Porter's Wagon has moved on

Sad News

Unique dresser and Blasphemes favorite Porter Wagoner has died.

Wagoner Facts:

• Wagoner helped launch the career of his duet partner Dolly Partner before she went on to become more famous than he. Porter sued her for $3 million. The case was settled out of court. Dolly claimed their split was over creative differences. "I am creative and Porter is different."
  
• Porter's syndicated TV show, "The Porter Wagoner Show" was on the air for 21 years. It was best known for not being very well produced. This was in a time when interesting things happened on TV.
• In his last tour (mentioned here on Blasphemes) Porter opened for the White Stripes to promote his Wagonmaster album. He had a fleeting opportunity to become late career Johnny Cash with the younger crowd. It was not to be. Porter was writing original songs. Kids like it when you cover their songs and make them funny and twangy sounding.
• Porter had over 60 handmade sequined jackets in his wardrobe. "I get more compliments on my outfits than any other entertainer — except for Liberace."
  
• Was one of the funniest Borat interviews in the second season of Da Ali G Show.

Now that Porter and Liberace are gone there is an opening for a sequined lunatic to sing for us.

And in Music News . . .

• Amy Winehouse, fresh off of her mediocre show at Lollapalooza, has been discharged from London's University Hospital after an apparent overdose. She received a shot of adrenaline and a stomach pumping before being released. I had a similar situation listening to her last weekend. And involuntary stomach pump and a strong need of some shots.
  
  
• Not to be outdone by the kids, Luciano Pavoratti was also admitted to a hospital on Thursday for undisclosed reasons. Those damn kids got nothing on the greatest generation.
  
  
• On the good news front, Porter Wagoner, a Blasphemes favorite, is making a comeback after leaving a psychiatric hospital. After his gig with the White Stripes he commented, "Dolly was a better bang than Meg." The jury is still out on who had the worse outfit.
  
  
• Not to be outdone by Angelina Jolie, Ricky Martin has started the process to adopt "a child from each continent." A child collection. Like dogs, but they mow the lawn and quit college.
  
  
• Keith Richards would like to clarify the snorting dad's ashes comment that he made in his book. He did NOT mix his dad with cocaine, he only snorted him.

"The cocaine bit was rubbish," he said. "I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with.

"I pulled the lid off [my father's urn] and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table," Richards continued. "I'm going, 'I can't use the brush and dustpan for this.

"What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of...y'know, he went down a treat."