Top 10 female country artists of all time

[Chewbaccer]

This list is based solely on my personal opinion. Feel free to post your own top 10.

Bands(The Judds, Highway 101, Carter Family, etc) will not be included as the top 10 Country bands of all time will be coming soon.


10. Jessi Colter


9. Dolly Parton


8. Lorrie Morgan

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7. Juice Newton

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-pswfTBt78"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-pswfTBt78[/ame]

6. Pam Tillis


5. Tammy Wynette


4. Patty Loveless


3. Miranda Lambert

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2. Loretta Lynn

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1. Tanya Tucker


I have a long list of favorites, there's a lot of greats in my book that came just shy of the top 10. The first 5 out in order are:

Emmylou Harris
Kitty Wells
Lynn Anderson
Crystal Gale
Connie Smith

 

[GNG]

This list is based solely on my personal opinion. Feel free to post your own top 10.

Bands(The Judds, Highway 101, Carter Family, etc) will not be included as the top 10 Country bands of all time will be coming soon.


10. Jessi Colter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4aLvpVDEo

9. Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton,here you come again - YouTube

8. Lorrie Morgan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6h5D-Ed03E

7. Juice Newton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-pswfTBt78

6. Pam Tillis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5iD_er3Fb4

5. Tammy Wynette

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1PBpWWyfc

4. Patty Loveless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyxsgRa2bes

3. Miranda Lambert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslU-42GSPc

2. Loretta Lynn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a86fXFNFJM

1. Tanya Tucker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnJHc6CkggA

I have a long list of favorites, there's a lot of greats in my book that came just shy of the top 10. The first 5 out in order are:

Emmylou Harris
Kitty Wells
Lynn Anderson
Crystal Gale
Connie Smith

1 - Patsy Cline
2 - Dolly Parton
3 - Martina McBride
4 - Reba McIntire
5 - Emmylou Harris
6 - Loretta Lynn
7 - Rita Coolidge
8 - Barbara Mandrell
9 - Crystal Gale
10 - Skeeter Davis

 

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[Chewbaccer]

1 - Patsy Cline
2 - Dolly Parton
3 - Martina McBride
4 - Reba McIntire
5 - Emmylou Harris
6 - Loretta Lynn
7 - Rita Coolidge
8 - Barbara Mandrell
9 - Crystal Gale
10 - Skeeter Davis

We had somewhat similar male lists, but we are on different wavelengths with the women singers.

Martina ain't bad, but I can't stand Patsy Cline, Reba or Barbara Mandrell(other than Midnight Oil)

 

[outofyourmind]

1) Patsy
2) Loretta
3) Reba
4) Dolly
5) Tanya
6) Barbara Mandrel
7) Juice Newton
Gets sketchy after that.


If you are in the camp that Linda Ronstadt is a country singer then put her at #1 and slide everyone else down a notch.

 

[KansasSooner]

We had somewhat similar male lists, but we are on different wavelengths with the women singers.

Martina ain't bad, but I can't stand Patsy Cline, Reba or Barbara Mandrell(other than Midnight Oil)

I'd take Patsy Cline any day over your #1. Can't stand her at all.

 

[Chewbaccer]

I'd take Patsy Cline any day over your #1. Can't stand her at all.

I get wood every time I hear Tanya Tucker sing.

Outlaw Country is my favorite form of country, and Tanya Tucker was the female that came the closest to outlaw country.

I don't like Patsy Cline's voice. I don't like her songs. Really, there wasn't much country about her. Willie Nelson writing Crazy and a plane crash are the only reasons Patsy Cline is considered an all time great IMO.

During Cline's time you had the emergence of Johnny Cash, George Jones, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn and Buck Owens as stars. Waylon and Willie were out there, but their glory years would come later. Marty Robbins, Lefty Frizzel, Don Gibson, Kitty Wells, Hank Thompson and Ernest Tubb were established stars. They were all several levels above Patsy Cline.