Songs That Get People Into Country Music | Country "Gateway" Songs
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- Welcome to LMIAY! Today's video is looking at some of YOUR answers about the songs that got your or other people to become country fans! These were mined from the CountryMusicStuff reddit, which is a great place. We've got everything from Alan Jackson's "Chattohoochee" to Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue" to Dolly Parton's stint on Hannah Montana. (And of course, "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line!)
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Happy weekend, y'all! Let me know what song got you into country music, and if you are interested in grabbing any merch head over to gradywsmith.bigcartel.com and snag some!
You too ❤️ Love your channel
im a younger country fan i mean got into alan jackson and garth brooks growing up in the 90s.
you should do an album review of Granger smiths new album country things volume 1
Ironically Zac Brown's "Toes" got me into country :D
dierks bentley what was i thinkin is one of my favorite tracks from him.
I feel like everyone is sleeping on Wagon Wheel. I know a few people that got into country from that song. Also feathered Indians
Definitely a good intro to country music. And it would have been one to get me, if I wasn't already hooked.
Landon Boomsma Really? I feel like the Old Crow Medicine Show’s version is 100x better.
@@tnfatbelly Old Crow Medicine shows version is definitely better
tnfatbelly OCMS version is definitely the best
that song actually started out as a bluegrass song
Kind of surprised no one said Before He Cheats. It seems to be a staple favorite and brought a lot of people into country music.
Oh yeah it brought me in a lot. I wouldn’t say it was the first song I listened to but it’s what kept me in the country music scene
That’s one of the songs that I was introduced to country at a younger age. I wasn’t a fan of modern country until now. But that just one of the songs I would listen to and my best friend by Tim McGraw
My gateway song was “Friends In Low Places”
My grandfather had an animatronic deer head hung is his sitting room that would sing that song. I used to sit there for hours watching this deer bob it’s head and sing.
Should we blame it on your roots?
He missed the one song that probably is the most listened to country song that is widely loved by all. Country road
All My Exes Live in Texas - heard it in GTA San Andreas. Never looked back.
This is definitely one of mine
lmfao
Whiskey river- willie nelson heard it on a gta game never looked back
same
@@israeladesanyasgyno999 same
I came from mostly Christian music so my gateways were stuff like "Three Wooden Crosses," "Amarillo Sky," and "Long Black Train." Now I love it all!
Long Black Train and Three Wooden Crosses are soooo good! Josh and Randy are my faves!
I can’t believe nobody said country roads
I am from WV, if there’s not a whole crowd screaming it. We don’t like listening to it
“Devil Went Down to Georgia”, “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue”, and Sugarland were the country gateway for me
I'm 43, and it all started for me with Waylon Jennings and his "Good Ol' Boys", Dukes of Hazzard theme song.
Just two good ol boys, never meanin no harm...YES!!!
Basically all the songs from Shania Twain's Come on Over album were my gateway songs
Same! I was starting elementary school when this album came out and my mom and I rocked out to it to and from school everyday! I owe all my country music roots to her ❤️
Mine, too
Same!👏👏
That's a great album. One of the. est female country albums.
"Black Eyes, Blue Tears" is still a GREAT anthem for domestic violence victims and/or survivors, and "If You Wanna Touch Her, Ask" seems like it could get some serious traction today.
For me it was Luke Combs “When It Rains It Pours” and “Hurricane”
Same
Luke Combs could have been one to draw me in, had I not been already.
Your pretty new to the life of country music then
Me too
Taylor Swift literally introduced country music to whole continents (Asia & Latin America). For me, it was "You belong with me" and "Love Story"
On and off throughout the years but it was Eric Church: Springsteen that set it off for me
Great song to start with!
Smoke a little smoke for me
when it rains it pours got me deep into country
Same here never was the same after I saw the video
Same
My gateway to country music honestly has to be “My Maria” by Brooks & Dunn...my parents had a greatest hits album and I immediately was hooked!
Have you heard the revival collaboration album? They were alongside a bunch of amazing artists. My favourite has to be Neon Moon with Kacey Musgraves.
