📚 Country Music

Rural America’s ballads and their business: performers, the genres called country, and the identity claims around them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject country music in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	1982	9
	The Best of Patsy Cline	Patsy Cline	1991	9
	Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music	J. Peter Burkholder	2005	9
	All Music Guide to Country	Hal Leonard Corp.	1997	8
	Patsy Cline	Patsy Cline	2007	8
	The 20th Century	Hal Leonard Corp.	2001	7
	Forever words	Johnny Cash	2016	7
	Coal miner's daughter	Loretta Lynn	1977	6
	In the Country of Country	Nicholas Dawidoff	1997	6
	The country blues	Samuel Barclay Charters	1959	4
	Merle Haggard's Greatest Hits	Merle Haggard	1983	4
	The Songs of Jim Reeves	Jim Reeves	1985	4
	Willie Nelson	Willie Nelson	1995	4
	The Best of Pat Green	Pat Green	2003	4
	Wild ducks flying backward	Tom Robbins	2005	4
	The Best of Toby Keith	Toby Keith	2005	4
	Rascal Flatts - Me and My Gang	Rascal Flatts	2006	4
	MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER THE CALLING	Mary Chapin Carpenter	2007	4
	Dolly Parton	Dolly Parton	2008	4
	Dolly Parton - Greatest Hits	Dolly Parton	2008	4
	Kenny Chesney Greatest Hits II	Kenny Chesney	2009	4
	Miranda Lambert - Revolution	Miranda Lambert	2011	4
	Rascal Flatts - Nothing Like This	Rascal Flatts	2011	4
	The Very Best of Emmylou Harris	Emmylou Harris	2011	4
	Luck or something like it	Kenny Rogers	2012	4
	Jimmie Rodgers	Nolan Porterfield	1979	3
	Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted	Barney Hoskyns	1987	3
	Taylor Swift Fearless	Taylor Swift	1988	3
	You Wrote My Life	M. Mclaurin	1992	3
	Country music culture	Curtis W. Ellison	1995	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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