 | Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones
Buy used from: $23.99 This is often considered a roots-rock classic. English rockers... go figure.
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 | Music from Big Pink by The Band
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.92 This is the record that started roots-rock. Their self-titled, second LP is even better, but "Big Pink" is better for the classic rock crowd.
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 | The Joshua Tree by U2
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $2.00 This album perfectly captures the vastness of the Southwest. U2's crowning achievement, and my favorite album of all time.
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 | Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.78 Dylan's folk-blues rock amalgam- a masterpiece.
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 | Scarlet's Walk by Tori Amos
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.49 Amos infuses this set with a rootsy quality.
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 | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.38 Very rootsy- but grungy, too, in a way only NY can pull off.
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 | Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.00 Another americana offering by the Stones. "Sympathy For The Devil" is a classic.
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 | Silent Steeples by Dispatch
Buy used from: $9.99 Dispatch is great- a roots aesthetic with worldbeat rhythyms
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 | August and Everything After by Counting Crows
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $0.24 Counting Crows- The Band of the 90's.
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 | Wildflowers by Tom Petty
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $0.67 Petty's most organic efort.
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 | American Beauty by Grateful Dead
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.99 No acid jazz here- just good ol' roots.
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 | Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.99 Both this and "Nebraska" are top-notch.
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 | Chronicle, Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.99 CCR's great variety of swamp-blues.
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 | Harvest by Neil Young
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.49 Far from Young's best effort, but his best selling disc. Offers an acoustic counterpoint to "Everbody Knows..."
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 | Desperado by Eagles
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.71 Eagles at their most country.
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 | Scarecrow by John Mellencamp
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.99 John Mellencamp, the great heartland-rocker.
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 | Farmhouse by Phish
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.00 Go by the title.
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 | Play by Moby
Buy used from: $0.62 |
 | Cruel Sun by Rusted Root
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.99 A lot like the Dispatch CD.
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 | Mule Variations by Tom Waits
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.94 Waits puts his spin on Americana.
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 | Elephant by The White Stripes
Buy used from: $1.08 |
 | Bringing Down the Horse by The Wallflowers
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | American Garage by Pat Metheny Group
Buy used from: $7.72 |
 | Dixie Chicken by Little Feat
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.95 |
 | The Very Best of Jackson Browne by Jackson Browne
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $8.11 |
 | Plains by George Winston
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.00 |
 | The Crane Wife by The Decemberists
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.74 Despite being about a Japanese folk tale, this shows some true American influences.
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 | A Decade of Steely Dan by Steely Dan
Buy used from: $1.90 Check out "Reelin' In The Years"
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 | Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.87 Sean Mackin's fiddle playing elevates this from punk-pop to roots-punk.
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 | White Ladder by David Gray
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $1.14 Gray was clearly inspired by bare-bones roots.
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 | Greatest Stories Live by Harry Chapin
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.96 |
 | The Best of Kansas by Kansas
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.67 Americana meets prog-rock.
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 | Songs from Black Mountain by Live
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.90 |
 | Blue West by Philip Aaberg
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $14.50 |
 | Best of Procol Harum by Procol Harum
Buy used from: $16.16 |
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