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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
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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.
bdgregory OP
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" . . . and if you're a Flying Burritos and Gram Parker fan you have absolutely gotta' listen to "Return of the Grevious Angel" which is an incredible compilation put together by Emylou Harris."

ok, I have many some of the artists recommended here, and as a result of the above posts went out and bought many more. Among them is Gram Parsons and The Flying Burrito Brothers, which I like. Based on Sit's recommendation above, I purchased "Return of the Grevious Angel", and Man, is it great. The recording quality and playing will blow you away.

The quote above is right on . . . it's a must have, and good demo disk too.
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ozzy
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Creedence Clearwater Revival- All

Later, John Fogerty solo efforts are not worthy of the CCR connection.
Funny, his early singing sounded more mature, he now sounds like a sissy boy.
aggielaw
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In the "little more country" category - since most country nowdays *is* country-rock - I gotta throw in Sons of the Desert (self-titled release.) Toby Keith's recent recordings are well-mixed and produced, and what guy doesn't like a dude who writes songs like "Good as I Once Was" and "I Wanna Talk About Me"?? :)
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drubin
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Finally reading through this topic and very pleased to see mentions of Paul
Curreri and Joe Henry. My favorite Joe Henry album (actually the only one I truly
love) is an early one and may be out of print: Shuffletown. Produced by T-Bone
Burnett. Wonderful songs, masterful arrangements.

Paul Curreri is a treasure. I doubt he'll ever have a hit, but he's a unique,
original, and wonderful singer-songwriter. Catch him live if you can. I'm on his
email list and his communications with the fan base are warm, humble, funny,
and read like his songs.

Some really peculiar suggestions in this thread, including the two artists I
discuss above (Joe Henry has one or two albums that I'd call Country
Rock),which goes to show I guess that we agree on what Country-Rock is about
as well as we agree on what "musical" means.
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