Favourite *Country* Songs
 

Skimming the thread titles, I've seen very little mention of the country music genre. Now, I don't listen to much country, but I was raised on it, and I hear a quite a bit of it just because I'm from Kentucky and in many places its the genre of choice. There are several country songs that I absolutely love, and a few artists I listen to with some degree of regularity. (Dixie Chicks, Rascal Flatts, and Faith Hill to name a few) I am NOT including Allison Krauss on this list, even though I've loved her for many many years...she's bluegrass, y'all, I don't care if she's on Country Music Television, it's bluegrass.

Anyway...I was interested in seeing if anyone else has an interest in country. Even if you can't stand the twang, many of them have great lyrics. Their music videos tend to be more enjoyable for me to watch because they really tell a story, not just flash racy images for 3 minutes. I guess I'm a fan of ballads; most of the country songs I like are slow, tender ballads. So anyway...my favourite country songs...please add if you have any. :-)

*The Dance by Garth Brooks
*Baby, You Can Sleep While I Drive by Trisha Yearwood (I know that this one was actually written by Melissa Ethridge)
*You Don't Even Know Who I am by Patty Loveless
*I'm Moving On by Rascal Flatts
*Love Me by Collin Ray

Carry On - Pat Green
Never Would've Worked Out Anyway and Me Neither - Brad Paisley
There Goes and Who's Cheatin' Who - Alan Jackson
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band

And the single greatest song ever written of ANY genre...

Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks

I have a lot more I like, but I don't want to crash the forum...

"Give My Love to Rose"
"Streets of Laredo"
"Devil Went Down to Georgia"

Well, if you consider Neil Young country (I dont, but have known several who do), the his Heart of Gold or Needle and the Damage Done would have to be my favorites. Beyond that though, Im not a big fan of country, so...

The Ride - David Allen Coe

Garth Brooks - Callin' Baton Rouge
Diamond Rio - Bubba Hyde
Rascal Flats - I Melt
Rascal Flats - Love You Out Loud
Kenny Chesney - How forever Feels
Randy Travis - Forever and Ever
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

and there is just a ton of classic country that I like : Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Hank, Willine Nelson, etc.

Anything by Johnny Cash R.I.P.

The last real man in entertainment.

The Dance-Garth Brooks
Callin' Baton Rouge-Garth Brooks <---Awesome fiddle here.
Shoulda Been a Cowboy-Toby Keith
Beer for my Horses-Toby Keith
Taliban Song-Toby Keith
Devil Went Down to Georgia-Charlie Daniels Band
Two Pina Coladas-Garth Brooks
Blue-LeAnn Rimes
Boot Scootin' Boogy-Brooks & Dunn
Hard Workin' Man-Brooks & Dunn
Standing Outside the Fire-Garth Brooks
Wanna Talk About Me-Toby Keith
How Do You Like Me Now?-Toby Keith

and a whole bunch of other stuff by Clint Black, George Strait, Diamond Rio, and many others, that kinda happens to you when you grow up in Texas.

Anything by Tony Rice, AKUS or Del McCoury.

hmmm. . .to name a few:

What she's doing now - garth brooks
two of a kind - garth brooks
folsom prison blues - johnny cash
walk the line - johnny cash
lost highway - hank williams
holes in the floor of heaven (i'm not sure of the title/artist but this one always makes me think of my late great grandmother)
Forever and Amen - randy travis
good old days - the judds
country boy can survive - hank williams jr
love me - colin raye
long haired country boy - cdb

this list could go on forever. . .

Steve Wariner

'Baptism","Some Day I might Get over you" Kenny Chesney "Much to Young to Feel this Dam old", "Shes Every Women" Garth Brooks

One of the bands I play in is a classic rock band (classics people can dance to,.. ie not Zeppelin, Sabbath etc,..*OFKU0 sobs*) and everytime at the end of the third set when everyone is drunk we rip on a version of Travis Tritt's ' Here's a quarter call someone who cares'. It never fails,we get the loudest reaction of the night in a positive way.

not a big country fan at ALL

but i always enjoy this one garth brooks song..
"yes i will sail my vessel/ til the river runs dry/ like a bird upon the wind/ these water are my sky..."

and of course devil went down to georgia (love fiddle) by charlie daniels band

"The River"

I agree.
The Dance also by Garth Brooks is good as well. Umm there's so many I dunno what to put down.

edit: I have Alan Jackson's "Remember When" playing on my playlist. I like that a lot, though I'm not old enough to relate.

