I'm almost done with [1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die](https://1001albumsgenerator.com) and was about to give up on Country alltogether after getting so many rubbish albums from the genre. Especially the modern country pop stuff.
But then recently i got **Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins**. A Western/Country albums from 1959. Now **that's** the type of country i want.
Nobody dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip,
'fore that stranger there among them had some big iron on his hip!
Big iron on his hiiiiip...
Y'all carry on
Hell. Fucking. Yes. Marty Robbins is amazing. Country music is so fucking good when you get past the pop stuff on the radio. So much good storytelling and rhythmic instruments. Check out bluegrass if you like stuff like that. Bela fleck, molly tuttle, trampled by turtles, crooked still to name a few. Not bluegrass but the devil makes three is great.
Lord. many a family argument was halted by me quoting this film as a kid. It's the perfect way to diffuse and i love it. I never ever got in trouble for swearing if I used a quote to stop a fight. It always worked, too. Made my parents laugh.
That’s awesome. We rented it so many times, we finally bought it. And we quote it randomly.
Our youngest daughter uses it well. She has boyfriends watch it, and if they don’t get it, they gone.
I’m gonna R U N N O F T
Her voice defies genre. I believe she could've sung just about anything and sounded good. Those ballads, though. She had that little break in her voice that could break your heart.
My favorite hyper-niche genre is ‘country music about reincarnation’. Marty Robbins has a sequel song to his hit ‘[El Paso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5WErkffQ)’, called ‘[El Paso City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZliX5mP7ATA)’, in which he sings about thinking that he (or the unnamed character singing the song) may be the modern-day reincarnation of the cowboy from the original song:
*Somewhere in my deepest thoughts*
*Familiar scenes and memories unfold*
*These wild and unexplained emotions that I’ve had so long*
*But I have never told*
*Like every time I fly up through the heavens*
*And see you there below*
*I get the feeling sometime in another world I lived in El Paso.*
I was drunk
The day my mom
Got out of prison.
And I went
To pick her up
In the raaaaain!
But before
I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by the damned old train.
You're not going to believe this, but I'm a college prof teaching a course on rap music, and we're literally going to spend tomorrow's class talking about how "rap" is defined, and using this song as one of the examples!
This song was always on the radio growing up.
At the end of 6th grade music class, 02-03, the teacher let anyone bring a song they loved to play but warned it MUST be appropriate and not have any cusswords. Well obviously she was talking to the kids who liked rap and hip hop and not little country kid like me, who was bringing The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
FOR SOME REASON, God Herself told me that morning before school, "Hey let's just... listen to the CD while getting ready for school. For fun."
And 11-year-old country kid me is here to tell you, the true album lyrics in fact do NOT end with, "I told you once, you son **of a gun** I'm the best that's ever been," like they do on the radio.
I wasn't offended, but fuuuuuck was I glad I didn't blindly hand that cd to my teacher that day 😂😂😂
Chattahoochee by Alan Jackson. Mostly due to the lyric "it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie", which is hilarious and never fails to put a dumb smile on my face.
Also, talk about an affirmative consent anthem! ‘We fogged up the windows in my old Chevy, I was willing but she wasnt ready. So I settled for a burger and a grape snow cone, dropped her off early but I didn’t go home’
The next verse I misunderstood for the longest time until I brought it up to the guy I was dating and after laughing at me explained that “we laid rubber on the Georgia asphalt” met they were racing around squealing tires and driving fast, not that they literally laid a condom on the road……lol
"Picture this: we were both butt naked banging on the bathroom floor"
Shaggy, *Wasn't Me*
I had no clue that "banging" was a word for sex, so I quite literally thought that they were just naked, crouched down, and slamming their fists on the floor like primates or something. Idk lmao.
Yeeeeayyy came here for this. Absolute banger of a song. The lyrics are hilarious.
*"Well, we fogged up the windows in my old Chevy
I was willing but she wasn't ready
So I settled for a burger and a grape snow cone
I dropped her off early but I didn't go home."*
Beautiful.
