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Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · 57m

A lot of mighty fine writers are sayin mighty fine things about my gas station story and I'm mighty grateful for it.

COUNT THE DUST is out from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social in December, y'all...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 2h

Bus station at sun up
Looking for a new place to go
He sips his coffee and he pulls at his ring
And he thinks of how she looked years ago

Tom Russell & Nanci Griffith do the Blasters (song written by Dave Alvin): www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_k...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Ely does Robert Earl Keen.

Joe Ely @therealjoeely.bsky.social · 7d

The Road Goes On Forever

YouTube video by Joe Ely - Topic

youtu.be

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 5d

Well moon lights a-fallin, look at that caliche glow
And a coyote's howling, doesn't know that he's too old
Headlights are shinin' on all we ever need to know

Charlie Robison does Terry Allen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsm...

Flatland Boogie

YouTube video by Charlie Robison - Topic

www.youtube.com

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 8d

Townes' version is my favorite, but then I haven't heard yours...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 8d

Don't be angry with me, darling, if I fail to understand
All your little whims and wishes all the time
Just remember that I'm kind of dumb, I guess, like any foolish man
And my head stays sort of foggy cause you're mine

Dale Watson does Stonewall Jackson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkN...

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Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · 8d

Count the Dust...the trailer.

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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 11d

Terry Allen, HOLDING, 1996

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 13d

Don't let the stars get in your eyes
Don't let the moon break your heart
Love blooms at night
In daylight it dies

@kdlang does Slim Willet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kyf...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 14d

And Mary and a shotgun
Kept the rattlesnakes away
How she kept on smiling
No one could ever say

Lyle Lovett does Texas Poet Laureate Steven Fromholz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJAD...

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 15d

A girl who would murder her own true love
Would kill a little bird like me

(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 15d

She took him by his long yellow hair
And also by his feet
She plunged him into well water where
It runs both cold and deep

Dylan does Dick Justice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKK7...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 15d

Their faces gaunt
Their eyes were blurred
Their shirts all soaked with sweat
They're riding hard to catch that herd
But they ain't caught 'em yet...

White Rose Motor Oil do Bob Geddins' Cavaliers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwD...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 15d

She took him by his long yellow hair
And also by his feet
She plunged him into well water where
It runs both cold and deep

Dylan does Dick Justice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKK7...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 15d

These are the words that cry out of me in the night
Like a buffalo herd from a shotgun blast scattered in flight
I got a one track mind
Going down a one train line
Living on dreams half the time
Going west

Jimmie Dale Gilmore does John Hiatt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e276...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 19d

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 20d

"I'd like to do a song now that was recoded by a pretty pearly country group known as the Beatles. I know you heard them many times from the Grand Ole Opry..."

Willie does the Beatles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_HL...

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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 20d

And they met out on the highway
At the Paradise Motel lounge...

-"High Plains Jamboree," Terry Allen (1979)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQ8...

Below: The Paradise (1976 installation created for The Great American Rodeo Show, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 20d

Look for Cowboy Jamboree's Terry Allen incited anthology of fiction, cnf, verse and sketches, I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE, round about November.

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 20d

I've been throwin' horseshoes
Over my left shoulder
Seems I spent all my life
Searchin' for that four-leaf clover

Hayes does Lefty:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf6F...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 20d

I'm really just beginning to deep dive him. So far, I'd say no. Really dig his range.

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 21d

I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up

Hayes Carll does Tom Waits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzDw...

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 21d

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 22d

He just grinned and said "My friend,
I know you might think it's odd
But you got nothin to fear about drinkin a beer
If you share it with the son of God"

The Flatlanders do Terry Allen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz2Z...

The Flatlanders - "Gimmie A Ride To Heaven" [Live from Austin, TX]

YouTube video by Live From Austin TX

www.youtube.com

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 26d

Drinking black market vodka in the back of the Scottsman's saloon
Then it's red meat and whiskey like a coyote drunk on the moon

Nanci Griffith does Tom Russell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9VZ...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 26d

Joe Ely does Buddy Holly (song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant)

Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · 26d

Woah-oh, misery, misery
What is going to become of me?

New @therealjoeely.bsky.social single out today. With string ensemble. The man is undeniable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdhk...

Raining In My Heart

YouTube video by Joe Ely - Topic

www.youtube.com

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