Artist	Song
Faith Hill	Breathe
from Breathe (2008)
Lonestar	Amazed
from Lonely Grill (2010)
Shania Twain	You're Still the One
from Come on Over (1997)
George Strait	Check Yes or No
from Strait Out of the Box (1995)
Kenny Chesney	How Forever Feels
from Everywhere We Go (1999)
Alan Jackson	Chattahoochee
from Alan Jackson: 16 Biggest Hits (2007)
Tim McGraw	Don't Take the Girl
from Greatest Hits (2000)
Brooks & Dunn	Boot Scootin' Boogie
from Brand New Man (1991)
Wynonna Judd	No One Else On Earth
from Wynonna (2004)
Trisha Yearwood	How Do I Live
from Trisha Yearwood: Greatest Hits (2007)
John Michael Montgomery	I Swear
from The Very Best of John Michael Montgomery (2005)
Reba McEntire	Fancy
from Rumor Has It (1990)
Travis Tritt	Anymore
from The Essentials: Travis Tritt (2005)
LeAnn Rimes	Blue
from LeAnn Rimes: Greatest Hits (2003)
Joe Diffie	Pickup Man
from 16 Biggest Hits: Joe Diffie (2002)
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill	It's Your Love
from Everywhere (1997)
Billy Ray Cyrus	Achy Breaky Heart
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billy Ray Cyrus (2003)
Dixie Chicks	Wide Open Spaces
from Wide Open Spaces (1998)
Clint Black & Lisa Hartman Black	When I Said I Do
from Clint Black: Greatest Hits II (2001)
Mark Chesnutt	I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
from I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (2005)
Dwight Yoakam	Fast As You
from The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam (2004)
Randy Travis	If I Didn't Have You (Remastered)
from Trail of Memories - The Randy Travis Anthology (2005)
Vince Gill	I Still Believe in You
from I Still Believe in You (1992)
Kevin Sharp	Nobody Knows
from Measure of a Man (1996)
Neal McCoy	Wink
from Greatest Hits (2008)
Tracy Lawrence	Alibis
from Alibis (2009)
Mary Chapin Carpenter	Passionate Kisses
from The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter (2003)
Lorrie Morgan	Good As I Was to You
from Greater Need (1995)
Bryan White	Someone Else's Star
from Bryan White (2010)

Comment:

As the millennium wound down and rap invaded the Top 40, a whole generation of fans raised on singer-songwriters and bands like the Eagles turned to country for their melodic fix. Taking a radical turn away from its hillbilly roots, country's biggest artists cited Kiss and Janis Joplin as influences along with Hank Williams and Tammy Wynette. In fact, Faith Hill even rode her version of Joplin's "Piece of My Heart" to the top of the Country charts in 1994, but it wasn't until 1999's pop-tastic power ballad "Breathe" that she entered the crossover elite, charting #1 on both the Country [i]and[/i] Pop charts. Meanwhile, Hill's touring partner-turned-life partner, Tim McGraw, crams 23 years' worth of heartstring-tuggin' melodrama into three short verses in his cinematic soap opera "Don't Take the Girl." And in a town south of Bakersfield called Los Angeles, leather-panted superstar Dwight Yoakam lobs four-and-a-half minutes of twang-rockin' payback at ex-girlfriend Sharon Stone in "Fast As You," complete with a little stompin' nod to Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman." But don't stop there — from "Boot Scootin' Boogie" to "Passionate Kisses," we've got an entire decade of country's finest distilled into a playlist packed with smooth-sippin' selections.

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