She Couldn't Change Me - Montgomery Gentry - 2001  (Album - Carryin' On)

This was by no means their first single, it was their 6th.  But this was the one that changed a lot of things for Montgomery Gentry in 2001. Their debut single in 1999, Hillbilly Shoes was a great song, but it may have been a bit too much for some. There were a few more with moderate success, then there was this.  An absolutely fantastic country song, in the absolute right hands. They had a lot of hits over the years and there are those you always seem to hear, Hell Yeah, My Town, and others.  But to me this is the song that just sums them up to perfection.  I interviewed them once and they told me -  what they had said to others before -  that they don't really record "love songs,"  but this, and She Don't Tell Me To are the closest they would probably get.  It made me laugh, them too.  I always liked MG, because they knew who they were, and they never tried to be something they weren't.  Fans loved their authenticity and helped keep country's big boom going well beyond the 90's.  I loved this song the first time I heard it and knew it was a hit.  #2 on the charts, and just a real good old country song.