What is your favorite country song.

[ccharles000]

I don"t have many because I don't really like most of it but my favorite song is Reba McEntire's Fancy.

[Misskittycat]

1. "I'm Going to Hire a Wino To Redecorate Our Home"

[EndersDame]

2. Smoke and Wine by Hank III is my Theme song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUM71hu5Ogw

[Pool Hall Ace]

3. I like 'Rose Garden' by Lynn Anderson

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the sunshine,
There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.
When you take, you gotta give, so live and let live,
Or let go.
I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.

I could promise you things like big diamond rings,
But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover.
So you better think it over.
Well, if sweet-talkin' you could make it come true,
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter,
But what would it matter?
So smile for a while and let's be jolly:
Love shouldn't be so melancholy.
Come along and share the good times while we can.

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the sunshine,
There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.

Instrumental break.

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.

I could sing you a tune or promise you the moon,
But if that's what it takes to hold you,
I'd just as soon let you go, but there's one thing I want you to know.
You better look before you leap, still waters run deep,
And there won't always be someone there to pull you out,
And you know what I'm talkin' about.
So smile for a while and let's be jolly:
Love shouldn't be so melancholy.
Come along and share the good times while we can.

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the sunshine,
There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.

To fade.

[Captain Hilts]

17. Another vote here. AND her version of "I've Been Everywhere." nt

[Dem_4_Life]

4. i have a couple favorites depending on my mood

Dixie Chicks - "Sin Wagon"

Martina McBride - "Independance Day"

[underpants]

5. Anything on Exile on Main Street

one of the all time great country albums

and it is by the Stones

[SoxFan]

11. +1

Some of the best country music isn't even called country music. Social Distortion's "Somewhere between heaven and Hell" is the loudest honky-tonk record in history, but 99% of mainstream country fans have never heard "Ball and Chain" or "Born to Lose".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Asking me about my favorite country song

is like asking me about my favorite intestinal virus. I hate all of 'em. Country music, to me, is like auditory tear gas; it will make me run from a room crying and gagging.

[SoxFan]

9. Rolling Stones? Social Distortion? The Byrds?

A lot of their music is closer to country than Taylor Swift or the Hunk in a Hat of the Week.

[Sebastian Doyle]

38. Well, since we're talking about the Stones and country music

Here's one you may not have heard (because the record label would never put this out in a million years!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp6xtRU52hA

[no name no slogan]

62. "Wild Horses", "Ring of Fire" and "You Ain't Going Nowhere" come immediately to mind

By the Stones, Social D and The Byrds, respectively.

There's a lot of very good country out there-- but not all of it is by country artists.

[elocs]

47. What I cannot understand are rock fans who go over to the twangy dark side.

I used to work at my city's civic center and I worked a lot of country concerts. We referred to the most of them as the "pretty boy of the month" country concerts. Even if they were from N.Y. City you put a cowboy hat on them and that magically made them "country". Funny thing is that during the warm-ups the band would be playing old rock songs.

[HopeHoops]

7. Does "King of the Road" count?

I always liked that one.

I know it is Willie Nelson, but "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" is good too.

I'm pretty sure "Sweet Home Alabama" would fit under "country rock".

I used to listen to country when I was young - into the 70's. About the time that shitwad Ricky Scaggs hit the scene, country went formula - and my that I mean a recipe - two parts cow shit, one part asshole - add Reagan/Bush/False-patriotism - stir well and vomit heavily.

[SoxFan]

8. Texas in 1880

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEBgRF1hkDA

Soap, Soup, and Salvation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B0fVsm3rME

Someday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHyGuI3N2x0

Ball and Chain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdI3U1GtRBo

[LostinVA]

10. Nothing but Reba since she's a Freeper, but I love alot of Tim McGraw songs

Hard to pick just one.

[carlyhippy]

12. Nothing from the past 15 years of country, I despise this era of country music

so my favorite I guess is The Cowboy rides away-George Strait for a slow one
and Streets of Bakersfield for a fast one.

[ornotna]

13. That's a tough one

Here's one of them.

Gene Watson - Farewell Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw9RyFXmwww


Don't much care for the Nashville pop sound you hear today.

[gbate]

14. Nothing at all from this era. I do like Rose Garden and some other oldies.

My list:

Chug a Lug by Roger Miller (also King of the Road)
Mountain Music by Alabama
It Was Almost Like a Song by Ronnie Milsap
Jolene by Dolly Parton
Lady by Kenny Rogers

and of course The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

[femmocrat]

15. Just about anything from the Dixie Chicks.

What every happened to them? I wish they would make another comeback!

