Greatest (male) country artist/s of the 1980's

YellowSnow

YellowSnow

Hank Williams Jr

@Swaye queef something outta that red twat of yours. Wanna talk some cuntry music.

LebamDawg

Randy Travis

this is totally unfair - We need to do this so we can pick four. but if I had to pick one I guess I can - just not right now

El_K

Hank Williams Jr

I hate country western music, but I do like me some Bocephus. As Alex Van Halen said Bocephus rules and rules them all.

PurpleThrobber

Randy Travis

Even during my Bobby Brown/My Prerogative phase, played the living shit out of Randy Travis.

You’ve been too gone for too long...

BleachedAnusDawg

Randy Travis

Only recognize a few of these names. Probably should've voted for Hank as I realized after voting that he did the OG Monday Night Football song (I think).

Swaye

Dwight Yokam

Im ensuring Dwight gets a vote. I'd also add Ronnie Milsap. Also Kenny Rogers has to be on there.

edit: To be fair a lot of Ronnies work was done in the 70's, but most of his biggest hits were early 80s. He had an absolutely absurd 40 #1 hits.

edit number 2: Don Williams. Another of those guys who got started in the 70's but probably had his heyday in the 80s. I Believe In You is one of the biggest hits ever in country music (1981).

edit number 3: Ricky Scaggs. I know he is bluegrass but he is absolutely essential to any 80's country grouping.

Fishpo31

George Straight

I voted for George b/c he's got some swing in there, which tied him to Willie, which tied him to Bob Wills, for me. In this time period, I began to pick up on the Alt stuff (Sir Doug, Dwight, Steve E., Rodney Crowell, Jerry Jeff...et.al) and going backwards into the 70's / 60's for Willie, Waylon, Merle, Buck, Johnny, Roger Miller and Charlie Pride.

My roomies in college wore me out on Bocephus and Bama, from which I have not recovered. I still will cherry pick some Jr., as well as John Anderson (Seminole Wind and Swinging, specifically).

YellowSnow

Hank Williams Jr

Swaye said:

Im ensuring Dwight gets a vote. I'd also add Ronnie Milsap. Also Kenny Rogers has to be on there.

edit: To be fair a lot of Ronnies work was done in the 70's, but most of his biggest hits were early 80s. He had an absolutely absurd 40 #1 hits.

edit number 2: Don Williams. Another of those guys who got started in the 70's but probably had his heyday in the 80s. I Believe In You is one of the biggest hits ever in country music (1981).

edit number 3: Ricky Scaggs. I know he is bluegrass but he is absolutely essential to any 80's country grouping.

Ronnie and Don Williams are both tweeners which makes it hard. They were major stars in the second half of the 70s who continued to have success in the early 80s.

Hank Jr is a bit of a tweener too, but he ready didn't break through commercially until 1979 and his biggest period of superstardom was the first half of the 1980's.

Bocephus gets my vote here rather easily. I like King George a lot and his voice was 2nd to none. But when I comes to cuntry, I'm always gonna lean to rough, rowdy, outlaw, honky tonk over the smooth stuff like George Straight or Randy Travis. Plus Hank Jr wrote most of his hits and George did not.

UW_Doog_Bot

Dwight Yokam

Swaye said:

Im ensuring Dwight gets a vote. I'd also add Ronnie Milsap. Also Kenny Rogers has to be on there.

edit: To be fair a lot of Ronnies work was done in the 70's, but most of his biggest hits were early 80s. He had an absolutely absurd 40 #1 hits.

edit number 2: Don Williams. Another of those guys who got started in the 70's but probably had his heyday in the 80s. I Believe In You is one of the biggest hits ever in country music (1981).

edit number 3: Ricky Scaggs. I know he is bluegrass but he is absolutely essential to any 80's country grouping.

You should have known I'd vote for Bakersfield sound.

YellowSnow

Hank Williams Jr

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Swaye said:

Im ensuring Dwight gets a vote. I'd also add Ronnie Milsap. Also Kenny Rogers has to be on there.

edit: To be fair a lot of Ronnies work was done in the 70's, but most of his biggest hits were early 80s. He had an absolutely absurd 40 #1 hits.

edit number 2: Don Williams. Another of those guys who got started in the 70's but probably had his heyday in the 80s. I Believe In You is one of the biggest hits ever in country music (1981).

edit number 3: Ricky Scaggs. I know he is bluegrass but he is absolutely essential to any 80's country grouping.

