For the most part I agree with your list but would probably shuffle it a bit. Not sure Johnny Cash would be in the top ten for me. Patsy would probably rank higher. She left such a legacy in a pretty short time. Rick
1. Hank Williams Sr 2. George Strait 3. Patsy Cline 4. Ray Price 5. Jim Reeves 6. Waylon Jennings 7. Bob Wills and The TX Playboys 8. Alan Jackson 9. Marty Robbins 10: Tie between Buck Owens & Dwight Yoakum
Honorable mention to Charlie Pride, Faron Young & Hank Williams jr.
Apparently very few Campfire members have heard of a guy named Jimmie Rodgers. But that's not surprising.....
Colter Wall,
A very talented young singer from Canada has a song called 13 Silver Dollars that he references Jimmie Rodgers. He says he sang "Blue Yodel number 9". Great song and the kid sounds a lot like a young Waylon Jenning with a bit of early Chris Ledoux thrown in.
George Strait and his 60 #1's is the king, and nobody is even close. Conway Twitty Merle Haggard Ronnie Milsap Alabama Charley Pride Alan Jackson Dolly Parton Reba McEntire Don Williams
Apparently very few Campfire members have heard of a guy named Jimmie Rodgers. But that's not surprising.....
Colter Wall,
A very talented young singer from Canada has a song called 13 Silver Dollars that he references Jimmie Rodgers. He says he sang "Blue Yodel number 9". Great song and the kid sounds a lot like a young Waylon Jenning with a bit of early Chris Ledoux thrown in.
I couldn’t do 10. Here’s the top 12 in no particular order.
Hank Williams Townes Van Zandt George Jones Patsy Cline Merle Haggard Waylon Jennings Johnny Cash Conway Twitty George Straight Charlie Pride Marty Robbins Chris Ledoux
1. Hank Williams 2. George Jones 3. Merle Haggard 4. Waylon 5. Patsy 6. Willie 7. Hank Jr. 8. Alan Jackson 9. Keith Whitley 10. Jerry Jeff Walker Honorable mention Billy Walker, Strait, and even though her political views suck Linda Ronstadt.
I couldn’t do 10. Here’s the top 12 in no particular order.
Hank Williams Townes Van Zandt George Jones Patsy Cline Merle Haggard Waylon Jennings Johnny Cash Conway Twitty George Straight Charlie Pride Marty Robbins Chris Ledoux
Townes Van Zandt was a great songwriter. But kinda like Kris Kristofferson, neither could carry a tune in a bucket. 😬
George Strait and his 60 #1's is the king, and nobody is even close. Conway Twitty Merle Haggard Ronnie Milsap Alabama Charley Pride Alan Jackson Dolly Parton Reba McEntire Don Williams
I can’t believe I left out Don Williams. Another Great !!!
Apparently very few Campfire members have heard of a guy named Jimmie Rodgers. But that's not surprising.....
Colter Wall,
A very talented young singer from Canada has a song called 13 Silver Dollars that he references Jimmie Rodgers. He says he sang "Blue Yodel number 9". Great song and the kid sounds a lot like a young Waylon Jenning with a bit of early Chris Ledoux thrown in.
Apparently very few Campfire members have heard of a guy named Jimmie Rodgers. But that's not surprising.....
Good stuff. Didn't know you were a fan
Yep, and am not only a fan of country music but have played in a couple of bands. Oh, and have been to Nashville and been to both Grand Ole Oprys, as well as the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Apparently very few Campfire members have heard of a guy named Jimmie Rodgers. But that's not surprising.....
Good stuff. Didn't know you were a fan
Yep, and am not only a fan of country music but have played in a couple of bands. Oh, and have been to Nashville and been to both Grand Ole Oprys, as well as the Country Music Hall of Fame.
George Strait and his 60 #1's is the king, and nobody is even close. Conway Twitty Merle Haggard Ronnie Milsap Alabama Charley Pride Alan Jackson Dolly Parton Reba McEntire Don Williams
#1 George Strait 60 #1 king always has been always Will be. No cussing no slang words no hopping around the stage just a clean cut country stud hands down #2 Merle Haggard - hell of a singer and writer #3 david Allen coe - maybe nasty but a hell of a writer #4 Waylon #5 Conway #6 Hank SR #7 Keith WHitley = wish he could have lived longer #8 Marty Robbins #9 Patsy cline - maybe should be higher #10 George Jones - just a classic
Apparently very few Campfire members have heard of a guy named Jimmie Rodgers. But that's not surprising.....
Good stuff. Didn't know you were a fan
Yep, and am not only a fan of country music but have played in a couple of bands. Oh, and have been to Nashville and been to both Grand Ole Oprys, as well as the Country Music Hall of Fame.
I couldn’t do 10. Here’s the top 12 in no particular order.
