Yet another reason I love Trace Adkins

As if "Honky Tonk Badonk-a-Donk" (or "Chrome", or "Hot Mama", or "Rough and Ready", or "Swing", or "I got my game on", or AlaFreakinBama, or...) wasn't enough...

Every now and then ya gotta take it on the chin
Gotta turn the other cheek
But then there’s times your old stubborn pride
Don’t back down so easily
And you got no choice but to let your voice
Be heard and hold your ground
And that’s the point that he’ll get the point
And he’ll probably back down
But if he bows up and steps across that line
Ya gotta whoop a man’s ass sometimes

Chorus:

{Man, I’ll be the first one here to call you crazy
If you let me catch you cussin’ out a kid or roughin’ up a lady
And God forbid that anybody mess with mine
Ya gotta whoop a man’s ass sometimes}

Yeah I let it slide when that liquored up guy
Asked me, “Boy, what you lookin’ at?”
And I kept my cool when the reckless fool
Put a dent in my Cadillac
And I don’t care that my long hair
Draws stares the way it does
Long as you aint’ throwin’ stick
And stones you’ll probably be all right ‘cause
I’ll take the high road if I can out of a bind
But you gotta whoop a man’s ass sometimes

{Chorus}

Man, I’ll be th first one here to call you crazy
If you let me catch you cussin’ out a kid or roughin’ up a lady
And God forbid that anybody mess with that little girl of mine
Ya gotta whoop a man’s ass sometimes
Ya gotta whoop a man’s ass sometimes
Yeah, ya gotta whoop a man’s ass sometimes

Too bad most folks don't think like this anymore

A Little Music for My Current Mood

God Damn It.... Another Great Voice Dies Today

Country music legend, singer, guitar player, and actor Jerry Reed died today, at 71.

I think we all know this one, whether you're a redneck or not:

I s'pose most folks not fans of fingerstyle guitar remember him for being Cletus the "snowman" in "Smokey and the Bandit".

What most folks DON'T know, is that he was a singer, guitar player, producer, and a songwriter in Nashville for 'round 45 years; writing with and for Johnny Cash, Elvis, Glen Campbell, Chet Atkins and many others.

He was also one of the best fingerpickers out there. You can see in this (and many other) videos, that he had no problem holding his own with his good friend Chet Atkins (who actually considered Jerry the better fingerstyle player):

Amazingly, Jerry didn't have a very high opinion of his own musicianship, thinking of himself more as a songwriter.... and yet he could do this:

Reed always had a great sense of fun, with songs like "Amos Moses":

and "She got the gold mine, I got the shaft":

Rest in peace guitarman.