Various Artists- Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country (Various Artists)

Home to Cuca Records and hundreds of Nashville-fantasizing pluckers and singers, Wisconsin's 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 Kirchstein's Sauk City record plant with little more than $100 and a longing. Collected here are the fruits of Cuca's documentary approach to record making, capturing the voices and stories of a culture and glacier in abatement.Track List LP1: When She Finds the Way Back Home Wanderer Happy Don't Last Forever Just Another Name Frisco Flower Tale Kentucky Sunshine It's Gone Cardinal Six Foot Down Little Hero Challenge Run Little Girl Hello Houston (Goodbye Ol' L.A.) Tell Me There's a River Yellow-Throated Vireo LP2: Legend of the White Buffalo Down Bound Train Now They're Gone When I See You La Fraja The Sun Is Shining Walkin' Hermi