Love your list. I don't know Cowboy, so I'll have to check them out. Some artists and albums to add: Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac; Rosanne Cash - King's Record Shop; Jason Isbell - Southeastern; and Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else.
Since Uncle Tupelo pretty much jump started the Alt. Country/No Depression/Americana movement at the beginnings of the 1990's, I've amassed so many roots based albums it's really hard to pick favorites from "my" era. Going back to the classic era, I'm familiar with most of your picks, and can't really quibble (other than calling the Allmans country rock). That said, from the earlier days: Everly Brothers/Roots; Beau Brummels/Bradley's Barn; Rick Nelson/Garden Party. And I'm not too cool to like the Eagles. The debut and Desperado are country rock classics and I don't care what the Dude says. And it's sad that the sideshow tends to distract from his music, but I'd put From Elvis in Memphis on this list as well. If you like that era of the Dead, I'd also recommend Bob Weir's album Ace. It's got the studio version of many Dead concert staples. Ian and Sylvia's country rock band, Great Speckled Bird often gets overlooked. I'll round it out with Little Feat's Sailing Shoes and Matthews Southern Comfort Later That Same Year. Of recordings from "my" era, any Uncle Tupelo record, though Anodyne is my favorite. And out of their implosion we got Wilco's a.m. and Son Volt's Trace. Post Dire Straights Mark Knopfler has a few entries, especially All the Roadrunning he did with Emmylou. Ween has a hilarious, but excellently played, foray into country rock with 12 Golden Country Greats (there are only 10 songs on the album). Ryan Adams and the Cardinals Cold Roses is my favorite of his (that I've heard), though his prior band Whiskeytown was great. And I must give props to Deer Tick's Born On Flag Day. All their albums are good, but that's my favorite.
I'm going to surprise you with my first suggestion, Tumbleweed Connection by Elton John was a tasty album by Elton. I'll also mention the debut album of Marshall Tucker Band, which was such a treat with a mixture of Jazz mixed with the Bluegrass and Country sounds from that beautiful band. I'll also mention a solo album by songwriter Bobby Charles, it wasn't actually Country Rock, but it had a New Orleans feel to it, and the supporting musicians on that album was by The Band, if you haven't heard that album from 1972, I think it's a masterpiece. I also love the debut album by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, with the song "If You Wanna Get To Heaven". I'd also include Dixie Chicken by Little Feat!
You have great taste there. I completely agree with all of your suggestions. Tumbleweed and the first Marshall Tucker are two of my all time favorites.
Tumbleweed Connection is my favorite Elton John album of all time. Just perfection from start to finish. Almost included it in this video based on a lot of country rock flavors.
Great to see Cowboy in your video. Sadly, never got their due.. Lots of good tunes and a number of stand-out songs. It certainly didn't hurt when label mate Duane added dobro licks to "Please be with Me". Recorded by Clapton on Slowhand & on Duane Allman Anthology. #1 lp. Lp jacket of 5'll Getcha 10 looks like Sweetheart/Rodeo. Rock on! Cheers.
Excellent Tom ! But i'd like to introduce a bunch of more recent bands and artists influenced by these great ancients : - Ryan Adams : Easy Tiger (2007). - Neal Casal : An introduction to Neal Casal : Maybe California (2003). - Lucinda Williams : Car wheels on a gravel road (1998). - Sparklehorse : Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995). - Scud Mountain Boys : Do you love the sun (2013). - Gillian Welch : The Harrow and the Harvest (2011). - Shearwater : Winged life (2004). - Beachwood Sparks : The Tarnished Gold (2012). ...and my last purchase, MJ Lenderman : Manning Fireworks (2024). Terrific album, already, in my opinion a classic !
@@patriceleformal3047 I’ll check some of these out. I had that Lucinda Williams album on my list, but spaced out and forgot to include it. I have the first Gillian Welch album. Good stuff.
I turned 14 in 1972. After a childhood of listening to AM radio and loving Rock and Roll, pop rock and Motown, I became a massive country rock fan as I entered High School. At the time we called it country rock but when I look back I break it down into three sub-genres of country rock. We had Outlaw Country with people like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, BW Stevenson, Kristofferson, and a whole bunch of others. Jerry Jeff was a particular favorite of mine. Viva Terlingua! Surprised you didn't mention that one. Classic. Then of course we had what I call, Hippy Country, with Byrds, those two Dead albums from 1970, Neil Young, Jackson Brown, Poco, Pure Prairie League, and my favorite, who you failed to mention, the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Gypsy Cowboy is an album that you should have mentioned. I prefer PPL's first album over Busting Out. And the third sub genre of country rock is Country Pop, like Eagles, Outlaws, Marshall Tucker, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Mason Proffit Linda Ronstadt, among many others. A local favorite here in the Midwest was a band called Heartsfield. I prefer the early Allman Brothers but Brothers and Sisters was a great, fun album. Desperado by the Eagles should be on that list. The great thing about country rock was that it introduced young people like me to country and Bluegrass music in general. We started listening to Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Flatt and Scruggs, Roy Clarke and many others who I can't remember. It's funny because I'm a huge Kinks fan and I love country but muswell Hillbillies is probably my least favorite Kinks album. So, my list would look like: Picking up the pieces, Good Feeling to Know, From the Inside, by Poco. Gypsy cowboy and Powerglide by the New Riders. Pure Prairie League's first two albums. Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. Harvest by Neil Young as well as Old Ways. Old and in the Way by Garcia. Desperado. Viva Terlingua! A couple from after that era, Carlene Carter recorded albums with her husband Nick Lowe's band, Rock Pile. And you mentioned Wilco but I like their album, A.M. the most. And last but not least, the greatest female vocalist of all time, Patsy Cline. The soundtrack to the film Sweet Dreams is a top five all-time favorite of mine. Favorite story of mine from back then is going to my very first concert in 1973 to see the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Everyone in the crowd was wearing their finest Western attire, Stetsons, Tony Lamas, embroidered shirts with pearl buttons, gigantic belt buckles, Marlboro Man winter coats with sheepskin lining. The entire audience was completely stunned when Mott the Hoople came out to warm up the crowd looking like they had just arrived on planet Earth in a flying saucer from outer space. I remember turning to look at the crowd reaction after the first song and everyone was just sitting there mouths agape. It was pretty hilarious. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, the early seventies was a great time to be a young music fan.
Great video,great picks! All I can say is all of the artists that you mentioned made some great country rock albums. None of them though could sing or play real deal country music like Doug Sahm! From his early days as the ''Sir Douglas Quintet'' until the day he died each album was ''Rock and Roll'',''Blues'',''Tex Mex'', ''Soul'',and ''country'', music all played at a top notch level.My ''Dark Horse'' pick ''Elvis Country'' from 1971 his last very good/great album that he made.
I have several Sir Douglas Quintet singles. My favorite of them is "Dynamite Woman"/"Too Many Dociled Minds." Love everything about that single, especially the fiddle!
Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace Of Sin, Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, Gram Parsons Grevious Angel, Blackberry Smoke The Whipporwill, Little Feat Dixie Chicken, Whiskeyrown Strangers Almanac and loads more
I've spent a life time recommending "Muswell Hillbillies" to people. It is always appreciated, it is a album out of time and will never age. You're missing that first Stephen Stills "Manassas" album, stone cold gold, and Those First two Mike Nesmith albums. Killer stuff.
