Sunday, 01 June 2008
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Written by
Charles Andrews
Let’s say you’re a big fan of the-real-deal country music, and you decide to get busy on eBay and you score big. You find and successfully bid on a pair of black socks worn by Johnny Cash, a postcard mailed from El Paso by Marty Robbins, a rose sent from San Antonio by Bob Wills, a can of hair spray used by Tammy Wynette, an empty pill bottle with Hank Williams’ name on the label, an empty white lightnin’ bottle with no label but with George Jones’ fingerprints all over it, Buck Owens’ red-white-and-blue belt buckle, Dolly Parton’s bra, Patsy Cline’s plane ticket, a joint rolled by Merle Haggard, half a joint smoked in Muskogee OK by Willie Nelson, a shower curtain from Ernest Tubb’s bathroom and a book on public speaking from Mel Tillis’ library. Why, you’d have yourself ...