Johnny Russell "Rednecks White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer"

Live from Wilburn Brothers TV Show

[@98dodgediesel5]

This type of country music is so much better than today's crap.

[@damageincorporatedmetal43v73]

Lefty Frizzle, Hank Sr., etc...🤔 I appreciate my Elders, I'm still pining over Erma Cooper.

[@verdant2215]

That's not country. It's pop rap with western guitars. Country music is a lost art, but some names are popping up with great tunes.

[@shawnspickard1272]

Ditto,today's country music has lost its roots.

[@stenny1970]

1000% Right!

[@sartainja]

A 🦫’s farts are better than the so-called music of present day.

[@cjcmusic52]

This is the song my, now wife, came up to ask me to dance...in 1975. We married in 1976 & celebrate our 48th July 31! The love of my life!!

[@grouchyoleguy]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

[@scottbaker1800]

No cap turned backwards, no dancers, no auto tune. Just pure music and singing

[@DougB64]

Pure country at it's finest. Takes me back to my childhood.

[@janetstout8092]

Takes me back to my early teens

[@janetstout8092]

Whatever happened to the good old days when music was real and people were real 😢

[@Juergenogg]

I agree most of the so called new country I dislike now I do have 2 say jelly roll has some good songs

[@donaldkunzer4097]

Liberals, that’s what happened… progressive democrats happened… they destroy everything.

[@rmazzella5303]

Just what we need-a patriotic drinking song.

[@drakehonest2]

Hello how are you doing..?

[@bjohnson1489]

Yes we do big time

[@simplesimon8583]

We already have one. The Star Spangled Banner is based on - believe it or not - a BRITISH :O - drinking song by John Stafford Smith: "To Anacreon in Heaven." Also, "America" (Samuel Francis Smith) is the same melody as "God Save the King". Life is weird, ain't it?

[@18winsagin]

Takes me back to when country music and people were genuine, today it's just add water and shake.

[@jerryanstey7058]

SOUL IS DIS APPEARING !

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[@kelvinraphael1127]

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[@lucydavie7688]

I was blaring this on the jukebox at the bowling alley best $1 I ever spent

[@davenport9807]

You're my kinda woman

[@jarrasmith1]

That’s great 🤣🤣👍👍

[@justinatkinson5265]

What year did this song come out?

[@K-Dawg2107]

@@justinatkinson5265 1973

[@lennybuttz2162]

What I love about this song is the message that it's OK to be a regular guy, working hard and having fun.

[@PDC1987]

And acknowledging that we love knee-high white socks. The only socks a real man should own.

[@Lily-ej7ts]

This is real country music. The genre has all but disappeared. They don't play this kind of music anymore.

[@davidcase7655]

Sirius XM Willie's Roadhouse, channel 59. I hear this song about once a week, along with all the old classics. Totally worth the subscription.

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

Nashville has ben taken over by the "Machine". Country lost its soul and sold it for a drum machine.

[@PickUpTheToy]

Mexican American loving real country music!! God bless America!

[@curtisanderson8013]

American my Brother 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@carrolltucker]

👍👍

[@wesleymcjunkin687]

Hey, Pick up the toy. Hilarious comment!! Happy New Year!! 1-1-2024

[@Stanley.1977]

When I was a kid, I liked some country music, but not a lot of it, but one of the people who really got me really into country music was a good friend of mine, who a shared an apartment after high school, and he was a Mexican-American from Cicero, Illinois. He used to jokingly call himself a "sp*c-a-billy" *(his words).* When I shared a flat with him, he was always listening to country western music, and that's when I really started getting really more into it, myself.

[@mrsandman3954]

In 1973 I was in the USN and in a bar called the Tiffany Inn in Orlando Fla. Johnny was playing. On a break he came and sat down at my table because I was the only one in the club wearing a cowboy hat and boots and drank a beer with me. I was thrilled and will never forget..!

[@wjf213]

KC Casey I wouldn't either KC. Sadly, they just don't make great Americans like him anymore.

