 | Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith) by Various Artists
Buy new: £67.49 / Used from: £63.91 where it all started - an absolute must-have for fans of the genre
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 | Through the Trees by The Handsome Family
Buy used from: £6.65 their best album - a spooky, funny and ethereal treasure trove of strangeness
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 | Pictures From Life's Other Side by Johnny Dowd
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £6.25 dowd doesn't pull the punches - twanging guiatrs mesh will atmospheric electronica in this edgy lo-fi masterpiece
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 | Death Row Hoedown by Muleskinner Jones
Buy used from: £12.98 johnny cash takes on captain beefheart in this twisted assault on the senses from the wild west of england
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 | At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.49 forget the recent compilations - this is the place to start. cash at his dark, funny and amphetamine-fuelled best
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 | ...Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore! by Puerto Muerto
best album title ever? a sprawling but thoroughly engaging collection of songs about pirates, love and death
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 | I See a Darkness by Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.99 beautifully understated morbid melancholy from the dark prince. he's sometimes hit and miss but this one's all hit.
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 | Trouble Is a Lonesome Town by Lee Hazlewood
Buy used from: £30.00 sometimes dark, sometimes hilarious, sometimes just plain weird country concept album from former nancy sinatra collaborator.
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 | Rum Sodomy & the Lash by The Pogues
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £4.25 shane macgowan is one of the greatest songwriters of this century and all country is descended from irish music anyway - hence the reason for the inclusion of this visceral celtic classic
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 | Hallowed Ground by Violent Femmes
Buy used from: £20.41 this album kicks off with the song that defines modern noir-country. an absolutely scorching album from the band that reinvented acoustic music and paved the way for 'no depression' era alt-country.
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 | Born Sandy Devotional by The Triffids
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £4.91 The sound of the outback. A brooding, gloomy, yet somehow strangely upbeat masterpiece painted with electric guitars and pedal steel. Finally gets its overdue remaster with a host of bonus material.
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