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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: zahc on December 25, 2018, 04:19:05 PM
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I don't like country music as a whole, but I have to admit there are a few songs that I have a soft spot for. Examples would be Brooks and Dunn Neon Moon, Garth Brooks Friends in High Places, Dwight Yokam Thousand Miles from Nowhere and quite a few D.Y. songs actually.
I played some of them in the car and the kids liked them. It's my American duty to inculcate in them at least an understanding of country music, so I feel an obligation to subject them to some of it. Plus, they asked mom what a honky-tonk is, which is mission accomplished on the cultural exposure front.
Since country albums tend to be pretty crap as a whole, I'm not buying albums but assembling a playlist. What are some good classic country music songs. Not crossover garbage, but like songs representative of subgenres.
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Gramma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
(in the spirit of the day)
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Just put "Johnny Cash" or Hank Williams Senior" into the YouTube search box. Or if you're including Bluegrass, try Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Flatt & Scruggs. For something a little less traditional, The Seldom Scene's Live at The Cellar Door album is a really good one.
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Not sure this is exactly what you asked for, but here is a sample of some of my most recent country plays from the jukebox at my local bar:
George Strait - Amarillo By Morning
George Strait - Give It Away
George Strait - Troubadour
George Strait - The Cowboy Rides Away
George Strait - The Chair
Billy Currington - Let Me Down Easy
Billy Currington - Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right
Brooks & Dunn - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
Clint Black - A Good Run Of Bad Luck
Gary Allan - Songs About Rain
Gary Allan - It Ain't The Whiskey
Keith Urban - Blue Ain't Your Color
Sammy Kershaw - She Don't Know She's Beautiful
Midland - Drinkin' Problem
Muscadine Bloodline - Can't Tell You No
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
Roy Clark - Riders In The Sky (Live At Billy Bob's)
Tim McGraw - Everywhere
Whiskey Myers - Broken Window Serenade
David Lee Murphy - Dust On The Bottle
Deana Carter - Strawberry Wine
Garth Brooks - Rodeo
Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls
Garth Brooks - Shameless
The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company
Some of these are classic old-school, some are newer. Hope this helps. Merry Christmas!
edited to add Dead South song
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You can't go wrong with anything Robear posted.
I'll add:
Tracy Lawrence- If the world had a front porch
Tracy Lawrence- Texas Tornado
Trent Wilmon- Beer man
Alabama- Dixieland Delight
Alabama- Tennessee River
Alabama- The closer you get
Alabama- Christmas in Dixie
Waylon Jennings- America
Waylon Jennings- Good hearted woman
Brooks and Dunn - How long gone
Brooks and Dunn- My Maria
Glenn Campbell or The Band Perry- Gentle on my mind
Honorable mention "country" but more folk- Gordon Lightfoot- If you could read my mind and Canadian railroad trilogy.
More when they come to me.
Thought of more, namely 90's female country but good stuff:
Kathy Mattea- 18 wheels and a dozen roses
Sara Evans- Real fine place to start
Early Dixie Chicks (before the fat one decided to become a political commentator) Theres your trouble
SHEdaisy- Little goodbyes
Highway 101- The bed you made for me
Faith Hill- take me as I am
Martina McBride- Safe in the arms of love
More bluegrassy, but you can't go wrong with Alison Krauss and Union Station
https://youtu.be/jcRZ_J_VgNc
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Colin Raye - On The Verge
John Anderson - Straight Tequilla Night
Mark Chestnutt - I Just Wanted You To Know
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"Alabama- Christmas in Dixie"
I'm at friends in Mathews County, Virginia, a VERY conservative area...
A sign on one of the main highways states "Mathews County - Christmas In Dixie"
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Mike called it, Mark Chestnutt is fantastic.
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Since I'm on a buzzed role avoiding my inlaws, a Christmas extra:
https://youtu.be/rOd4nTz0hhY
Martina McBride crushes O Holy Night.
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Since I'm on a buzzed role avoiding my inlaws, a Christmas extra:
https://youtu.be/rOd4nTz0hhY
Martina McBride crushes O Holy Night.
I've got that album. She has a great voice for xmas tunes.
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Find the Martina McBride album "Timeless". She covers a bunch of classics, using all instruments and microphones etc at least 50 years old (or something like that.) The album itself (I don't mean the cover art, the whole project) is a piece of art, and she hits it out of the park with just the instrumental intro to the first song (Hank Williams's "You Win Again" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvQzGWIcoM).)
