Listen to George Jones' classic hit here.

Country icon George Jones recently told the associated press his thoughts on the current state of country music and particularly the two divas racking up all the sales and awards, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.  Do his thoughts equate bitterness or true concern?

Here's Billy Yates lone USA Top 40 hit as a recording artist.

Perhaps no other style of country music has had a greater influence on today's artists than the style known as Honky Tonk. Honky Tonk music embodied the spirit of dancing and drinking, and of loving and then losing the one you love. Its greatest practitioners owe their singing style to Jimmie Rodgers and much of the music to the steel guitar and drums of Bob Wills and Western Swing.

The Nashville Sound is a blend of pop and country that developed during the 1950s. The music in this era was an outcropping of the big band jazz and swing of the '30s, '40s and early '50s, combined with the storytelling of honky-tonkers.

For the last 40 days we've counted down the top 40 songs so that we'd end right here, on January 1, 2009, with our Top Country single of 2008.  If you've followed along you probably figured out this one'd be our favorite.  Now you can read what makes this song the best.

Here's George Jones singing his classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today." This video was recorded live in 1981.

One of the great things about country music is that its artists are always willing to come together for a cause.  The cause in this case is the destroyed town of Enterprise, Alabama.  Ten Country stars have lent their talents to "We Are Enterprise," an uplifting collection of tunes benefiting the rebuilding of the town's High School.

After last year's compilation "Favorites," Billy Yates has returned with his 6th studio album "That's Why I Run."  With all but the debut album self-released, he has carved out quite a nice niche for himself.  With that in mind, does the album stand-up to his past releases?

Keith Anderson, Jamey Johnson, Crystal Shawanda, The Lost Trailers and Jimmy Wayne highlight releases this month.