Artist	Song
Randy Travis	Forever and Ever, Amen
from I Told You So - The Ultimate Hits of Randy Travis (2009)
Vince Gill & Reba McEntire	Oklahoma Swing
from When I Call Your Name (1989)
Johnny Lee	Lookin' for Love
from Lookin' for Love (2008)
Keith Whitley	I'm No Stranger to the Rain
from The Essential Keith Whitley (1996)
Dwight Yoakam	Guitars, Cadillacs
from The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam (2004)
John Anderson	I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Some Day)
from Greatest Hits (2009)
Rodney Crowell	I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried
from Rodney Crowell: Greatest Hits (1993)
Steve Wariner	What I Didn't Do
from Steve Wariner: Greatest Hits (1987)
Suzy Bogguss	Someday Soon
from Suzy Bogguss: 20 Greatest Hits (2002)
Kathy Mattea	Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
from Kathy Mattea: A Collection of Hits (1990)
Patty Loveless	Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: Best of Patty Loveless (2000)
Lorrie Morgan	Five Minutes
from Greatest Hits (1995)
Ricky Van Shelton	I'll Leave This World Loving You
from Greatest Hits Plus (1992)
Highway 101	Somewhere Tonight
from Rhino Hi-Five: Classic Country Hits, Vol.1 (2006)
Mark Collie	Even the Man in the Moon Is Crying
from Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin' (1997)

Comment:

No doubt about it, George Strait's claimed the title King of Country, but he wasn't the only one who hoped to trade his hat for a crown back in the day. Former bluegrass [i]wunderkind[/i] Keith Whitley's "I'm No Stranger to the Rain" snagged the #1 slot from Strait's "Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye" in 1989, but his stormy career came to a tragic end less than a month later, a victim of acute alcohol poisoning at 34. Where George's "My Infinite Love" — featured in our [i]Love Songs[/i] playlist — plays it Strait, Randy Travis' GRAMMY®-winning devotional decree, "Forever and Ever, Amen," plants its lyrical tongue like a plug of chew — firmly in cheek. And, finally, triple-threat writer/producer/performer (and ex-Johnny Cash son-in-law) Rodney Crowell two-steps his way to new-traditionalist Nirvana in "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried." From Vince Gill & Reba McEntire to Dwight Yoakam and Kathy Mattea, we've got all the tradition-makers — and tradition-[i]breakers[/i] — who shared the airwaves and arenas with George.

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