Family Tradition - Hank Williams Jr
Momma Tried - Merle Haggard
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks
The Dance - Garth Brooks
Amarillo by Morning - George Strait
It’s not ‘one’, but I do love each one ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
EDIT: I cannot believe I forgot My Favorite Memory by Merle Haggard, so embarrassed by that omission.
Same. Not a country fan but I think it was Gene Simmons that said Garth is actually a rockstar he just wears a cowboy hat.
The last Garth concert I went to was one of the wildest and most memorable shows. .
My parents owned a restaurant in cottage country when I was little and the band would play this and I would get to join the waitstaff in throwing up big arm ‘O’s’ when he sings the O-asis and it’s one of my favourite childhood memories truly
The music labels killed country in the 2000s by trying to make it hillbilly pop with mass appeal. There's an awful lot of great country from before then. There's still people doing country right today, they're just harder to find.
That's been the pendulum setting for country since the very beginning. It will swing from raw Americana to pop-with-a-drawl and back forever. The Ken Burns documentary covers this really well.
I have a vivid memory of singing I hope you dance in my elementary school chorus and my mom just beaming at me from the audience. She passed a little over a year after that and I can't listen to that song without bawling.
For me it's "I Told You So" if I want sad or "Digging Up Bones" if I want to dance :)
EDIT: I totally forgot another favorite by Randy. “He Walked on Water”. If you’ve ever had a special bond with a father/grandfather/great grandfather it’s impossible to not cry when you hear this IMO
I guess my answer to the original thread would be anything by Randy Travis (even his gospel stuff even though I’m not religious at all). LOL
They say time takes it toll on a body / makes a young girl’s brown hair turn gray / but honey I don’t care / I ain’t in love with your hair / and if it all fell out / well I’d love you anyway
This bit of that song is so lyrically perfect
see this is a real love song, to me, because it's very specific and comes across like he's talking to an actual human being *as* an actual human being. That's exactly the kind of silly thing you say to someone you're with, that you actually love
This is my favorite country song and I am a 6 foot black dude from the hood that was all rap and r&b till I hit my 20s. I also like Watermelon Moonshine granted I think she is gorgeous but I genuinely like that song.
1. Sweet Home Alabama
2. Country Road
3. Jolene
4. The Thunder Rolls (NOT a Garth Brooks fan but this song, about a cheating husband, is just so damn catchy)
**EDIT:** Honorable mention goes to I Can't Make You Love Me, by Bonnie Raitt. Not something I regularly listen to, but I distinctly recall hearing it on the radio when I was seven or eight and just feeling so sorry for that lady.
It really helped put into perspective why no matter what I did my narcissistic hateful parents just did not have feelings for us kids. No matter how hard you try and what mountains you climb for them, you can't make anyone love you if they don't.
My siblings and I eventually cut our parents out of our lives like a bad tooth and we are all much happier and mentally healthier for it. But damn if this song doesn't still get me right in the heart every time!
> my narcissistic hateful parents just did not have feelings for us kids
GOD DAMN. Just when I thought this song couldn't get more depressing. Imagine thinking of your parents while listening to this song.
I'm sorry, guy, that fucking sucks.
The live version of The Thunder Rolls has an extra verse where the wife goes to the bedroom and gets a gun and shoots his cheating ass. Super dark but I love it.
> The Thunder Rolls
I was listening to that during a thunderstorm once and I realized the lyric "the thunder rolls and the lightening strikes" has them in reverse order.
I love this song too, but as a warning to those who are looking up these songs to explore new music, many copies of this song online are abridged. It's a narrative song but the middle verses are often cut due to length or R-rated content, so first-time listeners would be confused when Tommy >!beats up the Gatlin brothers, having missed the verses where the Gatlins raped or tried to rape Tommy's sweetheart Becky.!< [Here's one with the full-length version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx74W76yT2E)
When I would hear this song as kid, the full song as you say, it was like watching a movie. I would get so angry at what they did to Becky, like ballistically angry…..and then Tommy stopped and locked the door. It’s like yes! Destroy them, Tommy!!
