Favorite Country Song

[inudesu]

What is your all-time favorite country music song.

If the answer is NA, then you are not required to post at all.

My answer.

[CChandler]

Pancho and Lefty

[arkansasbob]

What is your all-time favorite country music song.

If the answer is NA, then you are not required to post at all.

My answer.

i can't click your link at work, and the link will break eventually, so you may want to write it out for the sake of posterity.

without giving it much thought, i'm tempted to say blue eyes crying in the rain, but i reserve the right to change my mind after i've had time to consider the question.

[johnnylightnin]

Does Texas Swing count as country, or is it another category all together?

[CChandler]

fwiw Hickory Wind is my #2

[Dirtydawg]

At this moment I'm going to have to go with one of these two but it's likely to change. Incidentally, they were both written, primarily, by the same songwriter, and the first one won a songwriting award as the song that all the songwriters wished they'd have written that year. I think it only charted up to # 13. Actually, I think both these songs charted as high as #13 before falling down due to music industry politics.

#1. Why They Call it Falling-LeeAnn Womack

#2. Lonely-Tracy Lawrence.

[inudesu]

i can't click your link at work, and the link will break eventually, so you may want to write it out for the sake of posterity.

Clint Black - Nothing's News

[inudesu]

Actually, I think both these songs charted as high as #13 before falling down due to music industry politics.

Sometimes having a black sheep in your family can come back to haunt you. Even if he's way over in Ruston.

[Dirtydawg]

Sometimes having a black sheep in your family can come back to haunt you. Even if he's way over in Ruston.

That's true. I guess I shouldn't have drank so much at Mel Tillis' ranch that night, but Austindawg really loves the story, so I guess it was worth it.

[inudesu]

Does Texas Swing count as country, or is it another category all together?

For our purposes here today I am leaving the definition purposely vague. Let's just say we're taking a general view of "country" music that subscribes loosely to the Potter Stewart "I know it when I see it" rule.

So to answer your question, Texas Swing fits into the broader category I am calling "country."

[Dirtydawg]

In other words, we're using both types of music. Country and Western.

[hoppinmad]

garth brooks - the dance


http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...5221543443747#

[inudesu]

Pancho and Lefty

I assume you prefer the Willie/Merle verison?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzJAF1BxP4

As opposed to Townes Van Zandt or Emmylou Harris.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjwO17gsqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzgwNDZAs4

Or even Steve Earle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOOE...eature=related

[CChandler]

Willy and Merle.

John Anderson "Seminole Wind" is also up there for me.

[CARTEK]

Depends on just how melancholy my mood is...

He Stopped Loving Her Today (Jones)

There Stands the Glass (Pierce)

Six-Pack to Go (Thompson)

Uncle Penn (Monroe)

No Fear (Clark)

I've Been Everywhere (Snow)

Crazy (Cline)

Tryin' to Get Over You (Gill)

Redneck Woman (Wilson)

Desperados Waiting for a Train (Walker)

...in no particular order!