Crazy In Love With Conway

Boogie Grass Band I've Just Got To Know (How Loving You Would Be) She's A Woman All The Way Julie One Night Honeymoon Your Love Had Taken Me That High I've Been Around Enough To Know My Woman Knows That's All She Wrote You Were Named Co-Respondent Conway's final Owen Bradley produced album, 1978's Conway , shows his readiness to step outside the boundaries of the traditional sound that had so far defined his country career. It's still there on songs like I've Just Got to Know and My Woman Knows , but the sexy One Night Honeymoon  has an edgier vibe he would continue to explore in years to come as he took on the role of co-producer on his albums. The bluegrass-tinged Boogie Grass Band , the album's first cut and lead single which pays homage to Bill Monroe and the Allman Brothers, became a concert staple for years to come. (It's also my least favorite song Conway ever recorded, simply because bluegrass music isn't my cup of tea.) This record ...

One of my goals for this blog is to shine a light on Conway-related places to visit, and today's travel destination is a very recent addition to the map... For a short time in the early 1950s Conway lived in the small eastern Alabama town of Smiths Station with the Carden family. (Hugh Carden would go on to become Conway's longtime business manager and co-executor of his estate.) He spent his time leading youth revivals in church   and even delivered the invocation at the Smiths Station High School’s 1951 Junior-Senior Banquet. Conway with Mattie Carden,  Opelika Observer There's an exhibit dedicated to Conway at the Historic Jones Store Museum , and this spring he was included on an interactive mural on the side of Rainbow Foods located at 2461 County Road 430. The mural was painted by  John Christian , founder of the Go Georgia Arts Mural Trail, and features a likeness of Conway from the cover of his  Twitty/This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me ...

Last summer I bought a Conway necklace online that had been found at an estate sale. I thought maybe someone had made it and I loved how vintage it looked. A couple months later I was looking through a 1977 issue of Country Style magazine and found an ad for the exact same "Love Lockets" necklace!  Mystery solved, and now it has even more meaning for me because it was made the year I was born (so I guess I'm saying I'm vintage!) I plan to showcase lots of cool Conway collectibles on this blog, and I would love to see your collections too! Or, if you have anything Conway-related you're ready to part with, email me at conwaycrazy@outlook.com. I'm always on the hunt!

Everyone has certain songs they can listen to endlessly on repeat without ever tiring of them. For me, two of those songs celebrate very special milestones this month.  How Much More Can She Stand was written by Harry Compton, half of the Compton Brothers whose cover of the Gene Simmons hit  Haunted House reached #11 in 1969. (Coincidentally I have a 1968 concert recording of Conway performing  Haunted House  with a little assistance from drummer Porkchop.) They introduced How Much More Can She Stand to Conway prior to a show in Wisconsin. "One of the Compton Brothers got me off in the dressing room back there," Conway later recalled, "and said, 'Boy, we got a song here that we wrote, and we really believe in, and we pitched it to everybody in Nashville and everybody hates it. We think it's good, and we value your opinion and'd like to see what you think about it.' So they sang this song to me, and I said, 'You mean to tell me that everybody in Nash...