Anyone who doesn't like George Strait , or at least that he has talent, doesn't know diddly-squat about music. Period.
"Wichita Lineman" - Glen Campbell "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" - Charley Pride "Elvira" - The Oak Ridge Boys "El Paso" - Marty Robbins "You're the Reason Our Kids are Ugly" - Conway Twitty and Lorretta Lynn "When You're Hot Your Hot" - Jerry Reed "She Still Thinks I Care" - George "No Show" Jones "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" - Kenny Rogers
Hey Good Lookin - Hank Williams My Bucket's Got a Hole in It - " Honky Tonkin - " Crazy - Patsy Cline Walkin' After Midnight - " I Fall to Pieces - " Like a D-O-G - Waylon Jennings Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground - Willie Nelson Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain - " Cryin' Shame - Mavericks Lots of Mavericks stuff - Lots of Dwight Yokem 3 Words - K.D. Lang Buck Owens That stuff is actually really good music. That said, I detest most country, with a seething, white-hot hatred. There's just a hate switch that immediately locks on to the pablum for pricks. I should chill about that, maybe meditate or do some yoga. Pricks are people too.
He has talent, but the songs he sings are generally not that good. He is a microcosm of today's Nashville - talented people performing syrupy pop songs with a slight twang. You can hear real country at places like Blanco's, The Firehouse, and Armadillo Palace, not on "country" radio.
you know, i always wrote him off as part of the "frat boy" country rock movement, but i saw him at acl and was i ever wrong. i thought he was great! there is a very fine line b/t what he does and your alt-country uncle tupelo, whiskeytown, sun volt, early wilco.
REK is great, though his vocals are kinda tough on my ears. As a songwriter he's equally adept at funny songs and serious ones. To get back to the original topic, I would list the following country hits as my faves: Hank Sr. - Long Gone Lonesome Blues Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom Prison version) Merle Haggard - Mama Tried The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry- Hank Williams Faded Love- Patsy Cline O Death- Ralph Stanley Hill Country Rain- Jerry Jeff Walker Hurt- Johnny Cash
David Ball "Thinkin' Problem", "Amigo" Dwight Yoakam "I Sang Dixie", "The Late Great Golden State" Buck Owens "Made in Japan" George Strait "Amarillo by Morning", "Ace in the Hole" Don Williams "Good Ole Boys Like Me", "Tulsa Time"
Song for life - Rodney Crowell Seven Year Ache - Rossanne Cash Highway 40 Blues - Ricky Scaggs Sing me back home - Merle Haggard You can steal me - Tammy Wynette Honky tonk girl - Loretta Lynn Ring of Fire - Johnney Cash Two More Bottles of Wine - Emmylou Harris Love of the common people (great song from his "nashville sound" early work) Also Every Song on Honky Tonk Heros- Waylon Jennings Can I sleep in your arms and Blues Eyes Crying in the rain - Willie Nelson Houston - Gatling Brothers Galveston and Witcha Lineman and By the Time I get to Phoneix Rhinestone Cowboy Gentle on my mind - Glenn Cambell Cowbows don't shoot straight - Tammy Wynette He stopped loving her today - george jones Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe Heaven's just a sin away - the kendalls Just Like Real People - the kendalls These Hills - Iris Dement No Time to Cry - Iris Dement Nobody - Sylvia Dark as a dungeon - Dolly Parton Man of Constant Sorrow - Sooggy bottom boys aka Alison Krauss and Union Station Delta Dawn - Tanya Tucker
also: All I Have To Offer You (Is Me) Charley Pride Then Who Am I Charley Pride Any song by Hank Williams Me and Bobby Mcgee - Kris Kristopherson Jackson - Johnney And June Carter Cash Bob Wills is still the king - Waylon Jennins Mississippi you're on my mind - Jerry Jeff Walker Misery and gin - merle haggard I think I'll Just Stay here and drink - merle haggard Poncho and Lefty -townes van zandt White Feight Liner - townes van zandt
It can't be a true country song unless it has something about prison,a pickup truck,momma,a train,the rain and of course being drunk. Darlin
