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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.

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It ended up being his loss: Bradley agreed to let Cline take it over and she allegedly sang it so tenderly during sessions that it caused every man in the studio to cry.

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From classic country tunes to contemporary country sounds, these songs are an essential part of music history and showcase some of the most impressive storytelling skills in the country music genre. To find the top country songs of all time, Stacker analyzed Billboard's Greatest of All-Time Top Country Songs to create a ranked list of classic tracks and modern hits from to present day. This list is remarkably varied, demonstrating country music as a genre is broader than some may believe; it also shows how the genre has grown to feature a redefined picture of the classic country superstar, from Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson to Faith Hill, Taylor Swift, Sam Hunt, and Kacey Musgraves. You may also like: Country music history from the year you were born. Jennings convinced Nelson to record the iconic song during a poker game in , inspired by an advertisement for Ike and Tina Turner.

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The Long Black Veil. You Belong To Me [feat. Conway Twitty. 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. Good Times. 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. By Rolling Stone. Consisting of little more than guitars — a finger-picked acoustic and a welling slide — "If I Had a Boat" is nothing to ride a mechanical bull too. Let's Have A Party. We're all one big collective idiot.

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His name was Buck Owens, and two years later Yoakam would give him his 21st chart-topper with "Streets of Bakersfield. The music, however, reflected Price's new shuffle style, with single-string fiddle, pedal steel guitar, and doubled acoustic and electric basses. Church politely but firmly declines to reveal the actual inspiration, which means the best country song of the s thus far might have more accurately been titled "Nugent" or "Anka" or "Fogelberg. Blue Bayou. El Paso. When Brooks first heard him play "The Dance," he swore he would record the song if he ever got signed. RS Recommends. I Walk The Line Version. LP, he became the first to record "Desperados Waiting for a Train," a track that another Austin transplant, Guy Clark, wrote while working at a dobro factory in California. Eventually the onstage glitz got pushed away to reveal a down-and-dirty saloon, like the ones blasting his song nationwide. By Richard Gehr. I'm Sorry Single Version.