Number 47 in my quest to post 50 Americana Compilations and one that I am surprised has not featured before is The Rough Guide to Americana
From 2001 on World Music Network it is a pretty good stab with the selected 20 artists here
I have albums by and/or seen 16 of the 20 artists. There are only three acts that I am not familiar with Utah Carol, Cowboy Nation and Western Electric. Tempted as I was to feature them they are not that good and any of the others would do more justice.
It was a pretty hard task to select 3 from the other 17 but I have gone for Dave Alvin, the late great Neal Casal and Nadine.
Numbers 48 and 49 are accounted for but I'm still sweating over the elusive 50th one!
Top non-shuffling CC.
ReplyDeleteCowboy Nation were Rank & File dressed up and pretending to be Johnny Cash. I have their first album somewhere, or at least I used to - it may have gone to the great charity shop in the sky.