James McMurtry -- Choctaw Bingo [REACTION/RATING]
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2020
- Strap in for a heckuva ride!! James brings energy and craziness into this one, and it was a blast!!
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I had never really noticed how much "Choctaw Bingo" sounds like "Come Together", but now I'll never un-hear it.
You know Lennon borrowed heavily from Chuck Berry's " You Can't Catch Me" when he wrote "Come Together."
Saw him in concert in Madison Indiana. Just him and a guitar. One of the best concerts that I have ever seen!>
The east block nation thing is referring to dirt cheap ammo for 7.62x39 prior to the last 6 months or so you could get it for $5 a box of 20 like nothing and they were everywhere. Berdand primers are common in them and need to be striked harder than normal primers. Also an sks is a semi auto 7.62x39 that filled the same basic niche as an AK and uses the same ammo. With both the AK and the SKS basically every Soviet and communist country made them. Also the Hebrew thing about the desert eagle is referring to the fact that desert eagle is made by magnum research which is an Israeli company until about 10 years ago when they were bought by Kahr.
Lol, I was waiting on that line about the cousins
Lake Eufala is in Oklahoma less than 2 hours north of the OK/TX state line. This song always kind of reminds me of road trips to my grandparents' house in Arkansas. We would leave Texas before the sun came up and drive north over the Red River (past Lake Texoma to the west), and take 69 through Tushka, Atoka (well known speed trap), Stringtown (which looks better these days but in the 70s was U-G-L-Y due to strip-mining of coal), McAlester, then at the south end of Lake Eufala we would cut east to Spiro, OK to see my great Aunt before crossing into Arkansas. It seemed like a never-ending road trip and so does this song. LOL!
This song is about Oklahoma more the and other places he mentions. Those are just places relatives are coming from. The lake RockN2Counrtry is thinking of near Springdale is Beaver Lake.
Great cafishing below the dam!
Lol
Son of Larry McMurtry (who wrote lonesome dove)
Childish things is my fav song by him. Levelland, memorial day, and out here in the middle are also great.
Heehaw…Levelland Texas.
Truly an anthem-song for life in North Texas/Southern Oklahoma...you know, poverty, drugs, gambling, incest...it's not who we all are, but its definitely here. Funny thing is, I grew up with an Uncle Slayton. Not a good man...among the many deeds he was infamous for is impregnating a couple of his own teen daughters. I could see how you were hearing "Come Together" but the truth is both songs sound like rip-offs of Chuck Berry's, "You Can't Catch Me". ua-cam.com/video/9jKrHzps0XM/v-deo.html
The North Texas Southern Oklahoma Crystal Methamphetamine Industry.
Have seen him in concert several times.
Lake Eufaula is in Oklahoma. If you follow highway 69 north from the TX state line(Lake Texoma) towards Interstate 44 (Will Rogers Turnpike) you will see a lot of the towns he mentions in the song.
"We Can't Make It Here" is another good example of James McMurty. Thanks for your intelligent spontaneous reactions.
Beatles "Come Together" is that the song? I know "shine" will sell in my part of the country. Love it! Thanks for posting, Captain! Love and hugs for all~stay safe!
@Denise Hughes That’s the one that the way James sang the lyrics reminded me of!! There’s also a Miranda song in which she runs through the lyrics with a similar tempo and cadence.
@@RockN2Country This was a busy song. I hate to say it but I think this guy is even too wild for me to hang with. Lol!
@@RockN2Country I thought you were going to say the song reminded you of the song "Life is a Rock" by Reunion.
I've been waiting for this one for a while.
A friend of mine from Arkansas invited me to a family reunion. This song is it to a T.
@Jeff Youngblood Ha!! I’m glad you survived!!
The back story about all of these places is that James noted them on a road trip (as I recall) and included them in the song.
James says that a number of the places were gone less than 2 years later.
I do not see the “come together” likeness at all. Come together was much more of an incoherent ramble. Choctaw Bingo however is a story arc of historical fiction on the theme of going to a family reunion. The includes a series of vignettes that flow through the various aspects and portions of the trip. It is coherent and very believable if you know that part of the country.
The use of metaphors like the very robust fence post which will support a pipe-rail gate is just great writing.
The great news is that James has written many great songs not just this one. For those of us that follow James; the lyrics evolve and new verses appear and other words are re-inflected or slightly altered over time to emphasize different aspects of the stories.
