Cornell Hurd Pick

Years ago, make that more than a couple of decades ago, I was not living in Texas. I was planning a trip to Dallas. I had no idea how big Texas was then. It's huge. I asked a buddy of mine who was a big music lover and I really respected his musical knowledge (he's also a famous comic book inker) and had been a guest on my radio show many times. I asked if he knew of a good band to see while I was there. He recommended a road trip to Austin to go to a restaurant (Jovitas). They were hosting a band there once a week that was worth the drive. That's what he said. Eat and you see the band. They ended up being the Cornell Hurd Band. On the night we were there half the show featured Marti Brom who was a rock-a-billy singer, but was covering Dorothy Shay that night. She'd done an album with the Cornell Hurd Band. I had not heard of her, Cornell Hurd or Dorothy Shay. They were worth the drive. Amazing rubboard player (Danny). Turns out Cornell was from the San Jose area (probably around when Doug Sahm was there) and had novelty songs played by Dr. Demento and moved to Texas (or perhaps back to Texas). Great sense of humor, great band. Bought a bunch of recordings then and since. Here is my pick. BTW, special thanks to Richard who got me one of the songs I was missing.

Cornell Hurd Pick

01 Cornell Hurd Band with Johnny Bush - Mom's Tattoo

02 Marti Brom with Cornell Hurd Band - Kiss Me Big

03 Cornell Hurd Band - If You Play With My Mind

04 Cornell Hurd Band - What Would Ernest Tubb Have Done

05 Cornell Hurd Band - The Genitalia of a Fool

06 Joel Crawford with Cornell Hurd - Psychotic Love

07 Cornell Hurd Band - Texas Eyes

08 Cornell Hurd Band - Tell Your Shrink I Said Thanks for Nothing

09 Marti Brom with Cornell Hurd Band - Feudin' and Fightin'

10 Cornell Hurd Band - Respect for the Dead

11 Cornell Hurd Band - Don't Wipe Your Face With Your Shirt

12 Cornell Hurd Band - I Drink Too Much

13 Cornell Hurd Band - Honky-Tonk Has Been

14 Cornell Hurd Band - You Only Kiss Me When We Say Goodbye

15 Cornell Hurd Band - The Long Goodbye

16 Cornell Hurd Band - Texas Me

17 Cornell Hurd Band - Fools Like Me

18 Cornell Hurd Band - Just One More Time

19 Cornell Hurd Band - Heavy Breathin'

20 Cornell Hurd Band featuring Brad Moore & Judy Julian - Seven Cups of Coffee, Fourteen Cigarettes

21 Cornell Hurd Band - I'm Gonna Drive

22 Marti Brom with Cornell Hurd Band - They Were Doing The Mambo

23 Cornell Hurd Band - Saturday Night In San Jose

24 Cornell Hurd Band - Come On Home To Houston

25 Cornell Hurd & His Mondo Hotpants Orchestra - Bicentennial Boogie

26 Cornell Hurd Band - Big Game Hunter

27 Cornell Hurd Band - Here Comes My Ball And Chain Again

28 Cornell Hurd Band - Loving You Was Never Enough

29 Cornell Hurd Band - This Gun Don't Care Who Shoots It

Hankering For Hoo-Ha 1

I know some of you will be thinking of the urban dictionary meaning of Hoo-Ha, but it also means trouble or fuss or a disturbance, This country based pick is all about wishing for a fuss. I picked these top hits to play at your next fuss or disturbance. The songs aren't fussy or much about trouble. Perhaps a couple are. Mostly just good recent country that would be good at any kind of get together or just driving in your truck. I might have made these the next Hayride Hootenanny, but got stuck on this title instead. I liked it. Cover background looks tiki but it's from a shark Hoo-Ha. If you have kids you might recognize it.

