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Best Country/Rock - Poll

I recently started picking up more and more music I would loosely describe as "country/rock". A couple of recent purchases (namely Jackson Brown "Solo Acoustic", and Gene Clarke & Carla Olson "So Rebelious a Lover") caused me to look for a "Best Country/Rock" thread for more ideas. I couldn't find one, so I'm starting one here.

General guidelines
1) Don't hang up on what is country rock. If you think it is, ok.
2) Identify particularly well recorded , but don't leave anything off if it's good.
3) No limit or minimum - name your favorites.

Here are some of my my favorites in no particular order:
(* = excellent recording)

Gene Clark: "No Other" * and "White Lightening" *
Gene Clarke @ Carla Olson "So Rebelious a Lover"
Jackson Brown "Solo Acoustic" *
Willie Nelson "Stardust" SACD *
Neil Young "Prairie Wind" *
Cowboy Junkies - most all of their stuff, but especially "One Soul Now" , "Lay it Down" , "Mile From Our Home". "Trinity Sessions" *
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bdp24
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Man, there are some great, great lists here! Lots of good names, but for me it always comes back to The Everly Brothers, imo the first and still best Country Rockers. Gram Parsons is associated with the great Felice & Boudleaux Bryant song "Love Hurts", but it was written for them, and their 1960 version is so, so much better than his. No Everly Brothers, no The Beatles. Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe included a bonus 7" EP in the original pressing of their Rockpile album, containing their versions of four Everly Brothers songs. High praise coming from the likes of them. Dave Edmunds, another fantastic Country Rocker---in fact, the best of his generation imo.
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Poco, self-titled album.....New Riders of the Purple Sage, self titled.

bdp24 on the subject of the Everly Bros you ever listen to the Louvin Brothers?

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Absolutely, pehare! I have a few collections of their stuff, plus the Satan Loves Sin (!) album. The Everly Brother sure didn’t invent close 2-part harmony, but they (along with Buddy Holly, with whom they were close friends) did mix it with the new Rock ’n Roll to create the template everyone (including and most especially The Beatles) has been using ever since.
maxnewid
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In the more rock than country category, I like:
Drive-by-Truckers
Slobberbone
Jupiter Coyote
Jolene
Southern Culture on the Skids
Marshall Tucker
Green on Red
Futurebirds

You guys have already mentioned many of the tight harmony, pedal steel acts like the Byrds and New Riders. I would throw in some of the Grateful Dead stuff. My list is more difficult to categorize. My list are more rock acts with country overtones. At any given moment, they might include an electric fiddle, pedal steel, or banjo in the mix with electric guitars. The common denominator of course is that they all sing about loose women, drinkin’ whiskey, and trailer parks.
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For a little bit of soul thrown in try Solomon Burke, "Nashville"  featuring some great guests produced by Buddy Miller.  It's an all-time fav here.
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