Willie and Merle, singing, smiling, blowing a joint or two, having fun.
April 23, 2015 7:19 AM Subscribe
"Got a hundred dollar bill / You can keep your pills, friend / It's all goin' to pot" Willie and Merle clearly having just altogether way too much fun.
A national treasure.
posted by ReeMonster at 7:36 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ReeMonster at 7:36 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
I thought they didn't smoke marijuana in Muskogee.
I think there was a pretty large grass fire in Merle Haggard's tour van when he wrote that song, if you know what I mean.
posted by jonp72 at 7:48 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
I think there was a pretty large grass fire in Merle Haggard's tour van when he wrote that song, if you know what I mean.
posted by jonp72 at 7:48 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
A chord chart? Really? What kind of picker needs a chord chart for a song like that?
posted by Jode at 8:04 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Jode at 8:04 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
One who just learned the song, and has issues with short term memory retention?
posted by idiopath at 8:21 AM on April 23, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by idiopath at 8:21 AM on April 23, 2015 [9 favorites]
What a catchy tune!
posted by undercoverhuwaaah at 8:22 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by undercoverhuwaaah at 8:22 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
What kind of picker needs a chord chart for a song like that?
A good session player who doesn't want to waste valuable recording time by fucking up the changes?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:26 AM on April 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
A good session player who doesn't want to waste valuable recording time by fucking up the changes?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:26 AM on April 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
I thought they didn't smoke marijuana in Muskogee.
A few years ago, Stephen Colbert asked Merle Haggard about that line. Haggard thought about it for a moment and replied, "well, you know, I don't spend a lot of time in Muskogee..."
posted by Crane Shot at 8:30 AM on April 23, 2015 [7 favorites]
A few years ago, Stephen Colbert asked Merle Haggard about that line. Haggard thought about it for a moment and replied, "well, you know, I don't spend a lot of time in Muskogee..."
posted by Crane Shot at 8:30 AM on April 23, 2015 [7 favorites]
Enjoyed the tune. Good to see Willie and Merle still kicking it with such passion and enjoyment. The video needed a bag of Doritos on the engineering panel.
posted by AugustWest at 8:36 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by AugustWest at 8:36 AM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Every session player has played this chord progression since birth. It's pretty much the simplest progression possible.
posted by Jode at 8:37 AM on April 23, 2015
posted by Jode at 8:37 AM on April 23, 2015
stop bogarting the thread dude
posted by a lungful of dragon at 8:46 AM on April 23, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by a lungful of dragon at 8:46 AM on April 23, 2015 [5 favorites]
What kind of picker needs a chord chart for a song like that?
A proper NNS chart is visible at one point. This is a pro session!
posted by anazgnos at 9:22 AM on April 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
A proper NNS chart is visible at one point. This is a pro session!
posted by anazgnos at 9:22 AM on April 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
I hope to be having that much fun at that age. Relatedly, smoking that much weed would be okay too.
posted by angrycat at 9:48 AM on April 23, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by angrycat at 9:48 AM on April 23, 2015 [3 favorites]
Every session player has played this chord progression since birth. It's pretty much the simplest progression possible.
And studio time with the kind of players Willie and Merle use is totally free and there's no downside to screwing up. Forest, trees.
posted by yerfatma at 10:29 AM on April 23, 2015
And studio time with the kind of players Willie and Merle use is totally free and there's no downside to screwing up. Forest, trees.
posted by yerfatma at 10:29 AM on April 23, 2015
I like everything about this. Good to see these guy are still at it.
posted by doctor_negative at 10:45 AM on April 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by doctor_negative at 10:45 AM on April 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
And studio time with the kind of players Willie and Merle use is totally free and there's no downside to screwing up.
Yeah, I'll bet those session players aren't toking up - they wouldn't stay top-call players for long if they did...
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:21 PM on April 23, 2015
Yeah, I'll bet those session players aren't toking up - they wouldn't stay top-call players for long if they did...
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:21 PM on April 23, 2015
Tragic to see two such promising careers derailed so early by the scourge that is the marijuana.
Damn. Now I want ice cream.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 2:15 PM on April 23, 2015 [6 favorites]
Damn. Now I want ice cream.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 2:15 PM on April 23, 2015 [6 favorites]
A national treasure.
The country singers are OK too.
Seriously, anyone who knows me on Mefi knows I worship both of these guys. Humbly, here's a an appreciation of Willie I recently wrote in another thread. (I once interviewed him at some length.)
posted by spitbull at 5:53 PM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
The country singers are OK too.
Seriously, anyone who knows me on Mefi knows I worship both of these guys. Humbly, here's a an appreciation of Willie I recently wrote in another thread. (I once interviewed him at some length.)
posted by spitbull at 5:53 PM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Also the story behind Okie From Muskogee, as Merle related it, is that Roy Nichols remarked "I bet they don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee" as they passed the city limits sign, and after taking a hit on the joint Roy was passing, Merle thought "hey, that would make a great song." My favorite Merle quote of all time is that he says he wrote that song about "people who are easy to fool, like me."
posted by spitbull at 5:55 PM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by spitbull at 5:55 PM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
There's something about gray haired old men getting wasted and singing that makes me happy. It makes me hopeful for America. The cynical side of me thinks that this is Willie doing product promotion for his private reserve brand of pot.
posted by rdr at 6:19 PM on April 23, 2015
posted by rdr at 6:19 PM on April 23, 2015
This might be a good place to drop this YouTube video of Willie doing a card trick.
posted by AugustWest at 9:22 PM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by AugustWest at 9:22 PM on April 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
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