Hankering For Hoo-Ha 1

01 Bryan Martin - We Ride

02 Tucker Wetmore - Wind Up Missin' You

03 Kelsea Ballerini & Lany - I Quit Drinking

04 Morgan Wallen - Last Night

05 Keith Urban - Messed Up As Me

06 Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em

07 Montgomery Gentry - One In Every Crowd

08 Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North Of Richmond

09 Jimmy Buffett - Why Don't We Get Drunk

10 Chris Young - Young Love & Saturday Nights

11 Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help

12 Ella Langley & Riley Green - You Look Like You Love Me

13 Travis Tritt - It's A Great Day To Be Alive

14 Toby Keith - Should've Been A Cowboy

15 Jessie Murph with Jelly Roll - Wild Ones

16 Luke Combs - Ain't No Love In Oklahoma

17 Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town

18 Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey

19 RaeLynn - God Made Girls

20 Brantley Gilbert - Kick In The Sticks

21 Jelly Roll - Need A Favor

22 Nate Smith - Bulletproof

23 Cody Johnson - Til You Can't

24 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Yo Bro 2

Here's the second part of this Bro Country pick. I almost called it Truck Yeah, but this title won out in my mind. A couple of the same bands, but mostly no doubles. And definitely no doubles on songs. Like yesterday I added a Br country song from the perspective of a girl as the last song. The video (if you haven't seen it) is hilarious. I don't follow the country charts much, but I am assuming these are all big hits. At least they are popular when I play them for people at my gigs. A couple of songs on these two volumes also appear on my Hayride Hootenanny series, but those aren't strictly bro country. Although they also are some fun country songs.

Yo Bro 2

24 Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies & Friends - Boys 'Round Here

25 Kidd G & Lil Uzi Vert - Teenage Dream 2

26 Jake Owen - Barefoot Blue Jean Night

27 Lee Brice - Parking Lot Party

28 Frankie Ballard - Sunshine & Whiskey

29 Florida Georgia Line - Get Your Shine On

30 Big & Rich - Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)

31 Sam Hunt - House Party

32 Dixon Dallas - Like Whiskey

33 Luke Bryan - Country Girl (Shake It For Me)

34 Chris Young - Aw Naw

35 Eric Church - Drink In My Hand

36 Jerrod Niemann - Drink To That All Night

37 Shaboozey - Let It Burn

38 Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem

39 Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan - This Is How We Roll

40 Breland - My Truck

41 Justin Moore - Lettin' The Night Roll

42 Parmalee - Close Your Eyes

43 Dierks Bentley featuring Breland & Hardy - Beers On Me

44 Chris Janson - Buy Me A Boat

46 Chase Rice - Ready Set Roll

47 Brad Paisley - 4WP

48 Maddie & Tae - Girl In A Country Song

Yo Bro 1

This Yo Bro pick is my Bro Country compilation. I have two volumes of it being posted today and tomorrow. I suppose I knew most of these songs when they came out, but I was ignorant enough not to know they were all bro country songs. Just country songs I liked. Oh well. The last song on each volume is slightly different those are the versions done by country girls about bro country songs. In today's volume its about wanting to be a country truck girl. Tomorrow, it's a little different. I put them in because they fit even though they aren't bro's sing them. Hope your Christmas, yesterday, was good.

Yo Bro 1

01 Dustin Lynch - Hell Of A Night

02 Brantley Gilbert - Bottoms Up

03 Kip Moore - Somethin' 'Bout A Truck

04 Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party

05 Kane Brown - Lose It

06 Little Big Town - Pontoon

07 Tim McGraw - Truck Yeah

08 Dierks Bentley - Drunk On A Plane

09 Randy Houser - How Country Feels

10 Luke Bryan - That's My Kind Of Night

11 Trace Adkins - Honky Tonk Badonkadonk

12 Brad Paisley - River Bank

13 Hardy - Give Heaven Some Hell

14 Morgan Wallen featuring Florida Georgia Line - Up Down

15 Blake Shelton - Sure Be Cool If You Did

16 Thomas Rhett - Vacation

17 Cole Swindell - Chillin' It

18 Dallas Smith - Tippin' Point

19 Florida Georgia Line featuring Nelly - Cruise (Remix)

20 The Cadillac Three - The South

21 Branchez & Big Wet - Turn Up On the Weekend

22 Billy Currington - Hey Girl

23 Maggie Rose - Girl In Your Truck Song!!

Country Beatles

This isn't fair, but the Beatles together and solo did have country influences in their music. Some is in this pick. Personally, I think the Stones did country better (see Country Stones), but the Beatles did have some good songs that really sound country. Some just have that hint of country flavor. That doesn't make the songs bad. No, in fact, some of them are excellent Beatles songs with a Beatles sound. Ringo was a big country fan. He had a whole country album as a solo artist and several of the Beatles tracks with a real country flair are featuring Ringo. But all of them had some country influences. I know I could have picked a bunch of others. Let me know if I missed a really obvious one (especially solo stuff), but here's my pick of countrified Beatles. BTW, I love this cover! My first attempt at AI.

