'80s Country Hits of the Decade, Vol. 1 is a budget-line collection that features ten
hits from the '70s, including Sawyer Brown's The Race Is On, the Judds' Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ole Days), Lyle Lovett's She's No ...
In response to criticism that her records weren't country enough, Harris recorded Blue Kentucky Girl,
one of her most traditional outings. Relying on a more acoustic sound, the album largely forsakes contemporary pop songs in favor of standard country fare, ...
Chris Hillman was never the songwriter of the caliber of Gene Clark, Gram Parsons, or
Stephen Stills, his bandmates back in the heady days of folk-rock and early country-rock, so it's not surprising to see him mine the treasures of ...
Though banjoists Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn have been playing together since well before they
married, it took until 2014 for the pair to record a full duet album together. That self-titled effort was a wild outing full of originals, ...
While Emmylou Harris spent much of her career carrying on the legacy of Gram Parsons,
Elite Hotel ranks among her most overt tributes to his genius, thanks to its covers of the Flying Burrito Brothers' Sin City and Wheels, along ...
Where Greatest Hits had the bulk of Tom T. Hall's greatest story songs, Greatest Hits,
Vol. 2 concentrates on his silly, cutesy songs, like Sneaky Snake, I Like Beer, I Love, and Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine, among seven ...
This 1980 reissue is a hell of a disc. From the opening riffs this disc
is crammed with Sahm's typical rompin' and stompin' Texas blueshythm & blues mix. This also includes liberal dashes of the Tex-Mex and rockabilly he grew ...
Universal's Icon series is, by all appearances, meant to give a rounded impression of an
artist rather than be a representative greatest-hits collection. In that regard, the Loretta Lynn volume succeeds in spades. It contains a dozen tracks chosen from ...