Charlie Walker is one of those artists for whom I’d been thinking about doing a forgotten artists article. Look for it in the next few weeks. He was a solid performer, appeared on the Opry as recently as March of this year, and according to all accounts, was a terrific person. Aside from Ray Price and Carl Smith (plus Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright from earlier), my Dad’s generation of country singers (those who could have fought in WW2, whether or not they actually did) is mostly gone. THe world is poorer for their passing.

If I had to take a guess I would suspect they biased their data to get some more recent songs onto their list in order to seem relevent to younger readers.

as far as that list goes, it was tough cos I only had 5 spots. the reality of of it is: Buy ‘em all!

Jim, out of exclamation points

Hey Everyone, Play the Ashton Shepherd Drag & Drop “Pickin’ Shed Game”! When you move the items into their proper position inside the pickin’ shed they change to solid colors (except for Ashton). Everything that can be moved must be relocated to find its rightful spot including Ashton herself. Once everything is in place the door opens up and a panel appears playing the music video for Ashton’s “Sounds So Good”.
Link: http://www.mcanashville.com/ashtonshepherd/shed.html

Of course, the fact that one of two competiting versions of “How Do I Live” is (apparently) the fourth-most popular song of all time just shows how f’ed up these lists are. I don’t know what kind of math they used, but the result is pretty wacky.