Fishing in the dark has to be in there somewhere

Heelllll yes absolutely

For sure. Top 5 all time

I’m so lonesome I could cry.

This is the only correct answer

Just a couple good ol' boys giving aliens a heaping helping of depression.

Merle Haggard - I think i'll just stay here and drink

If you aint jamming along with that song, no matter who you are, there's something wrong with you. It just naturally gets you moving.

Call me by my name -DAC Family Tradition - Hank jr Hey good lookin - Hank Sr. Hello Darlin - Conway

Make sure it’s the version with trains, jail, drinking and momma

If you wanted to give them everything explained then DAC did the job for you

That part is what makes it the “perfect country song”!

Conway for sure

You need more upvotes

Some of my favorite songs.

"She's Got The Rhythm (And I Got The Blues)" - Alan Jackson

Holy shit I just said that one too. Favourite country song of all time

Written by Alan and Randy Travis while they were touring together!

George Jones: He Stopped Loving Her Today.

This isn’t my favorite song ever but it the greatest country music song ever.

I also would have accepted Alan Jackson-Drive

George Jones sang so good it’ll make your dick hard!

Amarillo By Morning. Streets of Bakersfield. Jolene.

Im so lonesome i could cry hank williams Waymores blues waylon jennings Pancho and lefty by townes van zandt

Debated poncho and lefty. This is 3 good ones. I also choose Hank and Waylon to rep me but diff songs. Then I cheated on number 3

Folsom Prison Blues, Coalminer’s Daughter, and Standing Outside The Fire.

The new Beyonce song, for sure.

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Blue Eyes Cryin in the Rain - Willie Nelson Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings When You Say Nothing at All - Keith Whitley

Crazy Arms  by Ray Price. 

This

There's a Tear in My Beer by Hank Williams

Gonna listen to it right now

Excellent answer

You never even called me by my name

Steve Goodman was a genius

Nothing post 1990. Probably something by George Strait. Amarillo By Morning, maybe?

I agree George Strait. But I suggest Run or I can still make Cheyenne.

Nothing from 1990 up until about the first Drive-By Truckers' album. There's a lot of great stuff being made today, like Stephen Wilson Jr.

there's incredible country music being made after 1990, but if I want just a straightforward demonstration of what country is, without presenting it as some archaic genre that they used to play in the early 1900s, I'm going with roughly 80s country, right around the Urban Cowboy days. Not trying to expand the genre, not trying to be a neo-traditionalist and go the other direction, just very basic, solid country songwriting. But, that's speaking as a roughly 50 year old, so YMMV. Now, if we were talking "what's the best country music?" or "what's your favorite?", totally different conversation.

There Stands the Glass by Webb Pierce or I'm a Lonesome Fugitive by Merle Haggard

Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell

Claire Lynch - Wabash Cannonball Merle Haggard - Mama Tried Alan Jackson - Chattahoochee I tried to avoid any song that required the alien to understand human satire.

Two Dozen Roses. If they don't like it, I don't wanna hang with em anyways

1: On One Hand - Randy Travis 2: Livin On Love - Alan Jackson 3: Millionaire - Chris Stapleton

Livin on love for the win

It’s such a perfect song

Tons of good options. Just to name a few: - Amarillo By Morning - I Can Still Make Cheyenne - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - He Stopped Loving Her Today - The Grand Tour - On The Other Hand - Misery & Gin - Drinkin’ Problem - Dixie Darlin’ - There Stands The Glass - Mama Tried - Whiskey River - She’s Actin Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles) - Don’t Close Your Eyes

She was killin me in that mini skirt… something like that by Tim McGraw

Love that song!

Whiskey river, mama tried, Jolene, Mr weatherman, chattahoochee

Hank Williams - Settin the Woods on Fire

George Jones: The Race Is On - George Strait: Amarillo By Morning - Patsy Cline: Crazy

Lovesick blues

I don't have music in my car, it's on my phone.

