Rock Hardy > Country Hardy. Although, Country Hardy is elite, and he is an amazing song writer for songs like this he didnt even sing. and i think he wrote a number of Morgan's hits too. and FG Line.
This song tells the story of hardworking rural Americans that work the ground and rely on nature to survive. That’s one if the reasons that rural American faith is still so strong.
My parents we're both born in 1930 in Northeast Texas. Life on cotton farm with 18 mouths to feed (my dad's fam) life is already hard enough. The market crash and the Dust Bowl, with the life we all live today, we could not come close to even imagining how hard life was. My dad's family owned their land, which elevated them to just above snail slime. My mother's family were sharecroppers. They rented land to grow cotton. Her family was so poor they couldn't afford dirt, literally. But this environment produce two of the most wonderful people I had ever met and loved in my life. There wasn't anything my dad couldn't do or build. He made sure before he passed that my mom was financially secure.... That drove him, making sure her and at the time me we're taking care of if he died. I heard many tales, not just from them, heard it from the Grannies and my Aunts who all lived thru that horrible time. Bless America, every adversity that our country hits, we face it, hit right back, learn and come back stronger and more united
@@barbjhix Beautifuly said. Those people were truly amazing true survivors and cudos to you for keeping their tough history alive. Kids today should hear this.
My parents were raised basically in the same circumstances. They picked cotton & peaches , grew everything they ate and both of my parents came from families who had 8 children. Everyone worked . All of the boys joined the military as soon as they could, and would send part of their paycheck home to the family. My parents worked hard , built a successful business and raised 6 children. Thank you for posting your story btw
Yes, Blake has been a consistent coach on the voice since 2011, he left the voice in May 2023 to spend more time with Gwen and the kids. React to Blake Shelton- Austin his first number one hit.
The term Okie came from Oklahomans packing up everything they owned in the back of a pickup and headed to California, Okie was meant as a derogatory name, we picked it up and proudly wore it like a badge of honor
Crops began to fail with the onset of drought in 1931, exposing the bare, over-plowed farmland. Without deep-rooted prairie grasses to hold the soil in place, it began to blow away. Eroding soil led to massive dust storms and economic devastation-especially in the Southern Plains.
Country music has been a BEAUTIFUL BLESSING for those of us who LOVE it!!! So pleased that you are open minded and willing to at least listen. Equally pleased that you are enjoying it!
My precious mother just passed away on Independence Day…Her 87 year old self was obsessed with Blake Shelton! We honored her at her service with Blake’s song “Saviors Shadow” just beautiful💝
@@deborahsanders6762 That’s crazy! I’m sure in every good way possible, we’ll never watch fireworks again without having our mothers on our hearts…a beautiful way to celebrate in remembrance❣️ Thank you for your post…
In 1939 John Steinbeck wrote the novel THE GRAPES OF WRATH. It's about a family from Oklahoma that has to leave their home to head toward California to try and find work and the hardships that came along with that. It had alot of controversy around it.
I HATED reading that when I was younger and forced to read it for school, but I reread it as an adult and have major respect for the book and the people that lived during that time.
My husband's grandparents made that trip from Oklahoma. The family reunion is literally held in the same park where the characters end up in at the end of the novel.
me too I'm glad someone mentioned it I grew up in the 70s graduated 1982 we were forced to read the book and then watch the movie I hated it then however I think the showing her generation should read it to learn about history@marieneu264
Blake ByGod Shelton! I’m a proud Okie and if you wanna know where God’s Country is it’s Oklahoma! Blake was on the Voice. I’ve been a fan of Blake’s all the way back since 93. I saw him at the Oklahoma Opry before he got huge. He’s a treasure here in Oklahoma. There’s so many songs you could listen to in his catalog.
Blake Shelton, was the first country artist to win album of the year and best male artist during the regular country music awards. He made a huge breakthrough in the country industry. He changed it all! He wanted to sing rock so bad and be one of those hair bands in the 80’s and 90’s and he said it didn’t sound right cause of his accent so he stuck to his roots. In turn he really took country music to a whole other level. U have rock, country, blues, soul and deep country all in one. U gotta go through his songs u will luv it. I’m an eclectic I luv it all!!! Literally all!
