Line #49 AwesomeMusic/Country


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8	!Artists with their own pages:
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10	* AwesomeMusic/TaylorSwift
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13	!Miscellaneous:
14	* [[Music/GarthBrooks "Friends in Low Places"]]. If you don't find yourself singing along near the end...
15	* Try Music/GeorgeStrait. "Amarillo by Morning" and "I Can Still Make Cheyenne" are considered two of the best modern cowboy songs ever. And the former [[CoveredUp was originally someone else's song]].
16	%%** "Blue Clear Sky".
17	* "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by Music/GeorgeJones, which often tops polls as the best country song ever.
18	* Music/JohnnyCash.
19	** "Ring of Fire" is his most well-known, but some other gems can be found: "The Man Comes Around" and his cover of "Sam Hall" from ''American IV'' are amongst the least tragic on the album, while his cover of "Danny Boy" can move you to tears.
20	** When Johnny Cash covered NIN's "Hurt", Trent Reznor said this:
21	---> I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore.
22	* Music/JasonIsbell could probably fill up his own page in this category--especially if his work with the Drive-By Truckers is included--but [[WeAreAsMayflies "If We Were Vampires"]] quickly became one of his best-loved songs after its release, including among "non-country fans."
23	* Chris Knight's music is largely about the struggles of rural, working-class life. His signature songs are "North Dakota," about a homesteader losing his wife in a blizzard, and "House and 90 Acres," about [[{{Determinator}} refusing to give up]] even when on the verge of losing everything. [[RealitySubtext Performing it at Farm Aid]] only dialed up the awesome.
24	-->The children miss their mama, but there ain't nothing I can do\
25	If she was all I had to worry about, I guess I'd miss her too\
26	But I've watched my tools and my tractor leave in someone else's hands\
27	I grit my teeth, I let 'em go, but I won't give up my land
28	* Music/MartinaMcBride:
29	** The sheer power and ''anger'' in "Independence Day", a song about a woman driven to the breaking point by her abusive husband, with lines like "Now I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong, but maybe it's the only way / Talk about your revolution - it's Independence Day," and "Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning / Let the weak be strong / Let the right be wrong / Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay / It's Independence Day."
30	** "A Broken Wing." The last long note crosses over into a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, especially live.
31	%%** [[https://youtu.be/7i6i2AndvTI "Happy Girl"]].
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33	* Music/RebaMcEntire's [[https://youtu.be/cw_L8HdoYgo "Consider Me Gone"]] is BAMF in an Awesome sandwich.
34	** "Fancy" is a rare example of the artist, critics, and fanbase all agreeing pretty universally to a Signature Song.
35	* Music/JamesMcMurtry is another songwriter with a reputation for capturing the lives of working men and women. His [[DyingTown "We Can't Make It Here"]] has been called ''the single best'' protest song since Bob Dylan.
36	* "And just when I thought it couldn't get no hotter...I caught a glimpse of the farmer's daughter!" (Rodney Atkins)
37	* [[https://youtu.be/-y8sy5r82iE When it rains, I don't mind being lonely...]]
38	%%* [[https://youtu.be/DQYNM6SjD_o "The House that Built Me"]].
39	%%* [[https://youtu.be/j2klh2cTa_Q "Ghost Riders In The Sky".]] No seriously, [[https://youtu.be/0fdCuRKatjs "Ghost]] [[https://youtu.be/_BnhbPJGKPI Riders]] [[https://youtu.be/IULOpC3d5t4 In]] [[https://youtu.be/B2OL3kfuL68 The]] [[https://youtu.be/jvUpxZajw8Y Sky"]].
40	* Pretty much all of Johnny Reid's stuff, but especially [[https://youtu.be/WurYgWKLuww "Let's Go Higher"]] and [[https://youtu.be/a7kncrA6hhU "Old Flame"]].
41	* [[https://youtu.be/y_Ec_li8n9M "Riding With Private Malone"]] by Wood Newton and Thom Shepherd, and recorded by American country music artist David Ball.