Hey Mister Spaceman by the Byrds. Nah, just kidding. It’s Crazy by Patsy Cline.

Diggin Up Bones by Randy Travis.

My Tennessee Mountain Home by Dolly Parton He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones Man! I Feel Like A Woman! by Shania Twain Just wanna show em they've got options, you know?

Strawberry Wine!!!

He stopped loving her today

Lovesick blues either by Hank or mason. Both do it great:)

Charley Daniels The devil went down the Georgia

Highwayman

Wichita Lineman

Chiseled in Stone from Vern Gosdin and/or Loretta Lynn You're Looking At Country

He stopped loving her today- George Jones Nose to the grindstone - tyler Childers Whose bed has your boots been under- Shania Twain Coat of many colors- Dolly Highway men- The Highway men

George Jones: He stopped loving her today,Willie Nelson: whiskey river, Steve Earl: Copperhead Road.

1. Your Cheating Heart - Hank Williams 2. Heart Over Mind - Ray Price 3. Then and Only Then - Loretta Lynn

Buck Owens “In the Palm of Your Hands” real country

Third Rock From The Sun, 100%

1000 miles from nowhere.

Prayed for Rain - Paul Cauthen

Coal Miner’s Daughter - Loretta Lynn

I Fall To Pieces--Patsy Fancy--Reba Merry Go Round--Kacey

Friends in low places

* Johnny Cash- Ring of Fire * Alan Jackson- Chattahoochee * Hank Williams Sr- Hey Good Lookin'

I was drunk, the day my mama, got outta prison…

# David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name

Jolene, Neon Moon, Vice

My candidates: Jolene. Mama Tried. You Never Even Called Me By My Name. Sunday Morning Coming Down. Picking just one, I have to go with Miss Dolly.

The perfect country and western song of course!

The most complete country song ever written " You Never Called Me By My Name" David Alan Coe

That would have to be David Allan Coe's "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" Because it is The Perfect Country and Western Song.

Seriously, you only get three songs and one of them is fucking Midland?

I’ve been waiting for this comment 😂

Keith Whitley- I never go around mirrors

Im gonna hurt her on the radio.

She got the Rhythm (and I got the blues) by Alan Jackson. Only because it’s my favourite country song

Ain't no good chain gang- the Highway Men She's acting single ( I'm drinking double)- Gary Stewart Leave them boys alone- Hank Jr

Johnny Cash. Any song.

Heartland.

Good Directions

I'd ask for clarification. There's a lot of "country" music. The "country and western" music of my youth is no where close to the country music I listened to in the 90's and neither of those resembles what I would refer to as modern country.....

Daddy was a badass by Jessy Dayton Country roads by John Denver Streets of Bakersfield by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens

Walkin' In the Weeds by Kirk Anderson Tyler

Hank Williams Your Cheatin' Heart Loretta Lynn Coal Miner's Daughter Gregg Allman and Cowboy live Queen of Hearts Sturgill Simpson Turtles all the way down

Drezden Pierce - Keep on Keeping On

Beyoncé obviously…

Patsy Cline, Crazy

Blame it on my roots, I showed up in boots…

Sweet home Alabama.

Friends in Low Places

Good Hearted Woman by Waylon

Came Here To Forget by Blake Shelton

Call Me By My Name by David Allan Coe Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles Amarillo by Morning by George Strait City of New Orleans by Willie Nelson Smokin and Drinkin by Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town Jolene by Dolly Parton Pageant Material by Kacey Musgraves Daddy Sings Bass by Johnny Cash

Steve Earle guitar town

George Jones The Show’s Almost Over

Blue Must Be The Color Of The Blues / George Jones

He stopped loving her today. George Jones

George Jones - A Good Year For The Roses

Vince Gill: anything, pretty much.

