Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpi8Bek6jdM
Mr Shorty
Marty Robbins
David Allan Coe —”You Never Even Call Me By My Name (The Perfect Country and Western Song”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkKn5HrKgHQ
Saginaw, Michigan-Lefty Frizell
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tbrLDA18C4
White Liar-Miranda Lambert
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=9jUSJ6pRxQw
Trying To Survive-Montgomery Gentry
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=UlD15WWH4lc
Hi Fatima. I am going to pick a couple of country-rock songs.
“Heard it in a Love Song” by Marshall Tucker Band
“Devil Went Down to Georgia” by Charlie Daniels Band
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7PY2yW9Biyo
My latest favorite is Merle Haggard “Today I Started Loving You Again”.
Sammi Smith also has a great version.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eKcgtaoNo9E
“Life’s Railway To Heaven” by Jonny Cash and many others.
“Every time I go to town, the boys keep kickin’ my dog around”
Not my fav but He’ll Have To Go by Jim Reeves was the first song I learnt to play on the guitar...3 chords !!!
:)
Greatest country song of all time? “Good Ol’ Boys Like Me,” sung by the great Don Williams and written by one of the legendary songwriters in Nashville, Bob McDill. A sample:
“When I was a kid Uncle Remus he put me to bed
With a picture of Stonewall Jackson above my head
Then daddy came in to kiss his little man
With gin on his breath and a Bible in his hand
He talked about honor and things I should know
Then he’d stagger a little as he went out the door
[Chorus]
I can still hear the soft Southern winds in the live oak trees
And those Williams boys they still mean a lot to me
Hank and Tennessee
I guess we’re all gonna be what we’re gonna be
So what do you do with good ole boys like me
Nothing makes a sound in the night like the wind does
But you ain’t afraid if you’re washed in the blood like I was
The smell of cape jasmine through the window screen
John R. and the Wolfman kept me company
By the light of the radio by my bed
With Thomas Wolfe whispering in my head”
Any song that can vividly weave Stonewall Jackson, Hank and Tennessee Williams, John R (legendary late night disc jockey on WLAC in Nashville) and Thomas Wolfe into the lyrics has all the makings of a classic. And it is.