Fave Country Record?

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.

k.d. lang - Shadowlands

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.

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

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

cowpunk!

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)

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

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

on that note - prince's "horny toad"