Great presentation. You are so right to focus on Poco, and to include Muswell Hillbillies and Silver Pistol. You’ve included most of my favorites. I might include the first Manassas album, the Outlaws’ Green Grass and HIgh Tides, The Marshall Tucker Band (debut album), Tom Waits, Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Will the Circle be Unbroken,” Warren Zevon (second album, with Frank and Jessie James), Dwight Yoakum’s Second Hand Heart, Marty Stuart’s Hillbilly Rock.
Great picks on your end. Love that Manassas album, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, etc. I meant to include Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On. Gravel Road, but totally spaced out and forgot. 😉
Some great lp's in there... two of my favorites are both late 90's early 2000's releases, what some us were calling y'allternative . Bobby Bare Jr's "from the end of your leash" and The Old 97's "wreck your life" . Both consistantly great albums I can't recommend enough. ..
Country rock is one of my very favorite genres and I’m a fan of just about every album that you mentioned in this video. However… A country rock compendium without the Eagles, especially their desperado album, just doesn’t seem complete. Also I believe that Amie, although released in 1972, didn’t become a hit until 1974. Extra special thanks for this video, keep up the good work.
Tom: One more title I'd add to the list is the eponymous third Flying Burrito Brothers album. Have you heard it? Much as I love Gram Parsons, I think this, their first post-Parsons offering, is a stronger and better sounding album than Burrito Deluxe. Two standout tracks are Rick Roberts' "Colorado" and a great cover of Bob Dylan's "To Ramona."
Earlier in the sixties, we had Country Rock albums from the likes of Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, The Everly Brothers, and even The Lovin' Spoonful who threw a lot of Country Rock into their wide variety of styles.
@@tomrobinson5776 I hear a lot of jug band (Spoonful) and LA pop (Turtles) in addition to more direct country (Sweetheart Byrds/Gram) and Buffalo Springfield influences in the first two (Jim Messina) Poco albums. I think Richie’s time in Greenwich Village and Laurel Canyon helped incubate that early sound.
Hi Tom - woah, few here for me to explore - Looking forward to doing so. You always manage to pull out some blinders! Dylan's 'Nashville Skyline'..what else can we say - brilliant. Always liked Townes Van Zandt 'Flyin' Shoes' on Tomato Records. (Faves on that - Loretta, title track, Snake song.)
In the 1970's it was commonly called weed country. Some of the albums I remember getting airplay on progressive stations in the early 70's - and my own personal favorites - Everly Brothers - Roots Mason Proffit - Wanted Pure Prairie Leaque - their first album The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark Gene Clark White Light Rick Sings Nelson / Rick Nelson In Concert Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy Beau Brummels - Bradleys Barn Later Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo / Ballad Of Easy Rider / Untitled / Farther Along Flying Burritos - Burrito Deluxe and the 'blue album' Rick Roberts - Windmills Black Canyon Gang - Ridin High
Great topic with some favorites and some others I need to check out. On the Buddy Holly/Everly Brothers branch of country-rock, I’d suggest the Vulgar Boatmen - Please Panic. (any of their three excellent albums would apply). Seamless blend of Memphis soul, Velvet Underground and country-tinged vocal harmonies put the Boatmen in a category of their own.
Great video, Tom. Most of my favourites have been covered by you and the comments. I'm not sure what exactly qualifies as country rock but I'll risk adding Dwight Yoakam's "Guitars, Cadillacs etc etc", Sturgill Simpson's "A Sailor's Guide to Earth" and the self-titled Felice Brothers album. I saw the Jayhawks in Glasgow's King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 1992, just after "Hollywood Town Hall" came out. - Conspicuous by being twice the average age of the audience! The band made a very kind gesture. The support act was a local young male/female acoustic duo who sang and played their own songs very well but were underwhelming and were given a lukewarm reception. In their encore the Jayhawks brought the young couple to join them on stage. My memory is vague but I think the song was "Brass Buttons." Of course, the young couple was delighted.
Hi Tom. I really love good, pure country music (Hank Williams, Carl Smith, Carl & Pearl Butler, early George Jones, Waylon Jennings, etc...). I equally love good country rock. You hit the top right at the start with Poco's "Pickin' Up the Pieces" album! I've always loved the "Muswell Hillbillies" album as well! "Heart Like a Wheel" is great! "The Gilded Palace of Sin" is, again, great! The country elements on "Harvest," "Brothers and Sisters," all of The First National Band stuff and, of course, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo!" Great, great stuff Tom! I'm only going to mention one additional album, it's one a lot of people don't know and is available used on Discogs very cheap. The album is "Reach for the Sky" by British band The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver from 1975. If you've never heard it, you need to check it out on TH-cam! David Gilmour even plays steel guitar on "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." One of my all-time favorite country rock albums! Good subject - great video!!!!!
That’s interesting you mentioned The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver. Saw them open for The Kinks in the late 70’s. I believe I had that album you mentioned at one point, but purged it to make room for others. Barely played it, but now I have to hear it online. 😉
Dave Alvin-Eleven Eleven John Prine-debut James Talley -Got no Bread, No milk, no Money, but we sure got a lotta love Terry Allen-Lubbock ( on everything) Joe Ely-Honky Tonk Masquerade
Saw Poco open for the Kinks (also Henry Gross) in early 74 in Providence. Weird but great bill. Agree with your commenters on Steve Earle, Lucinda, Uncle Tupelo. Bobby Charles self titled with members of The Band is stellar, Waylon’s Honky Tonk Heroes and the criminally overlooked Rick Nelson/Stone Canyon Band. The Nelson boxset Legacy is a revelation for the music and tremendous session players. Enjoyed the vid as always!
My candidates: Commander Cody "live from deep in the heart of Texas", Seatrain's second album, Jonathan Edwards "Honky tonk stardust cowboy, Kinky Friedman "Sold American"
Yay! Poco criminally underrated band. Cudos for Cowboy mention. I'd also add-Beau Brummels Bradley's Barn and Triangle LPs and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Uncle Charley and Symphonion LPs. Honorable mention of Steve Miller's Number 5.
Excellent list. Love the Kinks recommendation. Love the channel. If you have the time, you should check out Cory Hanson’s Pale Horse Rider. It is the most psychedelic country album of the decade. He and his usual crew are all CalArts students (down the road from Moorpark) and like the Kinks, Bowie, Beatles, he does not live in a genre. Key tracks: Paper Fog, Angeles, Pigs, Another Song from the Center of the Earth, Vegas Knights, they are all great.
That’s a great selection! Obviously hard to narrow it down to 22 Several superb albums could have been included from the mid-1980s to 2000 but as you know, newer terms like “rural” and “Americana” were applied to them (Chris Whitley, James McMurtry, Shawn Colvin etc etc)
glad to note that you recognise mike nesmith as a forerunner of country rock, he did it in 66,also another great track of his is you told me from the headquarters album,peter tork plays some tasty banjo on this gem too,nice one best wishes...........jpj
I’m still a fan of Jayhawks albums from the era of ‘Hollywood Town Hall’ to ‘Rainy Day Music’ and ‘Tomorrow the Green Grass’ is one of the best of that bunch. Wilco’s ‘Being There’ is great and still has an alt country feel. It’s not surprising that the 80s/90s bands of the Twin Cities music scene seem to have influenced each other and Uncle Tupelo/Wilco was part of it as well. There are at least a couple of songs from the Honeydogs 2000 album ‘Here’s Luck’ that could be mistaken for Wilco and are every bit as good: "Losing Transmission" and "Sour Grapes." Adam Levy is one of those Minnesota songwriting wizards.
