Editing Approved Music (section)

==Country==
*'''Johnny Cash - American Recordings I-VI''': Not all Johnny Cash, mind; a career as long as Cash's has a non-trivial amount of crap. But at least the American Recordings series of albums are useful if you're doing anything that's either going for something to score a "Western Genre" piece, or for that matter, anything with Apocalyptic overtones, the AR series is worth a check to see if it covers what you're looking for.

*'''Marty Robbins - Gunfighter ballads and Trail songs''': Utterly classic cowboy music about (what else?) gunfights and ridin' the trail. Honestly, if this isn't the first place you go for music for any western setting, there's something wrong with you.

*'''Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain, Townes Van Zandt''': Want proof that country can be poetic and personal and not whiny? This is your guy. Songs and stories about poverty, alcoholism, love, crime, and death, quite a few of them inspired by Townes Van Zandt's own life. While none of this is out of the ordinary for country music, good lyricism and generally good production help to elevate him above other artists, and his tendency to use naturalistic imagery mixed with the fantastical helps make him /tg/ relevant.

*'''Soggy Bottom Boys''' - like the Gorillaz, they’re a fictional band, specifically created as part of the story behind the Coen Brothers film ''O Brother Where Art Thou.'' The songs on their album helped popularize many old Country and Bluegrass tunes, especially ''I am a Man of Constant Sorrow,'' which managed to win a Grammy despite being a hundred-year-old song lifted for a film soundtrack. Since then, the song has been picked up by many other bluegrass artists and there have been many variations since it first came out, but the Soggy Bottom Boys version is the best known version. Some of their other tunes like ''In the Jailhouse Now'' are also real bangers.