I used to be strictly a classic rock fan throughout my childhood. Listening to a friend play Wagon Wheel on his acoustic guitar around the fire is what initially planted the seed for country music in my brain. Wagon Wheel soon expanded to Chicken Fried, Tennessee Whiskey and Your Man by Josh Turner. Country is now my favourite genre and the rest is history.
Mine was “Amazed” by Lone Star. It was played on pop stations here in Central Texas and I really liked it.
Honestly, David Allan Coe “You Don’t Even Call Me by My Name”
The perfect country and western song. A great choice.
Him and Hank3 did a song called the outlaw ways that's really good
literally that’s my favourite song
"Ring Of Fire" by Johnny Cash got me into country
For me, it was “the auction song” by John Michael Montgomery, which then lead me to I Love The Way You Love Me *swoon*
My “gateway” song was “Famous in a Small town” by Miranda Lambert. Way back in like 08/09 when I would listen to cmt In the morning before school. I loved the funny lyrics and good music. And surprisingly Taylor Swift was an artist that helped push me into country music back in the old days
If it wasn't for Luke Bryan's "Play It Again" I wouldn't be a country fan today! Now I can't stand a lot of his stuff, but 🤷♀️
I’m the same way with Luke Bryan. He’s either hit or miss for me but a lot of people love him. I’m more of a Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs kinda guy
Same, he converted me from music and now I compare him to that music
Lol, that song just came onto my pandora station
@@electricheartpony I still like that song! It's a great overly cheesey love song. 10/10
Thats a really good one, i still listen to it.
My youth was Shania and The Dixie Chicks. I never listened to anything else “country” until my 20s and Kenny Chesney pulled me back in with There Goes My Life
My gateway to country music was Private Andrew Malone by David Ball just loved the story telling in the song
Top 5 story telling song
Honestly I was listening to country music before I was born.....
Same
Yep, same here. I ONLY listened to country and bluegrass music from the moment I was born until about 13, when my choir director introduced me to a lot of new genres. My mom's side of the family is full of bluegrass singers and musicians and songwriters from Kentucky, so it was basically all I knew growing up.
Lol same I attended a Sammy Kershaw concert while in utero 😂
Same. I remember when I was 5 or 6, in the 70s, sitting for hours with my grandma listening to Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline albums.
Yo same man
Cruise, this is how we roll, and Sam hunts entire montavallo album. That was my intro to country music! Now I love the 90’s country and Texas scene. Also I’ve been listening to a lot of Colter Wall and Brent Cobb lately!
The voice on Colter wall would make any straight man think again for a hot second
I’m the exact same
Wrong i can't get past his voice just not into it.
yes the WHOLE album was just 10/10
Reading these comments makes me feel 100 years old. Thinking 80% on here are younger than 23.
I feel the same Bubba Hyde! BTW your name just made ma giggle because I love that song!
I'm not even 30, but I feel the same! So many songs I consider pretty new
Correcto
2007: My sister introduced me to Taylor Swift “Teardrops on my Guitar” on the radio and following right after that I found Josh Turner “Firecracker”. I was obsessed.
This girl who sat next to me in class was the only other girl in my sophomore class who knew who Taylor Swift and Josh Turner. We became best friends after that and she opened my horizon with the country genre.
Great topic - mine was Steve Azar’s “Don’t have to be me til Monday” in the early 00s
Taylor swift introduced me to country and now country songs are my life especially old songs
Me too, swiftie here
Taylor Swift is more pop then country.
@@57HarleyDavidson she started as a country singer
Same!
@@superemma9251 I didn't think she was too country.
I don’t know about “song”, but I think a certain artist, in a certain time period...for the 80s: Alabama was a major door opener, early 90s: all about Garth Brooks. Mid 90s: Shania Twain kinda blew the doors off the “anti-country” folk. Tim and Faith and Leann Rimes were others that I can remember my non-country friends gravitating to. Then Lonestar, Dixie Chicks and Rascal Flatts...different artists at different times...anyways cool video cool discussion point. Thanks!
My Grandparents were huge Alan Jackson fans and so “Little Bitty” was always playing when I was little. Definitely my gateway into country music
Little bitty is Soo good.
“Little Yeah” is the song that got me into country music.
