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

YellowSnow
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Greatest (male) country artist/s of the 1980's 22 votes

Dwight Yokam
9%
SwayeUW_Doog_Bot 2 votes
Oak Ridge Boys
0%
Alabama
0%
Steve Earl
4%
YouKnowIt 1 vote
George Straight
31%
Mad_SongreenbloodTequillaJaWarrenJaHookerhuskyhooliganBendintheriverFishpo31 7 votes
Hank Williams Jr
31%
AtomicDawgdncalumni94DHDYellowSnowEl_KJoey 7 votes
Keith Whitely
0%
John Anderson
0%
Randy Travis
22%
DerekJohnsonPurpleThrobberLebamDawgBleachedAnusDawgStLouisDawg 5 votes
Eddie Rabbit
0%
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,832 Founders Club
    Hank Williams Jr
    @Swaye queef something outta that red twat of yours. Wanna talk some cuntry music.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,855 Swaye's Wigwam
    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
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  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,536 Swaye's Wigwam
    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.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,756 Standard Supporter
    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...


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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,853 Standard Supporter
    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).
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    edited October 2021
    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.
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,678
    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).
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,832 Founders Club
    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.
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,610 Founders Club
    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.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,832 Founders Club
    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.

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