I was born in 85, grew up with typical 90s trash music that kids were into. My grandfather introduced me to Waylon and Willie and Kristofferson and Cash. My life hasn't been the same since. My grandfather passed when I was deployed but this music always brings me back. Thanks for reviewing the greats sir!
I am a true rocker from the late 80's 90's and 2000's from Godsmack, Slipknot, Disturbed, Rammstein and many others. I started listening to Waylon at work one day and I was blown away he is the sh!t. The world is so blessed to have him record his legacy for us.
I lived this song when I was a kid. I'm from middle of nowhere Texas. All I ever wanted was out. I got out, went on the road, got into drugs and shit I had no business in. A few years later my dream was to come home and I did. Now mom and dad have passed on, and left me this little piece of land I grew up on. And I sit on on the porch and watch the corn grow.
@Tommy Carson Sounds like life came full circle, and you've got a porch to sit on and reflect about life. Sometimes that's all we need to get some peace of mind.
There are a lot of young people who grow up in small towns, who think they are missing out. They move to big cities to find the things they missed. But it is amazing how many of them return to those small towns they left. It seems that small town values are just different. I could have lived any place in this world, and I'm living right where I want to be- in the town where I was born 61 years ago. I left for a while, but I always knew I wouldn't be gone long, and I couldn't wait to get home! This small town, Louisville, Mississippi is where my roots are set deep! This is my place, where I am meant to be!
I grew up in the middle of nowhere; moved to the middle of somewhere; and eventually found my way back to the middle of nowhere again... Great song! Happy Birthday Don.
I grew up in the middle of hellhole swamp, life doesn't get much slower. Growing up I thought of trying to make a life somewhere else, now that I have all you ever really think of is going home. The song inspires you to appreciate the joy in the simplicity of life. You should do a video for John Anderson's "Seminole wind".
Please take Farewell Party, This Time, The Chokin’ Kind, Wrong, Come back to see me. It’s fun to listen to you. I used to like country back in the seventies but just a year ago I actually first noticed Waylon in The Highwaymen. There was something about him that caught my eye and from there I started listening to him. Somehow nowadays I almost only listen to him. I just love the man, his voice, his enthusiasm, how he plays his guitar and how he always seems to be in good mood. There’s is just something about him I can’t describe. I wish he was still alive ❤️
Watched Waylon and Travis do this at the Grand Old Opry...Travis made this a Hit. Waylon told Travis...leave my stuff alone. Treat yourself Don and listen to Travis’ version. Travis’ soulful voice...wow.
Hi, Don! In the song and video w/Travis Tritt he left the city and went back home to the country. I, myself, never had the desire to leave the country for the city. My dream was a husband, some kids and a house with a white picket fence around it.
Haven't you ever heard the expression "Don't get caught up in the weeds" or "Lost in the weeds?" These expressions usually refer to getting sidetracked or forgetting the main point or mission. The weeds are high refers to how easy it is to lose your way or forget what's important when you get to the big city, or a place where corn don't grow.
The Statler Brothers used to do a free "Happy Birthday America" concert 4th of July weekend in the central park of their home town of Staunton (pronounced stant-'n) Virginia. This partly grew out of local requests for fund raisers and therefore local organizations provided games and vending to raise money. There were always national acts that filled the stage on Saturday and the Statlers closed the show after dark, followed by a big fireworks display. People attended from all 50 states and various foreign countries. It was amazing. Leaving town all at once clogged the road to the Interstate and the CB lit up with chatter about how everyone wished they could stay instead of heading back to the rat race. I wondered if you could really adjust to the idyllic small town life if you weren't born to it, but you can bet everyone wanted to do it at that moment.
@757optim Good stuff--thanks for the heartwarming vignette. Quick question: where did you learn to write? You've clearly studied language and writing, so kudos to you for the talent.
Country life is simple, there’s no fast food, you go to the grocery store once a month and so on. It just simple. Then, you go to the big city, like Houston, fast paced, everything’s at your disposal, loud...big eye opening. You realize real quick...you can’t do something as simple as just walking outside in the morning with your cup of coffee and enjoy nature and quiet.
Working to keep the weeds out of a crop or garden is where a lot of hard work happens. So even if you leave the life of growing corn, you will still have hard work no matter your where you live.
Waylon played Lallapaloosa around 1996 which is a legendary move in it's own right. I went to one of the shows in Iowa but missed his act though I could hear it from outside. It's a long crazy story story so anyway... Thanks for the video even if I am watching 3 years after the fact.
Since this is a older reaction not sure you will get this message but lately I have heard Waylon s grandson Whey Jennings sing sounds so much like his grandpa its unbelievable . You got to hear him .
Grew up in a town of with a population less than 100 people, then moved to Dallas . Big change needless to say, took awhile but i live less than 7 miles from my birthplace. 35 years in the city has me reflecting on what took me so long. Wasnt my idea to leave, damn divorces . I was going where dad went, he lived on the outskirts . (As country as you can find in a big ol city)
In Littlefield Texas where Waylon is from, his little brother runs the family liquor store which houses the museum to Waylons life. Interesting place for an interesting man. One of my favorite songs from Waylon was Rose in Paradise. Beautiful lyrics.
I’ve been there. I donated my autographed tour book and I made 2 welcome signs that look like Waylon’s guitars. James drove me around Littlefield and showed me where they played and lived.
Thank you so, so much man! My dad really enjoyed it (I think this takes the cake as the best birthday present for him). this was such a great reaction. Now my name "OoEy" (btw you are saying it right), the story is not as intriguing as you may think it is, honestly one day me and my friend were playing a game and we had to make up usernames and and I was thinking of a good one but immediately changed my mind, so I made the same pronunciation as my username "oooo-eeee" to think if I want to go with it and then I couldn't think of anything else so I just went with it (I know, so riveting lol). Ok and then one more thing, the line "Where the weeds are high", what I think it meant is not buildings, but hard times, like the son was thinking that growing corn and though "well what about a life with no corn", but once you take away the corn from the field, weeds grow, but that is my take away from the story. Once more thank you so much Don, we love this song so much. Have a great day, and keep rockin' to country!
@OoEy Glad you and your Dad enjoyed it, and you have a good perspective about the weeds. Metaphirs like this one can have multiple meanings, but yours seems to make more sense than what I suggested on the video.
Definitely right on the money if you don’t grow crops weeds will appear and you’ll spend the rest of your life getting rid of the weeds and the metaphor of a hard row to hoe Again comes from farming because sometimes when you’re getting ready to plant a crop one roll will go as smooth as butter and the next one may take you 30 minutes I grew up with my grandparents always having a garden and helping them with that and it is very very labor-intensive but at the end of the day the rewards are worth the work
Growing up, I couldn't wait to get off the farm and where corn didnt grow, 20 years later, I wished for that life more than anything, yeah that is true
Yes. It's true. I lived it. 20-30 miles from anywhere. Daddy died when I was 15 and the world flipped upside down. We moved to the middle of nowhere and it was quite the adjustment. I couldn't wait to get out and live life.
I know many of you people who couldn't get away from small towns get to the big city myself included. And if you look now I'm back in my hometown loving it small town life fits me more.
He’s talking about troubles, problems, hard times, (weeds) still grow high even where the corn don’t grow. Then you can see the front porch talk more clearly. This is the point. The simple life may seem boring and shallow, but it might be more than the bright lights you see in those childhood dreams. It’s real.
Waylon was amazing! Thank you for this reaction. I hope you get a chance to read Waylon's autobiography. You will love him even more. He is so honest and he has a great sense of humor.
Good bit of wisdom in the lyrics. Watched most of my family and all my kids have the same thoughts. I’m strange because I never wanted to be “where corn don’t grow”. At 52 I’m still whee I’m supposed to be.
I never wanted to leave the country. Wish I could go back in time :) This is a great song, you do a great job and Waylon is definitely one of the best. I miss him.
I was an am a hillbilly, Blue Ridge and 3K feet above salt water. I NEVER wanted to leave but Sam and the Army draft changed all that. I left but I came back. Corn grows here, both the eating and drinking kind. God willing I'll die a hillbilly. Thanks and BLESSINGS!
Is it true?!! Lol, I grew up in a town with ONE stoplight, the same town my daddy grew up in, surrounded by a million aunts, uncles and cousins. Everyone knew everyone, we had a town drunk who hitched rides in the back of trucks, and it was impossible for me to take one step out of line without one of my aunts knowing about it before I even got home (the CIA had nothing on those women). I couldn't WAIT to get out. Got a scholly to college, married into the navy, and never moved back. I've lived all over the country, Hawaii, you name it. I'm back down south now, in a different place, but I'll never move north again. It was stifling growing up, but I feel sad for my kids sometimes, being Navy brats, without a real hometown and growing up far away from family. It has its ups and downs for them, and those city weeds are definitely real. So yeah, this song hits home, in more ways than one.
Don,you are on point. When raised in the country on a farm and you become a teenager,you think you know everything. Leave for an "easier life" to only miss what you left behind. I wish I knew as much back then as what I know now. We farmed,raised our own food. I canned everything I could. We raised tobacco and cattle. It was hard work,but I love it. Love your reaction as always.
@Karen Partin Thank you for your thoughts and kind words!! And since you're a farm girl, your words carry extra weight with me. Not sure why, they just do. :-)
Awesome reaction to my favorite artist....and yes, I was one of those that thought all the answers were in the city. Found out I was wrong. It wasn’t for me so I ended up back on the same farm that I left, raising my own family.
When your young the days are longer...Life is full and every day last for ever.....But you get to be old and it goes by in a blink of a eye....I'm a old guy now and the world goes around too fast for me...
Waylon is one of my favorites. Willie n Waylon were my husbands heros. He would fan boy out at concerts. Lol He was such a mans man until we went to one of their concerts. I loved it.
The song is a metaphor essentially I play on the old phrase the grass is greener on the other side What is saying is no matter where you go in life you’re gonna find hard times but if you really want it you’re going to stick it out
I live in Southern Ontario and Corn is grown all over here and we have feed corn, Pop Corn, Sweet Corn and Grain Corn. when I was a teen I use to detassel corn and Tomato's is grown all over here too My Home town was the Tomato Capital of Canada and we got field Tomatoes and hot house tomatoes. We got more land under glass then I think anywhere in North America Hydroponic Tomato's and cucumbers is a big thing around these parts and now that weed is legal it is grown like crazy here too.
Hey Don! Is corn a vegetable? Lol ! You cracked me up! I needed a laugh today. Love everything Waylon. Love the color of your shirt and hat, nice combo. By the way thanks for doing what you do. Someone in the comments said they look forward to the videos. I will copy them and say me too!
@Bleu Skye Thank you for that, even the part where my ignorance is on display---haha!! As for making doing the reactions, you're welcome. Meeting people like you makes life a lot more interesting and fun. :-)
Thanks for the Birthday wishes Don loved your reaction. Country life is slow and I remember as a kid living in a town of less than 600 I always thought the grass was greener on the other side of the fence until I moved out....lol The old home place is a parking lot now and life goes on. Dakota (OoEy) plays and sings he taught himself how to play. He will be recording a demo album pretty soon. I would also like to request a song for you to react to "The Dream" by Russell Moore and IIIrd tyme out. The song was written by Bill Castle, Bill woke up from a dream he had and wrote down everything that he saw in the dream. This song is a product of that dream.
I think for anyone..country and city raised..it's the "grass is greener" thing. The thought of "I wonder what it is like over THERE." I had it. That absolute need to get away from where and all the culture of how I lived my life. So I went away. To travel, to visit every country I could, and live in big cities. And I found a few things, there were "country" people in almost every state. I met people in Illinois and New Mexico that could have been my neighbors. In countries like Greece, Mexico, Germany, Ireland, etc. And what happened? I got homesick so bad I had to come home. Something in me had always knew this so the land next to my parents was mine. And I'm still here and will die here. You have my 3 requests? I don't want to keep writing them here if you do.