😂😂😂
One of the all time greats
The first two songs that really got me into country music were Brad Paisley`s Mud on the Tires and Alan Jackson`s Small Town Southern Man
I remember listening to “Long Black Train” by Josh Turner in like 5th grade. He’s still my favorite artist to this day
He is underrated. Which is unfortunate
Definitely underrated.. been listening to Why Don't We Just Dance a lot lately, but I found a cover he did of Three Wooden Crosses that is amazing...
They literally made an award just for Taylor Swift for bringing a whole new generation to country music. Just a little food for thought
Too bad shes a sellout and now just does pop
@@larissaleigh4488 she's doing alternative now. she's not a sellout. she's a versatile genre bending visionary unlike your narrow blande ass 💗
@@bawin384 idgaf what shes doing now. She was a pop music sellout for years and years, and on a side note, shes also technically selling out again from pop to alt because that's what's popular now with the rise of indie/alt culture. And it's really ironic to call someone bland and narrow because they dont like the most basic, popular, white girl success of so many years lmao.
“Live like you were dying” by Tim McGraw! Those lyrics hit me like a brick shithouse of emotion
I feel that
I get that feeling with Meanwhile Back at Mama's.
A lot of justin moore songs smack me with emotions
That Luke Bryan "UH, UH" made me laugh out loud 😂
the ken burn country music documentary is what got be back into country. Hearing the stories and hearing the music behind those stories made me love the genre even more.
Mine were "All the Pretty Girls" by Kenny Chesney, and later "Man I Want to Be" by Chris Young and "How Not To" by Dan + Shay. Good ol' KC came up through my TH-cam recommendations 5 years ago, and opened my two country. The other two used to play at my first job 3 years ago, and that was when I started to listen to country almost exclusively.
I would say “Chicken Fried” by Zac Brown Band and “Blue Moon” by Toby Keith got me into country music.
Chicken fried got me for sure
Cold beer on Friday night like this one.
Tucker a lot of Zac Browns songs got me into country.
chicken fried for sure was it for me. Used to be Matt Holliday's walk up song for the cardinals and that's when I first heard it.
Leo Gooodfriend oh I miss Matt Holliday
My grandad had a diverse playlist so mine is “swinging” by John Anderson...not sure if I’m proud of that or not 😂😂
I love that song 😂
That’s one of my all-time favourite songs!🤠🇨🇦
Love it!
Own it. It’s a good song
Good song for sure
-drinking problem
-man in black
-guitars cadillacs hillbilly music
-as she's walking away
-shes in love with a boy
-check yes or no
-grundy county auction
So many good ones too.
My Grandma gave me a CD that she dug up in a box a short few weeks after my grandpa passed. “The essential Jim Reeves” I played that CD nearly every day in my truck for a year. Particularly “Four Walls”, my favorite on the disc. Reeve’s voice reminded me of my grandpa and really made me fall in love with that low and slow, old school country. Now I love artists like Don Williams, Merle, Glen Campbell, and so so many more. I always loved folk artists like Townes Van Zandt, and Jim Croce so it wasn’t hard to get me hooked on the beautiful and raw singing/storytelling that is so prevalent in old school country.
Listening to As she’s walking away, fishing in the dark, and digging up bones in my grandpas truck
My dad used to play his Alabama cds in his truck when I was about 5 years old and that’s what git me into Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson and a bunch of other new and old artist. I’m super glad that my dad had the CDs and always played Mountain Music at max volume.
Your dad had the best taste in music. To this day Alabama is still and always will be my favourite
Big one for me was “Springsteen” by Eric Church.
That’s a classic
I was 5 or 6 years old when I heard George Strait “If You’re Thinking You Want A Stranger” on the radio for the first time. I remember being absolutely mesmerized by that song; but I think it’s more fair to say that “The Fireman” by George Strait is what got me hooked for life.
LOVE that song!
