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accfootballrules OP
May 07, 2022 at 07:17 AM ET
What is your FAVORITE COUNTRY drinking song

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Paul_Petera Paul_Petera
You Never Even Called Me By My Name - David Allen Coe...however...
There are so many good ones:
Family Tradition - Hank Jr
Nothing's News - Clint Black
Neon Moon - Brooks & Dunn
I'll Think of Something - Mark Chesnutt
Wild and Wooly - Chris LeDoux
My Old Friend the Blues - Steve Earle
I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink - Merle Haggard
You Look Good in Neon - Mike & The Moonpies
7&7 - Turnpike Troubadours
Misery and Gin - Merle Haggard
Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings
bluehokie bluehokie
Seven Spanish Angels
AirborneHokie96 AirborneHokie96
All My Ex's Live in Texas...
HokieJay HokieJay
None.
bourbonstreet bourbonstreet
{Cutty's} "Strokin'..." {/the 3o4}
WestyHokie WestyHokie
How do you tell them apart?
Major Kong Major Kong
Red Solo Cup, Wasn't That a Party
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Brewing_Hokie
Lots of great songs already mentioned.
Totally depends on if party drinking songs or sad drinking songs for me. I’m a sucker for sad country music as if mostly makes me happy.

For those in this thread that miss old school country, there’s still good country being made, you just don’t hear it for the most part in pop country radio. Checkout the Texas/red dirt scene, the Appalachian scene and you’ll find good music.
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EDGEMAN
Pop ruins everything. There's even "Pop" alternative tunes on the radio
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EDGEMAN
Here's a great one:
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EDGEMAN
Right up there with this one:
Which might be the greatest drinking ballad of them all:

scoop76cs scoop76cs
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scoop76cs scoop76cs
Luckenbach Texas - Waylon Used to be on the jukebox in Hokie House.**

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ChazB ChazB
You don't have to call me Darling, David Allen Coe.
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HokieJamie
Jack Daniels by Eric church
Spudnut Spudnut
[drops mic]
Link: Link
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VTUD
Alan Jackson..."It`s Five O`clock Somewhere"
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Stech
Not even close for me (LINK)
I was smart, I would listen to this every day, got to get smarter!
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VTUD
Great song. But,a drinking song?
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Stech
Yeah, just put a song I love up there, let me go w/ When it rains it pours
Luke Combs for the drinking song.

Funny thing for me is that my wife and I have been married over 36 years and when this song comes on, we stop and just start singing and laughing about it.

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Hokie1992
That’s a good nominee!
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EDGEMAN
Great tune!
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Stech
Oops meant for the original post.**

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ValveHokie ValveHokie
I've been enjoying Burn Out by Midland lately
DJ Golf DJ Golf
Here's an oldie I really like
although my fave version is by the Australian indie band The Triffids...
DJ Golf DJ Golf
And here's another great one
that I first heard when it was covered by the NC country band Two Dollar Pistols.
Roanokie Roanokie
Parked By The Lake, of course
By Dean Summerwind. The essence of county music right here.
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Hurley09
Whiskey Lullaby always seems to get the party started.
HokieDan95 HokieDan95
Definitely a Crowd pleaser
Merlin Hokie Merlin Hokie
"Tear In My Beer" by Hank Sr. & Hank Jr.
....you were on my lonesome mind....
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KfgsHokie
Whiskey Bottle - Uncle Tupelo
DJ Golf DJ Golf
"I Got Drunk" is another great one by UT, it's a bit more rock tho
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HokieForever
The ones you can play backwards, get your dog, truck, and girl back!
Alan11 Alan11
You Never Even Called Me By My Name. David Allen Coe.
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EDGEMAN
I don't see anyone doing a remake that will measure up to the original
It's perfect as is!
Tuckahokie Tuckahokie
Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down by KK...his and Johnny's version
HokieR HokieR
Terrific song
Tuckahokie Tuckahokie
...and Vern Gosdin's "Set 'em up Joe"
RhinoVT RhinoVT
Whoa. Tough one. Eric Church, Drink in My Hand right now BUT Waylon
Honky Tonk Heroes, Hank Jr Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound, Tom T Hall, I like beer. So so many good drinking, sing along songs.
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RunHokieRun
Tom T. I like Beer gets my vote
HokieDan95 HokieDan95
Willie Nelson's Whiskey River, Alan Jackson's Pop a Top, Stapleton and
Morgan Wallen's Only thing that's gone

3 that come to mind






Tuckahokie Tuckahokie
Check out the original "Pop a Top" by Jim Ed Brown
HokieDan95 HokieDan95
I know Alan's is a remake
Tuckahokie Tuckahokie
I figured you did...maybe others have not heard Jim Ed's
RRHokie90 RRHokie90
Hmm...if bluegrass and country are considered the same
for the terms of your question, then Shot for Shot by The Firewater Tent Revival wins hands down.

