Album Genre: Country

It’s About Time is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami and released in November 1983. The album featured several notable supporting vocalists, including Patti Austin, Rita Marley (and The Wailers), and Emmylou Harris. “Wild Montana Skies” was the single from this album; members of the … Read more

The music was recorded at Toronto, Ontario’s Church of the Holy Trinity on 27 November 1987, with the band circled around a single microphone. The album includes a mixture of original material by the band and covers of classic folk, rock and country songs, including the band’s most famous single, a cover of The Velvet … Read more

Copperhead Road is an American alternative country/country rock album released in 1988 by Steve Earle. Often referred to as Earle’s first “rock record”, Earle himself calls it the world’s first blend of heavy metal and bluegrass, while in their January 26, 1989 review of the album Rolling Stone suggested the style be known as “power … Read more

No Holdin’ Back is the fourth studio album by American country music singer Randy Travis. It was released on September 26, 1989, by Warner Bros. Records Nashville. Three singles were released from it, all of which charted on the Hot Country Songs charts: the Number One hits “It’s Just a Matter of Time” and “Hard … Read more

Christmas is the first Christmas album by country band Alabama. The album was released on RCA Nashville in 1985. It was certified double platinum for shipment of 2 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 11, 1996. Since 1991 when SoundScan started to collate sales data, 515,300 copies have been sold … Read more

Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third album by country singer Dwight Yoakam. The album contains Yoakam’s first (and, as of 2017, only) two No. 1 Hot Country Singles singles. The first was “Streets of Bakersfield,” a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, who had originally released a version of the song … Read more

This is a masterpiece of a pop recording from Kenny Rogers. It is clear that Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and co-producers Karl Richardson and Albhy Galuten remembered Rogers’ pop roots with the First Edition and, despite the country twang of “Buried Treasure,” the slick musicianship and modulation are not your typical country & western. There … Read more

Life is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, his fourth with Crazy Horse, Young’s first with his erstwhile backing band since 1981’s Re-ac-tor, and Young’s last release on the Geffen label. The first three tracks all handle the topic of world politics, and ponder the role of the United States in the … Read more