31.   That instrument has become so identified with country music that anything it touches feels like a country song.

32.   The program features country songs and testimonies of faith.

33.   The southpaw taught himself to play the top country songs of the day.

34.   The young Billy Wayne is destined for the priesthood until he meets the beautiful Earlene de Bastrop, who aspires to write country songs.

35.   We followed the twang of a country song to a big tent on a pretty square.

36.   Violence in music has been present from the earliest country songs to heavy metal to, most recently, hip-hop.

37.   Which could make a pretty good country song.

38.   With hummable barroom melodies, in fairly simple arrangements, country songs usually concerned themselves with cheating, drinking or loyalty.

39.   Yet at the same time, artists like Patti Page and Rosemary Clooney were having million-sellers with country songs ... recorded in a pop style.

40.   Adams worked with Gretchen Peters, who writes country songs, for seven of the songs on the new CD.