PART ONE OF TWO: 2020 has been an awful year for everybody, no doubt about it. But for country music, this year seems to have been especially devastating. I can't remember a year where so many country icons have been taken - it seems like we've barely had the time to mourn the passing of one country star when another one has passed. It's been utterly exhausting for me to wrap my head around, personally. But the loss of Charley Pride in December of 2020 was different. Pride was a giant of the genre, no doubt about it, and all his trailblazing aside, Pride's buttery vocal and most of his catalogue fit our format down to a T here at "If That Ain't Country". His was a big loss indeed. And so, I thought it fitting to re-release an archival episode of the show which originally aired in February of 2017. Bear with my presenting style if you can (we're always learning, but even more so back then haha): the music enclosed on "The Incomparable Charley Pride" is stellar. An icon remembered this week on the show - I hope you and yours are staying safe! And despite it all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! - WR
HOUR 1:
1. Charley Pride – Anywhere (Just Inside Your Arms) (1972)
2. The Reno Brothers – I Ain’t Gonna Walk Your Dog (1992)
3. Tony Booth – Cold Brown Bottle (2008)
4. Cal Smith – Drinking Champagne (1968)
5. Amber Digby – Take Me Back Again (2008)
6. Little Jimmy Dickens – My Baby Takes Good Care Of Me (1965)
7. Steve Griggs – Blinding Lights (2016)
8. Eddy Arnold – Cowboy (1976)
9. Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time – Carolyn At The Broken Wheel Inn (2002)
10. Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens – Streets Of Bakersfield (1988)
11. Charley Pride – I’d Rather Love You (1972)
12. Charley Pride – The Highway Leads To Glory (1972)
13. Garth Brooks – Mr. Right (1992)
14. Alecia Nugent – Red, White & Blue (2004)
15. Jody Nix – Nothing Quite Like Texas (On A Saturday Night) (1988)
16. Bob Wills – I Hit The Jackpot (When I Won You) (1954)
HOUR 3:
1. Jeff Woolsey & The Dancehall Kings – It Hurts So Good (2013)
2. The Sunny Cowgirls – Take The Time (2008)
3. Rex Dallas – Old Wallerawang (1975)
4. Don Walser & The Pure Country Band – Casting My Lasso (1995)
5. Charley Pride – Instant Loneliness (1972)
6. Charley Pride – Time (You’re Not A Friend Of Mine) (1972)
7. Bob Manning – If I Ever Need A Lady (2011)
8. Elizabeth Cook – Mama You Wanted To Be A Singer Too (2000)
9. George Hamilton IV – Excuse Me (I Think I’ve Got A Heartache) (1965)
10. Alan Jackson – The Way I Am (1999)
11. Bobby Hodge – You Took Her Off My Hands (1972)
12. Dawn Sears – A-11 (2005)
13. Dick Damron – Countryfied (1970)
14. Charley Pride – Was It All Worth Losing You (1972)
15. Kurt Fortmeyer – My Dog Jesus (2009)
16. The Cornell Hurd Band – I Don’t Care What It Is You Did When You Lived In Ft. Worth (1996)
17. Stonewall Jackson – The Neon Lights (1965)
HOUR 3: If That Ain’t Country’s Year In Country Music – 1955
1. Faron Young – Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
2. Ernest Tubb – Thirty Years
3. Jean Shepard – Beautiful Lies
4. Dean Dillon – Holed Up In Some Honky Tonk (1991)
5. Justin Tubb – I Gotta Go Get My Baby
6. Porter Wagoner – A Satisfied Mind
7. Jim Reeves – Drinking Tequila
8. Paul Overstreet – Take Another Run (1993)
9. The Louvin Brothers – I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby
10. Marty Robbins – That’s All Right
11. Carl Smith – Loose Talk
12. Johnny Cash – So Doggone Lonesome
13. Red Foley & Kitty Wells – As Long As I Live (1954)
14. Webb Pierce – I Don’t Care
15. Kitty Wells – Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On
16. Hank Thompson – If Lovin’ You Is Wrong
17. Ferlin Husky – I Feel Better All Over
18. George Jones – Why Baby Why