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Topic: Dear Oakie |
Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Joe Naylor
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Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2014 5:31 am Dear Okie |
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Dear Okie
not the tree the state 
Okie's and Arkie's
Oklahoma, Arkansas
Joe
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Joe Naylor, Avondale, AZ (Phoenix) Announcer/Emcee owner www.steelseat.com *** OFFERING SEATS AND Effects cases with or without legs and other stuff ****** -Desert Rose Guitar S-10, Life Member of the Arizona Carport Pickers Assoc., Southwest Steel Guitar Assoc., Texas Steel Guitar Assoc., GA Steel Guitar Assoc., KS Steel Guitar Assoc. (Asleep at the Steel) tag line willed to me by a close late friend RIP |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 11 Oct 2014 9:47 am
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I never think of this as a Hank Thompson number. It was written by Rudy Sooter in the 1940s. I learnt it from Mike Seeger singing with the New Lost City Ramblers. The words sound like something Woody Guthrie would have written, about dust bowl refugees heading west and finding that California is not the paradise they expected. Of course, there's a connection between Mike Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Woody was a family friend to the Seegers and sang with Pete in the Almanac Singers.
I like the steel playing on it; it has a 1950s feel about it; and, of course, I've always been a Hank Thomposon fan.  |
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