How About The 'Fairer' Side of Country?

[Pappy]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0MZaq76oiWg&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=thkVfs7uYrA&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_K6Y-YGZUec&feature=related

No way to pick just one! I think the hard, driving songs show case the power in Reba's voice best.

[cabinetman]

Yeah, you're right about the voice. But, this one I wouldn't kick off the workbench.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5e5Gh7zYtc
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[Mrs. Wallnut]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0MZaq76oiWg&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=thkVfs7uYrA&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_K6Y-YGZUec&feature=related

No way to pick just one! I think the hard, driving songs show case the power in Reba's voice best.

Pappy you picked one of my all time favorite female artists. I love her. I recently bought her greatest hits or Number one hits album. Listen to it at work a whole lot. But Fancy is one of my favorites and I also like the duet with Linda Davis, "Does He Love You".

Martina McBride is another one that I really like. Their voices are very strong and powerful and make you feel the music they are singing.

[Stytooner]

I have to say that both gal's shown have some real stuff and I enjoy both. I have say though that my all time favorite existed before even I was born.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axRodU_7430
There are much better recordings of course, but the range in this gal's voice was phenomenal.
Here is a nice little chop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XZPbj6UAWw

I really thick she started the quivering voice. Outstanding.
Not as much to look at as the previous couple, but surely qualified to be at any table in the world.

[germdoc]

I'll see you and raise you.

Reba and Martina are gorgeous and have nice voices, but to REALLY sing country you have to live it. Here's my all-time favorite, Lucinda Williams, who's been around the block a few times:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RXbn1-aVQw8

Now, if you want talent and looks, here's Linda Ronstadt in her prime

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SMTqCYUWYaQ

and Alison Krauss

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qn8tixOYiZ0

Any of these girls could knock the socks off most so-called country singers, i.e., the ones with the slick Nashville production who spend more on makeup and clothing than the budgets of some Third World countries.

For the most part I can't stand to listen to most modern country stations unless they promise "All the old hits, all the time"--Hank Williams, George Jones, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, etc. I'm with Lee about Patsy Cline: I melt when I hear her sing. Her voice goes straight to the heart.

[Ed62]

Yeah, I'm with Lee too. She was the greatest. The others are also very good, but she was in a class by herself.

Ed

[John Hunter]

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[Ed62]

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That looks like a good one, John. Thanks for the tip.

Ed