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Best Country/Rock - Poll

I recently started picking up more and more music I would loosely describe as "country/rock". A couple of recent purchases (namely Jackson Brown "Solo Acoustic", and Gene Clarke & Carla Olson "So Rebelious a Lover") caused me to look for a "Best Country/Rock" thread for more ideas. I couldn't find one, so I'm starting one here.

General guidelines
1) Don't hang up on what is country rock. If you think it is, ok.
2) Identify particularly well recorded , but don't leave anything off if it's good.
3) No limit or minimum - name your favorites.

Here are some of my my favorites in no particular order:
(* = excellent recording)

Gene Clark: "No Other" * and "White Lightening" *
Gene Clarke @ Carla Olson "So Rebelious a Lover"
Jackson Brown "Solo Acoustic" *
Willie Nelson "Stardust" SACD *
Neil Young "Prairie Wind" *
Cowboy Junkies - most all of their stuff, but especially "One Soul Now" , "Lay it Down" , "Mile From Our Home". "Trinity Sessions" *
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bdp24
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Man, there are some great, great lists here! Lots of good names, but for me it always comes back to The Everly Brothers, imo the first and still best Country Rockers. Gram Parsons is associated with the great Felice & Boudleaux Bryant song "Love Hurts", but it was written for them, and their 1960 version is so, so much better than his. No Everly Brothers, no The Beatles. Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe included a bonus 7" EP in the original pressing of their Rockpile album, containing their versions of four Everly Brothers songs. High praise coming from the likes of them. Dave Edmunds, another fantastic Country Rocker---in fact, the best of his generation imo.
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Absolutely, pehare! I have a few collections of their stuff, plus the Satan Loves Sin (!) album. The Everly Brother sure didn’t invent close 2-part harmony, but they (along with Buddy Holly, with whom they were close friends) did mix it with the new Rock ’n Roll to create the template everyone (including and most especially The Beatles) has been using ever since.
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Hell yeah pehare! Mighty fine album, produced by the great Buddy Miller. A+! Solomon’s early albums were produced by another great, Jerry Wexler, and the band on those records is the fantastic Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, the best studio band in the history of recording!
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I envy you. Buddy never seems to come out West.
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My second trip to Austin was courtesy of Junior Brown. I went to his show in L.A., and MCA had a lottery from the ticket stub numbers. My ticket had the winning number (and I hadn't even paid for the ticket!), so I got an all-expense paid---air fare, car rental, room at The Driscoll---3-day trip to Austin for two. Thanks MCA (and Jr !). Too bad Brian Ding hadn't yet started Rythmik Audio there yet.  
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Austin’s amazing, Tostado. Last time I was there, my pal and I stopped in at a neighborhood bar for a beer, and Redd Volkaert, Merle Haggard’s guitarist, mosied up on stage and starting playing. Only in Austin!
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