42	%%* [[Music/ZacBrownBand "He said, 'I wanna see you again...But I'm stuck in]] [[https://youtu.be/oouFE51HcqM colder weather...'"]]
43	* Did anyone else know Music/JennetteMcCurdy could sing? [[https://youtu.be/FTeG_I_Hu4Q "Not That Far Away"]] Is a hell of a lot better than anything else any Disney or Nickelodeon stars have ever put out.
44	** Her [[https://youtu.be/EVnj5Y8Ahx8 vibrant, hopeful defiance]] of the common stereotypes of young people today, concluding with, "...or maybe they'll call us [[TitleDrop Generation Love]]."
45	%%* At the end of the song it lists song which are [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic CMOA]]s: [[Music/GeorgeJones "He Stopped Loving Her Today"]]/[[Music/ConwayTwitty "Hello Darlin'"]]/[[Music/LeeGreenwood "God Bless the USA"]]/[[Music/GeorgeStrait "Amarillo by Morning"]]/[[Music/TammyWynette "Stand by your Man"]]/[[Music/JohnDenver "Take Me Home"]]/[[Music/JohnnyCash "I Walk the Line"]]/[[Music/HankWilliamsJr "Country Boy Can Survive"]].
46	* [[https://youtu.be/rIH8ev8x8PA "Till Summer Comes Around"]] by Keith Urban. It's more country/pop, but it's definitely heartwarming and maybe a bit of a TearJerker.
47	%%* The very underrated Lee Clayton brings us [[https://youtu.be/dsanF9wZbn8 "I Ride Alone"]].
48	* [[https://youtu.be/sh7BZf7D5Bw "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"]]. It's about a man named Johnny [[MundaneMadeAwesome in a fiddle match with the devil.]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome And winning.]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu And Calling The Devil]] [[PrecisionFStrike a son of a bitch]]. Also [[EpicRocking epic fiddle]] [[PowerOfRock solos.]] The sequel, [[https://youtu.be/xwEqEBimjy8 "The Devil Comes Back To Georgia"]], features a picture perfect TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, one of the best violin solos, one [[{{Pun}} hell]] of a TruckDriversGearChange, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] Music/JohnnyCash.
49	%%* Music/EricChurch has some good songs, including [[https://youtu.be/wx-dUsh6OT8 "Homeboy"]], [[https://youtu.be/usGv0gB2zEU "Drink in my Hand"]], and ''especially'' [[https://youtu.be/l2gGXlW6wSY "Springsteen"]]. [[https://youtu.be/f59hjVW-fZI "Lightning"]] is an awesome song with an equally awesome vid, though it's definitely on the more emotional end of the spectrum.
50	%%* [[Music/KennyRogers "The Gambler"]], just, [[https://youtu.be/Tw5LaEzEcJw "The Gambler"]]. And "Coward Of The County".
51	* Corb Lund's [[https://youtu.be/BiMUOuYUy1w "Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier"]] is pretty damned cool, as is [[https://youtu.be/N1V3JW4HeBs "I Wanna Be In The Cavalry"]].
52	* Johnny Paycheck popularized [[https://youtu.be/EzGoDtmTllg "Take This Job and Shove it!"]]
53	* Thomas Rhett's "[[https://youtu.be/dphMriny1Js Beer with Jesus]]" may have the most country title ever, but it's a very poignant ballad.
54	* Music/JohnnyHorton's "[[https://youtu.be/KecIdlEAKhU Sink the Bismarck]]", legendary and rightly so. Just as legendary is "[[https://youtu.be/VL7XS_8qgXM The Battle of New Orleans]]".
55	* Juice Newton's "[[https://youtu.be/HTzGMEfbnAw Angel of the Morning]]" has to be heard to be believed.
56	* The Turnpike Troubadours, a prime example of Oklahoma's [[AlternativeCountry "Red Dirt"]] subgenre, are well known for their instrumental work and skilled storytelling--two traits that are exemplified in [[https://youtu.be/xsL6Zof7WyE "The Bird Hunters."]]