@Eric Eugene Cole That’s a fantastic summary of the song-its origins, meaning, and literary devices used within it. Refreshingly well done.
Very well said. James McMurtry is a national treasure. Hope that folks check out his incredible catalogue of songs. You won’t regret it.
Real damn country sir!
If your toe is not tapping after 3 secs into this song! There is something wrong with you!
Got to love Oklahoma!
“Like an old bodark fence post you could hang a pipe rail gate from”. That’s a good one, if you know, you know. 😂
That’s one of those Sit Back And Hold On songs. 👍
I first heard this in a bar in Norman, OK. Everyone was singing together. I had the same thought, "how the hell do you remember the lyrics?!"
@Tupelo Honey So my brain actually makes decent contributions to yours, huh? ;-)
@@RockN2Country Enough to put me on overload sometimes!😆
We've lost 2 Texas country music legends this last week: Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker. I'm devastated. :-(
@Tina Adcock-Thomas Yeah, I’m about to record reactions to a song by each of them, and should have them up early next week once I’m done with editing.
Dallas people go to Durant Oklahoma to gamble, it's the Choctaw nation
Like his father, the late author Larry McMurtry (Terms of Endearment. Last Picture Show), James develops rich characters and creates an incredible sense of time and place.
His daddy wrote Lonesome Dove and Brokeback Mountain
There’s another version by James that is more upbeat, I guess that’s the word for it. Got a good beat. Usually go mudding to this
Ray Wylie Hubbard does a great version of the song. I know James McMurtry wrote it but I like Ray Wylie's version better.
It's feckin 'Come Together', the Beetles!
As an Englishman, I am hooked on this. And I suppose it has some connects with 'Come Together'. There's nothing new under the spavined sky, baby.
Earl Poole Ball played keys. Earl played for many years with Johnny Cash.
Lake Eufaula is in eastern Oklahoma.
Lake Eufala is in Oklahoma on the Canadian River, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Haskell, and McIntosh Counties.
Beetles' Come together Texas style.
This song reminds you of the song Come Together by The Beatles.
Thanks for the James McMurtry sighting. I would recommend "Painting By Numbers" or "Song For A Deck Hand's Daughter" by James.
I bought the cassette in 89 and been listening since.
I listened to Song For Deck Hand's Daughter just this weekend, a masterpiece.
@@JackFate61 That is my favorite James McMurtry album.
40.00 for 500 round Wolf Ammo for Ak and SKS at 9th and Memorial Tulsa in the early 2000's
this song live is pretty electrafing,for a total different aspect of James McMurtry check out Ruby and Carlos,probably my favorite McMurtry song,oh and the 2 times I seen him live it was in the middle of the show
Yes! Ruby and Carlos!
Best McMurtry song - Levelland! And amongst all the other laughs in this you did my favorite rap/electronica sound! Made my Friday night! Ha! And since Dave has no idea what I'm talking about, which means no one else does either, here's a link LoL. 😂 ua-cam.com/video/-hTSvEgEdjs/v-deo.html
GREAT song! trying to learn to play it. Thanks. :)
Haha! "Something's gonna go wrong!" Yeah, real wrong:)
1st time I heard this was a Saturday morning Blues program. Got me cranking down the Interstate. Later his concert, was our 1st date, with my girlfriend, who is more insane, than this song. Next time we saw him, she made sure, she wore her Red Dress. (His “Where Did You Get that Red Dress?”) The one so tight, my GF couldn’t wear underwear. All his songs are great.
You didn’t play the introduction line about it being the NE OK, SE KS crystal meth industry, with the maniacal laugh. Because I heard that and went WTF?!? Actually, my GF’s whole family sounds like his relatives. GF, used to ride in the car, on the Interstate topless, until, some trucker chased us down I-35 at 90. He has a better version of this song. On UA-cam look for the video with the smoke shop image.
The first time I ever heard of him was when I saw him open for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and I’ve been a fan ever since.
He threw everything in there but the kitchen sink , Take care Don
I can't believe you're doing this......lol gonna be great.
Now I'll just sit and watch the show.....come on.
For me this is just such a classic old family reunion.......condensed into a few minutes. I remember as a kid drifting around the reunion and you hear all the background conversations .....so and so ... did this .. they're in jail.....he dont....she does... Sometimes some crazy wild stories come out. And maybe it ain't right but I got a couple of pretty nice looking cousins.
