Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country / Various Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country / Various LP Vinyl

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.

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 River 16. Yellow-Throated Vireo 17. Legend of the White Buffalo 18. Down Bound Train 19. Now They're Gone 20. When I See You 21. La Fraja 22. The Sun Is Shining 23. Walkin' 24. Hermit Thrush 25. Muleskinner Blues 26. I Still Love You 27. Heaven Help the Working Girl 28. Trouble Sweet Trouble (Just a Barstool Away) 29. This Lovely Day Is Mine 30. God Help the World 31. Highway 32. Brown Thrasher