Who are some of your favorite classic country artists and your favorite songs by them?

Question

I love Don Williams"I Believe in You" and "Amanda"
as well as Freddie Fender's"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights".

I am asking the Seniors but all are welcome to answer.

Answer 1

Don Williams is also one of my very favorites....Tulsa Time....

ANYTHING by Johnny Cash!!!!

Hank Williams Senior....

Willie Nelson

Waylon Jennings

Ralph Stanley (He is bluegrass but needs to be mentioned)

Roy Clark

Buck Owens

Mac Davis

Patsy Cline.....Can anything top "Crazy"????

Loretta Lynn

Tammy Wynette

Conway Twitty

and

GEORGE JONES!!!!!



I am 40 and cut my teeth on their music....

Peace.

Answer 2

Gosh, I must be ancient!!!!!



When I think "classic country", I think:



Tex Ritter

Ernest Tubbs

Left Frizzell

Webb Pierce

Faron Young

Jimmie Rodgers

Elton Britt

Patsy Montana

Kitty Wells,

Hank Williams

Hank Thompson

Ray Price

Jim Reeves

The Carter Family

Flatt and Scruggs

Homer and Jethro

Grandpa Weaver

Sons of the Pioneers

The Maddox Brothers and Rose

Rex Allen

Eddie Dean



Is there a slight generation gap here among the seniors?????

Answer 3

Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty

Willy Nelson and Ray Charles - Seven Spanish Angels, [Willie Nelson] Me and Paul, Stardust, Red Headed Stranger

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues and Ring of Fire

Merle Haggard - Turn Me Loose Set Me Free somewhere in the middle of Montana

Guy Clark - Gotta Get Off This LA Freeway

Hank Snow - The Golden Rocket, I've Been Everywhere

Patsy Montana - Cowboy Sweetheart

Mother Maybell Carter - Wildwood Flower

Gentleman Jim Reeves - Closer to the Phone

Tex Ritter - Hillbilly Heaven, Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me

Red Foley - Chattanooga Shoe-Shine Boy

Hank Thompson - I didn't know God made Honkytonk Angels

Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honkytonk Angels

Johnny Horton - Honkytonk Man, Miss Marcy

Lonesome Charlie Pride - Is Anybody Going to San Antone or Phoenix Arizona



Edit: Wally's question about Boraxo reminded me - Frankie Laine, Mule Train



Afterthought:



Two of the best country songs of the 20th Century:



Ride 'em by Kinky Friedman [only country song ever written about the holocaust]



Ballad of the Absent Mare by Leonard Cohen

Answer 4

George Jones

Conway Twitty

Johnny Cash

Brenda Lee

Patsy Cline

Loretta Lynn

Hank Snow

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Frankie Laine

Answer 5

Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Tanya Tucker, Dolly, George Jones, Charley Pride, Loretta, Gene Watson and Hank Jr. Too many great songs to name here.

Answer 6

Anything from the Outlaws, anything Alabama, George Strunk's Daisy a Day (still makes me tear up), Gail Davies' Grandma's Song (this does too, big time), Alan Jackson, George Strait. To name a few. Too many good songs out there to choose just one. But if I think "Country", the first thing that pops into my head are Williams' I'm so Lonesome I could Cry, and Wolverton Mountain, though I have the song, I can't remember this early in the morning, who sang that.

Answer 7

Probably Ray Price and Nightlife, tho he had several others I liked. Jim Reeves has several I liked but Distant Drums tops the list. Johnny Cash--I Walk the Line--too many to list. Loretta Lynn--ditto tho I will always like Coal Miner's Daughter. Charlie Daniels Band and the Devil Went Down to Georgia.



If I went on, this list would go down to Georgia!

Answer 8

Patsy Cline, Asleep at the Wheel,George Jones, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers. Chet Atkins, Roy Acuff, Jimmy Buffet, Conway Twitty, Jim reeves, Randi Travis, Reba Macintyre, And Dolly Parton, The list goes on and on......................

Answer 9

George Jones

Answer 10

The first one that came to mind was Patsy Cline - Crazy. Then I read the responses of the others and what a trip. Found I loved them all!

Answer 11

Sonny James --Young Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm-fVjAH7O4

Hank Williams --Hey Good Lookin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxB1t2EEK0M&feature=related



Faron Young--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4O_NUSe-Bw



Eddy Arnold -- The Cattle Call http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbPcH5caOJU&feature=related

Answer 12

Dolly Parton, and "I will always love you".

Johnny Cash and "I walk the line"

Johnny Cash' version of "Bridge over Troubled Water" (that was a heartbreaker, because it was his last recording. He was very ill when he and his wife made it) I remember the CBS News used it at the end of their broadcast after the flooding in New Orleans. It was quite emotional and described the chaos and anxiety down there.

Answer 13

Johnny Cash - Jackson, Walk the Line, Hurt

Answer 14

"I Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones is my favorite old classic country, although I'm not big into George because of theTammy thing.



So, Loretta Lynn has got to be up there at the top with me. "Honky Tonk Girl" is one of her oldest and best.

Answer 15

Hank Williams Jr. Hotel Whiskey

Answer 16

I'm not a big fan of country music, but I dearly loved listening to Marty Robbins and Conway Twitty! I also really like Reba McEntire and Randy Travis.



I can't narrow it down to favorite songs by them, though, because I love all their songs because it's their voices and style I love...



EDITED: I have to add Patsy Cline. I can't imagine why I forgot how much I loved her!

Answer 17

George Jones - A Girl I Used To Know.... love that song

Answer 18

With this job,the only song that goes thru my head is Johnny Paychecks---Take This Job and Shove It....I also love Dolly...any of hers will do.

Answer 19

Ill go with all the artists and songs mentioned above. I like them all!!!

Answer 20

George Jones: He stoped loving her today

Answer 21

Waylon Jennings and just about everything he ever sang

Answer 22

Patsy Cline- after midnight-crazy, just about anything she sang.

Answer 23

any thing by Johnny Cash

Answer 24

conway twitty lying here with linda on my mind

Answer 25

george strait -- babby blue



red sovine (probally spelled wr) --- daddy's girl

Answer 26

garth brooks, that summer, and in anothers eyes.

Answer 27

Willie Neilson.....Monalisa