Love the list. You make me check out acts I hadn't known much about. BTW, you're on the money about today's "Country" music. For whatever reason, EVERYBODY I know who reached 40 gave up on Rock for the pale imitations of Country of the past 30+ years. Were they all afraid of raising their collective blood pressure? Scaring their children? I went to see The Hives last night and it super-charged me up as if I was still a teen. Not because I'm 50-is going on 15, it's just that I appreciate music as much as you do (and many other subscribers as well). Hell, I was ten when the news flipped out about Alice Cooper's shows and all I thought of was: "Cool!" and I knew it was just a show he and the band put on.
Everything has been so homogenized especially country music. It’s so watered down and soulless. All sounds the same. Those award shows are a travesty. It’s seldom I hear anything with true authenticity. I’ve recently discovered Ty Segall. An incredible psych/garage artist. The guy has put out like 17 albums since 2008. Half of which are mind blowing good. The songs are amazing. He’s like Todd Rundgren or Prince in that he plays every instrument. Highly recommended. The real deal. 😉
Outstanding video, man! I own them all and much much more....... For a great reading about country-rock I suggest the book "Desperados, the Roots of Country Rock" by John Einarson. Greetings from Brazil!
Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road is one of the greats. Glad you mentioned Being There. Wilco was at their country rockin best with Jay Bennet in the band. A fine example on TH-cam is their cover of Christ For President.
some great albums and artists, l would add clover by clover, tejas by ZZTop, take one by shakin stevens albert lees guitar is awesome on that album, coming more upto date, old crow medicine show, brothers osbourne, hank 3, bob wayne, supersuckers holding the bag just awesome, of course for me you have to have the eagles with desperado, i could go on, cheers man
The legend of Jesse James White Mansions Both are magnificent albums I love “Musswell Hillbillies” but i have never thought of it as a Country Rock album!!!
Great Videos and cant argue with your picks I would love to see Alt Country list so I can shout out Richard Buckners : Love and Devotion ( got it in ) Anyway based on comments Alt Country has to be done
Hey, another brilliant and innaresting runthrough of fantastic albums in a genre. I agree with your choices but sorely miss Emmylou Harris, the one who got me into country and overlook the slickness of the steel guitar with her Elite Hotel (another fantastic LP). Why was she absent? Don't you have any of her records? Also, I would venture that the start of country rock can be traced back to December 1964 when the UK configuration Beatles for Sale was released which included such country rock originals as I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, I'm a Loser, Every Little Thing in addition to the two country rock covers of Honey Don't and Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby. However there are certain country rock elements on most of the other tracks like Eight Days a Week, I'll Follow the Sun and Words of Love (another cover). Maybe you don't realise this because you didn't have Beatles for Sale in the US, or? Do you agree?
@@Raydahr-5 I have Elite Hotel, but to my ears it sounds like straight country, with barely a hint of rock. Love the album though. I agree of hints of country on Beatles For Sale especially I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party, (a favorite) but I don’t know if I’d call it a country rock record.
A few of my favorites. NOT from Country Rock Bands, but "rock" bands/artists who recorded "country" albums. The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies Ween 12 Golden Country Greats Elvis Costello Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
You have to throw in some Marshal Tucker Band in there the album Searching For a Rainbow is a classic and Charlie Daniel’s Million Mile Reflections great albums. Country Rock and Southern Rock are so close they should be in the same category.
Here are some records that straddle the country-rock and singer-songwriter genres: Paul Siebel - his two Elektra albums, Woodsmoke and Oranges, and Jack Knife Gypsy John Stewart - California Bloodlines (1969) Jerry Jeff Walker - self-titled release on MCA (1972) Daniel Moore - Riding a Horse & Holding Up the World (1998). This is a very obscure pick, but I discovered it recently, and I'm really enjoying it. He wrote or co-wrote the songs Shambala (a hit for Three Dog Night and BW Stevenson) and My Maria (a hit for BW Stevenson, and remade by Brooks & Dunn).
Kudos for listing The Jayhawks, criminally underrated. More importantly, you missed the first New Riders of the Purple Sage album with Jerry Garcia on pedal steel. Easily my favorite "country hippie" record.
@@jackwezesa1081Gypsy Cowboy, Powerglide and Panama Red are better albums. They didn't have Jerry Garcia on pedal steel but Buddy Cage was phenomenal.
I don't get why people think bands like Marshall Tucker , the Allman Bros etc are country rock. southern rock to me. The golden age was between 68-75, mostly Californian bands which would include the NRPS , Byrds, Burritos, Dillard and Clark, ( Gene solo as well ) , NGDB , Poco , Michael Nesmith, Linda Ronstadt and of course Gram and Emmylou ......away from the golden state , Pure Prairie League , The Ozark Mountain Daredevils ( It'll shine when it shines great album ) ,Commander Cody the Texas guys like JJW and the Gonzos , Ray Wylie Hubbard, Guy Clark . There was only one decent British country rock band ( and i'm English ) Panama Red from Portsmouth , find an album by them , difficult but there are two . Later than the 70's its no longer to my ears country rock , but alt country and there's a difference . Occasionally i hear something out of era that nails it , eg The Continental Drifters , Ol'97's and at a push the Jayhawks.
@@charlesandrews2360 I don't disagree but it is a term which is used to lump them together , to me they;re all blues rock bands , which i have no interest in it just irritates that people call them country rock which they are a thousand miles away from
Great list, but there were a few "outlaw" Country artists who deserve mention: Rodney Crowell, Gary Stewart, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, and Joe Ely produced some excellent albums, not quite Country, but pretty Rocky. Then, too, Eagles, Marshall Tucker, Outlaws, Dan Fogelberg, Loggins & Messina, New Riders,, and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band mined the genre for gold. Great list, still.
Huh! How ironic! I've been pretty much living with that album lately, learning the chords and leads from my favorite tracks. There's some good variation on it. Some country rock for sure; "Foolin'" and Lonely Dreamer," are the best examples, but even "So Long" and "Grey Ghost," even though they're great, straight ahead southern rock songs, the country elements are undeniable. Great call!!!
@@tomrobinson5776 They switch it up all the time. Pull most of it off really well. The 12 Golden Country Greats album has old school Nashville session players (including the Jordanairs and Charlie McCoy , if I'm not mistaken...). It was a one off. Not really what they are about. Still love it tho. Pretty experimental. Dig in!
Prefer Comes A Time to Harvest by Neil Young. Uncle Charlie and his dog Teddy by the Nitty-gritty Dirt Band is also good, and how about Stones in the Road by Mary Chapin carpenter.
@@tomrobinson5776 Cool. I don't find them in the same league as US bands, but I don't mind them. The big hit is Way Out West by the Dingoes. Country Radio is my favourite.
you forgot to mention that Duane Allman plays slide Dobro on Cowboy's tune "Please be with me" it was actually take two and take one (which is the superior version btw) is on Duane Allman an anthology . this would be Duane's final session work before he died 😢
As far as Pure Prairie League goes I would pick the self titled debut album over busting out. They sound more like a real band. I understand that members were coming and going when It was made but it is a great album. After Craig Fuller had to leave due military draft problems. I think that Busting Out was recorded by Fuller, George Ed Powell, and their drummer at the time. PPL went on to make several albums but once Craig Fuller left they were just another band. Thanks for not bringing The Eagles up.
