Pop Poll: Cash Runs Rings Around Competition

Pop Matters has decided that Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is the greatest country song of all time. Naturally, the pop music  website celebrates icons (Cash, Willie, Patsy and Waylon account for a lot of entries) rather than songs - how else could you count "Hurt" as a country song? Nothing from the last three decades makes it into the upper reaches of the list. Charlie Daniels' "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" makes a curious landing at No. 11 - perhaps that's some sort of hipster irony - but the real question is why they honor  Cash's version of "Orange Blossom Special." Flatt & Scruggs, kids. Go with the real deal.