Various Artists – Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country [2LP]

Home to Cuca Records and hundreds of Nashville-fantasizing pluckers and singers, Wisconsins Driftless region was a hotbed of country music in the 1960s. Influenced by old-timey ethnic songs, Bakersfield outlaws, countrypolitan rainbows, and the lonesome twang of every rural route roadhouse, these 17 Driftless Dreamers washed up at Jim Kirchsteins Sauk City record plant with little more than $100 and a longing. Collected here are the fruits of Cucas documentary approach to record making, capturing the voices and stories of a culture and glacier in abatement.

Tracklist:

1. When She Finds the Way Back Home
2. Wanderer
3. Happy Don’t Last Forever
4. Just Another Name
5. Frisco Flower Tale
6. Kentucky Sunshine
7. It’s Gone
8. Cardinal
9. Six Foot Down
10. Little Hero
11. Challenge
12. Run Little Girl
13. Hello Houston (Goodbye Ol’ L.A.)
14. Tell Me
15. There’s a