Ain’t Dead Yet: 21 Albums That Kept Traditional Country Music Alive in 2012

With AM Country Heaven and The Time Jumpers topping my Best Country Albums of 2012 list, it’s fair to say that I found 2012 a pretty great year for real country music. Still, you can’t cram everything into a finite number of slots. So here’s an addendum of other recordings that didn’t land within my Top 20 but should be to the liking of folks whose tastes, like mine, tend to run toward the more traditional side of things.

Investigate them further on Amazon:

• Alan Jackson – Thirty Miles West
• Andy Vaughan and The Driveline – Searching for the Song
• Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys – Back at the Quonset Hut
• Clinton Gregory – Too Much Ain’t Enough
• Don Williams – And So It Goes
• Eric Strickland & the B Sides – Honky Tonk Till I Die
• Gene Watson – Best of the Best
• James Hand – Mighty Lonesome Man
• Joey + Rory – His and Hers
• JP Harris & the Tough Choices – I’ll Keep Calling
• Junior Brown – Volume Ten
• Lindi Ortega – Cigarettes & Truckstops
• Marley’s Ghost – Jubilee
• Michael and the Lonesome Playboys – Last of the Honky Tonks
• Moot Davis – Man About Town
• Sweethearts of the Rodeo – Restless
• Teea Goans – That’s Just Me
• The Little Willies – For the Good Times
• Tilford Sellers & the Wagon Burners – Heartaches, Lies and Cheating Songs
• Tim Culpepper – Pourin’ Whiskey on Pain
• Willie Nelson – Heroes

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