What is this phrase from"the drummer is a rummer and he can not keep the beat"?

Question

it has to do with country music and spirituality

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Horton

Answer 2

Also in connection with these premonitions, a story circulates that Horton, known to detest musicians who drank, had agreed to send his friend Merle Kilgore a message from beyond the grave. Ten years later, Kilgore heard from a group of psychics from New York of an apparition in a cowboy hat, whose message was "the drummer is a rummer and he can't keep the beat." (recounted in "The View From Nashville" by Ralph Emery)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Horton
look under "Coincidences"