The track was a last minute addition to Rodney’s 2009 album, which went on to be titled “We were in the middle of everything with the economy, presidential election, folks losing jobs, some tough times in our country,” Rodney said. “You get down there and check it out and you realize it’s pretty cool,” Jason said of the song.When Tim McGraw performed “If You’re Reading This” at the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. The Wilburn Brothers' recording of Larry Whitehead's song didn't make the charts, but it did question whether so many troops should be dying in Southeast Asia.Merle Haggard got famous writing songs about men stuck in prison, so he had the context for writing a great song about prisoners of war. A Medley of Audio taken from the Library of Congress Patriotic Recordings Collection. And it’s been like a whirlwind ever since.” The song was a career record that wound up spending six weeks at No. They are songs of love, and of loss. More than 1,500 votes put Jimmy Buffett’s “A Pirate Looks at 40″ in the top spot and filled the rest of the Top 10 list with songs by Craig Morgan, Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown Band and more.Country music boasts an endless amount of both feel-good and sappy drinking songs. © Copyright 2020 Military.com. Daryl Worley penned this number one hit in honor of the military and those fighting for their country. Co-written with Brad and Brett Warren of the Warren Brothers, the track was inspired by an article the three men read about war casualties. “It startled me so much that I forgot a line. And this line just came to me, 'Hey man, you know what?

The program also details her feeling that her younger son's suicide was directly caused by his older brother's death in the war.Johnny and June Cash took a particular interest in helping Jan through her crisis, and the program details their support of their friend.Maybelle Carter was enjoying a solo career resurgence in the 1960s, and she adapted the lyrics and performed the song from a mother's perspective in 1966.The lyric flip is a bit awkward, but Carter conveys the worry and heartache a mother experiences when her son is at war and makes the song work.

1.The reception to this song was curious, to say the least. McGraw performed the song live at the 2007 ACM Awards, surrounded by military families of fallen soldiers.Watch the videos. Waylon delivers it masterfully and, coming near the time of the first Gulf War, it met with a receptive audience among country music fans. The country music genre has always shown outstanding support for the work of the brave men and women of the military, so we've assembled five standout country music songs written in support of the troops. While cynics may describe it as jingoistic, there are a good many citizens who, to this day, cannot hear its heartfelt championing of America’s virtues without getting misty.Inspired by the American military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, this song is based on the military, but it’s really about family and how important it is for those serving in far-away conflicts to know that loved ones are thinking about them…and how important letters are and always have been in doing that. Tim McGraw and the Warren Brothers wrote ‘If You’re Reading This’ as a song tribute to fallen soldiers of the Afghanistan and Iraq war. Inspired by scenes of the soldiers shipping off to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, the song struck an especially poignant chord with John, whose own son was getting ready to join the conflict not long after the song was recorded. Many of the songs on this list of country war songs are, understandably, incredibly emotional.

Here are a few favorites from us at Great American Country.What better way to kick off summer than to build a playlist with catchy tunes?Romance is in the air! 1. Not your first thought for a military song, but these colors don’t run is a metal ballad for soldiers.

I’d never seen anything like it.“By Monday morning, the label was getting phone calls from all over the country,” he continues. Whether he’s asking, “Did you dust off that bible at home or go out and buy you a gun,” Alan reveals how well he knows the rest of us by examining the effects on our national psyche the day so many were brutally taken from us.