I recently heard an album by an English band called Granny's Intentions... not a good name but not a bad album. I guess it could pass as country rock from the UK.
I was afraid you weren’t going to do Michael Nesmith and The First National Band and kept waiting for Sweetheart of the Rodeo. But where were In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969 by Rick Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band Eagles by Eagles. Come on. How could you skip that? I’m glad you got The Band, Pure Prairie League, Neil Young, and The Jayhawks!
When The Kinks' 'Muswell Hillbillies' album was first released, RCA used their "ultra-thin" process to make copies from the tapes. Needless to say, these discs were VERY fragile. I wonder if this blatant attempt to save money affected the sales. And what about "country-soul"? Ray Charles' 'Modern Sounds in Country Music'... it doesn't get any better than this!
Cape Oh NO!!!...No Marshall Tucker??? With Toy Caldwell on guitar??? I put them in the same Southern category as the Allman Brothers.....This is a big OUCH!!!!!!!!
@@tomrobinson5776 So Cape.....When i say MTB I'm talking about the original line up from like 1973-1982 To be honest they are all fantastic!!! They all have their gems...I would say go to "Searching For A Rainbow" from 75' and "Together Forever" first. Listen to Guitarist Toy Caldwell He smokes..A VERY underrated player IMO..He never uses a pick..Plays with his thumb like Jeff Beck..He was also the main songwriter for the band. There is a great live version of "Can't You See" on "Rainbow"...I think they are the 2nd greatest southern rock band behind the ABB...Glad to hear your going to give them a shot..I think you will really enjoy them...Leave a post let me know how they sound.......Happy trails To you!!!
@@tomrobinson5776 Forgot Cape...Go to TH-cam watch "Can't you see" live..The one Toy has on a Yellow shirt...Watch the Guitar work at about the 5:00 mark.......It's sick!!!!!
It's going to raise a few hackles when I say that I don't really believe in "country rock" -- the term sounds like a bit of an oxymoron to me -- my ears say that a song is country, or it's rock (I'm entitled to my stupid opinion). Of course you can mix the songs on an album, but I don't really count a mix of songs as defining a genre. Now, "country-pop" I might believe -- lord knows, we've got enough of it around these days -- that's where Buddy Holly was headed, and Patsy Cline too. I say all this as a fan of most of the records you mention, other than the ones I haven't heard, and a lot of others you didn't. No Commander Cody, New Riders? Maybe early Elvis Costello? The Band, I'm just about willing to grant you. That was a pretty good story about Gram Parsons' motel room. I've heard that you can stay in Janis Joplin's, too, but that they've remodeled it.
Great artists and albums! Could Elton John's Peachtree Road be country rock? Only 2 artists there that are very overrated for me: Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Weak voices!
Heart Like A Wheel was a great musical period for Linda Ronstadt. Nowadays she is still a force to be reckoned with. Just today I stumbled across a new interview with her, where she endorses Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and decries a recent Trump rally in her hometown of Tucson AZ.
Giving you a heads up, Cowboy did a reunion album, 10'll Getcha Twenty in 2018. Also, I agree the Allmans struggled after Brothers and Sisters, with Greg's drug habit, Cher distraction and intrusive labels pushing for a pop hit damaging their output, but those reunion albums with Warren Haynes are great and should not be dismissed.
great list !!! RIP Kris Kristofferson🙏🙏
He had a long amazing career. A real authentic talent.
Love your list. I don't know Cowboy, so I'll have to check them out. Some artists and albums to add: Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac; Rosanne Cash - King's Record Shop; Jason Isbell - Southeastern; and Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else.
Since Uncle Tupelo pretty much jump started the Alt. Country/No Depression/Americana movement at the beginnings of the 1990's, I've amassed so many roots based albums it's really hard to pick favorites from "my" era. Going back to the classic era, I'm familiar with most of your picks, and can't really quibble (other than calling the Allmans country rock). That said, from the earlier days:
Everly Brothers/Roots; Beau Brummels/Bradley's Barn; Rick Nelson/Garden Party. And I'm not too cool to like the Eagles. The debut and Desperado are country rock classics and I don't care what the Dude says. And it's sad that the sideshow tends to distract from his music, but I'd put From Elvis in Memphis on this list as well. If you like that era of the Dead, I'd also recommend Bob Weir's album Ace. It's got the studio version of many Dead concert staples. Ian and Sylvia's country rock band, Great Speckled Bird often gets overlooked. I'll round it out with Little Feat's Sailing Shoes and Matthews Southern Comfort Later That Same Year.
Of recordings from "my" era, any Uncle Tupelo record, though Anodyne is my favorite. And out of their implosion we got Wilco's a.m. and Son Volt's Trace. Post Dire Straights Mark Knopfler has a few entries, especially All the Roadrunning he did with Emmylou. Ween has a hilarious, but excellently played, foray into country rock with 12 Golden Country Greats (there are only 10 songs on the album). Ryan Adams and the Cardinals Cold Roses is my favorite of his (that I've heard), though his prior band Whiskeytown was great. And I must give props to Deer Tick's Born On Flag Day. All their albums are good, but that's my favorite.
I'm going to surprise you with my first suggestion, Tumbleweed Connection by Elton John was a tasty album by Elton. I'll also mention the debut album of Marshall Tucker Band, which was such a treat with a mixture of Jazz mixed with the Bluegrass and Country sounds from that beautiful band. I'll also mention a solo album by songwriter Bobby Charles, it wasn't actually Country Rock, but it had a New Orleans feel to it, and the supporting musicians on that album was by The Band, if you haven't heard that album from 1972, I think it's a masterpiece. I also love the debut album by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, with the song "If You Wanna Get To Heaven". I'd also include Dixie Chicken by Little Feat!
You have great taste there. I completely agree with all of your suggestions. Tumbleweed and the first Marshall Tucker are two of my all time favorites.
Tumbleweed Connection is my favorite Elton John album of all time. Just perfection from start to finish. Almost included it in this video based on a lot of country rock flavors.
What,no New Riders of the purple Sage?
Yes, their first and Panama red😊
Great to see Cowboy in your video. Sadly, never got their due.. Lots of good tunes and a number of stand-out songs. It certainly didn't hurt when label mate Duane added dobro licks to "Please be with Me". Recorded by Clapton on Slowhand & on Duane Allman Anthology. #1 lp. Lp jacket of 5'll Getcha 10 looks like Sweetheart/Rodeo. Rock on! Cheers.
@@derwynpowell7689 Cheers 😉
Excellent Tom !
But i'd like to introduce a bunch of more recent bands and artists influenced by these great ancients :
- Ryan Adams : Easy Tiger (2007).
- Neal Casal : An introduction to Neal Casal : Maybe California (2003).
- Lucinda Williams : Car wheels on a gravel road (1998).
- Sparklehorse : Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995).
- Scud Mountain Boys : Do you love the sun (2013).
- Gillian Welch : The Harrow and the Harvest (2011).
- Shearwater : Winged life (2004).
- Beachwood Sparks : The Tarnished Gold (2012).
...and my last purchase, MJ Lenderman : Manning Fireworks (2024). Terrific album, already, in my opinion a classic !
@@patriceleformal3047 I’ll check some of these out. I had that Lucinda Williams album on my list, but spaced out and forgot to include it. I have the first Gillian Welch album. Good stuff.
