6 Bucket List Country Albums You Need To Hear in Your Lifetime

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

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Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors

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Merle Haggard - Serving 190 Proof

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Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My Dreams

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Willie Nelson - Red-Headed Stranger

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Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

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