NSFW lyrics: not for kids or colleagues!
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EDGEMAN
That's like saying Jazz and Blues are the same
They aren't.

Bluegrass is far more technical than country, and usually much better.

Take Townes Van Zandt's White Freightliner Blues as a prime example. Just compare his original recording to Molly Tuttle's bluegrass version...there is no comparison. Molly just crushes it!
Paul_Petera Paul_Petera
Molly Tuttle is so talented
Her new album Crooked Tree is one of my favorites this year so far.
`lag `lag
Yeah, I was going to say something but since he qualifed it as
drinking songs I cease and desisted. But yeah.

Love Molly Tuttle and she has a couple dates coming up in our "area" (Cumberland MD, Solon Va, Birchmere)

I don't know what it is, country music isn't my thing either, but what is it that folks have to definitively declare they're not fans of country music as in "I love that song, but I don't like country music" Well, apparently you do like country music, just a little bit of it. Afraid of being called a redneck in their minds I guess, I dunno.
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Hokie1992
Thankfully country music has zero to do with the Klan
But the big umbrella of “country music” crosses lots of areas. You can take it back to Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Tammy wyneete and glen campbell to Garth brooks to modern pop country of Carrie Underwood, Kenny chesny and Brad paisley.

I just either confess or proudly state I’ve never owned a pair of cowboy boots or cowboy hat, and if the party is in a barn, I’ll be a little outta place.

I’ll also say any Yankee or 757 or Novite needs to visit the country store in Floyd county on a Friday night
`lag `lag
That was too strident, softened it to redneck
but yeah, come across it all the time on youtube, people make a point of letting you know they are no way associated with country music: "Well, I really like this and I don't even like country music" OK, ya got a little cognitive dissonance going on there.

I don't really hear that anywhere else eg "I don't really like reggae but I like Bob Marley" kinda stuff.

I've been to the Floyd country store, also that pizza place has a pretty nice stage too where I saw Floyd's own Morgan Wade. And I kinda like the old stuff in country, not so much the newer stuff which if anything, seems to have taken over the stadium rock niche. Saw Brad Paisley the night before the VT - WV game at Lane, have his pick in fact.
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HokieR HokieR
I listened to the Molly Tuttle version
just now since you mentioned it. Didn't like it all. Shows how different people are in their tastes.
RTFC RTFC
She opened for a Caamp show I was at a month or so ago, really good.
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EDGEMAN
Here's the Townes Van Zandt version
Which is the original country version of the song:
HokieR HokieR
Yeah. I'm very familiar with Townes
Own most of his music. The thing about Bluegrass covers is that they up the tempo and sing much higher. Townes is country blues and almost all of his stuff is fairly slow tempo. So most of the covers of his stuff that deviate a lot aren't to my taste. But that's just me. Molly is no doubt talented and if I wasn't a Townes junkie I would probably like it better.
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EDGEMAN
Here is Molly's bluegrass version:
Although this is not a concert version, you can see and hear her much better in this video. The best I've seen her perform this was during the Country Music Hall of Fame benefit concert, but that has been taken down on YouTube. :(

Molly just rips this tune!
RRHokie90 RRHokie90
Topic switch: OBX Rod and Custom Festival is going on this
weekend...

Some glorious muscle cars on display if you like that sorta thing!

RRHokie90 RRHokie90
I am with ya'....not a country fan...
Just wanted to play along!
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Hokie1992
Country music makes me an angry drunk
Not really, I’ve only been drunk a handful of times. But as a non-country fan , it’s not my music I’d choice.
dolph dolph
Last night, I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter That looks like Elvis I
I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar

I pulled the head off Elvis
Filled Fred up to his pelvis
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you
HokieR HokieR
Willie Nelson - Gotta get drunk. That being said
all these new male country artists just have to include beer, pickups and tractors in seemingly every freaking song they do. It's just such a tired cliche that I don't listen to it.
Hokie CPA Hokie CPA
I don't know if I can pick just one.
Hank Jr's Family Tradition,
David Allen Coe's You Never Call Me By My Name,
Garth Brooks' Friends In Low Places,
Joe Diffie's Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox,
I could go on....
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EDGEMAN
All excellent!
Garth is the "most modern" country singer I've listened to...really talented performer.
dolph dolph
Moved **

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