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There is no intro on Together Again. I go along with Smiley for Night Life, or else Touch My Heart.

What Donny Hinson said..
Now that was real country music...

I think I as well would nominate "Look At Us" along with "Together Again". Both of these have tremendous steel intros and openings. Though "Together Again" has no definable intro, the first note is all steel guitar.

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To answer the question you must exclude songs only country freaks know. We're talking about "the masses", who don't listen to country music much, and aren't familiar enough with the songs they DO hear to identify them. We're talking pop culture here.

Sleepwalk is number one, but only if you don't have to remember the name of the song. most people know it from the 1st 2 notes, but couldn't name it-because most grew up with lyrics to listen to. But the melody is everywhere, so it's familiar to almost everybody, even teenagers and younger. If you have to remember the name of the song to win, then this drops to #4, and the others all move up a notch.

1:Sleepwalk (proviso above)
2:Teach Your Children (Garcia)
3:Panama Red (Cage)
4:Someday Soon (Judy Collins/Emmons version. Written by Cage's previous employer.)
5:One Toke Over the Line (Brewer & Shipley/yes, Garcia again)
6:Rainbows All Over Your Blues (John Sebastian/Emmons)

After this it gets fuzzy-the country rock stuff probably creeps in, but with a much smaller audience, and I'm not sure "The Masses" would know any of it, but Lloyd Green and JD would be in the top 10 for Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and Sneaky Pete would get there for a myriad of stuff. (tho most would probably know his name before they knew any of his songs.) But none of this stuff ever got any top ten AM airplay, and I doubt it fits the bill for this question.

If your definition of "The Masses" means "a majority of forumites", then that's a different story. I'm not really sure "Rainbows" even fits, but it was a big song that a lot of people heard due to Sebastian's exposure at Woodstock. After they saw the movie, they bought his album, and it's turned up in a few other places as well.

JB

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'Top of the world'---Carpenters

Without a doubt to be had, Teach Your Children.

Now for the big question: What is a PSG? I mean, forget about the masses. How many MUSICIANS (or people who think they are a musician because they own an instrument of some sort) do you know who do not know what a steel guitar or a pedal steel guitar is?

The "masses" can hear a steel guitar and not have a clue as to what it is. (But they can come up to the stage and tell you you're playing something wrong.)


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I forgot She's No Angel with Master Cage playing.

"She's Acting Single" by Gary Stewart. Here in Dallas, even the "masses" recognize this one.

Sonny

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Together Again might not have had an intro with Buck's straight vocal intro, but if we're gonna talk about the most recognizable steel guitar mid-break, I think it's gotta be Tom Brumley's ride on Together Again.

Simply a masterpiece job.

Mi dos centavos

Top of the World fits-big AM crossover hit. I forgot about that one. But the others, even, unfortunately, She's No Angel don't. Too narrow an audience. Even if the entire crowd at Billy Bob's knows it, that's not the masses.

JB

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