Chris LeDoux- everything he does
Charlie Daniels Band - Stroker Ace
Simple man
Still in Saigon
In america
more...
Johnny Cash (RIP) - everything he does
Waylon Jennings (RIP) - everything he does
Steve Earl - Copperhead Road
Sawyer Brown - Another Side
All these Years

I could go on forever...so many great songs. And ninety percent of my favorites are from prior to 1993

Lotsa charlie daniels stuff...
Willie Nelson, Waylan Jennings,
Joe Diffie-Pickup Man....Awesome song becasue it reminds me of me!
Hank Williams Jr.....the list goes on

i guess i said mostly artists, but im not going to try to list every country song i like....

lots of good ones here already. some of my favorites I haven't seen here are songs that tell a good story:
that summer-Garth Brooks
ten thousand angels-I forget who
three wooden crosses-Randy Travis (I don't like him all that much, but I love this song)
the one about the little kid who sees his parents fighting and then recognizes Jesus as being the guy who was watching after him that day when he first goes to Sunday school-have no idea who sings it
Corpus Christi Bay -Robert Earl Keen

Mindy McCready

"The Little Girl", John Michael Montgomery

kenny chesney - back where i come from

no other song paints a better picture of what its like growing up in the country, and anything by keith whitley. died out way before his time.

So lonesome I could cry - Hank Williams
1000 miles from nowhere - Dwight Yokum


There are more, but I dont' usually listen to country so I forget.

Two more for my list...

"Flowers on the Wall" - Eric Heatherly version
"Dancin' on the Boulavard" - Alabama

Thanks.

Just about anything from Garth. I also like a lot of songs by Dwight Yoakam.

Tons of great tunes by Jonny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.

My favorites are more from the alt-country variety though like stuff by Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar Ryan Adams, etc.

Roadworn and Weary by the Supersuckers
and Outtasite (Outta Mind) - Wilco

are two of my favs.

anything b-4 1963

I'd have to say muting the TV and listening to a Shania Twain video...as Green Day said, "Bite my lip and close my eyes..."

Wouldn't that then actually be watching a Shania Twain video?


BTW, the best country song of all time is Friends in Low Places. Coming in a close second, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Fishing In The Dark...

Hell Yeah - Montogmery Gentry
Young - Kenny Chesney
Remember When - Alan Jackson

OK,
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire, Ghost Riders in the Sky, and Walk the Line
Lyle Lovett - North Dakota, Which Way does that Old Pony Run, I've Been to Memphis
Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider
CW McCall - Convoy
Roseanne Cash - Seven Year Ache
Iron Horse - Fuel (Metallica Cover) - bluegrass, not actually country.
Everything by Hayseed Dixie.
The Gourds cover of Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice

I love country music also. Not many people on here like country.
Kenny Chesney-anything from him. i love his new song There goes my life
Garth Brooks
Dixie Chicks - but i am not to happy with them after what they said in london. what do you guys think?
Toby Keith
Brad Paisley
Shania Twain
Reba- I love her show also
And the list could go on forever..............

I like most "Texas" country... like Pat Green, Corry Morrow, Kenny Chesney...

Kenny Chesney's from Tennessee, I believe ;)

Garth - "friends in low places"
Johnny Cash - many good tunes

I'm a hip-hop fan myself. Grew up on alternative rock and pop though.

In this case I should list the songs I DONT like. It would take less time.

Tim McGraw- Cowboy in me
John Connely- Rose colored glasses
Anything by Willie Nelson or Merle Haggard
Allison Krause and Brad Paisley- Whiskey Lullabye

I guess just too many to list

my morning jacket - at dawn

The only country song worth listening to...

Mama Tried by Merle Hargard :lol:

other then that I don't have a favorite. But I know my favorite part of country a country song! the part when the music dies down and the singing stops... whats it called? Oh yes, the end.

I like the new song "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" by Big and Rich, mainly because my wife, who loves country, hates it. :D

Ghost Riders (in the Sky) - as persformed by the Outlaws (sure, they're southern rock, but it's a country song.)

Lyle Lovett - If I had a boat.

Charlie Daniels Band - Uneasy Rider

Greatful Dead - Big River (another country song pefromed by a rock band.)

Whiskey Bent & Hell Bound - Hank Williams
Can't believe I forgot to tip my hat to Hank the first go 'round.

Old '97 - Doreen

(Edited for duplicates.)