@Lily McAllister Good stuff right there about coming home and wanting to get back there when you're away. And I've got the songs on the list, just gonna take a little bit to get to them. If I can slide EmmyLou in ahead of schedule I will, since I like giving the ladies some airtime. :-)
I think we all have that "What If" about how the other side lives, but down here, it seems like we're always drawn back home! ❤️🐘❤️ For a great story teller check out Tom T Hall "Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine"
Travis Tritt also had a hit with this song. I grew up in spot in the road population 22. I live in town now. I really miss living the slower way of life
I grew up in the country and by the time I was a teenager, all I wanted to do was move the the city. NYC was my dream. I never made it that far, but we did live in Dallas for a while. Needless to say, I'm back in the country. I take pride in where I'm from now. I know I am blessed to grow up the way I did. I wouldn't change it for nothing. People giggle at your question about corn being a veggie. I recently found out a bunch of people don't consider it either. They put it in the same category as like wheat and rye. It will always just be a veggie to me, but also where I'm from, I'm pretty sure macaroni and cheese is a vegetable 😂 Side note, Tyler Childers does an awesome Waylon cover, Rock Salt and Nails. So good😍 You should check it out.
@jbs2763 That's what I'm talking about, my dawg!! The Garden State is a hidden secret unless you've seen the farms a half hour outside of Newark and farther down in south Jersey, where you were. Very cool.
@@RockN2Country crossing the Delaware water gap is one of the prettier views I’ve seen (I also got a 3 page break up text while in line at that toll booth back in the flip phone days lol(
I was today years old when I found out this wasn't a Travis Tritt song, until now I'd only heard Travis Tritt sing it, and I love older country like Merle and Waylon, tho there are still Jerry Reed songs I come across every once in a blue moon I hadn't heard before, and that's one of my favorite singers/pickers, I was pleasantly surprised tho
I’m from a Texas town of 1000. Everyone always talked about how they couldn’t wait to graduate so they could move off. That never interested me. I’m still here 12 years later and have my first kid on the way who will go to the same school and have a lot of the same teachers as me. There’s weeds out there
Don love your channel, always look forward to your next video, Actually a tomato is a fruit, LOL. I live in the country in West Tennessee and have never thought we moved to slow, that's the enjoyment of living in the country. If you would, add Ann Murray - A Little Good News to your list, Ann Murray was my grandmother's favorite singer and the song I mentioned above came out when I was in High School and I just loved it because it was talking about what was having in the news/world at that time.
@Larry Gustafson Thanks for the education on the fruit/vegetable debate---ha!! I'll put Ann on the list, but please be patient with me since the list is really long right now.
Hell no they're not. "Maters" are and always have been a vegetable in the south. Don't know anyone born and raised down here who thinks matters are fruit. In fact if someone brings it up we argue with them. Corn and maters and crackling bacon and cornbread is the best meal on the planet.
It’s a country song but it’s not just for country folks. A lot ok kids grow up thinking life will be better away from home. In most cases when they have a family they realize Home was a pretty cool place. Just my opinion of course.
Like this song. The only place I wanted to live where corn don’t grow is in the mountains. Would you add Johnny Cash’s “How high’s the water mama” to your list?
The song is just a take off on the old saying "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence". And when you get to the other side of the fence, it never lives up to what you thought it would be.
Baby corn is a vegetable and tomatoes are a fruit but we call it a vegetable. Love that sweet summer corn. I know our northern states are beautiful and rich in agriculture after having been there. Before that I too thought negatively about y'all. Southern folks are raised up to think negative about the people and land. Sorry about that. It is sooo unfair. I must say the northern folk have negative stereotypes about us too. We should all try to fix that.
Great song...all truth! Probably just me inserting my own experiences but I always thought the boy wanted to trade the corn, the weeds, and hoeing for the different type of temptations in the city also called weed and hoes (marijuana and loose women). Reminds me of my senior year in high school...my friend's dad didn't want us making the long drive into Houston to get into things we knew nothing about. So he clears a section of his cornfield and builds us a really nice plywood half-pipe. We would skateboard, smoke home-grown and play punk music super loud out the boombox! Yeah, I said punk! We all grew up on country music but now we were rebelling...we listened to anything from the Sex Pistols to Joy Division, to Leonard Cohen. So there we were...a bunch of country boys in the middle of a corn field with funny haircuts trying to be skaters and punkers! Oh well...it was fun and at least we were safe.
We lived 7 miles out from our town of 7,ooo. (s.e.Ar.) Going to town was great.As teens we did it almost every day for school, church,shopping and CRUISING MAIN ST. On Fri. and Sat. Nights Kids would go up Main St. and around the Dairy Queen then down and around the car wash. Thi probably sounds really boring to some people but it wasn't. We would park at the DQ or the carwash to mix and mingle and eat, then cruise some more. One of the younger cops and his sig. other would be out too cruising and mingling. This was to keep a tight lid on the drinking and drama. And a pretty loose lid on the volume on our 8 tracks. Haven't even touched on get togethers in the country or all that goes on during TOMATO SEASON And I'm not going to,thankfully. I'm just saying living in the country and in or near small town is really good for most people .
DON, My understanding of 'weeds being high' is that a walk in unfamiliar territory is going to be a challenge. Just as its literally hard to walk through a field of tall weeds (sawbriars, thistle, ragweed, cuckleburr bushes), it wont be easy facing a life with all the hidden 'weeds' (struggles, troubles, false highs, and endless lows) along the way. And for your other question, i live in millwood Kentucky, pop. Below 250. My home county(Grayson) has less than 29000 , but it is a very big, RURAL county, and that is to many strangers for me. I moved to Nashville in 05 (CULTURE SHOCK) worked at the Opry for less than 2 mths, Met Garth Brooks backstage, and moved back home the following week. Mainly because life was too fast for me. Im simple and stubborn, my experience from visits to cities is they tend to be complicated, impatient, and late. If that helps out any.
You really need to do Lukenbach, Texas by Waylon and Willie. Great lyrics and a great commentary on modern life. Makes you laugh and think at the same time.
