My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: The Shelter of Your Eyes

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Well, at least things are normal on this side of the list. For today’s country song I’ll keep that smooth, mellow voice going (as @JudyEv commented about Vern Gosdin yesterday, “This guy has a great voice”) as we venture onward in the list of my all-time favorite songs to make the country music Billboard chart. The Shelter of Your Eyes - Don Williams As I’ve mentioned a time or 600, Jim Reeves is my all-time favorite singer. He died when I was four, so there were Reeves-like singers that filled the bill as I grew up. One of them was Jim Ed Brown (who once said that Reeves told him that, should anything happen to him [Reeves], RCA would take him [Brown] and “make him the next Jim Reeves”). Don Williams was definitely the other. This was Don Williams’ very first solo single. (As @TheHorse told you a few weeks ago, Williams was a member of the folk group the Pozo Seco Singers before his successful country music career.) And wow, what a debut single!! He wrote this and delivered a great love song with a voice that the country music world came to love for 40 years, landing him in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Wow, what a love song. The Shelter of Your Eyes Written by Don Williams Recorded by Don Williams From Don Williams Volume One, 1972 Peak chart position: #14 Today’s rock song: “Sartorial Eloquence” Tune out the world: