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100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time (Nos. 100-51): Staff List


Best Country Singers of All Time: The 100 greatest country singers ever, according to the Billboard staff.

By&nbsp Katie Atkinson, Dave Brooks, Eric Renner Brown, Hannah Dailey, Kyle Denis, Thom Duffy, Deborah Evans Price, Gary Graff, Paul Grein, Lyndsey Havens, Rylee Johnston, Steve Knopper, Rob Levine, Joe Lynch, Taylor Mims, Melinda Newman, Jessica Nicholson, Tom Roland, Andrew Unterberger, Christine Werthman His early days in Nashville saw Anderson paying his dues by putting the roof on the Grand Ole Opry House before he signed with Warner Bros. and found chart success with such hits as “Wild & Blue,” “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal” and 1983 CMA Awards single of the year “Swingin.’” He enjoyed a career resurgence in the 1990s with “Seminole Wind” and the Country Songs No. The Jimmie Rogers superfan from Crisp, Texas-turned-leader of the Texas Troubadours found success in 1941 with his lovelorn, jaunty-rhythmed breakthrough single, “Walking the Floor Over You.” His honky-tonk style and his no-frills, slightly pitchy voice — resulting from a tonsillectomy — became his trademarks, as did the kindnesses he bestowed upon up-and-comers like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn and Elvis Presley, whom he invited to play at his Midnite Jamboree radio show.

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