The 50 Greatest Country Songs (1928-2000)

Country music is one of the most popular music genres of the 20th and 21st century. This video presents the highlights of the first five generations of country music. Though it originated in the 1920s, it still remains an important part of music. As usual, I used the trusty website "Dave's Music Database" as my source. If this video is well received, there will be a second part with 50 more country songs.

Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in Southern United States, in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of American folk music and Western music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.

--Song list--

1928 Wildwood Flower - The Carter Family
1935 Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye) - The Carter Family
1938 Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys
1941 Walking the Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb
1949 I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
1949 Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1950 Faded Love - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
1950 I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1951 Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
1952 The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1952 It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
1953 Your Cheatin’ Heart - Hank Williams
1955 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
1956 I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1956 Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
1956 Crazy Arms - Ray Price
1958 Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson
1959 He’ll Have to Go - Jim Reeves
1959 The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1959 El Paso - Marty Robbins
1961 Hello Walls - Faron Young
1961 Crazy - Patsy Cline
1961 I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
1962 I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
1963 Act Naturally - Buck Owens
1963 Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1963 Sweet Dreams of You - Patsy Cline
1965 Make the World Go Away - Eddy Arnold
1965 King of the Road - Roger Miller
1968 Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1968 Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette
1968 Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1969 Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard
1970 Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty
1970 Coal Miner’s Daughter - Loretta Lynn
1970 For the Good Times - Ray Price
1971 Help Me Make It Through the Night - Sammi Smith
1973 Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich
1974 I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
1975 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
1978 Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
1979 The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
1980 He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
1982 Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
1987 Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
1990 Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
1990 The Dance - Garth Brooks
1999 Breathe - Faith Hill
1999 Amazed - Lonestar
2000 I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack

Full list of 100 country songs:
http://davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/2011/08/top-100-country-songs-of-all-time.html

Dedicated with love to Grandpa Rick