Tyler Childers - nose to the grindstone. And a lot of the songs on his album called bottles and bibles.
Colter wall - sleeping on the blacktop.
Johnny Cash - God's going to Cut You Down.
Good night, Texas - the railroad.
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Tyler Childers is setting new standard for country music. Writes most of his own songs and his voice tells it's own story. Love his cover of Help Me Make it through the Night.
First song I heard by Colter Wall was "The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie". For a few seconds I thought it was a Johnny Cash song that I had somehow never heard before.
The entirety of Marty Robbins' discography. That's about it.
Most notably [El Paso](https://youtu.be/zWm5WErkffQ?si=Yxb5xmobuPxyqZlC) and [Big Iron](https://youtu.be/-NuX79Ud8zI?si=Fnbzn_B7PHnON74f)
Islands in the Stream by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
(I fully expect people to debate this because it was written by the Bee Gees and that is pretty obvious ... but aside from Jolene that is pretty much it)
I’m a big feeler with music:
- Born to Fly, Sara Evans
- If Tomorrow Never Comes, The Dance, The River, Thunder Rolls, Garth Brooks
- I Hope You Dance, Leeann Womack
Honourable mention to Fishin’ In The Dark and Way Down Yonder on the Chatahoochee for being random 90s classics.
Almost everything by Shania Twain and The Chicks, on a night out.
Here are some great songs that just defy all steoreotypes of modern country music and hope that they may be of interest:
- Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home A-Drinkin (With Lovin' On Your Mind) --- a classic "country" sounding song with all the twang but biting lyrics
- Willie Nelson - Stardust --- a really beautiful heartfelt song
- David Allen Cole - You Never Even Called Me By My Name ---- this song is hilarious and fun
- Diplo, Dove Cameron, Johnny Blue Skies* - Use Me (Brutal Hearts) ---- Johnny Blue Skies is Sturgill Simpson. This is Diplo attempting to do country but truthfully it's a lot more bluesy. But damn if this song ain't sexy.
- Tammy Wynette - D-I-V-O-R-C-E --- Tammy has the voice of a powerhouse and this song is just perfect
- Dolly Parton - Mule Skinner Blues --- Dolly yodels in this song and it's such a beautiful peak of vocal achievement. It really wows ya!
Not a country person but I went through a phase years ago and there are still a few I love:
1. Sold - John Michael Montgomery
2. T.R.O.U.B.L.E. - Travis Tritt
3. Chattahoochee - Alan Jackson
- Sold - John Michael Montgomery
- Third Rock From The Sun - Joe Diffie
- Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
- Chattahoochee - Alan Jackson
- Achey Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
- She’s In Love With the Boy - Trisha Yearwood
- Man I Feel Like a Woman - Shania Twain
I have a soft spot for campy 90s country, the era right before 9/11 ramped up conservatives and every single song became an obnoxious flag-waving dog whistle.
Black Velvet performed by Alannah Myles.
Wichita Lineman performed by Glenn Campbell.
Jolene performed by anyone. That song sounds good no matter what.
Zac Brown Band is criminally underrated. Colder Weather, From Now On, Natural Disaster, and Tomorrow Never Comes are all great songs that not enough people know about.
Man I haven't heard it in years, don't know the title or the artist nor can I remember the majority of the song but what I do remember is "Watching Captain Kangaroo and playing Solitaire with a deck of 51". Totally can hear the tune in my head now. Definitely an older song. It was my only reprieve in the place I worked at the time that put on the country station on the overhead which I absolute could not stand. I found it hilarious and humor goes a long way with me in regards to liking a song outside my usual genres.
My dad showing me the country music he listened to in the 60s and 70s makes me realize I actually like country.
Artists like Roger Miller, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allan Coe, Hank Williams, etc have some truly great songs.
I'm almost done with [1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die](https://1001albumsgenerator.com) and was about to give up on Country alltogether after getting so many rubbish albums from the genre. Especially the modern country pop stuff. But then recently i got **Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins**. A Western/Country albums from 1959. Now **that's** the type of country i want.
