Each classroom studies 30 songs in the cannon of a genre over the course of the year.
Country and Bluegrass Listening Canon in Chronological Order:
The Carter Family, “Keep on the Sunny Side” – 1927
Jimmie Rodgers, “Muleskinner Blues” – 1929
Gene Autry, “Back in the Saddle Again” – 1935
Roy Acuff, “Wabash Cannonball” – 1936
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, “Steel Guitar Rag” – 1936
Ernest Tubb, “Walking the Floor Over You” – 1941
Hank Williams, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” – 1949
Kitty Wells, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honey-Tonk Angels” – 1952
George Jones, “Why, Baby, Why” – 1955
Elvis Presley, “Love Me Tender” – 1956
Buddy Holly, “That’ll Be the Day” – 1958
Patsy Cline, “Crazy” – 1961
Buck Owens, “Act Naturally” – 1963
Johnny Cash, “Ring of Fire” – 1963
Bill Monroe, “Blue Moon Of Kentucky” – 1964
Roy Orbison, “Pretty Woman” – 1964
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” – 1967
Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man” – 1968
Dolly Parton, “Coat of Many Colors” – 1971
Charley Pride, “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” – 1971
Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith, “Dueling Banjos” – 1973
Loretta Lynn, “Coal Miner’s Daughter” – 1976
Ricky Skaggs, “Country Boy” – 1981
Willie Nelson, “Always On My Mind” – 1982
The Judds, “Mama, He’s Crazy” – 1983
Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, & Dolly Parton, “To Know Him is To Love Him” – 1987
Garth Brooks, “Friends in Low Places” – 1990
Reba McEntire, “Fancy” – 1993
Dixie Chicks, “Wide Open Spaces” – 1998
Allison Krauss and Union Station-“Baby, Now That I’ve Found You” – 2001