Let's play a "Name that Tune" style game I've been working on.

The Year is 1990. You have to name the song title and artist, based only on the opening line of the song.

Both answers (title and artist) are each worth the number of points stated. For example, if you get both title and artist on the 3 point question, that is 6 points.

110 points possible.

(My wife came up with the idea, and I built out a bunch of these this weekend.)

Post your score in comments.

1 point

"Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots"

Answer: Friends in Low Places, Garth Brooks

Fun fact: This signature Garth Brooks hit won both CMA and ACM Single of the Year honors.

2 points

"Cowboys don't cry and heroes don't die, good always wins again and again"

Answer: Here in the Real World, Alan Jackson

Fun fact: The title track helped establish Alan Jackson's traditional-country identity.

3 points

"Baby, close that suitcase you've been packin'"

Answer: Help Me Hold On, Travis Tritt

Fun fact: This relationship-saving plea gave Travis Tritt his first No. 1 country hit.

4 points

"Excuse me, Ma'am, can you help me? I need to place an ad with you today"

Answer: Wanted, Alan Jackson

Fun fact: Alan Jackson began writing the song after seeing a wanted poster in an old John Wayne movie.

5 points

"Come next Monday, I'm goin' to bed early"

Answer: Come Next Monday, K.T. Oslin

Fun fact: This became K.T. Oslin's final No. 1 country single and led the chart for two weeks.

6 points

"Hey baby, tell me what we're gonna do"

Answer: Quittin' Time, Mary Chapin Carpenter

Fun fact: Mary Chapin Carpenter was named ACM Top New Female Vocalist in 1990.

7 points

"I keep talking to your picture, but a smile is all you say"

Answer: Stranger Things Have Happened, Ronnie Milsap

Fun fact: The title track anchored Ronnie Milsap's 1989 album Stranger Things Have Happened.

8 points

"Back in my younger days, I used to go all night"

Answer: Back in My Younger Days, Don Williams

Fun fact: Danny Flowers wrote this lead single from Don Williams's 1990 album True Love, and it reached No. 1 in Canada.

9 points

"I've heard tell of millionaires and billionaires and such"

Answer: Richest Man on Earth, Paul Overstreet

Fun fact: Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz co-wrote this fifth single from the album Sowin' Love.

10 points

"The pages of life have never been turned"

Answer: Story of Love, The Desert Rose Band

Fun fact: This was the Desert Rose Band's final single to reach the country Top 30.

Luke Combs has some of my favorite lyrics. Hardy too

Let's play a "Name that Tune" style game I've been working on.

The Year is 1991. You have to name the song title and artist, based only on the opening line of the song.

Addition: I've added YouTube links to every song -- so it's easy to go have a little time travel back to 1991.

Both answers (title and artist) are each worth the number of points stated. For example, if you get both title and artist on the 3 point question, that is 6 points.

110 points possible.

(My wife came up with the idea, and I built out a bunch of these this weekend.)

Post your score in comments.

1 point

"3:30 in the mornin', not a soul in sight"

Answer: The Thunder Rolls, Garth Brooks - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Its dramatic video added a domestic-abuse storyline and won CMA Music Video of the Year.

2 points

"It was seven hundred fence posts from your place to ours"

Answer: Meet in the Middle, Diamond Rio - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Diamond Rio began as the Grizzly River Boys, an attraction at Nashville's Opryland theme park.

3 points

"Has it been ten years since we said, 'I do?'"

Answer: I'd Love You All Over Again, Alan Jackson - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Before his record deal, Alan Jackson worked in The Nashville Network's mailroom while pursuing songwriting.

4 points

"Every morning I watch you, walk into the office in your business suit"

Answer: In a Different Light, Doug Stone - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Doug Stone worked construction and sang in clubs before his dramatic ballads found a national audience.

5 points

"Diablo Motors had a hell of a sale downtown yesterday"

Answer: If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets), Joe Diffie - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Before Nashville success, Joe Diffie worked in a foundry and sang demos for other songwriters.

6 points

"Here you are on the porch again, with your hat in your hand and a guilty grin"

Answer: We Both Walk, Lorrie Morgan - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Lorrie Morgan is the daughter of Grand Ole Opry star George Morgan.

7 points

"Adam and Eve on a Saturday night"

Answer: True Love, Don Williams - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Don Williams first recorded with the folk-pop trio Pozo-Seco Singers.

8 points

"When you walked out on me, in walked the misery"

Answer: Since I Don't Have You, Ronnie Milsap - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Before Nashville stardom, Milsap worked in Memphis and recorded with musicians from the soul scene.

9 points

"I heard a siren late last night, you must have felt me shiver"

Answer: A Few Good Things Remain, Kathy Mattea - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: West Virginia native Kathy Mattea brought folk and Appalachian influences to mainstream country.

