Artist	Song
George Jones	The Honky Tonk Downstairs
from The Definitive George Jones Collection (2009)
Guy Clark	Heartbroke
from Guy Clark: The Platinum Collection (2008)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Right or Wrong
from The Essential Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1992)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Deep Water
from The Essential Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1992)
Webb Pierce	Cow Town
from Honky Tonk Song (1993)
Faron Young	If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')
from The Complete Capitol Hits of Faron Young (2008)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Home In San Antone
from The Essential Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1992)
Hank Williams	Lovesick Blues
from Hank Williams: 40 Greatest Hits (1988)
Elvis Presley	Milkcow Blues Boogie
from Elvis At Sun (Remastered) (2004)
J.D. Souther	The Last In Love
from You're Only Lonely (1990)
George Jones	Love Bug
from George Jones: 24 Greatest Hits (2006)
Vern Gosdin	Today My World Slipped Away
from 40 Years of the Voice, Vol. 1 (2009)
John Prine	I Just Want to Dance With You
from German Afternoons (1988)
Rodney Crowell	The Night's Just Right
from Sex & Gasoline (2008)
Patsy Cline	You're Stronger Than Me
from Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits (2003)
Rodney Crowell	Stars On the Water
from The Rodney Crowell Collection (2008)
Gene Autry	Deep In the Heart of Texas
from The Essential Gene Autry (2005)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Take Me Back to Tulsa
from Legends of Country Music: The Best of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (2006)
Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson	Seahorses of Old Mexico
from Seashores of Old Mexico (1987)
George Jones	She Told Me So
from The Grand Tour (2008)
Guy Clark	Texas Cookin'
from The Essential Guy Clark (1997)
Jamey Johnson	It Was Me
from The Dollar (2006)
Delbert McClinton	Same Kind of Crazy
from Room to Breathe (2002)
José Alfredo Jiménez	El Rey
from Y Sigue Siendo el Rey (2008)

Comment:

When you've got a George Strait-sized career, trust us, great tunes are gonna find you. But George has also reached back — sometimes [i]decades[/i] — to shine his light on songs that were once done [i]so right[/i]. Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones nurses the dregs of "a bottle that's destroyin' all hopes and cares" in the booze-soaked sorrow of "The Honky Tonk Downstairs," a song Strait's Ace in the Hole band cut at their first-ever session. Guy Clark lays down a floor-scuffing Western-swing shuffle underneath "Heartbroke," pickin' and grinnin' — and pleadin' — his way through the train wreck of one more breakup. But if you want a PhD in Johnnie Walker wisdom, give a listen to Faron Young's corn-mash counsel in "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')": "You ain't so well-to-do/unless you get a little coochie-coo." Truer words were never spoken, let alone sung. But that's not all — from John Prine to Patsy Cline, from Gene Autry to Elvis Presley, these are the artists who sang 'em like nobody else ever could . . . until George came along.

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