35 #1 country hits, including: To All The Girls I've Loved Before * Could I Have This Dance * Stand By Me * Above And Beyond * Living Proof * Friends In Low Places * Timber, I'm Falling In Love * Forever And Ever, Amen * Song Of The South * Love Without End, Amen * and more.

The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.

Reviews and rates the best recordings of country artists and groups, provides biographies of the artists, and charts the evolution of country music