Besides this

Country is not an albums genre. Most singers don't write their own songs, and so they might have a brilliant single and then a shit record, etc etc. That said Trace Adkin's Every Light in the House is also a really good song kinda in that vein youtube.com/watch?v=i-U6NOapgPg

Check out John Prine. Country-folk. I love his song “Illegal Smile”

>Country is not an albums genre.
Not really true
Country fans have always been like rock fans, more likely to buy albums than singles (biggest reason both genres have had trouble adjusting to the world of spotify)
A lot of country singers are songwriters, too, this isn't the biggest issue
Top country acts have always been very prolific though, under huge pressure to crank out albums very quickly
This means you are way more likely to get a great fertile period of 3-4 albums that all have a few great songs and a lot of filler
Realistically the best way to get into country is through greatest hits albums of top stars who were legit musicians

>always thought I hated country
>found the highwaymen on youtube one day
>wtf I love country now?
youtu.be/bMdeg-WKt1U

One of my all time best moves was accidentally slipping down the Jimmy Webb rabbit hole
He wrote Highwaymen (the song)
also Galveston
youtube.com/watch?v=HhKZLhxFFUY
Macarthur Park with all it's strange lyrics and stranger chord changes
youtube.com/watch?v=Il1H1E6HpME
Wichita Lineman
youtube.com/watch?v=AxSarBcsKLU
Sometimes I think the only thing really wrong with music today is this generations lack of a Jimmy Webb to get everyone else to start thinking again

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based.

Basics are:
Johnny Cash- Live at Folsom Prison
Townes van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain and the self titled album
John Prine- John Prine
Willie Nelson- Phases and Stages

More contemporary stuff which are abit more Alt-Country but still have a great country foundation:

Sturgill Simpson: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music and A Sailor's Guide to Earth, my favourites of his:
youtube.com/watch?v=sg209CadVQM
youtube.com/watch?v=-eWJmN8D820
youtube.com/watch?v=LWx6csgGkg4

Colter Wall: Imaginary Appalachia (EP) haven't listened to his LP, but these two songs are definitely my favourite country songs from the past decade:
youtube.com/watch?v=rqR1cjuPXUg
youtube.com/watch?v=drpdrQq8c98

Chris Stapleton: Starting Over and Traveller:
youtube.com/watch?v=WbBt5qDoCAs
youtube.com/watch?v=A3svABDnmio
youtube.com/watch?v=RppBLrT16ks

This album sucks.

i tried not to mention the same things others already have. not all of this are "pure" country albums, but there's something for everyone i believe.
Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
The Carter Family - In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain
Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages
Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
Marty Robbins - More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Mickey Newbury - Looks Like Rain
Mickey Newbury - 'Frisco Mabel Joy
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden
Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
Magnolia Electric Co. - The Magnolia Electric Co.
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
Townes Van Zandt - Live at The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
Sanford Clark - They Call Me Country
Patsy Cline - Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
Skeeter Davis - The Essential Skeeter Davis
Blaze Foley - Sittin' by the Road
Lefty Frizzell - Look What Thoughts Will Do
Merle Haggard - Down Every Road 1962-1994
Jerry Lee Lewis - She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye
Rose Maddox - Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass
Marty Robbins - The Return of the Gunfighter
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Did You Ever?
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Reckless Burning
Kitty Wells - God's Honky Tonk Angel (The First Queen of Country Music)
Gillian Welch - Revival
Steve Young - Honky-Tonk Man
Lefty Frizzell - Look What Thoughts Will Do
Merle Haggard - Down Every Road 1962-1994
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My Dreams
Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
Eddie Noack - Psycho: The K-Ark and Allstar Recordings 1962-69
Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel

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Colter Wall is based desu

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