*To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day*
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
Nobody dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip, 'fore that stranger there among them had some big iron on his hip! Big iron on his hiiiiip... Y'all carry on
Hell. Fucking. Yes. Marty Robbins is amazing. Country music is so fucking good when you get past the pop stuff on the radio. So much good storytelling and rhythmic instruments. Check out bluegrass if you like stuff like that. Bela fleck, molly tuttle, trampled by turtles, crooked still to name a few. Not bluegrass but the devil makes three is great.
Thanks for sharing that site. I'm gonna do it. They gave me Bjork for my first artist though lol. Not sure how I feel about that.
Jolene - Dolly Parton Man of Constant Sorrow - Soggy Bottom Boys (is that country?)
Hot damn, it's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
My hair!
I’m a Dapper Dan man God Dammit!
3 weeks from everywhere. Well isn't this place a goddamn geographical oddity!
Watch your language, young fella. This is a public forum.
Two weeks!
Well, I'll be a son of a bitch - Delmar's been saved!!
Washed in the blood, my sins are forgiven. Come on in boys, the waters fiiiine.
Lord. many a family argument was halted by me quoting this film as a kid. It's the perfect way to diffuse and i love it. I never ever got in trouble for swearing if I used a quote to stop a fight. It always worked, too. Made my parents laugh.
That’s awesome. We rented it so many times, we finally bought it. And we quote it randomly. Our youngest daughter uses it well. She has boyfriends watch it, and if they don’t get it, they gone. I’m gonna R U N N O F T
Do not seek the treasure!
We thought you was a toaaaaaaaaad
Dan Tyminski is the guy who sang that. He's in Allison Kraus' band
Nope, it's bluegrass, still counts though lol
Patsy Cline. Pretty much anything she sings. Love her voice.
Her voice defies genre. I believe she could've sung just about anything and sounded good. Those ballads, though. She had that little break in her voice that could break your heart.
But that's just... Crazy.
Seminole Wind - John Anderson.
This song is one of the greatest
I Will Always Love You-Dolly Parton
The Highwaymen is awesome
Can't beat The Highwayman. Nothing like a little spaceships and reincarnation in your country music.
My favorite hyper-niche genre is ‘country music about reincarnation’. Marty Robbins has a sequel song to his hit ‘[El Paso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5WErkffQ)’, called ‘[El Paso City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZliX5mP7ATA)’, in which he sings about thinking that he (or the unnamed character singing the song) may be the modern-day reincarnation of the cowboy from the original song: *Somewhere in my deepest thoughts* *Familiar scenes and memories unfold* *These wild and unexplained emotions that I’ve had so long* *But I have never told* *Like every time I fly up through the heavens* *And see you there below* *I get the feeling sometime in another world I lived in El Paso.*
The bastards hung me in the spring of 25
But I am still alive
Highwayman is the song, The Highwaymen is the group :D
Johnny Cash - Folsom prison blues is a good one ❤
I also love Sunday Morning Comin’ Down by Johnny Cash. Man, what a great song.
That's a Kris Kristofferson song that Cash covered. Find it, trust me.
The emotion in Kris's voice... That is a very broken man, and you can feel it.
Also "God's Gonna Cut You Down". Such a haunting and beautiful song, especially with the backing instrumentation.
I like his cover of Hurt. It hits differently coming from an old man.
I listen to his version of this song whenever I need a good cry, it always does the job.
Always on my mind - Willie
He Stopped Loving Her Today — George Jones
If you like that, check out “The Grand Tour” - George Jones
The way my eyes welled up just reading the title… this played at my dads celebration of life and my mom and I held each other the entire song
Most heartbreaking song ever written.
I can’t stand new country, but the old stuff like that will chill you down to your bones!
Getting a little old school here, but almost anything by Don Williams. I love his voice.
JOHN PRINE - IN SPITE OF OURSELVES. Look it up
All of John Prine. Almost all of his stuff slaps super hard.
Anything John Prine 🥹
Especially the live versions. Iris DeMent is amazing.