I turned 14 in 1972. After a childhood of listening to AM radio and loving Rock and Roll, pop rock and Motown, I became a massive country rock fan as I entered High School.
At the time we called it country rock but when I look back I break it down into three sub-genres of country rock.
We had Outlaw Country with people like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, BW Stevenson, Kristofferson, and a whole bunch of others. Jerry Jeff was a particular favorite of mine. Viva Terlingua! Surprised you didn't mention that one. Classic.
Then of course we had what I call, Hippy Country, with Byrds, those two Dead albums from 1970, Neil Young, Jackson Brown, Poco, Pure Prairie League, and my favorite, who you failed to mention, the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Gypsy Cowboy is an album that you should have mentioned. I prefer PPL's first album over Busting Out.
And the third sub genre of country rock is Country Pop, like Eagles, Outlaws, Marshall Tucker, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Mason Proffit Linda Ronstadt, among many others. A local favorite here in the Midwest was a band called Heartsfield. I prefer the early Allman Brothers but Brothers and Sisters was a great, fun album. Desperado by the Eagles should be on that list.
The great thing about country rock was that it introduced young people like me to country and Bluegrass music in general. We started listening to Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Flatt and Scruggs, Roy Clarke and many others who I can't remember.
It's funny because I'm a huge Kinks fan and I love country but muswell Hillbillies is probably my least favorite Kinks album.
So, my list would look like:
Picking up the pieces, Good Feeling to Know, From the Inside, by Poco. Gypsy cowboy and Powerglide by the New Riders. Pure Prairie League's first two albums. Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. Harvest by Neil Young as well as Old Ways. Old and in the Way by Garcia. Desperado. Viva Terlingua!
A couple from after that era, Carlene Carter recorded albums with her husband Nick Lowe's band, Rock Pile. And you mentioned Wilco but I like their album, A.M. the most.
And last but not least, the greatest female vocalist of all time, Patsy Cline. The soundtrack to the film Sweet Dreams is a top five all-time favorite of mine.
Favorite story of mine from back then is going to my very first concert in 1973 to see the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Everyone in the crowd was wearing their finest Western attire, Stetsons, Tony Lamas, embroidered shirts with pearl buttons, gigantic belt buckles, Marlboro Man winter coats with sheepskin lining.
The entire audience was completely stunned when Mott the Hoople came out to warm up the crowd looking like they had just arrived on planet Earth in a flying saucer from outer space. I remember turning to look at the crowd reaction after the first song and everyone was just sitting there mouths agape. It was pretty hilarious.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane, the early seventies was a great time to be a young music fan.
Another stellar list!! A favorite of mine is the Ozark Mountain Daredevils- It'll Shine When It Shines.
Great video,great picks! All I can say is all of the artists that you mentioned made some great country rock albums. None of them though could sing or play real deal country music like Doug Sahm! From his early days as the ''Sir Douglas Quintet'' until the day he died each album was ''Rock and Roll'',''Blues'',''Tex Mex'', ''Soul'',and ''country'', music all played at a top notch level.My ''Dark Horse'' pick ''Elvis Country'' from 1971 his last very good/great album that he made.
I have a Sir Douglas Quintet best of. Always loved Mendocino. Great track.
I have several Sir Douglas Quintet singles. My favorite of them is "Dynamite Woman"/"Too Many Dociled Minds." Love everything about that single, especially the fiddle!
Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace Of Sin, Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, Gram Parsons Grevious Angel, Blackberry Smoke The Whipporwill, Little Feat Dixie Chicken, Whiskeyrown Strangers Almanac and loads more
I've spent a life time recommending "Muswell Hillbillies" to people. It is always appreciated, it is a album out of time and will never age. You're missing that first Stephen Stills "Manassas" album, stone cold gold, and Those First two Mike Nesmith albums. Killer stuff.
@@davidskidmore4189 Love that Manassas album. 😉
Really enjoy your videos, Tom - glad I'm subscribed. All great picks.
Thanks 😊
Great presentation. You are so right to focus on Poco, and to include Muswell Hillbillies and Silver Pistol. You’ve included most of my favorites. I might include the first Manassas album, the Outlaws’ Green Grass and HIgh Tides, The Marshall Tucker Band (debut album), Tom Waits, Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Will the Circle be Unbroken,” Warren Zevon (second album, with Frank and Jessie James), Dwight Yoakum’s Second Hand Heart, Marty Stuart’s Hillbilly Rock.
Oh, and in the vein of Sweethearts, John Fogerty’s first Blue Ridge Rangers album is an impeccable survey of country music.
Great picks on your end. Love that Manassas album, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, etc. I meant to include Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On. Gravel Road, but totally spaced out and forgot. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 I overlooked that as well. Also Nick Lowe’s Impossible Bird.
Hi Tom. Couldn't agree more on the greatness of Poco. Love them.
Some great lp's in there... two of my favorites are both late 90's early 2000's releases, what some us were calling y'allternative . Bobby Bare Jr's "from the end of your leash" and The Old 97's "wreck your life" . Both consistantly great albums I can't recommend enough.
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I’ll check ‘em out at some point. Thanks 😉
Country rock is one of my very favorite genres and I’m a fan of just about every album that you mentioned in this video. However… A country rock compendium without the Eagles, especially their desperado album, just doesn’t seem complete. Also I believe that Amie, although released in 1972, didn’t become a hit until 1974. Extra special thanks for this video, keep up the good work.
Thank you 😊
Tom:
One more title I'd add to the list is the eponymous third Flying Burrito Brothers album. Have you heard it? Much as I love Gram Parsons, I think this, their first post-Parsons offering, is a stronger and better sounding album than Burrito Deluxe. Two standout tracks are Rick Roberts' "Colorado" and a great cover of Bob Dylan's "To Ramona."
@@mikekivinen I agree and I love that track Colorado.
Earlier in the sixties, we had Country Rock albums from the likes of Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, The Everly Brothers, and even The Lovin' Spoonful who threw a lot of Country Rock into their wide variety of styles.
@@paulgoldstein2569 No doubt about it. The Spoonful had a nice range of influences in their music.
@@tomrobinson5776 I hear a lot of jug band (Spoonful) and LA pop (Turtles) in addition to more direct country (Sweetheart Byrds/Gram) and Buffalo Springfield influences in the first two (Jim Messina) Poco albums. I think Richie’s time in Greenwich Village and Laurel Canyon helped incubate that early sound.
Hi Tom - woah, few here for me to explore - Looking forward to doing so. You always manage to pull out some blinders! Dylan's 'Nashville Skyline'..what else can we say - brilliant. Always liked Townes Van Zandt 'Flyin' Shoes' on Tomato Records. (Faves on that - Loretta, title track, Snake song.)
In the 1970's it was commonly called weed country.
Some of the albums I remember getting airplay on progressive stations in the early 70's - and my own personal favorites -
Everly Brothers - Roots
Mason Proffit - Wanted
Pure Prairie Leaque - their first album
The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
Gene Clark White Light
Rick Sings Nelson / Rick Nelson In Concert
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
Beau Brummels - Bradleys Barn
Later Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo / Ballad Of Easy Rider / Untitled / Farther Along
Flying Burritos - Burrito Deluxe and the 'blue album'
Rick Roberts - Windmills
Black Canyon Gang - Ridin High
@@Texeq great list, and nice to see Mason Proffit on it
Great topic with some favorites and some others I need to check out. On the Buddy Holly/Everly Brothers branch of country-rock, I’d suggest the Vulgar Boatmen - Please Panic. (any of their three excellent albums would apply). Seamless blend of Memphis soul, Velvet Underground and country-tinged vocal harmonies put the Boatmen in a category of their own.
