Opinion? The Greatest Country Album of All Time

A lot of my favourites have already been mentioned, but Merle Travis Folksongs of the Hills is right up there

Folksongs Of The Hills Folksongs Of The Hills: Travis*Merle: Amazon.ca: Music »

 

This is one of those threads where I'm going to write down a bunch of albums I want to buy and end up even poorer.

Thanks, guys.

 

Dwight Yoakam - Gone

 

Both of them are much better and more genuinely country than any of the formulaic redneck pop that's currently passing for country on the radio.

 

A fantastic live album and definitely country/folk-flavored (and is it just me or does he sound eerily like Jim Morrison on the deep cut "Cops")?

 

I always loved this one and At San Quentin on vinyl, but the uncensored CDs with bonus tracks are even better.

 

That song, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" (co-written by the late Steve Goodman and an uncredited John Prine) is on Coe's Once Upon a Rhyme album.

 

The cd seems to have a different track listing from the LP.

cd:
SOUND OF A HEARTACHE
LONELY STREET
YOU OUGHT TO HEAR ME CRY
FAREWELL PARTY
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
WAY TO SURVIVE
A MOMENT ISN'T VERY LONG
I CAN FEEL YOU IN HIS ARMS
JEALOUSLY INSANE
DANNY BOY
CONSCIENCE TURN YOU BACK
Ernest Tubb Record Shop: Sound Of A Heartache<BR>Johnny Bush CD »


lp:
Sound Of A Heartache
What Made Milwaukee Famous
She Still Comes Around
Tonight I'm Going Home To An Angel
All I Have To Offer You Is Me
Today I Started Loving You Again
Statue Of A Fool
Lonely Street
Undo The Right
https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Bush-The-Sound-Of-A-Heartache/master/395172

 

Really, any of the early ones on GRC are great. WAY before the Branson jive.

 

Further examination, I think the discogs entry is wrong. I ''clicked image'' and the listing on the lp is not what discogs has as the track listing.


Sound Of A Heartache
What Made Milwaukee Famous
She Still Comes Around
Tonight I'm Going Home To An Angel
All I Have To Offer You Is Me
Today I Started Loving You Again
Statue Of A Fool
Lonely Street
Undo The Right

 

4 pages in and no mention of the great Tom T. Hall, dubbed "The Storyteller" by Tex Ritter, and also known as "the Ernest Hemingway of country music." I have many favorite country albums, but Tom T. Hall's In Search of a Song is unsurpassed, with 11 finely crafted story songs laced with ironic twists and true literary flair. It's available on CD as a Bear Family "twofer" with his album The Rhymer and Other Five-and-Dimers which is also first rate. He also made many more excellent albums. His first 8 are available on those Bear Family twofers and all are more than worthwhile. Many of his others are out of print, but well worth searching for.

 

Here are two from the 2000's that are decent.

Keith Urban - Love Pain and The Whole Crazy Thing


Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors

 

This guy- the best of all of 'em.

 

a very recent release and in this day of country music, it's a great country album

 

John Stewart / Jim Morrison? Never crossed my mind before, but now you mention it.....