Country Music fans......Help with your Genre's hits!!

[Dr.Corona]

I am pretty much Country Music Illiterate. I'll catch the ocasional "crossover" country hit by Faith Hill over somebody like that but don't know the "country hits" of the past 10 years or so.

I'm looking to download & burn a "Greatest Hits of Country" Cd from 1990 or so. Care to volunteer your top 10!

[Capt.Flock]

Bocephus Country Boy Can Survive and Family Tradition

[jeepgirl]

Brooks and Dunn- Neon Moon
Don't take the Girl - Tim Mc Graw
Toby Keith - Should've been a Cowboy
Garth Brooks - Shameless
Life's a Dance - John Michael Montgomery
Thank God for you - Sawyer Brown
Any Man of Mine - Shania Twain
Iv'e come to expect it of you - George Strait

He's in love with the girl - Trisha Yearwood
Walk away Joe - Trisha Yearwood
That's what I like about you - Trisha Yearwood

I was big into country in the early 90's. Boot Scoot and Boogied every weekend!

[Tiki Torches]

I am pretty much Country Music Illiterate. I'll catch the ocasional "crossover" country hit by Faith Hill over somebody like that but don't know the "country hits" of the past 10 years or so.

I'm looking to download & burn a "Greatest Hits of Country" Cd from 1990 or so. Care to volunteer your top 10!

You probably want to avoid the country hits of 1990 onward as the genre has pretty much gone to the dogs with crap like Rascal Flatts and Big & Rich littering the airwaves. However, if you want the real deal I suggest checking out:

Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose"
Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around"
Merle Haggard "The Bluegrass Sessions"
Hayes Carll "Little Rock"
Waylon Jennings "Nashville Rebel" box set
Emmylou Harris "Songbird" box set
Ray Wylie Hubbard "Growl"

[Skibo]

Brad Paisley - Anything very good country

Shania Twain - not so country. Nice to look at and I wouldn't push her out of bed for eating crackers, but I don't know if you want country look elsewhere.

Carrie underwood - getting good press right now, I don't know if she has staying power. She is riding quite a wave right now.

Alan Jackson - Has some great country. Don't hold the song he did with jimmy against him.

[Capt.Flock]

Just for R2 Kenny Chesney

[SharkOnLand]

Just about anything off of Blackhawk's first album.

(For what it's worth, I'm not a big country fan either, but I love that album)

[Dr.Corona]

I am pretty much Country Music Illiterate. I'll catch the ocasional "crossover" country hit by Faith Hill over somebody like that but don't know the "country hits" of the past 10 years or so.

I'm looking to download & burn a "Greatest Hits of Country" Cd from 1990 or so. Care to volunteer your top 10!

You probably want to avoid the country hits of 1990 onward as the genre has pretty much gone to the dogs with crap like Rascal Flatts and Big & Rich littering the airwaves. However, if you want the real deal I suggest checking out:

Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose"
Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around"
Merle Haggard "The Bluegrass Sessions"
Hayes Carll "Little Rock"
Waylon Jennings "Nashville Rebel" box set
Emmylou Harris "Songbird" box set
Ray Wylie Hubbard "Growl"

Thanks Tiki-Torches, but it's not for me to be ENLIGHTENED to real country music. It's for the phriends who consider themselves country music lovers of today. Thus, I'm not looking for Hank Thompson or the big country artists of yesteryear that you mentioned!

[Tiki Torches]

I am pretty much Country Music Illiterate. I'll catch the ocasional "crossover" country hit by Faith Hill over somebody like that but don't know the "country hits" of the past 10 years or so.

I'm looking to download & burn a "Greatest Hits of Country" Cd from 1990 or so. Care to volunteer your top 10!

You probably want to avoid the country hits of 1990 onward as the genre has pretty much gone to the dogs with crap like Rascal Flatts and Big & Rich littering the airwaves. However, if you want the real deal I suggest checking out:

Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose"
Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around"
Merle Haggard "The Bluegrass Sessions"
Hayes Carll "Little Rock"
Waylon Jennings "Nashville Rebel" box set
Emmylou Harris "Songbird" box set
Ray Wylie Hubbard "Growl"

Thanks Tiki-Torches, but it's not for me to be ENLIGHTENED to real country music. It's for the phriends who consider themselves country music lovers of today. Thus, I'm not looking for Hank Thompson or the big country artists of yesteryear that you mentioned!

