Driftless Dreams: In Cuca Country

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.

Tracklisting 

1. Unknown Artist – When She Finds The Way Back Home
2. The Lavenders – Wanderer
3. Nancy Lee Jordan – Happy Don’t Last Forever
4. Artie Minz, Ellie Shepherd & The Countrymen – Just Another Name
5. Curley Fields & The Kentuckians – Frisco Flower Tale
6. Dave Davis – Kentucky Sunshine
7. Patti Whipp With The Infinite Blue – It’s Gone
8. John D. Curnow – Cardinal
9. Gene Ski & The Troubadours – Six Foot Down
10. Dixie Drifter – Little Hero
11. Larry Phillipson & The Larry Lee Trio – Challenge
12. Harrison Two – Run Little Girl
13. Johnny Madrid – Hello Houston (Goodbye Ol’ L.A.)
14. Duane And The Drifters – Tell Me
15. Sam Podany – There’s A River
16. Yellow-Throated Vireo
17. Shunka Wa Kaon – Legend Of The White Buffalo
18. Frank Gay & The Gayblades – Down Bound Train
19. Unknown Artist – Now They’re Gone
20. Rog Winters & The Plainsmen – When I See You
21. Harrison Two – La Fraja
22. The Chieftones – The Sun Is Shining
23. Patti Whipp With The Infinite Blue – Walkin’
24. John D. Curnow – Hermit Thrush
25. Gary Chamberlain & The Country Cats – Muleskinner Blues
26. Rod And Terry – I Still Love You
27. Janet Kaye – Heaven Help The Working Girl
28. Curley Fields & The Kentuckians – Trouble Sweet Trouble (Just A Barstool Away)
29. Georgette Beltran – This Lovely Day Is Mine
30. Tom Sheehan – God Help The World
31. Sam Podany – Highway
32. John D. Curnow – Brown Thrasher