The best country album tracks of August, presented as a 5-minute Amazon sampler or a full 34-minute Spotify playlist. Would we steer you wrong?
The Flatlanders – “Shadow of the Moon”
from The Odessa Tapes
Radney Foster – “Don’t Say Goodbye” (unavailable on Spotify, so included original)
from Del Rio, Texas Revisited: Unplugged & Lonesome
Blackberry Smoke – “One Horse Town”
from The Whippoorwill
Corb Lund – “Cows Around”
from Cabin Fever
The Trishas – “Liars and Fools” (unavailable on Spotify)
from High, Wide & Handsome
Kelly Joe Phelps – “Goodbye to Sorrow”
from Brother Sinner & The Whale
JT Hodges – “Sleepy Little Town”
from JT Hodges
Jerry Salley – “He Carried Her Mem’ry”
from Showing My Age
Carolina Chocolate Drops – “Jackson”
from We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash
Darrell Webb Band – “Pistol and the Pen”
from Breaking Down the Barriers
A Kinder, Gentler David Allan Coe
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A freelance writer and humorist with an abiding love of country music, C.M. Wilcox's cutting, clear-eyed take on the genre has drawn the attention of Country Weekly, The Washington Post, and The Tennessean in the years since this site began. He lives near Sacramento and can be reached by email at CMW (at) countrycalifornia.com.
Corb Lund – Cows Around is fabulous! Liars & Fools from The Trishas too but I heard Jason Eady sing it with Jamie Wilson (i think) and I am partial to that version. But then again I’m partial to anything Eady does :)
A fine selection once again sir. I’d especially second the Corb track and recommend your readers pick up the whole album.