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Tag: Country Rock
Beck – Mellow Gold: #45 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Soy un perdedor.
Beck – Stereopathetic Soulmanure: #98 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now I’m rolling in sweat with a loaf of cold bread and a taco in my jeans.
Grateful Dead – The Grateful Dead: #205 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat. Try on your wings and find out where it’s at.
Eagles of Death Metal – Peace Love Death Metal: #261 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re always saying, it’s so easy.
Bob Dylan & The Band – The Basement Tapes: #298 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m a good ol’ boy, but I’ve been sniffin’ too many eggs, talkin’ to too many people, drinkin’ too many kegs.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy and the Poor Boys: #447 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Down on the corner, out in the street, Willy and the Poor Boys are playing, bring a nickel, tap your feet.
Grateful Dead – American Beauty: #468 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What a long strange trip it’s been.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory: #514 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Seven thirty seven coming out of the sky – won’t you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride. I want to move, playing in a traveling band.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country: #524 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Left a good job in the city, working for the man every night and day, and I never lost one minute of sleeping, worrying ‘bout the way things might have been.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival: #532 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I ain’t never been in trouble, I ain’t got the time. I don’t mess around with magic, child, what I got is mine.
Neil Young – Harvest: #606 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I want to live, I want to give. I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.
Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like A Wheel: #712 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re no good, baby you’re no good.
Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding: #719 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From whatever position you occupy with regard to the watchtower, this is another classic Dylan album.
Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour: #796 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Here’s how I’ll describe it: it’s just flipping gorgeous.
Ween – 12 Golden Country Greats: #845 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Plays as great comedic alt country or country rock material or simply flat out great alt country or country rock music, period. Well, except for…
Cracker – Kerosene Hat: #848 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They keep it low, they keep it hot, they keep heads covered.
Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead: #869 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t call this a jam band… album.
Neil Young – On the Beach: #879 of best 1,000 albums ever!
See the sky is about to rain.
The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin: #886 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A crucial late ‘60s rock and country album that would influence much of what was coming in the ‘70s. And, bonus: a great listen all the way through.
Lucinda Williams – Lucinda Williams: #891 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Whether this is country or rock or blues or whatever, it’ll make you say, “Hell yeah.”
Sturgill Simpson – High Top Mountain: #951 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Alt country that pleasantly zooms along with lyrics that are genuinely funny and clever.