I think I’ll just let this here for now, to see the comments it provokes. To be honest, some of you guys know me enough to know that I could never pick just 10 Country songs. Hell, I love Country Music, and I’d be hard pressed to pick 100! There’s just too damn many songs that I have loved and treasured. So many that have spoken to my heart. I would almost have to put Conway Twiittys “It’s Only Make Believe “ at number one. I crank it till the speakers rattle every time it plays. Too many lost loves, I guess. 7mm
David Allen Coe’s “You Never Even Called Me By My Name “ is entirely To great to miss. I think Hank Jr must’ve wrote the story of my life at some points. Waylon? Christ me and Waylon have traveled enough miles to go around the world a couple times! If I got a long haul, I know I can count on Waylon. But no one beats Patsy Cline in my mind. I grew up listening to her. (The Old Man loved her too) I think I’ve had a schoolboy crush on he since I was 5! But you guys know this was coming.
David Allen Coe’s “You Never Even Called Me By My Name “ is entirely To great to miss. I think Hank Jr must’ve wrote the story of my life at some points. Waylon? Christ me and Waylon have traveled enough miles to go around the world a couple times! If I got a long haul, I know I can count on Waylon. But no one beats Patsy Cline in my mind. I grew up listening to her. (The Old Man loved her too) I think I’ve had a schoolboy crush on he since I was 5! But you guys know this was coming.
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That's one of the best!
That and Hello Darlin' were pure Conway.
I'm friends with his daughter, she tries to keep his legacy going.
I remember being at my grandparents house with that album playing. Was good stuff. Did he write those songs? Asking because everything is a sham, writers write songs and singers sell them as a fantasy. You may not like it but everything you've grown up with is a fake and you don't want to see it.
Faron Young music is some grand old music as are the rest of the country songs posted and after my snow mess cleanup out here in the country in Northern Minnesota is now done , couple of cold beers swallowed .i thank you guys for posting the country music ! Pete53
It would be hard to pick a top ten. I don’t care too much for that old country. I like something with a littl more life to it. I don’t care for girl singers at all.
I'm pretty sure Alan Jackson will make a few of the top ten. There really is a rich heritage in country music. Too many great ones to mention really. How bout a top thousand or so?
It would be hard to pick a top ten. I don’t care too much for that old country. I like something with a littl more life to it. I don’t care for girl singers at all.
It would be hard to pick a top ten. I don’t care too much for that old country. I like something with a littl more life to it. I don’t care for girl singers at all.
this too old? Got enough life?
Yep. A lot better. March 7, night before Commie virus shutdown. Vince Gill on far side, Tim B Schmidt, Deacon Fry, Joe Walsh, guitar player from Don Henly’s band. Don Henley on drums. Best harmonies I’ve ever heard, except maybe Beach Boys
I'm pretty sure Alan Jackson will make a few of the top ten. There really is a rich heritage in country music. Too many great ones to mention really. How bout a top thousand or so?
I'm pretty sure Alan Jackson will make a few of the top ten. There really is a rich heritage in country music. Too many great ones to mention really. How bout a top thousand or so?
Alan Jackson was one of the last True Country Singers. Along of course, with George Strait and Dwight Yoakum.
It would be hard to pick a top ten. I don’t care too much for that old country. I like something with a littl more life to it. I don’t care for girl singers at all.
this too old? Got enough life?
Yep. A lot better. March 7, night before Commie virus shutdown. Vince Gill on far side, Tim B Schmidt, Deacon Fry, Joe Walsh, guitar player from Don Henly’s band. Don Henley on drums. Best harmonies I’ve ever heard, except maybe Beach Boys
I didn't think the list on the OP's video was too awful bad. I would agree with some of the comments Dixie Chicks are really not quite in the same category as most of the others. the best country songs are sang by artists that more or less lived that version of the song. they naturally put an emotion into it they never even realize..
Here's a list: more based on how important the artist was in country music, and also sort of chronological, so number 1 is the earliest and not necessarily the best. These are mostly earlier performers because I'm most familiar with them. The actual songs are what I consider some of the best and most representative work by that artist. All of these songs are on YouTube.
1. Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel #5 2. The Carter Family - Keep on the Sunny Side 3. Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues 4. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues 5. Patsy Cline - Crazy 6. George Jones - A Girl I used to Know 7. Merle Haggard - Branded Man 8. Willie Nelson - Hello Walls 9. Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way 10. Hank Williams Jr - A Country Boy Can Survive
Is anybody goin' to San Antone. I drove the big rig through San Antonio more than 400 times. Rolling west on I 10, take a left on I 35. Every time, this classic by Charlie Pride was running through my head.
Merle, Willie, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Marty Robbins, Patsy Cline, Brooks and Dunn, John Anderson, John Conlee, Ernest Tubb, Alan Jackson, Bob Wills.
Great song. I was a kid living in the South, but my parents were Yankees. They didn't care about the Civil War. But a few of my "rebel" friends had pictures of Stonewall Jackson hanging over their beds.
Being a Civil War buff, I had James Longstreet and Winfield Scott Hancock on my wall! Here’s one of my favorites, more or less a “Truck Driving”’song , which I guess would be a sub genre of Country. We listened to a helluva lotta Trucking songs too when I was a kid. The 8 track in Dad’s ‘72 LTD played all kinds of Country! Later on, driving a Freightliner as an adult, most of these songs became old standbys. I don’t drive anymore, I like being at home much better, but the music is still part of my life.
Hell Simon, if we’re gonna bring “Truck Driving” songs into this, We’re need a new thread! Too many to think about right now! But here’s one of the best. When this song came on the hammer went down, and the speakers in that Old Freightliner rattled!
"Being a Civil War buff, I had James Longstreet and Winfield Scott Hancock on my wall!" -7mm
I went to college in Milledgeville Georgia in 1976. Milledgeville is Deep South, in fact, it was the capitol of Georgia during the Civil War, and Sherman was nice enough not to burn it down. I lived in a cool old apartment building, my neighbor was a 68 year old lady. I was helping her carry some packages inside one day, and I noticed an elegant framed portrait of General Longstreet above the mantel.
I said "Isn't that General Longstreet?" She said, "Yes, he was my grandfather." I said "Well he certainly was a great general." She replied "Yes, but he came up a little late at Gettysburg. I believe had he come up sooner, we would have won that battle."
She spoke about it as though it had just happened last week. As our fellow Southerner William Faulkner said, "In the South, the past isn't dead, it isn't even past."
Oh damn, “The Dawn Attack” orders again! Old Pete was made the scapegoat of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, mainly because of the accusations of Jubal Early and some other Rebel Generals, who were more interested in hiding their own shortcomings there. A couple of books here that I heartily recommend, but I gotta Hunt them Up. Give me a minute, I’ll get back to you. 7mm
These two books cover “Old Pete’s” actions at Gettysburg far better than I can do by posting. Lee and Longstreet at Gettysburg Runs in my mind that several historians offered a sizable bounty to find any criticism of Longstreet before Lee died. Nobody ever collected. 7mm
Hell Simon, if we’re gonna bring “Truck Driving” songs into this, We’re need a new thread! Too many to think about right now! But here’s one of the best. When this song came on the hammer went down, and the speakers in that Old Freightliner rattled!
He Stopped Loving Her Today Don't Close Your Eyes Stand By Your Man Crazy Jolene Hey Good Lookin' Friends in Low Places I Walk the Line/Folsom Prison Blues Amarillo By Morning You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Merle, Kern River Willie, angel flying to close to the ground George Strait, I can still make cheyenne Garth Brooks, much too young to feel this damned old Marty Robbins, Big Iron Patsy Cline, I fall to pieces Brooks and Dunn, Neon Moon John Anderson, straight tequila night John Conlee, rose colored glasses Ernest Tubb, Waltz Across Texas Alan Jackson, pop a top again Bob Wills, Across the Alley from the Alamo
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Too many to think about right now!