“You Ain’t the First,” featured on\u00a0Use Your Illusion I,\u00a0<\/em>is probably Guns’ most country-sounding song of all. It sounds as if the band played it around a campfire, mainly due to the laughing effects and how casual the atmosphere of the track is. Slash’s contributions on the slide guitar are a nice touch, too.<\/p>\n You don’t normally tell off your ex at a campfire, but with Guns N’ Roses, anything is possible.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “Breakdown” starts off with a banjo melody accompanied by Axl Rose’s signature whistling. It doesn’t really get more country than a banjo, until the piano chords come in. Then it just sounds like you’re listening to something that was written in the Bible Belt.<\/p>\n The track gets progressively harder as it goes on, but the bluesy, southern feel to it never quite wears off.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n As we stated earlier, the\u00a0Illusion\u00a0<\/em>albums were the most experimental. “Dust N’ Bones” is another offering from\u00a0Use Your Illusion I\u00a0<\/em>that was written by Izzy Stradlin, who sang lead vocals throughout most of it too.<\/p>\n This one’s a more upbeat, bluesy honky tonk track that also has a Wild West feel to it \u2014 think Route 66 out in the desert.\u00a0The\u00a0piano and talkbox add a few extra yeehaw layers to the song as well.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Typically, country artists write songs about their tears falling into their beer and the other ways they handle heartbreak, not murdering their spouse. GN’R have always liked pushing the envelope a bit, though. And luckily, this one wasn’t based on a true story.<\/p>\n “Used to Love Her” is one of several acoustic tracks that were written for\u00a0GN’R Lies,\u00a0<\/em>but it certainly has the most southern rock feel out of all of them. Axl Rose incorporated a bit of twang into his vocals to emphasize just how badly his partner’s complaining grew to be.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n While “Paradise City” is the least country-sounding track on this whole list, it’s inarguably the most well-known. It’s really a hard rock song through and through, but the opening guitar riff sounds like an electric banjo, and there are other country accents in the song too.<\/p>\n Plus, longing to go home to the countryside fits in with a lot of other country songs.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n“Breakdown”<\/h2>\n
“Dust N’ Bones”<\/h2>\n
“Used to Love Her”<\/h2>\n
“Paradise City”<\/h2>\n