Songs that "Name-Drop" Other Country Artists

[onebuffalo]

Apr 17, 2014 16:26:17 GMT -5 Andy said:

"How to be a Country Star" by The Statler Brothers mentions a ton.

Classic example. Here are the lyrics:

There's questions we're always hearing every where we go
Like how do I cut a record or get on a country show
Well, it takes more than just ambition and three chords on an old guitar
There's a few more things you ought to learn to be a country star

You got to learn to sing like Waylon or pick like Jerry Reed
Yodel like Jeannie Shepard, write songs like Tom T
Put a cry in your voice like Haggard, learn Spanish like Johnny R
Whisper like Bill Anderson and you'll be a country star

Play piano like Ronnie Mil sap or Gilly or Jerry Lee
Yo-yo like Roy Acuff or talk plain like Ralph Emery
Growl like Conway Twitty, get a red, white and blue guitar
Build a swimming pool like Webb did and you'll be a country star

Be tall like Sonny James is, tell jokes like Minnie Pearl
Or be short like Jimmy Dickens or play five-string like Earl
Get a hip band like Willie, learn to stutter like M-Mel
Get a cap like Roy Clark wore or a voice like Barbara Mandrel

Be rich like Eddy Arnold, say you're makin' more than you are
Get a gimmick like Charley Pride got and you'll be a country star

But if you have no talent and you're not a male
If you're built somewhat like Dolly or have a face like Crystal Gayle
Come back stage and ask for Harold, Phil, Don or Lou
And we'll see you get auditioned for the Statler Brothers Review

[someguy]

I know it was probably just a coincidence, but I always thought it was cool how Jeff Carson sang his last name in "The Car":

'Here's your car son, I hope it flies'

[Kentucky25]

Apr 20, 2014 23:45:42 GMT -5 someguy said:

I know it was probably just a coincidence, but I always thought it was cool how Jeff Carson sang his last name in "The Car":

'Here's your car son, I hope it flies'

In that same line of thinking (sorta) I always loved Kip Moore's "Oh, marry Mary, didn't see it at the time, marry Mary how could I've been so blind?".  The fact that it could've just been "Mary, Mary", like he was just repeating her name or "marry Mary" I loved.  Really thought that song deserved to do better than it did.

[countryfan15]

Apr 8, 2014 13:02:31 GMT -5 carriekins said:

Garth Brooks - Ain't Going Down Till the Sun Comes Up (Strait)
Dierks Bentley - Here She Comes (Strait)
Dierks Bentley - Damn These Dreams (Hank Williams)
Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem (George Jones)
Brantley Gilbert - Country Must be Country Wide (Hank, Jones, Willie and Waylon)

Derrrrr... brain fade.

How could you forget:
Dierks Bentley- Forget About You( Jones reference) ;)

[tim]

Apr 9, 2014 9:47:30 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

Apr 8, 2014 19:47:01 GMT -5 sbp17 said:

Clint Black - Tuckered Out (Too many to name...)

Let me name those by revealing the lyrics. Love that song!

If I'm correct Clint sang this at the 1993 CMA Awards when he co-hosted with Vince Gill. Somehow the subject of Clint Black came up with my roommate over dinner tonight (actually more so Clint's brother Brian). Anyways, I always though Clint would have a semi-comeback a la Randy Travis or Travis Tritt, but alas that has never happened.

[.indulgecountry]

Apr 20, 2014 23:45:42 GMT -5 someguy said:

I know it was probably just a coincidence, but I always thought it was cool how Jeff Carson sang his last name in "The Car":

'Here's your car son, I hope it flies'

A small part of me always thinks Carrie Underwood is addressing herself when I hear the phrase I will Carrie carry you with me in "See You Again"

[Steven]

Just thought of another tune.

Lee Ann Womack - The Wrong Girl (Merle Haggard)

Travis Tritt - Outlaws Like Us (Charley Pride, Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Billy Ray Cyrus, Merle Haggard)

Kenny Chesney (with Tim McGraw) - "Feel Like A Rock Star'' (Hank Williams)

[jrekk]

Blake Shelton - 'Round Here...(Bocephus)

[straitfan87]

Apr 21, 2014 23:45:42 GMT -5 tim said:

Apr 9, 2014 9:47:30 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

Let me name those by revealing the lyrics. Love that song!

If I'm correct Clint sang this at the 1993 CMA Awards when he co-hosted with Vince Gill. Somehow the subject of Clint Black came up with my roommate over dinner tonight (actually more so Clint's brother Brian). Anyways, I always though Clint would have a semi-comeback a la Randy Travis or Travis Tritt, but alas that has never happened.

I've seen more than a Little Texas, and a Playboy always knows
A man does what he Wills as long as he stays on his toes
He can Russell up a fortune, any man could strike it Rich
But I'm doing good to keep it Strait and keep my wheels out of the ditch
Ain't no Foster for the Desert Rose, the babblin' Brooks are Dunn
That Crystal ball won't even book me one day in the Sun

I'm Haggard, worn and Waylon from the bottom of my Restless Heart
Don't know Wy the Black cloud's tailin' me, there seems to be no Parton from the dark
And I've had it to the Gills of knowin' what the Nitty Gritty's all about
Bein' McEntired and Loveless I can't Lovett if I'm all Tuckered out

Well, I never meant to set out like a half-cocked Gatlin gun
No highway Head Hunter's gonna let this Rabbitt run
I ain't Raven 'bout The Ride, I probably got no fate to Seal
If I can't roll through Alabama half Asleepin' At The Wheel
All my Paycheckes are like dried up Wells and way too small to Cash
Or I'd find a roadside motel, lay some money down to Crash

I'm Haggard, worn and Waylon from the bottom of my Restless Heart
Don't know Wy the Black cloud's tailin' me, there seems to be no Parton from the dark
And I've had it to the Gills of knowin' what the Nitty Gritty's all about
Bein' McEntired and Loveless I can't Lovett if I'm all Tuckered out

Little Texas
Bob Wills
Johnny Russell (I'm guessing??), Charlie Rich
George Strait
Radney Foster, Desert Rose Band, Brooks & Dunn
Crystal Gayle
Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Restless Heart
Wynonna, Clint Black, Dolly Parton
Vince Gill, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Reba McEntire, Patty Loveless, Lyle Lovett
Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers
Kentucky Head Hunters, Eddie Rabbitt
Eddy Raven, Dan Seals
Alabama, Asleep at the Wheel
Johnny Paycheck, Kitty Wells, Johnny Cash

[tim]

^and in case the youngin's don't know, the song title itself is a reference to the great Tanya Tucker :)

[zjames]

Caught another one when I was listening to some Toby Keith.

Toby Keith - "Beers Ago" (Jerry Jeff Walker)

[Andy]

"Tip Your Hat" by Marty Stuart mentions just about every country legend and their most famous song.

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Apr 8, 2014 16:54:43 GMT -5 @carrieflattsfan said:

 Redneck Woman & California Girls, Gretchen Willison (George Strait, Jones)

She mentions Charlie Daniels and Tanya Tucker in RW as well.

There's also "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" by Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash

[onebuffalo]

May 3, 2014 17:12:58 GMT -5 Andy said:

"Tip Your Hat" by Marty Stuart mentions just about every country legend and their most famous song.

Here are the lyrics to that song. Have not heard it yet, but I will.

Mr. Uncle Josh. Would you kindly play me some deep southern blues on that hound-dog guitar there. Ah, now that's what I'm talkin' about. Yeah.

Marty Robbins - El Paso; Waylon Jennings - Ramblin' Man; Roger Miller - King of the Road; Merle Haggard - The Way I Am. Now that's what I'm talkin' about.

Hank Jr. - Family Tradition; Willie Nelson - Angel Flyin' Too Close To The Ground; Ray Price - Crazy Arms; Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down. Now that's what I'm talkin' about.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about
Plow that field, plant that seed
Rock on brother, let your roots run deep
Show 'em what you've got, make them all believers
For God sake boy, tip your hat to the teacher

Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through The Night; Bob Wills - Cherokee Maiden; Buck Owens - Tiger By The Tail; Hank Williams - goes without sayin'. Now that's what I'm dob

Yes sir, that's what I'm talking about
Plow that field, plant that seed
Rock on brother, let your roots run deep
Show 'em what you've got, make them all believers
For God sake boy, tip your hat to the teacher

Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas; George Jones - White Lightning; Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight; Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man. That's what I'm talkin' about.

Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Connie Smith, Johnny Paycheck, remember him - Take This Job and Shove It; Jimmie Rodgers, Acuff, and Monroe. We can't forget Cousin Minnie Pearl. But at night when I'm prayin' down on my knees, I thank God for Lester and Earl.

Play it Earl, Scruggs that is
Tip your hat to the teacher
Tip your hat to the teacher

[someguy]

Kenny Chesney - "If This Bus Could Talk" (Patty Loveless)

Florida Georgia Line - "Sun Daze" (Merle Haggard)

[sabre14]

Austin Webb - "All Country On You" (Carrie Underwood)
Aaron Lewis - "That Ain't Country" (Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Hank Williams Jr., Charlie Daniels, Johnny Cash And June Carter Cash, David Allan Coe, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson)

[travelrocks24]

Unless I missed it, no one mentioned Maddie and Tae's "Girl in a Country Song":

www.metrolyrics.com/girl-in-a-country-song-lyrics-maddie-tae.html

Aw naw, Conway and George Strait never did it this way, back in the old days
All y'all we ain't a cliche, that ain't no way to treat a lady

[Andy]

Rodney Crowell - Closer to Heaven (Guy Clark)