Country Beatles

01 Wings - Sally G

02 Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line

03 Beatles - Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

04 Beatles - Don't Pass Me By

05 Paul McCartney & Wings - Country Dreamer

06 George Harrison - I Don't Care Anymore

07 John Lennon - Tight A$

08 Beatles - You Like Me Too Much

09 Beatles - I'm A Loser

10 Beatles - Rocky Raccoon

11 Beatles - Act Naturally

12 Beatles - What Goes On

13 Beatles - Baby's In Black

14 Ringo Starr - $15 Draw

15 George Harrison - Woman Don't You Cry For Me

16 Paul McCartney - One More Kiss

17 George Harrison - Behind That Locked Door

18 Ringo Starr - Beaucoups Of Blues

19 Beatles - Words Of Love

20 Ringo Starr - So Wrong For So Long

21 Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko

22 George Harrison - I Live For You

23 Ringo Starr - Loser's Lounge

24 George Harrison - Any Road

25 John Lennon - Move Over Ms. L.

26 Beatles - Honey Don't

Smooth & Tangy BBQ 2

More of the country BBQ pick. These are some more of the Smooth and Tangy songs like volume 1 a few days ago. This is pretty mainstream country. Like the others it started with some playlists in a DJ magazine. It will play well at any BBQ where you have country fans. In Texas, they are very proud of their BBQ. You cannot go into a decent restaurant and not be able to order some kind of brisket. Taco brisket, breakfast brisket. I haven't found it yet, but I wouldn't be surprised to see brisket ice cream.

Smooth & Tangy BBQ 2

21 Brooks & Dunn - Neon Moon

22 Vince Gill - I Still Believe In You

23 Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind

24 Garth Brooks - The River

25 Dierks Bentley - Come A Little Closer

26 Alabama - God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You

27 Shania Twain - Youve Got A Way (Notting Hill Mix)

28 Tim McGraw - Don't Take The Girl

29 Alabama - Angels Among Us

30 Garth Brooks - The Dance

31 Montgomery Gentry - Lucky Man

32 Dolly Parton with Vince Gill - I Will Always Love You

33 Faith Hill - Breathe

34 George Strait - Carrying Your Love With Me

35 Kenny Chesney - The Good Stuff

36 Dixie Chicks - Landslide

37 Garth Brooks - Unanswered Prayers

38 Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying

39 Diamond Rio - Beautiful Mess

40 Clay Walker - Hypnotize The Moon

Smooth & Tangy BBQ 1

More of the country BBQ pick. These are the Smooth and Tangy songs as opposed to the Hot & Spicy ones from the last several days. I have two volumes of this, but volume two will come after Cinco De Mayo. Again, this is pretty mainstream country. You'll figure out the difference between the Spicy one and this one once you  give it a listen. Like the others it started with some playlists in a DJ magazine.

Smooth & Tangy BBQ 1

01 Garth Brooks - Shameless

02 Hank Williams, Jr. - A Country Boy Can Survive

03 Garth Brooks - If Tomorrow Never Comes

04 Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces

05 Alabama - Feels So Right

06 Judds - Mama He's Crazy

07 George Strait - Amarillo By Morning

08 Deana Carter - Strawberry Wine

09 Alabama - We Made Love

10 Lee Greenwood - God Bless The USA

11 Lonestar - I'm Already There

12 George Strait - Carried Away

13 Little Big Town - Bring It On Home

14 Faith Hill with Tim McGraw - Let's Make Love

15 Buddy Jewell - Sweet Southern Comfort

16 Tim McGraw - The Cowboy In Me

17 Carrie Underwood - So Small

18 Tim McGraw - Where The Green Grass Grows

19 Rascal Flatts - Take Me There

20 Little Texas - My Love

Hot & Spicy BBQ 2

This is part two of the Hot & Spicy BBQ pick. Pretty much all hits and stuff people recognize and will dance to.You will never be at a loss when someone asks, can you play some country. Here it is. These are time tested by DJ's at all sorts of parties. These ones in this series are more party hits, so don't use them at romantic moments in a wedding. Use the Simply Sweet ones instead. Look for them, they are here somewhere. If you can't find them I can post them again.