@@Russell.S Sounds cool. I’ll check it out.
Good pick. My favorite by them is “You and Your Sister.”
Great video, Tom. Most of my favourites have been covered by you and the comments. I'm not sure what exactly qualifies as country rock but I'll risk adding Dwight Yoakam's "Guitars, Cadillacs etc etc", Sturgill Simpson's "A Sailor's Guide to Earth" and the self-titled Felice Brothers album.
I saw the Jayhawks in Glasgow's King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 1992, just after "Hollywood Town Hall" came out. - Conspicuous by being twice the average age of the audience! The band made a very kind gesture. The support act was a local young male/female acoustic duo who sang and played their own songs very well but were underwhelming and were given a lukewarm reception. In their encore the Jayhawks brought the young couple to join them on stage. My memory is vague but I think the song was "Brass Buttons." Of course, the young couple was delighted.
@@russellcampbell3274 That’s an awesome story. 😉
Hi Tom. I really love good, pure country music (Hank Williams, Carl Smith, Carl & Pearl Butler, early George Jones, Waylon Jennings, etc...). I equally love good country rock. You hit the top right at the start with Poco's "Pickin' Up the Pieces" album! I've always loved the "Muswell Hillbillies" album as well! "Heart Like a Wheel" is great! "The Gilded Palace of Sin" is, again, great! The country elements on "Harvest," "Brothers and Sisters," all of The First National Band stuff and, of course, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo!" Great, great stuff Tom!
I'm only going to mention one additional album, it's one a lot of people don't know and is available used on Discogs very cheap. The album is "Reach for the Sky" by British band The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver from 1975. If you've never heard it, you need to check it out on TH-cam! David Gilmour even plays steel guitar on "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." One of my all-time favorite country rock albums!
Good subject - great video!!!!!
That’s interesting you mentioned The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver. Saw them open for The Kinks in the late 70’s. I believe I had that album you mentioned at one point, but purged it to make room for others. Barely played it, but now I have to hear it online. 😉
Another great album I happened to think of is "Town + Country" by The Rave Ups from, I believe 1985. Great album!!
Dave Alvin-Eleven Eleven
John Prine-debut
James Talley -Got no Bread, No milk, no Money, but we sure got a lotta love
Terry Allen-Lubbock ( on everything)
Joe Ely-Honky Tonk Masquerade
All great stuff. I just saw a biography of Terry Allen at a bookstore -- need to check that out.
Kudos for including Brinsley Schwarz's Silver Pistol. Country rock at its finest!!
Great video and choices. Later bands Jason and the scorchers, Lost and found is classic and The Backsliders - Throwing rocks at the moon is great.
Good list. I would have added Ryan Adams, Pernice Brothers, & 38 Special.
Cape Tom....Were you able to check out the MTB? If so....Any feedback?
@@newspapertaxis1 I have MTB on my list of albums/bands to check out. Hopefully this week if time permits. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Sounds good! Be waiting for a review.....Stay cool!!!
Thanks, Tom. I enjoyed this!
Nice! Thanks for watching 😉
Saw Poco open for the Kinks (also Henry Gross) in early 74 in Providence. Weird but great bill. Agree with your commenters on Steve Earle, Lucinda, Uncle Tupelo. Bobby Charles self titled with members of The Band is stellar, Waylon’s Honky Tonk Heroes and the criminally overlooked Rick Nelson/Stone Canyon Band. The Nelson boxset Legacy is a revelation for the music and tremendous session players. Enjoyed the vid as always!
Shit I forgot, how bout Skynyrd?😊
My candidates: Commander Cody "live from deep in the heart of Texas", Seatrain's second album, Jonathan Edwards "Honky tonk stardust cowboy, Kinky Friedman "Sold American"
Hot Licks, Cold Steel and Truckers Favorites by Cody is a tremendous album also.
Yay! Poco criminally underrated band. Cudos for Cowboy mention. I'd also add-Beau Brummels Bradley's Barn and Triangle LPs and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Uncle Charley and Symphonion LPs. Honorable mention of Steve Miller's Number 5.
Excellent list. Love the Kinks recommendation. Love the channel.
If you have the time, you should check out Cory Hanson’s Pale Horse Rider. It is the most psychedelic country album of the decade. He and his usual crew are all CalArts students (down the road from Moorpark) and like the Kinks, Bowie, Beatles, he does not live in a genre. Key tracks: Paper Fog, Angeles, Pigs, Another Song from the Center of the Earth, Vegas Knights, they are all great.
@@kelpowl8181 Sounds cool. I’ll add it to my list of albums to check out. Thanks for the recommendation. 😉
That’s a great selection! Obviously hard to narrow it down to 22
Several superb albums could have been included from the mid-1980s to 2000 but as you know, newer terms like “rural” and “Americana” were applied to them (Chris Whitley, James McMurtry, Shawn Colvin etc etc)
glad to note that you recognise mike nesmith as a forerunner of country rock, he did it in 66,also another great track of his is you told me from the headquarters album,peter tork plays some tasty banjo on this gem too,nice one best wishes...........jpj
@@JohnJohnson-cn9fh You Told Me is a great track indeed. 😉
I’m still a fan of Jayhawks albums from the era of ‘Hollywood Town Hall’ to ‘Rainy Day Music’ and ‘Tomorrow the Green Grass’ is one of the best of that bunch. Wilco’s ‘Being There’ is great and still has an alt country feel. It’s not surprising that the 80s/90s bands of the Twin Cities music scene seem to have influenced each other and Uncle Tupelo/Wilco was part of it as well. There are at least a couple of songs from the Honeydogs 2000 album ‘Here’s Luck’ that could be mistaken for Wilco and are every bit as good: "Losing Transmission" and "Sour Grapes." Adam Levy is one of those Minnesota songwriting wizards.
Love the list. You make me check out acts I hadn't known much about. BTW, you're on the money about today's "Country" music. For whatever reason, EVERYBODY I know who reached 40 gave up on Rock for the pale imitations of Country of the past 30+ years. Were they all afraid of raising their collective blood pressure? Scaring their children? I went to see The Hives last night and it super-charged me up as if I was still a teen. Not because I'm 50-is going on 15, it's just that I appreciate music as much as you do (and many other subscribers as well). Hell, I was ten when the news flipped out about Alice Cooper's shows and all I thought of was: "Cool!" and I knew it was just a show he and the band put on.
Everything has been so homogenized especially country music. It’s so watered down and soulless. All sounds the same. Those award shows are a travesty. It’s seldom I hear anything with true authenticity. I’ve recently discovered Ty Segall. An incredible psych/garage artist. The guy has put out like 17 albums since 2008. Half of which are mind blowing good. The songs are amazing. He’s like Todd Rundgren or Prince in that he plays every instrument. Highly recommended. The real deal. 😉
Outstanding video, man! I own them all and much much more....... For a great reading about country-rock I suggest the book "Desperados, the Roots of Country Rock" by John Einarson. Greetings from Brazil!
Greetings and thanks for watching. Sounds like a cool book. 😉
Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road is one of the greats. Glad you mentioned Being There. Wilco was at their country rockin best with Jay Bennet in the band. A fine example on TH-cam is their cover of Christ For President.
