T-Byrd's Country Gold

You know, this might actually be a really fun show.  This is apparently Tracy Byrd, who is also doing a regular show, but playing only his favorite classic country covers from the golden era of jukebox country.  Here is my background on Byrd, just generally: Tracy Byrd.  But maybe for the rest of this post it would be fun to posit about what songs are considered part of the "golden era of jukebox country."

The internet tells me that the 1950's are considered the golden era of jukeboxes.  It also tells me that the 1990's was the golden era for country music because that was when the genre "trickled" into the mainstream and people caught the line-dancing bug.  Because the blurb from Live Nation said it was jukebox country, I am hoping that we are not looking at the 90's, when I would expect that jukeboxes were less in demand around the world.

An anecdote for you here - we actually had a jukebox growing up in my house as a kid. It was freaking rad, even though most of the records in there were just the old 45 singles my mom had from her childhood - imagine lots of Elvis, Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, etc.  But one of my older siblings had snuck in two modern singles - Devo's "Whip It" and Rick Springfield's "Jesse's Girl."  So, I spent considerable time as a child spazzing out to the amazingly weird sounds of Devo, which probably explains a lot about me today.  I also remember a friend and I using it to prank a girl by playing "Hound Dog" when she picked up the phone.  Sorry, Michelle.  

Anyway, Spotify has a 1993 compilation called Country Jukebox Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, and it is disappointing.  Pretty modern in its song choices.  But a user named Tyler Reed has a pretty legit personal playlist that might hold some fun choices for T-Byrd to bring to the stage.  It even includes "Watermelon Crawl"!  But if T-Byrd would do "I Fall to Pieces," "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," "I Love a Rainy Night," "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," "Family Tradition," and "The Gambler," I think we have a pretty solid set of tunes.