Hot & Spicy BBQ 2

22 Toby Keith - I Love This Bar

23 Trace Adkins - Honky Tonk Badonkadonk

24 Toby Keith - As Good As I Once Was

25 Tim McGraw - I Like It, I Love It

26 Tim McGraw - Where The Green Grass Grows

27 Kenny Chesney - How Forever Feels

28 Alan Jackson - Chattahoochee

29 Tracy Byrd - Watermelon Crawl

30 Brad Paisley - Mud On The Tires

31 David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name

32 Alabama - Mountain Music

33 Brooks & Dunn - Play Something Country

34 Garth Brooks - Two Pina Coladas

35 Alan Jackson - Where I Come From

36 Shania Twain - Man! I Feel like a Woman!

37 Martina McBride - This Ones For The Girls

38 Brooks & Dunn - Boot Scootin Boogie

39 John Michael Montgomery - Life's A Dance

40 Dixie Chicks - Cowboy Take Me Away

41 Faith Hill - This Kiss

Hot & Spicy BBQ 1

This one started out as an early Mobile Beat playlist. I can't even remember who made it and I also don't remember how much if any I changed it. But what I can tell you is I have played this at country gigs of all sorts and people Like it, they Love it. There are probably more recent hits. In fact I guarantee you there are, but anyone who likes country will not mind you playing these songs (paraphrasing Brooks & Dunn)

Hot & Spicy BBQ 1

01 Toby Keith - How Do You Like Me Now

02 Alan Jackson - Don't Rock The Jukebox

03 Osborne Brothers - Rocky Top

04 The Tractors - Baby Likes To Rock It

05 Kenny Chesney - She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy

06 Alan Jackson And Jimmy Buffet - It's Five O'Clock Somewhere

07 Garth Brooks - Ain't Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)

08 Randy Travis - Forever And Ever, Amen

09 Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman

10 Tim McGraw - Just To See You Smile

11 Mel McDaniel - Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On

12 Toby Keith - Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)

13 Trace Adkins - Ladies Love Country Boys

14 Alabama - Song Of The South

15 Gretchen Wilson - Here For The Party

16 Hank Williams, Jr. - Family Tradition

17 Little Texas - God Blessed Texas (Dance Edit)

18 Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe

19 Shania Twain - Any Man of Mine

20 Rascal Flatts - Mayberry

21 Hank Williams, Jr. - All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight

Hayride Hootenanny 2

I started this some time ago and obviously have added or exchanged some tracks as I've gone along. Here is pick number 2 of the Hayride Hootnenanny. More mainstream country, you'll recognize all or most all of these artists and/or songs. I have another similar kind of pick coming soon if you like this. And if you don't like this, I have another pick coming anyway so probably skip that one. I understand. At one time I also thought I didn't like country music. I was wrong, but I did think that.

Hayride Hootenanny 2

21 Mark Chesnutt - Bubba Shot The Jukebox

22 Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party

23 Travis Tritt - T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Single Version)

24 Joe Nichols - Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off

25 David Lee Murphy - Dust On The Bottle

26 Big & Rich - Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)

27 Rascal Flatts - Summer Night

28 Luke Bryan - Country Girl (Shake It For Me)

29 Billy Currington - Pretty Good At Drinkin' Beer

30 Jerrod Nieman - One More Drinkin' Song

31 Josh Turner - Why Don't We Just Dance

32 Toby Keith - A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action

33 George Strait - Here For A Good Time

34 Zac Brown Band - Toes

35 Brooks & Dunn - Boot Scootin' Boogie

36 Alan Jackson - Good Time

37 Dierks Bentley - Tip It On Back

38 The Kentucky Headhunters - Dumas Walker

39 Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus - Old Town Road (Diplo Remix)

40 Brad Paisley - Alcohol

41 Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel

42 John Michael Montgomery - Be My Baby Tonight

Hayride Hootenanny 1

This pick is going back a few years (decades?). I was just starting to like Country music and came up with this pick for some country gigs I was doing. I never did "full" country gigs, but some where half the family would appreciate some good country and western. This was my more mainstream picks. The Pol's Country Pick was a little more on the outside. I have a few of these and another couple for weddings specifically. I was covered.

