Greatest (male) country artist of the 1960s?

YellowSnow

dnc

Johnny Cash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBTg7q9oNc

GOAT

YellowSnow

Merle Haggard

Years ago I would have said Johnny Cash in this debate. But over time I've come to appreciate Merle more and more. And he is the greatest song writer in the history of the genre and it's not really that close.

Football's the still the roughest thing on campus. And the kid's here still respeck the college dean.

Fishpo31

Buck Owens

For me, Buck was country music in the 60"s. I got into Merle and JC later, and love both. Our house watched his TV shows, and Hee Haw every Saturday night, in between The Honeymooners and Lawrence Welk (Yes, Kiddies, there was a time when it was one TV per household...). Glen is fabulous, but a tweener for me, he was played heavily on AM pop stations back then.

Even though he will probably not get a vote, I have to give a shout out to this, since it is a top3 drunken sing along for me...
https://youtu.be/KAO7vs_Q9is

YellowSnow

Merle Haggard

Fishpo31 said:

For me, Buck was country music in the 60"s. I got into Merle and JC later, and love both. Our house watched his TV shows, and Hee Haw every Saturday night, in between The Honeymooners and Lawrence Welk (Yes, Kiddies, there was a time when it was one TV per household...). Glen is fabulous, but a tweener for me, he was played heavily on AM pop stations back then.

Even though he will probably not get a vote, I have to give a shout out to this, since it is a top3 drunken sing along for me...
https://youtu.be/KAO7vs_Q9is

IFL Buck.

Last night I was dinosaur victrola (ie CD player) listening to Buck Owens.

JoeEDangerously

Glen Campbell

I’m a sucker for a guitar wizard

LebamDawg

Roger Miller

too many dang good ones in that list - I thought that Roger Miller did more for spreading country music - hell - most didn't even know he was country. My folks watched the Jimmy Dean show and any other country show that was on and Miller was always on them.

StLouisDawg

Merle Haggard

Fishpo31 said:

For me, Buck was country music in the 60"s. I got into Merle and JC later, and love both. Our house watched his TV shows, and Hee Haw every Saturday night, in between The Honeymooners and Lawrence Welk (Yes, Kiddies, there was a time when it was one TV per household...). Glen is fabulous, but a tweener for me, he was played heavily on AM pop stations back then.

Even though he will probably not get a vote, I have to give a shout out to this, since it is a top3 drunken sing along for me...
https://youtu.be/KAO7vs_Q9is

Me, too. My father, though Irish, grew up in the barrios of Texas. Every Sunday while I was growing up the family made enchiladas together and listened to Marty Robbins, Loretta, Patsy, Jim Reeves... good memories.

Fishpo31

Buck Owens

LebamDawg said:

too many dang good ones in that list - I thought that Roger Miller did more for spreading country music - hell - most didn't even know he was country. My folks watched the Jimmy Dean show and any other country show that was on and Miller was always on them.

https://youtu.be/Lg7DcCI39GY

Swaye

Merle Haggard

Merle. Stands. Alone.

YellowSnow

Merle Haggard

Swaye said:

Merle. Stands. Alone.

Agree.

LebamDawg

Roger Miller

In the 60's I listened to Miller as he was a cross over with top 40, I did not appreciate Merle till much later. Buck was the other one from the 60's that I knew, Cash got popular in the 70s.

I voted based on my burned out brain cell memory banks

EDIT another cross over

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

LebamDawg

Roger Miller

damn - I should have voted for Merle - he is all of them rolled into one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V3S7kGNjY

ChillyDawg

Johnny Cash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJx2aYF7VU

Here is a very rare 1964 performance from Johnny Cash singing his hit Ring of Fire on the Jimmy Dean Show

Swaye

Merle Haggard

LebamDawg said:

damn - I should have voted for Merle - he is all of them rolled into one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V3S7kGNjY

Merle is the fucking best. The fucking best. Ever. Period. Full stop.

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

YellowSnow

Merle Haggard

Swaye said:

LebamDawg said:

damn - I should have voted for Merle - he is all of them rolled into one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V3S7kGNjY

Merle is the fucking best. The fucking best. Ever. Period. Full stop.

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

I wish Coke was still Cola, and a joint was a bad place to be.

Fishpo31

Buck Owens

YellowSnow said:

Swaye said:

LebamDawg said:

damn - I should have voted for Merle - he is all of them rolled into one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V3S7kGNjY

Merle is the fucking best. The fucking best. Ever. Period. Full stop.

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

I wish Coke was still Cola, and a joint was a bad place to be.

Rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell…

YellowSnow

Merle Haggard

Fishpo31 said:

YellowSnow said:

Swaye said:

LebamDawg said:

damn - I should have voted for Merle - he is all of them rolled into one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V3S7kGNjY

Merle is the fucking best. The fucking best. Ever. Period. Full stop.

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

I wish Coke was still Cola, and a joint was a bad place to be.

Rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell…

Young Yella Piss used to sing the shit out of this song in HS.

Merle basically wrote the MAGA sound track...

Muskogee
Working Man Blues
The Fighting Side of Me