Thats My Job" Mr. Jones
That is Conway Twitty.
George Jones was stuck in a rock and a hard place back then was a great singer but lousy husband drunk all the time abusive failed to come to concerts or came to them drunk it was an uphill climb but after he stopped loving her today he started to get sober
I do have to say that it's almost tragic that you've been doing these reactions for so long and you have yet to listen to anything from Randy Travis. 'Forever and ever Amen' 'On the other Hand,' 'Deeper than the Holler.'
I would second all of these.
They did Randy Travis ‘Three Wooden Crosses’ a year ago about.
And yeah everything is good with the pairing. I rarely pair bourbon with songs, exceptions were the songs Yellow Rose with Yellow Rose bourbon, Paridise with 82nd Airborne Bourbon that Dustin screwed up, and the Horse Soldier currently waiting. When I pair bourbons with songs it has meaning.
Speaking of rock and country intertwining, you should check out, on channel or not, the cover of The Thunder Rolls by State of Mine.
Check out the Corvette song.
Nice reaction, gentlemen! Early Possum! ❤️🔥 One of the original GOATs! ❤ Next: "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)". ;-) It's right up y'alls alley 😁! Also just Have to mention, Alan Jackson does a great cover of George's "Revenooer Man". (off AJ's 'Under The Influence' album, one of my personal all time fav albums)
A good number of country music Oggi's names you'd never recognize Marty Robbins and George Jones why do you think rock and roll borrow so much your mother genres if we like it we take it we don't we don't. Was a great reaction guys.
I knew who Marty Robbins was before we started this channel. - Keith
Do it's finally Friday
Possibly the most accurate/appropriate song for the channel! 😂 (White lightning isn't really bourbon I know, but...)
I knew an old man who used to make moonshine, said he didn't know what the big fuss was about aging; said he let some sit for two whole weeks and couldn't tell a damn bit of difference! 🤪🤔🤣
Yep, it fit. - Keith
Written by the Big Bopper
Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go?
Jamaica #PoketheBear
Fifths yes but perfect, diminished, or augmented 5ths? lol you nerded out so I had to join. I’m sure you know.
Steven needs to come to Indiana and sit on the couch. Pretty sure he's spent as much money on bribes as a plane ticket would cost.😅 He's practically the third guy on the channel 😉. Keep up the good work guys.
Lol @Rebecca Doty-Evans, thanks for that
@Rebecca Doty-Evans I might upstage them in cowboy hat
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Who's going to fill there shoe's by George
Joe Diffie had a great version of this song....
Someone needs to Rickroll Keith with Kokomo 🤣 🤣 🤣
brad paisley album PLAY you guys should give it a spin for the love of a guitar
You need more education on Rockabilly, Southern Rock and Outlaw Country..
I know Southern Rock pretty well. I introduced Dustin to Blackfoot off channel. - Keith
I'm sorry your diagnosis of this song is wrong that was considered country in 59