MikeM

I remembered a song I used to like and looked it up. When I listened to it, it almost hurt physically. Because it reminds me of how I used to be and it has elements of things I've always wanted, but never got because of the alcohol.

There's still time though. But if I really need to get a reminder of the horror that is alcohol, I listen to this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED5s1-Fe9FA

doggonecarl

Reminds me of one of my favorites, from a contemporary of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings. From the album "Singer of Sad Songs"

https://youtu.be/TKq0xmSAoAE?list=PL...x36GlNV2KY4BZv

MikeM

I get a message that the song is not available. What's the song called?

MikeM

Time Between Bottles Of Wine?

CAPTAINZING2000

One of my all time favorites!

Khristopherson had to have lived that to have wrote it

doggonecarl

Yes. Don't know why the link didn't work. Probably my ignorance of uploading links.

Soberpotamus

Here's a good one.

MikeM

I LOVE that one Soberpotamus!

MikeM

Maybe because I'm in a different country. I don't know.

I listened to it and it's a heavy song.

Soberpotamus

And a great cover of a great song:

Soberpotamus

Ok... one more cover:



Cash seems like the musical equivalent of Flannery O'Connor. Not sure if I can explain that though, lol.

MikeM

Is it in the type of storytelling?

Here's a touching cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc

360startstoday

Have you watched walk the line? It's one of my favorite movies. Good movie to remind us. It's the Johnny Cash life story.

I know that this was about songs but another good movie/reminder is crazy heart, with Jeff Bridges.

Soberpotamus

Yeah, it's not only that they're both 'storytellers,' but the kind of stories they tell are similar because they're both coming from such religious/spiritual backgrounds. They're both preoccupied with sin, or in Flannery's case, the characters' sins.

MikeM

Feel free to expand beyond songs. I haven't seen Walk the Line, I only know the song. And I haven't seen Crazy Heart either. Two more to put on my wishlist. Good. It was getting a little short.

MikeM

Sounds like I need to read some of her books!

Soberpotamus

She's an original.

360startstoday

Mike,

I can't do a link. Don't know why, maybe it's my phone.

Look up "just as I am" by Brantley Gilbert on YouTube. He's sober now too. That song literally hurts me.

MikeM

Wow. I can imagine that. What a song!

amazingjoy

Here's another song...Keith Urban...Nobody Drinks Alone...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWHu2IFPt0

Also, I watched "The Days of Wine and Roses". I rented it for $2 on Amazon (I have Amazon Prime). It was made in 1962 and is remarkably honest in it's portrayal of alcohol and how it ruins lives. Surprisingly so for a movie dated then.

It was so moving for me to watch something that old on this topic...and seeing how alcohol is still the same as it ever was...