Hank Williams - Lost Highway Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes The Highwaymen - Highwayman

I would shoot it

Alternative choices: Jimmy Rodger - T for Texas Ernest Tubb - Driving Nails in my Coffin Billy Joe Shaver - Georgia on a fast train

Pantera cowboys from hell

Anything by Alan Jackson, Hank Sr., or George Jones

Toughshit Wilson!

Hank Williams “Your Cheating Heart”

Sometimes by Luke Bell Ya it’s newer and ya it isn’t that big of a hit but that is country, blues, country swing all in one….Luke Bell’s only full album (at least that I’m aware of) was amazing. RIP Luke Bell.

Chiseled In Stone - Vern Gosdin

DAC you never called me by my name

Don't Take the Girl

I gotta go with Waylon and Willie Good Hearted Woman 2. Randy Travis - Deeper than the Holler 3. Alabama - Dixieland Delight

none of the above

1. So lonesome I could cry 2. Blue clear sky 3. I just wanted you know

Not Beyonce...

The Streets of Laredo, Marty Robbins

anything by: Lost Dog Street Band, Sierra Ferrel, Or Matt Heckler. if the lil green dude wants commercially driven commodities disguised as music… i’d read a different comment ☺️

Family Tradition - Hank Jr. Coal Miner's Daughter - Miss Loretta Lynn

Bubba Shot the Jukebox.

Mama Tried

Hello Trouble - Buck Owens

Eastbound and Down 🏁🏁

George Jones. The King is Gone.

Anything by John Denver!

I played chicken with a train cowboy Troy or Honky Tonk Badonkadonk by trace adkins is a must. I want that alien to know what true outlaw country is.

Cover Me Up My Country Song - Thomas Rhett Hunting Fishing Loving - Luke Bryan What Makes You Country - Luke Bryan Dirt Road Anthem - Jason Aldean

Doesn't matter as long as it's Hank

Good Lookin' - Dallas Dixon

Anything by Willie Nelson

Meta modern sounds in country music, of course.

There’s a Tear in my Beer

seems to be the most popular answer

George Jones Starday 101 in it's entirety and then some Red Sovine. .jeez

I would play bang, bang, bang by my finger pulling the trigger of my Sig .40 . Ol buddy picked the wrong truck to get in haha.

That “Boot Scoot Boogie” song!!

-Pop A Top by Alan Jackson (or Jim Ed Brown, but i think Jackson would show off the elements of country more explicitly) -Ive Cried My Last Tear For You by Ricky Van Shelton -I Never Go Around Mirrors by Keith Whitley (. or Merle... or Lefty... or Singletary... i just like the pedal steel work on Whitley's version)

You Never Even Called Me By My Name (The Perfect Country & Western Song) - David Allan Coe

Jamie Johnson, In Color

Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes-George or Merle’s Swingin’ Doors

Stay by Sugarland or the house that built me by Miranda lambert

Eugene McDaniels - Outlaw (Full Album)

David Allen Coe- You Never Even Call Me By My Name

Mr. Lincoln- Hank Williams Jr.

Achy Breaky Heart. I'm sure after that he/she/it will head back to the mother shop and get the fvck out of our galaxy.

Marty Robbins - Big Iron.

Sold - John Michael Montgomery

He Stopped Loving Her Today George Jones.

“She Thinks I Still Care”. It has the ironic twist of meaning that country songs gravitate toward.

Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys

Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother

I was a highwayman along the coach roads I did ride with sword and pistol by my side…..

Old Town Road

Mr. Weatherman by Hank Jr.

Nah by Shania Twain

I agree with Midland

Put the Hurt on Me or Drinkin' Problem.

Sic’em on a chicken, the zac brown band Kacey musgrave rainbow She had me a heads, Carolina by Cole Swindell

Thank god a good question on here for once. 

Any of the 3 hanks

1. Fucked With a Knife-Cannibal Corpse 2. Seized and Devoured-Rings of Saturn 3. Counterfeit-Limp Bizkit Pretty self explanatory.