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Let's face it, country is the last genre that actually values a good fucking hook. As such, it is the last refuge for those of us who refuse to be seduced by the trap leanings of today's popular music.
What are some great country songs that everyone can love? Think Independence Day by Martina McBride, Grandpa by the Judds, Hotel Key by Old Dominion.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 2, 2019 10:49 PM |
Tequila by Dan + Shay
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 26, 2019 4:24 PM |
Most of Crystal Gayle, Ronnie Milsap, Dolly Parton and Glen Campbell.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 26, 2019 4:25 PM |
I like the classic stuff. Patsy Cline, Hank Williams & Tammy Wynette.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 26, 2019 4:26 PM |
Neon Moon, Brooks & Dunn
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 26, 2019 4:29 PM |
I just learned today that Earl Thomas Conley died in April. He recorded one of my all-time favorite country ballads, "What I'd Say", a song that should have crossed over, but this was the late 80s, when Top 40 avoided country music completely.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 26, 2019 4:30 PM |
Wichita Lineman.
How Do I Live.
I’ll Still Be Loving You.
Fancy.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 26, 2019 4:38 PM |
Garth Brooks.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 26, 2019 4:40 PM |
Ooh this topic thread was made for me!
Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
My Little Yoho Lady by Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)
Pistol Packin' Mama by Al Dexter
Crazy by Patsy Cline
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 26, 2019 4:45 PM |
All the Ronee Blakely songs from "Nashville."
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 26, 2019 4:47 PM |
Need You Now-
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 26, 2019 4:58 PM |
bump
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 23, 2019 9:30 PM |
He Stopped Loving Her Today-George Jones (I get a little weepy just thinking about it!)
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 23, 2019 9:32 PM |
The link r14 failed to provide. I guess he didn't want us getting a little weepy.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 23, 2019 9:35 PM |
Most everyone likes the old stuff with the great voices: Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson. Everyone likes Dolly, too (who is a great musician but does not necessarily have a truly great voice--certainly not at the level of the other four I just mentioned).
Country music really changed in the mid 80s, and ever since it's had a much more specialized audience (though i think a more hardcore one, too).
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 23, 2019 9:43 PM |
I started with Patsy Cline, then branched out. I like Country songs about family, or God, especially.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 23, 2019 9:47 PM |
Whiskey river, take my mind
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 23, 2019 9:53 PM |
Somewhere In My Broken Heart- Billy Dean re-recorded this, apparently to make it sound like Ty Herndon is singing it.
It's very simple, beautiful.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 23, 2019 9:54 PM |
Ain't nobody that hates this one. And it has a cute hook at the end.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 23, 2019 9:54 PM |
Bitch, I'm not asking about country songs you love personally. If you think Dwight fucking Yoakam qualifies to make this thread then you have missed the point of the thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 23, 2019 9:55 PM |
I hate country music, cunt r22. "Johnson's Love" is a country song I love.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 23, 2019 9:59 PM |
Not R15, but I love Dwight Y. He does so much with his voice, it’s like another instrument. I think I have all his music, and other than Patsy, no other country.
At the link, he completely recreates Silver Bells as a TexMex polka.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 23, 2019 10:05 PM |
I Fall to Pieces by Patsy Cline
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 23, 2019 11:26 PM |
I like duets. George Jones and Tammy Wynette—who could not love it?
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 23, 2019 11:34 PM |
Luckenbach, Texas
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 23, 2019 11:50 PM |
If you're going as old school as Patsy Cline, the the answer is any of the Nashville Sound crossover hits. Here's one that lots of non-country music fans loved 50-60 years ago.
"He'll Have to Go" - Jim Reeves, 1960. It was #1 on the Billboard Country chart and #2 on the Hot 100 chart, kept from #1 by Theme From a Summer Place.
Oh, to live in times when songs like those two were top-10 pop hits.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 23, 2019 11:52 PM |
^^^Before someone "helpfully" points out that racism, sexism and homophobia were rampant in 1960, what I mean is that I wish popular music still sounded like this.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 23, 2019 11:54 PM |
Willie Nelson’s “Always On My Mind”.
Here sung by Jennifer Holliday
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 23, 2019 11:59 PM |
Dolly Parton's music is a safe enough bet, particularly her duets with Kenny Rogers.
I think it might be difficult to find people who'd complain about this little ditty by Juice Newton if you play it for them:
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 24, 2019 12:00 AM |
The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 24, 2019 12:04 AM |
Keith Whitley has to be one of the best with this song...
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 24, 2019 1:18 AM |
I love the Glen Campbell song “Galveston,” that rarest of things-an anti-war country song.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 24, 2019 3:02 AM |
“I hate country music, cunt [R22]”
Behave ladies. This thread’s about Country Music; not Cuntry.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 24, 2019 12:50 PM |
Rose Garden (aka I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 24, 2019 1:23 PM |
"Seven Year Ache" - Roseanne Cash
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 24, 2019 1:38 PM |
"Vitamin L" and "Baby Boy" by Loretta Haggers (AKA Mary Kay Place)
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 24, 2019 1:42 PM |
The stuff that is more like rock n roll like "Devil Went Down to Georgia" crosses over as do more Adult Contemporary songs like Crystal Gayle and some Dolly Parton and early Olivia Newton John
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 24, 2019 1:50 PM |
Suspicions by Eddie Rabbitt, which is essentially a yacht rock/R&B song of the late 1970s:
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 24, 2019 1:50 PM |
Yes, early Olivia Newton John was considered country. "Let Me Be There" "I Honestly Love You" and "If You Love Me Let Me Know" were all considered country.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 24, 2019 2:19 PM |
I like "The Way You Love Me" by Faith Hill, lol. Does that count as country?
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 24, 2019 2:21 PM |
FIST CITY by Loretta tops anything any other country woman has done. It's hilarious.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 24, 2019 2:23 PM |
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 24, 2019 3:46 PM |
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 24, 2019 3:47 PM |
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 24, 2019 3:48 PM |
Darlene McBride should have performed at Trump's inauguration
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 24, 2019 5:16 PM |
Emmylou's cover of Bruce's "Racing in the Street".
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 24, 2019 7:03 PM |
Elvira
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 24, 2019 7:07 PM |
How Do I Live - Leann Rimes/I'll Still Be Loving You - Restless Heart
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 2, 2019 9:55 PM |
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