Steve Earle - Train A Comin'
first album that he recorded after getting clean, lots of stuff he wrote as a teenager. If you don't recognize it as one of the greatest country albums every recorded, I can't help you.
Steve says this is the first song he ever wrote clean, and calls it "The 9th Step in the key of C".
i sing a capella versions of these two songs to my kids as lullabies.
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
even though sometimes I skip "Last Dance with Mary Jane", it's still undeniably one of the best albums ever made. Especially when you consider that the soundtrack for She's The One and a bunch of Echo were actually recorded as part of the Wildflowers sessions.
Named my youngest after a Wildflower, because the song came on twice while my wife was in labor. And I have the 'wildflower' logo integrated in to one of my tattoos. If you're not down with Tom Petty, I can't help you.
Bob Marley - Natural Mystic
It's a slow roll in to the album with this opening track. If you haven't rolled and blazed a jay to this album, I can't help you.
and when I was 18 I drove from AZ to IA with only 3 cassette tapes: a kids Christian sing-a-long that was in the glove box,
Chris Leduex - Western Underground, and
Charlie Daniels Band - SuperHits.
After 22.5 hours in the car with those two albums, I prefer to listen to them straight-through now.