Gordon Lightfoot is country? I always thought of him as easy listening or something. If we can count Gordon Lightfoot, I need to change my list to include “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” “Circle of Steel,” and “If You Could Read My Mind.” 
In No Particular Order;
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Last Train Home - Doughnut Girl
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Gram Parsons - Hickory Wind
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Robbie Fulks - Lies
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Jerry Jeff Walker - A Night Rider’s Lament
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Tennessee Ernie Ford - I’m Hog-tied Over You
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Jimmy Rodgers - In The Jailhouse Now
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Skeeter Davis - End Of The World
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Guy Clark - L.A. Freeway
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Johnny Cash - I’ve Been Everywhere
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Maddox Brothers and Rose - That’ll Learn Ya, Durn Ya
That is exactly my list, except for You Ain’t Woman Enough to Take my Man - Loretta Lynn instead of By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Glen Campbell
Dammit. I gotta insert that somewhere. I guess I’ll toss out *Jambalaya * - Hank Williams Sr. (Why is this list so much harder than the same list in rock for me?)
Hmm. Similar dilemma to other dopers and doperettes:
Foggy Mountain Breakdown-Flatt & Scruggs
Lovesick Blues-Hank Williams, Sr.
Can I Sleep in your Arms-Willie Nelson
Do You Know You are my Sunshine-Statler Brothers
I’m Looking for Blue Eyes-Jessi Colter
Put another Log on the Fire-Waylon Jennings
You’d Make an Angel Wanna Cheat-The Kendalls
Circle Driveway-Don Williams
I Don’t Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes)-Hank Williams, Jr.
Daydreams About Night Things-Ronnie Milsap
In no order…
Guided By Wires - Neko Case
I Can’t Hold Myself In Line - Merle Haggard
Sound of Laughter - Johnny Cash
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams Sr.
Sin City - Flying Burrito Brothers
One Morning - Gillian Welch
Time To Get A Gun - Fred Eaglesmith
Kiss Of Death - Split Lip Rayfield
Passenger Side - Wilco
Not totally----
[David Allan Coe voice]
"WELL, A FRIEND OF MINE NAMED STEVE GOODMAN WROTE THAT SONG AND
HE TOLD ME IT WAS THE PERFECT COUNTRY & WESTERN SONG. I WROTE
HIM BACK A LETTER AND I TOLD HIM IT WAS NOT THE PERFECT COUNTRY
& WESTERN SONG BECAUSE HE HADN’T SAID ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT MAMA,
OR TRAINS, OR TRUCKS, OR PRISON, OR GETTIN’ DRUNK. WELL HE SAT
DOWN AND WROTE ANOTHER VERSE TO THE SONG AND HE SENT IT TO ME,
AND AFTER READING IT, I REALIZED THAT MY FRIEND HAD WRITTEN THE
PERFECT COUNTRY & WESTERN SONG. AND I FELT OBLIGED TO INCLUDE IT
ON THIS ALBUM. THE LAST VERSE GOES LIKE THIS HERE:
[/end spoken lines]
To read the rest of the lyrics, you need to click on the link.
YOU NEVER EVEN CALLED ME BY MY NAME - Lyrics - International Lyrics Playground
I’d sing it to you, but haven’t had enough to drink yet today.
Sorry, can’t do it. I have to add another 10. There are so many classics, and it’s a shame you never hear them on the radio anymore.
- Mark Chestnutt - I’ll Think of Something
- Charlie Daniels - Long Haired Country Boy
- Ricky Van Shelton - Keep It Between the Lines
- George Strait - Baby’s Gotten Good at Goodbye
- Vern Gosdin - Set 'Em Up Joe
- Travis Tritt - Country Ain’t Country No More
- Travis Tritt - Here’s A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)
- Travis Tritt & Marty Stuart - The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’ Anymore
- Moe Bandy - Soft Lights and Hard Country Music
- Jeff Carson - The Car This is the only song to ever make me cry
Ok, that’s it. No more from me.
How about 5 country songs, and then 5 bluegrass songs.
- Lyin’ Here With Linda on my Mind-Conway Twitty
- Only Make Believe-Conway Twitty(when country was part of rock and roll)
- Crazy Arms-Ray Price(the version before he appeared on Johnny Cash and had violins backing him. When he still sang through his nose. I’ve got the vinyl.