My personal gateway was the “Common Threads” album in 1994, and, more specifically, Travis Tritt’s cover of “Take it Easy”....That, and John Michael Montgomery’s “Sold(Grundy County Auction)”
Oh man that's such a good one! I still have a copy of that album. The cover of Already Gone always puts me in a good mood
My gateway was the first 2 Taylor Swift albums
“Cruise” by FGL got me into country music. Now I’m huge into the Texas country scene
I've grown up listening to country music and Jammin' out to Garth Brooks in the car with my mom. I got to see Garth in concert twice and cried both times. Garth is still my favourite to this day, I've tried getting some friends into country music but some grew up to it like I did, it got over played and now they hate it so I guess not everybody can have good taste. My boyfriend tends to like rap music but I'm slowly getting him into country music through Bro Country and Pop Country. Your channel has definitely opened up my eyes to more artists and to fall in love with country music all over again. Colter Wall is a favourite of mine right now for sure so Thank You!!!
for me it was life is a highway (from watching cars almost every single day when my brother & i were two & four), lucky man by montgomery gentry (one of my dads all time favorite country songs) & boys round here by blake shelton (our across the street neighbor listened to a whole lot of, as pat green puts it in his & josh abbott's song "my texas"..."polished pop country crap"). after my guy best friend "repaired" my music taste this year, there's always some form of indie / red dirt / texas country music playing on my spotify !!! zach bryan, kody west, koe wetzel, parker mccollum & blue edmonson are some of my current favs :)
Ayeeee me too!!!
Toby Keith was mine. Six years old, I remember singing Beer for My Horses, Mockingbird, and Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue with my parents. Forever a country fan
I feel like Jason Aldeans “Dirt Road Anthem” is probably a top 5 pull people into the genre kinda song as well.
Matthew palikij Hell no
waxer32123 seems aggressive if anything
I was like 10 when that album came out and I bought the CD. 😂those were the days
Man that track brings back a lot of memories! It was played a lot on radio during my early high school days.
Colt made it first
I couldn't believe you said "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue by Toby Keith" that's the exact song I thought of when you started the video.
When I was realbyoung I liked like 70s rock and the beastie boys and stuff like that with my dad and then like 7-8 years old I heard "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue on a CD in my mom's car. It was a live version he did in 2002. I memorized the entire pre song speech he gave on the song. Since then I've been in love with country music. Both traditional country, some pop-ier country, love most of it. But that's crazy that it was the same song!
Love the channel Grady. Like 95% of the content I seek out is sports related. You're the exception. And this is legitimately my favorite channel on TH-cam! Keep it up!
Taylor Swift was my introduction and I think she was for a lot of young women in my generation. She might have left the genre but she made it cool and accessible for girls my age
Same! My mom listened to country when I was little, but my gateway back into country was the Taylor's first single Tim McGraw. 14 years later here I am as a hardcore country fan who still loves taylor swift!
I had a friend convince me to try her newest album and there's actually some songs that really feel like early Taylor. I was pleasantly surprised
Britni Weiss I never stopped listening to her after she switched because I think she’s a pretty good songwriter and her new album is so good. It’s not country by any means but indie-folk is closer to country than anything else she’s put out recently.
Oh yes!!! She really gave a lot of us the intro we needed to the genre :)
The first country song I ever listened to (apart from "Life Is A Highway", of course, go Cars!) was "My Little Girl" by Tim McGraw when I was nine or ten. When I was twelve, I had a few other Rascal Flatts songs that I loved, like "When the Sand Runs Out" and "My Wish". Then, when I was fourteen and really getting into music, it was Carrie Underwood and Maddie and Tae who really got me into the genre.
ZBB really brought me into the genre... I listened to country since I was born (2004) and ZBB was my first concert in 2012... also when I was 4 I would watch cars on repeat every day I probably watched it 150 times so I have “life is a highway” drilled into my head..
Shania Twain in the 90’s, they played her music on pop stations here in Los Angeles. Also, my dad listened to a lot of Singer-Song writers of the 60’s/70’s that weren’t country but had a bit of a country flair that got me interested in that kind of sound and eventually led me to the genre. “Life is a highway” because they played that music video on Disney Chanel when Cars was coming out in theaters. I never watched cars until 4 years ago as an adult but I saw that music video almost daily on Disney Chanel when I was kid lol. I actually truly started regularly listening to country after watching your videos and watching some history of country stuff, the history aspect is what truly sold me and your videos do a good job of updating me on the current country scene.
