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Re: Country & Western Challenge
Sep 26, 2015, 13:52
Of the ones that have been recommended so far I'm familiar with Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, the Louvin Brothers, Bobbie Gentry and Johnny Cash, and whilst the latter did make some brilliant albums and some fairly drab MOR ones (particularly during the late 70s/early 80s) I'd recommend all of what I've heard by the others unreservedly.

I'd also add Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, Michael Nesmith's early albums with the First National Band, and - if your definition of country is broad enough to encompass bluegrass - the Stanley Brothers and early Flatt & Scruggs and the Dillards (not to mention the two superb albums Foug Dillard made with Gene Clark).

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood occasionally made some decent stabs in a C&W direction (such as their covers of "Jackson" and "My Elusive Dreams"), as did Glen Campbell, but the bulk of their material probably couldn' t be defined as country.
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