Because it's not all bad!  ;)


Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere (1993)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h_g5Fmk-ig

One of the rare songs that sounds better live than in studio...


Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2sPvjlTdHo

And my favorite salute to truckers:


East Bound & Down - Jerry Reed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5re42R5ujU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnRwQjTYfGI

Jerry Reed - East Bound And Down {1977}




Dan

One more, and then I'll stop postwhoring.


Love this one too.


Come On In - Oak Ridge Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu_Et1YSPQg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjzWOuncOkI

Alabama - Tennesse River {1980}


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg

The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia {1979}



Dan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VqAwFxh9ms

Tanya Tucker - Delta Dawn {1975}


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K6Y-YGZUec

Reba McEntire - Fancy {1990}



Dan

One of the rare songs that sounds better live than in studio...


Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2sPvjlTdHo
One of the best!

Good to hear a different arrangement of this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmzxM_XvQA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-v38lbPNZs

Elvis Presley - Kentucky Rain {1969}


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii-QMVdR1Fg

Charlie Rich - A Very Special Love Song {1974}



Dan

Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTfwcLdP5Xk&feature=fvst

Greatest. Song. Ever.  ;)

Remember this good one from 1981?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUs_FWqj9s

Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash

And another good one, this time from 1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFE--m5WxFc&feature=related

Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson

And another good one, this time from 1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFE--m5WxFc&feature=related

Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson

Dude...I swear I was just getting ready to put that one up, but you beat me to it!  :o :o :o

Karma!  8)


I like this too:

Toby Keith - I Love This Bar (2003)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7ifSxp9xU

.... nobody wants to get drunk and get loud...

All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down - Hank Williams Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm63_M_4BF0

Dude...I swear I was just getting ready to put that one up, but you beat me to it!  :o :o :o

Karma!  8)



That's odd because I was gonna put up "Wichita Lineman"  before you got it...???


But here's another one I like and *always* heard at a local bar a couple of years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AFgZzutxDs

Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me - Keith Urban (2003)

Johnny Paycheck - The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp59BVMOIoc

More good '70s Country music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHtw28t5hBk

Are You Ready for the Country - Waylon Jennings (1976)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiYfQSD4Xao

Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett (1974)

The Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow (1976)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZyULjS-wYE&feature=related

Honey Won't You Open That Door - Ricky Scaggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTGiD8W57ZU


The Grand Tour - George Jones  (Don't listen if songs make you cry easily)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hBAwaH6CI

Two more. One from 1981 and another from 1961.

Remember this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJHV8fLAuGo
Somebody's Knockin' - Terri Gibbs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk1hdpMs
I Fall To Pieces - Patsey Cline

Country music seems to get a bad rap (especially in the UK) though I am not too sure why. My grandad loved it and I think he passed that country love on to me. Hmmmm...Quite a few to choose from.

A classic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo

This one inspires me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm8711y6ILU

I'm not big on country but there are a few country songs that I do love-like this one:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QEDb3xzdec




Cat

Some Bocephus?
Nope, let's go with Sr., from 1952, and his last song on the charts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19vApPwWqh8
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Hank Williams

I'm really liking this one right now.


If You're Reading This - Tim McGraw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwoXmXA8BvY

Heard this on a classic country station out of Topeka today. Kind of a sad song.  :(


Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED5s1-Fe9FA

When I'm Away From You - The Bellamy Brothers (1983)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApysTo8E4ck

I've noticed on eBay when I collect vinyl, country music is one of the cheapest genres to collect (though good luck reselling, most country music is really JUNK COLLECTIBLES). But what really gives country a bad rap is that it is probably the most CONSERVATIVE of all musical genres- even easy listening pop has evolved more over time. It's easy to tell if an Adult Contemporary song is from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, or now, whereas country songs from the '50s don't sound much different from recent country music. There was once a time when stars like Shenadoah, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Steve Wariner, Joe Diffie, Tracy Lawrence, the Texas Tornadoes, and Neal McCoy where quite popular, yet are now seen as "old junk", even if they are the same generation as rock's Grunge era and rap's Gangsta era. As a result, most country music has little replay value; you have to really look for the good stuff often.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP13uJ1rYQg

Does Clint Black still record?  I'd nearly forgotten about him.