"That's How I Got to Memphis"

Couldn't find Tom T. Hall doing this song on YouTube, so we're going to have to make do with this Nahsvillified guy doing this great song. Heard it this morning on a rare, in my experience, anyway, country music station, KRRM, the "Cream of Country."

Merle Haggard Pens a Song For Hillary

Oh man, this is going to grow someone onions in the bathroom, which is a country expression I just made up.

About half-way through his set at Spokane’s INB Performing Arts Center Monday night almost 70-year-old country star, Merle Haggard played a song he told the audience he’d just finished up that morning.

It had a one-word title, he said, and was likely to “piss off” at least half of the audience. A few might even walk out, he said. But, an assistant brought out a music stand and Merle started crooning about a woman named “Hillary.”

“The country needs to be honest,” he sang. “Change needs to be large.”

“Let’s put a woman in charge.”

Too funny.

Here's a gem: