Country Line Dance

Ever watch Dancing With the Stars and have that panic-attack moment of boot-quakin', two-left-feet insecurity? Well, even if you can't tango like Hélio Castroneves or samba like Kristi Yamaguchi, no worries; just roll on down to your local cow palace and line dance your way to hillbilly happiness as we pack your saddle bags with our handpicked hits. Three-minutes-and-18-seconds' worth of Brooks & Dunn's original "Boot Scootin' Boogie" just isn't enough for true dance-floor demons, so B&D add a bunch of beats, some sound effects, and just about double its length in the Club Mix version. Take a Chuck Berry riff, spot-weld it to a scarf-tossin' Elvis Presley backbeat, and you've got Travis Tritt's King-sized Southern-rock scorcher, "T-R-O-U-B-L-E." And how could we forget Billy Ray Cyrus, the mullet-maned maven who re-crazed a dormant line-dance nation with his heapin' helpin' of hard-drivin' hurt, "Achy Breaky Heart."

In Next Steps, we'll cross over to the ladies' side of the line for some cowgirl classics.

If you've been listening to only the guys, you're only getting one side of country's love affair with line dancing. So, no, we're going to hear what it sounds like from the ladies' point of view. At the tender age of 17, Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter Miley is already a force to be reckoned with in country music and she boom-boom-clap, boom-boom-clap-de-claps her way to #1 at the box office — and a Top 20 hit — in "Hoedown Throwdown." Holly Dunn takes an electric slide through some modern rockaboogie in the honky-tonk heartache of her lone chart-topper, "You Really Had Me Going." And Mary Chapin Carpenter scratches off her metaphorical lottery ticket, winning a dreamy double-date with country superstars Dwight Yoakam and Lyle Lovett — and then bragging about it — in "I Feel Lucky."

In Deep Cuts, we'll follow the Devil to Georgia, travel down home to — and with — Alabama, and listen to the Texas Tornados blow us away.

In Deep Cuts, we're two-steppin' our way into the Deep South — specifically Georgia, Alabama, and Texas — to get a line on their line-dancing classics. The first to peek out from under our big ol' hatful of hits is one of Urban Cowboy's guest stars, Charlie Daniels, with the fire-fingered fiddle favorite that put him on the map, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." It's pretty much impossible to keep pace with the Devil all night long, so Alabama dials it back a notch with an easy-livin' ramble, "Down Home," sweet as sugar magnolia and comfortable as your favorite pair of Hush Puppies. And if you like a little habañero hot sauce with your barroom shuffle, the late Doug Sahm leads the Texas Tornados through a Sir Douglas Quintet-ish blend of Galveston and Guadalajara in "Little Bit Is Better Than Nada."

Dig out your Stetson, put on your Luccheses, grab your partner, and rev up the pickup, 'cause we're a-goin' line dancing. It didn't all start with the Urban Cowboy craze — fact is, line dancing's roots go back further than country music itself — but the kings and queens of the country scene featured here raised it to an art form. Whether you're headed down to the local shot-and-a-beer joint or just rowdy-in' up your backyard BBQ, we've got enough boot-scootin' boogie to take you way past last call. And From Billy Ray Cyrus to Hannah Montana, and from Alabama to the Texas Tornados, we don't merely have the artists you already know and love, but the rising stars guaranteed to make your next dance party "A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action."