★Country & Western

I don’t really keep up on country music too much, but there are a lot of great songs out there.

Don Williams has so many truly great songs! Even if you don’t like country music you should give this stuff a chance.
Good Ole Boys Like Me
Listen to the Radio
I Believe In You
He has many more wonderful songs.

Glen Campbell. He’s from my home state, Arkansas.
Wichita Lineman
Galveston
Rhinestone Cowboy
Southern Nights

George Strait has lots of wonderfully simple songs.
The Chair
Check Yes or No
I Cross My Heart
That last one is a wonderful George Strait tune from sort of a cheesy, but nice movie.
George has ton’s of great songs.

My Dad died many years ago, but he once sold a horse to Johnny Cash. True story. Johnny Cash was from Kingsland Arkansas, just about 70 miles from here.
Johnny Cash
When the Man Comes Around
Folsom Prison
Ring of Fire

I really like Randy Travis too!
Forever and Ever, Amen
What’ll You Do About Me

Garth Brooks
Thunder Rolls
Unanswered Prayers
If Tomorrow Never Comes
A New Way to Fly
He has a lot more I like too.

I’ll try to think of some more to post later.

˚ state of calm 💗thank you  

Posted on 30/03/2009.

In response to themadcookieman’s post:
Thanks for adding this thread! Country has been around ‘forever’, and is very popular these days for those who haven’t gotten into it much before. Can’t wait to find a moment to hear what you’ve posted!!!!!

Are you kidding? I live in Kansas…how much more Country and Western can you get???? :) You are right, those are some goodies. Where are your songs that are country? Have you written any?

I do have one song that might sorta kinda be considered borderline country, but I don’t have a copy of it. It’s called “Lend Me $20”. I hope I’ll have enough moola oneday to get all the stuff I recorded mixed and pressed. I’ll post the lyrics for ya’.

If ya’ lend me $20 I would buy you a beer,
We could set an’ talk for hours ‘til I get my head clear,
I could tell ya’ ‘bout my troubles and the foolish thing I done
How I said some awful things to my very special one
And now she’s gone an’ left me and I’m sittin here alone
And I guess that I deserve it and there’s no one back at home…

Ya’ see I broke my Baby’s heart this time
And breakin’ hers has broken mine
Guess I’ll have a little more wine
Lonely heart and troubled mind
Do ya think that you could lend a dime
If I called her would it be a crime….
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There’s a little more to it, but you get the idea. I wrote that one weekend in Nashville many years ago. I figured since I was in the Country Music Capital I ought to write a country song. I intended it to be country, but when I recorded it it just came out “sorta” country.

Is Bluegrass country and western? I think it might be. Anyway i came across this a few weeks back and saved it. Wasn't sure where to post it, but today I came across this thread :)

3 very talented young men.

ok, I googled "Blue grass" It is considered to be a branch of country and western music. But unlike mainstream country music bluegrass is traditionally played on string instruments like the fiddle, banjo and mandolin. Now you know :)

This is pretty "Freakin" Awesome