Various Artists – Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country Online Sale

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.