I juse couldn't figure out how to warn you Don.
@DaveG Best to let me figure it out along the way, even if I have to suffer. Ha!! This was a lot of fun, even though I'm a little more afraid to leave the house now. ;-)
Your gonna love merry Christmas from the family. It doesn't need as strong a disclaimer.
Ha!
@@PapaFixit One of my favorites...Christmas in the south wouldn't be right without it!
lol Eufala is biggest lake in OK
Eufaula Oklahoma
I visit Oklahoma often, and this song was playing on ever radio station there
The Beatles Come Together is the song you are thinking of, I think. lol
Strap them kids in
Give 'em a little bit of vodka
In a Cherry Coke
We're goin' to Oklahoma
To the family reunion
For the first time in years
Its up at Uncle Slaton's
'Cause he's gettin on in years
You know, he no longer travels
But he's still pretty spry
He's not much on talkin'
He's just too mean to die
And they'll be comin' down from Kansas and from West Arkansas
It'll be one great big ol' party like you never saw
Uncle Slaton's got his Texan pride
Back in the thickets with his Asian bride
He's got an Airstream trailer and a Holstein cow
Still makes whiskey 'cause he still knows how
He plays that Choctaw Bingo every Friday night
You know he had to leave Texas, but he won't say why
He owns a quarter section up by Lake Eufala
Caught a great big ol' bluecat on a driftin' jugline
Sells his hardwood timber to the chippin' mill
Cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell
He cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell
You know he likes that money; he don't mind the smell
My cousin Roscoe, Slaton's oldest boy
From his second marriage up in Illinois
He's raised in East St. Louis by his
Mama's people where they do things different
Thought he'd just come on down
He's goin' to Dallas Texas in a semi truck
Called from that big McDonald's
You know that one that's built up on that
Great big old bridge across the Will Rogers Turnpike
Took the Big Cabin exit
Stopped and bought a carton of cigarettes
At that Indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings
In the Cherokee Nation
Hit Muskogee late that night
Somebody ran the stoplight at the Shawnee Bypass
Roscoe tried to miss him but he didn't quite
Bob and May come up from
Some little town way down by
Lake Texoma where he coaches football
They were 2-A champions now for two years running
But he says they won't be this year
No, they won't be this year
And he stopped off in Tushka at that pop knife and gun place
Bought a SKS rifle and a couple full cases of that steel-core ammo
With the Berdan primers from some East Bloc nation
That no longer needs 'em
And a Desert Eagle that's one great big ol' pistol
I mean, fifty-caliber made by badass Hebrews
And some surplus tracers for that old BAR of Slaton's
Soon as it gets dark
We're gonna have us a time
We're gonna have us a time
Ruth-Anne and Lynn come down from Baxter Springs
And that's one hell-raisin' town way up in southeastern Kansas
Got a biker bar next to the lingerie store
That's got the Rolling Stones lips up there in
Bright pink neon
And they're right downtown where everyone can see 'em
And they burn all night
You know they burn all night
You know they burn all night
Ruthann and Lynn they wear them
Cutoff britches
And them skinny little halters
And they're second cousins to me
Man, I don't care, I wanna
Get between 'em with a
Great big ol' hard-on like a old Bois d'Arc fence post
You could hang a pipe rail gate from
Do some sister twisters 'til the cows come home
And we'll be havin' us a time
Uh-huh
Uncle Slaton's got his Texan pride
Back in the thickets with his Asian bride
He's cut that corner pasture into acre lots
He sells 'em owner-financed strictly to them
That's got no kind of credit
'Cause he knows they're slackers
And they'll miss that payment
Then he takes it back
He plays that Choctaw Bingo
Every Friday night
He drinks his Johnny Walker
At that Club 69
We're gonna strap them kids in
Give 'em a little bit of Benadryl
In a Cherry Coke
We're goin' to Oklahoma
Gonna have us a time
Gonna have us a time
Could you maybe react to Appalachian Nightmare by Justin Townes Earle?
I never noticed the similarities between this and 'Come Together' until you mentioned it. 'Choctaw Bingo' feels like a trip to Texas;, to me; I've passed all the places he talks about in OK, on my route to Dallas.
You're not going back far enough. Chuck Berry did it first with " You Can't Catch me". Both Come Together and Choctaw Bingo are great songs and worthy tributes to Chuck.
