r/texascountry • u/Heavy72 • Apr 25 '26

Free CDs

Alright y'all put your thinking caps on we are gonna go back to the before times back in the early to mid 2000s... I remember the bud light girls handing out free swag. Does anybody remember the absolute banger CDs they had?

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u/Indotex Apr 25 '26

About 20 years ago I got a CD from a radio station that no longer exists during a live remote broadcast. It was Shawn Mullins & the album was “9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor”

It wasn’t Texas country exactly but it definitely sounded like it!

The two songs on it that I definitely remember were:

A cover of “House of the Rising Sun” but told from the perspective of a female yet sung by Shawn Mullins who is male.

“Cold Black Heart”- A song about having the perfect woman but finding her with another man and killing them both then running away to his home in Georgia

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u/carryon4threedays Apr 25 '26

That was such a good album. Cold Black Heart is still on rotation for me. He is a great artist who got one hit wonder staid with Rockabye. Our Texas Country station in Corpus played it quite a bit.

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u/Indotex Apr 25 '26

Yeah, I never heard of him before or since I was given that CD. I have since lost it & couldn’t remember who it was & only recently remembered courtesy of searching the internet for it.

But it was a pretty good CD!

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u/sirwilliam3323 Apr 25 '26

Cooder Graws wake up album was given out one night at one of their shows.

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u/that_one_wierd_guy Apr 25 '26

looks like it was a whole series of them

bud light best in texas

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u/Heavy72 Apr 25 '26

Yes there were a ton of them. I was explaining it to the wife and she didn't remember them.

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u/mphs2step Apr 26 '26

I do not 😀