A reader asks polymathic Tyler Cowen for his country music recommendations and Tyler responds here, cautioning, mind you, that:
I might add the whole list comes from someone who was initially allergic to country music, so if that is you give some of these recommendations a try. Just think of it as White Man’s Blues.
Well that was me too, once upon a sad old time ago. Then I saw the light and everything’s been better since. Tyler says you have to start with Hank Williams Sr and then move on to the Gram Parsons trio of: The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers and, finally, Grievous Angel. That, plus Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Dolly etc etc will see you right. All sound advice.
And like Tyler, I think that George Jones and Merle Haggard, mighty fine though they be, can sometimes be a little over-rated.
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