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

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,832 Founders Club
    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.
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  • kanehall
    kanehall Member Posts: 38
    Waylon Jennings. Not even close....
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Hank Williams Jr
    Yoakam*
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,832 Founders Club
    Hank Williams Jr
    kanehall said:

    Waylon Jennings. Not even close....

    Wrong decade.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,832 Founders Club
    Hank Williams Jr
    dnc said:

    Yoakam*

    Cuntry folks don’t spell good. You know this.
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  • greenblood
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    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.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,832 Founders Club
    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.
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  • Joey
    Joey Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,582 Founders Club
    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)
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,855 Swaye's Wigwam
    Randy Travis
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgJXbIP83A8
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