The Mid Day Cafe with Moses

05/26/2025

Happy Birthday Bocephus!

The iconic Hank Williams Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on this day in 1949. He turns 76 today! 😎 🎉

05/14/2025

Sad news. My condolences to his Family.

Johnny Rodriguez, whose run of chart-topping hits in the 1970s made him the first Latino country artist to achieve mainstream success, died Friday, May 9. He was seventy-three.

Born Juan Raul Davis Rodriguez and raised in the small town of Sabinal, Texas, sixty miles west of San Antonio, he grew up hearing Spanish-language music as well as many kinds of country music. During a troubled period of his youth, Rodriguez wound up in jail, where a Texas Ranger overheard him singing and connected him with a performing gig at the tourist attraction Alamo Village.

Future Country Music Hall of Famers Tom T. Hall and Bobby Bare discovered Rodriguez on seeing a performance at Alamo Village. Hall not only recruited Rodriguez as a guitarist in 1972 but also got him an audition at his label, Mercury Records. Mercury released his first single, “Pass Me By (If You’re Only Passing Through),” in October 1972, and it became a Top Ten country hit. He followed it with a string of successful recordings that showed him to be an expressive, warm vocalist in the hard-country style of Merle Haggard. Between 1973 and 1975, Rodriguez scored six country including “You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me),” “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico,” and a version of the Lefty Frizzell and Wh**ey Shafer chestnut “That’s the Way Love Goes.” He scored additional Top Ten singles through the early 1980s, frequently alternating lyrics sung in both English and Spanish in his bread-and-butter honky-tonk songs and love ballads.

Rodriguez continued to record and tour for many years after he stopped having radio hits, though he also faced legal troubles and struggled with addiction. In 1999, he stood trial for murder after shooting and killing an acquaintance he believed to be a burglar, though he was ultimately acquitted of wrongdoing. Rodriguez’s most recent album was 2012’s “Live from Texas,” and he also appeared in the 2019 Ken Burns documentary series “Country Music.”

04/13/2025

Keeping real Country music alive.

04/13/2025

https://youtu.be/xlHgEwvM2rM?si=gIfaiYl4waClpOIm

Some Classic Country for your Saturday night.
In my opinion, this is the best version of this song. Enjoy!

Un peux de country babe, moi j'aime bien

04/08/2025

Happy Birthday Bobby Bare! Thanks for the many great Songs.

Happy 90th Birthday to the legend Bobby Bare! Today, the mayor of Nashville has declared it Bobby Bare Day, and the celebrations continue as Bobby Bare Week kicks off tonight at Basement East! Music City, are y’all ready to party all week long?

Join us in wishing Bare a happy 90th and leave your favorite Bare memories below!

- Team Bare

02/13/2025

https://youtu.be/cAA_LUCb0QE?si=d9oNV3I6Q4tWJ1x0
It’s a rainy night in Alabama and Georgia.
Everyone be safe!

Music video by Conway Twitty performing Rainy Night In Georgia. (C) 1994 Geffen Records

02/11/2025

https://youtu.be/wFjYrLxUiXo?si=ux3tI1DL5rLkXwjX

Engine Engine Number Nine Roger Miller with Lyrics

02/11/2025

https://youtu.be/uW1h3ZmI_Lc?si=DvNxpv1VA9myXFyv
Country Music tells stories. Some happy, some sad. This is my favorite Dan Seals song, even though it’s sad.
What is your favorite Dan Seals song?

02/09/2025

https://youtu.be/F10rBsUW9SQ?si=b5S3sGjXIdrWgdLU What is everyone doing on this Saturday night? If it were possible to turn back time to the late 1990s, specifically around 1998-1999, I would likely have been watching The George Jones Show on TNN. Fortunately, modern technology enables us to take a trip down memory lane.

Here is another FULL EPISODE of late 90's TNN series "the George Jones Show". This episodes guests of the George Jones Show were Roy Clark, Randy Travis and ...

02/05/2025

https://youtu.be/HBtL9oYuHZI?si=NIRTg1Us0IB4ihLS

“I Just Came to Dance" is a song written by Ken Bell, Terry Skinner and J. L. Wallace, and recorded by American country music artists David Frizzell and Shelly West. It was released in July 1982 as the second single from the album The David Frizzell & Shelly West Album. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Enjoy!

Another great song from this duo.

11/23/2024

https://youtu.be/4wdN75RV5oI?si=GIxC9NxQxbHcu1KL

On this date in 1962
Patsy Cline became the first woman in country music to headline her own show in Las Vegas at the Mint Casino, (the sign from which can still be seen at its new home on Pico Boulevard near La Brea in Los Angeles). Cline was paid $36,500 for the five week engagement.

Provided to YouTube by Amazing SoundSweet Dreams · Patsy ClineCrazy: 62 classics (The Ultimate Collection)℗ Puzzle ProductionsReleased on: 2014-01-01Composer...