Is Martina McBride the best still-living female Country Music singer? Or someone else?

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• Freeranger 2011/10/15 01:00:08
  YES [explain why you think so].

  

  One of the best voices in Country. Great songs......great lyrics.....certainly easy on the eyez....

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• buffydr... to Freeranger 2011/10/17 08:46:18
  

  I agree.

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• Hopscotch 2011/10/15 00:04:18
  NO [tell us which still-living female Country Music singer is better and why ...

  

  WHO?

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• Brightsprite62 2011/10/14 16:45:26
  NO [tell us which still-living female Country Music singer is better and why ...

  

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  I do love her singing but best. I don't know I would still have to go with the Queen of Country who's still going strong. Ms Loretta Lynn.

  

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• tncdel to Brights... 2011/10/14 16:56:28
  

  Though still living, she's NOW 76 years old and her voice is a shadow of its former self.

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• Brights... to tncdel 2011/10/14 17:53:06
  

  I still love her voice. I like Martina but Loretta more. If you want someone younger I would go Trisha Yearwood.

  

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• Cricket 2011/10/14 13:47:08
  YES [explain why you think so].

  

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  She's the one I really like over the others. She's talented, has a beautiful, strong voice and she has a lot of style, not to mention so gorgeous.

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• Tits ISHBAHFF McGee 2011/10/14 12:59:49
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  dolly parton best voice with no computer enhancements, writes her own music, plays her own instruments.

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• tncdel to Tits IS... 2011/10/14 15:19:42 (edited)
  

  To your ears. But to mine Dolly had a shrill cartoon-character like "chipmunky" voice. She also lacked the power and range of McBride, not to mention also that Dolly's contemporaries Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn were better.

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• RoyDMercer - IFOTFD 2011/10/14 12:46:34
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  If she isn't, she is without a doubt one of the most beautiful ever.

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• Assassin~ Badass Buzz Guru 2011/10/14 12:37:08
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  She has such a pure beautiful voice. Her song Concrete Angel still makes me sad....Or Broken Wing. She is not only a beautiful voice, but many of her songs have such good messages.

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• srini 2011/10/14 12:22:30 (edited)
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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• tncdel to srini 2011/10/14 15:23:53
  

  Brokop has a nice voice, but not many songs to her credit. Didn't even know about her till you mentioned her. From what I was able to hear on youtube, her voice seemed to indicate that she was a Patsy Cline fan.

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• lonewolf 2011/10/14 08:37:56
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• mwg0735 to lonewolf 2011/10/14 13:25:12
• lonewolf to mwg0735 2011/10/14 13:56:38
  

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  oh yeah

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• srini to lonewolf 2011/10/14 15:28:52
  

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  Eh, the last female Canuck country songbird born east of Lloydminster with a good voice is Sylvia Tyson, nee Fricker (who is 71)!

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• tncdel to lonewolf 2011/10/14 15:42:55
  

  Yes, Shania has a nice voice. I have her stuff on CD as well. But I think she's slightly under McBride voice-wise, about on par with Faith Hill and Trisha Yearwood. Another with a good voice that I like is Kathy Mattea. She has a "lilt" to her voice like Loretta Lynn, but her voice has a unique quality all her own that fascinates my ears.
  
  

  

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• CowboyAndOutlaw 2011/10/14 05:13:21
  YES [explain why you think so].

  

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  She's definitely circling the top of my list.

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• SK-LIBERTY OVER EQUALITY 2011/10/14 04:16:49
  YES [explain why you think so].

  

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  Although Faith Hill comes in a close second.

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• tncdel to SK-LIBE... 2011/10/14 04:17:32
  

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  Yes she does!

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• Mark In Irvine 2011/10/14 04:09:06
  NO [tell us which still-living female Country Music singer is better and why ...

  

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  i'm kinda partial to trisha yearwood ... and still really enjoy patsy cline ... am not familiar with martina mcbride ...

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• tncdel to Mark In... 2011/10/14 04:22:24 (edited)
  

  Trisha's excellent. So's Faith Hill. But Martina's even better. Cline's been dead long before you were a gleam in your daddy's eye, so she doesn't qualify as a "still-living" female Country Music singer. But all-time I'd have to say Cline, Wynette and Lynn were about equally good.
  
  Listen to the video, then listen to more by McBride, and I think you'll have to admit she's at least one of the best, maybe the best. She belts it out better than Yearwood, with stronger vocal chords. And McBride's range is better. Listen to her do the National Anthem's wide range on the video I posted.

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• Mark In... to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:30:38
  

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  I was 11 when PC died ... i agree MMcB has a good range and a strong voice ... and country music is good clean fun! thanks again.

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• tncdel to Mark In... 2011/10/14 04:58:07
  

  Sorry, thought you were younger ... maybe it was the avatar. :)~

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• Mark In... to tncdel 2011/10/14 05:06:05
  

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  i think kd lang has a great voice, but i'm not all that crazy about her material ... lady gaga has a pretty great voice too, but again ... the material ...

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• tncdel to tncdel 2011/10/14 05:06:15
  

  P.S. Ever hear of Sammi Smith? She wasn't promo-ed much, so she wasn't very successful commercially. But I'd rank her along with Patsy Cline and Tammy Wynette as having the most feeling in her voice. Listen to the sensitivity in her voice, with its little slightly raspy twitches:
  
  

  

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• tncdel 2011/10/14 04:05:26
  YES [explain why you think so].

  

  She has the best voice of any still-living female Country Music singer I know. Her version of the National Anthem blew me away.

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• tncdel to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:08:33
  

  

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• SK-LIBE... to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:16:19
  

  +1

  sends a tingle up my leg.

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• tncdel to SK-LIBE... 2011/10/14 04:22:56
  

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  She puts her heart into it, doesn't she?

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• tncdel to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:26:47
  

  You weren't hear a better non-studio recorded version of that than her version of the National Anthem. Wasn't anyway to edit out mistakes.

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• SK-LIBE... to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:33:34
  

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  i Bet being their and hearing her voice echo through the stadium had to be awesome.

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• SK-LIBE... to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:28:36
  

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  She's a true American patriot that's for sure!

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• Mark In... to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:19:51
  

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  suggestions/recommendations please ...

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• Mark In... to Mark In... 2011/10/14 04:27:43
  

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  i listened to a couple of MMcB tunes above ... i'll listen some more ... thanks.

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• tncdel to Mark In... 2011/10/14 04:35:18
  

  

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• Mark In... to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:39:15 (edited)
  

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• tncdel to Mark In... 2011/10/14 04:59:36
  

  I have Trisha Yearwood CDs and many other female country music singers.

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• tncdel to tncdel 2011/10/14 04:40:33
  

  This one here is a bit soulful:
  
  

  

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