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.
Tracks
- Disc 1 -
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
- Disc 2 -
1 Legend of the White Buffalo
2 Down Bound Train
3 Now They're Gone
4 When I See You
5 La Fraja
6 The Sun Is Shining
7 Walkin'
8 Hermit Thrush
9 Muleskinner Blues
10 I Still Love You
11 Heaven Help the Working Girl
12 Trouble Sweet Trouble (Just a Barstool Away)
13 This Lovely Day Is Mine
14 God Help the World
15 Highway
16 Brown Thrasher
Tracks
- Disc 1 -
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
- Disc 2 -
1 Legend of the White Buffalo
2 Down Bound Train
3 Now They're Gone
4 When I See You
5 La Fraja
6 The Sun Is Shining
7 Walkin'
8 Hermit Thrush
9 Muleskinner Blues
10 I Still Love You
11 Heaven Help the Working Girl
12 Trouble Sweet Trouble (Just a Barstool Away)
13 This Lovely Day Is Mine
14 God Help the World
15 Highway
16 Brown Thrasher