Hayride Hootenanny 1

01 Dustin Lynch - Cowboys And Angels

02 Gloriana - (Kissed You) Good Night

03 Brad Paisley - She's Everything

04 Alan Jackson - Remember When

05 Trace Adkins - Then They Do

06 Kenny Chesney - Come Over

07 Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line

08 Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup

09 Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried

10 Brooks & Dunn - Hard Workin' Man

11 Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs

12 Jake Owen - Eight Second Ride

13 Judds - Girls Night Out

14 Rascal Flatts - Life Is A Highway

15 Garth Brooks - I've Got Friends In Low Places

16 Dierks Bentley - 5-1-5-0

17 Taylor Swift - Love Story

18 Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart

19 Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much (Remix #1)

20 Cowboy Troy - I Play Chicken With The Train

Pol's Country Pick 4

I'm not sure if this should be just a Country Pick or more related to That's Nice, That's Real Nice. I haven't quite decided while I am typing this. By the time you read it, however I guess you'll know what I decided. Probably the former since it is not all alt-country which is what the latter was. Most of these country songs are a little bit randy. Been thinking of a pick I could use and a friend of mine started sending me a selection of newer bands with some good songs that I hadn't heard before. And of course made me start thinking of other songs that would fit in (old and not so old), So I put them all together for this compilation. Anyway, if you are ever in the Austin area, see if Cornell Hurd Band is playing. They are a fun band to see live. We miss Danny, but the band is still going strong. Cornell was from the San Jose area way back when, but transplanted in Texas years ago. Well worth a drive from Dallas if you fly in there. Just make sure he's playing.

Pol's Country Pick 4

71 Jim Stafford - Spiders and Snakes

72 Zane Williams - 99 Bottles

73 Cornell Hurd Band - If You Play With My Mind (You're Gonna Get Your Hands Dirty)

74 Buck Satan and The 666 Shooters - Quicker Than Liquor

75 Rodney Crowell - She's Crazy For Leaving

76 Eddie Spaghetti - Gotta Get Drunk

77 Kinky Friedman - Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In Bed

78 Deryl Dodd - New Tony Lamas

79 Kevin Fowler - Don't Touch My Willie

80 Hayes Carll - Another Like You

81 Marti Brom with Cornell Hurd Band - They Were Doing The Mambo

82 Fred August Campbell & The Spur Of The Moment Band - The I-95 Asshole Song

83 The Beat Farmers - Big Rock Candy Mountain

84 Junior Brown - My Wife Thinks Your Dead

85 John Prine with Iris Dement - In Spite Of Ourselves

86 Hayseed Dixie - Big Bottom

87 Roy Drusky - Peel me a Nanner

88 Tommy Alverson - Una Mas Cerveza

89 Rodney Carrington - Letter To My Penis

90 Robert Earl Keen - That Buckin' Song (Saddle Sore Mix)

That's Nice, That's Real Nice

I've already posted a few volumes of my Country Picks, but this is the one that started it. I was visiting Texas and going to shows, meeting women from Texas and thinking I might move there. This was some thirty or so years ago. I took another twenty-five years to do it, but eventually I moved. Anyway driving the countryside I was listening to a lot of mainstream country music, which was okay, but I longed for something more alternative. So this pick came into being. Some of the bands I had seen in Texas were the Starkweathers and the Cornell Hurd Band. I loved the punk attitude of the Starkweathers. Live they did a great version of This Land Is Your Land (I never found a studio version of it by them, but they did it amazingly well). The Cornell Hurd Band was originally from San Jose (where I had been living) and were reason enough to come to Austin. They had a weekly gig at a Mexican restaurant which is no longer there. And rocked the place. Another band that I heard first in Austin was Junior Brown! Wow! Goober & the Peas was a band I saw in the beginning of  their career (one of their early members was Jack White.) I saw them play in New York on the same night that Guns and Roses played at the CBGB's Canteen. GNR sucked and I predicted they would go nowhere and a week later they were no. 2 in the charts - I can call them. But Goober & the Peas were great! The title came from a Texas saying.

