Country albums

Order by year of release. You place all 42 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the country albums timeline game works

Each card is a country record, title on top and the artist beneath, and the goal is to line them up by release year. You begin with one album already placed, year showing. Read the next card, decide whether it came before or after the albums on the line, and drop it in a gap. If you're right, its year appears. If you're wrong, it still slides to where it truly belongs, and you lose one of three lives.

Expect honky-tonk storytellers, the outlaw movement, the neotraditional revival, the crossover pop boom and the Americana songwriters of recent years. Several artists show up more than once, which helps only if you remember the order of their records. The trickiest calls come when a Nashville star and an alt-country songwriter released albums close together, since they sound like they belong to different eras.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 42 cards you might be dealt, with 14 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash
  • Coat of Many Colors Dolly Parton
  • Pieces of the Sky Emmylou Harris
  • Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson
  • Stardust Willie Nelson
  • The Gambler Kenny Rogers
  • Guitar Town Steve Earle
  • Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. Dwight Yoakam
  • Absolute Torch and Twang k.d. lang
  • No Fences Garth Brooks
  • The Woman in Me Shania Twain
  • Blue LeAnn Rimes
  • Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
  • Wide Open Spaces Dixie Chicks
  • New Favorite Alison Krauss & Union Station
  • Here for the Party Gretchen Wilson
  • Some Hearts Carrie Underwood
  • Taylor Swift Taylor Swift
  • That Lonesome Song Jamey Johnson
  • The Foundation Zac Brown Band
  • Same Trailer Different Park Kacey Musgraves
  • Metamodern Sounds in Country Music Sturgill Simpson
  • Traveller Chris Stapleton
  • Hero Maren Morris
  • This One's for You Luke Combs
  • Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves
  • American Heartbreak Zach Bryan
  • Bell Bottom Country Lainey Wilson

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