地下鄉愁藍調

近兩個星期，許是Walk The Line火上加油，搬出庫藏的country/country rock/alt. country/americana專輯狂聽。今天陽光普照，音響傳出Son Volt的Too Early。如許美好的早晨，我們不該憂傷。

桌上堆著的CD們是：Son Volt / Retrospective:1995-2000
Woody Guthrie / This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol.1
Woody Guthrie / Dust Bowl Ballads
VA / The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers - A Tribute
Alison Krauss & Union Station / Lonely Runs Both Ways
Emmylou Harris / Elite Hotel
The Flying Burrito Brothers / The Guilded Palace Of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers / Burrito Deluxe

OST / O Brother, Where Are Thou?
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
The Notting Hillbillies / Missing...Presumed Having A Good Time
VA / Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To Johnny Cash
VA / Uncut: In God's Country: The Music That Inspired The Jushua Tree
The Handsome Family / Trough The Trees
Dock Boggs / His Folkway Years 1963-1968
VA / Good Rockin' Tonight: THe Legacy Of Sun Records
Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson / Highwayman
Highwaymen / The Road Goes On Forever (10th Anniversary Edition)
Steve Earle / Transcendental Blues
Steve Earle / Guitar Town
Gram Parsons & The Falling Angels / Live 1973
Gram Parsons / GP/Grievous Angel
OST / Down From The Mountain
Hank Williams / The Original Singles Collection...Plus
Gene Clark / Gene Clark
Poco / The Forgotten Trail 1969-74
The The / Hanky Panky
Elvis Presley / The Million Dollar Quartet
Moby Grape / Vintage: The Very Best Of
Elvis Presley / Sunrise
Ryan Adams / Gold
Johnny Cash / Unearthed
The Byrds / Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Michelle Shocked / Arkansas Traveler
The Beau Brummels / Bradley's Barn
Whiskeytown / Pneumonia
Whiskeytown / Strangers Almanac
Uncle Tupelo / No Depression
Uncle Tupelo / Anodyne
Uncle Tupelo / March 16-20, 1992
Townes Van Zandt / Live at the Old Quarter
Lucinda Williams / Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Gillain Welch / Time (The Revelator)

然後還想重聽多年前買的那盒Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music，另外有一張The Bristol Sessions (1927) 一下子找不著了...。

（照片是阿拉巴馬州65號公路，其中一段命名為The Hank Williams Memorial Lost Highway，向這位鄉村音樂史的偉人致敬。The Lost Highway是他最著名的歌曲之一，也是一個極優的美國草根音樂廠牌的名稱。）