Best country songs

By Rolling Stone. What makes a great country song?

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Best country songs

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For the two-and-a-half minutes that this lovers' anthem lasts, it can wait.

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Over the last 50 years or so, the sounds of country music have certainly evolved, but there are a few OK, more than a few tracks that will always be considered the best country songs. This led many new artists to top charts with country tunes like Kacey Musgraves, Carrie Underwood, and Chris Stapleton. Their modern-day takes on country jams provide a well-rounded gallery of music to consider as the top country songs of all time. Needless to say, these country tunes have gotten us through long car rides, weddings, heartbreak, parties, and so much more. Here, we break down the best country songs that never get old for you to listen to, watch, and stream whenever you want to belt your heart out to some Southern tunes. And basically every other Cash song! This Wynette hit is as controversial as it is popular. It released with his debut, self-titled album, and, according to Rolling Stone , quickly became his second number one hit.

Best country songs

By Rolling Stone. What makes a great country song? It tells a story. It draws a line. It has a twang you can feel down to the soles of your feet. Some get mad, some get weepy, some just get you down the road. But these are essential songs that map out the story of country music, from Hank Williams howling at the moon to George Jones pouring one out for all the desperate lovers to Taylor Swift singing the suburban cowgirl blues. Mainstream country's most prominent liberal ambitiously overloads this nearly six-minute single from 's American Saturday Night , explaining that he wanted "to serve up a little multigenerational truth with a strong sense of hope and possibility.

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Basically, it's a typical Brad Paisley A. You can't make this shit up. Recorded as a single in and included on Patsy Cline Showcase that same year, this track has became a country ballad standard — but it almost wasn't. Are you ready to fall head over heels with the best love songs of all time? Mankaprr Conteh. Roger released his own sequel of sorts in when he opened Nashville's King of the Road Motor Inn. Just as the song says, the Oklahoma native showed up in boots — as well as a vertical striped shirt, black cowboy hat, and a thumb jabbed into the pocket of his jeans. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! We're all one big collective idiot. But seriously: country music isn't all pickups, whiskey , fights, American flags and men wearing extremely big hats. Originally an early Wilson Pickett single, the perspective of an about-to-be-jilted lover trying to spark that old flame resonates in any genre. Discover the best of the city, first. But, as Bare told Rolling Stone in , "Most of my hits would have been hits for anybody, I just got to 'em first. Though it went on to inspire quite a few covers, the version originally written and recorded by Williams remains a classic, though he'd first intended it be spoken instead of sung. Who cares that the song's two protagonists — a killer whale and an elephant — were two unusual subjects for a country song?

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Funny… we always assumed Willie would make that trip first. A janitor, a month away from his 66th birthday, shared his impressions of the only three things worth a damn in life, while casting aspersions on the loyalty and value of lovers and friends — and Hall took it all down. Read more. Addiction, divorce, despair: Jamey Johnson spilled his demons on 's, That Lonesome Song , an album that positioned the Alabamian as an able heir to the outlaw country throne. By David Menconi. A Top Five country hit in , George Jones knew the ironic, upbeat number would be a hit the minute he heard it: "'The Race Is On' was pitched to me," he later told Billboard , "and I only heard the first verse, [sings] 'I feel tears welling up cold and deep inside like my heart's sprung a big leak,' and I said, 'I'll take it. It remains as unabashedly unrestrained as it is controversial. By Marissa R. More News. The track and video both cleaned up at the CMAs and ACM Awards, and it has some solid bucket list advice just ignore the part about bull riding, maybe. We're all one big collective idiot. Culture Council. The resulting hit, though sentimental on the surface, has a cynical flipside, its distrust of all but the simplest things in life imparting an aftertaste of sour Seventies disillusion.