Hank Williams Townes Van Zandt George Jones Patsy Cline Merle Haggard Waylon Jennings Johnny Cash Conway Twitty George Straight Charlie Pride Marty Robbins Chris Ledoux
Townes Van Zandt was a great songwriter. But kinda like Kris Kristofferson, neither could carry a tune in a bucket. 😬
Don't know it gets better than Waylon, a telecaster with a phaser pedal, Ralph Mooney on steel, and Richie Albright on drums. 1975, the height of Waylon.
As to who belongs in the other 9 spots, who knows.
No way Garth gets on the list. I wouldn’t listen to him if he was in the backyard playing. Put Gene Watson on the list, Jim Reeves, Ray Price. They gotta be above Garth, lol
No way Garth gets on the list. I wouldn’t listen to him if he was in the backyard playing. Put Gene Watson on the list, Jim Reeves, Ray Price. They gotta be above Garth, lol
Country music has not been country music for the past 40 years or so. To really appreciate it, you have to go back and listen to the pioneers, the ones who put it on the map. When you do that, you see that none of the current bunch of singers are really "country". IMO, the best era for country music was from the late 40's through the 70's.
I think Hank Williams is the king of country music, because he lived it, wrote, and sang it. He is really in a class to himself, when you stop and think about it. Had he not died so young, there is no doubt that his contribution to country music who leave no doubt as to was number one.
As far as the girls go, it will always be Patsy Cline............then everyone else. She is in a class of her own, and it's not even close.
In the duo department, the Louvin Brothers were my favorites.
It’s amazing how little people know about country music. Only one musician, a Hall of Famer, stayed on the charts for 21 weeks at number 1. No one in any form of music, including The Beatles, accomplished that.
Undoubtedly deserving a top ten spot over many so far named, Hank Snow…
I'm not much on yodeling, but when it comes to singing pure country, Slim was pretty good. Hank Thompson was one of my favorite artists. Leroy ain't bad either. Any of them are better than today's singers.
I'm not much on yodeling, but when it comes to singing pure country, Slim was pretty good. Hank Thompson was one of my favorite artists. Leroy ain't bad either. Any of them are better than today's singers.
I actually only became aware of 'ol Slim when I was working in the U.K. Some of the folks I worked with just luv'd 'ol Slim's music. Very popular there.
Lots of ways to cut the cake. To me when music production became digitized and ability to re-record, compress, auto tune vocals, inability to actually play and sing in one take w very basic edits. To me, those cats changed Appalachian music to “country music” for the masses. Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Lefty, Ernest Tubbs.
And the great names just keep coming. Today's country isn't country at all. It's mostly hip hop, cowboy rap, soft rock bullshit. No steel, no fiddle, no honky tonk piano, not country. Jackson Handy, Jamey Johnson has a great voice and dose'nt mumble talk through songs, i think your thinking of Sturgil Simpson.
Eddy Arnold gets defaulted because he was a New Yorker that found a way to make money without the ability to be Frank Sinatra or a pop flavor of the time.
To his credit, some of the softer voices that followed (like Ray Price) were just doing what Eddy already had done.
The one country artist in my list that I omitted shamefully (and everyone else as well) is Elvis.
Conway followed what Elvis laid down, though his country appeal turned into something else, Elvis has been copied in country music as much as Jimmie, Hank, Lefty and Ernest.
I look at Top Ten strictly by who's copying who.
Some copied early, like George Jones (Hank Williams), but created their own unique style. Merle, as much as I like many of his songs, was basically Lefty Frizzell.
I'm a Johnny Cash fan, probably because you can go back to Jimmie and the Carter Family in Bristol, all the way up to the present and no one ever created a musical sound or sounded like Johnny Cash before or since. Willie is the same way. His voice is like a Telecaster, like it or not, and cuts through everything else. Vern sounded like Jones, Haggard sounded like Lefty, Coe sounded like Haggard.
Loretta was basically Kitty Wells. There wasn't any voice like hers before Patsy.
Everyone has their favorites, but to me there's really only about 12 acts that make up what everyone else in country music have either refined with imitation or just plain copied.
Country music is simplistic, like heavy metal roots. Its either the Led Zepplin lane or the Black Sabbath lane....
Eddy Arnold gets defaulted because he was a New Yorker that found a way to make money without the ability to be Frank Sinatra or a pop flavor of the time.
To his credit, some of the softer voices that followed (like Ray Price) were just doing what Eddy already had done.
You’re wrong about Eddie Arnold. Arnold was born on May 15, 1918, on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee. His father, a sharecropper, played the fiddle, while his mother played guitar. Arnold's father died when he was just 11, forcing him to leave school and begin helping on the family farm. This led to him later gaining his nickname, the Tennessee Plowboy
And Ray Price was also a farm boy. Born on a farm in E TX. Most folks don’t know that Ray Price was Hank Williams roommate when he died. He and Hank Sr roomed together in Nashville when Hank & Audrie divorced. He also managed and sang with Hank’s Drifting Cowboys Band for a few years after Hank died
Both were two of the smoothest voices ever in Country Music. I got to meet Ray Price when I was a small child of 6 or 7. He even let me hold his guitar. And showed me a chord on it. Heck of a nice guy, too.
