One of my favorites.❤

I was a young child in 1974. My dad was a huge fan of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins and many more legends (at the time I didn't get it). He was diagnosed with lung cancer and was dying. A coupe of times I walked in to a room and saw him listening to this song on the radio. He said, "I'm dying". He died in January 1975. He was 57. Haven't heard, or remembered this song until now. " Goodbye Country Bumpkin..."

Another great classic! Country music has so many almost forgotten treasures…thank you for unearthing this one!

I've always loved this song. It tells such a simple and beautiful story.

Love his voice and the song

A great story song. Only in Country Music. Love this song. So many great story songs for you to find & listen to in Country.

A truly great classic song and voice. Thank you PJ and Mike Savage.

That last verse always brings tears to my eyes. Even more so since my mom passed away in 2020.

another classic !

That song played a lot then. A country classic. 😊

A truly classic country voice. Been a long time since I last heard this song. Thanks much.

This is what I have always loved about country music, the storytelling. It has been years since I last heard, or even thought, about this song. But I still remember every word. Thank you PJ, Mike Savage. Peace!

My favorite thing about older country music is that they were just folks. Not supermodels with whitened teeth and tans. They were just people that could sing. Maybe that’s why we had such good singers in yesteryear. Television was new and your sound mattered more. Won’t ever happen again.

Thank you for this one. It's almost criminal that so few people know about guys like Cal.

I still have this album. Cal's voice is so smooth, such a wonderful story singer 😊 Two artists to delve into are Ed Bruce 'You're The Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had' or 'My First Taste Of Texas' and Eddy Raven, 'Til You Cry'. Always enjoy your reactions, thank you😊

PJ..Great song .Thank you for your reaction..

Cal had one of those voices you knew as soon as you hear him. This was written by Don Wayne how also wrote Saginaw Michigan for Lefty Frizzell

The only place I have heard that song in the last 40 years, is in my head. this is one of those songs that has always stuck with me. I was around 12 years old. When that song came out, it did not take me long to memorize every word, and every nuance of every note.

@mintonmiller

9 ай бұрын

@@colonialbuckeye2288 I grew up in Iowa. Some of my favorite country music songs were about living in the country. Dottie West, country sunshine, or may be Tom T. Hall country is worth some of my favorites. This song is included in that list.

@mintonmiller

9 ай бұрын

@@colonialbuckeye2288 I do miss Iowa sometimes. I left there the day after graduating from high school in 1980. That in itself is a long story. I spent eight years in Southern California and hated most of it. Then we moved up here to northern Minnesota where I have been the last 35+ years. Sometimes all the trees up here make me feel a little claustrophobic and I do miss the Rollinghills in wide open spaces of Iowa. But, you have to really love soybean fields and corn fields to live there because that is what most of the state is, not counting all the hog farms because I was the second largest producer of pork. I actually grew up in the city of Cedar Rapids, but it didn’t feel like a city of 100,000 people. It felt more like the town, I live in Nknow, Grand, Rapids, Minnesota, a population of just over 9000. Cedar Rapids was very spread out and cornfields sometimes were even in the middle of residential neighborhoods. I have never gone back to Cedar Rapids, but I would love to go back and just look around for a few days, but, I am a firm believer in the idea of never really being able to go back, so I’ve never desire to move there again. On a different note, when I was around 14, I went out to Brooklyn, New York with my dad twice when he was driving truck. All that brick and concrete and all those people just fascinated me. I would love to go to New York city for a couple weeks to visit, but I sure would not want to live there.

@mintonmiller

9 ай бұрын

@@colonialbuckeye2288 Tom T Hall had a way of making the mundane things in life important and interesting. He did a good job of telling a person's life story (like this song does) in The Year Claton Delaney Died, or the song Ravishing Ruby. One of my favorite songs summ9ing a persons' life is He Went To Paris by Jimmy Buffet (I first heard it done by Waylon Jennings). I tried to sum up the last 40 years of my life in the song 40 Years And Counting That I wrote for my 40th wedding anniversary. kzread.info/dash/bejne/d3-mmaOte5i9l9o.html&pp=ygUjbWludG9uIG1pbGxlciA0MCB5ZWFycyBhbmQgY291bnRpbmc%3D

Hello My Friend. You picked a great song. Brings back memories for me. I listened to so many country classics with my dad on KSJB radio from Jamestown ND growing up. Including songs like this one. "The Lord Knows I"m Drinkin" is so good! Thinking of a few new ones for you...Johnny Paycheck comes to mind. Listen to "Old Violin." So good! And a nice little lady named Charly McClain. I shot so much pool listening to them both, with my buddies. A long time ago now. But great memories. I still plan to buy you that beer or two!

@DjPjrocReacts911

9 ай бұрын

@1963bigivan My brother! I appreciate the suggestions. I did hear a little Paychack during my George Jones set a while back. Can't wait to get into his stuff. The Lord Knows I'm drinking is such a country music title. Great stuff!

A lot of women started calling their man County Bumpkin' after this song hit the charts.

I haven't heard this in years. Great request. P.J. this song does paint a vivid picture. Marvelous reaction P.J.

@DjPjrocReacts911

9 ай бұрын

@dsusan17 Thank you D.

@dsusan17

9 ай бұрын

Your welcome P.J!

This is still on my favorites play list. Also, like Lord Knows I'm Drinking, so go mind your own business. One year he was opening for Conway and Loretta. I had already seen them twice, only went that 3rd time for Cal.

I heard something once, I’m not sure of the details, but I’m pretty certain it was Garth Brooks who brought some attention to this song, calling it the “quintessential country song” or “best country song” or something like that. I believe Cal Smith gifted Garth his ACM award for the song or something like that too. Very cool stuff. I always thought it was a pretty good song, but I find it a bit more emotional now after losing my mom, when I was forty.

You haven’t heard from me for a minute. It’s not because I lost interest by any means. Just been really busy. At any rate, you stumbled onto one of the records that remains on my iPod mixes almost every time I reinvent them. Right now it blends right in with Red Light Special by TLC. It’s amazing how Cal Smith and Left Eye follow each other on my mixes like butter and honey. I’m sure everyone else would be smacked upside the head by it but it’s the way I live. I can’t imagine what life would be like without some Cal Smith.

@DjPjrocReacts911

9 ай бұрын

Great stuff! Good to hear from you Dawg! Love me some TLC. RIP Left eye

I start crying in the second verse. I have buried two wives and miss the one who dumped me almost fifty years ago.

Listen To Jonny Lang - Lie To Me Thank You Sir Have a Blessed Day .

His real name was Calvin Grant Shofner. I don't know why they gave him a generic name like Cal Smith, which was only a single letter off from Carl Smith, a man who was a major country music star in the 1950s and '60s and was only 5 years older than Cal. It would be like if a country artist came out today calling himself Kenny Cheney. They should have called him Calvin Grant, if his last name was hard to work with. Nonetheless, he still managed to distinguish himself and have a pretty good career in the business.