Various Artists - Great Story Songs

No pop music style tells a story as well as country, and here are 30 of the most beloved tall tales, gripping yarns and hilarious anecdotes (and the melodies ain't bad, either)! Includes a Boy Named Sue Johnny Cash; Big Bad John Jimmy Dean; the Ballad of the Green Berets SSgt. Barry Sadler; Miller's Cave Bobby Bare; the Pool Shark Dave Dudley; Old Rivers Walter Brennan; the Wall Freddie Hart; Sink the Bismarck Johnny Horton; Big Iron Marty Robbins; B.J. The D.J. Stonewall Jackson; a Week in a Country Jail Tom T. Hall; Cross the Brazos at Waco Billy Walker; Convoy C.W. McCall; the Carroll County Incident Porter Wagoner; the Blizzard Jim Reeves, and more.

1) The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
2) Big Iron - Marty Robbins
3) Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash
4) Cross the Brazos at Waco - Billy Walker
5) Wolverton Mountain - Claude King
6) The Ballad of Jed Clampett - Earl Scruggs
7) Detroit City - Bobby Bare
8) A Week in a Country Jail - Tom T. Hall
9) Tom Dooley - the Kingston Trio
10) Old Rivers - Walter Brennan
11) The Ballad of the Green Berets - SSGT Barry Sadler
12) The Carroll County Accident - Porter Wagoner
13) North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
14) Saginaw Michigan - Lefty Frizzell
15) El Paso - Marty Robbins
16) Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
17) A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
18) Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
19) The Devil Went Down to Georgia - the Charlie Daniels Band
20) Convoy - C. W. McCall