Tag Archives: PorterWagoner

Ugly is as Ugly Does

I totally forgot about the CMA Awards on ABC tonight, and interrupted a perfectly good episode of Alton Brown’s Good Eats to flip the channel.
More’s the pity; I was regaled by Big and Rich, who sang some over-amped, unintelligible-lyric tribute to, of all people, Porter Wagoner. Porter would probably have been most gracious, had he [...]

RIP, Porter Wagoner

Porter Wagoner, legendary country singer who never donned a rhinestone suit that didn’t become him, has passed away at age 80.
My first recollection of him is watching his TV show, which started in 1960, and ran for 21 years. I watched at my grandparents’ house when we were there visiting, early in the show’s [...]