[@mrsandman3954]

***** My friend..dont I wish I would have!

[@BobLeeSwaggerUSMC]

+KC Casey Hope you were wearing your dress boots and hat with your dress canvas.

[@mrsandman3954]

Donny Brook lol..yep..dress blues and tennis shoes..lol

[@countryboy5510]

+KC Casey lucky you

[@MSASteelerPSG]

Johnny not only sang em' great, he wrote em' great!

[@monmixer]

I worked on some recording sessions with him for Alcoa Aluminum in the 70's. Corporate jingles as we called them.

[@bjohnson1489]

I'm guessing lived em

[@cindyaaron1366]

I remember watching this episode of hee haw with my granny. It was one of her favorite. We were him. Little too loud... Song of the blue collar, common man. Now one of my favorites

[@drakehonest2]

Hello how are you doing?

[@kevinloper7353]

We need these great bars again. No color no creed just those moments when you got a Friday pay check and a place to be equals !

[@garylangdon3623]

Those old bars was called taverns and they all had beer on tap frosted mugs they just don't have that s*** no more

[@lucydavie7688]

In Canada they do

[@lawrencemartin2711]

Come down here to a South Alabama or South Georgia small town. You’ll still find one.

[@davidgolden1932]

Amen to that

[@MacroGamingStudios]

Out in BFE Michigan we have em! I love it, go get a PBR and a shot of Jack and ya talk whoever's there with ya. Don't matter what they look like they're a friend. Can't beat that stuff

[@Hockeycarddude]

Watching this video and hearing this great song makes me realize how far modern country has gone in the wrong direction. Its hardly even about the music anymore. Its all about theatrics and who can "shake it" the best. I appreciate a song like this so much more. Just to see Johnny stand there sing from the heart, unconcerned with putting on a show or looking the part of a stereotypical "country boy." Music in its purest form. So glad we've got KZbin so these gems can endure!

[@barbaracroft3085]

I AGREE LOVED HIM SO MUCH

[@TConer-ft7no]

Amen !!

[@jerryv.397]

Luke Schafer RIGHT ON LUKE"""

[@rojardakar1313]

Modern country has gone democrat!!

[@RonJohn63]

***** That would only be true if you think that rock & roll and rap -- which is what CM has become infected by -- are part of Hillary's Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. But seriously, modern CM is just the evolution of The Nashville Sound. According to record producer Chet Atlkins, who helped pioneer the sound: "It's the sound of money".

[@robertwesex6490]

I'm a Canadian who loves my neighbourly Americans! Thanks a million for existing! Love Ye - ALL!!!

[@xxyox]

Couldn't do it without our Canadian brothers in arms.

[@jimwade9570]

THANKS FOR HANK SNOW AND OTHERS!!

[@georgeorwell4534]

Thanks brother. My best to you and your fellow Canadians.

[@rickeastwood1220]

robert wesex bless you brother

[@riddlemark7009]

robert wesex Most of us Americans love our neighbors to the North too

[@patrickbarber8187]

One of my all time favorite country songs! I wish we had music like that today

[@josephhopka]

I love this song. Every time I play it. I remember my dad. PBR in hand. Lord rest is soul he never got to finish his last 6 pack. But I made sure that it was with him before the casket closed. RIP Gordon Hopka. You was a good hard working man.

[@yvwic50]

joe hopka Reminds me of my dad, too....glad it opens up memories for you.

[@fuzzy6813]

My friend you couldn't say it any better than I could myself. When my dad passed away I drank a lot of type of his beer he drank Bush beer I made sure before the casket was closed and before they cremated him he had a 12 pack inside with him for a ride my dad was a hard-working man also it wasn't for my father I would never become the man I am today hard working just like him I might not like his beer but I've drank it before in the past and it was cold and refreshing but I'll say this much I love my PBR and I hope when I pass on my kids to the same thing for me Amen to all of our parents that are missing today let's give him a thought and raise our glasses and say thank you Mom thank you Dad for teaching us the way we should be the right way 😥😞👍

[@lucydavie7688]

Man that’s sucks that he never finished it

[@williemorris2626]

My dad drank Blue Ribbon beer , on Sunday morning he would put salt in one to help with the Hangover. He gave me some foam on a spoon and my Mom would get so mad After I got married and had kids and we visited him he would give beer foam to my youngest boy. He passed in 1996 and I miss him so much

[@jamesaritchie1]

Wow, do you not know how the Lord works, or what His commandments are.

