Music Groupsourcing Request

An update: Thanks again for all your input. It was invaluable. I think I may have completed my quest for material. I wanted an instrumental and found a Glen Campbell-Roy Clark duet on "Ghost Riders in the Sky." It slams to the max. BUT if anyone has a gospel-spiritual suggestion, preferably a little old-timey, I might be able to make room for it (I'm up to 25 tunes, which means I'm probably over my 54 minutes).

 

Mavis Staples ...

 

All the Staples ...

 

Just awesome, Tighthead. Thanks so much. That's a wrap, gang. Now I have to compress it all into 54 minutes. Won't be easy.

 

Best of luck, sir.

 

Last update: Have completed editing process. Much more painful than having my words edited for space. I will not spoil the surprise of my final choices for you. Have now rewarded myself and co-editor Alice by going down the YouTube rabbit hole for versions of "Ghost Riders in the Sky." Could've done 54 minutes of just this easily, and I've just started on the available pedal steel instrumental versions.
PS: Since she grew up in Brooklyn, it wasn't a shock to hear Alice's surprise to learn that truck driving songs are an entire subgenre of country unto themselves.

 

Dave Dudley, baby.

 

Did you use Urban Struggle by The Vandals? Great song.

 

Great song. Didn't make the cut. 54 minutes of music is about 20 tunes. I mean, I had to throw out Patsy Cline songs (left one) and Hank Williams songs (could only use one). Nobody got two but Bob Wills. George Strait, to name a random megastar, didn't get any. In the end, I was focusing more on themes and subgenres (drinking song, adultery song, trucker song, etc.) than specific artists. I just don't know how much country the station's audience is familiar with (they must have a high level of music knowledge) so I went with a survey course plus songs I like a lot. Big Iron is not one of the 20 greatest country tunes of all time, except to me, so I put it in, for example.

 

Understood. I think the one song that would have brung up the most conversation is Urban Struggle.

Thanks for the 'splainer.