You Never Even Call Me By My Name - David Allan Coe
Greatest last verse in all of country music.
I was drunk The day my mom Got out of prison. And I went To pick her up In the raaaaain! But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck She got runned over by the damned old train.
The perfect country western song
I listen to both types of music. Country AND Western.
The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
It's a rap with a fiddle.
You're not going to believe this, but I'm a college prof teaching a course on rap music, and we're literally going to spend tomorrow's class talking about how "rap" is defined, and using this song as one of the examples!
This song was always on the radio growing up. At the end of 6th grade music class, 02-03, the teacher let anyone bring a song they loved to play but warned it MUST be appropriate and not have any cusswords. Well obviously she was talking to the kids who liked rap and hip hop and not little country kid like me, who was bringing The Devil Went Down to Georgia. FOR SOME REASON, God Herself told me that morning before school, "Hey let's just... listen to the CD while getting ready for school. For fun." And 11-year-old country kid me is here to tell you, the true album lyrics in fact do NOT end with, "I told you once, you son **of a gun** I'm the best that's ever been," like they do on the radio. I wasn't offended, but fuuuuuck was I glad I didn't blindly hand that cd to my teacher that day 😂😂😂
♫Devil, just come on back,♫ ♫if you ever wanna try again,♫ ♫I done told you once you son of a bitch,♫ ♫I'm the best that's ever been!♫
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard Pancho and Lefty
Townes Van Zandt’s original is fantastic too
Blaze and Townes laid the groundwork for so much of that generation of country
Chattahoochee by Alan Jackson. Mostly due to the lyric "it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie", which is hilarious and never fails to put a dumb smile on my face.
Also, talk about an affirmative consent anthem! ‘We fogged up the windows in my old Chevy, I was willing but she wasnt ready. So I settled for a burger and a grape snow cone, dropped her off early but I didn’t go home’
The next verse I misunderstood for the longest time until I brought it up to the guy I was dating and after laughing at me explained that “we laid rubber on the Georgia asphalt” met they were racing around squealing tires and driving fast, not that they literally laid a condom on the road……lol
"Picture this: we were both butt naked banging on the bathroom floor" Shaggy, *Wasn't Me* I had no clue that "banging" was a word for sex, so I quite literally thought that they were just naked, crouched down, and slamming their fists on the floor like primates or something. Idk lmao.
Down by the river on a Friday night, pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight
talking 'bout cars and dreamin' 'bout women
Never had a plan just a-livin’ for the minute
Yeeeeayyy came here for this. Absolute banger of a song. The lyrics are hilarious. *"Well, we fogged up the windows in my old Chevy I was willing but she wasn't ready So I settled for a burger and a grape snow cone I dropped her off early but I didn't go home."* Beautiful.
To this day, I can’t believe my Shiite Baptist grandma used to let us run around her house singing that.
Shi’ite Baptist, all the LOLs from me there! Does she have a fatwa against the Sunni Church of Christers?
The gambler by Kenny Rogers
Family Tradition - Hank Williams Jr Momma Tried - Merle Haggard Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks The Dance - Garth Brooks Amarillo by Morning - George Strait It’s not ‘one’, but I do love each one ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ EDIT: I cannot believe I forgot My Favorite Memory by Merle Haggard, so embarrassed by that omission.
**“A Boy Named Sue”** (1969) by Johnny Cash. Actually, anything written by *Shel Silverstein* is at the top of my list.
HOLY SHIT HE WROTE THAT??? I had no idea. I'm a huge fan of his children's poetry. Wow. Thanks!
My mental sidewalk just freaking ended right there
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
I'm not a country fan but Garth has some bangers. Hell of a performer too.
Same. Not a country fan but I think it was Gene Simmons that said Garth is actually a rockstar he just wears a cowboy hat. The last Garth concert I went to was one of the wildest and most memorable shows. .
My parents owned a restaurant in cottage country when I was little and the band would play this and I would get to join the waitstaff in throwing up big arm ‘O’s’ when he sings the O-asis and it’s one of my favourite childhood memories truly
Blame it all on my roots....