That's Nice, That's Real Nice

01 Starkweathers - Burn The Flag

02 Kelly Hogan & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - 13 Nights

03 Goober & The Peas - Hot Women (Cold Beer)

04 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down

05 The Hollisters - Roses Are Blooming

06 The Unholy Trio - Bring The Noise

07 Moonshine Willy - Roulette Wheel

08 Knitters - Poor Little Critter On The Road

09 The Roughnecks - Going Home

10 Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked

11 Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Mudhoney - Buckskin Stallion Blues

12 Red Star Belgrade - Highway To Hell

13 Br549 - Too Lazy To Work, Too Nervous To Steal

14 Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

15 Vandals - Long Hair Queer

16 The Cornell Hurd Band - Here Comes My Ball And Chain Again

17 Waco Brothers - Do You Think About Me-

18 Old 97's - Por Favor

19 Ween - Piss Up A Rope

20 Confederate Railroad - Trashy Women

21 Junior Brown - Doin' What Comes Easy To A Fool

22 Dead Kennedys - Rawhide

23 Trailer Bride - Ghost On The Highway

24 Starkweathers - White Trash Boy

25 Robby Fulks - She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died)

Pol's Country Pick 3

This is the last of this series for now, I actually have more to pick from but they are not assembled. See the previous two days for how and why I started this series. For this one I want to mention the previously posted Country Stones compilation. I made that compilation after these three in the series. One of the "bonus" tracks in the Stones pick I already had on Volume 2 of this pick. Not an accident. And if you look at the covers of each they all match, just with an extra set of lips on the Stones volume. They are meant to go together. What I haven't posted yet is my first one. My first country-ish pick. Made way before these and I did not make it to match. One day I will post that one. In the meantime, this one will have to do. Leave comments about what your first country song was that made you realize you liked the genre. Or were you brought up a little bit country?

Pol's Country Pick 3

47 Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

48 Rolling Stones - Memory Motel

49 Mojo Nixon & World Famous Blue Jays - UFOS, Big Rigs And BBQ

50 Blondie - Ring Of Fire (live)

51 The Belmont Playboys - Tore Up

52 Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Live)

53 Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man

54 The Greenhornes With Holly Golightly - There Is An End

55 Wall Of Voodoo - Tomorrow

56 Everything But The Girl - I Fall To Pieces

57 Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.

58 The Scotchgreens - There You Go

59 Scott Goddard - Cowpunk

60 Gear Daddies - Zamboni

61 Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove It

62 Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

63 Hank Williams, Jr. - All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight

64 Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel

65 Son Volt - Afterglow 61

66 The Del Lords - Love on Fire

67 The Bottle Rockets - Baggage Claim

68 Flatt And Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

69 Jason Ringenberg - Half The Man

70 Remy Zero - Bitter

Pol's Country Pick 2

This continues my series of country picks that started when I wasn't admitting to myself that I liked country music. I slowly added real country songs into the pick of alternative country stuff I did admit to. I added to that list others that I found later. What's interesting, as a DJ, I find that people who say they don't like country, usually do. But are very vocal about "hating" country. And the people who love country music are the most tolerant people about the music being played. Back when I did not have a decent pick of country music I noticed at weddings and events that there are groups of people who like different music. Some will complain about every other genre being played coming up and saying can't you play something we can dance to. Even when the dance floor is full of dancers. They will not dance unless it is their specific genre. People who like country will dance, even if it isn't country. They are happy every time you play a country song. Even if you play just a few, they are the first to come up and say "thanks for that one song!" and "great music!" People who love some other genres (I won't name the genre) can have 90% of the night be in that genre and they are still upset that the one song was not. That's why I started loving country music.

