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Country music's Porter Wagoner dies at 80

2:32 PM Mon, Oct 29, 2007 |
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When my life is ended, my time has run out
My trials and my loved ones, I'll leave them no doubt
But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
-- Porter Wagoner, Satisfied Mind

Porter Wagoner died Sunday night in a hospice in Nashville of lung cancer at 80. At the Nashville Tennessean, a loving obit -- Country Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner dies at 80 -- some tunes, and a slideshow of 56 photos from his long career.


pw.jpgThe wonderfully named There's Always Someone Cooler Than You (A Cosmic American Music blog ) offers the photo at right and some tunes at RIP Porter Wagoner (1927-2007) .

A modest blog post at Heart on a Stick references Country Music Television's obit (Country Music Hall of Fame Member Porter Wagoner Dies) and adds,

Others are going to know way more than me about his best writing and singing, about his role in spreading country music via the TV (21 years!), how he fought to give Dolly Parton a career, how he fought to keep her shackled long after her star had eclipsed his. About that amazing, awful, rhinestone jumpwear.

...The showiest thing about Wagoner was his suit, but music's not about getting fancy. He got you to listen to the words. I'd heard "Green Green Grass at Home" before, of course, but had never bothered past the treacly homecoming story to learn it was all a death row inmate's daydream. I'd never heard "The Cold Hard Facts of Life," found myself gasping, then chuckling, when its sad-sack cuckold hero turned killer.

Eighty-year-old Wagoner released a well-received new album on Anti-, this year.  Wagonmaster.  The two tracks below are from that...

Sing it at the pearly gates, Porter.

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