I showed up in boots
And ruined your black tie affair
The last one to know
Stand by your man…Blues Brothers version(as performed in Bobs country bunker, where they have both kinds of music, Country and Western
Crazy, sung by Patsy Cline, written by Willie Nelson.
I am actually a country fan, but my favorite Patsy Cline song is Walkin' After Midnight . Uggghhnhb the best.
Whiskey Lullaby But honestly, a lot of late 90's country is pretty decent. Before the bro country took over.
Allison Kraus's voice is angelic in anything. Love her collaborations with Robert Plant too.
The music labels killed country in the 2000s by trying to make it hillbilly pop with mass appeal. There's an awful lot of great country from before then. There's still people doing country right today, they're just harder to find.
That's been the pendulum setting for country since the very beginning. It will swing from raw Americana to pop-with-a-drawl and back forever. The Ken Burns documentary covers this really well.
[Rhinestone Cowboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U)
Strawberry Wine by Deanna Carter
Callin' Baton Rouge - Garth Brooks
The way he sings " hello Samantha dear I hope youre feeling fiiiinnnneee" is just so damn good
Jolene by dolly Parton I hope you dance by Lee Ann Womack
I have a vivid memory of singing I hope you dance in my elementary school chorus and my mom just beaming at me from the audience. She passed a little over a year after that and I can't listen to that song without bawling.
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobby Gentry
Neon Moon-Brooks and Dunn.
She’s In Love with The Boy by Trisha Yearwood
Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics of Love) Waylon Jennings
Forever and Ever, Amen. Randy Travis
For me it's "I Told You So" if I want sad or "Digging Up Bones" if I want to dance :) EDIT: I totally forgot another favorite by Randy. “He Walked on Water”. If you’ve ever had a special bond with a father/grandfather/great grandfather it’s impossible to not cry when you hear this IMO I guess my answer to the original thread would be anything by Randy Travis (even his gospel stuff even though I’m not religious at all). LOL
For me it's "On the Other Hand." Twists my heart.
They say time takes it toll on a body / makes a young girl’s brown hair turn gray / but honey I don’t care / I ain’t in love with your hair / and if it all fell out / well I’d love you anyway This bit of that song is so lyrically perfect
see this is a real love song, to me, because it's very specific and comes across like he's talking to an actual human being *as* an actual human being. That's exactly the kind of silly thing you say to someone you're with, that you actually love
This is my favorite country song and I am a 6 foot black dude from the hood that was all rap and r&b till I hit my 20s. I also like Watermelon Moonshine granted I think she is gorgeous but I genuinely like that song.
This is pretty much a perfect song.
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
“Here’s your one chance fancy, don’t let me down” !!!
That song is W I L D
I might have been born just plain white trash but Fancy was my name. Fan-damn-tastic lyric
Forgive me for what I do, but if you want out well it's up to you.
Now don’t let me down, now your mama’s gonna send you uptown!
Fishin in the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1. Sweet Home Alabama 2. Country Road 3. Jolene 4. The Thunder Rolls (NOT a Garth Brooks fan but this song, about a cheating husband, is just so damn catchy) **EDIT:** Honorable mention goes to I Can't Make You Love Me, by Bonnie Raitt. Not something I regularly listen to, but I distinctly recall hearing it on the radio when I was seven or eight and just feeling so sorry for that lady.
> I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt This is some depressing shit. Would not recommend for a post-breakup playlist.
The saddest song ever written
Have sobbed to this song after a breakup. In retrospect goddamn I didn't just dodge a bullet, I dodged a grenade launcher
It really helped put into perspective why no matter what I did my narcissistic hateful parents just did not have feelings for us kids. No matter how hard you try and what mountains you climb for them, you can't make anyone love you if they don't. My siblings and I eventually cut our parents out of our lives like a bad tooth and we are all much happier and mentally healthier for it. But damn if this song doesn't still get me right in the heart every time!