Lake eufala is Oklahoma got an aunt that lives on the lake lol
A drunken ramble at a family gathering.
Lake Eufala is in Oklahoma.
Come Together
It’s a sped up version of Come Together. Great song nonetheless, but yeah, sing it in the slower cadence of Come Together
Wrong. Come Together is a slowed down version of Chuck Berry's " You Can't Catch Me". Lennon even took some lyrics straight from Chuck's song. A tribute, not plagarism, to be fair though.
@@austinroper5556 no I’m still correct, you just mentioned another instance. We can both be right you know 🙄
He has a pretty famous Daddy too
Haha I've always loved this song. He also has a song called "airline agent" which is pretty funny! As I'm sure you can tell, he's not real politically correct lol
I love how there’s no chorus in this.
se Oklahoma
Come Together - The Beatles!
@Karol Chaney That's the one! Am I nuts, or did you hear a little bit of that, too? And welcome to the channel, BTW!
@@RockN2Country Thank you for the welcome. I've been here for a while. I very much enjoy it. If you have time will you play I'm Gonna Live Forever by Shaver. Keep rockin' us!
Eufala is in OK
Well, this is the part of the country where Judge Parker lost 65-70 Federal Deputy Marshals after the Civil War, including the Dalton Brothers’ older brother, Frank. Baxter Springs was the first rowdy cow town in Kansas and claims to be the most robbed one, Jesse James and Belle Starr‘s brother-in-law Henry both made withdraws. Bonnie and Clyde robbed a grocery store there twice in one week after it became a big mining town.
I like how all the weird things he mentioned are just things you can see in the area. The McDonalds sets over I-44 at a rest stop half way between Joplin and Tulsa.
Plus you’ve got to doubt that the fully automatic BAR he bought the tracers for was ever licensed. ;)
Whether or not the BAR has a tax stamp is sort of extraneous to the song. Until the mid 1980’s getting a Tax Stamp was possible and not a big headache.
Everyone of us that has had the chance to enjoy a few bursts of tracers at night on in a safe location knows what it means to “have us a time.” Sadly the cost of feeding full-auto’s has gone through the roof in recent years.
There are many old BAR’s around that get range time. Although tracers wreak havoc on bores and require an extra thorough cleaning after their use. It has probably been 20 years since I shot any tracers because of the cost and the novelty wearing off.
I don’t know. There seems to be a sub-theme involving taxes. Untaxed cigarettes, untaxed whiskey, why not untaxed.30-06s?
Even a American 180 is too expensive to feed now. :(
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Hey man. Would you by any chance be willing to react to The road by aaron lewis please? I think youd really like it. It isnt a very popular song but its very well done
You cut off the introduction.
I love this song but I prefer Ray Wylie Hubbard’s version. I saw James McMurtry a few years ago & was unimpressed. His opening act Jonny Burke was amazing though. You should check out his song 32.50. The song you were trying to think of was Come Together either by The Beetles or Aerosmith.
Yes Jonny Burke impressed me too
Sorry, but I was totally unimpressed. It seemed to me they took the music from Come Together and attempted to make an Outlaw Country song out of it. I think a 5.1 would have been very generous. I guess that is what makes the world go round, people having different opinions and liking different things. I figure since I comment when we agree, it's only right to comment when we don't...lol
I have not heard this version Only Ray Wylie Hubbard's, which is better by the way.
I guess he wanted to listen to the person who wrote it first but now I need to ray's version
There’s a better version of this song he does fully acoustic, different tempo.
This is probably the worst version of this song Ive ever heard. If you liked this oneyou would love a good version.
great song but I like Ray Wylie Hubbard's version better
To each his own.
You're thinking of Come Together, which this is nothing like, nothing.
@wendy brennan The way he sang the lyrics, including tempo and cadence, reminded me of parts of Come Together. There’s also a Miranda song in which she sings the lyrics with a similar feel-I’ll try to think of it.
@@RockN2Country you need to listen to jj cale the godfather if the Oklahoma backseat very different than come together you'll hear the difference
Hey Don, sorry I haven't commented in a few days. I was having surgery to try and remove these God-awful songs on your channel from my head.
@Scott Calman Completely understandable. I hope the surgery went well and that you appreciate the trout that gave up its life so you could have a better brain. I'm doing a reaction in a few days to Ray Stevens's "Too Drunk To Fish," and no doubt it will have deep spiritual meaning to you. God-speed, my friend.