It’s amazing how little people know about country music. Only one musician, a Hall of Famer, stayed on the charts for 21 weeks at number 1. No one in any form of music, including The Beatles, accomplished that.
Undoubtedly deserving a top ten spot over many so far named, Hank Snow…
Charley Daniels Hank Williams Jr. Conway Twitty Ricky Skaggs Alan Jackson Travis Tritt Dolly Parton Loretta Lynn Alabama John Anderson
Charlie Daniels is another good one that nobody mentioned. He started out playing Rock & Roll. He played fiddle on most of The Marshall Tucker Band’s Albums. Also recorded on 3 Bob Dylan Albums. He even wrote a song that Elvis Recorded. He was a long time Nashville sessions musician before he hit it big on the Country Charts.
It’s amazing how little people know about country music. Only one musician, a Hall of Famer, stayed on the charts for 21 weeks at number 1. No one in any form of music, including The Beatles, accomplished that.
Undoubtedly deserving a top ten spot over many so far named, Hank Snow…
Eddy Arnold gets defaulted because he was a New Yorker that found a way to make money without the ability to be Frank Sinatra or a pop flavor of the time.
To his credit, some of the softer voices that followed (like Ray Price) were just doing what Eddy already had done.
You’re wrong about Eddie Arnold. Arnold was born on May 15, 1918, on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee. His father, a sharecropper, played the fiddle, while his mother played guitar. Arnold's father died when he was just 11, forcing him to leave school and begin helping on the family farm. This led to him later gaining his nickname, the Tennessee Plowboy
And Ray Price was also a farm boy. Born on a farm in E TX. Most folks don’t know that Ray Price was Hank Williams roommate when he died. He and Hank Sr roomed together in Nashville when Hank & Audrie divorced. He also managed and sang with Hank’s Drifting Cowboys Band for a few years after Hank died
Both were two of the smoothest voices ever in Country Music. I got to meet Ray Price when I was a small child of 6 or 7. He even let me hold his guitar. And showed me a chord on it. Heck of a nice guy, too.
Eddy spent most of his formative time beating on the doors of RCA records for a contract, which wasn't located in Tennessee, as evidenced by the music he put out from the late 40's and thereafter....as a crooner like Frank Sinatra, who he shared a label with.
FWIW, Donny Young, aka Johnny Paycheck, Willie Nelson and Roger Miller were in Ray Price's Drifting Cowboys.
Any list that doesn’t include DAC is flawed so bad it’s beyond repair.
My cousin said DAC was a hoot when he jammed with Pantera back in the day. My cousin was good friends with dime bag/Darrel Abbot, they came up together in Arlinton back in the day, he has several of his guitars he got after Abbot was murdered.
Didn't see Webb Pierce anywhere. As far as being a crooner, myself I don't think anyone could hold Frank's hat, but I don't think that Frank could do The Cattle Call like Eddy did.
Someone mentioned Dwight Yoakam. I'll put in that list. Just saw him and his band two weeks ago with Chris Stapleton. Yoakam blew the roof off the place. He has wrote a lot of songs and that dude delivers.
Someone mentioned Dwight Yoakam. I'll put in that list. Just saw him and his band two weeks ago with Chris Stapleton. Yoakam blew the roof off the place. He has wrote a lot of songs and that dude delivers.
Dwight puts on one of the best C&W concerts I’ve ever seen. And his band is phenomenal!
And he played one hell of a asswhole bad guy in the movie Sling Blade with ole Billy Bob Thornton.
Florida Georgia Line Kenny Chesney Kelsea Ballerini Luke Bryan Rascal Flatts Kacey Musgraves Jason Aldean Lady Antebellum Natalie Maines tie between Jennifer Nettles and Faith Hill
Florida Georgia Line Kenny Chesney Kelsea Ballerini Luke Bryan Rascal Flatts Kacey Musgraves Jason Aldean Lady Antebellum Natalie Maines tie between Jennifer Nettles and Faith Hill
Jim Reeves Hank Williams Sr Merle Haggard Willie Nelson George Jones Hank Williams Jr Charlie Pride Gene Watson Conway Twitty Waylon Jennings George Strait Vern Gosdin
Florida Georgia Line Kenny Chesney Kelsea Ballerini Luke Bryan Rascal Flatts Kacey Musgraves Jason Aldean Lady Antebellum Natalie Maines tie between Jennifer Nettles and Faith Hill
Florida Georgia Line Kenny Chesney Kelsea Ballerini Luke Bryan Rascal Flatts Kacey Musgraves Jason Aldean Lady Antebellum Natalie Maines tie between Jennifer Nettles and Faith Hill
Antlers is starting some shet!
LOL. That’s the 10 Best Gay Country Music Artists. 😂
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