I didn't mention Hank Thompson. The only deceased artist I mentioned was Cash. Everything else listed above is by country artists that are still making music and are fairly current albums. Also, not all of them are "country artists of yesteryear" such as Hayes Carll and Ray Wylie Hubbard (though Ray has been recording since the 70s, he shouldn't be discounted). Those are two but I could name more current performers such as: Gillian Welch, Kelly Willis, Alison Krauss, the Duhks, Mary Gauthier, Carrie Rodriguez, Uncle Earl, Yonder Mountain String Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, the Avett Brothers, Nickel Creek and many, many others. They are much more representative of country music than what you will find on the airwaves today.

[txaggirl91]

I'm going to suggest some Texas Country for you...

Pat Green - The stuff prior to and including Three Days CD (new stuff is ok but not like the older stuff)

JAck Ingram - again the stuff before the last album (going commerical has taken something from his music)

Anything by:
Kevin Fowler
Roger Creager
Cory Morrow
Randy Rogers Band
Bruce and Charlie Robison

[mjeischen]

I'm a recent Country Music Fan convert by marriage:
If your assembling a variety for friends . . .
Tim McGraw
Toby Kieth
Brooks and Dunn
Shania Twain
Faith Hill
Reba McEntire(?) can still rattle of some
Rascall FLatts
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Alan Jackson
George Strait

I'm in a boat where I do Cd's like these for parties and put them on shuffle in the stereo. I'll get 2 songs by each of the above and random amongst 5 discs and it works out nicely.

[LIPH]

Is Joe Ely considered country?

[Tiki Torches]

Is Joe Ely considered country?

Without a doubt but Dr. Corona seems to be in search of the more pop/rock oriented country that is so popular today.

I have one more to add that may be more in keeping with he/she's looking for:

Dwight Yoakam

[jbsux]

I love classic country, but as far as new country goes and a awesome entertainer, hands down, it goes to Trent Tomlinson. He writes all his songs and puts on the best show I've ever seen, that includes seeing Jimmy at JazzFest.

[miphinz]

One of the greatest country songs of all time that I have not seen listed: If that aint country I'll kiss your ass, David Allen Coe

[Tiki Torches]

One of the greatest country songs of all time that I have not seen listed: If that aint country I'll kiss your ass, David Allen Coe

Has David Allan Coe had a hit anywhere in between 1990 and the present? I believe that's what Dr. Corona is looking for.

[ragtopW]

Lonestar. Tequila Talking
Blackhawk-I sure can feel the Rain (?)
Confederate Railroad- Jesus and Mama or When you leave like that
Toby Keith- Should have been a Cowboy or Upstairs Downtown
Doug Supernaw- Reno- I don't call him Daddy
Marc Chestnutt I'll think of Something
Brooks and Dunn Neon Moon
Alan Jackson Midnight in Montgomery
Kevin Montgomery Red Blooded American Boy
Chris Ledoux. Cadillac Ranch. (Bonus Track) Five Dollar Fine
Working mans Dollar
Garth Brooks- Much too Young (to feel this damn old) or
What She's doing now.
George Strait- Amarillo by Morning - I can Still make Cheyenne


let me think...

[johnson2113]

I'm going to suggest some Texas Country for you...

Pat Green - The stuff prior to and including Three Days CD (new stuff is ok but not like the older stuff)


Anything by:
Kevin Fowler
Roger Creager
Cory Morrow
Randy Rogers Band
Bruce and Charlie Robison

Nice choices. I have to add Cross Canadian Ragweed and Jason Boland and The Stragglers.

And anything by Chris LeDoux.

[mason]

Brooks and Dunn- Neon Moon
Don't take the Girl - Tim Mc Graw
Toby Keith - Should've been a Cowboy
Garth Brooks - Shameless
Life's a Dance - John Michael Montgomery
Thank God for you - Sawyer Brown
Any Man of Mine - Shania Twain
Iv'e come to expect it of you - George Strait

He's in love with the girl - Trisha Yearwood
Walk away Joe - Trisha Yearwood
That's what I like about you - Trisha Yearwood

I was big into country in the early 90's. Boot Scoot and Boogied every weekend!

i bet you hit the saddle rack occasionally. teri clark played there last nite.



member of the parrothead nation

[East Texas Parrothead]

Try some Asleep at the Wheel latest "Reinventing the Wheel" ... and top it off with Doug Moreland's newest CD ... not a bad cut in the bunch. Gives you a taste of Western Swing ... Ah ha!