Favorite Country Voices

[B. White]

Heard some Earl Thomas Conley yesterday that brought back some memories.

 

[B. White]

Waylon
Vern Gosdin
Keith Whitley
Tyler Childers
Dwight Yoakum

Keith Whitley was a good one.

 

[GeorgiaGlockMan]

Like alot of those already listed...

- lucinda Williams
- ray Wylie Hubbard
- Lucas Nelson

 

[MX5HIGH]

George Jones
Vince Gill
Tammy Wynette

 

[John Cooper]

Dwight Yoakum
Straight
Hank SR. & JR
Wille
Waylon
Chris Ladoux

Reba
Alison Krause

 

[Batjack]

where is it ?

On Lake Martin in Ala. at a restaurant of the same name. Where Hwy. #63 crosses the lake, just out side Red Hill. I was there the night the restaurant caught fire and all of the firemen rushed in and grabbed the statue as the place burned to the ground. It used to be a store back in the day and drunken Hank passed out on the hood of his car in the parking lot. When he woke up, the first thing he saw was the Indian and wrote the song right there. Or so it's been told. Look up Childrens Harbor... it's right beside it.

 

[LTZ25]

Marty Robbins .

 

[Oldstick]

This got me to think'n.. I know, scary ain't it... but just wondering how many of Y'all fans of country music have ever seen the real Kowaliga wooden cigar store Indian that Hank Sr. wrote his song about? It's only 148 miles from my house, and I've seen it many times.

Pretty sure I did see it on a trip with my parents as a kid. It is near a lake in AL right?

 

[Batjack]

Pretty sure I did see it on a trip with my parents as a kid. It is near a lake in AL right?

Yeah.. Lake Martin.. not to be confused with Logan Martin. Look up a couple of post for directions.

 

[Oldstick]

Yeah.. Lake Martin.. not to be confused with Logan Martin. Look up a couple of post for directions.

Yep, my Mom grew up in Opelika. We were doing a sight seeing ride one day, and I remember seeing the restaurant, the statue and my Mom quoting that song. It was probably around 1970 or so.

 

[Ray357]

As the wife and I were preparing dinner we were listening to country music on Pandora. Got us to thinking who our favorite country music voices were. As the conversation went on we realized we could not pick just one. We decided on a top five. Not necessarily who the best songwriters were, who had the best lyrics, but whose voices you just like to hear. For me it was...(in no particular order)

George Jones
George Strait
Don Williams
Vince Gill
Willie Nelson

How about you?

George Strait
Alan Jackson
Sammy Kershaw
Josh Turner
George Jones
Bellamy Brothers
Randy Owen (Alabama) on studio records, but he can't carry a tune in a bucket in concert.

 

[o2bfishin]

All the fellas mentioned, plus

Patty Loveless
Allison Krauss
Martina McBride

 

[crackerdave]

Can't believe nobody mentioned Gene Watson!
Or Emmylou Harris!

 

[Ray357]

Can't believe nobody mentioned Gene Watson!
Or Emmylou Harris!

Charlie Pride

 

[menhadenman]

Can’t forget the father - Jimmie Rodgers. Patsy Cline was special, too.

 

[Buck70]

Willie, Patty Loveless, Miranda, John Anderson and Bellamy Brothers.

 

[gma1320]

Hank Jr
Jamey Johnson
Miranda Lambert
George Straight
John Anderson

Honorable mentions include
Waylon
Mark chestnut
Sammy Kershaw
Joe diffie
Neal McCoy

 

[deermaster13]

Lot of good ones listed,maybe I missed Conway Twitty.

 

[C.Killmaster]

In no particular order:

Travis Tritt
Randy Travis
Chris Ledoux (I'm a retired bullrider)
Patty Loveless
Kathy Mattea
Old Crow Medicine Show
Dwight Yoakam (saw him at the GA Theatre, mediocre) Still a fan though #doylehargraves!
Mark Chesnutt
Old George Strait (up to early 1990's)
Dolly
Reba (up to 1990)

 

[Oldstick]

One vote for Travis Tritt, as a successor to George Jones' voice and stage presence.