[@ernestdonaldmazurick7097]

It's okay to be a regular guy! Love his music, he sang from the heart. Songs like this do not come out today.

[@dewayneleek4588]

Ppl 35 and younger aint got a clue bout this kinda music,,,i dont think we can ever go back except on youtube😂

[@GunsHarleysUSA]

Always loved this song and no one can sing it better than Johnny Russell.

[@garretschlief6776]

It's ashame music like this isn't written anymore

[@drakehonest2]

Hey how are you doing today..?😮

[@nobodynoone2500]

It is, but it's not promoted and doesn't sell well. Support living musicians!

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

Songs about hanging out at a bar drinking? Pretty sure those still exist.

[@SuperOlds88]

This is from the era of when I USE to listen to the radio.

[@The50Fordman]

Sirius satellite radio still plays the old ones.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Me, too. I still more or less like country, but nothing like I used to.

[@2bit661]

What's a radio?

[@mikeaubuchon8409]

Exactly . I play the older country music , not the crap they try to pass off as country today . Miss songs like this .

[@dannyp2267]

This song brings me right back when I was a kid growing up my dad had a bar that could be the setting for this song. It was a place where the locals hung out, great group of people. Wish I could go back to those days. Smoke hung in the air, country music on the juke box, cigarette machine along one wall, couple of pool tables, and Natty Boh, PBR, Black Label, Budweiser were the beers of choice.

[@angelo8424]

I play this CD in my truck-The memories of a simpler time.

[@thecaliforniamartins2810]

Makes me proud to be an American! I can't hear this song and not sing it out loud. Love it!

[@billinrio]

Strange thing to be proud about

[@randyrobinson8751]

Good ol blue collar worker song

[@carolyngordin6091]

DELTA AND BYE

[@carolyngordin6091]

YOUR TWO INSANES FRUIT AND GONE

[@carolyngordin6091]

BABY KILLER TEAPO

[@lindaholley4406]

Wow this reminds me of back in 75 when husband was in military. Him and his buddies would go to the bar and this was their song!! My husband and few of others are all gone only one left is Sam!! RIP guys!!!

[@nickr5759]

This is the first time I’ve ever heard this song… Truly an instant classic for me!

[@brucecsnell]

The first time for me was 1973 but my response was the same -- an instant classic.

[@JoeSmith-qn3el]

Love this song many years now. I was one of those rednecks , and still am. The doc said maybe I should not have them PBR 's no more.

[@miltonmoore5294]

Heard his name before but that's all. He really had a nice voice. Born in Mississippi in 1940, he died from complications of diabetes in 2001 aged 61 after having both legs amputated. In 1958 he wrote IN A MANSION STANDS MY LOVE, one of my favorite songs recorded by Jim Reeves that same year. Oddly, the only reason I am here is because I listened to a recording by Beverly Heckel that I liked, and found out she was wed to Johnny Russell. So I had to check him out.

[@johnjump3811]

I'm from Russia but I can declare this song is incredible and so soulful. 'mericans love y'all !!!

[@Hillbilly1959]

RIP Johnny Russell from a fellow Mississippian. I wish there were still more videos of him on youtube. I guess someone decided it was wrong to share such a good man with talent.

[@Dinkeycreek]

Johnny was from my home town, and married my cousin's momma. He used to come to our house all the time and eat my momma's biscuits and gravy. I just talked to my cousin last night, and shared some old stories about Johnny. Funny guy, great song writer. She'll be putting his house up for sale soon. Sure miss that guy!

