Some Great Mainstream Country
Music Songs, 1990-2001This list excludes songs by non-mainstream artists such as Kevin Welch, Dale Watson, Heather Myles, Joe Ely, Jimmy Dale Gilmore etc which I will list later, as well as those of great mainstream artists such as Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Pam Tillis,Trisha, Yearwood, George Strait and Lee Ann Womack, all of whom have too many and will be listed separately. These are just 40 or so of the songs that would definitely make my Top 1000 songs of all time. The * is for an outstanding masterpiece of song, vocal performance, production and playing. A handful of songwriters have more than one on the list, most notably Jamie O'Hara, Rodney Crowell, Matraca Berg, , Al Anderson, Carlene Carter, Kostas, Craig Wiseman, Tony Martin and Kathy Louvin. All but the latter three are also artists in their own right.
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Sherrie Austin (S Austin, S. Mandile) | One Solitary Tear |
Mandy Barnett (Kostas-Hayes) |
Rainy Days * |
Matraca Berg (Berg-Scruggs) | Good Ol Girl |
Clint Black (Black- Ewing) | Something That We Do |
Suzy Bogguss (Chuck Pyle) | The Other side of the Hill |
Stacy Dean Campbell (Jamie O'Hara) | I Can Dream * |
Carlene Carter (Benmont Tench) | Unbreakable Heart * |
Carlene Carter (C Carter) | Little Acts of treason * |
Carlene Carter (C Carter) | You'll be the One |
Kenny Chesney (M. Springer-S. Smith) | That's Why I'm Here * |
Mark Chesnutt (Bobby Harden) | Too Cold at Home & Old Country * |
Billy Ray Cyrus (Cyrus-Shleton-Cannon) | She's Not Cryin' Anymore |
Shanley Del (S. Dell, Harley Allen) Dixie Chicks (Seidel-Hummon) |
Do I love you Cowboy Take Me Away |
Tim McGraw (Robison) | Angry All The Time* |
Tim McGraw (C. Wiseman , M Reid) | Everywhere * |
Tim McGraw (C. Wiseman, Steele, A Anderson) | The Cowboy in Me* |
Rodney Crowell (R. Crowell-Guy Clark) | Stuff That Works |
Stephanie Davis ( Claire Lynch) | Moonlighter |
Linda Davis (Garvin-Payne) | Some Things are Meant to be * |
Linda Davis (A. Anderson-C. Wiseman) | Love Story in the Making |
Dixie Chicks (M.Seidel, M. Hummon) | Cowboy Take me Away |
Desert Rose Band (C. Hillman-S. Hill) | I Still Believe in You |
Steve Earle (S Earle) | Sometimes she forgets |
Tyler England (Tony Martin, M. Narmore) | I drove her to Dallas |
Sarah Evans (M. Berg-S. Evans) | Fool I'm a Woman |
Faith Hill (H. Lamar, S. Bentley) | Breathe |
Highway 101 (Moser-Nelson-Nelson) | The Blame * |
George Jones ( B. Yates) | Choices * |
G. Jones & T. Wynette (Peterson, E Bruce, J Bruce) | One |
George Jones (Jamie O'Hara) | Cold Hard Truth * |
Kieran Kane (K Kane) | Find My Way Home * |
Tracy Lawrence | Love Lessons |
Mavericks (R. Malo. A. Anderson) | Missing You |
John Montgomery (V. Shaw, C.Cannon, G. Morris) | I Love the Way You Love Me |
Marty Stuart (M. Stuart) | Reasons/ Greatest love of all time |
Doug Stone (Mensy-Harrison) | I Thought It Was You * |
Doug Stone (McDill-Lee-Jones) | In a different light * |
Martha Thornton (P.Tillis-D. Romeo) | Always Believin' |
Tanya Tucker (Craig Wiseman) | All I Have to Offer You is Love * |
Ricky Van Shelton (R.Smith, K. Louvin) | Keep It Between the Lines |
Kelly Willis (K. Willis , J. Levanthal) | Get Real * |
Kelly Willis (Kevin Welch) | That'll Be Me * |
Steve Wariner (W. Aldridge, S. Longacre) | Leave Him Out Of This * |
Dwight Yoakam (Kostas, James House) | Ain't that lonely yet |
Dwight Yoakam (Dwight Yoakham) | I Sang Dixie |
Dwight Yoakam (Kostas, K..Louvin) | Send a Message to My Heart |
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