I like the older music, not up on the latest artists, except Carrie Underwood.

[CreekDog]

16. Probably "I'm No Stranger To The Rain" by Keith Whitley

He died related to his alcoholism at 33. If you think this song is a metaphor for drinking --so do I.

He has an amazing voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlF2p1UPt8Y

Whitley also sang "When You Say Nothing At All" which Allison Kraus really broke through with.

[blue_onyx]

18. I'm not much of a country fan

but I like some pop/country songs. I really like Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood.

[rug]

19. Jolene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m5m2cFeXFU

Oh, and "Lucille".

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

[bikebloke]

20. Does Glen Campbell count?

Gentle on My Mind

If not then, I'll take the Dixie Chicks.

[gbate]

22. Love that one. Also Witchita Lineman.

[Arugula Latte]

26. "Galveston" is pretty, too, although probably not considered "country."

[Aristus]

21. I really can't stand country music, but I love David Alan Coe's "You Never Even Called Me

By My Name."

You Never Even Called me by my Name

Well it was all that I could do to keep from cryin'.
Sometimes it seems so useless to remain.
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'.
You never even called me by my name.

You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings.
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride.
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore.
Even though you're on my fightin' side.

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me.
And I never minded standin' in the rain.
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'.
You never even called me by my name.

Well, I've heard my name a few times in your phone book.
(Hello, hello.)
And I've seen it on signs where I've played.
But the only time I know, I'll hear David Allan Coe,
Is when Jesus has his final judgement day.

So I'll hang around as long as you will let me.
And I never minded standin' in the rain.
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'.
You never even called me by my name.


Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song. And he told
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me it was the perfect country and western song. I wrote him back a letter
and I told him it was NOT the perfect country and western song, because
he hadn't said anything at all about momma, or trains, or trucks, or
prison, or gettin' drunk.

Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to
me and after reading it, I realized that my friend had written the
perfect country and western song. And I felt obliged to include it on
this album. The last verse goes like this here:


Well, I was drunk the day my mom got outta prison.
And I went to pick her up in the rain.
But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train.

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me.
And I never minded standin' in the rain.
No, you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'.
You never even called me,
Well I wonder why you don't call me,
Why don't you ever call me by my name?

[Jetboy]

23. Yup, written by the late great Steve Goodman. That's my

favorite too. Steve Goodman wrote the greatest train song of all time: City of New Orleans, greatest country song of all time: You Never Even Call Me by my Name, and the best baseball song of all time (IMO): A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request. Legend has it that his ashes are buried under home plate at Wrigley Field.

[Aristus]

28. I also heard that Steve Goodman was a lefty. Not out-and-out liberal, but kinda progressive.

Is that true?

[Jetboy]

33. For a folkie, Goodman wasn't particulaly political. But he wrote

at least one anti-war song about a young wife losing her husband to Vietnam. (name of song escapes me right now)

I'd say he was a lefty- some of his best friends were Johnny Cash and Jimmy Buffett. DAC is such a mystery I wouldn't put much stock in Steve's friendship with him.

[fishwax]

42. and John Prine, another lefty friend of his

I'd say he was a lefty- some of his best friends were Johnny Cash and Jimmy Buffett.

[Arkansas Granny]

34. A true classic and one of the few DAC songs that's safe for all age groups.

[lizziegrace]

24. "Whiskey Lullaby"

Allison Krauss and Brad Paisley.

[Aristus]

29. Hi, lizzie!

:hi: This is the second music thread we've been in together this morning. Are you stalking me? B-)

[lizziegrace]

36. Would that be a bad thing??

:P

[Aristus]

40. Oh, heck no! I'm loving the validation!

:7

[Iggo]

25. Great question. I actually have to think about this one.

And I'm at work, so...bookmarking.

[Arugula Latte]

27. Not a country fan at all (I grew up listening to it ... maybe that's why!) but

I like some Johnny Cash songs like "Ring of Fire" and "Folsom Prison." I also liked "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard.

[Ikonoklast]

30. "I Walk The Line"

-Johnny Cash.

And just about anything else Johnny ever sang. Big fan of The Man In Black.

[Arkansas Granny]

31. I'm not much of a country music fan, but I do love Willie Nelson, especially

his Red Headed Stranger album.

