Comments on: Friday Five: Judges

By: Mike K

Mike K — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:40:36 +0000

The famous Judge Parker makes an appearance in Steve Earle’s “Tom Ames Prayer.”

“Judge Parker said guilty and the gavel came down just like a cannon shot/And I went away quietly but I began to file and plot.”

Nice list.

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:42:01 +0000

I agree Jon – Dave Evans does do an outstanding job on “99 Years Is Almost For Life”, but Dave Evans does an outstanding job on almost every song.

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:06:49 +0000

There seem to have been a lot of “anti-divorce” songs back in the day. Hank Snow’s “Married by the Bible, Divorced by the Law” was the quintessential one.
Of course Merle Travis took the other side in “Divorce Me COD”

By: bob

bob — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:10:27 +0000

Patsy Cline’s “A Church, a Courtroom and Then Goodbye”, second verse:

the next scene was a crowded courtroom
and like strangers we sat side by side
then I heard the judge make his decision
and no longer were we man and wife

By: Jeremy Dylan

Jeremy Dylan — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:15:26 +0000

There’s a hanging judge in Johnny Cash’s incredible version of I HUNG MY HEAD.

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:06:57 +0000

How could we forget perhaps the top judge in country music–one who by the way was not too familiar with “innoncent until proven guilty,” the Fifth Amendment and all those other namby pamby subversive concepts–the judge who does in Lefty in the “Long Black Veil”.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:32:01 +0000

The Skeeter Davis song “Set Him Free” takes place in a coutroom and is quite unique for a spoken word country song.

Let’s not forget about the Coppola twins who wrote “You’re Not My Judge” to Naomi Judd after the way they were treated on “Can You Duet”! (lol)

And finally both Buck Owens and Rose Maddox are speaking directly to the judge in divorce court in the song “Mental Cruelty”. I guess Rose really did want to be a single girl again….

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:45:50 +0000

And speaking of Lester Flatt, there’s “99 Years Is Almost For Life.” Dave Evans also did an outstanding job on it.

By: Juli Thanki

Juli Thanki — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:34:19 +0000

Alluded to in the intro, Barry. ;-)

By: Barry Mazor

Barry Mazor — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:16:49 +0000

There’s a fairly prominent judge in Johnny Cash’s “Cocaine Blues”…