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Good old country songs

By Rolling Stone. What makes a great country song? It tells a story. It draws a line. It has a twang you can feel down to the soles of your feet. Some get mad, some get weepy, some just get you down the road. But these are essential songs that map out the story of country music, from Hank Williams howling at the moon to George Jones pouring one out for all the desperate lovers to Taylor Swift singing the suburban cowgirl blues. Mainstream country's most prominent liberal ambitiously overloads this nearly six-minute single from 's American Saturday Night , explaining that he wanted "to serve up a little multigenerational truth with a strong sense of hope and possibility. Basically, it's a typical Brad Paisley A. By Richard Gehr.

Even a certified alt-country critical darling like Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards is not immune to its seductive charms.

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From classic country tunes to contemporary country sounds, these songs are an essential part of music history and showcase some of the most impressive storytelling skills in the country music genre. To find the top country songs of all time, Stacker analyzed Billboard's Greatest of All-Time Top Country Songs to create a ranked list of classic tracks and modern hits from to present day. This list is remarkably varied, demonstrating country music as a genre is broader than some may believe; it also shows how the genre has grown to feature a redefined picture of the classic country superstar, from Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson to Faith Hill, Taylor Swift, Sam Hunt, and Kacey Musgraves. You may also like: Country music history from the year you were born. Jennings convinced Nelson to record the iconic song during a poker game in , inspired by an advertisement for Ike and Tina Turner. Jim Reeves died in an airplane accident in , though his records made the charts from the s to the s. Reeves, also known as "Gentleman Jim," was more popular in South Africa than Elvis Presley, and recorded several albums in the Afrikaans language. Johnny Duncan's first-ever 1 single on the Billboard Country Chart spent 13 weeks in the top The hit told the tale of a family man who meets up with a longtime friend he's had an affair with.

Good old country songs

By Rolling Stone. What makes a great country song? It tells a story. It draws a line.

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What am I gonna do? We're all one big collective idiot. More on Time In [image] [title]. The Jordanaires. A tragic peaen to one woman's lingering lifelong heartbreak, Mindy McCready's cover adds a glittery pop sheen to the original's iconic dusky yearning. Triumphant, hopeful and as corny as Kansas in August, North Carolina native Donna Fargo took this self-composed paean to young newlywed bliss to the top of the country charts. Thanks for subscribing! Originally an early Wilson Pickett single, the perspective of an about-to-be-jilted lover trying to spark that old flame resonates in any genre. Hank Williams. Good Times. Producer Owen Bradley initially envisioned the track recorded by baritone Roy Drusky. The first country chart-topper for both singer John Anderson and Sherrill, "Wild and Blue" is a hauntingly beautiful account of a cheating woman, told from the POV of her cuckolded man. Once the Mississippi native became the "Chocolate Cowboy" in the early Seventies, he rolled out a string of charting country hits featuring his rich baritone voice, able backup singers and a wry sense of humor.

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It was all up from there: The LP went platinum in the U. Go to PMC. Jimmy Dean. Although folksinger George Davis claimed to have written an original "Nine-to-Ten Tons" in the Thirties, Merle Travis countered that he wrote the more productive "Sixteen Tons" about his father's life in the coalmines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Small-town, but more importantly, sensitive enough to address even the most routine insults of life in the 20th century, the big city didn't repulse them, but it did give them the willies. Miller's lyrics asserted that unfaithful women were the result of the treatment by their unfaithful men. After recording a pair of acoustic blues albums for Folkways, Lucinda Williams found her rightful audience with her eponymous Rough Trade debut. Faron Young. A Top Five country hit in , George Jones knew the ironic, upbeat number would be a hit the minute he heard it: "'The Race Is On' was pitched to me," he later told Billboard , "and I only heard the first verse, [sings] 'I feel tears welling up cold and deep inside like my heart's sprung a big leak,' and I said, 'I'll take it. A janitor, a month away from his 66th birthday, shared his impressions of the only three things worth a damn in life, while casting aspersions on the loyalty and value of lovers and friends — and Hall took it all down. Act Naturally Remastered Version. Need some music to set the mood? It has a twang you can feel down to the soles of your feet.