I strongly dislike modern country music. I can’t think of one modern day country song I would ever want to listen to. You will never find Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift or Faith Hill on any of my playlists. Classic country, one the other hand, I love to bits. Just today I reminded myself to start listening to more Johnny Cash again when Walk the Line was playing on TV.
This was Cash’s first number one single on the country charts in 1956. I’ve never been able to pick a favorite Cash song because it changes all the time. The same is true for me when it comes to Patsy Cline. When I was in high school, my friend Graham and I made a music video to this Cline hit:
Even though it was probably one of our best music videos, we’re both thankful YouTube did not exist when we were in high school.
The last one I’m going to post is also the earliest of the three and was written and recorded by Hank Williams in 1949.
Williams is considered one of the most important country music artists of all time, and I also just learned today that he died quite young at the age of 29. His funeral was said to have been the largest event ever held in Montgomery, Alabama.
Caught in a jam 