Who do you feel is the greatest country singer of all time?

Pfoeh of all time? I don't know... But I know Lucinda Williams has a great voice...

I think George Jones would probably win, but I have to go with Johnny Cash.

for female, I like margo from cowboy junkies.

for male, I will have to go for johnny cash.

is cowboy junkies really country?

well, cowboy junkies are kinda a blues/country before they changed their style to more mainstream alternative rock type of shit...

mainstream alternative, what do you mean by that? it's kind of paradoxal
cowboy junkies don't sound mainstream to me at all...

here you go orpheus

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
On their seventh album, the Cowboy Junkies hitch their pony to producer John Leckie (Radiohead, Verve) and inch closer toward the mainstream. As a result, Miles from Our Home's title track might be the group's most upbeat and infectious song ever. Unfortunately, it also means Miles is frequently too pretty and pleasant for its own good. Think more Sarah McLachlan, less Velvet Underground. Still, gloom reigns supreme. The atmospheric "Blue Guitar" and, presumably, the slow, shattered "At the End of the Rainbow" (a hidden track) mourn the late singer/songwriter and Junkie hero Townes Van Zandt. "Those Final Feet," a lilting, Band-like tune, marks the passing of the 94-year-old grandfather of the Timmins siblings, who comprise three fourths of the band. Translated through Margo Timmins's endlessly haunting vocals, such sentiments keep the Cowboy Junkies' cloudy mystique alive. --Neal Weiss

closer to mainstream doesn't mean mainstream

you are right, orpheus. they got themselves in this limbo which is not very mainstream or very close to their old musical style.

both ends of the boat don't reach any shores, and it ends up in the middle of no where, not good.