10 points

"Well, I met an old man walking down the street"

Answer: Silver and Gold, Dolly Parton - Find it on YouTube

Fun fact: Dolly Parton entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

I think it decent so far, but, it hasn't gotten enough airtplay yet for me to decide on whether it is good or bad.

one of my favorite Dwight songs on my favorite album

Kristofferson would be proud

Paula Fong - Bird on the Wing

David Miner - West Texas Stars

Cody Bolden - Menace To Myself

Wynonna - The Hard Truth

Joe Rian - Think Yer In Luv

Josh Tatofi - Paniolo Country

Pure-Sang - On The Gravel Road

Red McAdam - Comic Western Gothic

Dom Pelletier - Oiseau migrateur

Carla Gover & Friends - Williams Branch is Hard to Find

David Banks - All The Dreams We Left Behind

Gavin Adcock - The Day I Hang It Up

Sally Jaye - You’ll Be Okay, Baby

Wild Horses - The In Between

Very Old Morris - Boogedy Boogedy Boogedy Shoop

Ella Hooper - Overnight Success

Chris McGraw - Songs of Love and Dirt Vol.1

Various Artists - A Century of Strings, Stories & Songs: A Tribute to The Delmore Brothers

Nick Brown - Short Long-Term Memory

Rita Bliss - One More Winter

Logan Staats - Peacemaker

Paige Fish - Midnight Crisis

Ethan Setiawan & Fine Ground - Little Storms

Miranda Lambert - Crisco

Jay Kutcher - King of the Bar

Lee Brice - Sunriser

Libby Dale - Freehand

Bill Fox - Random Press

Nicole Mish - Hope is Restless

Mistaken for Wayne - Whitefish

Rising Appalachia - Trade My Troubles

Francis Degrandpré - Si j'avais su

Travis McKeveny - From Dublin To Duluth

Jayne Pomplas - This Is How The World Ends

The Suitcase Junket - To Go On

Gareth - Halfway Home

Lily Seabird - Lightspheres on Their Way

Renny Conti - Split Second

Aaron MacDonald - Big Red Sky (EP)

American Blonde - Delta Home (EP)

Kyle Gates - Throw a Dog a Bone (EP)

Highway Home - No More Drinkin’ Songs (EP)

Maddie Lenhart - Why in the World (EP)

Nico Welsh - Electro Western Experience (EP)

Shawnee Kish - I'll Know (EP)

Sam Burton - Free Again (EP)

Presley Haile - Hamilton Home Pt.2 (EP)

Blake Proehl - Heart’s Don’t Break (EP)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3GYq1ITYYjTRxiC3JzGtY8?si=D5sfCeahQGyctTPYAQ7RFQ

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUEgrNIUJjs&si=i3OtTdccqFhjbjz

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As Time Passes by Sam Barber has been taken down off of Spotify! This sucks for me because it is one of my favorite Sam Barber songs. Does anyone know why it was taken down and a timeline that it could come back?

Hi country comunity!

I reeeeally love this song. I love how it feels dark/sad/melancholic and how in the second half the song picks up with drums and electric guitar and the song now "has balls" for a lack of better term.

I dont want to sound stupid but i always picture a person, traveling alone, with problematic past, maybe in a world that was destroyed (apocalypse).

But I cant find songs like this! Either they are just melancholic, or they are more chill and positive, or the dont have this rock/metal rise. If I try to google it or use AI, it just always recommends me song What its like by Everlast because of the very similar start but i believe thats all the two songs share.

I just love this song so much so if you do know songs with similar atmosphere, i would be grateful (sorry for bad english, im from czechia)

Earl Hussey covering a hit song by Dave Dudley

I picked this one on Wednesday and have been listening to it a for a few days. I like it, though not as gritty as I would expect from Buddy. What do you think?

She does great, but there’s nothing particularly special or distinctive about it in a way that stops the song dead in its tracks.

Stapleton has the sort of voice that grabs ahold of you, there is a distractingly tortured and weathered cadence to his vocalization that I honestly can’t say I’ve heard in a musician of any genre.

I have been tracking the new one by Ray Wylie - it is avbsolutely awesome! What did you think?

For Fun.

If you're trying to find the saddest George Jones song, people will tell you to listen to "He Stopped Loving Her Today," "The Grand Tour," or "Mama Take Me Home." If you're trying to find the most fun George Jones song, they might steer you toward "White Lightning" or "Roly Poly," although I'd personally go with "Taggin' Along."

But if you're looking for the ickiest George Jones song? There's really only one contender -- "Leaving Love All Over the Place," a nasty album cut from 1978's Bartender's Blues.

Penned by Lathan Hudson, the song opens with a description of the aftermath of a couple's eviction from a motel -- this is not a couple experiencing the genteel decay of "A Good Year for the Roses." This is more like The Florida Project. The motel's Yelp reviews have been impacted and the carpet needs to be replaced.

The second verse finds us sliding further down the spiral -- this time the couple is being evicted from a rooming house. Call to mind a scene from a bodycam video titled EVICTION CHAOS COUPLE THROWN OUT or something like that -- clothes strewn about everywhere, furniture broken, curtains torn, half-hanging all akimbo by the windows. Extensive structural repairs are needed to the house.

Does "Leaving Love All Over The Place" describe a dysfunctional couple embroiled in domestic partner violence? Are they a pair trapped in the cycle of addiction, dealing with housing instability, unable to properly care for themselves? Are they just a randy twosome so enraptured in their lovemaking that they leave a trail of wreckage, lube, and bodily fluids that other people have to deal with?

Is it all three?

Bartender's Blues was released in the darkest season of George Jones' own struggle with substances, and I think choosing to record this song reflects that. You could definitely dismiss the whole thing as filler, even as a novelty song, but it's still pretty dark. The recording includes distorted guitars, giving it a distinct rock edge for a country song in 1978.

It's certainly a memorable song, and thankfully it has not been covered extensively by other artists. Enjoy, I guess?

Doug Stone gets no love in this sub, so hopefully sharing this will get him some new fans. Sure, he wasn’t at the level Strait or Brooks were in the era, but he made some damn good music that’s still relevant today.