Favorite Country artist

[corporatewhore]

[BOSSHOG]

1. Alan Jackson and Patty Loveless

[Whitacre D_WI]

2. I voted for Hank...

...but can't really pick just one.

The Carter Family set the table, Hank cooked the meal, and Cash brought the drinks. I wouldn't wanna go without any of them.

[johnnie]

9. I'll go along with that..

I can't picture the great country music without any of them. I have to add in Bill Monroe to that list though.
And one of my favorites of later days is and was Charlie Rich... That guy is too under appreciated.

[redqueen]

3. Hard not to vote for Willie or Patsy or Hank

But I just love Dwight Yoakam. :)

[qb]

4. Dixie Chicks

I'm not a great country fan, but I vote Dixie Chicks for political courage.

[chaska]

44. D'accord. eom

[Mrs. Venation]

5. Patti Loveless, Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood

Trace Adkins, Johnny Cash, Asleep At The Wheel, Diamond Rio, Dixie Chicks . . . I'm a fan!

[Quahog]

6. Gillian Welch

I don't care what you think of country music (I don't think much of it, for the most part), you have got to hear Gillian Welch's "Time (The Revelator)." If that record doesn't get under your skin and haunt your waking dreams, you're dead, go check into the morgue. It was my favorite release of 2001 in any style of music, and to this day it gives me goosebumps every time I put it on.

[jdsmith]

21. I love the album but

It's not country as far as I can tell. It's more literary avant-folk with posing. (None of that is bad.)

[Quahog]

58. Maybe

I think it harkens back to country's roots. Sounds like a modern take on the Carter Family to me. Hey, she's got that twangy country accent, it's not her fault that she's an intelligent and well-read woman working in a red-neck genre.

And I'd rather have Gillian's kind of posing than the kind you get from these sequined, feathered, synthesized, over-produced, over-hairsprayed phonies that seem to dominate country music. Gimme somebody with a battered guitar, a hangover and SOMETHING TO SAY any day.

[villager]

7. No Merle Haggard?

To make it a 6-way tie between him n' Hank n' Willie n' Emmylou n' Patsy n' Johnny C.?

[redqueen]

10. Oh, yes.

Gotta have Merle in there.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. Hag!

[villager]

22. you know it, NSMA

doesn't he still do an occasional gig in yer neck o' the SoCal woods?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. Yep...he will be here again soon

usually shows up around May or June at House of Blues and places like the Mission Inn in Riverside (cool place to see a show) wanna go when he comes?

any luck with the dog?

[villager]

30. Now the Mission Inn jaunt...

...sounds cool. Thanks for asking about Django. Leads, but no bona fide "luck" yet. I'm gonna go see him later this afternoon...

[dedhed]

Country Joe and The Fish.

:7

[mac56]

8. Johnny Cash.

Props to George Jones, Dwight Yoakum, and the Mavericks.

[terrya]

11. Dolly Parton.eom

[corporatewhore]

20. icant believe i forgot to add her

[russian33]

12. I got 2 words...

Shania Twain

[Mrs. Venation]

27. I Got Three More Words

She ain't country.

[redqueen]

13. George Jones is one of the greats, as well. n/t

[Tom_Foolery]

15. Kelly Willis & Andy Griggs n/t

[BlueStateGirl]

38. Kelly Willis is fantastic.

[Dinger]

16. I Liove Johnny Cash, and

I wish I'd have had the chance to hear him in concert. Tonight my hisband & I are seeing Merle Haggard in concert - should be interesting.

[Streetdoc270]

17. I risk being Tombstoned for this but.......

I do like Toby Keith's MUSIC, not his politics or his views.

[Mr. Blonde]

19. It is a great thing

at the end of Oklahoma State athletic events when "Should of been a Cowboy" is playing. Makes me glad that I am.

[Bridget Burke]

31. Toby's not one our great political thinkers....

But he's not a total hack like Lee "Proud to be an American" Greenwood.

A few more sessions in Willie's bus & Toby might yet see the light.

[mvd]

43. His stuff before the last couple albums is fine IMO

Not exactly like the great Merle Haggard, though.

[belladonna]

63. I was once invited onto Toby Keith's tour bus

Didn't even know what an asshole he was at that time, but I declined anyway. Just not my type and they were all kinda grungy and lecherous anyway. :+

[Zomby Woof]

18. let us not forget

Jimmie Rodgers or the Carter Family.

[noonwitch]

23. Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline

Otherwise, I'm not real big on country music. I think that Garth Brooks is one of the best hosts SNL ever had. I still laugh whenever I think of the mock game show with the high school kids teamed up with french whores.

[damnraddem]

25. Roger Miller. His is the ONLY country music I like.

And he made fun of country music.

[NightTrain]

26. Other: Buck Owens

Forget "Hee-Haw." Buck Owens was the second biggest-selling, and easily the most creative and innovative, C&W artist of the '60s.

[mac56]

29. He bought the second-ever Moog synthesizer.

The Beatles got the first one.

[Bridget Burke]

35. Buck Owens & The Buckaroos rocked.

As part of the Bakersfield scene, they helped give the Nashville music establishment conniptions. Don Rich, hired as a fiddler, burned on the Fender Telecaster & sang the high parts. He was also Buck's friend.

Don died in a motorcycle wreck in 1974 & Buck's music never recovered.

