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re: Busted flat in Baton Rouge
Posted on 5/23/18 at 3:44 pm to Minnesota Tiger
Posted on 5/23/18 at 3:44 pm to Minnesota Tiger
fred foster is kristoferson's record producer in nashville, and bobby mcgee was the secretary for the guy in the office next door to fred. The song was fred's idea, i think.
fred foster's daughter is Kristen Foster, who is a music teacher (i think) in baton rouge, and who is the lead singer for a baton rouge band called "polly pry."
Kevin Bacon is somehow related, but i cannot recall how just now.
fred foster's daughter is Kristen Foster, who is a music teacher (i think) in baton rouge, and who is the lead singer for a baton rouge band called "polly pry."
Kevin Bacon is somehow related, but i cannot recall how just now.
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Posted on 5/23/18 at 3:46 pm to piratedude
Sixth degree baw!
Posted on 5/23/18 at 4:02 pm to MLCLyons
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He wrote the song while he was a helicopter pilot in Lafayette
He wrote a lot of songs while flying to the rigs offshore. He was also a gold gloves boxer and was offered a Rhodes scholarship to study literature but turned it down to be commissioned in the Army and became a Huey pilot. Volunteered for Vietnam but they assigned him to be an English teacher at West Point. Most people don't know that about the guy, and extremely intelligent person.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 4:09 pm to Rouge
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Am-Trak station off Florida Boulevard
And river road back in the day.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 4:11 pm to Yammie250F
Not too smart if he worked for PHI 
Posted on 5/23/18 at 4:21 pm to 777Tiger
“Picked up a boy just south of Mobile
Something something with a hot meal
I was 16 he was 21.
Rode w us to Memphis
Poppy would have shot him
If he knew what he’d done”
South of Mobile?!?!?!
Something something with a hot meal
I was 16 he was 21.
Rode w us to Memphis
Poppy would have shot him
If he knew what he’d done”
South of Mobile?!?!?!
Posted on 5/23/18 at 4:27 pm to Minnesota Tiger
shitty song sung by a fat disgusting pig 50+ years ago.
who cares and why does it deserve a thread?
who cares and why does it deserve a thread?
Posted on 5/23/18 at 4:56 pm to zeebo
quote:
“Picked up a boy just south of Mobile
Gave him a ride, filled him with a hot meal
I was 16 he was 21.
Rode w us to Memphis
Poppy would have shot him If he knew what he’d done”
South of Mobile?!?!
Yeah, that line always got me, too--Bayou La Batre? Dauphin Island? Maybe Tillman's Corner?
Also, they filled him with a hot meal, but he filled HER up with something else that was hot....
Posted on 5/23/18 at 5:00 pm to Rouge
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Am-Trak station off Florida Boulevard
you should try to use the google machine more
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beat me to it, these kids today would rather give a negative witless remark than learn anything
Posted on 5/23/18 at 5:02 pm to BRich
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What song are y'all talking about? Not "Me and Bobby McGee", I hope. No mention of Texarkana in that one, just a mention of "dirty red bandanna"....
This made me chortle
Posted on 5/23/18 at 5:05 pm to johnnydrama
quote:But I heard you could get to Rock City by movin fast, down 95?
And don't stop believing that there's a South Detroit.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 5:26 pm to Minnesota Tiger
Go check out the downtown planetarium. Used to be a train station.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 5:32 pm to chryso
quote:
Go check out the downtown planetarium. Used to be a train station.
This. And dam, I'm getting old.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 6:09 pm to Yammie250F
quote:
was offered a Rhodes scholarship to study literature but turned it down to be commissioned in the Army
No he did take the scholarship, he got a bachelor of philosophy in English literature at Merton College which is part of Oxford.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 6:20 pm to MLCLyons
quote:
No he did take the scholarship, he got a bachelor of philosophy in English literature at Merton College which is part of Oxford.
In fact, he released his first recording in England, under another name.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 6:24 pm to Minnesota Tiger
Love this song. Tracks that run behind Alex Box? I remember the old train at the museum downtown. Only ever took an AmTrak from NO to Orlando. And a Greyhound from BR to St. Louis. I was a teenage girl, alone for both and they were terrible experiences.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 7:27 pm to Minnesota Tiger
Probably referring to jumping on a train hobo style but they hitch hiked instead.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 7:34 pm to Minnesota Tiger
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Where would one wait for a train in BR in the 1960s? One of the more iconic songs from the Woodstock generation, and there is not even a place to catch a train in BR?
There was an Illinois Central depot right across the street from the Old State Capitol that was operational through the mid-1960's.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 7:38 pm to Zappas Stache
And wound up in Salinas. That's a lot of harpoon playing.
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