re: 90's country

Collin Raye is underrated.

Little Rock
Love, Me
That's My Story
Little Red Rodeo
In This Life
Love Remains

The good writers must have retired or died off.

Everything started going to hell when Garth started swinging around the stage on ropes. It's all his damn fault.

Billy Dean - Somewhere In My Broken Heart

Billy Dean - Billy the Kid

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90's country puts this bubble gum, bro crap they have had since 2000 in the dumps.

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Agree but check the Class of '89; that's some serious talent

90's country was my fav but man I love the 80's to.Love all that's been listed.I'm gonna add a few.
Aaron Tippin
Sammy Kershaw
Tracy Lawrence
Tim McGraw
Clay Walker
T.Graham Brown
Dwight Yoakam
Shania Twain
Doug Supernaw
Shenandoah
Pirates of the Mississippi
Confederate Railroad
Mcbride & The Ride
Sawyer Brown
Little Texas
Ty Hearndon
Blackhawk

When I was a kid, growing up near Tampa, I was forced to listen to country by my dad because to him any music made after 1989 is considered “rap”. He wouldn’t even let my mom change the station when she wanted to listen to soft rock once in a while. So when I got my license and my first car in 1998, I completely stopped listening to country because I finally had my choice of what music to listen to in my own car, I needed to catch up culturally with music, and I felt it was hurting my game with the girls.

Fast forward 8 years later, my wife from NJ starts listening to 2000s Country, I tolerate it. I really needed to be in the mood to listen to country.

Thursday, we drive up to Athens, GA to go visit UGA. No interstate all country road from Warner Robins. My wife has Sirius Prime Country on in the van, and I didn’t even change the station. I forgot how good 90s Country was. Here I am coming full circle adding Prime Country songs to my iTunes.

The 90s were a good decade for the genre but the 60s-70s are the superior decades especially in song writing. It was the golden age of country music.

George Jones
Johnny Cash
Dolly Parton
Charley Pride
Tanya Tucker
John Conlee
Shelly West
Lefty Frizzell
David Frizzell
Patsy Cline
The Oakridge Boys
The Gaitlin brothers
Barbara Mandrell
Charlie Rich
Eddy Arnold
Faron Young
Marty Robbins
Jack Greene
Hank snow
Bobby Gentry
Hank Locklin
Waylon Jennings
Porter Wagoner
Mel Tillis
Jimmy Dean
Loretta Lynn
Crystal Gayle
Ronnie Milsap
The Bellamy brothers
Jim Ed Brown
Eddie Rabbit
Connie Smith
Emmy Lou Harris
Donna Fargo
Merl Haggard
Tom T Hall
Freddy Fender
Kris Kristofferson
Buck Owens
The Statler brothers
Jeannie C. Riley
Leroy van Dyke
Kenny Rogers
Ray Price
Glen Campbell
Jim Reeves
Don Williams
Willie Nelson
Roger Miller
Tammy Wynette
Conway Twitty
Johnny Paycheck
David allen Coe
Hank Jr.
Kitty Wells
Mickey Gilley

90s country is frickin lit

Johnny Cash went back to his rock/rockabilly roots at that point. He covered songs by grunge bands and sang the music he wrote which Columbia didn't allow him to many years ago. He wanted to get out of his label for many years until it finally happened in the mid 80s. After that he went with other labels but had moderate success. He almost started performing at Branson for the remainder of his career which means that is where artists fizzle out for good. Then Rick Rubin showed up and allowed to sing whatever he wanted.

Dolly Parton was such a big name in the world at that point that I doubt not playing her music was going to be the death kneel. Her music was more mainstream to the public when she got into the movie and TV business. She made a lot of money not selling the rights to her music and invested a lot of it into many business ventures like Dollywood. She is worth $500 million.

Willie Nelson is more popular now than he ever was. His music is appealing to many different age groups.