Saying the dustbowl was caused, purely by a drought is a great misunderstanding. An almost equal factor would be farming practices, where they fully stripped the land, getting rid of the plants that would hold the dirt in place allow allowing it to be picked up by the wind as it dried out due to conditions of the drought.
Blake has so many good songs!! Some beach, Kiss my country ass, Ol' Red, Honey Bee, God gave me you...Definitely worth a dive down this rabbithole!! Next on ur list should be Kenny Chesney!! Great storyteller with message driven music! If u so choose to check him out, listen to The good stuff, There goes my life, or No shoes No shirt No problems! Love watching u become a country music fan!
I've lived my whole life in Kentucky and yes we have all those. But we have our whiskey moonshine sunsets the stars out on a clear sky. Right now I'm stuck in the city just not the same. I prefer God's country
Blake Shelton Started in 2001 with a awesome song called Austin and took off to have many great songs he was real good which his success got him on The Voice which he went on being the most winnining coaches with 9 wins, He has 28 # 1's on the Charts, good man, I will leave it there because you can research to see his success.
The flow and the cadence of this song are just PERFECTION. Blake is an absolute GEM with a 30 year rabbit hole of amazing music to go down. Starting with Austin, The Baby, and Ole Red. Official videos are a MUST - especially for Ole Red. Videos for Honeybee and HIllbilly Bone are hilarious. Enjoy the ride! Cheers from Ontario, Canada
The banks failed , markets crashed , also Hoovers tariffs increased consumers cost . Hoover was not a good president although he was a highly successful businessman before he became president. Ppl back during the depression used to call the tent cities that sprung up all over the country Hooverville
And Vince Gill, Carrie Underwood, Kristin Chenoweth, Gene Autry, Ronnie Dunn, Bob Wills, Roger Miller, and the boys from Hanson lol. That's all I could think of off the top of the dome.
Ken Burns - Dust Bowl documentary- he explains it so well. My great grandmother passed from breathing issues from this. My grandma lost her mom when she was still a child.
My paternal grandparents moved from Texas to California during the Dust Bowl. They had a baby and a young toddler (my uncle and dad). They lived the story of The Grapes of Wrath, working as itinerate farm workers. They got paid in whatever they were picking. If it was peaches, almonds, tomatoes, green beans, that was their pay and what they ate and fed their babies. They lived in their car, with the babies sleeping inside the car and mom and dad sleeping on the ground under a makeshift tent made of a blanket attached to the trunk lid, a couple of poles and twine to hold it all together. They worked and lived like that until the end of the Depression, when my grandpa finally found a job that could support the family.
I hear ya, in regards to generalizations made about people. And yes, he and Adam Levine are the ones who started The Voice and he was a Coach for 20 seasons. He actually has a ranch and farm and works it himself. Another who was The Voice for several years and was the very first winner of American Idol 22 years ago is Kelly Clarkson. One of my favorite female singers. She's extremely versatile. Has her own show and does a Kellyoke segment every day covering songs of other artists, and her latest album Chemistry (came out a year ago) is outstanding. She and Blake Shelton have been friends for about 2 decades. I'd love for you to cover her.
BP, my understanding is that for years mid-western farmers planted the same crop(s) in the same fields. Because of this, the land was depleted and dried out and then the drought came. The land was so dry that it just blew away, covering everything. At this time many people from the Plains moved West to California.After the great Dust Bowl, farmers learned to rotate crops so the land wasn't depleted and learned to plant tree blinds to help keep the land in place. We still have droughts today, but nothing like what happened in the 30s.
@@patriciakeith6755 also Oklahoma, one of the most ravaged by the Dust Bowl, built a fair number of dams on rivers and streams and created a fair number of lakes. Created a tourist indestry for camping and fishing, look at Grand Lake of The Cherokees, Lake Tenkiller, or Lake Eufaula to name a few
That was indeed the second part of the problem. The initial problem was the destruction of the hardy prairie grasses that kept the ground in place. Even in cattle grazing land they tried to replace this grass and other stuff did not survive as well.
