Today's country sucks with people like Beyonce, Nas, jelly Roll and a whole bunch of others. So, I'm posting classic/traditional country music!!


William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975) was an American country and honky-tonk singer-songwriter.
Frizzell is known as one of the most influential country music vocal stylists of all time. William Orville Frizzell was born the son of an oilman, the first of eight children, in Corsicana in Navarro County in North Texas, United States. During his childhood, his family moved to El Dorado in Union County in south Arkansas. Today, he is regarded as one of the most influential voices in country music history, inspiring many of the next generation's artists.

Tonight's double shot of great country music!

"Saginaw, Michigan" is a 1964 song performed by Lefty Frizzell. The single was Lefty Frizzell's sixth and final number one on the U.S. country chart

https://youtu.be/udvpVJqy7iw


"If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)" is a debut song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Lefty Frizzell, released on September 14, 1950

https://youtu.be/yAPiMnk7Kos

Bonus tracks.

"I Love You a Thousand Ways", which was written by Frizzell as a letter to his newly wed wife, when he was jailed in 1947 for having sex with an underage girl.
https://youtu.be/MJoWuVCYF0s


"She's Gone Gone Gone" is a country music song written by Harlan Howard and originally recorded by American singer Lefty Frizzell. Frizzell's version of the song reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart

https://youtu.be/65L0p3e360A

Lefty Frizzell - I Never Go Around Mirrors (1973).

https://youtu.be/J44juKDeLnQ



"I Want to Be with You Always" was the country music song released by Lefty Frizzell in March 1951. The song was Frizzell's third number one US Country hit since "If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)" one year earlier.

https://youtu.be/uuS6bmMMiUo


"Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. In 2019, Frizzell's version of "Long Black Veil" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

https://youtu.be/uFkyAWLfk9I