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
- Unknown Artist When She Finds The Way Back Home
- The Lavenders Wanderer
- Nancy Lee Jordan Happy Don’t Last Forever
- Artie Minz, Ellie Shepherd & The Countrymen Just Another Name
- Curley Fields & The Kentuckians Frisco Flower Tale
- Dave Davis Kentucky Sunshine
- Patti Whipp It’s Gone
- John D. Curnow Cardinal
- Gene Ski & The Troubadours Six Foot Down
- Dixie Drifter Little Hero
- Larry Phillipson Challenge
- Harrison Two Run Little Girl (Harrison)
- Johnny Madrid Hello Houston (Goodbye Ol’ L.A.)
- Duane & The Drifters Tell Me
- Sam Podany There’s A River
- John D. Curnow Yellow-Throated Vireo
- Shunka Wa Kaon Legend Of The White Buffalo
- Frank Gay & The Gayblades Down Bound Train
- Unknown Artist Now They’re Gone
- Rog Winters & The Plainsmen When I See You
- Harrison Two La Fraja
- The Chieftones The Sun Is Shining
- Patti Whipp Walkin’
- John D. Curnow Hermit Thrush
- Gary Chamberlain & The Country Cats Muleskinner Blues
- Rod & Terry I Still Love You
- Janet Kaye Heaven Help The Working Girl
- Curley Fields & The Kentuckians Trouble Sweet Trouble (Just A Barstool Away)
- Georgette Beltran This Lovely Day Is Mine
- Tom Sheehan God Help The World
- Sam Podany Highway
- John D. Curnow Brown Thrasher