[NightTrain]

39. Some of my favorite Buck Owens lyrics

My transistor radio comes from far away
And when it's night over here, over there it's a breakin day
I remember all the good times I had walking in the sand
With the beautiful girl that I met made in Japan

The beauty of her face was beyond my wildest dreams
Like cherry blossoms moving in the mountains in the early spring
As we walked by the river and she softly took hold of my hand
That's when I fell deep in love with the girl made in Japan

In the dark of night we would lay on Tokyo Bay
And the singing of the birds woke us up at the break of day
Her smiling eyes always seemed to try to understand
All the love in my heart for the girl made in Japan

My transistor radio comes from far away
And when it's night over here over there it's a breaking day
She cried when she said she'd been promised to another man
That's when I left my heart with the girl made in Japan
Yes, my heart will always be with the girl made in Japan.

[MissMillie]

28. Patsy

Never has there been such a rich beautiful tone.... EVER.

[southpaw]

32. Steve Earle

Though I also love Dwight Yoakam...

Toby Keith? I wouldn't piss down his throat if his guts were on fire.

[belladonna]

61. Not a big country music fan, but if I had to choose

Definitely Steve Earle, even though I have a hard time thinking of him as a country music singer. :)

[rumguy]

33. recently I really liked Haggard's anti-chickenhawk song

Suddenly it's over, the war is fin'lly done.
Soldiers in the desert sand, still clingin' to a gun.
No-one is the winner an' everyone must lose.
Suddenly the war is over: that's the news.

Suddenly celebrity is somethin' back in style.
Back to runnin' tabloid for a while.
Pain's almost everywhere, the whole world's got the blues.
Suddenly the war is over: that's the news.

That's the news, that's the news.
That's the ever-lovin', blessed, headline news.
Someone's missin;' in Modesto, an' it's sad about the clues.
Suddenly the war is over: that's the news.


Suddenly the cost of war is somethin' out of sight.
Lost a lotta heroes in the fight.
Politicians do all the talkin': soldiers pay the dues.
Suddenly the war is over, that's the news.

That's the news, that's the news.
That's the ever-lovin', blessed, headline news.
Politicians do all the talkin': soldiers pay the dues.
Suddenly the war is over, that's the news.

[jdsmith]

34. Loretta Lynn

[mvd]

42. I'll have to get her new album

Everyone says she and Jack White make an unlikely but perfect combo. She, Dolly Parton, and the late Tammy Wynette will always be among the greats.

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. I also adore Tammy Wynette!

:hi:

[BlueStateGirl]

37. Lucinda Williams and Dolly Parton. As much as I love Willie and Johnny,

Lucinda and Dolly are tops for me.

[corporatewhore]

40. Forgot Lucinida-D'oh!!

[mvd]

41. Hank Sr. and Patsy Cline tied

All your choices are among my very favorites, except for Johnny Cash and Toby Keith. But I do like Johnny. I even like some of the country pop - Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, and sometimes Faith Hill included. Other favorite modern country artists: Dixie Chicks, Patty Loveless, Alan Jackson, Mindy Smith, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Reba McEntire, Kasey Chambers, Martina McBride, Brad Paisley, George Strait..

[corporatewhore]

46. Alison Kraus -D'oh forgot her aswell

[Liberal Christian]

45. Randy Travis

I just love the honesty of that man's voice.

Hard to beat Patsy Cline .. she was spectacular, too.

[lucidmadman]

47. George Jones...

...the voice...

[Delano]

48. George Strait.

I'm not a big country fan, but I always liked "Oceanfront Property in Arizona", and another on I like is Conway Twitty, because of the absolutely heartwrennching "That's my job" That song had me BAWLING the first time I really listened to it. Seriously, and I NEVER cry.

[Mr. McD]

49. Keith Whitley

May he rest in peace.

[Wapsie B]

50. Conway Twitty.

He's the man.

[ComerPerro]

51. Had to go with Dwight Yoakam

Was gonna go "other" and put Dixie Chicks, but saw Yoakam...

[guitar man]

52. Asleep at the Wheel <nt>

[tishaLA]

53. I voted Emmylou

I think she's a goddess.

54. Johnny Cash -on a technicality

'cause he ain't really a country singer.

Johnny Cash was more like an outlaw folk singer. He was played on country stations because no one knew where to fit his style, and late in his career the corporate country stations wouldn't play Cash's songs at all.

He covered artists like Depech Mode, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Petty, and Nine Inch Nails. Johnny Cash was a singularity. No one compares.

[JPJones]

55. Junior Brown

If you don't know him, you should. It's like Hank Williams with Jimi Hendrix guitar solos.

[doc03]

56. Alive Alan jackson, Brad Paisely , Hag,Allison Krouse and Willie Nelson

Dead Johnny Cash, Patsey Cline.

[Quahog]

59. Someone may object

You'll get some who'll say that Alison Krauss is BLUEGRASS, not COUNTRY (probably the same person who groused that Gillian Welch is AVANT-FOLK, not COUNTRY). Screw that noise, Alison is brilliant! Her band COOKS!

[peacefreak]

57. Emmylou got my vote,

but Townes VanZandt runs a close second. And then there's Lyle Lovett. And Guy Clark. And Willie.

[LDS Jock]

60. Brad Paisley

The music is OK, but what a hottie!

[markus]

62. Guy Clark

My heroes have always been outlaws....