Country Music Genres

Carrie Underwood Jesus Take the Wheel (Music Video and Lyrics)

The Carrie Underwood Jesus Take the Wheel song became her first tune to reach #1 and also won her first Grammy Award.  “Jesus, Take the Wheel” is a song written by Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson.  This was the first single from .. Read More

Keith Urban Somebody Like You (music video and lyrics)

The Keith Urban Somebody Like You song reached #1 on the Country Music charts starting October 19, 2002 and remaining on top for 6 weeks.  In December 2009, Billboard ranked “Somebody Like You” as the number one country song for the first decade .. Read More

Johnny Cash Hurt (Music Video and Lyrics)

The Johnny Cash Hurt song was his cover of the Nine Inch Nail’s song and was released in 2002 to critical acclaim.   The Cash anthem strips the original song down to little more than an acoustic guitar and the trembling voice of a dying .. Read More

Jeannie Riley Harper Valley PTA (video and lyrics)

The Jeannie Riley Harper Valley PTA song became a #1 country hit starting September 28, 1968.  Her debut, sold over six million copies as a single, and it made her the first woman to top both the Billboard Hot 100 and the U.S. Hot .. Read More

Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama (live performance and lyrics)

The Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama song first appeared in 1974 on their second album “Second Helping”.  In May 2006, National Review ranked the song number 4 on its list of “50 greatest conservative rock songs”.  In 2006, CMT ranked this song number .. Read More

The Everly Brothers Wake Up Little Susie (Video and Lyrics)

The Everly Brothers Wake Up Little Susie song was released on September 2, 1957 and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop chart and the Cash Box Best Selling Records chart.   The song was banned from Boston radio stations for lyrics that, at .. Read More

Little Big Town Girl Crush (Music Video and Lyrics)

The Little Big Town Girl Crush song was released on December 15, 2014 as the second single from their sixth studio album, Pain Killer.  Country band Little Big Town received numerous RIAA  certifications honoring their smash hit tune, “Girl Crush.” The 6/8 waltz ballad has made some real noise .. Read More

Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down

The Johnny Cash Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down song came from Johnny’s performance that was taped live at the Ryman Auditorium during a taping of The Johnny Cash Show.   Cash introduced the song with the following monologue: “You know, not everyone who has been on .. Read More

Garth Brooks Friends in Low Places (Live Performance and Lyrics)

The Garth Brooks Friends in Low Places song was released in August 1990 as the first single from his album No Fences. The song spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard U.S. country singles charts starting October 6, 1990.  This tune also won .. Read More

Trace Adkins Honky Tonk Badonkadonk (Video and Lyrics)

“Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” is a song written by Dallas Davidson, Randy Houser, and Jamey Johnson.  The inspiration for “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” came when Johnson, Davidson, and Houser were watching a young woman dancing at a club. Houser came up with the title “honky .. Read More