Corn is a grain and Tomatoes are actually a fruit. If you are getting acquainted with Waylon, dive way back and listen to " Mental Revenge". Waylon was such a great singer I can listen to him for hours. " Six White Horses" and "The Ghost of General Lee" are also great songs by Waylon.
Review/Reaction to Ain't living long like this and don't you think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand those may be 2 of my 3 favorite Waylon songs.
Corn is a veggie and tomatoes are a fruit because they have seeds in them however, for some reason they have always been considered a vegetable to most people. Just do a fact check... I learned this in elementary school... and I'm not sure where Waylon is implying that corn doesn't grow either?!?!? 😎😊😇😘😎 Because I'm from Texas and my grandmother and step grandfather raised Corn fields, along with wheat, Cotton, peach orhards, apple orchards, pecan orchards, snow peas, snap beans, carrots, cherry trees, sheep's, goats, hogs, chickens etc.... you name it... they probably was raising it or growing it!!! I sure miss that farm!!!😎😎😎
@Sharlene Whitley Your grandparents had quite an amazing farm!! Wow, what a lot of work that must have been, but I bet all those fruits and veggies tasted sooooo good. We had a couple of peach trees on our yard when I was growing up and those things made so many peaches every year. We would pick 'em right off the tree and bite into them and the juice would run all over our face and clothes and we didn't care. So good!
@Chris Lane Great question. There is no way I would have heard things the same, especially with the deep lyrics that many traditional country songs contain. Sometimes I'll realize that a rock or pop song I've been listening to for forty years meant something radically different than what I'd thought it meant (assuming I'd put any thought into at all). That's why it is so enjoyable in some ways to have come to traditional country at this point in my life--I can relate to the lyrics much better, and am also fascinated by language and have my mind blown with the way in which some of the lyricists put ideas together and how some of the artists sing them.
@@RockN2Country Perspective matters. When I was growing up Sunday afternoon's in the fall meant watching the Bear Bryant show to review the Alabama game from previous day. This was one of the commercials that would air during the show. ua-cam.com/video/oAiYSVSfhfk/v-deo.html I ran across this commercial on youtube a few years after my mom passed. That one commercial had a drastically different message before and after her passing.
Gentle on my mind - Glen Campbell is a great one, knows as one of the best guitar players. Eddie Van Halen used to pay Glen Campbell for guitar lessons.
You should review three wooden crosses by randy Travis I also love the red dirt country scene. Thanks for giving those guys the attention that Nashville doesn’t. Guys like Cody jinks Jamey Johnson and the steel woods are keeping country music to its roots
@@RockN2Country I've watched them all and you hit the nail on the head with them. You can't go wrong with anything by any of those guys. If you ever want a recommendation for a review in that genre let me know. Keep up the good work
Very much a relatable song, as I see Newfoundland's population on a decline from year to year. Much due to politics, giving our precious resources away to everyone but the people who can truly benefit for it, the people of Newfoundland. Second lowest minimum wage in Canada, while the price of everything continues to spike. We are highly taxed, overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated. The price of living VS money coming in has caused much anxiety and many Newfoundlanders are forced to move to other provinces to make a living. The province of NL is certainly in a mess and heavily mismanaged. With the abundance of incredible resources from timber, fishery, mining, oil, power plantations and some how we are still a have-not province. I often wonder how different life would be if Newfoundland did not join confederation to Canada but remained a dominion of Britain. That being said, I truly feel the pain, confusion and conflicting thoughts of leaving home. Especially when you live on one of the most hidden gems of the world, the Island of Newfoundland and all the incredible scenery, wildlife, heritage, unique culture and most importantly the warm hearted, beautiful people. No matter where I travel, there'll only be one place that my heart calls home.
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Spent my first 20 years fighting to escape a small town, and the rest of my life trying to find it again.
Ain't that the truth!
I didn't move to the city it moved to me. Unfortunately. Travis Tritt summed it up with Country ain't county no more.
Holy cow that is profound
AMEN!!!
That’s bars put that on a song
I was born in 85, grew up with typical 90s trash music that kids were into. My grandfather introduced me to Waylon and Willie and Kristofferson and Cash. My life hasn't been the same since. My grandfather passed when I was deployed but this music always brings me back. Thanks for reviewing the greats sir!
I think " the weeds are high , where corn don't grow" is a metaphor for struggles we face in the city versus the more simple life in the country.
You are wise!!!
Yep ... weeds are the tribulations that you find ... anywhere you go.
I am a true rocker from the late 80's 90's and 2000's from Godsmack, Slipknot, Disturbed, Rammstein and many others. I started listening to Waylon at work one day and I was blown away he is the sh!t. The world is so blessed to have him record his legacy for us.
I lived this song when I was a kid. I'm from middle of nowhere Texas. All I ever wanted was out. I got out, went on the road, got into drugs and shit I had no business in. A few years later my dream was to come home and I did. Now mom and dad have passed on, and left me this little piece of land I grew up on. And I sit on on the porch and watch the corn grow.
@Tommy Carson Sounds like life came full circle, and you've got a porch to sit on and reflect about life. Sometimes that's all we need to get some peace of mind.
@@RockN2Country absolutely! I love your reactions brother. Keep up the great work.
There are a lot of young people who grow up in small towns, who think they are missing out. They move to big cities to find the things they missed. But it is amazing how many of them return to those small towns they left. It seems that small town values are just different. I could have lived any place in this world, and I'm living right where I want to be- in the town where I was born 61 years ago. I left for a while, but I always knew I wouldn't be gone long, and I couldn't wait to get home! This small town, Louisville, Mississippi is where my roots are set deep! This is my place, where I am meant to be!
I grew up in the middle of nowhere; moved to the middle of somewhere; and eventually found my way back to the middle of nowhere again... Great song! Happy Birthday Don.
I grew up in the middle of hellhole swamp, life doesn't get much slower. Growing up I thought of trying to make a life somewhere else, now that I have all you ever really think of is going home. The song inspires you to appreciate the joy in the simplicity of life. You should do a video for John Anderson's "Seminole wind".
