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truck-drivin' honky-tonk country:
Floyd Tillman, Johnny Paycheck, Tammy Wynette, Roger Miller & C.W. McCall, of course...Conway Twitty, haha if you have to go there.
now for the alt-country and country rock
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies (I will always carry the legend of their incomparable country blues deep within my heart...fucking art-country, not alt-country)
Elvis doing country
The Rolling Stones doing country
Bob Dylan doing country or roots rock
The Band doing country or roots rock
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead doing country or roots rock
Jerry Garcia Band (mostly bluegrass)
New Riders on the Purple Sage (mostly bluegrass)
Ween doing country
The Byrds doing roots rock
Buffalo Springfield doing roots rock
Neil Young doing roots rock
John Cougar Mellencamp doing roots rock
CCR doing roots rock
The Eagles doing roots rock
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Olivia Newton-John's early mellow country
Gram Parsons
Emmylou Harris
Drive-By Truckers (a good band from Athens, check 'em out)
Uncle Tupelo
Old 97's (oops)
Son Volt
Whiskeytown
Wilco (at times)
Steve Earle
Lucinda Williams
Linda Ronstadt
Charlie Daniels Band
Exile (so-so)
Pure Prairie League (so-so)
Kinky Friedman
The Jayhawks (so-so)
Alison Krauss & Union Station (although much is bluegrass-based)
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