Five country songs!

[queequek]

What, in your opinion, the best five country songs ever?
Mine are (no order, I like them all)

Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver
Cowboy Take Me Away, Dixie Chicks
Young, Kenny Chesney
My Next 30 Years, Tim McGraw
Thunder Rolls, Garth Brooks

[LuaBlanca]

ooooh I was RAISED on country music!

"Thunder Rolls" and "Standing Outside The Fire" by Garth Brooks
"Time Marches On" by Tracy Lawrence
"One More Day" by Diamond Rio
and "My Maria" ties w/ "Silver and Gold" by Brooks & Dunn

my list is WAY longer than 5.....

[thesweetestone]

Deeper than the Holler - Randy Travis
Til you love me - Reba
I never knew love - Doug Stone
I see it now - Tracy Lawrance
You win my love- Shania

[OUlioness01]

traveling soldier-dixie chicks
x's and o's-tricia yearwood
strawberry wine-deana carter
don't take the girl-tim mcgraw
standing outside the fire-garth brooks

The Road Goes on Forever and the Party Never Ends - Robert Earl Keen

It's a Great Day to Be Alive - CORY MORROW(not travis tritt)

Seven Spanish Angels - Ray Charles & Willie Nelson

Texas Women - Hank Jr.

What I Like About Texas - Gary P. Nunn

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[Hootie]

"My Maria" ~ Brooks and Dunn
"It's Your Love" Faith/Tim McGraw
"Where the Green Grass Grows" ~ Tim McGraw
"I'm moving on" ~ Rascal Flats
"Beautiful Mess" Diamond Rio

[Fewdfreak]

I'm a little bias toward the Dixie Chicks...

Top of the World (Dixie Chicks and Patty Griffin)
Angels in Waiting (Tammy Cochran)
Heartbreak Town (Dixie Chicks)
Let Him Fly (Dixie Chicks)
Godspeed i.e. Sweet Dreams (Dixie Chicks)

My roomie listens to hella country though, seriously, if it's out there, it's on her computer, I used to hate country, but she plays it a lot, and I think I'm starting to get hicked out because it's growing on me, and I'm starting to download it...

[CarolinaCutie]

Let's see...

Dixieland Delight- Alabama
Laredo- Chris Cagle
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton (haha HEY this is a good song, shut up)
ANYTHING by Tim McGraw
Blue Clear Sky- George Strait

[ZTAngel]

Fancy- Reba McIntire
Shameless- Garth Brooks
Something Like That- Tim McGraw
Strawberry Wine- Deanna Carter
Friends in Low Places- Garth Brooks

[justamom]

ZTAngel-I LOVE your choices-Shameless is a FATASTIC version of this Billy Joel song.

When you've heard as may as I have over the years, it's impossile to make choices, yet my ALL TIME NUMBER ONE CHOICE- The Perfect Country-Western Song OR You Never Even Call Me By My Name. Best darn bar song ever!
EDITED-David Allen Coe added a lot to te song and his rendition is GREAT!

".......Country music is, after all, populist music. The best country music is simple, and direct, and obvious, and honest.

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 pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train...*

American folk singer Steve Goodman wrote that almost 25 years ago as the affectionate jokey coda to a country song he’d finished, after someone complained that it was a good tune but it didn’t include any references to mom, prison, pickup trucks, trains or getting drunk."
http://www.socan.ca/jsp/en/word_musi...an_country.jsp

[agger_rob]

Top five recent songs:
Brad Paisley - Two People Fell in Love
Matreca Berg - Back in the Saddle
Pat Green - Carry On
Toby Keith & Willie Nelson - Beer for my Horses
Kenny Chesney - Young

Top five classics:
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn - Country Bumpkin
George Strait - Amarillo By Morning
Hank Williams Jr. - Dinosaur
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Willie Nelson - Bloody Mary Morning

Honorable mentions:
Dean Martin - Houston
Charlie Daniels - Drinking My Baby Goodbye
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes

[CardinalSM]

Cowboy Take me Away by the Dixie Chicks
She's Every Woman by Garth Brooks
We Danced Anyway by Deanna Carter
Something Like That by Tim McGraw
ANYTHING by Faith Hill

[Mz. Sports Luva]

Originally posted by CardinalSM
Cowboy Take me Away by the Dixie Chicks

I not a big country music fan, but I love the Chicks & this is my favorite song by them.

[33girl]

call this, the 5 country songs I actually like from my very young days.

Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich
Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Glen Campbell
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Crazy - Patsy Cline

any country music from after 1985 or so, I pretty much detest.

[Nikki_DZ]

I, too, was raised on country. I don't listen to any of the new stuff, but have to admit that some older country songs are among my favorites. Waylon and Johnny kick the ass of anything out there today!

Top 5:
"Luckenbach, Texas"-Waylon Jennings
"Long Black Veil" (wayyyy before Dave did it)-Johnny Cash
"Roll On Eighteen Wheeler"-Alabama
"Elvira"-The Statler Bros.
"Ode to Billy Joe"-Bobbie Gentry (my karaokee song )

As far as newer stuff, I do LOVE "Next Step in Love" by Clay Walker and "Shameless" by Garth Brooks.