Wilma Lee / Stoney Cooper - Heartbreak Street

2010 collection containing 25 staggeringly sad and lonely songs from this almost-forgotten husband and wife team who were Opry stalwarts in the '50s and '60s. Taken from their Hickory Records output and mixing their rootsy Gospel and soulful back-porch style. Glorious vocal interplay and some searching fiddle from Stoney Cooper makes this a set that's strangely haunting. A direct influence on the likes of Gram Parsons, the Dillards, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and the generations of cosmic Country and Alternative Country fans who followed them. Righteous.