"Country-Rock" Recommendatons

There has been a lot of Eagles and Poco discussion lately. What are some country rock albums that we all may enjoy. Or country artists with a cross over appeal like Kris Kristofferson, for example.

Some that I have:

Pure Prairie League - "Bustin' Out"
Bob Dylan - "Nashville Skyline"
Michael Nesmith - "And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'" with "Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash"
Beau Brummels - "Bradley's Barn"

Other albums like:

The Kinks - "Muswell Hillbillies" (it has that faux country vibe throughout)
Elvis Presley - recordings from '75-'76 ('rock' with a country flavour)

Thanks as always

 

Joe South is rock but has a country-soul flavor in many of his songs. Get a best of comp and the Raven twofer of "Introspect" and "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home"
Bob Dylan-John Wesley Harding is another great album
Others include:
John Fogerty-Blue Ridge Rangers
Byrds-Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Flying Burrito Brothers-Sin City: The Very Best Of...
International Submarine Band-Safe At Home
Gram Parsons-GP/Grievous Angel

 

Gene Clark with The Godsin Brothers. The 2 Dillard and Clark Expedition albums. Paradise Bar and Grill-Mad River. The Gilded Palace Of Sin-The Flying Burrito Brothers.Burrito Deluxe-The Flying Burrito Brothers.

 

NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE...

Self Titled
Powerglide
Gypsy Cowboy
The Adventures Of Panama Red
Home, Home On The Road
Brujo

 

Rene, the Sin City comp has the entire Gilded Palace of Sin and Burrito Deluxe on 1 CD.

 

........Yeah but what can I say??? I am still a vinyl geek at heart.

 

Might I suggest Commander Cody, especially any live releases?

 

and "Lost In The Ozone" by Commander Cody to start with for studio work

 

Some of the later Decca Rick Nelson LP's
Music From Big Pink and The Band--very country to me, though not of the conventional type.
Charlie Rich--Smash material

 

For Charlie Rich's Smash material, I have the Complete Smash Sessions CD

 

I listened to some of the samples on Amazon.com. I like it. But, that album cover! I NEVER would have known it was country-rock looking at that!

 

This works for me, too. Thanks

 

A lot of very good suggestions so far, so I'll just add:

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Amazing Rhythm Aces - Stacked Deck & Too Stuffed To Jump
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions & The Caution Horses
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead & American Beauty
Emmylou Harris - Elite Hotel & Pieces Of The Sky
John Hiatt - Bring The Family
The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall & Tomorrow The Green Grass
Mike Nesmith - And The Hits Just Keep On Coming & Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash
Neil Young - Harvest & Harvest Moon.

 

Goose Creek Symphony's Est. 1970
Area Code 615 S/T
Barefoot Jerry's S/T & Watchin' TV
Gene Parsons' Kindling
Gram Parsons' Grevious Angel
Emmmylou Harris' Evangelene
Michael Martin Murphy's Geronimo's Cadillac & Wildfires 1972-1984
The Byrds' Notorious Byrd Brothers
Kim Richey's Glimmer & Bitter Sweet
Allison Moorer's Show

 

The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark

 

This isn't exactly country rock in the Eagles/Poco vein, it's country rock if say, Dusty Springfield had made a couple of county LPs. It's wonderful, incredible, amazing (can you tell I like Charlie Rich?) music, but it's not really country rock as the term implies...although you really could argure that he was ahead of the curve by several years.

 

Is this in the same vein as "Most Beautiful Girl In The World" and "Behind Closed Doors"? The only recording I have of "The Silver Fox" is "Lonely Weekends" from the "The Sun Story" CD.

I was just listening to Kris Kristofferson's "Loving Here Was Easier" on a compilation - nice sound. Followed by "Behind Closed Doors", as I type this - I have 2 Charlie Rich songs. Is this sufficient?

 

Not at all...the Smash recordings are their own thing. Some of them are country songs played with a rock or R&B feel, and some (like "A Field of Yellow Daisies" or "I Can't Go On") are like the Righteous Brothers meet Dionne Warwick with Elvis singing lead...there's nothing like them that I can think of.

 

You have to check out Shooter Jennings - "Let's Put The "O" Back In Country" it's available on vinyl and CD - a great disc from start to finish.

 

That's my favorite. A happy accident in music history.

 

I highly recommend "Sweetheart of the Rodeo", by the Byrds.

 

Gear Daddies-Billy's Live Bait
Kim Richey-Bitter Sweet
Buddy Miller-Poison Love
Anthony Crawford
Carlene Carter-I Fell in Love
everything by Heather Myles

 

I can't believe no one's mentioned The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band by post No. 23.
The band that, with the first Will The Circle Be Unbroken recording, for all íntents and purposes, fused the country and rock genres indelibly together.
(The Rock & Roll version of the Vulcan mind-meld if you will... )

 

UNCLE TUPELO:

No Depression
Still Feel Gone
March 16-20, 1992
Anodyne

Or, if you just want a sampler, 89/93: An Anthology. Everyone should have some Tupelo in their collection.

For something of slightly earlier vintage, how about the Flatlanders' More a Legend Than a Band? Or, for that matter, the solo efforts of Messrs. Gilmore, Hancock and Ely?

 

Oh, but we do, we do...