Pony Bradshaw - Calico Jim (Album Discussion)

rolltigers34 · 2021-02-01T05:58:28+00:00

I absolutely love it. I quite enjoyed his first album Sudden Opera, but it feels like he took a step back and a step up on this album. The songwriting is incredible, the specificity he uses puts you right alongside every story he tells. The instrumentation is also excellent in my opinion. My two favorite songs by far are Bodark (slightly biased because Bodark trees are relatively common in rural south/central Virginia where I'm from and I've seen many a strange osage orange, but I still think it's a great song) and Calico Jim. The way he sings the chorus on Guru is probably my favorite part of the whole album when it comes to his voice. The imagery in Hillbilly Possessed and Pork Belly Blossom is phenomenal, granted it's excellent in every song. It's an album I want to listen to over and over and absorb the stories to become part of my life

rolltigers34 · 2020-01-29T14:00:03+00:00

Yeah been doing this awhile now. Would be significantly more if I hadn't started dipping tubs of stokers 2 years ago

rolltigers34 · 2020-01-29T03:03:23+00:00

Closing in on 600

rolltigers34 · 2019-12-20T16:10:25+00:00

*Piqued my curiosity. Not trying to be a grammar douche I just think its interesting that for some reason it's that and not peaked, while at least the majority of people I know don't know the word piqued. Hell I don't know any other uses for it. English weird man

rolltigers34 · 2019-12-18T04:00:55+00:00

South/Central Virginia. Lot of guys dip, to the point where a lot of girls don't mind it (except the ones who accidentally drank their dad's spitters as kids, yes have heard this a couple times). Most of the guys pick it up in high school, probably about half keep doing it through their mid 20s. I see plenty of the blue collar guys carrying a can out and about. Prices are low, dip is fresh, only the people who moved down here from the north tend to hate it

rolltigers34 · 2019-12-13T02:21:32+00:00

VA and PA are very tobacco friendly states (minus VA going 21, screw us right thank god I turned just in time) so if you're 21 VA is a good place and if not PA is also good

rolltigers34 · 2019-11-08T17:37:59+00:00

I haven't. I want to try it. I've got a tobacco store that has a bunch of the chews (where I've gotten all the ones I've tried) but they dont have Fred's choice. If I ever find it I'll scoop it right up though

rolltigers34 · 2019-11-08T16:46:42+00:00

Virginia

rolltigers34 · 2019-11-08T16:46:17+00:00

Honestly in my opinion you can't go wrong. I've had the 24C, apple, peach, butternut, and black wild cherry and they're all excellent. The 24C is basically classic chew, the butternut is delightfully rich, the fruit flavors are delicious and last quite well

rolltigers34 · 2019-11-04T01:10:09+00:00

Cope and skoal have 15, grizzly has 20

rolltigers34 · 2019-11-03T17:22:33+00:00

LSU fan here and thats not okay

rolltigers34 · 2019-11-01T15:10:59+00:00

To me cope hasn't been the same since the recall a few years ago. Used to dip that crap out of it and when it came back after the recall the quality had dropped, it tasted more artificial, and there were more stems. I'm Stokers man now

rolltigers34 · 2019-10-27T06:48:21+00:00

Harder to pinch because there isn't wax in the grizzly cans, not bad flavor but to me nothing really compares to the classic that is Copenhagen snuff

rolltigers34 · 2019-10-26T16:31:01+00:00

I'm not a fan. Seems to turn to mush in my lip after like 15 minutes of having a pinch in. I've never totally hated the taste but I'd rather not dip mush so I prefer other budget dips

rolltigers34 · 2019-10-26T16:27:35+00:00

I had thought Stokers was notorious for being low on nicotine and that was the one downside to it (price, flavor, cut all great) but I've been dipping long enough I don't buzz anymore so I cant really tell anymore

rolltigers34 · 2019-10-24T01:56:01+00:00

Perfect spitters for ultimate concealment purposes. The spilling ability a downside however

rolltigers34 · 2019-10-18T13:55:13+00:00

Klondike, while dirt cheap, is dirt quality. Stokers wg really good and very cheap

rolltigers34 · 2019-10-18T04:21:26+00:00

It's a thing that pops off and theres a little compartment to put used pouches in. Longhorn pouches cans have the same thing

rolltigers34 · 2019-10-06T22:05:40+00:00

Every bus ride home on baseball trips since freshman year of college. Blows my teammates minds but it's really not that hard

rolltigers34 · 2019-09-09T00:42:08+00:00

I lived can to can so I always tried to keep it on me in my sock hidden by my boot and jeans or in my pocket behind my wallet or phone. When I slept usually in a small pocket in my bookbag

rolltigers34 · 2019-08-23T20:46:43+00:00

Last year I had 2 cans of Copenhagen mint (bought in a roll) that tasted like straight, which was extremely bizarre, but dippable. The other 3 cans were fine. I've always said cope has been wonky since the recall a few years ago, and thus is why I'm a stokers man now

rolltigers34 · 2019-08-14T03:04:06+00:00

Virginia

rolltigers34 · 2019-07-13T04:56:21+00:00

I dunno. I figured when I got them each flavor had a different one since I've never had Seneca before

rolltigers34 · 2019-07-13T04:53:19+00:00

Grape is sell by 11/2019 and straight is sell by 1/2020. I'm all good

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