COUNTRY CLASSICS•Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
There is never a moment throughout this saga when the playing, singing and vocals feel anything less than earthy, honest and pure. That’s quite an accomplishment for this expansive hour and a half listen, particularly one where lyrics are so crucial to its enjoyment.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
It's on 1971’s Coat Of Many Colors that Dolly Parton's Hall of Fame level talent as a creator and wordsmith emerged. As for the rest of the album, it’s a fascinating journey into how the foundations of her professional streak took shape.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Deana Carter - Did I Shave My Legs For This?
Did I Shave My Legs For This? caught the fever that was tearing through country music in the 90s, as a new army of women spiced up tradition with a reinvigorated tone of feisty independence.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Garth Brooks - Ropin' the Wind
It’s been exactly 30 years since Brooks released his pivotal third album and changed the way people heard country music. We take a look back on its legacy.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Pistol Annies - Hell on Heels
The Pistol Annies shook things up when they burst onto the scene with their debut album Hell On Heels in 2011. To celebrate its 10-year "annieversary", we look back on the formation of the no-shit-taking trio, and the record's lasting effect on country music.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of this debut. Not only did it introduce Yoakam as a fledgling yet seasoned talent with a voice that comes along once in a generation, but it presented pure country, amplified and energized, to a new, younger audience.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Eric Church - Chief
Chief took you away from the world for three, four, five minutes and then dropped you back where you began - only now somehow changed, in touch with a feeling that you didn’t know you already had, in exactly the way that The Boss' own records do.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Kris Kristofferson - The Silver Tongued Devil and I
While far greater stardom and albums with bigger hits were to come, The Silver Tongued Devil and I was widely received as even better than Kristofferson's greatest hits of a debut.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•LeAnn Rimes - Blue
We take a look back at the iconic album that shot a 13-year-old LeAnn Rimes to global fame.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
We reflect on this iconic album for its 50th anniversary, taking a look back at the story of the band's live recording at New York City's iconic Fillmore East.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Randy Travis - The Storms of Life
Travis’ debut would prove to have an indelible influence on those who quickly followed him and contemporary artists who fly their own flag today.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
When a 48-year-old Harris stepped through the doors of producer Daniel Lanois’ New Orleans home to make her 18th studio album, little did we know that she’d emerge with this haunting masterpiece.
COUNTRY CLASSICS•The Classics: Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
Honky Tonk Heroes ended up being the first real outlaw-country record, and to many it remains Waylon Jennings' finest moment.
