12-02-2003, 09:20 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: Louisville, KY
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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 |
12-02-2003, 10:01 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD
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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...
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12-03-2003, 08:21 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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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...
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12-03-2003, 11:17 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Location: Davenport, Iowa
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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. |
12-04-2003, 06:25 PM | #8 (permalink) |
Sarge of Blood Gulch Red Outpost Number One
Location: On the front lines against our very enemy
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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.
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12-05-2003, 12:25 AM | #10 (permalink) |
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Location: an indelible crawl through the gutters
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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. . .
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12-05-2003, 12:35 PM | #11 (permalink) | |
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Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD
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12-06-2003, 08:32 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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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.
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12-07-2003, 01:23 AM | #14 (permalink) |
Post-modernism meets Individualism AKA the Clash
Location: oregon
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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
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12-07-2003, 09:30 AM | #15 (permalink) | |
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Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD
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12-07-2003, 12:16 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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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. |
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12-08-2003, 02:34 PM | #17 (permalink) |
Banned
Location: Farm country, South Dakota
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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 |
12-09-2003, 07:50 PM | #18 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: norcal
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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....
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12-11-2003, 10:15 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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Location: in the backwoods
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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 |
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Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD
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12-11-2003, 08:01 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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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.
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12-12-2003, 05:23 PM | #23 (permalink) |
Baltimoron
Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD
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Two more for my list...
"Flowers on the Wall" - Eric Heatherly version "Dancin' on the Boulavard" - Alabama
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12-26-2003, 11:43 AM | #26 (permalink) |
So Hip it Hurts
Location: Up here in my tree
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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.
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12-26-2003, 10:26 PM | #27 (permalink) |
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Location: wisCONsin
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anything b-4 1963
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12-30-2003, 02:09 PM | #28 (permalink) |
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Location: Boston
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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..."
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12-30-2003, 11:30 PM | #29 (permalink) | |
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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...
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12-31-2003, 12:16 PM | #31 (permalink) |
Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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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
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12-31-2003, 02:56 PM | #32 (permalink) |
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Location: Illinois
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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.............. |
07-28-2004, 08:35 PM | #34 (permalink) |
Baltimoron
Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD
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Kenny Chesney's from Tennessee, I believe
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07-30-2004, 10:18 AM | #36 (permalink) |
Here to Help My Fellow TFP'er
Location: All over the Net....(ok Wisconsin)
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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
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07-30-2004, 03:13 PM | #38 (permalink) |
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Location: the green room.
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The only country song worth listening to...
Mama Tried by Merle Hargard 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.
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07-30-2004, 06:27 PM | #40 (permalink) |
Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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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.)
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