Favorite classic country music artist?

johnny cash is the best.

Classic Country Tammy Wynette Johnny Cash Marty Robbins Current Country Rascal Flatts Mary Chapin Carpenter Faith Hill

What a question! It is soooo hard to pick just one. I have to submit for consideration the following:

Johnny Horton

Bob Wills

Tex Williams

Marty Robbins

all great, however, from different country music genres and eras or times.

To answer your query more specifically, you would really have to ask your question with greater decisiveness - i.e.: Who is your favorite artist during a specific era/time. Also breaking down the categories even more specifically as to singers. songwriters, singer/songwriters, etc. Example: Willie Nelson wrote some of the most beautiful and profound lyrics and music during the 1950's and 1960's, but did not, himself, make the songs famous. He was regarded, back in the early days, as not good looking enough for TV or the Grand Olde Opry stage - where new stars where debuted - so other, more famous, better looking country singers sang his lyrics and melodies and made them famous. He got no credit for the "hits" until much later in his career. And, with a bit of web research, one will find Mr. Nelson wrote a great many very famous songs that most folks would not associate with him.

Willie Nelson

.George Jones

. Willie Nelson

. Merle Haggard

. Charlie Daniels

. Marty Robbins

.Waylon Jennings

.Loretta Lynn

.Patsy Cline

.Sonny James ETC.....

Can I list a top five?

1. George Jones

2. Willie Nelson

3. Merle Haggard

4. Charlie Daniels

5. Marty Robbins

Hands down Johnny Cash

Gary Stewart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_cu7v6VmyQ

Conway Twitty, Merle Haggard, or Don Williams.

Patsy Cline

Waylon-- Vern Gosdin- Gene watson-- George Jones -ALL THE HANKS---Farron Young-- Ray Price - Gary Stewart--Marty Robbins-Cal and Carl Smith and many more.