Greatest country song of all time?

Started by akwilly, March 24, 2016, 02:51:06 AM

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ksm32

#212
August 27, 2016, 11:51:10 PM
https://soundcloud.com/meat-monster/the-killbillies-lonesome-onry-mean

Managed to calm my 'hard rock' band (Meat Monster) to calm down and record a cover of my favorite country song of all time. Waylon!


Before you trash it, at least listen to the full song.  Then slam away.

Dr. MD MD

#215
September 02, 2016, 03:15:15 AM
Aside from being a great song I just love the laid back but tasty riffing of the lead guitar throughout. Anyone know who's playing it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-n7tBHw_o

136 or 142

#217
September 02, 2016, 03:27:23 AM
Quote from: akwilly on March 24, 2016, 03:29:11 AM
he is great, Wichita Lineman is one of his best as well

Jimmy Webb wrote Wichita Lineman as well as Galveston and By the Time I get to Phoenix.  All made famous by Glen Campbell.

Jimmy Webb also wrote MacArthur Park.

136 or 142

#221
September 02, 2016, 03:36:27 AM
Buck Owens covering the Bob Dylan song "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" (love minus zero divided by no limit.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHnpJJ_4FC0

136 or 142

#223
September 02, 2016, 03:39:56 AM
R.E.M "Wendell Gee"
Debatable if this is a country song, but it does have a very nice banjo solo.

Wendell Gee is a real person who used to own a used car lot in Athens, Georgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcHORmlabYU

136 or 142

#227
September 02, 2016, 03:48:04 AM
Lyle Lovett covering Guy Clark.  "Step Inside This House"  The first song Guy Clark wrote!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GVpeKmniLY

136 or 142

#230
September 02, 2016, 04:02:49 AM
Townes Van Zandt original of To Live is To Fly

"Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that," - Steve Earle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5wrzwINOJM

136 or 142

#232
September 02, 2016, 04:10:43 AM
Keith Carradine "I'm Easy" Written by him for the Nashville soundtrack

More of a country/folk song.

That's all from me, for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYSc7QzWtt8

akwilly

#233
September 02, 2016, 04:44:07 AM
Appearantly 136 or 142 misread the thread title. "Greatest country song of all time". What you have posted is at best crap

akwilly

#234
September 02, 2016, 04:45:19 AM
Except for the Lucinda Williams song

136 or 142

#236
September 02, 2016, 11:13:19 AM
Quote from: akwilly on September 02, 2016, 04:44:07 AM
Appearantly 136 or 142 misread the thread title. "Greatest country song of all time". What you have posted is at best crap

1.Thanks for getting my nickname correct.

2.Anybody who doesn't like Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark has no heart and no brain.

Of course I don't literally mean you have no brain, I'm just more or less quoting the famous line wrongly attributed to Winston Churchill.  I do seriously wonder about your heart though.

21st Century Man

#237
September 02, 2016, 03:07:40 PM
Quote from: akwilly on September 02, 2016, 04:44:07 AM
Appearantly 136 or 142 misread the thread title. "Greatest country song of all time". What you have posted is at best crap

REM is about as country as Judas Priest.  Just because they are from the South, doesn't make them country.  Now there are some rock groups that have done country and very well, I might add.  The Byrds are a prime example.  Even Elvis Costello but REM?  ::)

136 or 142

#238
September 02, 2016, 03:14:02 PM
Quote from: 21st Century Man on September 02, 2016, 03:07:40 PM
REM is about as country as Judas Priest.  Just because they are from the South, doesn't make them country.  Now there are some rock groups that have done country and very well, I might add.  The Byrds are a prime example.  Even Elvis Costello but REM?  ::)

R.E.M's 'Don't Go Back to Rockville' is absolutely a country song.  I suggest you actually listen first before commenting on something you know nothing about, not that that's ever stopped you in the past.

From wiki (not that you can't determine that it's country by listening to it yourself):
Peter Buck has stated that the song was originally performed in a punk/thrash style, and that it was recorded for this single in its now more-familiar country-inspired arrangement as a joke aimed at R.E.M. manager Bertis Downs.

Even though it was recorded that way as a joke, they are excellent musicians and they obviously took the recording seriously.

I also wrote that R.E.M's Wendell Gee isn't really a country song, but that it has a very nice banjo solo, the banjo often being played in country music, and that solo does sound country.

Billy Joe Mulgreavey

#239
September 02, 2016, 03:26:33 PM
Quote from: 136 or 142 on September 02, 2016, 03:14:02 PM
R.E.M's 'Don't Go Back to Rockville' is absolutely a country song.  I suggest you actually listen first before commenting on something you know nothing about, not that that's ever stopped you in the past.

From wiki (not that you can't determine that it's country by listening to it yourself):
Peter Buck has stated that the song was originally performed in a punk/thrash style, and that it was recorded for this single in its now more-familiar country-inspired arrangement as a joke aimed at R.E.M. manager Bertis Downs.

Even though it was recorded that way as a joke, they are excellent musicians and they obviously took the recording seriously.

I also wrote that R.E.M's Wendell Gee isn't really a country song, but that it has a very nice banjo solo, the banjo often being played in country music, and that solo does sound country.

Certainly there are artists and their songs which blur the lines, and I can take your point concerning REM, but posting Keith Carradine's song?  That could get a fella hurt real bad.   ;)

Everyone needs to lighten up just a bit perhaps.
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