"Part of the shock of the music of singer-songwriters George Jones, Lefty Frizell, Wynn Stewart, and other honky-tonkers lies in their straightforward description of their fucked-up lives, inability to love, life-altering romantic mistakes and distanced self-perception. Their view of self is always through a prism of anguish. Country pain is expressed often without metaphor, simply and plainly. At first the expression seems crude and comical, but once the force of the music hits, it's the bottomless emotional torment, and the singers naked confession thereof, that make raw country so moving."

Ovanstående stycke är hämtat ur boken om Gram Parsons jag just läst.

Jag lade upp fem låtar med fem av mina absoluta favoritsångare nedan. Country- och soulmusik med bottomless emotional torment and naked confession. Gastkramande texter och musik lika viktig som luft om du frågar mig.