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Richard Gehr | December 17, 2007

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Veteran country-music journalist and CMT.com editor Chet Flippo's annual list of country keepers also serves as an excellent guide for the family line-dance fanatic.

1. "Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love," Trisha Yearwood
2. "Dirt Farmer," Levon Helm
3. "A Place to Land," Little Big Town
4. "Wagonmaster," Porter Wagoner
5. "Raising Sand," Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
6. "Dwight Sings Buck," Dwight Yoakam
7. "Unglamorous," Lori McKenna
8. "Rhinestoned," Pam Tillis
9. "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," Miranda Lambert
10. (Tie) "Diamonds in the Sun," Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros; "The Wolf," Shooter Jennings

I particularly like what he writes about Levon Helm:

I know this is not catalogued as a country album, but 'Dirt Farmer' is by far the most country-sounding record of the year. It's truly as country as dirt. Helm sounds like the very mountains and the prairies singing. Like the voice of the land itself. There are some voices that carry the world of human experience in them, like those belonging to Ralph Stanley and Willie Nelson. And Helm. There is a very good reason why Helm was the voice of The Band.

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