I’m more into and familiar with the popular ones.

I was an 80’s pop fan growing up and the grunge era wasn’t my thing….switched over to 90’s country with Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Garth, Shania, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Martina McBride and Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Joe Diffue

I liked Alabama and Gary Morris in the 80’s

Some lesser knows that we’re great but not the limelight of the others:

McBride and the Ride

Neal McCoy

Paul Brandt

Doug Stone

I like that Doug Stone's real name is Doug Brooks but he was coming up right around the time Garth Brooks was so he changed his name to not be the same.

justincredible wrote:

I like that Doug Stone's real name is Doug Brooks but he was coming up right around the time Garth Brooks was so he changed his name to not be the same.

Yes

Dwight Yoakam might be my GOAT.

John Anderson is close to the top of my list.

Keith Whitley was taken way too soon.

justincredible wrote:

Dwight Yoakam might be my GOAT.

John Anderson is close to the top of my list.

Keith Whitley was taken way too soon.

Love Keith Whitley’s voice

JA and Dwight weren’t my type

Definitely Maybe

What’s the story morning hlort

Mullet country is the best. I always try to hit the bars in Nashville playing the throwbacks.

An all time fav. 

I’m not a huge country fan but Garth’s The Dance is the GOAT of country songs.

Whiskey Lullaby is a close second. 

Automatik wrote:

Mullet country is the best. I always try to hit the bars in Nashville playing the throwbacks.

Speaking of mullets. One of the GOATs.

Another banger.

This was the first CD I ever owned.

justincredible wrote:

This was the first CD I ever owned.

He was at the Apple Festival in Jackson about 2 years before he passed. He had so many hit songs and a big range. Loved Joe Diffie

Now this is my kind of thread.

We'll start with some of my favorite harmonies of that era, Blackhawk

The everyman's country singer, Aaron Tippin.

Don Williams could not make a bad country song if he tried. 

This song was so big for Randy Travis that his album sold very well. The story is that when told his album was on the pop charts, he was so offeneded that his music was associated with pop, that he said "Well, get it out of there!"

brutus161 wrote:

Now this is my kind of thread.

We'll start with some of my favorite harmonies of that era, Blackhawk

An absolute banger. Hadn't heard this one in a while.

Just heard this on Sirius. Ronnie Milsap never misses.