"What Might Have Been" by Little Texas was the first country song that I ever listen to.
I don't know why but the song that sticks in my head when I think of riding around with my parents as a kid listening to country music is This Kiss by Faith Hill. The first Album I ever had was Unleashed and I loved Courtesy of the red white and blue. Then I kind of stopped listening to much music until High school and I remember Loving Brantley Gilbert Halfway to Heaven. Probably something to do with being a young highschooler thinking nobody understood you and it was kind of a rebel album for me
I discovered you through the Song Vs Song podcast and I really like the channel so far! Also, my gateway artist was definitely Shania Twain. I'm learning about a lot of artists I hadn't heard of through the channel. I can also attest, as a Scottish person, that 'The Gambler' anecdote is true, lol!
My 68 year old Dad on the West Coast of Canada has talked extensively about going to see Turnpike Troubadours. They're one of his favorite bands (along with Mandolin Orange). Thanks to youtube, their reach is FAR beyond Texas and Oklahoma!
My personal gate way song is “Redneck Yatch Club”
Craig Morgan was 100% who got me into country, he’s so under appreciated.
@@czarter55 100% true
Craig is awesome
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel got me into country!
a video about different subgenres(?) of country/folk like bluegrass, western, stuff like that and the staples and similarities and differences between them would be AMAZING.
I've been listening to "I am a man of constant sorrow" (the version with the full band is my absolute fave) and the whole oh brother soundtrack for like my whole life and so when you're like "that's not really country" I'm like huh???? There's fiddles and banjos and yodeling what do you want 😂😭
The two songs that got me hooked were “Would You Go With Me” by Josh Turner and “Sweet Annie” by Zac Brown Band
For me it was about 2003 when I first saw the video for "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley and Allison Krauss. It made such a powerful impact on me, I wanted to see what else was out there in country music.
I was raised on Chesney, Charlie Daniels, Luke Bryan, Billy Currington, Parmalee, Sugarland etc ; and a bunch of others. Where I come from, I live in a country music loving city in Indiana
How old do you have to be to grow up on luke bryan? He has only ever released 1 song that I actually liked
My gateway into country music wasn’t an artist or a song but Grady Smith and these videos. I’ve found a whole mix of music to pair with what I already listened to and for that I say thank you Grady and keep up the good work on your videos.
3:23 YES! At least for Indie Country. I didn’t even know indie existed before that song.
I’m a huge pop head. Kacey Musgraves really opened my ears to other country music.
One of my college professors said he would work at a clothing store every Christmas season in college and they played one song on loop every year for an entire month. It was "Chattahoochee," and he said it took him years to get it out of his head and when he hears the opening instrumentation he panics at the thought of hearing that song again after four years of hearing it on loop. I love "Chattahoochee" but I don't blame him for hating it after that experience.
Back when I was like 8/9 years old my dad had an MP3 player with a ton of Rascal Flatts songs on it and Me and My Gang was hands down my favorite song. Kept that on repeat for a WHILE. That whole album is definitely what got me into country
Ok, I'm 63, sooo...my parents listened to country a lot. So I liked Johnny Cash, Crystal Gail, and Charlie Daniels as well as the rock music of the day. But starting in the late 70s 2 artists got me completely into country. First, Sylvia. Second, the Judes. Also George Straight sealed the deal!
I sang boot scootin boogie while I was in the car seat.
One of mine earliest memories is ridding around town with my father in the late 90s and that don't impress me much came on the radio and I fell in love with shania twain
My gateway was listening to the a capella band Home Free...I grew up in a household that hated country music (my papa loved it, so I heard it a few times a year with him, and my grandma played us Alan Jackson) but me being a choir kid started to get really into the Acapella group Pentatonix. Thanks to the TH-cam algorithm recognizing that I enjoy a capella Christmas music, I started seeing Christmas music from home free recommended to me. One thing led to another and a year later, I was not only listening to their Christmas songs, but all their country acapella music as well. Now another year later, I’ve branched out into main stream country music, and it’s my second favorite music genre now.
