The college interns that write for Rolling Stone decided to update the publication’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time for the first time in 17 years.
I assume they are college interns, anyway. That’s the only excuse I can see for including songs released in the last two years anywhere on this list, including BTS.
Now I’m going to get hate from BTS fans for that.
Anyway, the list does include classic songs that They Just Don’t Make Like This These Days (TM). It also does have a fair amount of Country Music on here, though barely anything newer than 1980 and only three songs post 2000.
Here is the list, filtered for country only. And not including some fringe songs, like Bob Dylan. Dylan is his own category.
476 – Kris Kristofferson “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”
473 – Tammy Wynette “Stand By You Man”
469 – The Chicks “Goodbye Earl”
461 – Roy Orbison “Crying”
441 – Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me”
391 – Eric Church “Springsteen”
376 – Merle Haggard “Mama Tried”
362 – Kacey Musgraves “Merry Go Round”
350 – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery”
263 – Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors”
255 – Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter”
253 – Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain”
237 – Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
206 – Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman”
201 – Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire”
195 – Patsy Cline “Crazy”
191 – Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe”
165 – Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
142 – George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today”
76 – Johnny Cash “I Walk The Line”
63 – Dolly Parton “Jolene”