[@bradleyrudi7226]

thanks for sharing your story. 😇

[@nathankluttz2015]

Without looking on Google, i told my girlfriend that i bet he didn't live a long life, as big a fellow as he was. He should have left the beer and biscuits alone.

[@Dinkeycreek]

You're very welcome! He was a great guy, and it was great to see his success, knowing where he came from.

[@Dinkeycreek]

And you should be more respectful of people who have passed!

[@craig9843]

Darn straight.

[@cindyaaron1366]

One of my grannies favorites. Great song about the working class blue collar. I am proud to be what I am! Kids today just don't get it.

[@tomdavis5152]

he had an awesome voice, I miss this kind of music

[@williamhutcheson6511]

This qualifies as a classic.

[@ronanderson2992]

Every day of my life I think of George Jones question. Who's gonna fill their shoes and it upsets me so much to know that nobody will. A salute to all the good ole boys and ladies of country music. Ronnie Anderson, Edmonton , Alberta.

[@larryfunnelcake9669]

Back when they made you feel what the song was all about, and you felt it deep in your soul and you had relationship to it

[@bigmrclean]

What a writer this guy was..Man thousands of songs he wrote that most don't know about...and other peoples singing them and making it big. I thought Mr. Russel done a fine job himself!

[@stephenburke6200]

an anthem to us blue collar guys

[@SuperBobcat64]

+Stephen Burke Amen brother, Amen.

[@stephenwahl8740]

AMEN

[@jobeee4570]

Amen

[@stephenburke6200]

Thanks brothers Amen to you all

[@jdlawless_fuel1416]

Amen

[@williampatterson6131]

Truly one of the great country songs. I have loved this song for so long, glad to have found this.

[@jeffscott8323]

Was 17 when this came out. Always been a great song.

[@donald4974]

Johnny Russell was a our Wirt County Fair back in August 1981, Here in our great state of West Virginia.

[@Topper285]

I remember my dad always playing this song in the car when I was a kid, it brings back a lot of memories

[@winstonlemaster1693]

Just was scrolling & ran into this awesome video & it sounds great ! Nobody can sing it better !

[@teresajohnson4355]

I love this song. It really takes me back in time, I can still remember my mom playing this on her guitar and singing this song

[@toonful]

alotta his on here,but i really appreciate it,i loved johnny russell,i was sitting at a table,at opryland,(when it was open) i saw him just riding through on a golf cart,& wasn't stopping,i don't know what happened,but i jumped up,& screamed,(i was 28 yrs. old)"there's the man who wrote about my life" they baptized jesse taylor",&he stopped & shook my hand,&said God bless you.answer to George Jones:"No1'll fill their shoes". take care. RIP.J.R.

[@micksanger6274]

Red, White and Blue... what more can be said?

[@alltower7603]

I'm drinking some Pabst at the moment, life is good

[@jimadams8182]

@@alltower7603 Cheers!

[@signalstatstevedouglas1387]

rest in peace big Johnny Russell.

[@OwenGilmoreOG]

I love Johnny's voice and honest delivery. Great country.

[@billdoskoch8699]

What an evocative song! Writers Bob McDill and Wayland Holyfield obviously spent some time in country bars!

[@madbrowniac7871]

Just a few short days ago the Legendary Bob McDill was inducted along with Miss Tanya Tucker and Miss Patty Loveless into The 2023 CMA Hall of Fame Class.🤔🎤💃🎼🎸🎻🎹🥁⌨🖊📒B.W.

[@miladyblue5077]

LOVE this song! When I was a kid, and mom and I were on our way to a friend's house, the country station, KAYO was visible from I-5 going into downtown Seattle. It always seemed that this song was playing whenever we passed the Rainier brewery. Now, all these years later, whenever passing the brewery, I swear I can still hear this song, clear as a bell.

[@Dufus_Puncher]

one of the very coolest comments of all time...

[@miladyblue5077]

Terry Harness Thanks! Yeah, I drive all my friends crazy whenever we pass that brewery, because I start singing the chorus - sadly, I don't have anything resembling singing ability.

