From what little I've read about their relationship, I think it was more the other way around.
Mark
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> Porter Wagoner is also credited with "discovering" Dolly Parton. I guess she taught him the cold, hard facts of life.
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled country
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> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 9:59 PM
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> Following the music thread a little while ago, I was listening to a great new recording from John Doe and the Sadies entitled “Country Club” from YepRoc Records. Some of you may recall Mr. Doe from his days in the band X. Anyway, there’s a cover of a 1967 Porter Wagoner #2 hit, composed by Bill Anderson without a wasted word. I’m supplying the lyrics below under the “fair use” scholarly provision of copyright law:
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> I got back in town a day before I'd planned to
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> I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife
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> I passed a little wine store on the corner
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> I pictured pink champagne by candlelight
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> I stopped the car right then
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> A stranger stood there laughing by the counter
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> Her husband's out of town and there's a party
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> He winked as if to say “you know the rest . . .”
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> I left the store two steps behind the stranger
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> I drove around the block till I was dizzy
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> Lord you should've seen their frantic faces
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> As they screamed and cried please put away the knife
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> I guess I'll go to hell
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> Note: On Amazon, there’s an import set of six Wagoner 1960s concept albums featuring “a rogue's gallery of murderers, philanderers, depressives, death-row inmates, unrepentant barflies, panhandling winos and other losers.” Sounds like the Gold Medal soundtrack . . .
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