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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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

Bill Sherrill = producer of the century!

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

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-three years ago)

anything by Steve Young

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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

and blacky ranchette

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

Hank Williams as Luke The Drifter

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

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-three years ago)

k.d. lang - Shadowlands

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

'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-three years ago)

cowpunk!

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

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-three years ago)

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

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

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

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

on that note - prince's "horny toad"

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

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