[@garykates3340]

sad to not have this kind of country music anymore, this newer stuff isn't country, its lost its soul , long live this old country

[@miladyblue5077]

gary kates You're preaching to the choir, friend! I keep muttering that modern "country" is just pop or rock with Southern accents.

[@garykates3340]

thats exactly what it is

[@jamesnichols9156]

Sitting outside listening to Johnny singing and enjoying a Pabst Blue Ribbon right now!

[@JDLamps1]

Johhny, you were a very real type singer and person. A lot more people liked you than you know.

[@countryboy5510]

+John Lindsey agree john hes an awesome singer

[@fredsipe8839]

John Lindsey hg

[@vivianramage7361]

I miss him! I was only a kid but I listened to country music and I still love it! ❤️🇺🇸

[@jeaniehal]

nothing like old country - love it

[@brooklynjohn935]

asshole

[@pegalexis7008]

+brooklyn john Glad to see you describing yourself. Bless your heart.

[@user-ey7jo8cz1o]

He sat in with our trio way back in 73 played my guitar and sang that song.he sounded real good.

[@daveoldham3121]

What a great song, I was fortunate to have seen Johnny Russell live on stage (front row) many years ago, what a great voice. Whenever I hear this song I turn the volume way up.

[@s.a.adams-ford1216]

This was a very underrated performer. We used to play this song on the jukebox at least a dozen times a night in the mid 70s at the old watering hole here in Louisiana Swampland USA.

[@ronaldtodd7704]

I remember hearing this song growing up. Brings back memories

[@bmw540dinan]

Johnny had a pizza joint in Hendersonville Tennessee. We would park our cars at Hurt's market and eat pizza...raise our hoods and eat his pizza off the trunk. Great times circa 1976.

[@jeffdickinson8351]

I remember this song in the early 70s my dad used to sing it all the time we used to hear it on the radio all the time what a great great tune bring back a lot of fun memories when life was so much simpler

[@meyep6447]

wish I could go back to those simpler times..

[@herbbowler2461]

I had the privilege of seeing her live performance. Kitty Wells and family.

[@davidgolden1932]

This guy definitely pulled off a red jogging suit signing country music on this song definitely a classic

[@paulgibson973]

Great song writer and singer. And you can even understand what the song is about. Not like music today

[@jp3923]

Johnny Russell was a great song writer and performer. He died much too young but his songs will live on. This song tells a great story we all can appreciate. Viva Johnnyy!

[@user-xr8oq3bn3h]

Now that is some really good country music

[@misspeggy1771]

These are the people that built America these arethe ones that did the actual work God bless my people my friends.

[@drakehonest2]

Hello how are you doing today..?😮

[@deekrivers1]

This was a great time for county music, we even had a country station here in Brooklyn NY, listened to it every day and watched HEE HAW on Saturday morning. Along with many others I feel it is sad that country music is now run by business people who only judge a song by how much money it makes, and also sad that the younger people listening to the new "country" are missing out on a lot of talented artists, by only listening the new cookie cutter songs being churned out like factory made products. Today is all about image without substance, they have stripped country music of it's soul. I thank the Lord artists like Johnny Russell can still be heard and watched here.

[@drakehonest2]

Hey 👋

[@JakeMabe1]

This song always makes me think of Billy Carter. And here's to you, Johnny Russell. You were one of the best.

[@chrystalbranham571]

Oldie but damn goodie !!!

[@drakehonest2]

Hello 👋

[@chrisweeks9218]

To days country is nothing like the old please keep it playing

[@myrticecoyle2950]

Chris Weeks Boxcar Willie

[@paulasmith5442]

I wouldn't call the music today country music

[@t.daniel5003]

I miss the 70s!

[@hellmutmatheus2626]

Salutes from brazil, blue collar brothers! Best

[@TozziWelding]

Real music, and PBR is still my beer.

[@alijes827]

This is a great throwback to the time when we were still on top. Sad to see it fade.