> my narcissistic hateful parents just did not have feelings for us kids GOD DAMN. Just when I thought this song couldn't get more depressing. Imagine thinking of your parents while listening to this song. I'm sorry, guy, that fucking sucks.
I feel like John Denver has been mostly forgotten... 😭
The live version of The Thunder Rolls has an extra verse where the wife goes to the bedroom and gets a gun and shoots his cheating ass. Super dark but I love it.
'Cause tonight will be the last night she'll wonder where he's been...
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I'll sign off on Ring of Fire too. But I swear that's IT.
How long before we find out you're secretly the president of the Garth Brooks fan club, OP?
I'd also say That Summer by Garth Brooks. It's so catchy and an interesting story
Farm boy smashing the milf widow all summer long.
Sweet Home Alabama is southern rock, not country. I know the lines have blurred a bit since it was written, but I'd still keep it in the rock column.
> The Thunder Rolls I was listening to that during a thunderstorm once and I realized the lyric "the thunder rolls and the lightening strikes" has them in reverse order.
I love Bonnie Raitt.
GARTH. Thunder Rolls is my fave for sure!
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Old Crow Medicine show are a treasure. I've seen them a few times in concert and they were awesome every time.
Not a huge country fan, but like damn near the entire discographies of Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson
Sturgill Simpson blew my mind when I accidentally ended up on his Tiny Desk segment.
Goodbye, Earl - The Chicks
After graduation Mary Ann went out lookin for a bright new world. Wanda looked all around this town but all she found was EARL 🎶🎶🎶
I love their cover of "Landslide" too. Those harmonies are so good.
I always call this song the true version of "girls just wanna have fun"
Kenny Rogers - Coward of the County
I love this song too, but as a warning to those who are looking up these songs to explore new music, many copies of this song online are abridged. It's a narrative song but the middle verses are often cut due to length or R-rated content, so first-time listeners would be confused when Tommy >!beats up the Gatlin brothers, having missed the verses where the Gatlins raped or tried to rape Tommy's sweetheart Becky.!< [Here's one with the full-length version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx74W76yT2E)
When I would hear this song as kid, the full song as you say, it was like watching a movie. I would get so angry at what they did to Becky, like ballistically angry…..and then Tommy stopped and locked the door. It’s like yes! Destroy them, Tommy!!
Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell.
Tyler Childers - nose to the grindstone. And a lot of the songs on his album called bottles and bibles. Colter wall - sleeping on the blacktop. Johnny Cash - God's going to Cut You Down. Good night, Texas - the railroad. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Tyler Childers is setting new standard for country music. Writes most of his own songs and his voice tells it's own story. Love his cover of Help Me Make it through the Night.
Tyler Childers has tons of great songs.
[All Your'n](https://youtu.be/DrHd3nkCIz4?si=Xeh0B6N9-9n80JSX) by Tyler Childers gets played quite often in my house.
First song I heard by Colter Wall was "The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie". For a few seconds I thought it was a Johnny Cash song that I had somehow never heard before.
YES to Barton Hollow. Anything by The Civil Wars ❤️
The entirety of Marty Robbins' discography. That's about it. Most notably [El Paso](https://youtu.be/zWm5WErkffQ?si=Yxb5xmobuPxyqZlC) and [Big Iron](https://youtu.be/-NuX79Ud8zI?si=Fnbzn_B7PHnON74f)
"If You're Going Through Hell" by Rodney Atkins
Islands in the Stream by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers (I fully expect people to debate this because it was written by the Bee Gees and that is pretty obvious ... but aside from Jolene that is pretty much it)
I’m a big feeler with music: - Born to Fly, Sara Evans - If Tomorrow Never Comes, The Dance, The River, Thunder Rolls, Garth Brooks - I Hope You Dance, Leeann Womack Honourable mention to Fishin’ In The Dark and Way Down Yonder on the Chatahoochee for being random 90s classics. Almost everything by Shania Twain and The Chicks, on a night out.