The song was written by Hardy ("Wait in the Truck") and two other guys (Devin Dawson and Jordan Schmitt) in a single day. Hardy thought about cutting it himself but they ended up sending it to Blake who jumped on it immediately. To paraphrase what someone said about the process: "It went from the writing room to the top of the charts quicker than a speeding bullet."
It was called the dust bowl. It was caused by overworking the land. It was a combination of natural drought an improper farming that caused wind erosion to remove the topsoil.
When he's home and not touring he actually works his own land He takes care of his own house course he has hands helping but he is a farmer first not a lot of these country singers are but there are some Luke Bryan farmed peanuts like some of these guys really know what this work is about They have every right in the world to sing about him and because they're '90s country singers some country purest think that they're not qualified but they are. This man especially he builds his own reservoirs he plows his own fields He built a chapel for his fiance Gwen Stefani so they could get married He is a no joke person and he can sing and he's hot af
I've read many a book about the Dust Bowl in the 1930's.. also during the Great Depression.. our country was in serious trouble at the time. Shows how much as American's we will survive.
There's nothing more country than hard work and pushing through whatever trials and tribulation that might come your way, come hell or high water there is work needs doing. And you need to see it done.
Ok, Pegasus. Just so you can see that Blake is a true badass. You need to absolutely react to his hit song BOYS 'ROUND HERE. It has a rap mixed with country music that will make your playlist for sure. The Rolling Stones love country, too. Here are a couple of their down-home songs. SILVER TRAIN, FAR AWAY EYES, LET IT BLEED, & HONKY TONK WOMEN. Keep going and enjoy
I live in Illinois but can see kentucky right now. The town I live in has under 700 people but we actually have a great young country singer from here named MASON RAMSEY.
That was Luke Brian on the American Idol show with Katie Perry and Lionel Rich, Blake Shelton was one of the original judges on the television show called The Voice for what ended after 23 seasons as a Judge
Blake Sheldon is such a great artist and he has some great stats too. 28 number 1's with 17 of those being consecutive number 1's, starting with his very first single. He hit the country scene with a blockbuster number 1 hit, Austin, and BAM 17 more number 1s hits back to back to back! He came out swinging and never stopped!! He referrences "the devil went down to georgia" that is another EPIC country song by The Charlie Daniels's Band that will also blow your mind, fiddle playing at it's finest and no enhancement like today's musicians!!! They couldn't get away with not playing The Devil Went Down To Georgia at their concets without risking an angry mob!! Blake shelton was the King of the Mullet back in the day!! The time was the "dust bowl" and that was what the footage was from. And he is married to Gwen Stefani from No Doubt, I guess she likes country too!! He was previously married to Miranda Lambert who is a queen of country music in her own right! Another country song I know you would personally love, It's not from the older country, called Bartender Song (Sitting at a Bar), with a cameo from Hank Williams Jr., one of the Kings of country, It's a lighthearted fun song!
When I was a teenager I was mowing the lawn in my bare feet and a snake slizzered right over my foot and headed towards the water. Fortunately I'm not that scared of snakes so it didn't really bother me. Moral of the story, don't mow the lawn in your bare feet.
Hands down favorite Blake Shelton song *The Baby* and then *Home* , particularly the version with Usher at Healing In The Heartland benefit concert after the 2013 tornado. Yes, it's the Dust Bowl (This is what John Steinbeck's Grapes Of Wrath is centered around...Okies used as an insult, packing what they had and going to CA for gold) and Great Depression. Blake is from a place in Oklahoma that's somewhat is in the southeastern part of the state (his Ole Red Bar and Grill is in Tishomingo), I'm from Western OK, 38 miles from the Texas panhandle on I-40. When he's talking about the Back 40, it's a farm term, you always worked the back 40 before anything else. Here, it can also mean that you had to park a pretty good clip away from where you need to be. He was on The Voice for *years* .... he puts on a wicked concert. Mangum OK always has a Rattlesnake Festival....it's a heart attack on land. Depending on what terrain, we have Rattlesnakes, Copperheads, Cottonmouths, Bull Snakes, Black Racer (it's a type of garden snake) and a few more that I'm forgetting because uh no! Leave them alone and they'll leave you alone, usually.