You should have known I'd vote for Bakersfield sound.

YellowSnow

Hank Williams Jr

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Swaye said:

Im ensuring Dwight gets a vote. I'd also add Ronnie Milsap. Also Kenny Rogers has to be on there.

edit: To be fair a lot of Ronnies work was done in the 70's, but most of his biggest hits were early 80s. He had an absolutely absurd 40 #1 hits.

edit number 2: Don Williams. Another of those guys who got started in the 70's but probably had his heyday in the 80s. I Believe In You is one of the biggest hits ever in country music (1981).

edit number 3: Ricky Scaggs. I know he is bluegrass but he is absolutely essential to any 80's country grouping.

You should have known I'd vote for Bakersfield sound.

To me, Bakersfield, is on the Mt Rushmore of all time most important country music towns.

YellowSnow

Hank Williams Jr

YellowSnow said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Swaye said:

Im ensuring Dwight gets a vote. I'd also add Ronnie Milsap. Also Kenny Rogers has to be on there.

edit: To be fair a lot of Ronnies work was done in the 70's, but most of his biggest hits were early 80s. He had an absolutely absurd 40 #1 hits.

edit number 2: Don Williams. Another of those guys who got started in the 70's but probably had his heyday in the 80s. I Believe In You is one of the biggest hits ever in country music (1981).

edit number 3: Ricky Scaggs. I know he is bluegrass but he is absolutely essential to any 80's country grouping.

You should have known I'd vote for Bakersfield sound.

To me, Bakersfield, is on the Mt Rushmore of all time most important country music towns.

Being a native Cali Fag who's ancestors come from the valley, I can get behind this.

kanehall

Waylon Jennings. Not even close....

dnc

Hank Williams Jr

Yoakam*

YellowSnow

Hank Williams Jr

kanehall said:

Waylon Jennings. Not even close....

Wrong decade.

YellowSnow

Hank Williams Jr

dnc said:

Yoakam*

Cuntry folks don’t spell good. You know this.

greenblood

George Straight

Swaye said:

Im ensuring Dwight gets a vote. I'd also add Ronnie Milsap. Also Kenny Rogers has to be on there.

edit: To be fair a lot of Ronnies work was done in the 70's, but most of his biggest hits were early 80s. He had an absolutely absurd 40 #1 hits.

edit number 2: Don Williams. Another of those guys who got started in the 70's but probably had his heyday in the 80s. I Believe In You is one of the biggest hits ever in country music (1981).

edit number 3: Ricky Scaggs. I know he is bluegrass but he is absolutely essential to any 80's country grouping.

Outside of The Gambler, I've never been a fan of Kenny. Ronnie Milsap on the other hand, legendary.

YellowSnow

Hank Williams Jr

greenblood said:

Swaye said:

Im ensuring Dwight gets a vote. I'd also add Ronnie Milsap. Also Kenny Rogers has to be on there.

edit: To be fair a lot of Ronnies work was done in the 70's, but most of his biggest hits were early 80s. He had an absolutely absurd 40 #1 hits.

edit number 2: Don Williams. Another of those guys who got started in the 70's but probably had his heyday in the 80s. I Believe In You is one of the biggest hits ever in country music (1981).

edit number 3: Ricky Scaggs. I know he is bluegrass but he is absolutely essential to any 80's country grouping.

Outside of The Gambler, I've never been a fan of Kenny. Ronnie Milsap on the other hand, legendary.

Kenny will be in the 70's which is where most of hits came. He had some great stuff outside of the Gambler cliche.

Joey

Hank Williams Jr

Hank Jr can play the shit out of guitar. Writes a lot of his own shit. Also spawned Hank 3 who I play the shit out of to this day.

Only knock I ever had on King George was he doesn’t write his hit songs.

Milsap should be up there.

Basically everybody up there is in my wheelhouse (mid 80’s-late 90’s)

LebamDawg

Randy Travis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgJXbIP83A8