What is the best country music?

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[GSWarrior]

I always get in on music threads after about 100 posts so I thought I'd start my own.

What is the best country music...old and new? Here's mine.

Buddy Miller
Kieran Kane
Billy Joe Shaver
Slaid Cleaves
Hayes Carll
LeeAnn Womack
Charlie Rich
Paul Burch
Thad Cockrell

[TexasNative2000]

Oops....

Can't leave out the great Ray Price.

[klgator]

Red Neck, Blue Coller--I will have to wait until I get home to give you the artist.

Bob Frank?

[ChocChipCookie]

Shania Twain

::::going into duck and cover mode::::

[DeaconRed]

Its James Luther Dickinson
I got in oonline from ITUNES

[Sue Perkick]

yes! yes! yes! YES!! YES!!! YES!!!!

[BnBlFlag]

Red Neck, Blue Collar.........”
I remember a song called “Red Necks, White Shoes and Blue Ribbon Beer”. Could that be it?

[stainlessbanner]

Waylon or DAC would clear out a bar before they cried on the bartenders shoulder with a cup of milk b/c their girlfriend left em.

Good playlist though. Add some Todd Snider and Chris Ledoux

[Sue Perkick]

Bucky seems like a nice guy. Little young for “Different World” but a decent guy. I for one will be glad when the fad wears off. I’m so sick of being subjected to the screamer & the whiner every single morning on my alarm clock.

[klgator]

Found it! I’ll give a listen. I’m getting a lot of good ideas for alt.country groups. Here are some suggestions for great groups I’ve heard lately that are in the folk/country/bluegrass genre:

Wil Maring (The Calling)
Packway Handle Band (self titled)
Tommy Webb (Eastern Kentucky)
Janet Beazley (5 South)
The Dappled Grays (Doin’ My Job)
Anything by Lisa Deaton (Georgia)
Wayne Taylor (Buffalo Shoals)
Kickin’ Grass (Backroads, On The Short Rows)

[Axenolith]

The kind where, when you play it backwards your pickup starts, your wife returns to you, and your dog comes back to life...

[Sue Perkick]

Anybody who could trap alligators with one hand has to be.

[BnBlFlag]

Oooops! I left off Allison Krauss! Unforgivable!

[Sue Perkick]

You know I never understood why “T-Byrd” wasn’t more successful. He should have been a HUGE country star.

[klgator]

I have to add The Louvin Brothers. Now that was some brother duo!

[wardaddy]

My 18 year old daughter got me liking this feller (keepin it real yo):

I like this face of country music:

And this one washes her Silver Dodge at one of my washes outside Music City and has grinned at me...or maybe it was my black F250 she liked...anyhow...my wife is about sick of hearing about it.

And this fella...the real deal...forget old lefty pothead who could sing the phone book....this man made it what it is

I knew this old 70s pschedelic blues rock Southern boy would like Outlaw music but i never thought I'd get to where progressive and real country would be my favorite stuff.

[Wade827]

My top 5...

1. Johnny Cash
2. Johnny Horton
3. Hank Williams
4. Waylon Jennings
5. Hank Williams Jr.

[Skooz]

Hank Williams. Period.
Never been equaled.

I would add Johnny Cash, but I don’t really think of him as Country. Mr. Cash is his own genre of music.

[chasio649]

Mercy....nobody has mentioned Don Williams!

[PAR35]

Loretta Lynn
Charlie Pride
George Jones
Jim Ed Brown
Skeeter Davis
Merle Haggard
The Kendalls
Dotty West

[PAR35]

I remember a song called “Red Necks, White Shoes and Blue Ribbon Beer”

That's White Socks, not White Shoes.

'There's no place I'd rather be than right here, with my red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.' Johnny Russell http://www.johnnyrussell.com/albums.htm