Side A
Artist	Song
Steve Goodman	I'm My Own Grandpa
Johnny Cash	Pickin' Time
Johnny Cash	Country Trash
Johnny Cash	A Boy Named Sue
Dottie West	Country Sunshine
The Maddox Brothers & Rose	Whoa Sailors
The Carter Family	Sailor Boy
Elvis Presley	Tomorrow is a Long Time
Waylon Jennings	Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
Hawkshaw Hawkins	Twenty Miles from Shore
Nat Stuckey	Pop a Top
Freddy Fender, Doug Sahm & Gene Tillman	Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Jerry Lee Lewis	What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)
Hank Williams, Sr.	Honky Tonkin' Around This Town
Merle Haggard	Honky Tonkin'
Carl Butler	Honky Tonkitis
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Honky Tonky Blues
Loretta Lynn	Honky Tonk Girl
Johnny Horton	Honky Tonk Man
Merle Haggard	Honky Tonk Mama
Johnny Horton	Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor
Bob Dylan	Boogie Woogie Country Girl
Loretta Lynn	Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Del McCoury	If You've Got The Money, Honey
Nick Lowe	I Trained Her To Love Me
Hank Williams, Sr.	Hey, Good Lookin'
Jerry Lee Lewis & Little Richard	I Saw Her Standing There
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Jerry Lee Lewis	Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On
Ray Charles	You Be My Baby
Clifton Chenier	I'm A Hog For You
Chuck Berry	Childhood Sweetheart
Elvis Presley	A Big Hunk O' Love
Wanda Jackson	Right or Wrong
George Jones	Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Ray Price	My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
Floyd Tillman	I Love You So Much It Hurts
Roy Orbison	Sweet and Easy to Love
Elvis Presley	Stuck On You
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos	I'll Catch You When You Fall
John Prine	I Want To Be With You Always
Hank Williams, Sr.	Let's Turn Back the Years
Marty Robbins	Don't Worry
Elvis Presley	Pledging My Love
Johnny Cash	Train of Love
Roger Miller	King of the Road
Jody Miller	Queen of the House
Waylon Jennings	Honky Tonk Heroes
Jerry Lee Lewis with George Jones	Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
Merle Haggard	My Life's Been a Pleasure
Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson	A Couple More Years
Willie Nelson	Fool's Paradise
Porter Wagoner	Green, Green Grass of Home
Merle Haggard	Sweet Memories
George Jones with Merle Haggard	Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Johnny Cash	That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
Ray Price with the Jordanaires	Peace in the Valley

Comment:

My other grandpa has already been the inspiration for previous mixes, both directly and indirectly. Now that I posted a musical tribute to my deceased grandparents, I wanted to make one for my maternal grandparents as well, particularly dedicated to their upcoming 60th wedding anniversary (April 20). And in typical do-it-all Doowad fashion, I had trouble keeping this to a 2-disk volume. The other challenge was trying not to repeat any songs from the 30-disk Redneck Deluxe series from last fall. I failed (a little), but I guess I only repeated the very essential. I must tell you that Grandma and Grandpa have more 8-track players (2) in their possessions than CD players (0), so the point is more to honor them, than make this "for" them.Regarding the music, the first two Cash songs really make me think of Grandpa, who grew up near Lohman, MO (population 168, SAA-LUTE!!). Where my other grandpa was about the country witticisms, this grandpa is all about telling stories, some more ribald than others. He just told me a good story about growing up in Lohman as one of the only Catholic families among a bunch of Lutherans. He said they would get out of Mass while the Lutherans were still at church for 2-3 hours, so he would head over to their houses to hunt squirrels in their front yards. The only problem was when a squirrel would drop on the sidewalk, blood would get all over it. He would run like hell to their cistern and draw water to wash it clean. He said if somebody had ever been sick at home or whatever and surprised him, he would have dropped dead of a heart attack right then and there. He pretty much knew Grandma all her life since her older sister married his oldest brother More of these may be inspired by thinking of him, but the Dottie West and Rose Maddox and Loretta, among others, are for Grandma to get her two cents in once in a while.I was thinking about doing a musical biography, which is where the sailor songs came from, but I had to cut out a couple chapters because the drinkin' and lovin' took over. Some of the last cuts included Uncle Tupelo's The Long Cut, since going on a trip with Grandpa was never about going from point A to point B, but more from point A to point Z and all points in between, just rambling around the countryside. But that seemed less important (and my picks were more out-of-genre) to be appropriate here. King of the Road was the only one that remained, mainly for the chance for Grandma to have her answer song. Grandpa was a fan of Falstaff, Griesedieck, and, as you know, Stag beers, so the drinkin' songs made up most of side one. Side two, as you can see, is pretty much a testament to their true marital bliss. They are really an example for all of their kids, grandkids and great-grandkids. The mix closes with songs focused on the The Autumn Years. Yes, I'm sure Johnny said it right, God's got a heaven for country trash.

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