Audiophile grade country

I like many well recorded Americana albums that have wonderful soundstaging and beautiful seperation of vocals and instruments. I can highly recommend CDs and LPs
by Dave Alvin (Ashgrove), Lucinda Williams (her last five albums are brilliant), Jenny Lewis (Acid Tongue), Ryan Adams (Cold Roses), Neko Case (Cyclone) Steve Earle (Jerusalem), Willie Nelson (Teatro).

Actually quite a bit of country music is well recorded. You probably can't go too far wrong with most. Just pick an artist or three and go for it.

Jamey Johnson "That Lonesome Song" a country concept album of sorts.

just released this year & not particularly well recorded but not bad either...if you like alt-country...John Doe & the Sadies, Country Club...former X man & the great Sadies performing some real honkey tonk era classics

Good call, Pehare. In fact, John Doe is STILL an X man. Saw them last night in Asheville, NC, and they sound better than ever! The new countrified album with the Sadies is very good, too.