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.

Tracklist:

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
Legend of the White Buffalo
Down Bound Train
Now They're Gone
When I See You
La Fraja
The Sun Is Shining
Walkin'
Hermit Thrush
Muleskinner Blues
I Still Love You
Heaven Help the Working Girl
Trouble Sweet Trouble (Just a Barstool Away)
This Lovely Day Is Mine
God Help the World
Highway
Brown Thrasher

UPC: 825764107815
Label: Numero
Release Date: 11.12.21
Format: Vinyl

Various Artists - Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country (2LP)