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A companion to 2016's private country rock overview Cosmic American Music, this second volume goes way past Gram Parsons' “country-rock plastic dry-fuck” and explores the twangy falsettos and commercial curiosity that sent the Eagles soaring. Though rooted in the west coast folk rock of the late-’60s, these new kids in town rendered a safe-for-the-suburbs sound bleached of the hippie era's political strife. 20 tracks, two LPs, and gatefold tip-on sleeve for easy seed and stem separating are included.

In Numero's Wayfaring Strangers, we’ve charted the one-off efforts of wandering folkies, lost troubadours, and purveyors of primal guitar. Among these Joni Mitchell acolytes, walkers in Dylan and Buckley’s most forlorn shoes, and supplicants at the Fahey altar, find future climbers of Windham Hill, a Terlingua hubcap painter, and an All-Star NHL defensemen looking ruefully backward from 1973.