Pol's Country Pick 2

25 Joss Whedon & Sonny Rhodes - Firefly Main Title

26 Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight

27 Holly Golightly - Walk A Mile

28 The Soledad Brothers - Rock Me Slow

29 Beatles - Act Naturally

30 Giant Sand - Plants And Rags

31 Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee

32 Kid Rock - Roll On

33 Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel

34 Bon Jovi - Who Says You Can't Go Home

35 kd Lang And The Reclines - Bopalena

36 Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Country Road Version)

37 Lone Justice - I Found Love

38 Scud Mountain Boys - Silo

39 Steve Earle - Time Has Come Today

40 The Oak Ridge Boys - Carry on Wayward Son

41 The Bodeans - The Strangest Kind

42 The Jayhawks - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

43 Southern Culture On The Skids - Nitty Gritty

44 Meat Puppets - Flaming Heart

45 The Reverend Horton Heat - Spend A Night In The Box

46 Buck Satan and The 666 Shooters - Down The Drain

Pol's Country Pick 1

I grew up in California. The most country I got growing up was the Eagles or maybe Marie Osmond. I didn't get into country until I was in college. And even then it was mostly what people now are calling alt-country. But as a DJ you had to play some country no matter where you are in this nation. I almost said country again. So this series is some of the first country I ever started liking mixed in with some alt stuff that came later. I found the Dorothy Shay because of Marti Brom and the Cornell Hurd Band. I saw them do a show in Austin on one of my many trips out there, but not one of the South by Southwest trips. I was told by a good friend to make the trip to see them and he was right. Totally worth it. She sang some Dorothy Shay songs which I looked up later and fell in love. I put in the original on this pick, but do check out Brom's version it's quite good too. If you look at the list many of these are bands that weren't really country bands, sort of. Elvis, Wall Of Voodoo, etc. And then off shoots from other bands: Ministry, X, Violent Femmes, etc. and then some comedy and a variety.

Pol's Country Pick 1

01 Tom T Hall - I Like Beer

02 Travis Tritt - T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Single Version)

03 Elvis Costello - Psycho (Live)

04 Tammy Wynette - D-I-V-O-R-C-E

05 Wall Of Voodoo - The Good The Bad & The Ugly-Hang 'Em High

06 Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

07 Dorothy Shay - Feudin' and Fightin'

08 Rodney Carrington - Show Them To Me

09 Supersuckers - Mean-Eyed Cat

10 Jerry Reed - She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)

11 Paul Kelly & The Stormwater Boys - Little Boy Don't Lose Your Balls

12 Everything But the Girl - Draining the Bar

13 Green On Red - Mighty Gun

14 Eddie Spaghetti - I Don't Want To Lose You Yet

15 August Campbell & the Spur of the Moment Band - I-95 Song

16 Whistlin' Bullets - Bit By Love

17 Beat Farmers - Lucille

18 Junior Brown - My Wife Thinks Your Dead

19 Buck Satan and The 666 Shooters - I Hate Every Bone in Your Body Except Mine

20 Garry Lee and Showdown - The Rodeo Song

21 Knitters - The Call Of The Wreckin Ball

22 Two Nice Girls - I Spent My Last $10 (On Birth Control And Beer)

23 Brian Ritchie - Religion Ruined My Life

24 Calexico - Sunken Waltz

Country Stones Pick

The Rolling Stones played a lot of Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues and, surprisingly, a lot of country songs. A friend recently posted a compilation of Rolling Stones Love songs. It's a good collection/playlist. I made this one. There are a few tracks missing, but my criteria tends to be what fits on a CD, so if you want those last few tracks on your own playlist, you will have to add it yourself. I will list them at the end. If I missed one, let me know in the comments. The cd cover is cheesy, but works for me.

Country Stones Pick

01 Rolling Stones - Torn And Frayed

02 Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine

03 Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes

04 Rolling Stones - Congratulations

05 Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now

06 Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia

07 Rolling Stones - Sweet Black Angel

08 Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice

09 Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

10 Rolling Stones - I Got The Blues

11 Rolling Stones - Country Honk

12 Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler

13 Rolling Stones - No Expectations

14 Rolling Stones - Dear Doctor

15 Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

16 Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile

17 Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

18 Rolling Stones - Loving Cup

Bonus Tracks

Rolling Stones - Let It Loose

Rolling Stones - Memory Motel

Rolling Stones - Time Waits For No One

Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend