![]() ‘ Country Boy’(1971) is a self-penned track from Heads Hands & Feet’s debut album and is a masterclass in country-rock guitar and made Albert Lee’s reputation as one of the greatest country rock guitarists. At Gram Parson’s suggestion Byron Berline’s fiddle was overdubbed in LA. It is based on Hank William’s ‘Honky Tonk Blues’ and was recorded at Olympic Studios, London. Keith Richards has said ‘Country Honk’ was how he originally envisaged the song. ‘ Country Honk’ (1969) by the Rolling Stones is a country version of Honky Tonk Woman from their ‘Let It Bleed’ album. It is interesting to see how UK musicians picked up on this trend and how in some cases sold it back to America helping develop the country and alt-country of the ‘80s and’90s. All the artists at the time were viewed as significant rock or new wave artists or at the very least acts with commercial potential so at the time were part of the then-current mainstream. That’s a fairly standard definition of country rock but this list looks chronologically at 10 country rock tracks by UK artists just to show that it wasn’t just happening in the States. ![]() Country rock is a genre of music that was developed in America in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s by American rock musicians adopting country flavourings and as a genre lasted until the end of the’70s.
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