[Fiji Hill]

A ballad about one of America's greatest natural disasters, the lower Mississippi Valley flood of 1927.

The Mississippi Flood--Vernon Dalhart, singing as Al Craver (1927)

[outofsalt]

Iris Dement, Infamous Angel from her 1992 album of the same name.

[bankwalker]

David Allan Coe - The Ride (Live, 1983)

[BudgieRamone]

Corb Lund, Good Copenhagen, Roughest Neck Around, Old Men
Aaron Lewis,Northern Redneck
Blake Shelton, Ol Red, Gods Country
Boxcar Willie, Luther
Charlie Daniel, Wooley Swamp
David Allen Coe, The Ride
John Anderson Seminole Wind
Chris LeDoux, This Cowboys Hat

dang i got too many favorites

[FreshPrince]

Man in black

[UnwashedPeasant]

“The Flowers I Picked for Her Wedding Are the Flowers I Placed on Her Grave”

[UnwashedPeasant]

“The Flowers I Picked for Her Wedding Are the Flowers I Placed on Her Grave”

[Cecily]

I’ll Go On Loving You - Alan Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMGCSQV9-tQ

In memory of Rush Limbaugh during his Bill Clinton roasting heyday.

[DariusBane]

https://youtu.be/oYABPeMppJI. Casper Mcwade. A song for veterans by a veteran.

[Robert DeLong]

Dierks Bentley - What Was I Thinkin'

Billy Strings - Heartbeat of America

Billy Strings - Watch It Fall

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

Charlie Daniels Band - Simple Man

Waylon Jennings - Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys

Marty Robbins - Big Iron

Mac Davis - Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me

Jason Aldean - Rearview Town

[dearolddad]

I got tears in my ears from lying on my back crying over you.

[Cecily]

Pulling Back the Reins - K.D. Lang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zRUmX0jsY

and Luck in My Eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvFkgYH_n1w

[TChad]

If this song is already listed, I missed it.

Patsy Cline: "Walkin' after Midnight"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRNCvHXHHU

[Clay Moore]

Keeping the Wolves Away
Uncle Lucius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYdvxBxHX2U

This song gives me a chill, having grown up near the chemical plants on the Gulf Coast and hearing stories from kids at school whose dad or brother was injured or killed in an accident.

This song says “on a French owned ship in Galveston Bay” but it was actually referring to a chemical plant explosion that injured his father. DuPont?

[Grimmy]

None of what follows is standard issue “country” music. All clean though.

This one is more Appalachia Blues. (My own title for it is “getting old hurts”).

Rainstorms In My Knees by Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQwsAn_nMc

This one’s... I donno. Not a genre expert. I think of it as “the perspective song”.

Brown Bird - Bilgewater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqH9irCn3o

This one self identifies as Dark Swamp Blues.

“SON OF A WITCH” | DARK SWAMP BLUES on the Dobro Duolian Resonator Guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46sRuj99Cw

The following are more what folks expect by “country”, or at least “western”.

Tim Montana - Stronger Than You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klSC9QzmGzo

Jessta James - Loaded Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIz-pyOmfx4

Mean Mary - Dark Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uANjXCT-qHE

[scott7278]

With all due respect to Merle Haggard, I like George Strait’s version of “The Seashores of Old Mexico”:

https://youtu.be/V-9FdWmZqRQ

[Clay Moore]

Pledging My Love
David Allen Coe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXynQeWXcfU

A tribute to Johnny Ace

[Dr. Sivana]

“Kaw-Liga” Del Shannon version
“Misty” Ray Stevens

[Paal Gulli]

I've got tears in my ears from lyin' on my back In my bed while I cry over you

[daler]

Long Gone Lonesome Blues-Hank Williams

Okay, so it dates me…