Please take Farewell Party, This Time, The Chokin’ Kind, Wrong, Come back to see me.
It’s fun to listen to you.
I used to like country back in the seventies but just a year ago I actually first noticed Waylon in The Highwaymen.
There was something about him that caught my eye and from there I started listening to him.
Somehow nowadays I almost only listen to him.
I just love the man, his voice, his enthusiasm, how he plays his guitar and how he always seems to be in good mood. There’s is just something about him I can’t describe.
I wish he was still alive ❤️
I tear up every time I hear this one. That song is my life story
Waylon Jennings ROCKS!! I love Waylon been a big fan of Waylon since Good ol' boys song and since he was the Balladeer on the Dukes of Hazzards
Being from the country we spend our life replacing all the things we left behind,, I'm 75 yrs old and I say thank you every day m to my veteran dad,
Watched Waylon and Travis do this at the Grand Old Opry...Travis made this a Hit. Waylon told Travis...leave my stuff alone.
Treat yourself Don and listen to Travis’ version. Travis’ soulful voice...wow.
You're very lucky to have experienced that
Hi, Don! In the song and video w/Travis Tritt he left the city and went back home to the country. I, myself, never had the desire to leave the country for the city. My dream was a husband, some kids and a house with a white picket fence around it.
Waylon has some of the best opening lines/lyrics of songs every sung/written. Luckenbach Texas is one of the best opening lines as well.
Love that one!
Waylon will always be my favorite! ❤
I’ve always loved his voice it’s easy listening fabulous he sings from the heart ❤️
Haven't you ever heard the expression "Don't get caught up in the weeds" or "Lost in the weeds?" These expressions usually refer to getting sidetracked or forgetting the main point or mission. The weeds are high refers to how easy it is to lose your way or forget what's important when you get to the big city, or a place where corn don't grow.
I have always loved this song. Beautiful and to the point.
Thanks. For putting this out. Big Travis Tritt fan so didn't know that Waylon had done it first. Different but great also.
The Statler Brothers used to do a free "Happy Birthday America" concert 4th of July weekend in the central park of their home town of Staunton (pronounced stant-'n) Virginia. This partly grew out of local requests for fund raisers and therefore local organizations provided games and vending to raise money. There were always national acts that filled the stage on Saturday and the Statlers closed the show after dark, followed by a big fireworks display. People attended from all 50 states and various foreign countries. It was amazing. Leaving town all at once clogged the road to the Interstate and the CB lit up with chatter about how everyone wished they could stay instead of heading back to the rat race. I wondered if you could really adjust to the idyllic small town life if you weren't born to it, but you can bet everyone wanted to do it at that moment.
@757optim Good stuff--thanks for the heartwarming vignette. Quick question: where did you learn to write? You've clearly studied language and writing, so kudos to you for the talent.
Thanks. That's a relief. I figured I was going to bore to tears.
Country life is simple, there’s no fast food, you go to the grocery store once a month and so on. It just simple. Then, you go to the big city, like Houston, fast paced, everything’s at your disposal, loud...big eye opening. You realize real quick...you can’t do something as simple as just walking outside in the morning with your cup of coffee and enjoy nature and quiet.
Waylon Jennings can sing a song with real meaning to life. A great song.
Working to keep the weeds out of a crop or garden is where a lot of hard work happens. So even if you leave the life of growing corn, you will still have hard work no matter your where you live.
Waylon played Lallapaloosa around 1996 which is a legendary move in it's own right. I went to one of the shows in Iowa but missed his act though I could hear it from outside. It's a long crazy story story so anyway... Thanks for the video even if I am watching 3 years after the fact.
Since this is a older reaction not sure you will get this message but lately I have heard Waylon s grandson Whey Jennings sing sounds so much like his grandpa its unbelievable . You got to hear him .
Grew up in a town of with a population less than 100 people, then moved to Dallas . Big change needless to say, took awhile but i live less than 7 miles from my birthplace. 35 years in the city has me reflecting on what took me so long. Wasnt my idea to leave, damn divorces . I was going where dad went, he lived on the outskirts . (As country as you can find in a big ol city)
In Littlefield Texas where Waylon is from, his little brother runs the family liquor store which houses the museum to Waylons life. Interesting place for an interesting man. One of my favorite songs from Waylon was Rose in Paradise. Beautiful lyrics.
I’ve been there. I donated my autographed tour book and I made 2 welcome signs that look like Waylon’s guitars. James drove me around Littlefield and showed me where they played and lived.
Thank you so, so much man! My dad really enjoyed it (I think this takes the cake as the best birthday present for him). this was such a great reaction. Now my name "OoEy" (btw you are saying it right), the story is not as intriguing as you may think it is, honestly one day me and my friend were playing a game and we had to make up usernames and and I was thinking of a good one but immediately changed my mind, so I made the same pronunciation as my username "oooo-eeee" to think if I want to go with it and then I couldn't think of anything else so I just went with it (I know, so riveting lol). Ok and then one more thing, the line "Where the weeds are high", what I think it meant is not buildings, but hard times, like the son was thinking that growing corn and though "well what about a life with no corn", but once you take away the corn from the field, weeds grow, but that is my take away from the story. Once more thank you so much Don, we love this song so much. Have a great day, and keep rockin' to country!
@OoEy Glad you and your Dad enjoyed it, and you have a good perspective about the weeds. Metaphirs like this one can have multiple meanings, but yours seems to make more sense than what I suggested on the video.
Definitely right on the money if you don’t grow crops weeds will appear and you’ll spend the rest of your life getting rid of the weeds and the metaphor of a hard row to hoe Again comes from farming because sometimes when you’re getting ready to plant a crop one roll will go as smooth as butter and the next one may take you 30 minutes I grew up with my grandparents always having a garden and helping them with that and it is very very labor-intensive but at the end of the day the rewards are worth the work
Growing up, I couldn't wait to get off the farm and where corn didnt grow, 20 years later, I wished for that life more than anything, yeah that is true
You are right Waylon is the Man, my all time favorite singer!!!!
