22 Aug 2023 8:36 pm
The object of all country songs of the classic era was to sell Prince Albert tobacco and Martha White’s Self Rising Flour on WSM.LincolnNebraska » 22 Aug 2023, 1:01 pm » wrote: ↑ Frizzell sang a catchy song to pay the bills. Doesn't make it great.
The epitaph Hillbilly Haiku is an apt description.
What makes Michelangelo’s David great, or the Mona Lisa?
Saginaw can be sung accappela.
https://youtu.be/rMhmttBQ9pE
Technically it’s too long (3:15) and too happy, and the opening guitar run requires a master to play.
But every hour somewhere some hillbilly drawls out
Aaahhh was borrrnn,
In Sag e Naw Mish e Gan.