Posted on 02/20/2014 7:57:35 AM PST by rktman
Any true country song is ultimately about some combination of beer, trucks, women (preferably Southern), dogs, dirt roads and the Land of the Free. If you don’t get why that’s awesome, you have no shot at appreciating the genre.
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The greatest country songs are by Jimmie Rodgers, Carter Family and Hank Williams.
On this list Roger Miller’s King of the Road qualifies.
Todd Snider is pretty good but he’s a fully reprobate leftist Christian hater.
Not on list who make or made good country music are Johnny Cask, Billy Joe Shaver, Hayes Carl, Avett Brothers.
Most country music is as bad as any other pop music.
Country music died a long time ago. George Jones nailed it with his songs. Today’s county music is JUNK personified.
This list sucks. Is that the point? Mostly novelty songs.
Good stuff...it is rare for artists of today to achieve such great music, unfortunately.
Here's a train song I stumbled across a while back.
Long Black Train by Josh Turner.
When you went to pick her up in the rain?
For my money, the best country song ever done by a male performer is El Paso by Marty Robbins and by female performer, Tammy Wynette's Stand by Your Man.
You forgot The Hagg.
Just an oversight. Merle's got BOTH first name and nick name recognizability covered and he deserves it.
LOL! Ya know, I was gonna put El Paso in there but it is so much than anything on the list. I think the key word in the title was “terribly”.
Actually, it was originally a humorous song written by the late Steve Goodman and John Prine.
That's Chicago's Steve Goodman, who wrote City of New Orleans, which was made famous by Arlo Guthrie at the Newport Folk Festival and recorded by everyone with a guitar and a microphone.
Yeah, a lot of modern country is just a caricature of what country music is supposed to be, both topically and musically.
Agreed, plus it's a great Texas song, and there are too many of those to count.
"This Old Porch/The Front Porch Song" by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen, Jr. is one of the best Texas songs of all time.
Indeed and Come credits him in the song
I was remiss
Did not know about Prime
Prine is a witty but angry progressive as are most what they call Americana artists
Guthrie ...who I knew a little once...is now much more conservative oddly
I met Coe at waylons office in 96
Huge man....very polite
Hey
Hey Joe and Country Blues are sorta country.. lol
And his daddy was from Mississippi or Bama
Kristofferson and Goodman pulled down chairs to listen to Prine. Kristofferson was so impressed, he walked to the pay phone, called (and woke up) a producer of his records, and had the producer listen to Prine over the telephone.
Among the excellent songs Prine and Goodman wrote together is Souvenirs.
In addition to being witty, beloved, and a talented songwriter, Steve Goodman was an excellent guitar player. He was only 36 when we lost him to leukemia.
Enough with this threadjack. Let's get back to country music. I just added The Maddox Brothers and Rose to my playlist for today.
So true.
No. 1 He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
No. 2 Anything by Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
No. 3 The Chair - George Strait
Finally, someone noted the songwriter of “Faded Love”. IMO “Faded Love” is one of the top songs ever. Another awesome song is Hank Snow’s, “Fool Such as I”.
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