Like others have said ,,, it's so wide and there's so many. Hank defined the genre, and you can hear in his voice that he's lived that pain. Then again, there's Wayne Hancock who, to my ears sounds not unlike Hank and has great lines like "They tried to beat a freight train, but the freight train ran 'em down.

When I first heard Willie Neslon's Opportunity to Cry on the radio, it was such a spine-tingling moment that I thought he must have died and it was being played as a tribute (thank God I was wrong).

But I've been listeniing to Clive Gresgson's We're Not Over Yet. I know Clive's working with Nanci Griffith now, but this isn't an overtly country song. Yet it's so bitter, can't you just hear someone like George Jones singing: "The way you never keep to your side of a bargain; The way you always think of no one but yourself; The way you break all of your promises and turn them into threats; Then I know, we're not over yet."

I think that's the best one. But ask me again tomorrow.