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Grandpa Rock Chronicles — Pt. 8: Vol. VI – Barroom & Honky-Tonk Edition

Neon Confessions & Barstool Gospels

The soundtrack of jukebox saints, two-step sinners and nights that went a little too right.

 

Where the floor’s sticky, the jukebox never quits and the stories get better every round.

This volume is a salute to neon lights, worn boots and the eternal wisdom of a jukebox after midnight. It’s loud, loose and unapologetically human — music for dancing too hard, laughing too long and telling the same story one more time because it just gets better that way.

These songs smell like whiskey, bar smoke and Friday night freedom. They remind us that joy doesn’t have to be perfect — just honest.


🎧 Listen while you read: Spotify Playlist – Grandpa Rock Vol. VI: Barroom & Honky-Tonk Edition


First Round — Turn It Up

  1. George Thorogood & The Destroyers – Bad to the Bone
  2. ZZ Top – Tush
  3. The Georgia Satellites – Keep Your Hands to Yourself
  4. The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women
  5. The Fabulous Thunderbirds – Tuff Enuff

Beer-Stained Classics

  1. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Gimme Back My Bullets
  2. Molly Hatchet – Flirtin’ with Disaster
  3. Bob Seger – Her Strut
  4. Bad Company – Movin’ On
  5. Foghat – Slow Ride

Dance Floor Mayhem

  1. Johnny Cash – Get Rhythm
  2. Hank Williams Jr. – Born to Boogie
  3. Travis Tritt – Put Some Drive in Your Country
  4. The Outlaws – Hurry Sundown
  5. The Marshall Tucker Band – Fire on the Mountain

Barstool Philosophy

  1. John Mellencamp – Authority Song
  2. The Doobie Brothers – Black Water
  3. Eagles – Heartache Tonight
  4. Bob Seger – Old Time Rock and Roll
  5. The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar

Last Call & Low Lights

  1. Joe Walsh – Life’s Been Good
  2. Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
  3. Dwight Yoakam – Guitars, Cadillacs
  4. Chris Stapleton – Second One to Know
  5. The Band – The Shape I’m In

Closing Time

  1. Tom Petty – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
  2. Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days
  3. Van Morrison – Domino
  4. Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard – Pancho and Lefty
  5. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Whiskey Rock-A-Roller

Final Word: Where the Stories Never End

This set belongs to the nights that started with a beer and ended with a story — the kind of laughter that lingers long after the bar’s gone quiet.


These songs don’t care about polish or perfection; they care about truth, grit and the fellowship of the flawed.


Here, rhythm is redemption.
Every chorus is a confession.

Every riff reminds us that joy still lives in the loud places.


So, pour one more, raise the glass high and let the jukebox do the talking.
Because life’s too short not to sing along.


And when the final note fades and the lights go down, what’s left is the echo of how we lived —
the stories we told, the people we lifted, the truths we sang out loud.


Because the truest measure of a life well-played is simple: you leave it better than you found it.


🔜 Next Up

Vol. VII – The Legacy Sessions
The final word. The songs that built us — and still outlive us.


Author’s Note

Written by W. Adam Greer — author, storyteller and founder of Greer House Press.
Through The Authority Edge™ and Grandpa Rock Chronicles, he explores what happens when authenticity meets legacy — whether in leadership, faith or the music that shaped a generation.

Because some lessons don’t come from lectures… they come from guitars, gravel roads and the grace to keep playing when the lights go down.

🌐 WayneAdamGreer.com 

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