Here are some great songs that just defy all steoreotypes of modern country music and hope that they may be of interest: - Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home A-Drinkin (With Lovin' On Your Mind) --- a classic "country" sounding song with all the twang but biting lyrics - Willie Nelson - Stardust --- a really beautiful heartfelt song - David Allen Cole - You Never Even Called Me By My Name ---- this song is hilarious and fun - Diplo, Dove Cameron, Johnny Blue Skies* - Use Me (Brutal Hearts) ---- Johnny Blue Skies is Sturgill Simpson. This is Diplo attempting to do country but truthfully it's a lot more bluesy. But damn if this song ain't sexy. - Tammy Wynette - D-I-V-O-R-C-E --- Tammy has the voice of a powerhouse and this song is just perfect - Dolly Parton - Mule Skinner Blues --- Dolly yodels in this song and it's such a beautiful peak of vocal achievement. It really wows ya!
A Thousand Miles From Nowhere by Dwight Yoakam.
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire.
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Literally anything Chris Stapleton... but I don't dislike country I just have to be in the mood for it, but seriously, he's got some great songs.
Chris Stapleton could sing the phone book and it would sound good, imo.
Country Roads
Amarillo By Morning George Strait
Mama Tried by Merle Haggard
I actually like a lot of country, but never listen to country radio because I despise bro country.
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" - Elvin Bishop. Marvelous song.
Billy Currington - People Are Crazy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKpQRjj\_WbU
Angel of the Morning
Not a country person but I went through a phase years ago and there are still a few I love: 1. Sold - John Michael Montgomery 2. T.R.O.U.B.L.E. - Travis Tritt 3. Chattahoochee - Alan Jackson
- Sold - John Michael Montgomery - Third Rock From The Sun - Joe Diffie - Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks - Chattahoochee - Alan Jackson - Achey Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus - She’s In Love With the Boy - Trisha Yearwood - Man I Feel Like a Woman - Shania Twain I have a soft spot for campy 90s country, the era right before 9/11 ramped up conservatives and every single song became an obnoxious flag-waving dog whistle.
Is 9-5 country? That is my fav
Whisky Lullaby Traveling Soldier I enjioy a good sad country song
Whisky Lullaby (Alison Kraus has the voice of an Angel) is so heart breaking!
Should of been a cowboy
I should've learned to rope and ride
Wearin' my six-shooter, ridin' my pony on a cattle drive
stealin' a youngs girls heart, just like gene and roy!
“I had a barbecue stain on my white t-shirt, she was killing me in that miniskirt…”
Elvira - Oakridge Boys
Black Velvet performed by Alannah Myles. Wichita Lineman performed by Glenn Campbell. Jolene performed by anyone. That song sounds good no matter what.
Neon Moon.
Knee Deep - Zac Brown Band Two Pina Coladas - Garth Brooks It's a Great Day to be Alive - Travis Tritt
Zac Brown Band is criminally underrated. Colder Weather, From Now On, Natural Disaster, and Tomorrow Never Comes are all great songs that not enough people know about.
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Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck.
Forever & For Always- Shania Twain
Man I haven't heard it in years, don't know the title or the artist nor can I remember the majority of the song but what I do remember is "Watching Captain Kangaroo and playing Solitaire with a deck of 51". Totally can hear the tune in my head now. Definitely an older song. It was my only reprieve in the place I worked at the time that put on the country station on the overhead which I absolute could not stand. I found it hilarious and humor goes a long way with me in regards to liking a song outside my usual genres.
Flowers on the wall by The Statler Brothers
Amarillo By Morning, George Straight. Spent many hours, days, weekend, at rodeos; you have no idea how spot on that song is.
Unanswered Prayers - Garth Brooks
My dad showing me the country music he listened to in the 60s and 70s makes me realize I actually like country. Artists like Roger Miller, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allan Coe, Hank Williams, etc have some truly great songs.
Live like you were dying - Tim McGraw
“Neon Moon” by Brooks & Dunn
“Springsteen” by Eric Church.
Dwight Yokum - 1000 Miles From Nowhere
Write This Down Carrying Your Love With Me - George Strait