I was recently at a little local honkytonk bar, checking out the songs they had available on the jukebox. I was pleased to see two things about it--a lot of the songs on it were great country songs, and each song only cost a quarter. I pulled a roll of quarters out of my jacket pocket and set it on the jukebox when a pretty young woman walked up to me and said:
"Hi Sugar. Would you like to know what some of my favorite songs and artists are?"
She definitely caught my interest. "Sure," I replied, "why don't you show me?"
She took some of my quarters and punched in 14 different songs, then turned to me.
"There, Those are my 14 favorite song/artist combinations," she said.
"Nice for you that they're rather grouped together," I said. "And if you like that first one, you probably also like this one," I added as I dropped in a quarter and punched in a 15th song.
"Ooh, I certainly do, you clever boy," she said, batting her eyelashes at me. "And in fact you'll be able to find 13 more songs I like in a similar manner."
I considered the songs she had originally picked, and soon was pumping change into the machine, so that I had extended the playlist out to 28 songs.
"There you go," I said. "Does that get me anywhere?"
"It sure does, Sugar, just not with me. Thanks for the music." She gave me a sultry smile, turned, and walked back to her booth, where a man much bigger than me was sitting and glaring at me.
I spent the rest of the evening drinking my beer alone, listening to the songs we'd put together, and thinking. Seems like there should be my own song in there somewhere. I realized that the playlist actually did get me somewhere, so I went out and hid a geocache there. Come find my cache so that The Ballad of Rosebud can end on a happy note.
Here is what the options on the jukebox were:
| Button |
Song |
Artist |
|
Button |
Song |
Artist |
| I3 |
1994 |
Jason Aldean |
|
B10 |
Heads Carolina, Tails California |
Jo Dee Messina |
| W5 |
What a Wonderful World |
Louis Armstrong |
|
H10 |
Always On My Mind |
Willie Nelson |
| G3 |
I Got Friends in Low Places |
Garth Brooks |
|
A9 |
Last Time For Everything |
Brad Paisley |
| D4 |
Like I Love Country Music |
Kane Brown |
|
D8 |
Jolene |
Dolly Parton |
| I9 |
Rhinestone Cowboy |
Glen Campbell |
|
C9 |
Runnin' Down a Dream |
Tom Petty |
| B7 |
Ring of Fire |
Johnny Cash |
|
N3 |
All Shook Up |
Elvis Presley |
| J1 |
Heart on Fire |
Eric Church |
|
W7 |
Blue Suede Shoes |
Elvis Presley |
| E5 |
Springsteen |
Eric Church |
|
F8 |
Kentucky Rain |
Elvis Presley |
| F5 |
Crazy |
Patsy Cline |
|
E8 |
Half of Me |
Thomas Rhett |
| F2 |
Walking in Memphis |
Marc Cohn |
|
D1 |
El Paso |
Marty Robbins |
| H5 |
The Devil Went Down to Georgia |
Charlie Daniels |
|
E2 |
The Gambler |
Kenny Rogers |
| W1 |
Pickup Man |
Joe Diffie |
|
W2 |
Runaway |
Del Shannon |
| W6 |
Already Gone |
Glenn Frey |
|
C6 |
Sweet Home Alabama |
Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| J7 |
Radar Love |
Golden Earring |
|
N2 |
I'm On Fire |
Bruce Springsteen |
| N1 |
Chattahoochee |
Alan Jackson |
|
N4 |
Blue Clear Sky |
George Strait |
| N5 |
It's 5:00 Somewhere |
Alan Jackson |
|
A7 |
Where Have I Been All My Life |
George Strait |
| C1 |
Time Marches On |
Tracy Lawrence |
|
B3 |
She Had Me at Heads Carolina |
Cole Swindell |
| N6 |
Coming on Strong |
Brenda Lee |
|
G7 |
Before He Cheats |
Carrie Underwood |
| I5 |
Coal Miner's Daughter |
Loretta Lynn |
|
W4 |
Kaw Liga |
Hank Williams |
| G2 |
Damn Strait |
Scotty McCreery |
|
W3 |
D-I-V-O-R-C-E |
Tammy Wynette |
| A6 |
Tammy Wynette Kind of Pain |
Reba McEntire |
|
N7 |
Southern Man |
Neil Young |
[5/17/23] Note:Part of the table above may appear to be in a slightly different color than the rest of it, depending upon your monitor. This is an artifact from an edit I made while putting this puzzle together. I don't think that will help you solving this puzzle, even with this knowledge. I simply had the wrong singer on one song, which I didn't notice until putting this up. The correct singer is shown in the table, and I can't seeem to fix the issue. Go ahead and use this extra infor if you want, but I don't think it will help you. The intended solution method is still simpler than trying to read my mind.