Brian Mansfield
Best Cheating Songs: No. 9
'Kerosene' --Miranda Lambert (2005)
Wandering Words: "Cheatin' really ain't a crime."
A fuming Lambert hands down a death sentence to her wayward lover on her breakthrough hit. Sara Evans may have taken her cheater for everything he owned; Lambert leaves a smoldering corpse behind: "Now I don't hate the one who left," she sings, matter-of-factly...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 8
'After the Fire Is Gone' -- Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn (1971)
Wandering Words: "Love is where you find it, when you find no love at home."
"Me and Conway never once come close to any affair," Lynn wrote in her 2002 memoir 'Still Woman Enough,' "even though half of Nashville thought we did." B...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 7
'Blame It on Your Heart' -- Patty Loveless (1993)
Wandering Words: "Blame it on your lyin', cheatin', cold dead-beatin', two-timin', double-dealin', mean, mistreatin' broken heart."
Loveless has a few choice words for her unfaithful lover, and she strings them together into one of the most unforgettable hits of the early '90s...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 6
'The Cold Hard Facts of Life' -- Porter Wagoner (1967)
Wandering Words: "Who taught who the cold hard facts of life?"
Returning early from a business trip, a man picks up champagne to surprise his wife. Another customer at the liquor store is buying wine for a party, he says with a wink...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 5
'Stay' -- Sugarland (2007)
Wandering Words: "I've given you my best, why does she get the best of you?"
Inspired by Reba McEntire's 'Whoever's in New England,' Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles wrote this ballad from the viewpoint of the "other woman," who is in bed with her married lover, dreading the inevitable phone call beckoning him home...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 4
'She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)' -- Gary Stewart (1975)
Wandering Words: "While she pours herself on some stranger, I pour myself a drink somewhere."
Stewart sits at the bar knocking 'em back while watching his wife flirt with other men across the room...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 3
'Does He Love You' -- Reba McEntire and Linda Davis (1993)
Wandering Words: "Does he love you like he's been loving me?"
In the best country catfight since the days of Loretta Lynn, a wife and the other woman duke it out for the heart of the man they share...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 2
'Your Cheatin' Heart' -- Hank Williams (1953)
Wandering Words: "Your cheatin' heart will tell on you."
Williams supposedly wrote this song in his car, while complaining to his fiancée, Billie Jean, about his first wife, Audrey. After mentioning Audrey's "cheating heart," he dictated the lyrics to Billie Jean, who scribbled away in the passenger's seat...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 1
'Before He Cheats' -- Carrie Underwood (2006)
Wandering Words: "Right now, she's probably saying, 'I'm drunk,' and he's thinking that he's gonna get lucky."
It's not so much about infidelity as about paranoia. Listen carefully: He's "probably slow-dancing," he's "probably up behind her with a pool stick...
Kellie Pickler ‘Rocks’ on Sophomore Set
Kellie Pickler will release her second album, titled simply 'Kellie Pickler,' on September 30. The set -- which will feature current single 'Don't You Know You're Beautiful' and 'Best Days of Your Life,' which Pickler penned with Taylor Swift -- also will include a tune she wrote with Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear, the team behind Carrie Underwood's 'Before He Cheats...