I had Car Wheels On A Gravel Road on the list. I zoned out before the video and forgot to take it out of my car cd player. Great album.
Great stuff. I'm going to check out Cowboy and Chris Stapleton.
some great albums and artists, l would add clover by clover, tejas by ZZTop, take one by shakin stevens albert lees guitar is awesome on that album, coming more upto date, old crow medicine show, brothers osbourne, hank 3, bob wayne, supersuckers holding the bag just awesome, of course for me you have to have the eagles with desperado, i could go on, cheers man
Cheers 😉
Marshall Tucker Band-A New Life. Outlaws- Hurry Sundown. Charlie Daniels- Saddle Tramp. Pure Prairie League- Two Lane Highway.
The legend of Jesse James
White Mansions
Both are magnificent albums
I love “Musswell Hillbillies” but i have never thought of it as a Country Rock album!!!
@@demonsbutterfly These days many think of it as alt country, but it has that music hall vibe as well.
Great list!
I would add:
Gene Clark: Roadmaster
T-Bone Burnett: T-Bone Burnett
Rick Nelson: In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969
Great Videos and cant argue with your picks
I would love to see Alt Country list so I can shout out Richard Buckners : Love and Devotion
( got it in )
Anyway based on comments Alt Country has to be done
Hey, another brilliant and innaresting runthrough of fantastic albums in a genre. I agree with your choices but sorely miss Emmylou Harris, the one who got me into country and overlook the slickness of the steel guitar with her Elite Hotel (another fantastic LP). Why was she absent? Don't you have any of her records?
Also, I would venture that the start of country rock can be traced back to December 1964 when the UK configuration Beatles for Sale was released which included such country rock originals as I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, I'm a Loser, Every Little Thing in addition to the two country rock covers of Honey Don't and Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby. However there are certain country rock elements on most of the other tracks like Eight Days a Week, I'll Follow the Sun and Words of Love (another cover). Maybe you don't realise this because you didn't have Beatles for Sale in the US, or? Do you agree?
@@Raydahr-5 I have Elite Hotel, but to my ears it sounds like straight country, with barely a hint of rock. Love the album though. I agree of hints of country on Beatles For Sale especially I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party, (a favorite) but I don’t know if I’d call it a country rock record.
Good video....Liked "Hollywood Town Hall" much better than "Tomorrow The Green Grass..."; Never go wrong with Gram or Kris...😊
New Riders, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen?
I need to pick up a New Riders album.
@@tomrobinson5776get their first and Panama red
One of my favorite shows was when the Lost Planet Airmen opened for the New Riders at the auditorium theater in Chicago around 1974
@@tomrobinson5776 Adventures of Panama Red is a good NRPS starter, your list is excellent
@thomassmall6149 and their first one too.
Yeah, Emmilou Harris is great. Does Dr. Hook's Medicine Show fit in somewhere?
@@johnshaner747 Sure they’d fit in.
A few of my favorites. NOT from Country Rock Bands, but "rock" bands/artists who recorded "country" albums.
The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies
Ween 12 Golden Country Greats
Elvis Costello Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
You have to throw in some Marshal Tucker Band in there the album Searching For a Rainbow is a classic and Charlie Daniel’s Million Mile Reflections great albums. Country Rock and Southern Rock are so close they should be in the same category.
I agree. I’ll check out that Marshall Tucker album. I do like their hits. Heard It In A Love Song, Can’t You See…
Here are some records that straddle the country-rock and singer-songwriter genres:
Paul Siebel - his two Elektra albums, Woodsmoke and Oranges, and Jack Knife Gypsy
John Stewart - California Bloodlines (1969)
Jerry Jeff Walker - self-titled release on MCA (1972)
Daniel Moore - Riding a Horse & Holding Up the World (1998). This is a very obscure pick, but I discovered it recently, and I'm really enjoying it. He wrote or co-wrote the songs Shambala (a hit for Three Dog Night and BW Stevenson) and My Maria (a hit for BW Stevenson, and remade by Brooks & Dunn).
@@GreenManalishiUSA Interesting, sounds cool.
Kudos for listing The Jayhawks, criminally underrated.
More importantly, you missed the first New Riders of the Purple Sage album with Jerry Garcia on pedal steel. Easily my favorite "country hippie" record.
@@stevecassidy7789 I’ve never owned that record. I may need to check it out. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 You need to own that record Tom !
@@jackwezesa1081Gypsy Cowboy, Powerglide and Panama Red are better albums. They didn't have Jerry Garcia on pedal steel but Buddy Cage was phenomenal.
I don't get why people think bands like Marshall Tucker , the Allman Bros etc are country rock. southern rock to me. The golden age was between 68-75, mostly Californian bands which would include the NRPS , Byrds, Burritos, Dillard and Clark, ( Gene solo as well ) , NGDB , Poco , Michael Nesmith, Linda Ronstadt and of course Gram and Emmylou ......away from the golden state , Pure Prairie League , The Ozark Mountain Daredevils ( It'll shine when it shines great album ) ,Commander Cody the Texas guys like JJW and the Gonzos , Ray Wylie Hubbard, Guy Clark . There was only one decent British country rock band ( and i'm English ) Panama Red from Portsmouth , find an album by them , difficult but there are two . Later than the 70's its no longer to my ears country rock , but alt country and there's a difference . Occasionally i hear something out of era that nails it , eg The Continental Drifters , Ol'97's and at a push the Jayhawks.
I don't get white people call the Allman Brothers "southern rock". They were clearly a blues band when Duane was alive.
@@charlesandrews2360 I don't disagree but it is a term which is used to lump them together , to me they;re all blues rock bands , which i have no interest in it just irritates that people call them country rock which they are a thousand miles away from
Great list, but there were a few "outlaw" Country artists who deserve mention: Rodney Crowell, Gary Stewart, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, and Joe Ely produced some excellent albums, not quite Country, but pretty Rocky. Then, too, Eagles, Marshall Tucker, Outlaws, Dan Fogelberg, Loggins & Messina, New Riders,, and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band mined the genre for gold. Great list, still.
@@TheAnarchitek I love Lucinda’s Car Wheels On A Gravel Road. Had it on the list, but totally zoned out and forgot to include it. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 IKNWYM, I've made lists, left off my favorite album, or song. The mind expands infinitely, but not equally.
Henry Paul Bands album Grey Ghost, an overlooked album!
Huh! How ironic! I've been pretty much living with that album lately, learning the chords and leads from my favorite tracks. There's some good variation on it. Some country rock for sure; "Foolin'" and Lonely Dreamer," are the best examples, but even "So Long" and "Grey Ghost," even though they're great, straight ahead southern rock songs, the country elements are undeniable. Great call!!!
Another one to add to a long list of artists I need to listen to. 😉
Solid list, but omitted...
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats. And no Rick Nelson?
Gotcha covered on that fantastic Ween album.
I need to check out Ween. Heard a lot of great things about that band.
@@tomrobinson5776 They switch it up all the time. Pull most of it off really well. The 12 Golden Country Greats album has old school Nashville session players (including the Jordanairs and Charlie McCoy , if I'm not mistaken...).
It was a one off. Not really what they are about. Still love it tho.
Pretty experimental.
Dig in!
Prefer Comes A Time to Harvest by Neil Young. Uncle Charlie and his dog Teddy by the Nitty-gritty Dirt Band is also good, and how about Stones in the Road by Mary Chapin carpenter.
