Name: One Day At A Time by JFBowman Music Co.
Duration: 3 min 54 s
Description: Song about the issue of drinking and/or stopping

Rolling Down The 405

Song about the issue of drinking and/or stopping

One Day At A Time

Finally Free

SongsfromMyHeart

She ain’t no cover girl, but she’s the queen of my world,
Got a beer gut hangin’ out of that old Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt.
She’s got a couple teeth missin’, but that don’t stop her kissin’,
And when she cusses out the TV, Lord, I swear my heart still flirts.
She’s rough, she’s rowdy, she’s wild as a rodeo,
Got whiskey on her breath and mud between her toes.
A little bit crazy, yeah, a little bit mean,
But she’s my shotgun-ridin’, Bud Light-sippin’ redneck queen.
Ain’t nothin’ finer in this whole wide world—
Yeah, damn, that’s my sweet country girl.
Her hair’s a mess, her boots are scuffed, she don’t care too much for style,
But put her in a honky-tonk, and she’ll outdrink any guy.
She’s got a mouth like my old truck, dirty but reliable,
And when she starts to flirtin’, man, it’s downright undeniable.
She’s rough, she’s rowdy, she’s wild as a rodeo,
Got whiskey on her breath and mud between her toes.
A little bit crazy, yeah, a little bit mean,
But she’s my shotgun-ridin’, Bud Light-sippin’ redneck queen.
Ain’t nothin’ finer in this whole wide world—
Yeah, damn, that’s my sweet country girl.
Some folks don’t get it, they shake their heads and laugh,
But they don’t see what I see when she’s sittin’ on my lap.
Yeah, she might be a handful, she might be a wreck,
But I’d take her over any debutante in a fancy dress.
She’s rough, she’s rowdy, she’s wild as a rodeo,
Got whiskey on her breath and mud between her toes.
A little bit crazy, yeah, a little bit mean,
But she’s my shotgun-ridin’, Bud Light-sippin’ redneck queen.
Ain’t nothin’ finer in this whole wide world—
Yeah, damn, that’s my sweet country girl.
Ain’t nothin’ finer in this whole wide world—
Yeah, damn, that’s my sweet country girl.
So pour another round, let’s raise ‘em up high,
To the crazy country girls that steal our hearts at first sight.
They might not be perfect, but buddy, they’re real,
And that’s what makes ‘em the best damn deal.
That's my Sweet Country Girl!

That's My Sweet Country Girl

103  Johnny Cash - Home Of The Blues

I Believe In You

Amanda

Dixie Highway

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One Piece At A Time - Songfacts 

(writer: Wayne Kemp    Performed By: Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three ).

Hi - I’m not Johnny Cash (to invert his famous walk-on-stage remark). JC’s  voice was unique and I can only sing a homage to it as best I can, and try and enjoy myself doing it (which I sure did!).

One Piece At a Time wasn’t written by Johnny Cash but by a songwriter called Wayne Kemp. It  was recorded by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three in 1976 and was the last song performed by Cash to reach number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart (source: Wiki). And although I knew I wanted to add a Johnny Cash song to my Reimaginings collection, this was not the first song in my mind to do. I had thought I might try Folsom Prison Blues (and I might still do it one day), but then I had an ‘in the shower’ moment and remembered that long before I’d joined the world in revering Johnny Cash, I had always enjoyed and remembered this song from when it was in the charts, as being clever, funny and very listenable to. But covering it meant tackling the heights of Johnny Cash Mountain as I would be trying to talk (and not just sing) in his unique style. I wasn’t at all sure I could get it to work but I brushed that thought aside and just got started. Paul ‘Winestoned Cowboy’ Jennings obliged yet again with the right bass guitar part and as usual did a fab job (don’t think he ever imagined himself doing Country Music so that’s another notch on his Bowie knife handle right there).  Despite my misgivings, I think it has come out just great and (always a plus when I’m working on a song) it was a shed-load of fun to do (getting the timing of JC’s chat right is one aspect, and playing the rhythm guitar part in a suitable JC style is another). Anyway, I hope you like it and please share the Soundcloud link to it with others if you do.  

On the technical front, getting the right ‘slapback’ delay in the studio production is a key part of getting the famous Johnny Cash sound working. In this, Waves Abbey Road Chambers reverb/delay effects (which models the real echo chambers at the famous Abbey Road studios) did an absolutely fabulous job at getting me into the right ballpark. Two other products (recently acquired) are also now helping me create better mixes when working on headphones (as you often have to do working at home as over-use of loud studio monitors, though they are what you should ideally use, will probably get you in trouble with the neighbours quite quickly). Toneboosters Morphit allows me to adjust the frequency response profile of my headphones to make them as neutral as possible. And Goodhertz Canopener Studio helps provide the stereo cross-feed that our ears hear in the real world (that’s when sounds coming from one side nonetheless enters the ear on the other side albeit at lower volume) and that headphone listening does not naturally allow for, since each ear is listening in almost complete isolation. So there you have it – an insight into the geek side of the modern artiste ha ha.

Mike O’Neill, 29th May 2020

One Day At A Time

JFBowman Music Co.

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