Best country songs

By Rolling Stone. What makes a great country song? It tells a story. It draws a line.

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Best country songs

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From classic country tunes to contemporary country sounds, these songs are an essential part of music history and showcase some of the most impressive storytelling skills in the country music genre. To find the top country songs of all time, Stacker analyzed Billboard's Greatest of All-Time Top Country Songs to create a ranked list of classic tracks and modern hits from to present day. This list is remarkably varied, demonstrating country music as a genre is broader than some may believe; it also shows how the genre has grown to feature a redefined picture of the classic country superstar, from Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson to Faith Hill, Taylor Swift, Sam Hunt, and Kacey Musgraves. You may also like: Country music history from the year you were born. Jennings convinced Nelson to record the iconic song during a poker game in , inspired by an advertisement for Ike and Tina Turner. Jim Reeves died in an airplane accident in , though his records made the charts from the s to the s.

Best country songs

By Rolling Stone. What makes a great country song? It tells a story.

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Recommended [image]. Nixon won, by the way. But at its heart, all country is intertwined. But where the heartbroken man wallows in these tracks, Allan is busy placing his own in their lineage, successfully conjuring a country classic that's as heartbreaking as the sum of its references. The music, however, reflected Price's new shuffle style, with single-string fiddle, pedal steel guitar, and doubled acoustic and electric basses. Contact us Advertising Time Out Market. Consisting of little more than guitars — a finger-picked acoustic and a welling slide — "If I Had a Boat" is nothing to ride a mechanical bull too. The first single from 's Middle Cyclone , "People Got a Lotta Nerve" sent a stern warning to anyone foolish enough to tie the singer down. The biggest influence on "Guitars, Cadillacs," however, the one who lent the song its crisp guitar and walking bassline, remained two hours north. About us. A home for country rock since the Byrds and the Burrito Brothers, the ambitious singer found his match in local roots-oriented post-punk acts like the Blasters, Lone Justice and the Knitters. Still inspirational, just more depressing. Williams was broke and turning 40 when Mary Chapin Carpenter softened the song's edges, added a stirring guitar arrangement and took "Passionate Kisses" close to the top of the Billboard country chart in , winning Grammys for both herself and its author. More on Time In [image] [title].

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What makes a great country song? Cupid has you in his sights, people. Still inspirational, just more depressing. Heavy-hitting country legend Strait counts down his list of former flames in this song about why a man would live in Tennessee rather than the haunted state of Texas. Music Music Lists. Originally a member of the short-lived band Silver Spur, Juice Newton had been releasing a steady output of solo pop and rock material for two years — to decent reviews but few sales. The singer's smooth vocals are a fine fit for the thoughtful lyrics about a chance meeting on a train and how meaningful moments are shared in the smallest and most insignificant of places. A tragic peaen to one woman's lingering lifelong heartbreak, Mindy McCready's cover adds a glittery pop sheen to the original's iconic dusky yearning. Funny… we always assumed Willie would make that trip first. Mainstream country's most prominent liberal ambitiously overloads this nearly six-minute single from 's American Saturday Night , explaining that he wanted "to serve up a little multigenerational truth with a strong sense of hope and possibility. By Rob Harvilla. If she had, maybe there wouldn't be so many good-for-nothing drunks out there "kickin' hippies' asses and raisin' hell. Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation.