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Post by sabre14 on Aug 4, 2014 14:38:22 GMT -5
I had this idea for this thread yesterday but I never got around to it. There's plenty of songs in this genre that I feel have vivid imagery from it's descriptive lyrics. Here's a few I thought of. :)
"Isn't She" - Carolina Rain ("selling margaritas from a tiki hut on the beach". "One the other side of the rockies") "Almost Home" - Craig Morgan "Jackson Hole" - James Wesley (any song that features snow is great) "Til Summer Comes Around" - Keith Urban (now the winter wind is the only sound) "I'll Wait For You" - Joe Nichols ("snow Montana was three feet high") "Talk Me Out Of Tampa" - Joe Nichols "Sunny And 75" - Joe Nichols "Dixie Lullaby" - Pat Green "Lipstick" - Rockie Lynne "The Secret Of Life" - Faith Hill "8th Of November" - Big & Rich ("said goodbye to his mama, as he left South Dakota, to fight for the red, white, and blue") "Anything But Mine" - Kenny Chesney "19 You + Me" - Dan + Shay "You'll Be There" - George Strait "There Is No Arizona" - Jamie O'Neal "Trying To Find Atlantis" - Jamie O'Neal "Shiloh" - Darryl Worley (civil war song) "She Couldn't Change Me" - Montgomery Gentry "Only In America" - Brooks & Dunn "Austin" - Blake Shelton "Ol Red" - Blake Shelton "The Baby" - Blake Shelton (remember the Blake that sang these songs?) "Suds In The Bucket" - Sara Evans "Backseat Of A Greyhound Bus" - Sara Evans "When I Get Where I'm Going" - Brad Paisley f/Dolly Parton ("I'm gonna land beside a lion, and run my fingers through his mane") "Paper Angels" - Jimmy Wayne "Anywhere With You" - Jake Owen "Home Sweet Home" - The Farm "Hello" - Sugarland ("fall asleep in a big bed of fresh fallen leaves")
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 14:49:29 GMT -5
Rascal Flatts- These Days
Carrie Underwood- Two Black Cadillacs
Reba- Fancy, The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Dixie Chicks- Travelin' Solider, Goodbye Earl, You Were Mine
Miranda Lambert- The House That Built Me, Mama's Broken Heart, All Kinds Of Kinds
Zach Brown Band- Colder Weather
Tim McGraw- If You're Reading This
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Post by someguy on Aug 4, 2014 14:57:11 GMT -5
Trisha Yearwood - "Georgia Rain", "On A Bus To St. Cloud" Dolly Parton - "Home" Reba McEntire - "All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go" (and I agree on "Fancy", too - you can just picture that filthy shack with roaches crawling all around) Martina McBride - "Independence Day"
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Post by gonecountry on Aug 4, 2014 16:40:45 GMT -5
My top 4:
Carolina - Eric Church
There's a cabin in a valley my grandpa built on your land Your mountains are a canvas for the Maker's hand Tonight I'm fishing up a river if only in my mind No, I haven't seen her banks in such a long, long time
A Man On A Tractor - Rodney Atkins
I woke up the same way this mornin' Like a stranger in my own life Tired and confused with too much to do Nothin' left for my kids and my wife
Oh, I clung to that first cup of coffee Praying, 'God, won't you show me what's real?' Then out in the distance I saw through the window A man on a tractor with a dog in a field
Oh, the dog walked just like he was smilin' The man drove like the world was all right The tractor hummed on like a part of a song That you sing to your children at night
You Had to Be There - Tim McGraw
He sat down, picked up the phone And said, "Boy, I'm your old man" He touched the glass between the two As if to shake his hand
The boy, he didn't budge Not even so much as a blink The man said, "Oh, come on Better late than never, don't you think? .....,
"And you'd have to go back And teach me how when I was nine 'Cause my mama couldn't throw a ball Even if she had the time"
"And I should have been learnin' how to fish Instead of learnin' how to smoke I bet if you'd have whooped my tail I'd never thought it was a joke ......
Before the boy hung up the phone He said, "They say I'm out of time" And it hit the man right there and then "My God, son, so am I"
When I Get Where I'm Going - Brad/Dolly
When I get where I'm going On the far side of the sky The first thing that I'm gonna do Is spread my wings and fly
I'm gonna land beside a lion And run my fingers through his mane Or I might find out what it's like To ride a drop of rain
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I'm gonna walk with my grand daddy And he'll match me step for step And I'll tell him how I missed him Every minute since he left Then I'll hug his neck
But when I get where I'm going And I see my Maker's face I'll stand forever in the light Of His amazing grace
Yeah, when I get where I'm going Oh, when I get where I'm going There'll be only happy tears Hallelujah I will love and have no fear
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Post by sbp17 on Aug 4, 2014 16:46:56 GMT -5
Indian Summer - Brooks & Dunn Something In Red - Lorrie Morgan
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Post by Markus Meyer on Aug 5, 2014 3:07:37 GMT -5
I really enjoyed the imagery in Lee Brice's "I Drive Your Truck".
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Post by someguy on Aug 5, 2014 7:15:54 GMT -5
Trisha Yearwood - "The Song Remembers When"
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Post by fe_lipeoliveira on Aug 5, 2014 19:47:06 GMT -5
The first two that came to mind are "Beige" by The Pistol Annies and "Stealing Kisses" by Lori McKenna, but you can pretty much add any Lori McKenna song to the list.
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Post by zjames on Aug 5, 2014 21:10:53 GMT -5
"Lightning" - Eric Church
These four walls of Farnworth Are closin' in on me My final meal's over They're gonna set me free I can feel the fire's a burnin' As the devil guards my door I hit my knees in search of Jesus On a cold jailhouse floor
"Mississippi in July" - Charlie Worsham
These delta roads, everyone I know By the cotton fields and railroad tracks. It's more than just the heat, most folks Who would get the chance to leave but don't come back. Last time I thought about you in a wedding dress I would've been holding your hand. But at seventeen you promise things That you don't really understand
"Neon" - Chris Young
The sky in Cheyenne, Wyoming Is just about as blue as it gets And if you ain't seen a Santa Fe sunset, You ain't seen red Texas sunflower yellow Can take your breath away I've seen it all From the orange of the fall To the green of the summer, But my favorite color is neon
"Merry Go 'Round" - Kacey Musgraves
We get bored, so, we get married. Just like dust, we settle in this town. On this broken merry go 'round and 'round and 'round we go Where it stops nobody knows and it ain't slowin' down. This merry go 'round
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Post by gonecountry on Aug 5, 2014 21:44:15 GMT -5
[quote author=" zjames" source="/post/4893763/thread" "Neon" - Chris Young The sky in Cheyenne, Wyoming Is just about as blue as it gets And if you ain't seen a Santa Fe sunset, You ain't seen red Texas sunflower yellow Can take your breath away I've seen it all From the orange of the fall To the green of the summer, But my favorite color is neon
Ummmm, Neon. Forgot that gem. Great imagery with that song. Lightning is good too
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Post by renee75 on Aug 5, 2014 22:19:36 GMT -5
I was just about to say "Neon." :) Also "Whiskey Lullaby" and "Amarillo Sky."
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Post by someguy on Aug 5, 2014 23:34:01 GMT -5
The first two that came to mind are "Beige" by The Pistol Annies and "Stealing Kisses" by Lori McKenna, but you can pretty much add any Lori McKenna song to the list. "Stealing Kisses" is a great example. Another one is "Fireflies" (both Lori songs recorded by Faith Hill). Mary Chapin Carpenter also has some ("I Take My Chances", "Only A Dream", "Stones In The Road", etc.).
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Post by jamesmckee on Aug 6, 2014 12:07:09 GMT -5
"Turning Home" - David Nail "Me and Emily" - Rachel Proctor
Many more...but those are a couple of phenomenal examples of the last decade+
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 6, 2014 12:34:14 GMT -5
"Midnight In Montgomery" - Alan Jackson
"See the stars, light up the purple sky. Feel that lonesome chill. Cause when the wind is right, you'll hear his songs, smell whiskey in the air. Midnight in Montgomery, he's always singing there".
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 20:55:10 GMT -5
Heartbreak Town- Dixie Chicks
Honked the horn when we crossed the state line, woke up the baby and she started to cry
Miranda Lambert- Famous In A Small Town
They say life is so much sweeter through the telephoto lens of fame, around here you get just as much attention, cheerin ' at the high school football game
Rascal Flatts- Why
Now here we are gathered in our little hometown, this can't be the way you meant to draw a crowd
Two black Cadillacs drivin' in a slow parade, headlights shinin' bright in the middle of the day/one's for his wife, the other for the woman who loved him at night
Carrie- Two Black Cadillacs
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Aug 14, 2014 8:44:41 GMT -5
Angels Like Her Trent Tomlinson
"The sunbeam hit the Jim Beam And ricocheted off a bottle of Coke Cut through the still smoulderin' Second-hand night before smoke The whisky's half-empty Half in me, my enemy and my friend Well, last night drowned my sorrows But today is tomorrow again "
And I could literally spend all day on how descriptive Kris Kristoffersons lyrics were. But heres one of my favorites.
Sunday Morning Comin Down
"In the park I saw a daddy With a laughin' little girl who he was swingin' And I stopped beside a Sunday school And listened to the songs they were singin' Then I headed down the street And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin' And it echoed thru the canyon Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday."
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Post by someguy on Nov 23, 2014 1:13:41 GMT -5
Trisha Yearwood - "Your Husband's Cheating On Us"
The details that the song provides really makes you feel like you're in the room with the characters.
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Post by Todd on Nov 23, 2014 19:14:40 GMT -5
Willie Nelson - City of New Orleans
All along the southbound odyssey the train pulled out at Kankakee And rolls along past houses, farms, and fields Passing trains that have no names and freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
Kris Kristofferson - Darby's Castle
See the ruin on the hill Where the smoke is hanging still Like an echo of an age long forgotten There's a story of a home Crushed beneath those blackened stones And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten
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Post by zjames on Nov 23, 2014 19:24:02 GMT -5
"In Color" - Jamey Johnson
And this one is my favorite one This is me and grandma in the summer sun All dressed up, the day we said our vows You can't tell it here but it was hot that June And that rose was red and her eyes were blue And just look at that smile, I was so proud That's the story of my life Right there in black and white
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Post by Dustin J. on Nov 24, 2014 9:22:58 GMT -5
"Cherokee Highway" by Western Flyer tops the list for me.
Mississippi, in '61 They watched his daddy die Guided by the light of a burnin' cross That lit the Delta sky Kevin and Willie, 10 years old, They were best of friends The only way you could tell 'em apart Was the color of their skin "C'mon Willie!," Kevin screamed, "Let's get out of here!" Willie's numb, Can't even run, frozen there with fear So Kevin takes off through the woods Yelling "I'll be back for you!" Running fast, out of breath, can't stop and rest His daddy would know what to do But rushing through the door He sees the eyes of a man His daddy's washing the blood out of a sheet But it won't come off his hands
Chorus: And the blood still runs down Cherokee Highway A senseless river filled with all they've shed Just two dark sides to Cherokee Highway But black or white, the blood still runs red
Now the fire is at the fuse In a town that just won't learn Word is out, "make the white man pay," Gonna watch his farm house burn Midnight, the flames begin, Kevin's daddy's the first to rise So he grabs his gun and he grabs his wife, But Kevin's still inside From the shadows comes a boy with darker skin Though they killed his daddy, gonna save his friend, He runs through the door as the house falls in
Chorus
Staning in the ashes, he sees what hate really is Two little bodies, both burned black, Can't tell which child is his
Chorus
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 13:25:30 GMT -5
Miranda Lambert- Dead Flowers
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Post by Andy on Nov 25, 2014 15:27:25 GMT -5
How did I miss this topic?
Lots and lots for me. I love a song that lets your imagination run wild and allows you to create the setting in your head. Some favorites:
Alan Jackson - The Sounds Alan Jackson - Who Says You Can't Have It All Garth Brooks - The Cowboy Song Garth Brooks - Ireland Lyle Lovett - This Ol' Porch Rodney Crowell - Glasgow Girl Townes Van Zandt - Snowin' on Raton Townes Van Zandt - Tecumseh Valley (let's just say pretty much every Townes song)
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Post by jesster on Nov 26, 2014 21:30:50 GMT -5
Not the most elegant choice certainly but first thing that came to mind for me -- "we'll put a boot in your ass it's the American way."
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Post by tim on Nov 27, 2014 0:44:17 GMT -5
Somehow I've missed this one too, Andy. And as someguy (kudos for the "On a Bus to St. Cloud mention...personal fav of mine) mentioned a while back, Mary Chapin Carpenter has some and she is actually the first one that came to mind for myself. I'm more of a fan of her album cuts, and these are the ones that I think of: I Am A Town, Holding Up the Sky, I Was A Bird, A Place In the World, Between Here and Gone, and 10,000 Miles Don Williams would be the next artist I think of, more specifically his albums during his American Harvest Records period between 1995 and 1996 ( Flatlands and Borrowed Tales). In fact, when I'm feeling introspective I'll often put on both MCC and Don Williams. Here's some from Don during that period that come to mind with some of my favorite lines included: Shadow Land ("Funny how the stars down there shine so bright, breeze comes in just like a prayer") What Does it Matter To Me ("On winter's eve, my soul has soared with desert's evening sky...but never seen the beauty I see in her eyes") This Side of the Sun ("I thought I'd be an angel and fly on astral skies") Crying in the Rain ("If I wait for cloudy skies you won't know the rain from the tears in my eyes")
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Post by sabre14 on Nov 30, 2014 16:59:06 GMT -5
Big & Rich - "Leap Of Faith"
"And I walk to the edge, throw my hands to the sky Oh I'm not afraid I'm not afraid to live this life, though my dreaming eyes"
"I'm a raging burning ring of fire and I get hotter as I get higher And I'm tearing a hole right through the sky of blue"
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Dec 16, 2014 10:57:15 GMT -5
Andy reminded me of Townes Van Zandt , who I'm kind of embarrassed to admit I only started to explore earlier this year. My partner got a little worried about me when I first discovered "Waitin' Around To Die" & obsessed over it for a few months. "Now I'm out of prison, I got me a friend at last, He don't steal or cheat or drink or lie. His name's codeine, he's the nicest thing I've seen. Together we're gonna wait around and die"
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Dec 16, 2014 11:31:30 GMT -5
Jennifer Hanson, "Beautiful Goodbye"
It's like the most amazing sunset you've ever seen There's never another quite the same, it just falls into some eternal sea Like the end of a movie that makes you cry You're sad when it's over but you're glad you had that moment that moved you deep inside
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Post by zjames on Jul 15, 2015 21:01:45 GMT -5
"Dime Store Cowgirl" - Kacey Musgraves
I've had my picture made with Willie Nelson Stayed in a hotel with a pool Driven through New Mexico where the saguaro cactus grow And I felt really small under Mount Rushmore
And I made it all the way past Austin City Limits And maybe for a minute, I got too big for my britches
Slept in a room with the ghost of Gram Parsons Drank some wine I can't afford Went to San Antonio to the riverwalk and rodeo Seen the white cliffs of Dover from the shore
And I kinda fell in love with a Palm Springs trailer park But those California stars could never steal my heart
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Post by zjames on Aug 7, 2015 23:28:43 GMT -5
Kip Moore - "Everything But You"
There's a pathway to the ocean, a salty breeze blowing And this old man down the street makes damn good wine It's got stars that shine like diamonds on the black canvas behind 'em And there's a sun out here that seems to always shine And I've never seen water quite so blue It's got everything but you
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Post by defying gravity on Aug 8, 2015 9:51:20 GMT -5
Kenny Chesney - "The Boys of Fall"
When I feel that chill, smell that fresh cut grass I'm back in my helmet, cleats, and shoulder pads Standin' in the huddle listenin' to the call Fans goin' crazy for the boys of fall
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