Best 100 country songs, maybe

[THE PILGRIM]

Rolling Stone just published their list of the best 100 Country Songs.
I only disagree with 25 or 30 of them.
I like David Allen Coe a lot, maybe not as much as this guy from USA Today.
He says-
Rolling Stone‘s list of the 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time hit the Web today, and while these things always generate furious debates, a select blue-ribbon panel of music experts (aka my Facebook feed) quickly pointed out one jaw-dropping, inexcusable omission — David Allan Coe’s You Never Even Called Me By My Name.

This is unconscionable. How can you leave “the perfect country and Western song” off this list? I mean, these lyrics alone make it No. 1:

Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in the pick-up truck
She got runned over by a damned old train
Listen and learn, Rolling Stone. Maybe you hipsters will wise up and include it in the next go-round.

 

[carpriver]

I always like the song about Donut make your brown eyes blue. by Crystal Gaile

 

[redlevel]

Hank Williams, Sr. should hold at least three of the top ten positions. Crazy should be #1.

(The perfect country and western song wasn't really.)

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Theres some good ones on here but also some snoozers.

I cant put a lot of stock in these lists as they are basically opinions. But they do bring back some good ones I forgot about.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I can't find the complete list that I can copy and paste.
Here's the top 25. One or two I disagree with, one I disagree with a whole bunch.

I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash (1956)
Crazy - Patsy Cline (1961)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams (1949)
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones (1980)
Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9) - Jimmie Rodgers (1930)
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette (1968)
You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles (1962)
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard (1968)
Jolene - Dolly Parton (1973)
Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson (1978)
Man of Constant Sorrow - Stanley Brothers (1951)
I've Got a Tiger By the Tail - Buck Owens and the Buckaroos (1964)
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (1947)
Settin' the Woods on Fire - Hank Williams (1952)
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels by Kitty Wells (1952)
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (1968)
New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1940)
All My Ex's Live in Texas - George Strait (1987)
Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn (1966)
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (1978)
Can the Circle Be Unbroken - Carter Family (1935)
Walking the Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb (1941)
If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time - Lefty Frizzell (1950)
Mean - Taylor Swift (2010)
Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck (1977)

 

[alanbmx]

Willie Nelson is missing


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[feralmerril]

Where is Johnny Horton and Wanda Jackson?

 

[shouldazagged]

Since when is "Wichita Lineman" a country song?

 

[targetchief]

Taylor Swift? That ain't country!

 

[bhayles]

I can't find the complete list that I can copy and paste.
Here's the top 25. One or two I disagree with, one I disagree with a whole bunch.

I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash (1956)
Crazy - Patsy Cline (1961)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams (1949)
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones (1980)
Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9) - Jimmie Rodgers (1930)
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette (1968)
You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles (1962)
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard (1968)
Jolene - Dolly Parton (1973)
Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson (1978)
Man of Constant Sorrow - Stanley Brothers (1951)
I've Got a Tiger By the Tail - Buck Owens and the Buckaroos (1964)
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (1947)
Settin' the Woods on Fire - Hank Williams (1952)
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels by Kitty Wells (1952)
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (1968)
New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1940)
All My Ex's Live in Texas - George Strait (1987)
Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn (1966)
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (1978)
Can the Circle Be Unbroken - Carter Family (1935)
Walking the Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb (1941)
If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time - Lefty Frizzell (1950)
Mean - Taylor Swift (2010)
Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck (1977)

Didn't take long to find out how wrong the list is. Any list that puts "He Stopped Loving Her Today" anywhere except #1 is so wrong as to be not worth looking at further...

 

[redlevel]

Willie Nelson is missing


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I don't know if he was credited as a a singer, but "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies . . . . " is on the list, I believe. Also, he wrote the #2 listed song, "Crazy." He also wrote "Hello Walls" sung by Faron Young, which I believe is on the list.

 

[lowriderfxr]

I like Anne Murray, You Kneaded Me.

 

[Bat Guano]

Roy Clark's "Thank God and Greyhound" always puts a grin on my face.

Yes, there's a story connected with it. I'll never forget What's-Her-Name.

 

[Kid44]

I didn't know there was a good country song.

 

[bhayles]

I didn't know there was a good country song.

There is country music, and then there is screechy noise that THINKS its music...

 

[THE PILGRIM]

A while back I was in a coffee shop in Montrose, Colorado.
A lady was singing a Hank Williams song.
When I asked who is singing, the young lady clerk went back in the back room and checked.
It was Norah Jones and she was doing extremely good job. I have heard the story that when Bing Crosby and Tony Bennett had hit records with Hank's songs, Hank would play them on the jukebox at every opportunity and just stand there and grin.
I also tend to get the song confused with the singer.
But rest assured that Taylor Swift would not be on my list.
Neither her songs nor her singing deserve a place on a top 100 Country list.

 

[labworm]

I'd say one of my favorites sung by this great singer.

Ray Price - "For The Good Times" Live at the Grand Ole Opry - YouTube

 

[italiansport]

My all time favorites:
I'd Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me Than Have a Frontal Lobotomy

Get Yer Tongue Otta My Mouth Cause I'm Kissin You Goodbye

Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts of Live.

 

[skrazo]

Roy Clark's "Thank God and Greyhound" always puts a grin on my face.

Yes, there's a story connected with it. I'll never forget What's-Her-Name.

This one's not famous. Not sure of the title, but the story line is: "I don't know where she is, but I hope she stays gone", sung by Bill Anderson on TV Sunday PM.

 

[redneckemt]

Really Taylor Swift placed on the list and Garth Brooks The Dance didn't? Or Alabama with any of their songs. Or Alan Jackson? Or Vince Gill (Go Rest High on The Mountain) list is beyond flawed.

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