What Is The Greatest Country Music Song Of All Time?

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  1. Rick Bartlett

    Rick Bartlett Forum Resident Thread Starter

    Well.......
    This is something that meets many boundaries.
    I'm in the spirit of, what's yours, right now, frame of mind?
    If you wish to post and get more involved, go for it!
     
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  2. RudolphS

    RudolphS Forum Resident

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    Bob Wills - Drunkard's Blues (1940)

     
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  3. rockclassics

    rockclassics Senior Member

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  4. louis_anthony

    louis_anthony Vir Fidelis

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    Will The Circle Be Unbroken

    There are many versions of this classic over the years by various artists...timeless:

     
  5. HaileyMcComet

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    Dolly Parton, Jolene
     
  6. ishmaelk

    ishmaelk Forum Resident

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    The greatest of all time? Who knows.
    This one is in my mind, for sure:
    The return of the grievous angel - Gram Parsons.
     
  7. garrincha

    garrincha Forum Resident

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    possibly. I'll raise ya..

     
  8. Quakerism

    Quakerism Lean into what frightens you.

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    Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette
     
  9. chervokas

    chervokas Senior Member

    I don't think there's such a thing as one greatest....but, there are lots of Hank Williams numbers I'd nominate as contenders, including this one:

     
  10. chervokas

    chervokas Senior Member

    Not ol' Hank, but this one also would make my list of contenders:

     
  11. GeetarFreek

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    He Stopped Loving Her Today
     
  12. Sear

    Sear Dad rocker

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    I was thinking of this one too
     
  13. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident

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    This one never ceases to electrify my being.

     
  14. Wally Swift

    Wally Swift Yo-Yoing where I will...

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  15. monotone

    monotone I know noothing.

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    Amarillo by morning.
     
  16. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    I couldn't possibly pick one best, but some real contenders in my opinion.

    Jolene - Dolly or Olivia
    Sweet Dreams - Patsy Cline
    I Don't Think Hank Done It This Way - Waylon Jennings
    Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
    The ballad Of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash
    Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson
    You Win Again - Hank Williams - and everybody else
    Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich
    Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot (idk if we consider this country, I do)
    Long Black Limousine - Elvis Presley
    Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
    Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
    Hello Darlin - Conway Twitty
    She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye - Jerry Lee Lewis

    I am by no means a country expert, but they are probably pretty close to my favourite country songs
     
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  17. andy749

    andy749 Senior Member

    Beat me to it.
     
  18. GubGub

    GubGub Forum Resident

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    I'm not a country music aficionado but there is a lot of country music I like. It is hard to look past Hank Williams I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry as some sort of pure distillation of country music and one of the bleakest songs ever written.

    I Fall To Pieces and Crazy (both by Patsy Cline) may be runners up for me.

    But it all begs the question of whether Wichita Lineman is a country song, in which case...
     
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  19. eflatminor

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  20. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    Cool, a bunch of unlabeled videos (again) so no one will know what they are in a few weeks when they're removed from YouTube. :righton:

    Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around To Die (1969)
     
  21. WithinYourReach

    WithinYourReach Resident Millennial

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    Simply one of the best

     
  22. WithinYourReach

    WithinYourReach Resident Millennial

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  23. Cool hand luke

    Cool hand luke There you go man, keep as cool as you can

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    This was asked on the recent Ken Burns Country Documentary and common consensus was George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today". I agree.
     
  24. tim_neely

    tim_neely Forum Hall Of Fame

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    Well, Glen Campbell did spend two weeks at #1 on the country charts with it in 1968, so it seems to qualify.
     
  25. stewedandkeefed

    stewedandkeefed Came Ashore In The Dead Of The Night

    I was going to pick "Pancho And Lefty".
     
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