Country debut albums

Order these Country acts by the year of their debut album. You place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the country debut albums timeline game works

The cards are country artists, and under each name is the title of their first album. You're putting the artists in order by the year that debut was released. The timeline begins with one artist already placed, debut year showing. Slot each new name into the gap where you think it fits. Right, and the year is revealed; wrong, and the card still moves to its true place while you lose one of three lives.

It reaches from honky-tonk and Nashville sound pioneers through the outlaws, the neotraditionalists, the arena stars and the recent wave. A debut can come well before the hits, so an artist whose fame peaked later may have started earlier than you think. The album title is worth reading, though a self-titled debut tells you little. Artists whose careers overlapped for a long time are where most mistakes happen.

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 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Johnny Cash Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar
  • Willie Nelson ...and Then I Wrote
  • Merle Haggard Strangers
  • Dolly Parton Hello, I'm Dolly
  • Kenny Rogers 69
  • George Strait Strait Country
  • Reba McEntire Reba McEntire
  • Garth Brooks Garth Brooks
  • Alan Jackson New Traditional
  • Shania Twain Shania Twain
  • Tim McGraw Tim McGraw
  • Toby Keith Toby Keith
  • Brad Paisley Who Needs Pictures
  • Carrie Underwood Some Hearts
  • Miranda Lambert Miranda Lambert
  • Chris Stapleton Traveller
  • Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn Sings
  • Waylon Jennings Folk-Country
  • Tammy Wynette Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
  • Charley Pride Country Charley Pride
  • Randy Travis Storms of Life
  • Dwight Yoakam Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
  • Faith Hill Take Me as I Am
  • Kenny Chesney In My Wildest Dreams
  • Blake Shelton Blake Shelton
  • Luke Bryan I'll Stay Me

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