Have you ever heard Bobbie Gentry's version of Fancy? Check this out from January, 1970, on the Johnny Cash show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ZCrMESar8

[InternalDialogue]

32. John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery"

His version especially, but anyone can sing that to me and make me happy.

[JimGinPA]

35. Merle Haggard - Someday When Things Are Good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTU3DZ19yEo&feature=PlayList&p=35259C0C3582957F&index=26

A friend of mine who passed away used to play this.

[applegrove]

37. Here You Come Again by Dolly Parton. Not really country but I love that song.

[Doc_Technical]

39. I wanna kiss her- Tim Cavanagh

Life sucks then you die- The Fools
Cow Patty - Jim Stafford
Far away eyes - Rolling Stones
Hot dog - Led Zeppelin
Stinky breath - Dr. Badbreath

[kjackson227]

41. Anything by Carrie Underwood... and I'm not a country music fan.

[Born_A_Truman]

46. I love her cover of "I told you so"

with Randy Travis.

[Swede]

43. Roseanne Cash's Seven Year Ache is one of my favorites.

There are lots more.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. This one, for today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWv_sQm5_Yo&feature=related

[Steely_Dan]

45. Constant Craving

by KD Lang.

-P

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

48. This is one of the best;

The master, Hank Sr,....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hDPMJ5HJ3M

[Xipe Totec]

49. Jerry Jeff Walker - Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E24C4NY0ga8

[blogslut]

50. The perfect country and western song, of course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEo8poVlQrM

London Homesick Blues runs a very close second:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Ppc3jz3GE

[abq e streeter]

51. A few off the top of my head...Big Iron, El Paso, 18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses

She's Actin Single ( I'm Drinkin Double), I Don't Think Hank Done it This Way, and Sunday Morning Coming Down

[Z_I_Peevey]

52. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Easy choice.

Merle Haggard's Silver Wings comes in second, at least today.
Tomorrow it could be Willie's You Were Always on My Mind.

[Skittles]

53. Don Williams "Amanda"

[tabbycat31]

54. not a country person, but i LOVE Before he cheats

the lyrics are great but disturbing (especially when my then 5 yo cousin was singing along to them)

[hobbit709]

55. Down To Seeds And Stems Again Blues

[Enrique]

56. Hot Burrito #1

aka "I'm your toy" by the Burrito Bros. :thumbsup:

[no name no slogan]

63. +1

[Oeditpus Rex]

57. Gotta be this 'un

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



But it depends on what you consider "country." :shrug:

[Brigid]

58. "Shuttin' Detroit Down" by John Rich

http://www.cmt.com/videos/john-rich-country/367274/shuttin-detroit-down.jhtml?id=1608351

[Amerigo Vespucci]

59. "Kickin' In" by Buck Owens

Dwight Yoakam yanked Buck out of his cozy retirement from recording and performing in 1988, which resulted in three final studio albums: "Hot Dog" (1988), "Act Naturally" (1989) and "Kickin' In" (1991). "Kickin' In" turned out to be his final album. He spent the rest of his life performing with the modern-day "Buckaroos" in his Bakersfield club, "Crustal Palace."

It's a song about a guy who loved and lost but will probably take her memory to the grave. Been there, seen that, done that...he name was Nanette.



"Kickin' In" was written by Roger Murrah and Keith Stegal.

CHORUS: There goes her memory, kickin' in
It's that same old hurt again
That makes me crazy now and then
It's her memory, kickin' in

I tell these arms to stop reaching for her
Tell these hands that we can't touch her anymore
But my mind keeps playing games
And my eyes keep seeing things
That look just like her standing in the door

CHORUS

Well I threw away the pictures and the letters
But these old walls still echo things she used to say
And when I close my eyes
I can see her in my mind
Oh it's almost like she never went away

CHORUS

:toast:

[Lyric]

60. I love country music, so I have lots of favorites.

Some off the top of my head:

Pancho and Lefty - Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Jackson - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
Rose Colored Glasses - John Conlee
Mr. Jones - Big Al Downing
Phantom 309 - Red Sovine
Marie LaVeau - Bobby Bare
It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
Addicted - Dan Seals
Jolene - Dolly Parton
The Dance - Garth Brooks
Choices - George Jones

I like lots of the newer (mostly 80's and 90's) country-pop too, although not all of it.

:hi:

[Inspired]

61. She Thinks His Name Was John by Reba.....haunting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OGHnCtoC_w