Yep, I can hear some of you now. “There’s goes Gross putting up another damn Country Music video.”
. . . and by god, you’re right! See how annoying I can be?
What’s the greatest Country song of all time? According to a bunch of surveys, it’s the song playing in the video at the top of this post.
“He Stopped Loving Her Today” was released in the spring of 1980 by George Jones. I don’t know if it’s the greatest Country song of all time but I think it’s probably the saddest.
What do you think? Is it the greatest Country song or do you just hate Country music in general?
(YouTube video)
I kind of liked it. I think I like older country music better than this new stuff.
I know of this song. It is the type of song that makes you want to kill yourself.
I have told you this before. I will NOT listen to this country crap.
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Here’s the greatest country song of all time. David Allan Cole
Today’s so-called country music is simple, watered-down bad rock “n” roll. The greatest is Hank Williams’s “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” and he also wrote many other great ones. In general, country is the special-ed section of the music world.
Hank Sr. is no doubt the best, Tuck. Hank Jr. in the 80′s was pretty good too. Hank III, sorry to say I don’t think cuts it.
He stopped loving her today is probably the most COMMERCIAL country song but not the best. Anything by Hank has it beat.
Anything with Hank or maybe some Patsy Cline, but this one’s just too maudlin. As far as the David Allen Coe song, it was written by Steve Goodman and John Prine as a joke. Prine refused to let Goodman put his (Prine’s) name on it as co-author.
Just about any song off of Johnny’s Live at Folsom Prison LP is the best. A complete statement of theme. That or The Pretenders “Thumbilina”.