Greatest (male) country artist of the 1960s?

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• dnc Member Posts: 56,823

  November 2021

  Johnny Cash

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

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,821

  November 2021

  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.

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• Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,554

  November 2021

  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

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,821

  November 2021 edited November 2021

  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.

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• Joey Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,030

  November 2021

  Glen Campbell

  I’m a sucker for a guitar wizard

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• LebamDawg Member Posts: 8,763

  November 2021

  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.

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• StLouisDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 547

  November 2021

  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.

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• Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,554

  November 2021

  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
  

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• Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,695

  November 2021

  Merle Haggard

  Merle. Stands. Alone.

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,821

  November 2021

  Merle Haggard

  Swaye said:

  Merle. Stands. Alone.

  Agree.

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• LebamDawg Member Posts: 8,763

  November 2021 edited November 2021

  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

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• LebamDawg Member Posts: 8,763

  November 2021

  Roger Miller

  damn - I should have voted for Merle - he is all of them rolled into one
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4V3S7kGNjY

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• ChillyDawg Member Posts: 1,469

  November 2021

  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

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• Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,695

  November 2021

  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

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,821

  November 2021

  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.

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• Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,554

  November 2021

  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…

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,821

  November 2021

  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

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