Album · Compilation
Essential Country
Tracks
| # | Title | Sung by | |
|---|
| 1.1 | I Walk the Line | Johnny Cash | 2:44 |
| 1.2 | Distant Drums | Jim Reeves | 2:51 |
| 1.3 | She Thinks I Still Care | George Jones | 2:49 |
| 1.4 | Crying | Roy Orbison | 2:47 |
| 1.5 | Once a Day | Connie Smith | 2:20 |
| 1.6 | The End of the World | Skeeter Davis | 2:38 |
| 1.7 | Abilene | George Hamilton IV | 2:13 |
| 1.8 | Please Help Me, I’m Falling | Hank Locklin | 2:22 |
| 1.9 | Big Bad John | Jimmy Dean | 3:02 |
| 1.10 | Here Comes My Baby | Dottie West | 2:34 |
| 1.11 | Make the World Go Away | Eddy Arnold | 2:39 |
| 1.12 | Devil Woman | Marty Robbins | 2:53 |
| 1.13 | 500 Miles Away From Home | Bobby Bare | 2:43 |
| 1.14 | High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) | Frankie Laine | 2:40 |
| 1.15 | I Love You Mostly | Lefty Frizzell | 2:31 |
| 1.16 | Oh Lonesome Me | Don Gibson | 2:30 |
| 1.17 | Yakety Axe | Chet Atkins | 3:25 |
| 1.18 | Foggy Mountain Breakdown | Lester Flatt | 2:23 |
| 1.19 | I’m Movin’ On | Hank Snow | 2:43 |
| 1.20 | A Hundred Years From Now | Elvis Presley | 1:42 |
| 2.1 | Jolene | Dolly Parton, Hurshel Wiginton, Joe Babcock, Dolores Edgin, June Page | 2:42 |
| 2.2 | Stand by Your Man | Tammy Wynette | 2:39 |
| 2.3 | Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’ | Charley Pride | 2:02 |
| 2.4 | That’s the Way Love Goes | Merle Haggard | 3:01 |
| 2.5 | Any Day Now | Ronnie Milsap | 3:40 |
| 2.6 | Run for the Roses | Dan Fogelberg | 4:15 |
| 2.7 | I Couldn’t Leave You If I Tried | Rodney Crowell | 3:17 |
| 2.8 | Come Next Monday | K.T. Oslin | 3:16 |
| 2.9 | Seven Year Ache | Rosanne Cash | 3:48 |
| 2.10 | Delta Dawn | The Jordanaires, The Nashville Edition | 2:53 |
| 2.11 | Rose Garden | Lynn Anderson | 2:52 |
| 2.12 | Me and Bobby Gee | Kris Kristofferson | 4:15 |
| 2.13 | The Most Beautiful Girl | Charlie Rich, The Nashville Edition | 2:41 |
| 2.14 | I Can Help | Billy Swan | 3:59 |
| 2.15 | Desperados Waiting for a Train | Guy Clark | 4:30 |
| 2.16 | The Devil Went Down to Georgia | Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain | 3:35 |
| 2.17 | Living Next Door to Alice | Smokie | 3:28 |
| 2.18 | Take This Job and Shove It | Johnny Paycheck | 2:38 |
| 2.19 | Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way | Waylon Jennings | 2:54 |
| 2.20 | Always on My Mind | Willie Nelson | 3:30 |
| 3.1 | Before He Cheats | Lisa Cochran, Wes Hightower | 3:20 |
| 3.2 | It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere | Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett, John Wesley Ryles | 3:51 |
| 3.3 | High Cotton | Alabama | 3:01 |
| 3.4 | Cowgirls Don’t Cry | Brooks & Dunn | 3:35 |
| 3.5 | Gunpowder & Lead | Miranda Lambert | 3:12 |
| 3.6 | Born to Fly | Sara Evans | 5:36 |
| 3.7 | Redneck Woman | Gretchen Wilson | 3:36 |
| 3.8 | Now I Know | Lari White | 4:33 |
| 3.9 | Don’t Blink | Kenny Chesney | 4:14 |
| 3.10 | A Good Run of Bad Luck | Clint Black | 2:43 |
| 3.11 | If I Were You (and She Were Mine) | Collin Raye | 2:52 |
| 3.12 | Meet in the Middle | Diamond Rio | 3:18 |
| 3.13 | What Part of No | Lorrie Morgan | 2:45 |
| 3.14 | Put Yourself in My Place | Pam Tillis | 2:49 |
| 3.15 | Here I Am | Patty Loveless | 3:04 |
| 3.16 | Amazed | Lonestar | 4:01 |
| 3.17 | Tonight the Heartache’s on Me | Joy Lynn White | 2:55 |
| 3.18 | He Thinks He’ll Keep Her | Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Jennings | 4:03 |
| 3.19 | Line Dance Party | The Woolpackers | 2:40 |
| 3.20 | Wild Angels | Martina McBride | 3:46 |
Source: MusicBrainz release group 48f25ad7-6bf9-4662-89d8-c661a0e0342d (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.