So I few weeks ago, I blasphemed against an entire genre of music by creating a satirical list of the best country songs of all time. None of the songs were country songs though, they were all southern rock or folk rock. The joke was that country music is so unlistenable that rock n roll fulfills the country music itch better than country music itself does.
Country music seems to have lost its way creatively several decades ago, and has long since ceased to be a groundbreaking genre (I am also beginning to suspect this of my beloved rock n roll, by the way). Even with that being said though, it’s impossible to deny the place country music has in American music history, and American history itself. Name five artists or groups from the U.S. engrained into our culture to the same degree as Johnny Cash. So, as an apology to the maligned, and a nod to the genre I so recently disparaged, I give you, not a list of “the best country songs of all time,” but a list of some of my favorites. Amarillo By Morning, George Straight When You’re Hot You’re Hot, Jerry Reed Amos Moses, Jerry Reed Hey Good Lookin, Hank Williams I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Hank Williams Jambalaya, Hank Williams Your Cheatin Heart, Hank Williams Rolypoly, Hank Williams I Walk The Line, Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash The Ballad of Ira Hayes, Johnny Cash (Ghost) Riders In the Sky, Johnny Cash God’s Gonna Cut You Down, Johnny Cash The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer, Johnny Cash Sunday Morning Coming Down, Johnny Cash One Piece at a Time, Johnny Cash Diggin Up Bones, Randy Travis He Walked On Water, Randy Travis King of the Road, Roger Miller The Battle of New Orleans, Johnny Horton North To Alaska, Johnny Horton Sink the Bismark, Johnny Horton Big Iron, Marty Robbins El Paso, Marty Robbins I Like Beer, Tom T. Hall Crazy, Patsy Cline I Fall To Pieces, Patsy Cline Jolene, Dolly Parton Flowers on the Wall, Statler Brothers Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man, Conway Twitty Kiss and Angel Good Mornin, Charley Pride Okie From Muskogee, Merle Haggard Waltz Across Texas, Ernest Tubb Walkin the Floor Over You, Ernest Tubb Welcome to My World, Jim Reeves Am I Losing You, Jim Reeves Cattle Call, Eddy Arnold Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys, Willie Nelson Convoy, C.W. McCall
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