- Hello Walls-Farin Young, written by Willie Nelson
- Golden Rings-George Jones and Tammy Wynette
Bluegrass
6. Knoxville Girl(you have to hear the Stanleys sing this to appreciate it)
7. How Mountain Girls Can Love-by anyone
8. Little Georgia Rose(Seldom Scene version)
9. Footprints in the Snow-by Bill Monroe, of course
10. Two Little Boys-Country Gentleman Version. Charlie Waller, w/ John Duffy pre-Seldom Scene.
Mostly newer stuff, as I haven’t been into country too long:
The Dance Garth Brooks
Just Another Day in Paradie Phil Vasser
Great Day to Be Alive Travis Tritt
Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American) Toby Keith (this song makes me laugh every. single. time I hear it)
Somebody’s Hero - Jamie O’Neal
I Hope You Dance Lee Ann Womack
She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy Kenny Chesny (Also always makes me laugh)
I Should Have Been a Cowboy Toby Keith
Beer for My Horses Toby Keith and Willy Nelson
Streets of Bakersfield Dwight Yokum and Buck Owens (Hey, I gotta give a nod to the local boys! 
)
Cheater! Cheater!
Of course, if we throw in bluegrass it’s even more difficult because, dammit, I like every damned bluegrass song ever sung, plus all the ones that aren’t.
Then you need to come to the Clevedope 2006. At elmwood’s.
I’ll even sing to you.
Or not. :eek: I never considered that it might drive you away.
Heck-I prolly cheated by including Flatt & Scruggs in my list-they’re more bluegrass than country anyway. 
Are you kidding? Be careful or you’ll end up with a stalker.
Moving thread, pickup trucks, hound dogs and all, from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Kaw-Liga can be as sad as you want it to be. Ol’ Hank came to a place on a lake near here, called Kowaliga Beach, back in the ‘40’s. In one weekend he wrote "Your Cheatin’ Heart", and inspired by a wooden indian at a store there, wrote “Kaw-Liga”.
He still had time to get himself thrown into the Tallapoosa County jail on a Drunk and Disorderly charge. Somewhere around here I’ve got a copy of the newspaper story, complete with a picture of Hank in the jail, wearing no shirt, jeans and a straw hat, staring at the camera and clearly stoned. It’s a classic.
I wouldn’t say that all of Gordon Lightfoot’s stuff is country. But to me, “Sundown” is clearly country, as is “Ten Degrees and Getting Colder”. “Edmund Fitzgerald”, no so country but still a great song. YMMV, of course.
And HEY! Some people are cheatin’ and listin’ 12 or even 20 songs!!! What’s with that? Can I add “Here’s a Quarter”, “Lying Here With Linda On My Mind”, “Nobody Answers When I Call Your Name”, some Johnny Cash and,and, BLUEGRASS??? We’d need a whole 'nother thread.
“Boy Named Sue” (Cash/Silverstein)
“Ghost Riders in the Sky” (Jones)
“Big Bad John” (Dean)
“Uneasy Rider” (Daniels)
“Georgia On My Mind” (Carmichael/Gorell as performed by Charles)
“Stand By Your Man” (Wynette)
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (Williams)
“King of the Road” (Miller)
“Wabash Cannonball” (Acuff)
“I Fall to Pieces” (Cline)
In no particular order:
Evis- “Don’t Cry Daddy”
Johnny Horton-“Battle of New Orleans”
Marty Robbins-“El Paso”
Kenny Chesney-“There Goes My Life”
Randy Travis-“Three Wooden Crosses”
Alan Jackson-“Monday Morning Church”
Cowboy Troy-“If You Don’t Wanna Love Me” (The song is ok, but I am in love with the woman’s voice)
Allison Krausse-“A Living Prayer”
Keith Urban-“You’ll Think of Me”
Braid Paisley and Allison Krausse-“Whiskey Lullabye”
Wow, finding only ten was hard.
<ponders>
Well, let’s see what I can throw out.
Heard It In A Love Song - Marshall Tucker Band
Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band
San Antonio Stroll - Tanya Tucker
Amarillo By Morning - George Strait
She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful - Sammy Kershaw
Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On - Mel McDaniel
The Good Stuff - Kenny Chesney
We’ll Sing In The Sunshine - Gale Garnett
Hello Darling - Conway Twitty
Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) - Garth Brooks