Someone mentioned Dwight Yoakum. I just recently found out he writes most of his own songs. Wow.
I have a Pandora channel "Both Kinds, Country AND Western" that I think is public. It's country music, the way it used to was. At least it's supposed to be, sometimes Pandora slips in some dreck but not much.
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Not sure this is exactly what you asked for, but here is a sample of some of my most recent country plays from the jukebox at my local bar:
George Strait - Amarillo By Morning
George Strait - Give It Away
George Strait - Troubadour
George Strait - The Cowboy Rides Away
George Strait - The Chair
Billy Currington - Let Me Down Easy
Billy Currington - Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right
Brooks & Dunn - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
Clint Black - A Good Run Of Bad Luck
Gary Allan - Songs About Rain
Gary Allan - It Ain't The Whiskey
Keith Urban - Blue Ain't Your Color
Sammy Kershaw - She Don't Know She's Beautiful
Midland - Drinkin' Problem
Muscadine Bloodline - Can't Tell You No
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
Roy Clark - Riders In The Sky (Live At Billy Bob's)
Tim McGraw - Everywhere
Whiskey Myers - Broken Window Serenade
David Lee Murphy - Dust On The Bottle
Deana Carter - Strawberry Wine
Garth Brooks - Rodeo
Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls
Garth Brooks - Shameless
The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company
Some of these are classic old-school, some are newer. Hope this helps. Merry Christmas!
edited to add Dead South song
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Thanks guys; lots of classic songs I was able to remember instantly. Quite a few groaners too... country music is the most hit-or-miss genre for me. Except for rap.
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What zach said. I spent almost a hour going through the list and downloading many on Apple Music. Lots of good songs and a few ruined by too much steel guitar.
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I really don't care for much country after the late 90s, sounds too much like 80s pop slowed down with a steel guitar or fiddle added to it.
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New, but John Pardi's She ain't in it is what a country song should be in sound and structure. I like most of what I have heard of him, not surprising to find out he is from California if you listen to older country to come out of that state.
I see no mention yet of Willie Nelson. Blue eyes crying in the rain. Pancho and Lefty. Ten thousand other songs.
George Jones, He stopped loving her today.
Some Chris LeDoux.
Garth Brooks is somewhat formulaic, but he can make a song as evidenced by his scrooge McDuck wealth. Cheyenne is one not mentioned.
I like more and more Texas music, Bob Will's is still the king! More up to date, give some Robert Earl Keen a listen.
Steve Earle, not truly country, crap politics, but good songs. Copperhead Road, Guitar Town.
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I am not a big fan of country, so I only have a few country songs on my playlist:
- Blake Shelton - Ol' Red
- Couple variations on Ghost Riders in the Sky
- Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
- Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
- Robert Mitchum - The Ballad of Thunder Road (not sure if this really counts as country or not, but what the hey)
I'd have Thunder Rolls by Garth Brooks on there as well, but Amazon wanted me to buy the entire album, so I haven't bothered.
Roy Clark - Riders In The Sky (Live At Billy Bob's)
Hadn't heard that version before. I'm trying to find a version that has about that speed, maybe a bit slower, with a singer that's at least half as good as Johnny Cash. Haven't found anything as of yet.
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"West Texas Waltz" by Joe Ely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx9xLgn-ySE :D
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Midland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7f6HiQ2LuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWDMLtXBmXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bP018XymXI
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I found some country esque music in an unexpected place. Stone Sour, St. Marie. I like it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-bVD_Udh-qo (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-bVD_Udh-qo)
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I think Ward Davis is very worth listening to.
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Could be considered crossover, but IMO this version is straight country, and an amazing track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
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Give the late Rusty Wier a listen. He unfortunately passed away in 2009. Wrote a bunch of stuff that was covered and made famous by more big name performers.
He did some great shows for years every Thursday night at the Saxon Pub in Austin. Lots of fun to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgBG3k__vU8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgBG3k__vU8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyMyJJyKc3o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyMyJJyKc3o)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQTCyWYQxE&list=RDEMCSyBFISPcHdoLO0CzAusqg&index=7 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQTCyWYQxE&list=RDEMCSyBFISPcHdoLO0CzAusqg&index=7)
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A bit off the beaten path, but I like it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtsii1TMzwo
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Watch the PBS "Country Music" mini series by Ken Burns.
Very good intro to the genre. Not too much preaching the woke.