That right there is brilliant songwriting
Yes. It's true. I lived it. 20-30 miles from anywhere. Daddy died when I was 15 and the world flipped upside down. We moved to the middle of nowhere and it was quite the adjustment. I couldn't wait to get out and live life.
Yes. This song is 💯 spot on true. This is a song song song It do t get much better than this
I know many of you people who couldn't get away from small towns get to the big city myself included. And if you look now I'm back in my hometown loving it small town life fits me more.
This is probably the best version because you can hear the pain in the experience and Waylons voice as he sings it
He’s talking about troubles, problems, hard times, (weeds) still grow high even where the corn don’t grow. Then you can see the front porch talk more clearly. This is the point. The simple life may seem boring and shallow, but it might be more than the bright lights you see in those childhood dreams. It’s real.
Waylon was amazing! Thank you for this reaction. I hope you get a chance to read Waylon's autobiography. You will love him even more. He is so honest and he has a great sense of humor.
@Kim Cowart Thanks for the heads up on Waylon's biography. I've got a few books in line right now, but that one's gonna be added to the list.
Good bit of wisdom in the lyrics.
Watched most of my family and all my kids have the same thoughts.
I’m strange because I never wanted to be “where corn don’t grow”.
At 52 I’m still whee I’m supposed to be.
I never wanted to leave the country. Wish I could go back in time :) This is a great song, you do a great job and Waylon is definitely one of the best. I miss him.
Grass always appears greener on the other side of the fence.
I was an am a hillbilly, Blue Ridge and 3K feet above salt water. I NEVER wanted to leave but Sam and the Army draft changed all that. I left but I came back. Corn grows here, both the eating and drinking kind. God willing I'll die a hillbilly. Thanks and BLESSINGS!
Happy birthday! Fantastic song!
He was from Littlefield Texas
Is it true?!! Lol, I grew up in a town with ONE stoplight, the same town my daddy grew up in, surrounded by a million aunts, uncles and cousins. Everyone knew everyone, we had a town drunk who hitched rides in the back of trucks, and it was impossible for me to take one step out of line without one of my aunts knowing about it before I even got home (the CIA had nothing on those women). I couldn't WAIT to get out. Got a scholly to college, married into the navy, and never moved back. I've lived all over the country, Hawaii, you name it. I'm back down south now, in a different place, but I'll never move north again. It was stifling growing up, but I feel sad for my kids sometimes, being Navy brats, without a real hometown and growing up far away from family. It has its ups and downs for them, and those city weeds are definitely real. So yeah, this song hits home, in more ways than one.
@OGSpaceCadet Great stuff right there---thanks for posting it, and welcome aboard!!
Don,you are on point.
When raised in the country on a farm and you become a teenager,you think you know everything.
Leave for an "easier life" to only miss what you left behind.
I wish I knew as much back then as what I know now.
We farmed,raised our own food.
I canned everything I could.
We raised tobacco and cattle.
It was hard work,but I love it.
Love your reaction as always.
@Karen Partin Thank you for your thoughts and kind words!! And since you're a farm girl, your words carry extra weight with me. Not sure why, they just do. :-)
Me too. Grew up ranching and farming. I miss it now. It prepared me to make my own way and stand up for myself and the underdogs of the world.
Awesome reaction to my favorite artist....and yes, I was one of those that thought all the answers were in the city. Found out I was wrong. It wasn’t for me so I ended up back on the same farm that I left, raising my own family.
Listening again because I love this man’s voice and your reactions!
@Bobbye Crockett I’m glad and honored that you like the reactions and artists as much as you do!
When your young the days are longer...Life is full and every day last for ever.....But you get to be old and it goes by in a blink of a eye....I'm a old guy now and the world goes around too fast for me...
Jersey corn is the best I’ve ever had.
It’s so abundant in south Jersey.
We had a family shore house in LBI. Beautiful beaches & homes.
I think as a young person, you always think the grass is always greener somewhere else.
Waylon is one of my favorites. Willie n Waylon were my husbands heros. He would fan boy out at concerts. Lol He was such a mans man until we went to one of their concerts. I loved it.
A++++ for your pronunciation of “Appalachian.” You nailed it.
Honey it means what you think it does. That is the beautiful thing about music. It means what it means to you.
The song is a metaphor essentially I play on the old phrase the grass is greener on the other side What is saying is no matter where you go in life you’re gonna find hard times but if you really want it you’re going to stick it out
I live in Southern Ontario and Corn is grown all over here and we have feed corn, Pop Corn, Sweet Corn and Grain Corn. when I was a teen I use to detassel corn and Tomato's is grown all over here too My Home town was the Tomato Capital of Canada and we got field Tomatoes and hot house tomatoes. We got more land under glass then I think anywhere in North America Hydroponic Tomato's and cucumbers is a big thing around these parts and now that weed is legal it is grown like crazy here too.
Hey Don! Is corn a vegetable? Lol ! You cracked me up! I needed a laugh today. Love everything Waylon. Love the color of your shirt and hat, nice combo. By the way thanks for doing what you do. Someone in the comments said they look forward to the videos. I will copy them and say me too!
@Bleu Skye Thank you for that, even the part where my ignorance is on display---haha!! As for making doing the reactions, you're welcome. Meeting people like you makes life a lot more interesting and fun. :-)
Truly listen to the song ,great song
Thanks for the Birthday wishes Don loved your reaction. Country life is slow and I remember as a kid living in a town of less than 600 I always thought the grass was greener on the other side of the fence until I moved out....lol The old home place is a parking lot now and life goes on. Dakota (OoEy) plays and sings he taught himself how to play. He will be recording a demo album pretty soon.
I would also like to request a song for you to react to "The Dream" by Russell Moore and IIIrd tyme out. The song was written by Bill Castle, Bill woke up from a dream he had and wrote down everything that he saw in the dream. This song is a product of that dream.
Louis Lamour had a quote that said “it’s not what the book says, it’s what it makes you think” this song is like that.
Missed this one. The Travis Tritt version was a guilty pleasure for me from long before I liked/confessed to like country.