[@prestonwright2026]

I remember my dad ( rip ) sing along to this song

[@cherrymonarchify]

I love when youtube plays me a song I've never heard and I am instantly in love with the song and singer. I've never heard of Johnny Russell but I am a fan now

[@barrypowell829]

I use to drink PBR lots of it! Good times and good music 🎶. When country music lived out the middle class working class!

[@mistergrandpasbakery9941]

When I was in grade school this was one of my favorites! 🎶

[@SuperBobcat64]

I heard this today on my way to Barnes and Noble; stopped at Wal Mart and bought some Blue Ribbon Beer.

[@randyowens2717]

Good times!

[@earlslot8320]

go for it bro

[@MrGrxxx123]

Excellent choice of beer

[@toddcogswell9470]

What a great singer

[@davidcook5705]

I've done plenty of two-steppin to this one. Sure brings back some fond memories.

[@80slady69]

*I remember the night at the club when this was first played. Those new boots became old boots. Yep, I still have them.*

[@boopziemarinesister1]

This was one of my dad's favorite songs and his favorite beer! Brings back alot of good memories

[@jdlawless_fuel1416]

Blue collar workin man makes America go round

[@jimadams8182]

Amen!

[@1945biged1]

Great song. Pure poetry in my mind. Takes me back to my youth in the sixties hanging out at the local bar with my friends from college4 or 5 nights a week.

[@bd7018]

My dad's cousin, left Mississippi when he was 12. Dad lost connection with him, lost dad a few months ago. I always remember the stories of Mississippi when he was growing up in the 40's and 50's. This is a truly beautiful song, done by a member of my family I never got to know.

[@aaronking7326]

Met him in the 70s...What a great guy, in bib overalls and moccasins after the show....RIP Big Guy ...Never forgotten

[@michaelbusser697]

Brings back memories of a little bar in Oxen Hill Maryland called Mac's ...Spent time there in the 70's when I was in the Army..

[@dougpine8614]

I was 10 when this came out. I listen to it today. I am 53

[@JDLamps1]

I was 23. I am 65 and still love the song.

[@hyalltime247]

My parents knew Mr Russell.., he was as nice a person as you could know.!!!!

[@billbright1755]

Set em' up friend, 🍻🍺🍻 When I drink, we all drink! And when I pay, we all pay!

[@billbright1755]

Man, the smokes so thick in here, you could cut bricks out of it and lay up a wall! My new home has a flashing neon sign saw dust floor and swinging doors, till the Hamm's bear says it closing time.

[@Stanley.1977]

As a Chicago White Sox fan, this song has an extra special meaning to me: "My Red Neck, *WHITE SOX* and Blue Ribbon Beer!" 😉

[@ferronhorne8675]

In 1973 I was staying with my Grandma who owned a restaurant and bar. I would help out on Friday and Saturday night when they would have dances there. I remember this song on the juke box . I think I wore out this song playing it so much. It was one of my favorite song on there.

[@mikebrown5648]

Always love this song great song for America working people God bless everyone

[@mtchair4me]

Brings back memories of my old watering hole. Hope all the other guys make things right with that SPIRIT IN THE SKY.

[@carolyngordin6091]

SETH ROGAN'S COVERING NOPE

[@mojostephen]

Great tune! I play this one, and it's always a crowd pleaser...

[@rikspanks4074]

I had to look this up just because I like PBR, and I remember this song from the radio when I was a kid ... and ... 1973? Holy crap this song is older than I thought!

[@mikegowen4967]

I don't ever think NOT remember this song.. I was 3 in 73 But listened to the radio ALOT with my dad. He turned me on to A lot of this era Country Legends.

[@The50Fordman]

I think it goes back farther than that, maybe to the mid 60s. Seems like I remember playing it in 64.

[@randycurtis1176]

​@@The50Fordman This was written by Bob McDill and Wayland Holyfield and released by Johnny Russell in September of '73. There was a program on tonight, Friday Aug. 30, 2019 (Nashville's PBS) about these two writers.

[@georgewashington3393]

Real American music🍻🦅🇺🇸

[@mba7898]

He had a great voice!!!!