Who do you consider----?!
Question: To be the three most influential Country songwriters/singers of the last 5 decades?
Answers: To be the three most influential Country songwriters/singers of the last 5 decades?
Hank Williams Sr.
Marty Robbins
Johnny Cash
hahaha im 18 so im probably going to get laughed at for saying these but
garth brooks
george strait
tim mcgraw
i mean pretty much everybody in the world has heard of these three by now lol
Merle Haggard
Dean Dillon
Bill Anderson
(you did say the last 50 years)
Hank Williams was most influential , although he was deceased by your time frame , He was still , and is yet very influential .
George Morgan , George Jones , Lefty Frizzell , Roy Acuff and Ernest Tubb were very influential , possibly Ernest Tubb more so because he helped many rising stars .
Jimmy C Newman was most influential in cajan country music
I'll go with the ones in the Hall of Fame:
Cindy Walker -- her career began in 1944 with "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again," her only hit that she performed herself. She went on to write things like "Distant Drums" for Jim Reeves, "Bubbles in My Beer" for Bob Wills (as well as the last song Bob Wills ever recorded, "What Makes Bob Holler"), "The Gold Rush is Over" for Hank Snow, "I Don't Care" for Webb Pierce, "Heaven Says Hello" for Sonny James, and was so well-respected that, just before her death, no less than Willie Nelson recorded an entire album of her songs. When you can get another Hall of Fame songwriter's attention that way, that's saying something.
Harlan Howard: they called him "The Dean of Nashville songwriters," and they did so for a reason. From "The Blizzard" to "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" to "I Fall to Pieces" to "I Don't Remember Loving You," if there was a year without a Harlan Howard-penned song making it to #1 until he died, then it was a bad year for music.
Ira Louvin. The late Dr. Charles Wolfe referred to Ira as "country's best post-Hank Williams songwriter," but that's rather restrictive, because you could throw in most of the people BEFORE Hank Williams and Ira would've stood strong against them. Why Louvin? Well, when you're a "traditional" country songwriter who's been gone for over 40 years but rock singers cover your songs, you've written something.
Other important songwriters:
Bobby Braddock ("He Stopped Loving Her Today" -- need I say more?)
Kris Kristofferson
Max D. Barnes
Hank Cochran
Willie Nelson
Bill Anderson
Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Harlan Howard
Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash.
From Merle Haggard's biography at the Country Music Hall of Fame official website:
"Merle Ronald Haggard remains, with the arguable exception of Hank Williams, the single most influential singer-songwriter in country music history."
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