Brian Mansfield
Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 17
"Give me a tin roof, a front porch and a gravel road, and that's home to me"
--'Boondocks,' Little Big Town (2005)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 16
"His cows get loose and run right through the fast-food parking lots/And Daddy gets calls from the mini-malls when they're downwind from his hogs"
--'Daddy Won't Sell the Farm,' Montgomery Gentry (1999)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 15
"In North Carolina, way back in the hills/Me and my old pappy had a hand in a still/We brewed white lightning till the sun went down/Then he'd fill him a jug and he'd pass it around"
--'White Lightning,' George Jones (1959)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 14
"I was raised off of Route Three, out where the blacktop ends/We'd walk to church on Sunday mornings, race barefoot back to Johnson's fence"
--'Red Dirt Road,' Brooks & Dunn (2003)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 13
"Papa said to Mama, as he passed around the black-eyed peas, 'Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please'"
--'Ode to Billie Joe,' Bobbie Gentry (1967)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 18
"Sittin' on the front porch on a summer afternoon/In a straight-back chair, leans against the wall/Watch the kids a-playin' with June bugs on a string/And chase the glowin' fireflies when evening shadows fall"
--'My Tennessee Mountain Home,' Dolly Parton (1973)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 12
"I'm a God-fearing, hard-working combine driver/Hoggin' up the road on my p-p-p-p-plower/ Chug-a-lug-a-luggin' five miles an hour on my International Harvester"
--'International Harvester,' Craig Morgan (2007)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 11
"In the corner of a hardware store/Gathered 'round a checker board/Old men telling lies and crowning kings"
--'Down Home,' Alabama (1991)
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Bruce Springsteen Walks the Line at Nashville Show
As he's been doing throughout his 2008 tour, Bruce Springsteen tailored his set to the local crowd Thursday night at Nashville's Sommet Center. In front of an audience that included Amy Grant, Brooks & Dunn's Kix Brooks, Kim Carnes, Union Station dobro player Jerry Douglas and Bill Lloyd (ex of Foster & Lloyd), The Boss played for nearly three hours, performing 29 songs that included a ver
Best Cheating Songs: No. 20
If Will Rogers had been a country fan, he'd probably have amended one of his most famous quips to say that nothing is certain but death, taxes and cheating songs. Just like trains and booze, songs about sleeping around have long been a staple of country music...