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Your #No 1 country song

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  • 11-06-2015 11:27pm
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    feichin
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭


    If you have to pick your favourite 1 country song from the earliest Carter Family / Gene Autry recordings right through to the stadium superstars of today, what would it be?
    My nomination is
    He stopped loving her today - George Jones


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    SusanneKn
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭SusanneKn


    Too hard! There are way too many good country songs out there....!
    I currently play Jennifer Nettels feat Brandy Clark -His Hands a lot.
    Strong Voices, great lyrics


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    stop animal cruelty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭stop animal cruelty


    ssttttaannnnnnnddddd byyyyyy.....yoouurrr mannnnnnnnnnnn


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    silja
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭silja


    That is a hard question, it depends on my mood!

    I think my overall favourite is Toby Keith's "Beer for my Horses" (it's the ringtone I have set for when my husband calls me :P )
    Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" is another favourite, it was played at my US Citizenship ceremony.


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    George Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭George Jones


    Step right up...
    come on in...
    If you'd like to take The Grand Tour.


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    TOEJOE
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭TOEJOE


    Big Tom

    "Old log cabin for Sale"

    This was written and recorded before the Celtic Tiger Era


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    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,986 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Dixie Chicks - The Long Way Around tied with Kenny Rodgers - Coward of the County, both for me tops
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    Diane Selwyn
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭Diane Selwyn


    it is an extremely broad question but just now I'm going to nominate a ditty that has translated well for the likes of Bill Monroe, The Everly Brothers, Bill Frisell, Cowboy Junkies, Johnny Cash & Nick Cave, Dean Martin, Giant Sand, Marty Robbins (and maybe to a lesser extent), Elvis, Al Greene and etc.: Hank Williams' 'I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry'. Also Marty Robbins' 'El Paso'. Sorry I thought I could narrow it down to one I was wrong.


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    Balf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Balf


    Emmylou Harris, Tulsa Queen.


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    DunnoKiddo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,963 ✭✭✭DunnoKiddo


    He stopped loving her today...


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    MontyChips
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭MontyChips


    For me it'd would have to be either 'Blue Eyes Cryin in the rain' or 'Me and Bobby McGee'.


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    FREDNISMO
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭FREDNISMO


    Kenny Chesney Somewhere With You
    Brad Paisley Mud On The Tires
    Tim Mc Graw Live Like You Were Dying


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    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,663 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Top 3
    Friends in low places
    Big Iron
    Walk the Line


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    feichin
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭feichin


    Just looking back through the "nominations" it makes for interesting reading. So far 20 different songs & 17 different singers. To my mind there are some surprising omissions, No Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Merle Haggard, Alabama, George Strait, Reba McIntyre, Dolly Parton, to name just a few.

    He stopped loving her today..........George Jones
    His hands...................................Jennifer Nettles / Brandy Clark
    Stand by your man.......................Tammy Wynette
    Beer for my Horses.......................Toby Keith
    God bless the USA........................Lee Greenwood
    The grand tour............................George Jones
    Old log cabin for Sale....................Big Tom
    Taking the Long way.....................Dixie Chicks
    Coward of the county...................Kenny Rodgers
    I'm so lonesome I could cry............Hank Williams (& various others)
    El Paso.......................................Marty Robbins
    Tulsa queen................................Emmylou Harris
    Blue eyes crying in the rain............Willie Nelson
    Me and Bobby McGee....................Kris kristoferson
    Somewhere with you.....................Kenny Chesney
    Mud on the tires...........................Brad Paisley
    Live like you were dying.................Tim McGraw
    Friends in low Places.....................Garth Brooks
    Big Iron......................................Marty Robbins
    I Walk the line.............................Johnny Cash


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    DunnoKiddo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,963 ✭✭✭DunnoKiddo


    Blue combined the old western and the new country genre, for me... LeAnn was impressive at such a young age - twas groundbreaking when it came out, it seems.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxpY8KLA-Y


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    DunnoKiddo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,963 ✭✭✭DunnoKiddo


    Then again, Crazy by Patsy Cline was incredible too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tKcTIshuwQ


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    kupus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    I go thru stages of listening to one or three artists and then wont liisten again for a while sometimes its kris or willie,
    then it could be garth or brooks and dunn
    then onto toby or blake

    then alan jackson. too many songs...
    but if i was pushed then friends in low places.


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    Tigger99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭Tigger99


    This. I'm having the time of my life and this song will forever be a reminder.


    https://youtu.be/mQPjKSVe1tQ


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    UrbanSprawl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    Casey Musgraves-Merry Go round.


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    mallynthemiddle
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mallynthemiddle


    Dolly Parton & Shania Twain & Alison Krauss - Coat of many colors


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    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    Can't say I have a favourite. I love Sunday Morning Coming Down by Kris Kristofferson.


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