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Country Rock

Eagles

Lyin' Eyes

Too Many Hands

Hotel California

Life in the Fast Lane

Charlie Daniels

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Marshall Tucker Band

Fire on the Mountain

vocal to steel guitar to flute

Can't You See

Linda Ronstadt

Silver Threads & Golden Needles

Heat Wave

Holland-Dozier-Holland tune, originally recorded by Martha Reeves & the Vandellas

You're No Good

Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings

Good-Hearted Woman

Willie Nelson	Waylon Jennings

Jerry Jeff Walker

Up Against the Wall Redneck

Glen Campbell

Rhinestone Cowboy

Kenny Rogers

Lady

So in Love with You (w/ Lionel Richie)

Country Rock Re-emerges Anew

Precursors

Dolly Parton's "9 to 5"
#1, 1980

Kenny Rogers' "She Believes in Me"
#1, 1980

Alabama's "Love in the First Degree"
#15, 1981

Oak Ridge Boys' "Elvira"
#5, 1981

Reba McEntire's "For My Broken Heart"
#1, 1991

Dwight Yoakam's "Guitars & Cadillacs"
#4, 1986

 

Direct Evidence of Yoakam's Musical Influence:

special thanks to Sarah Rickard for presenting the following examples in her group presentation (Summer, 1999)

"Suspicious Minds"
Elvis Presley | Dwight Yoakam

"North to Alaska"
Johnny Horton | Dwight Yoakam

"The Last Time"
Rolling Stones | Dwight Yoakam

"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
Queen | Dwight Yoakam

 

Clint Black

No Time to Kill Wherever You Go

Garth Brooks

Thunder Rolls

Two of a Kind Workin' on a Full House

Friends in Low Places

Travis Tritt

Put Some Drive in Your Country

Here's a Quarter (#2, 1991)

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Down at the Twist & Shout

Right Now

--12 bar blues

He Thinks He'll Keep Her (#1, 1992)

 

Shania Twain

The Woman in Me (1995)

Any Man of Mine

Come On Over (1997)

You're Still the One

From This Moment On

 

The Dixie Chicks

Fly (1999)

Cowboy Take Me Away

Without You

Taking the Long Way (2006)

Not Ready to Make Nice

 

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