Urban Cowboy

Past the pop façade of modern-day country music is the everlasting myth of the urban cowboy. You know the type: singing along to the "9 to 5" narratives of Dolly Parton, with a Southern belle type always on their mind and a belt buckle/boot combination worthy of all these golden nuggets about Texas.

Does anything feel quite as good and genuine as being "On the Road Again" with Willie Nelson riding shotgun? Sure. Try the county fair remembrances of George Strait, the perfect pairing of Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings, or any one of these other surefire, sun-baked classics.

Smell that? Yeah, it's one of Loretta Lynn's famed pies, cooling on a windowsill as she duets with Conway Twitty. Oh, and over there is the ghost of Ray Charles, wandering through the valley as the sun sets and old man Willie again chimes in. Can't forget the accordion-assisted bar brawl of Dwight Yoakam either.

They say mothers shouldn't let their babies grow up to be cowboys. But it sure is hard to tell an impressionable boy "no" when there are timeless songs like these — glorifying the open pastures of the West and Deep South, while sometimes providing the perfect heartache soundtrack for weeping into plastic cups of beer. Johnny, Willie, Dolly, Hank, Kenny, and the Judds are all here, along with a few friends, so you best boot-scoot boogie the night away.