![]() Hey, if this has to be stuck in our heads for the rest of the month, it should be stuck in yours, too. Who does that? Here she duets with Delbert McClinton on their 1993 hit, “Tell Me About It.” Tanya is back with a brand new album and its well-deserved level of attention has been helping to re-shine the spotlight on her expansive career. Theatrical and epic and a little silly and downright catchy and Rob Reiner and… we could go on forever. One of the best country songs, duets, and music videos EVER MADE. ![]() Which doesn’t justify that Tammy Wynette kinda pain, to be sure, but it does remind us that if country can do anything better than all other genres, it can be sad. This one from the jewel in the crown of Lee Ann’s discography, Call Me Crazy, is crisply modern, but with decidedly timeless vocals.Ī broken, country fairy tale of a love story, George and Tammy’s relationship was infamously fraught, but damn if that didn’t just make their duets ever more… ethereal. Together, Lee Ann and George were beacons of the trad country duet form, especially in the ’90s and early 2000s. Here’s its writer and its popularizer and hitmaker together. The most-recorded song in the history of recording? It’s said “Gentle On My Mind” holds that honor. “Seven Spanish Angels” ranked a very close second to this number in our selection process. His collaborations with Willie are stunning for the extreme juxtaposition of their voices and styles - they feel and swing so distinctly and differently, but all while perfectly complementary. Out of countless duets we could have chosen, how could any top “You’re The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly?”įor inexplicable reasons people tend to forget Ray Charles’ incredible forays into country. So we’ll just make the easy choice and kick it all off with Kenny and Dolly - that extra intro about their friendship and the years they’ve known each other? Swoon.Īfter saying what we did about Kenny & Dolly we knew this pair needed to come next - so as to not rile anyone. They should be the start, middle, and end of any definitive list of country duos. We couldn’t have this list without these two. Take a scroll through these twenty-two country twosomes: But the format isn’t restricted to lovers or their placeholders, it can just as seamlessly fit heroes and acolytes, parents and children, siblings, peers, fellow pot smokers, and on and on. (Thought quite possibly better than all other genres.) It just makes sense to have two singers, one to play each role in a lost, soon-to-be-lost, or (rarely) divine, never-perishing romance. Not only because those tight, tasty harmonies are a foundational aspect of the music, but also because country accomplishes heartbreak - and every other make and model of love song - better than almost any other genre. Her most recent album is 2018’s Wouldn’t It Be Great.Country music was made for duets. It became her best-performing album in the US charts then to date, and was followed by her highest-charting album ever, 2016’s Full Circle, which featured duets with Willie Nelson and Elvis Costello. Lynn’s release rate slowed from the mid-1980s, but she had a high-profile resurgence in 2004 with the album Van Lear Rose, produced by the White Stripes’ Jack White. She recorded with kd lang, and also had a friendship with Patsy Cline, recording a tribute album to her after Cline died in a 1963 plane crash. ![]() As well as solo releases she partnered with country stars such as Conway Twitty, with whom she recorded 10 duet albums, and Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette for the 1993 album Honky Tonk Angels. She kept up a high release rate, with at least two and as many as four albums each year between 19. Her second No 1, Fist City, was a threat to other women not to come near her husband, while another country chart-topper, Rated X, addressed the stigma of divorce 1975’s The Pill crossed over into the pop charts with its controversially frank celebration of birth control. I’m a Honky-Tonk Girl was inspired by the story of someone Lynn met and befriended, and its subject matter – a woman devastated by a breakup – would be visited again and again by Lynn, whose songs often depicted broken hearts or damaging relationships, and often featured feisty heroines. The song was a success, reaching the country Top 20, and led to her being signed by a major label, Decca. “Because we were too poor to stay in hotels, we slept in the car and ate baloney and cheese sandwiches in the parks … we were on the road three months,” she later remembered. It was released on a small independent label, and she and Oliver doggedly marketed the single themselves by driving from one country radio station to another. She began writing her own songs and released her debut single, I’m a Honky-Tonk Girl, in 1960. Oliver bought her a guitar as an anniversary present in 1953, and Lynn started a band with her brother Jay Lee, Loretta and the Trailblazers, while she lived as a housewife, now in Washington state.
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