I think for anyone..country and city raised..it's the "grass is greener" thing. The thought of "I wonder what it is like over THERE." I had it. That absolute need to get away from where and all the culture of how I lived my life. So I went away. To travel, to visit every country I could, and live in big cities. And I found a few things, there were "country" people in almost every state. I met people in Illinois and New Mexico that could have been my neighbors. In countries like Greece, Mexico, Germany, Ireland, etc.
And what happened? I got homesick so bad I had to come home. Something in me had always knew this so the land next to my parents was mine. And I'm still here and will die here.
You have my 3 requests? I don't want to keep writing them here if you do.
@Lily McAllister Good stuff right there about coming home and wanting to get back there when you're away. And I've got the songs on the list, just gonna take a little bit to get to them. If I can slide EmmyLou in ahead of schedule I will, since I like giving the ladies some airtime. :-)
@@RockN2Country 🤗
I think we all have that "What If" about how the other side lives, but down here, it seems like we're always drawn back home! ❤️🐘❤️
For a great story teller check out Tom T Hall "Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine"
Travis Tritt also had a hit with this song. I grew up in spot in the road population 22. I live in town now. I really miss living the slower way of life
I grew up in the country and by the time I was a teenager, all I wanted to do was move the the city. NYC was my dream. I never made it that far, but we did live in Dallas for a while. Needless to say, I'm back in the country. I take pride in where I'm from now. I know I am blessed to grow up the way I did. I wouldn't change it for nothing.
People giggle at your question about corn being a veggie. I recently found out a bunch of people don't consider it either. They put it in the same category as like wheat and rye. It will always just be a veggie to me, but also where I'm from, I'm pretty sure macaroni and cheese is a vegetable 😂
Side note, Tyler Childers does an awesome Waylon cover, Rock Salt and Nails. So good😍 You should check it out.
@Arkie Momma "...macaroni and cheese is a vegetable" -- LOLOLOL!!!!
Love 💘 this song 💞
A long time ago Waylon Jennings
Most people can’t fathom how much farm equipment I used to haul into Jersey, mostly down in the Vineland area
@jbs2763 That's what I'm talking about, my dawg!! The Garden State is a hidden secret unless you've seen the farms a half hour outside of Newark and farther down in south Jersey, where you were. Very cool.
@@RockN2Country crossing the Delaware water gap is one of the prettier views I’ve seen (I also got a 3 page break up text while in line at that toll booth back in the flip phone days lol(
Good one!
Wish I'd stayed in the country!!
This song should be played for every 18-year-old getting ready to leave home for the first time there is a lot of truth to it
My Grandpa loved this song and Travis Tritts version too. When it was on you could almost see the memories passing through my Grandpa's mind.
I was today years old when I found out this wasn't a Travis Tritt song, until now I'd only heard Travis Tritt sing it, and I love older country like Merle and Waylon, tho there are still Jerry Reed songs I come across every once in a blue moon I hadn't heard before, and that's one of my favorite singers/pickers, I was pleasantly surprised tho
Great song great reaction as usual
@Tommy Ward Thank you, and glad you enjoyed it!!
I’m from a Texas town of 1000. Everyone always talked about how they couldn’t wait to graduate so they could move off. That never interested me. I’m still here 12 years later and have my first kid on the way who will go to the same school and have a lot of the same teachers as me. There’s weeds out there
Don love your channel, always look forward to your next video, Actually a tomato is a fruit, LOL. I live in the country in West Tennessee and have never thought we moved to slow, that's the enjoyment of living in the country. If you would, add Ann Murray - A Little Good News to your list, Ann Murray was my grandmother's favorite singer and the song I mentioned above came out when I was in High School and I just loved it because it was talking about what was having in the news/world at that time.
@Larry Gustafson Thanks for the education on the fruit/vegetable debate---ha!! I'll put Ann on the list, but please be patient with me since the list is really long right now.
Love it.
Corn is a veggie and tomatoes(Maters here in the south,lol) are considered fruit.
never knew that
Hell no they're not. "Maters" are and always have been a vegetable in the south. Don't know anyone born and raised down here who thinks matters are fruit.
In fact if someone brings it up we argue with them. Corn and maters and crackling bacon and cornbread is the best meal on the planet.
Corn is a grain & tomatoes are in fact in the fruit family.
It’s a country song but it’s not just for country folks. A lot ok kids grow up thinking life will be better away from home. In most cases when they have a family they realize Home was a pretty cool place. Just my opinion of course.
Like this song. The only place I wanted to live where corn don’t grow is in the mountains. Would you add Johnny Cash’s “How high’s the water mama” to your list?
Corn don't grow means the city.
The song is just a take off on the old saying "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence". And when you get to the other side of the fence, it never lives up to what you thought it would be.
Baby corn is a vegetable and tomatoes are a fruit but we call it a vegetable. Love that sweet summer corn. I know our northern states are beautiful and rich in agriculture after having been there. Before that I too thought negatively about y'all. Southern folks are raised up to think negative about the people and land. Sorry about that. It is sooo unfair. I must say the northern folk have negative stereotypes about us too. We should all try to fix that.
@Teresia Diane Amen--I'd vote for you!!!
I agree Terasia Diane.
Great song...all truth! Probably just me inserting my own experiences but I always thought the boy wanted to trade the corn, the weeds, and hoeing for the different type of temptations in the city also called weed and hoes (marijuana and loose women).
Reminds me of my senior year in high school...my friend's dad didn't want us making the long drive into Houston to get into things we knew nothing about. So he clears a section of his cornfield and builds us a really nice plywood half-pipe. We would skateboard, smoke home-grown and play punk music super loud out the boombox! Yeah, I said punk! We all grew up on country music but now we were rebelling...we listened to anything from the Sex Pistols to Joy Division, to Leonard Cohen. So there we were...a bunch of country boys in the middle of a corn field with funny haircuts trying to be skaters and punkers! Oh well...it was fun and at least we were safe.
David Emswiler grass isn’t always greener
David Emswiler! Lol. I can picture that.
