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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" *
bdgregory
slipknot1
1,423 posts
 
The original Marshall Tucker band during the Toy and Bobby Caldwell days. New Riders Of The Purple Sage with David Nelson, Buddy Cage, Dave Torbert and company..

Marshall Tucker Band's "Searching For A Rainbow" and "Where We All Belong" (a great live album), on the Capricorn lable, are perfect examples of cowboy rock, as is NRPS' "Adventures Of Panama Red" and "Powerglide" (Columbia lable)

"American Beauty", "Workingman's Dead", and many cuts on "Europe '72" from the Grateful Dead are good examples of the genre as well.
surfgod
229 posts
 
A third nomination is going to Steve Earl. Both a true Country star & a Rocker. You can also throw in the Gear Daddies, The Blasters, Jason & the Scorchers. Find me more I love that stuff.
sit
315 posts
 
I have to mention Joe Ely. Joe Ely! Check out "Letter To Loredo" for instance.
jmillhouse
11 posts
 
The new live Wilco album; Kicking Television is really good. I usually don't like live albums, but this one is recorded really well.
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lokie
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Has anybody mentioned The Rolling Stones? Kieth was heavily influenced by his friend Grahm Parsons: Goats Head Soup, Beggars Banquit, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers all have heavy soutnern influence. How about the song "Far Away Eyes" on Some Girls.

For something a little more modern how about Donna and the Buffalo.
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