100 Greatest Men: #50. Don Williams
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As soft-spoken off the record as on, Don Williams became known as the Gentle Giant, as he quietly racked up dozens of hits over the course of two decades.
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100 Greatest Men: #51. Sonny James
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Decades before Taylor Swift found her way from country to pop radio, Sonny James scored the first teenage love crossover hit, setting up a long-running career that would eventually earn him a slot in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
100 Greatest Men: #52. Keith Whitley
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Some of the greatest artists in country music left the scene just as they reached staggering artistic heights, leaving fans to forever wonder what might have been.
100 Greatest Men: #53. Brooks & Dunn
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The very definition of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, two struggling solo artists came together in the nineties and became the most c0mmercially successful duo in music history.
100 Greatest Men: #54. Hank Thompson
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A legendary star who performed for more than sixty years, Hank Thompson stayed relevant as country music slowly moved from a regional music to a national one.
100 Greatest Men: #55. Roy Clark
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Thanks to a long-running syndicated television show, well-rounded entertainer Roy Clark was one of the most familiar country music personalities for more than two decades.
100 Greatest Men: #56. Bobby Bare
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With a career that has spanned seven decades, Bobby Bare’s body of work has made him one of the genre’s most influential and critically acclaimed recording artists.
100 Greatest Men: #57. Kenny Chesney
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After many years as a mid-level country artist, Kenny Chesney fused arena-size country with Caribbean rhythms to become one of the genre’s biggest stars of the 21st century.
100 Greatest Men: #58. Carl Smith
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One of the most successful country stars of the 1950’s, Carl Smith is as well known today for his famous relatives as for his legendary music.
100 Greatest Men: #59. John Anderson
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As one of the finest new traditionalists of the eighties and nineties, John Anderson pushed the boundaries of country music without sacrificing its distinctive heritage.