We lived 7 miles out from our town of 7,ooo. (s.e.Ar.) Going to town was great.As teens we did it almost every day for school, church,shopping and CRUISING MAIN ST. On Fri. and Sat. Nights Kids would go up Main St. and around the Dairy Queen then down and around the car wash. Thi probably sounds really boring to some people but it wasn't. We would park at the DQ or the carwash to mix and mingle and eat, then cruise some more. One of the younger cops and his sig. other would be out too cruising and mingling. This was to keep a tight lid on the drinking and drama. And a pretty loose lid on the volume on our 8 tracks. Haven't even touched on get togethers in the country or all that goes on during TOMATO SEASON
And I'm not going to,thankfully. I'm just saying living in the country and in or near small town is really good for most people .
DON, My understanding of 'weeds being high' is that a walk in unfamiliar territory is going to be a challenge. Just as its literally hard to walk through a field of tall weeds (sawbriars, thistle, ragweed, cuckleburr bushes), it wont be easy facing a life with all the hidden 'weeds' (struggles, troubles, false highs, and endless lows) along the way.
And for your other question, i live in millwood Kentucky, pop. Below 250. My home county(Grayson) has less than 29000 , but it is a very big, RURAL county, and that is to many strangers for me. I moved to Nashville in 05 (CULTURE SHOCK) worked at the Opry for less than 2 mths, Met Garth Brooks backstage, and moved back home the following week. Mainly because life was too fast for me. Im simple and stubborn, my experience from visits to cities is they tend to be complicated, impatient, and late. If that helps out any.
Check out Waylon - Old Timer(the song). It’s perhaps the best Cowboy song ever recorded.
You really need to do Lukenbach, Texas by Waylon and Willie. Great lyrics and a great commentary on modern life. Makes you laugh and think at the same time.
Corn is a grain and Tomatoes are actually a fruit. If you are getting acquainted with Waylon, dive way back and listen to " Mental Revenge". Waylon was such a great singer I can listen to him for hours. " Six White Horses" and "The Ghost of General Lee" are also great songs by Waylon.
great video btw.
My town didn’t have a lot of job opportunities for the skills I had. ICR
Is real nice song,, By the way corn is a vegetable, but tomatoes are not, They are fruit, Anything With, citric, acid is a fruit,
Review/Reaction to Ain't living long like this and don't you think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand those may be 2 of my 3 favorite Waylon songs.
Corn is a veggie and tomatoes are a fruit because they have seeds in them however, for some reason they have always been considered a vegetable to most people. Just do a fact check... I learned this in elementary school... and I'm not sure where Waylon is implying that corn doesn't grow either?!?!? 😎😊😇😘😎 Because I'm from Texas and my grandmother and step grandfather raised Corn fields, along with wheat, Cotton, peach orhards, apple orchards, pecan orchards, snow peas, snap beans, carrots, cherry trees, sheep's, goats, hogs, chickens etc.... you name it... they probably was raising it or growing it!!! I sure miss that farm!!!😎😎😎
@Sharlene Whitley Your grandparents had quite an amazing farm!! Wow, what a lot of work that must have been, but I bet all those fruits and veggies tasted sooooo good. We had a couple of peach trees on our yard when I was growing up and those things made so many peaches every year. We would pick 'em right off the tree and bite into them and the juice would run all over our face and clothes and we didn't care. So good!
If you were listening to country when you were younger would you have heard then what you hear now?
@Chris Lane Great question. There is no way I would have heard things the same, especially with the deep lyrics that many traditional country songs contain. Sometimes I'll realize that a rock or pop song I've been listening to for forty years meant something radically different than what I'd thought it meant (assuming I'd put any thought into at all). That's why it is so enjoyable in some ways to have come to traditional country at this point in my life--I can relate to the lyrics much better, and am also fascinated by language and have my mind blown with the way in which some of the lyricists put ideas together and how some of the artists sing them.
@@RockN2Country Perspective matters. When I was growing up Sunday afternoon's in the fall meant watching the Bear Bryant show to review the Alabama game from previous day.
This was one of the commercials that would air during the show.
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I ran across this commercial on youtube a few years after my mom passed. That one commercial had a drastically different message before and after her passing.
This is a awesome song Travis Tritt does a cover of this song and it's awesome too
Always love your reactions Don. Would love to see your reaction to John D. Hale Band's songs " Harold Wilson" and "Outlaw Groove".
Don you want a song that will make you feel it try Gene Watson's Farewell Party.
" The Last Cowboy " Jamey Johnson
Gentle on my mind - Glen Campbell is a great one, knows as one of the best guitar players. Eddie Van Halen used to pay Glen Campbell for guitar lessons.
You should review three wooden crosses by randy Travis
I also love the red dirt country scene. Thanks for giving those guys the attention that Nashville doesn’t. Guys like Cody jinks Jamey Johnson and the steel woods are keeping country music to its roots
@JT Sands You're welcome, and welcome aboard!! I've done reactions to Jamey and Cody, and I have a Steel Woods song coming up within a month or so.
@@RockN2Country I've watched them all and you hit the nail on the head with them. You can't go wrong with anything by any of those guys. If you ever want a recommendation for a review in that genre let me know. Keep up the good work
Very much a relatable song, as I see Newfoundland's population on a decline from year to year. Much due to politics, giving our precious resources away to everyone but the people who can truly benefit for it, the people of Newfoundland. Second lowest minimum wage in Canada, while the price of everything continues to spike. We are highly taxed, overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated. The price of living VS money coming in has caused much anxiety and many Newfoundlanders are forced to move to other provinces to make a living. The province of NL is certainly in a mess and heavily mismanaged. With the abundance of incredible resources from timber, fishery, mining, oil, power plantations and some how we are still a have-not province. I often wonder how different life would be if Newfoundland did not join confederation to Canada but remained a dominion of Britain. That being said, I truly feel the pain, confusion and conflicting thoughts of leaving home. Especially when you live on one of the most hidden gems of the world, the Island of Newfoundland and all the incredible scenery, wildlife, heritage, unique culture and most importantly the warm hearted, beautiful people. No matter where I travel, there'll only be one place that my heart calls home.