Schmeankman's Top 100 Alt-Country, Country, Bluegrass, and Country Rock albums

[schmeankman]

They're basically in 100-1 order, just not super strictly.

Guy Clark - "Texas Cookin"
Emmlou Harris - "Wrecking Ball"
The Handsome Family - "In the Air"
Deer Tick - "Easy"
Bonnie Raitt - "Give it Up"
Buck Owens - "Sings Tommy Collins"
Loretta Lynn - "Van Lear Rose"
Hank Williams Jr. - "Born to Boogie"
Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band - "Garden Party"
Crazy Horse - "Crazy Horse"
Flying Norwegians - "Wounded Bird"
Lambchop - "Is a Woman"
Amazing Rhythmn Aces - "Too Stuffed to Jump"
Jackson Browne - "For Everyman'
My Morning Jacket - "It Still Moves"
Kris Kristofferson - "The Silver Tounged Devil and I"
Hank Williams - "Greatest Hits'
Old 97's - "Too Far To Care"
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - "Lost in the Ozone"
Kasey Chambers - "The Captain"
Firefall - "Firefall"
Woven Hand - "Ten Stones"
Flatt & Scruggs - "At Carnegie Hall"
The Dillards - "Wheatstraw Suite"
16 Horsepower - "Sackcloth 'n' Ashes"
Emmylou Harris - "Pieces of the Sky"
Steve Young - "Rock, Salt & Nails"
Los Lobos - "By the Light of the Moon"
The Long Ryders - "Native Sons"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy"
Ry Cooder - "Chicken Skin Music"
Lucinda Williams - "World Without Tears"
Marshall Tucker Band - "Searchin' For a Rainbow"
Manassas - "Manassas"
Eagles - "Desperado"
John Prine - "John Prine"
Knife in the Water - "Red River"
Various Artists - "Wanted! The Outlaws"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "May the Circle Be Unbroken"
International Submarine Band - "Safe at Home"
Jayhawks - "Hollywood Town Hall"
Pure Prairie Leauge - "Pure Prairie Leauge"
Carter Family - "Anchored in Love: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1927-1928"
New Riders of the Purple Sage - "New Riders of the Purple Sage"
Steve Earle - "Copperhead Road"
Bob Dylan - "Nashville Skyline"
The Band - "The Band"
Eagles - "Eagles"
Wilco - "AM"
Merle Haggard - "Mama Tried"
Townes Van Zandt - "Townes Van Zandt"
Arlo Guthrie - "Hobo's Lullaby"
Willie Nelson - "Willie & Family Live"
Loggins & Messina - "On Stage"
Poco - "Poco"
Brewer & Shipley - "Tarkio"
Neko Case - "Blacklisted"
Gram Parsons - "GP"
Dillard & Clark - "The Fantastic Expedition Of..."
Terry Allen - "Lubbock on Everything'
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - "Jacksonville City Nights"
Jonathan Richman - "Jonathan Richman Goes Country"
Mark Olson & Gary Louris - "Ready for the Flood"
Willie Nelson - "Red Headed Stranger"
Avett Brothers - "I and Love and You"
Ry Cooder - "Boomer's Story"
Buffalo Springfield - "Buffalo Springfield"
Lucinda Williams - "West"
Cowboy Junkies - "The Trinity Session"
Avett Brothers - "Emotionalism"
Patsy Cline - "Patsy Cline Showcase"
Flying Burrito Brothers - "The Gilded Palace of Sin"
Woody Guthrie - "Woody's Greatest Hits"
Poco - "A Good Feelin' to Know"
Calexico - "Feast of Wire"
Ryan Adams - "Heartbreaker"
Johnny Cash - "At Folsom Prison"
Little Feat - "Little Feat"
Ellen McIlwaine - "Honky Tonk Angel"
Neil Young - "Harvest"
Buffalo Springfield - "Buffalo Springfield Again'
Grateful Dead - "Workingman's Dead"
The Byrds - "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"
Drive-By Truckers - "Brighter Than Creation's Dark"
Neko Case - "Middle Cyclone"
Neil Young - "Tonight's the Night"
The Bottle Rockets - "A Brooklyn Side"
Son Volt - "Trace"
Dwight Yoakam - "Buenos Noches From a Lonely Room"
Lucinda Williams - "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"
Wilco - "Being There"
Those Darlins - "Those Darlins"
Whiskeytown - "Stranger's Almanac"
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - "Ozark Mountain Daredevils"
Drive-By Truckers - "Gangstabilly"
Steve Earle - "Guitar Town"
Neil Young - "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere"
Uncle Tupelo - "Anodyne"
Ozark Mountian Daredevils - "It'll Shine When it Shines"
Gram Parsons - "Grevious Angel"

[clashcityrocker10]

I haven't heard everything on this list, but what I know is excellent.

[TheRollingBones]

What I have heard from this list is excellent. I would throw in Blue Rodeo's "Five Days In July". Excellent album all around.

[afterstasis]

very happy to see so many of my recommendations made the cut... quality list, sir.

[Lameboy19]

this is one genre I've been lacking in, looks like I gots some googlan to do

[MrFruitLord]

I know what I have to look into the next few weeks!

[Onslaught_fei]

What the hell

[Gowienczyk]

As expected, full of quality.

[yaniv297]

What the hell

LOL metalhead, time you'd meet some new genres...

Anyway, this is a truly great list. Neil Young is awesome, glad to see so many albums. Calexico man! Great band. "Grievous Angel" is a fantastic album (1000$ Wedding - amazing song)... Folsom Prison, Red Headed Stranger (go willy!), Neko Case... So many great stuff man!

This list is almost too good for this forum, maybe you should go somewhere where it would be more appreciated...

[Jerome85]

you forgot ryan bingham - mescalito. great album


edit: no idea how you misremembered shooter jennings.