Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became 'the dominant American rock style of the 1970s', as Peter Doggett' comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre's real Wild West - America's one-off private press label substructure.TRACKLISTING> 01. JIMMY CARTER AND DALLAS COUNTY GREEN / TRAVELIN- 02. MISTRESS MARY / AND I DIDN-T WANT YOU 03. PLAIN JANE / YOU CAN-T MAKE IT ALONE 04. DAN PAVLIDES / LILY OF THE VALLEY 05. ANGEL OAK / I SAW HER CRY 06. KATHY HEIDIMAN / SLEEP A MILLION YEARS 07. DEERFIELD / ME LOVIN- YOU 08. ARROGANCE / TO SEE HER SMILE 09. JEFF COWELL / NOT DOWN THIS LOW 10. KENNY KNIGHT / BABY-S BACK 11. THE BLACK CANYON GANG / LONESOME CITY 12. ALLAN WACHS / MOUNTAIN ROADS 13. MIKE AND PAM MARTIN / LONELY ENTERTAINER 14. BILL MADISON / BUFFALO SKINNERS 15. WHITE CLOUD / ALL CRIED OUT 16. ETHEL/ANN POWELL / GENTLE ONE 17. SANDY HARLESS / I KNEW HER WELL 18. F.J. MCMAHON / THE SPIRIT OF THE GOLDEN JUICE 19. DOUG FIREBAUGH / ALABAMA RAILROAD TOWN