NGDB is incredible. Uncle Charlie is a great album.
As for modern artists, I'm really into the Turnpike Troubadours. Five records and not a bad one in the bunch.
@@ExileOnMyStreet Never heard them. Need to check it out. 😉
Listen to Bue Brummles Bradley's Barn
@@beaterville That’s one of those albums I’ve heard about for years, but never listened to it. I’ll check it out.
Some Australian 60/70's bands:
The Flying Circus
Country Radio
The Dingoes
@@lupcokotevski2907 I’ll check ‘em out.
@@tomrobinson5776 Cool. I don't find them in the same league as US bands, but I don't mind them. The big hit is Way Out West by the Dingoes. Country Radio is my favourite.
you forgot to mention that Duane Allman plays slide Dobro on Cowboy's tune "Please be with me" it was actually take two and take one (which is the superior version btw) is on Duane Allman an anthology . this would be Duane's final session work before he died 😢
@@goodtimefolkrock Interesting, now I need to relisten to that track. 😉
As far as Pure Prairie League goes I would pick the self titled debut album over busting out. They sound more like a real band. I understand that members were coming and going when It was made but it is a great album. After Craig Fuller had to leave due military draft problems. I think that Busting Out was recorded by Fuller, George Ed Powell, and their drummer at the time. PPL went on to make several albums but once Craig Fuller left they were just another band. Thanks for not bringing The Eagles up.
@@Cap683 You’re welcome 😉
What about Mike Nesmith and the First National Band. While I'm at it, Linda Ronstadt Heart Like a Wheel. She covered Mike's Different Drum.
@@johnshaner747 Both albums were featured in the video. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Yes, my bad.
Checkout a couple of Country-folk albums : I’m Gonna Be A Country Girl Again by Buffy Saints-Marie and Nashville by Ian and Sylvia. 😊
Also Full Circle by Ian and Sylvia. 😊
@@dancingbear86 Will do 😉
Here’s two newer ones you should check out......”Way out West” and “Altitude” both by Marty Stewart and the Fabulous Superlatives
I recently heard an album by an English band called Granny's Intentions... not a good name but not a bad album. I guess it could pass as country rock from the UK.
@@russellkroeker2822 I’ll have to hear that one.
Was waiting for neil young lol
Check out the first three Blue Rodeo albums.
Will do 😉
What about Steve Forbert? He is more on the folk side than purely country but he is a wonderful artist
@@ThierryDefrance-s9s I agree. Saw him open for Edie Brickell back in the late 80’s. Great set by Steve.
He came out with “Romeo’s Tune” around 1979-80. I think he did the song live on Saturday Night Live.
I was afraid you weren’t going to do Michael Nesmith and The First National Band and kept waiting for Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
But where were
In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969 by Rick Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band
Eagles by Eagles. Come on. How could you skip that?
I’m glad you got The Band, Pure Prairie League, Neil Young, and The Jayhawks!
How about some Dwight Yokum..Steve Earle Lucinda Williams or Toronto bands The Sadies and Blue Rodeo..
@@glendepietro1521 I had Lucinda’s Car Wheels On A Gravel Road on the list, but spaced out and forgot to include it on the video.
I just picked up a Lucinda Williams CD set today I think all her stuff is listenable.
@@glendepietro1521 She’s the real deal. Saw her open for Neil Young years back and she was awesome.
Good extensive list. Many others, but you can't list them all.
Jackson Browne’s first three albums
@@patlarou71 All excellent. His prime period.
I really like Notting Hillbillies album with Mark Knopfler. I think they only recorded one album
When The Kinks' 'Muswell Hillbillies' album was first released, RCA used their "ultra-thin" process to make copies from the tapes. Needless to say, these discs were VERY fragile. I wonder if this blatant attempt to save money affected the sales.
And what about "country-soul"? Ray Charles' 'Modern Sounds in Country Music'... it doesn't get any better than this!
@@Slotnikoff I agree. Ray is top notch.
Cape Oh NO!!!...No Marshall Tucker??? With Toy Caldwell on guitar??? I put them in the same Southern
category as the Allman Brothers.....This is a big OUCH!!!!!!!!
I’ve only heard a few of their hits which I like. Heard It In A Love Song and Can’t You See. What’s their best studio album?
@@tomrobinson5776 So Cape.....When i say MTB I'm talking about the original line up
from like 1973-1982 To be honest they are all fantastic!!! They all have their gems...I would say go to "Searching For A Rainbow" from 75' and "Together Forever" first. Listen to Guitarist Toy Caldwell He smokes..A VERY underrated player IMO..He never uses a pick..Plays with his thumb like Jeff Beck..He was also the main songwriter for the band. There is a great live version of
"Can't You See" on "Rainbow"...I think they are the 2nd greatest southern rock band behind the ABB...Glad to hear your going to give them a shot..I think you will really enjoy them...Leave a post let me know how they sound.......Happy trails To you!!!
@@newspapertaxis1 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Forgot Cape...Go to TH-cam watch "Can't you see" live..The one Toy has on a Yellow shirt...Watch the Guitar work at about the 5:00 mark.......It's sick!!!!!
No Skynyrd no validity.
Powerglide by New Riders
Burgers by Hot Tuna
Crazy Horse by Crazy Horse
Burgers ?
@@jackwezesa1081 Keep on Truckin’ .. Let us get Together .. Highway Song .. great country rock .. great album!
@@Peter-Burbank Country blues . It is phenomenal. Senior year in high school!
It's going to raise a few hackles when I say that I don't really believe in "country rock" -- the term sounds like a bit of an oxymoron to me -- my ears say that a song is country, or it's rock (I'm entitled to my stupid opinion). Of course you can mix the songs on an album, but I don't really count a mix of songs as defining a genre. Now, "country-pop" I might believe -- lord knows, we've got enough of it around these days -- that's where Buddy Holly was headed, and Patsy Cline too. I say all this as a fan of most of the records you mention, other than the ones I haven't heard, and a lot of others you didn't. No Commander Cody, New Riders? Maybe early Elvis Costello? The Band, I'm just about willing to grant you.
That was a pretty good story about Gram Parsons' motel room. I've heard that you can stay in Janis Joplin's, too, but that they've remodeled it.
Oh yeah, I just got back from a vacation in Lawrence, Kansas, so now I have a Jayhawks cap and sweatshirt. Rock chalk Jayhawk!
Another note -- Gangstagrass. I love the theme song of the TV series Justified, "Long Hard Times To Come". Works in every way possible.
Rockabilly > country rock imo.
Great artists and albums! Could Elton John's Peachtree Road be country rock?
Only 2 artists there that are very overrated for me: Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Weak voices!
@@waldoschnetler7484 There are definite country rock tinged numbers on Tumbleweed Connection. 😉
Heart Like A Wheel was a great musical period for Linda Ronstadt. Nowadays she is still a force to be reckoned with. Just today I stumbled across a new interview with her, where she endorses Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and decries a recent Trump rally in her hometown of Tucson AZ.
Good for her! Go Linda ❤️
Giving you a heads up, Cowboy did a reunion album, 10'll Getcha Twenty in 2018.
Also, I agree the Allmans struggled after Brothers and Sisters, with Greg's drug habit, Cher distraction and intrusive labels pushing for a pop hit damaging their output, but those reunion albums with Warren Haynes are great and should not be dismissed.
@@seed_drill7135 I’ll have to check out that Cowboy reunion album. Thanks 😉