Fun fact: she wrote "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" back to back. 🤘🏼

Old country is great. Dolly, Willie, Patsy, Waylon, Hank, Cash.

Only new stuff I like is Sturgill. He's great.

Listen to most country songs before 2001. The only good country is old school outlaw country.

Modern pop country is just bland messageless safe space frat party garbage.

re-mixed by The Internet:

Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man.
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
Please don’t take him just because you can.

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Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green

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For years our town’s been terrorized
By the beast who takes disguise
In the shell that calls itself Jolene

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Our sleep disturbed by quaking breath
Eyes closed against the threat of death
That lies behind the teeth of that Jolene

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The closer that you get to her
The more those edges seem to blur
To something that cannot be called Jolene

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Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man.
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
Please don’t take him just because you can.

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He screams about you in his sleep,
And when he wakes does naught but weep,
In terror of the one they call, Jolene.

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We cower here beneath your gaze,
That sets the earth and sky ablaze,
Have mercy at the end of days, Jolene.

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Before her wrath no foe could stand,
Their corpses piled upon the sand,
The blood of gods are on her hands; Jolene.

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Her hunger barely satisfied,
She feasted on the ones who died,
She slumbers now in starless skies; Jolene.

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Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
I’m begging of you, please don’t disturb her sleep.
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
We’re safe while she still slumbers in the deep.

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Your teeth are sharp, your mouth agape
Your claws rend flesh, there’s no escape
From judgement of the Eldritch One, Jolene

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Blackening the summer skies,
With burning wings and countless eyes,
We tremble at the thought of you, Jolene.

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Bliss withered from this awful truth,
Gone is the ignorance of youth,
The unrelenting mark of that Jolene.

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Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man.
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
Please don’t take him just because you can.

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The foolish who came to defend,
Their broken minds will never mend,
They fell at the mere sight of you, Jolene.

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But I’ve seen beyond that auburn hair
My eyes have met your vacant stare
And I’ve been told I’m hard to scare, Jolene

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Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene;
I’ll end this story just how it began
I’ll take your teeth if you try to take my man

As good as Jolene normally is, playing the 45 at 33rpm is my favorite way to listen. It's just so hauntingly beautiful.

https://youtu.be/doz1QJ7LwjA

I differentiate between "country" and "western" in my mind, with the likes of Dolly Parton being western.

Me hearing Sunday Morning Coming Down or Me and Bobby McGee

so not me. country and rap fall into the same boat with me. There is a bit I don't dislike, especially when its more rock like, but I can't think of anything that im like this is awesome about.