Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music

by Various Artists

Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music cover art

Taking cues from the genre-blending vision of Gram Parsons, this anthology compiles obscure, private-press country-rock from the late 1960s and 70s. The collection features long-haired counterculture musicians integrating pedal steel guitars and twangy pastoral melodies with the hazy, psychedelic aesthetics of the era. It acts as a definitive, beautifully melancholic document of the underground hippie-country movement.

Genres

  • Cosmic Country
  • Country Rock
  • Country

Tracklist

  1. Travelin'
  2. And I Didn't Want You
  3. You Can't Make It Alone
  4. Lily of the Valley
  5. I Saw Her Cry
  6. Sleep a Million Years
  7. Me Lovin' You
  8. To See Her Smile
  9. Not Down This Low
  10. Baby's Back
  11. Lonesome City
  12. Mountain Roads
  13. Lonely Entertainer
  14. Buffalo Skinners
  15. All Cried Out
  16. Gentle One
  17. I Knew Her Well
  18. The Spirit of the Golden Juice
  19. Alabama Railroad Town