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Did you stop at that mixtape of Shania Twain or have you had a complete set of Ernest Tubb since your were 12?
What is your favorite Country & Western album?

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And which do you prefer most: the Countrypolitan Pop of today, the Outlaws of the 70s or the Honky Tonk Heroes of the 30s-50s?

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have the Bear Family Lefty Frizzell box, but for pure listening pleasure, it's hard to beat this one-disc Lefty retrospective Rhino put out a few years back.

― Lee G, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bill Sherrill = producer of the century!

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Carter Family - "Wildwood Flower" (I think this is the only album I own that can be found in the Country section of a record store.)

― o. nate, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

anything by Steve Young

― Steve K, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

gillian welch "hell among the yearlings" laura cantrell "not the tremblin kind" bobbie gentry "way down south" glen campbell "20 golden hits" johnny cash "american history 3"

― slack jack, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gram Parsons, I have GP and Grievous Angel on one CD so does my modernised remarketed version count? I hope so.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

too folk for country and too country for folk : Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding

― olly 360, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

and blacky ranchette

― olly 360, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hank Williams as Luke The Drifter

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Country was never really album oriented, most albums being collections of singles with filler tunes added. That said, it's all about Waylon & Shaver's "Honkey Tonk Heroes"... really sparse accompaniment and REALLY good songs, and the only country song I know that deals with interracial romance: "Black Rose." Great album.

― Andy, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

k.d. lang - Shadowlands

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's true that it's not much of an albums genre. I love country and have loads of it (quick database query: over 3000 tracks). My favourite stuff is those that came after Hank Williams (who was, for me, a very great writer but not very special as a performer). I all- but-revere Willie Nelson, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Carl & Pearl Butler, Bobby Bare and some others. I do like some more recent stuff - Lyle Lovett and Dale Watson spring to mind - but most of it sounds indistinguishable from bland soft rock to me.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Steve Earle and Del McCoury Band - "The Mountain"
Can listen to it all the way through 3-4 times in a row...

― jacob, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' by the Byrds, if only for 'Nothing Was Delivered' and 'Pretty Boy Floyd'.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

cowpunk!

― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

this question is impossible to answer, but I'm going to say Merle Haggard's I Love Dixie Blues (and immediately think of a thousand c&w lps I prefer as soon as I hit submit)

― J Blount, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Parliament, 'Osmium'. If you think I'm kidding just listen to the goddamned thang.

― dave q, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dave Q is spot on. "Little Old Country Boy," baby.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

on that note - prince's "horny toad"

― J Blount, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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