Songs you like, because they bring you back to a time period

[sabre14]

Rather long thread title, but I felt it needed to be worded the way it was, lol.

What are songs you like, mostly because you instantly get transported back to a moment in your life when they were charting? This is basically the same subject as songs like "I Go Back" by Kenny Chesney, "American Radio" by Carolina Rain and "The Sound Of A Million Dreams" by David Nail.

Summer of 2007:

Little Big Town - "A Little More You"
Travis Tritt - "You Never Take Me Dancing"
Joe Nichols - "Another Side Of You"
Lee Brice - "She Ain't Right"
Faith Hill - "Lost"
Stephen Cochran - "Friday Night Fireside"

I had a ton of eventful stuff happen this year, and the summer has many fond memories.

Fall/Winter of 2007:

Faith Hill - "Red Umbrella"
Eagles - "How Long"
George Strait - "How 'Bout Them Cowgirls"
Toby Keith - "Get My Drink On"
Billy Ray Cyrus w/Miley Cyrus - "Ready, Set, Don't Go"

I just loved these last 2-3 months of 2007. The Christmas season was one of my more vivid.

Early-to-mid 2013:

Lady Antebellum - "Downtown"
Thompson Square - "If I Didn't Have You"
Eric Church - "Like Jesus Does"
Jake Owen - "Anywhere With You"
The Henningsens - "American Beautiful"
Gloriana - "Can't Shake You"
Craig Morgan - "More Trucks Than Cars"
Justin Moore - "Point At You"
Joel Crouse - "If You Want You Some"
Aaron Lewis - "Forever"
James Wesley - "Thank A Farmer"
Luke Bryan - "Crash My Party"

I spent so much time driving during this time period, lol. My job was a ways from my house; I liked spending time out when I wasn't working and I was still really young, so I just enjoyed having fun in general. I also had a special relationship and these songs instantly transport me back to those days...where they great? Some of them were far from it but I never change the song if the shuffle on my Spotify picks them.

[someguy]

There are so many songs/albums like this for me.

I'll probably add a ton to this later on, but off the top of my head, the summer of 1995:

Reba McEntire - "And Still"
Shania Twain - "Any Man Of Mine", "The Woman In Me"
David Lee Murphy - "Dust On The Bottle"
John Michael Montgomery - "Sold"
Lorrie Morgan - "I Didn't Know My Own Strength"

Summer of 2007:

Reba McEntire/Kelly Clarkson - "Because Of You"
Kenny Chesney - "Never Wanted Nothing More"
Tim McGraw - "If You're Reading This"
Tim McGraw/Faith Hill - "I Need You"
Faith Hill - "Lost"
Sugarland - "Everyday America"

Fall of 2007:

Reba McEntire - Reba Duets
Trisha Yearwood - Heaven, Heartache and the Power Of Love
Kenny Chesney - Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates

And then, not country but:

Kanye West - Graduation
Alica Keys - As I Am

I think I listened to those five albums hundreds of times from September 2007 to early 2008, lol.

[sabre14]

Cool we both picked 2007, someguy. :)

[someguy]

Jan 14, 2017 2:52:07 GMT -5 sabre14 said:

Cool we both picked 2007, someguy. :)

Yeah, it was a big year in my life :)

[Ten Pound Hammer]

* Hal Ketchum, "Small Town Saturday Night". I remember seeing the video on CMT and dancing in front of the TV playing a toy drum when I was 4. Much later, we found the album and just about wore it out in the car.

* Deana Carter, "Strawberry Wine". We had an exchange student from Denmark staying with us at the time, and she loved the song. We still keep in touch of her 20+ years later, and I still think of her every time I hear it.

* Alabama, "The Cheap Seats". Reminds me of listening to Ernie Harwell do Detroit Tigers play-by-plays, and seeing the local amateur baseball games played by WKJC staff in the summer.

* Lee Roy Parnell, "On the Road". This song came out the summer that I took a huge trip up to Escanaba, Michigan to visit mom's friends, then down to Beloit, Wisconsin to visit my grandpa, who died while I was there.

* Garth Brooks, "Two Piña Coladas". A song that seemed to be playing every time we changed stations during a family trip to Texas over Easter weekend 1998.

* Kenny Rogers, "Sweet Music Man". March 2010, my first ever audition for Wheel of Fortune in Jacksonville. This song was playing on a station in the rental car when we pulled up to the hotel where the audition was held.

A lot of songs from late 2004 and 2005 take me back to when I first started regularly listening to ACC and following songs week to week. Far too many to list there.

And several from 1998-2000 bring me back to trips up to Hillman, Michigan for meetings with an exchange student association my mom was affiliated with at the time: "Burnin' the Roadhouse Down" and "Every Little Whisper" by Steve Wariner, "Guilty" and "She Wants to Rock" by The Warren Brothers, "A Bitter End" by Deryl Dodd, "When Mama Ain't Happy" by Tracy Byrd, "No More Looking over My Shoulder" by Travis Tritt, "By the Book" by Michael Peterson, "I Was" and "Forever Works for Me" by Neal McCoy, "Your Own Little Corner of My Heart" and "I Need You All the Time" by Blackhawk, "The Fun of Your Love" by Jennifer Day, "Me and Maxine" by Sammy Kershaw, "Love Trip" by Jerry Kilgore, "Lonely" by Tracy Lawrence, "Jimmy's Got a Girlfriend" by The Wilkinsons, "She Ain't the Girl for You" by The Kinleys, and "Are Your Eyes Still Blue" by Shane McAnally.

[Andy]

2001 was roughly the year I officially became a country music fan. These are all the songs from that period I have strong nostalgic feelings for. They're mostly songs whose videos were in frequent rotation on CMT.

Alison Krauss & Union Station - The Lucky One
Blake Shelton - Austin
Brad Paisley - Wrapped Around
BR5-49 - Too Lazy to Work, Too Nervous to Steal
Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Complicated
Charlie Robison - Right Man for the Job
Chris Cagle - Laredo
Cyndi Thompson - What I Really Mean to Say
David Ball - Riding With Private Malone
Diamond Rio - One More Day
Dolly Parton - Shine
Garth Brooks - Wrapped Up in You
Gary Allan - Man of Me
Jeff Carson - Real Life
Lonestar - I'm Already There
Martina McBride - When God Fearin' Women Get the Blues
Pat Green - Carry On
The Soggy Bottom Boys - Man of Constant Sorrow
Travis Tritt - Love of a Woman
Trick Pony - On a Night Like This

[Ten Pound Hammer]

There are a few songs that bring me back to some obscure syndicated late-night show on WKJC in the early 2000s:

"Untamed" by Yankee Grey
"So What" by Tammy Cochran
"Louisianna CoCo" by the Kentucky Headhunters
"She Went Out for Cigarettes" by Chely Wright
"Good to Go" by Jeffrey Steele
"Cactus in a Coffee Can" by Jerry Kilgore

probably a few others

[someguy]

When I was a kid just getting into country music in the Fall of 1994, I used to write down the local radio station's weekly top 30 countdown, and nightly "Top 6 at 6" most requested songs in a notebook (lol, what a nerd). The songs that were big on the charts then always remind me of that time period:

Joe Diffie - "Third Rock From The Sun" (#1 the week I first started writing it down)
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Shut Up And Kiss Me"
Patty Loveless - "I Try To Think About Elvis"
Sammy Kershaw - "Third Rate Romance"
Lisa Brokop - "Give Me A Ring Sometime"
Michelle Wright - "One Good Man"
The Tractors - "Baby Likes To Rock It"
Reba McEntire - "She Thinks His Name Was John"
Garth Brooks - "Hard Luck Woman"
Vince Gill - "When Love Finds You"
Pam Tillis - "When You Walk In The Room"

[sabre14]

I'm fairly certain I only enjoy "Let's Be Us Again" by Lonestar and "She Thinks She Needs Me" by Andy Griggs is because I get 2004 nostalgia,

[myeverything]

Anything from the 90's really... just makes me feel very nostalgic and takes me back to my high school days... tailgating at these country shows and not giving a damn. Drinking too much beer and making too many amazing memories (some you remember, some you don't)   

But seriously. Those were the days. Wouldn't change them for anything... they truly made me who I am today. Songs like "Keg In The Closet" and "Mud On The Tires"....

Anything from the guys... Keith, Kenny, Brad, Toby, Timmy, some Brooks and Dunn.. man, I Go Back.... 

[mikeymike00]

Mine has to be "Stepping Stone" from Lari White. This song just takes me back and never gets old.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Some of my earliest memories are listening to the radio when I was 3. I just heard "The Night's Too Long" by Patty Loveless for the first time in forever, and I can already remember going over to my grandma's to eat Pizza Rolls and watch game shows with her.

I also remember singing "Jukebox in My Mind" by Alabama in the aisle of our A&P.

Also memorable songs from 1990 for me: "Keep It in the Middle of the Road" by Exile (first song I remember hearing on the radio), "I Watched It All on My Radio" by Lionel Cartwright (how appropriate), "I Go to Pieces" by Southern Pacific, "The Domino Theory" by Steve Wariner, "Dancy's Dream" and "Fast Movin' Train" by Restless Heart, "Fourteen Minutes Old" by Doug Stone, "I Could Be Persuaded" by the Bellamy Brothers among others.

[.indulgecountry]

Not really a positive memory but "Where's Tammy Wynette" by Kellie Pickler reminds me of the time I was listening to it while eating a peanut butter-based protein bar that made me nauseous. Is that random or what.