The ones that brought me into it would have to be "it's 5 o'clock somewhere", "toes", "drive for daddy's genes" and "country boy". Yes mostly alan jackson, gotta love him 🤘
Gateway country hmmmm
"Long neck ice cold beer never broke my heart"
0:53 For those who are not in the know, Pewdiepie's LWIAY series started off as a parody of Jacksfilms's YIAY series (if only in name).
(They are both okay with it, it's all in good fun)
For me the earliest memories of county that I have is listening to Tim McGraw’s first album especially his duet with Faith Hill over and over in my fathers truck everywhere we went along with LeAnn Rimes. Also Elvis...my father was a huge Elvis fan and owned all of his records and would play them on the weekends but I remember his country music songs the most that threw my into the songs and also made me fall in love with Elvis and country for all these years.
I didn't listen to much music prior to the early '90s, when I was forced to watch CMT because my sister liked it. But I fell in love with the videos for Joe Diffie's "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox" and "Startin' Over Blues". They showed me that country music could have a sense of humor, which I greatly enjoyed. I consider "Prop Me Up" to be my favorite song to this day, partly due to its role in getting me hooked on country music. Joe Diffie is one of my favorite singers as a result, and I was heartbroken when he died earlier this year.
For me it was humble and kind by Tim McGraw. It was the lyrics and manors that got me into country music as opposed to the what’s in the mainstream now.
"Before He Cheats" for sure
Song of the South and Chattahoochee were always on in my grandpa's truck, but Austin was the first story song that sucked me right in.
When I was a kid, I had an iPod mini given to me by my uncle. And my favorite song on there was “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” by Trace Adkins. I had no clue the song was about butts when I was 7 but I still loved it lol. Not sure if this song got me into country but it may have been my first favorite.
A lot of songs got me interested through the years, such as what hurts the most, cruise, take your time(if Sam Hunt counts), but what really started converting me was when I heard one number away by Luke combs on the radio one day
Sam hunt counts 💯 lots of people got into country through him
Willie Nelson, Seven Spanish Angels...thats what did me in
My gateway country song was "Last Call", the opening track of Bruce Haynes' album Sure Don't Feel Like Home. It was part of my dad's CD collection. I would listen to it over and over since I was like 11yo.
I'm Brazilian and have always lived in a country small city, so I was exposed to Brazilian country music, the harmonic side of things are pretty similar, but the rhythm is veeery different (and there are lots of variations, which I don't even know all of them, pretty regional...), and although I love Brazilian country music I love your country music the most.
I love the channel, Grady! Cheers from Brazil
I went on a solo trip driving around the country and stayed a night in Nashville. I didn't have anything going on the next day so I did the most basic Nashville tourist activity and went to the Country Music Hall of Fame. I had heard a lot of pop country before, but seeing the history of the genre there made me appreciate it a bit more and discover artists I hadn't really paid attention to before like Merle Haggard, George Strait, and George Jones. I listened to Pancho and Lefty and Amarillo by Morning on repeat the next few days driving through Texas and those are now some of my favorite songs.
It was Darius Rucker’s wagon wheel that was the first one that got me into country
Me too🤫
First comment, Grady I love your videos keep up the great work
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Was raised on country music but what really hooked me when I was younger was Merle Haggard “The Way I am”, George Jones “The One I loved Back then” or Toby Keith “Beer for my Horses”
Mac Davis - Hard to be humble. My grandma played it all the time when i was young, got me hooked on country music
For me it was Luke Combs and I turned a lot of my friends, we are all from the city, into Luke Combs fans. He is just so amazing and genuine that it’s hard not to love him.
Haven't started the lost yet but "achy breaky heart" has to be on here 😂
Oh goodness I forgot about that song 😂
Prefer "All gave some and some gave all"
I can't even really remember what brought me into Country except it was way long ago. A lot of mid to late 70's classic country was where I started with the influence of my riding around with my Dad and listening to what was playing on the car radio. I sort of left Country behind through mostt of the 80's but came back to it with the starting of CMT. I have to say artists like Mary Chapin Carpenter, Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Martina McBride, and Travis Tritt were the artists that propelled me through the 90's and beyond. I love the alt country and Americana scene greatly. I have also have a great reverence from Bluegrass. Give me a well crafted song and a catchy riff and I am sold.