57	* Hank Williams has been called the "King of Country Music" for a reason.
58	** Williams' first released single in his discography, "[[https://youtu.be/8JPzNzE8cOM Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door)]]", has a waltz-like rhythm underlining the narrator having to come to terms with the fact that their marriage is over, [[YouCantGoHomeAgain leaving them with no choice but to leave and never return]].
59	** "[[https://youtu.be/KDQJMtg6Hh0 Move It On Over]]" became Williams' first hit. A song about a man being refused into his house by his own wife as punishment for arriving home late and having to sleep in the doghouse, it's one of Williams' rare comedic songs, and Williams shows he's completely capable of delivering a fun (and funny) song as well as his usual TearJerker ones.
60	** "[[https://youtu.be/SBN4tttmKBY I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry]]" was once described by none other than Music/ElvisPresley as "Probably the saddest song I've ever heard" in 1973, nearly a quarter of a century after Williams wrote and recorded it in 1949. It's especially heart-breaking when you consider it was inspired by Williams' tumultuous relationship with his first wife, Audrey (although Hank's own alcoholism did contribute to the turmoil and eventually his early death at the age of 29).
61	** "[[https://youtu.be/7-BQpRqmwM0 Jambalaya (On the Bayou)]]" stands out among Williams' output as a fun song [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment about having fun]], with drinking, good company, and plenty of food. It can even sound like a nonsense song at times (e.g. "Fontaineaux" isn't a standard word in the French language, but rather a combination of "Fontaine", meaning ''fountain'', and "Eaux", meaning ''waters'').
62	* Music/JohnDenver wrote beautiful, heartfelt music with common themes including his [[NatureLover love of the countryside]] (complete with {{Take That}}s at city life), love of music, and of course, [[UndeadHorseTrope romantic love]]. He was at his peak of popularity in TheSeventies, and while he never regained the same level in following decades before his untimely death in 1997 at the age of fifty-five, he retains a devoted fanbase to this day.
63	** "[[https://youtu.be/1vrEljMfXYo Take Me Home, Country Roads]]" displays a passionate [[TheresNoPlaceLikeHome longing for home]] that Denver co-wrote with two friends, Billy Danoff and Taffy Nivert (you can hear them singing background vocals with Denver in the final iteration of the chorus). Denver being a relatively unknown artist at the song's release in April 1971 meant that it climbed up the charts at a rather slow pace, but ultimately peaked at #2 on the Billboard charts at the end of August that year, losing only to "[[https://youtu.be/bpZuAtwDfag How Can You Mend a Broken Heart]]" by Music/TheBeeGees.
64	** Released in 1972, "[[https://youtu.be/eOB4VdlkzO4 Rocky Mountain High]]" was inspired by Denver and his friends witnessing the Perseid Meteor Shower in a clear night sky during a summer camping trip the previous year, but it took Denver nine months to complete the song, an unusually long time for him. It was worth it, though, and has become one of two official state songs for Colorado and an important piece in Colorado history. Its lyrics are rather ambiguous on first hearing (e.g. "He was born in the summer of his 27th year" is a reference to Denver being 27 years old the summer he witnessed the meteor shower) and came under controversy in TheSeventies when some radio stations censored the song, believing it to condone drug use (it isn't even about drugs), probably in part to said ambiguity, but nevertheless the song is beautiful and poetic.
65	** Denver wrote "[[https://youtu.be/RNOTF-znQyw Annie's Song]]" in late-spring of 1974 as an ode to his then-wife, born as Annie Martell, after a very rocky period in their marriage that nearly ended it. With a beautiful melody and celebration of life with the one you love, the song manages to be both a TearJerker and SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming\|Moments}} at the same time. The best part? The lyrics never explicitly say the name "Annie" and aren't gender specific, meaning anybody can sing it as a tribute to their partner, which is SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming\|Moments}} in and of itself (although the song became HarsherInHindsight for the Denvers specifically after they Divorced for Real in 1982, after John admitted to infedility).

Context AwesomeMusic / Country