Great country recording

Yeah does it have to be country country or can it be "country" like Mark Knopfler/Chet Akins? Allison Krauss, New Favorite? Nancy Bryan, Lay Me Down? 

One good thing about country music it seems for whatever reason they kept up higher recording standards or at least didn't sink down the hole a lot of em like Santana have. New Favorite, Lay Me Down, Luck of the Draw and Nick of Time are awesome recordings, whatever genre you want to call em. 

Anything of Merle Haygard's but his last two I just can't get out of my rotation, Waylon Jennings ole 5 and dimer, most the songs on this one were written by Billy Joe Shaver, also go to Elusive Disc as they stock a lot of the New West label and their series of Live In Austin recordings of a lot of the greats such as Johnny Cash, D. Yokum, Merle Hagard, Buck Owens, Steve Earl and many more. Enjoy the music

Thanks for all the recommendations. I was looking for country music from Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash to Alan Jackson, Clint Black something in that era.
I forgot to add that I am also looking country music with dobro guitar. Thanks

Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line. As bare bones a production that has ever come down. Perhaps a hint of brightness and occasional microphone grit from Cash’s vocals, but my now 30 year old plus vinyl remains a treat to listen to.


Emmylou Harris’ Luxury Liner is a bit slickly produced, but it is utterly lovely in every respect. Her Roses in the Snow record, recorded live & un-overdubbed in a Nashville studio, is perhaps a bit dry but maybe it would come alive on a better system than I have.

You may enjoy some of the TN,NC,VA country music rooted in the moonshine mountain country. Wonderful Picking,vocals and fiddle.
 
Stanley Brothers
Bill Monroe
Earl Scruggs
Doc Watson