Gone Country

[Jake_Taylor]

I was enjoying some 90s nostalgia and listening to the Gin Blossoms and it dawned on me that two of my favorites from their two big albums were country tunes, Memphis Time and Cajun Song.

So it got me thinking about the best instances of rock acts recording country numbers. Obviously the Stones and Eagles have several. Eric Clapton's cover of Tulsa Time also comes to mind and Summer's End by the Foo Fighters has sort of a Bakersfield swing.

What are some other good ones?

 

[QYFW]

Comes A Time, Neil Young.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Hot Dog by Led Zep

 

[cisforkoke]

The country version of the Macarena.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Hot Dog by Led Zep

Not sure how I forgot that one.

 

[Starman]

"Rocky Raccoon" and "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill."

 

[CD Boogie]

I was enjoying some 90s nostalgia and listening to the Gin Blossoms and it dawned on me that two of my favorites from their two big albums were country tunes, Memphis Time and Cajun Song.

So it got me thinking about the best instances of rock acts recording country numbers. Obviously the Stones and Eagles have several. Eric Clapton's cover of Tulsa Time also comes to mind and Summer's End by the Foo Fighters has sort of a Bakersfield swing.

What are some other good ones?

What the hell ever happened to the Gin Blossoms? They had a number of really good songs.

Also, how about Kid Rock singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long?

 

[Jake_Taylor]

What the hell ever happened to the Gin Blossoms? They had a number of really good songs.

Also, how about Kid Rock singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long?

Ugh, I hate that song. But that duet with Sheryl Crow is pretty solid.

 

[justgladtobehere]

What the hell ever happened to the Gin Blossoms? They had a number of really good songs.

Also, how about Kid Rock singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long?

Didn't the singer/songwriter for the Gin Blossoms drink himself to death?

 

[cisforkoke]

Also, how about Kid Rock singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long?

That sucked.

 

[spikechiquet]

Shotgun Angel by DA

 

[CD Boogie]

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Didn't the singer/songwriter for the Gin Blossoms drink himself to death?

Granted, you'd need a flow chart to make sense out of the lineup of the Gin Blossoms over the years, but I don't see any mention of that here:
Gin Blossoms - Wikipedia

Seems they're making new music. Almost makes me want to drive around this town, make the cops chase us around.

 

[QYFW]

Blue Jeans and a Rosary is a pretty good country song by Kid Rock.

 

[CD Boogie]

That sucked.

You're like the bizarro Cal Ripken Jr. of this board. Take a day off from sucking, skippy. Your comments might improve.

(haha, of course they won't.)

 

[cisforkoke]

You're like the Cal Ripken Jr. of this board. Take a day off, skippy. Your comments might improve.

(haha, of course they won't.)

This would be you:

José Valdivielso - Wikipedia

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Didn't the singer/songwriter for the Gin Blossoms drink himself to death?

Going on memory, but I think a guy who wrote one of the first hits drank himself out of the band before it made it big, then died shortly after.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Going on memory, but I think a guy who wrote one of the first hits drank himself out of the band before it made it big, then died shortly after.

Doug Hopkins

Pretty much right. He was going to enter rehab, but shot himself.
He wrote "Hey Jealousy", "Found Out About You", "Hold Me Down," and "Lost Horizons."

I screwed up the link, but I got that from his Wikipedia page.

 

[CD Boogie]

This would be you:

José Valdivielso - Wikipedia

Good one....

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Didn't the singer/songwriter for the Gin Blossoms drink himself to death?

Yeah, Doug Hopkins. He wrote all the stuff people remember from the Gin Blossoms.

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith put out a country CD a couple years ago.

 

[Huggy]

Not sure how I forgot that one.

****ing great song, no idea how some Nashville guy hasn't made a huge cover of this one. The Zep version is kind of country/rockabilly, with a terrific vocal from Plant (no stranger to rockabilly stuff) a great semi-distorted Page solo and killer boogie woogie piano from John Paul Jones.