name the song
Tim McGraw sang this song as advice to his three daughters.
Humble and Kind
This singer was 17 when this was released. She became the first teen country star to make a major crossover into the pop charts since LeAnn Rimes.
Taylor Swift - Teardrops on my Guitar
This was featured in the Elvis movie of the same name, where Elvis plays a wrongly accused convict who becomes a star when he gets out. The film, which is considered one of the best of his 31 movies, is famous for the scene where Elvis performs this song in an elaborate dance number taking place in prison
Jailhouse Rock
One of his most famous songs, this song details Johnny Cash's values and lifestyle. It is a promise to remain faithful to his first wife, Vivian, while he is on the road.
Johnny Cash - "I Walk the Line"
Where is the current home to the country music capital of the United States?
Nashville, TN
This song best represents the country music craze in the early '90s. As the audience for "Old Country" artists like Willie Nelson and George Strait waned, younger listeners turned to "New Country," which had slick production and pop melodies.
Achy Breaky Heart
The song's music video was premiered on The Oprah Winfrey Show. It was the first time the talk show legend had ever debuted a new video on her program.
Lady Antebellum - American Honey
This was Patsy Cline's first hit song. She was signed to Four Star Records, who were a popular Country music label and had her record this song, which was written by staff songwriters Alan Block and Don Hecht. Cline didn't particularly like the song, but it suited her emotional delivery as she delivered this tale of loneliness and lost love
Walkin' After Midnight
The title was inspired by an encounter with a 10-year-old fan. "She had this beautiful red hair, this beautiful skin, these beautiful green eyes, and she was looking up at me, holding [out] for an autograph," This artist recalled to NPR in 2008.
Dolly Parton - Jolene
What year did the "Grand Ole Opry" open?
1925
In 1987 this song won Randy Travis a Grammy for Best Country & Western Song and an Academy of Country Music award for Song of the Year.
Forever and Ever, Amen
This empowering anthem was written for the Super Bowl by this artist with Brett James and Chris DeStefano.The song features a verse by Ludacris who spells out the word champion during his rap break.
Carrie Underwood- The Champion
This song was the punch line in a Geico commercial that debuted in 2014.
The Gambler
This artist was thrown through a windshield in a car accident two months before she recorded this (they didn't have seat belts back then). At the first session, she couldn't hit the high notes because of a broken rib, so the studio musicians recorded their parts without her. Two weeks later, she did her vocals while standing on crutches. Little would she know that she would die just two years later.
Patsy Cline- Crazy
Where do we consider to be the birth place of country music ?
Bristol, TN
Tim McGraw sings this song that tells the story of two young lovers dealing with difficult scenarios at three different stages in their lives.
Don't Take the Girl
The song describes a torched relationship where the only place the former lovers can be together is in her dreams. But the dream is of a burning house that this artist can't escape.
Cam - Burning House
This song was a #1 Country hit for four weeks and generated a great deal of interest in the rebellious Johnny Cash, who made prison reform his political cause of choice and started regularly performing in jails, doing about 12 shows a year - for free - mostly in Folsom and San Quentin
Folsom Prison Blues
When he described his first wife as "a cheatin' heart" to country singer Billie Jean Jones, who would soon become his second wife, he was inspired to write the song.
Hank Williams - Your Cheatin' Heart
The Country Music Hall of Fame is located in Nashville, TN. Who were the first three country artists to be inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Jimmy Rogers, Fred Rose, and Hank Williams
This song is about taking chances and not being afraid to try something new. Many listeners found this song by Lee Ann Womack very inspirational, and the simple hook line made it memorable.
I Hope You Dance
Who sings this song that describes a hitchhiking journey south along the eastern coast of the United States, from New England in the northeast, through Roanoke, Virginia, with the intended destination of Raleigh, North Carolina, where the narrator hopes to see his lover
Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel
This song was featured in the 2000 movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which is based on the novel The Odyssey. In the movie it was sang by the "Soggy Bottom Boys" but was originally written and sang by The Stanley Brothers
Man of Constant Sorrow
Despite the name of the song, this artist was married five times to five different men, and all of those marriages ended in divorce. Her third marriage was a tumultuous one to George Jones, that lasted six years. They divorced in 1975, but worked together again in the '90s, touring and releasing a 1995 duets album called One.
Tammy Wynette - Stand by Your Man
People often think that folk music is the origins of country, but the real origin of country music stems from this genre of music?
"Hillbilly" or Appalachian music