{"id":1318200,"date":"2020-02-12T12:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1817751"},"modified":"2020-02-12T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:16:05","slug":"two-country-classics-among-billboards-greatest-love-song-duets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/two-country-classics-among-billboards-greatest-love-song-duets\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Country Classics Among Billboard\u2018s Greatest Love Song Duets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:688915?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n28m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>What would you consider the all-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8550707\/greatest-love-song-duets\">greatest love song duets<\/a>? <em>Billboard<\/em> critics set out to get them with a fine-tooth comb (to borrow a lyric from one of the songs), coming up with 25 tracks across all genres. <\/p>\n<p>For \u201cIslands in the Stream,\u201d they noted its chart-topping dominance on the country chart, adult contemporary chart, and Hot 100: \u201cThe crossover success is no surprise. Everyone could imagine Kenny and Dolly rowing off into the sunset together.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cvq6lHDatNs?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cvq6lHDatNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>For the other country classic, they chose \u201cJackson\u201d by Johnny Cash and June Carter. They interpret the song this way: \u201cWhile Cash spends much of \u2019Jackson\u2019 singing about how he\u2019s heading to the titular city to carouse with other women, the whole thing feels like playful fantasizing. Carter laughs off his threats, certain the ladies of Jackson will play him for a fool.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m67eqm0mNCQ?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m67eqm0mNCQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8550707\/greatest-love-song-duets\">expansive list<\/a> ranges from \u201cShallow\u201d (from <em>A Star Is Born<\/em>) to \u201cYou\u2019re the One That I Want\u201d (from <em>Grease<\/em>), with some Motown classics, R&amp;B hits, and playful pop classics in the mix. It\u2019s all enough to make you hotter than a pepper sprout.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1817751\/two-country-classics-among-billboards-greatest-love-song-duets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 28m ago What would you consider the all-time greatest love song duets? Billboard critics set out to get them with a fine-tooth comb (to borrow a lyric from one of the songs), coming up with 25 tracks across all genres. For \u201cIslands in the Stream,\u201d they noted its chart-topping dominance on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1318200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 05:12:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}