I have a fun game. I will list some songs and you have to guess the thing that they have in common. The twist is that you have to listen to the songs in their entirety so bots can't play along. Here's an easy one:

'Lonesome, On'ry and Mean' - Waylon Jennings
'Country State of Mind' - Hank Williams Jr.
'Never No Mo Blues' - Merle Haggard
'Ragged Old Truck' - Billy Joe Shaver

>>126940870 (OP)
Eddy Arnold is proof that bad corporate country for suburbanites is older than you think.

>>126940888
There's nothing wrong with his older hits, even though they aren't very twangy

>>126940888
there's a reason why when 50s cuntray is discussed people usually bring up Wells, Williams, Frizzell but not this guy. i think Patsy Cline wouldn't be remembered so kindly either if she didn't die early.

>>126941145
IMO Patsy is one of the few country stars whose string-laden Nashville Sound records are her best work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUD3XwIoysk
Yeah...it's bad 50s housewife pop with some twangy guitar.

>>126940888
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>>126941145
Don't you younguns derail my thread. Eddy Arnold was one of the greatest country singers ever. Most charted singles and spent more time at the top than anyone else.

>>126940888
His best ever song was recorded by dozens of other people who all did it way better than his original version.

>>126941189
Bot.

Is anyone gonna play the game or are all of you bots getting hung up on the picture, thinking that is what is being discussed.

>>126941256
I may play later, but right now I have to help the set record straight about EE

He was decent until he happened to have several schlocky hits with "World" in their title in the 60's

Carl Smith: Columbia Historic Edition [Columbia, 1985]
Smith's 20 1951-55 country top 10s beat Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizzell, even Webb Pierce, beat everybody but Eddy Arnold. Which suggests his problem. He's almost forgotten today because his smooth baritone was the stuff of popularity, not legend. He didn't write much, and he didn't really interpret much either--he was just a vessel for Nashville tunesmiths to pour their product into. But unlike Eddy Arnold, he had no aptitude for the pop sellout, favoring honky-tonk arrangements that inflected his unflamboyant if Nudie-clad persona toward hard-core country. This collection will ring a bell with those who enjoy homely conjugal tropes, the previously unreleased "No Second Chance" no less than the number one "Don't Just Stand There." And though the number one "Hey, Joe" would have been more welcome than either of the side-closing "sacred" nonhits, I'll bet Smith and the fans who remember him prefer it this way. A-

>>126941336
Okay now THIS one might be a bot

>>126940870 (OP)
Just finished all four, not sure of the connection aside from being country songs