Top 25 Favorite Country Songs

[frisco]

For me, I'm not a huge fan of post 90's onward stuff. So it is mostly classics. I bumped it to 30. In no order:

Seven Year Ache-Roseanne Cash
Big Iron-Marty Robbins
Cry, Cry, Cry-Johnny Cash
Luchenbach, Texas-Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line-Waylon Jennings
I Forget To Remember To Forget-Elvis Presley
Folsom Prison Blues-Johnny Cash
El Paso-Marty Robbins
Looking For Love-Johnny Lee
Always On My Mind-Elvis Presley (over the Nelson version)
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town-Kenny Rogers
Galveston-Glen Campbell
I've Always Been Crazy-Waylon Jennings
Please Mister Please-Olivia Newton John
Country Roads-John Denver
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere-Alan Jackson/Jimmy Buffett
He Thinks He'll Keep Her-Mary Chapin Carpenter
Flowers On The Wall-The Statler Brothers
Susan When She Tried-Elvis Presley
Pancho And Lefty-Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard
Hey Porter-Johnny Cash
Wichita Lineman-Glen Campbell
Wreck Of Ol' 97-Johnny Cash
Lucille-Kenny Rogers
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys-Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson
Copperhead Road-Steve Earle
Guitar Town-Steve Earle
Guitars, Cadillacs-Dwight Yoakum
Rhinestone Cowboy-Glen Campbell
Singing The Blues-Marty Robbins

My Best-Carey

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[peate]

Anything by Patty Loveless

 

[Babe Ruth]

I like Johnny Horton a lot..

Battle of New Orleans
Johnny Reb
The Mansion you Stole

Also like Jolene by Dolly Parton.
I've been digging Jason Aldean recently..

 

[Teemu]

Not really in any order. Surely forgetting a few off the top of my head as well

Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons - We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning
Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City
The Byrds - Blue Canadian Rockies
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Merle Haggard - High on a Hilltop
Louvin Brothers - Satan's Jeweled Crown
Louvin Brothers - Cash on the Barrelhead
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line
Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons
Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Bobby Bare - Streets of Baltimore
Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken
Wilco - Box Full of Letters
Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel
Lyle Lovett - That's Right (You're Not From Texas)
Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
Lucinda Williams - Joy

 

[frisco]

For me, I'm not a huge fan of post 90's onward stuff. So it is mostly classics. In no order:

Seven Year Ache-Roseanne Cash
Big Iron-Marty Robbins
Cry, Cry, Cry-Johnny Cash
Luchenbach, Texas-Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line-Waylon Jennings
I Forget To Remember To Forget-Elvis Presley
Folsom Prison Blues-Johnny Cash
El Paso-Marty Robbins
Looking For Love-Johnny Lee
Always On My Mind-Elvis Presley (over the Nelson version)
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town-Kenny Rogers
Galveston-Glen Campbell
I've Always Been Crazy-Waylon Jennings
Please Mister Please-Olivia Newton John
Country Roads-John Denver
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere-Alan Jackson/Jimmy Buffett
He Thinks He'll Keep Her-Mary Chapin Carpenter
Flowers On The Wall-The Statler Brothers
Susan When She Tried-Elvis Presley
Pancho And Lefty-Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard
Hey Porter-Johnny Cash
Witchita Lineman-Glen Campbell
Wreck Of Ol' 97-Johnny Cash
Lucille-Kenny Rogers
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys-Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson

My Best-Carey

Guitars, Cadillacs-Dwight Youkam. That's 26. Can't bear to drop any of the above.

My Best-Carey

 

[plank]

Classic country/Outlaw country

Johnny Cash - Mean Eyed Cat
Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way
Hank Williams - Lost Highway
Willie Nelson - Whiskey River
Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House
Guy Clark - Dublin Blues
Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around to Die
Dave Alvin - Blackjack David
Bobby Bare - Paul
Lucinda Williams - Changed the Locks
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Tammy Wynette - When There's a Fire in Your Heart
Emmylou Harris - Goin' Back to Harlan
Patsy Cline - Crazy
Courtney Marie Andrews - Rookie Dreaming
Margo Price - Hands of Time
Bobbie Gentry - Mississippi Delta
Tift Merritt - Virginia No One Can Warn You
Alison Krauss - The Lucky One
The Delines - The Oil Rigs at Night
The Derailers - The Right Place
Buck Owens - I've Got a Tiger by the Tail
BR5-49 - Even If It's Wrong
Marty Stuart - Way Out West

 

[plank]

Alternative Country

Richmond Fontaine - $87 and a Guilt Conscience That Gets Worse the Longer I Go
Songs:Ohia - Just Be Simple
Magnolia Electric Co. - Texas 71
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Son Volt - Left A Slide
Wilco - Outtasite (Outta Mind)
Cracker - Take Me Down to the Infirmary
Drive By Truckers - Tornadoes
Jason Isbell - Songs That She Sang in the Shower
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
James McMurtry - See the Elephant
Alejandro Escovedo - Always a Friend
Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down
Damien Jurado - Medication
Calexico - Panic Open String
Heartless Bastards - Only for You
The Silos - Tennessee Fire
The Sadies - What's Left Behind
Ryan Bingham - Hard Times
Phosphorecent - The Mermaid Parade
Israel Nash - Rain Plans
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
Futurebirds - Rodeo
Blue Mountain - Blue Canoe
The Bottle Rockets - Welfare Music

 

[frisco]

Guitars, Cadillacs-Dwight Youkam. That's 26. Can't bear to drop any of the above.

My Best-Carey

Have to add Copperhead Road, Guitar Town by Steve Earle. Top make it an even 30 I'll also add Singing The Blues-Marty Robbins and Rhinestone Cowboy-Glen Campbell.

My Best-Carey

 

[kook10]

I don't really rank songs so much - so here is a random bunch, staying classic:

Waylon Jennings – Rainy Day Woman, This Time, Freedom To Stay
Buck Owens – Above and Beyond, Close Up The Honky Tonks
Johnny Cash – Big River, Jackson, etc etc etc
Flying Burrito Bros – Tried So Hard
George Jones – White Lightning, He Stopped Loving Her Today, Tennessee Whiskey
Merle Haggard – Mama Tried, Sing Me Back Home, I Think I’ll Just Stay Here And Drink
Dolly Parton – I Will Always Love You
Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Cryin In The Rain, Good Hearted Woman, Always On My Mind
Patsy Cline – Crazy, I Fall To Pieces
Hank Williams – Jambalaya, I Saw The Light, Half As Much
Queen Of Hearts – Juice Newton
David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job And Shove It
Let Your Love Flow – Bellamy Brothers
If You’ve Got The Money, I’ve Got The Time – Lefty Frizzell
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud Loud Music) – Joe Maphis

 

[Elvis P]

I like authentic country and here's my top 10 songs:

Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, ‘Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys’

Dolly Parton, ‘Jolene’

Merle Haggard, ‘Mama Tried’

Ray Charles, ‘You Don’t Know Me’

Tammy Wynette, ‘Stand By Your Man’

Jimmie Rodgers, ‘Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel #9)’

George Jones, ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’

Hank Williams, ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’

Patsy Cline, ‘Crazy’

Johnny Cash, ‘I Walk the Line’

 

[Eisen]

I could continue, but it would all be The Waltons

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Dylan and Cash: Girl From the North Country
The Highwaymen: Highwayman
Johnny Cash: Hurt, Folsom Prison Blues, Sunday Morning Coming Down and I Hear that Train a Coming

 

[nameless1]

I never like country all that much, and I know I have taken my fair shots at the genre, but I will always listen to Willie Nelson's Always on My Mind, Patsy Cline's Crazy, Kenny Rogers' The Gambler and Dolly Parton's Jolene. I also prefer Dolly Parton's version of I will Always Love You over Whitney Houston's too.

Garth Brooks' The Thunder Rolls is also my guilty pleasure, mainly because I like the narrative. It is one of the few songs I can actually picture the lyrics.

 

[saluki]

I was on a long drive one night and "The Good Stuff" made me cry.

I know its supposed to, but when something is done well you give it credit.

 

[Elvis P]

My favorites from this century are:

Kacey Musgraves - "Merry Go 'Round"
Miranda Lambert - "The House That Built Me"
Dixie Chicks - "Not Ready To Make Nice"
Carrie Underwood - "Before He Cheats"
Gretchen Wilson - "Redneck Woman"
Taylor Swift - "Love Story"
Sugarland - "Stay"
Lee Ann Womack - "I Hope You Dance"

 

[kihei]

Took this as a challenge as I don't like country music at all. But there have been exceptions: So here's my top 25, given a very broad definition of country (no order):

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry: Hank Williams
Four Strong Winds: Ian and Sylvia
End of the World: Skeeter Davis
My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died: Roger Miller
I Guess Things Happen That Way: Johnny Cash
Fulsom Prison Blues: Johnny Cash
Time, the Revelator: Gillian Welch
Silver Threads and Golden Needles- The Springfields
Not Ready to Make Nice: The Chicks
Goodbye Earl: The Chicks
Don't Go Back to Rockville: REM
You Don't Know Me: Ray Charles
Singing the Blues: Guy Mitchell
Sunday Morning Coming Down: Kris Kristofferson
Love Hurts: Emmylou Harris/Gram Parsons
I'm In: Keith Urban
Sweet Virginia: The Rolling Stones
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere: The Byrds
Best of Our Love: The Eagles
Wild Horses: The Rolling Stones
Do Not Forsake Me (High Noon): Tex Ritter
Girl from the North Country: Bob Dylan
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight: Bob Dylan
Gone, Gone, Gone: Allison Krauss/Robert Plant
Bye Bye Love: The Everly Brothers

 

[Ambassador Bridge]

Anything by George Jones.

 

[Xelebes]

Originals (or close enough):

Casualties of Cool - Mountaintop
Stompin Tom Connors - Mukluk Shoe
Stompin Tom Connors - Muckin' Slushers
Scotty Stevenson - Red Hot Boogie
Corb Lund - This Is My Prairie
Skeeter Davis - The End of the World
Paul Brunelle - Le train qui siffles
Mes Aieux - Degenerations
Les Cowboys Fringant - Le gars du compagnie
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Fishing in the Dark
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Don Williams - Amanda
Claude Dubois - Chaisse-galerie
The Wurzels - Blackbird
Blue Rodeo - What Is This Love

Covers:

Carolina Cotton - Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone
Sons of the Saddle - Cowpoke
La Bottine Souriante - La vieilles maisons
Tom Jackson - Huron Carol
Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson - I Heard The Bluebirds
The Rankin Family - Ho Ro Mo Nighean Donn Bhoidheach

And choonz:

Lucky Ambo - Bootlegger Breakdown
Frankie Rogers - Ookpik Waltz (the original Canadian pace makes it less of a struggle for the bowing.)

And covers of choonz:

Frankie Rogers - Black Mountain Rag
La Bottine Souriante - Reel du Forgeron

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty
"" - Tecumseh Valley
"" - Lungs
"" - Dollar Bill Blues
"" - If I Needed You
Johnny Cash - Give My Love to Rose
"" - Big River
"" - I Still Miss Someone
"" - Sunday Morning Coming Down
"" - The Man Who Couldn't Cry
Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Songs: Ohia - Just Be Simple
"" - Farewell Transmission
Marty Robbins - El Paso
Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
Blaze Foley - Big Cheeseburgers & Good French Fries
Steve Earle - The Mountain
Matt Heckler - Haw River Ballad
Sierra Ferrell - In Dreams
Ian Noe - Letter to Madeline
Colter Wall - Johnny Boy's Bones
"" - Ballad of a Law Abiding Sophisticate
The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road
John Prine - Angel From Montgomery
"" - In Spite of Ourselves

 

[archangel2]

Anything by Jennings or cash