It’s list time! For better or worse, we’re going with the top tier of the Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Country Albums of all Time as our guidepost. There’s some great ones here, in fact the majority are agreeable in our estimation but there are also some “huh?” moments. We’ll just assume that that is par for the course with any opinion-based list by a disparate group of critics. For the most part, it captures the core of country pretty well. We’ll share music from Tom T. Hall, The Carters, George Strait and a few nineties and aught pop stars that made the list because they swim the pop country charts. Join Dave as he walks down the list, one that has its cringe-worthy moments, right alongside moments of pure Americana country gold.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Kacey Musgraves	Space Cowboy	Golden Hour
2	Hank Williams	The Blues Come Around	Southern Belle [Disc 2]
3	Waylon Jennings	Black Rose	Honky Tonk Heroes/Ramblin' Man/Dreaming My Dreams (1 of 3)
4	Sammi Smith	Help Me Make It Through The Night	Sammi Smith early 60's the Best Of (varese sarabande 96)
5	John Anderson	Wild and Blue	Anthology
6	Sturgill Simpson	Life Of Sin	Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
7	Guy Clark	Rita Ballou	Old No. 1
8	The Carter Family	Kissing Is Crime	Can The Circle Be Unbroken
9	John Prine	Paradise	John Prine
10	Kris Kristofferson	The Law Is For Protection Of The People	Kristofferson
11	Rosanne Cash	My Baby Thinks He's A Train	Hits: 1979-1989
12	George Strait	I Can't See Texas from Here	Strait Out of the Box [Disc 1]
13	Gary Stewart	She's Acting Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)	Superstars Of Country: Good Ol Songs [Disc 2]
14	Loretta Lynn	Coal Miner's Daughter	Decca Country Classics 1934-1973
15	Tom T. Hall	The Year That Clayton Delaney Died (Single Version)	The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
16	Patsy Cline	I Fall To Pieces	Classic Country
17	George Jones	He Stopped Loving Her Today	I Am What I Am
18	Miranda Lambert	Vice	The Weight of These Wings
19	The Judds	Why Not Me	Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns – The Soundtrack [Disc 2]
20	Johnny Cash	Folsom Prison Blues	At Folsom Prison
21	Taylor Swift	You Belong With Me	Fearless
22	Randy Travis	On The Other Hand	Country Gold 1984-1986
23	Shania Twain	That Don't Impress Me Much	Come On Over
24	Merle Haggard	Red Bandana	His Greatest & His Best
25	Lucinda Williams	Jackson	Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
26	Dixie Chicks	Wide Open Spaces	Country: The American Tradition [Disc 2]
27	Ray Charles	Born to Lose (Remastered)	Complete Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Remastered)
28	Waylon Jennings	Dreaming My Dreams With You	Artist's Choice: Emmylou Harris
29	Dolly Parton	Coat of Many Colors	Coat of Many Colors [RM 2007]
30	Willie Nelson	Red Headed Stranger	The Many Sides Of Willie Nelson [Cd 3 "Cowboy"] (1992)