Radney Foster - Just Call Me Lonesome

We live in the age of Marketing, and Country music is no exception. Markets are segmented (Country vs. Rock) and then segmented again (Outlaw vs. Country Pop), and then yet again. Sometimes it makes you wistful for a simpler time.

Radney Foster captured the flavor of a simpler musical time his mix of 1950s Rock (think Buddy Holly) with old school country. It may not be High Art (whatever that is), but it sure is fun.

Just Call Me Lonesome is from his 1992 album, Del Rio, TX 1959. He's mostly written rather recorded since then, but anyone who can get Mary Chapin Carpenter singing backup vocals has something going right.



Just Call Me Lonely (Songwriters: Radney Foster, George Ducas)

Just call me lonesome, heart-broke and then some.
Cause I ain't got no one, since you've been gone.
You called me baby, now I've got a new name.
Don't need my old one, call me lonesome from now on.

You used to call me, your one and only.
But now you only call me someone you once knew.
You were my angel, before some stranger
Stole your heart and stole my world when he stole you.

Just call me lonesome, heart-broke and then some.
Cause I ain't got no one, since you've been gone.
You called me baby, now I've got a new name.
Don't need my old one, call me lonesome from now on.

I see you with him, and fall apart again.
Remembering when I was the only man you needed.
We said forever, we'd be together,
He came between us and now forever lies in pieces.

Just call me lonesome, heart-broke and then some.
Cause I ain't got no one, since you've been gone.
You called me baby, now I've got a new name.
Don't need my old one, call me lonesome from now on.

I don't need my old one, call me lonesome from now on.