"Hey weaseldog - was it a Gibson ES-335?"
Good guess. with a single Humbucker pickup and a sunburst pattern.
It was mine for a decade, until I was burglarized.
i've been busy w/the move, so i missed this story till today, thursday.
porter was the real deal. i loved watching the porter wagoner show when i was a kid in denver, and he was old school. his influence, especially thru dolly, spans decades of country music.
rip porter
Hey weaseldog - was it a Gibson ES-335?
Steve - thanks for this. I love Dolly and Porter together. They always had so much fun.
I have one Porter Wagoner album called "On the Road - The Porter Wagoner Show, with Norma Jean and the Wagonmasters"(1966). The cover art, of Porter driving collaged over a map of southern states, is perfectly cheesy and perfectly endearing.
It's a live recording of his show. He even sings "Turkey in the Straw" and Camptown Races" on it.
I remember clearly the day I first saw Porter Wagoner on the TV. It was around 1960, meaning I was about 10. In my sheltered, Cleveland-suburban, white-bread youth, I had never seen a man with hair like that dressed up like that. I had no idea what it was I was seeing on the TV. Frankly, he scared me! I ran to get my sister and we marveled together at this person who looked to us like a space alien.
Only much later did I come to appreciate Wagoner's music and his place in the American musical pantheon. But I'll *always* remember the day I saw a space alien on TV!
You know, Steve, that first YouTube looks old enough to date from his time on the "Ozarks Jubilee" -- which in the 50's made my hometown, Springfield, Mo., the third U.S. city to broadcast a national TV show. That explains how I happened to go to school with Porter's son Richard, with Brenda Lee her very own self a couple of years ahead of us.
R.I.P., Mr. Wagoner, and comfort to you and your sisters, Richard.
Rest in Peace, Porter. You had a rare dignity and a down-home humor all your own. Your laughter will be remembered.
I remember watching the show when he and Dolly advertised soap powder that included a flowered dish towel in each box. Dolly: "Oh, look, Porter, it's a chrysanthe-mum!!" said in deep Tennessee accent. Loved their hokey sincerity.
When the Porter Wagoner show along with Buck Owens and others came on, the TV did not change channels.
I remember my grandpa picking along with Porter on his old Gibson hollow body electric.
Thats too bad.
I watched him with my Grandmother for years and years, he was in a league of his own there for quite a while.
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