45. Webb Wilder: It Came from Nashville (1986)
Although Webb Wilder was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., his solo debut focused on an auspicious homage to Nashville, the place he came to call home. The mix of deadpan humor and everyday happenstance resulted in a kind of brash irreverence, an attitude that offered the decided impression that he was given to a skewed perspective. Musically, it echoed any number of precedentsElvis, Jerry Lee and Steve Earle (whose song Devils Right Hand Wilder rendered with added urgency), chief among them. Likewise, rockabilly, cow punk and country caress were combined in equal measure, making for a rowdy and rousing rave-up that precludes any kind of passive encounter. A definitive view of Music City from a doggedly determined point of view, It Came from Nashville fuses past with present in wholly irreverent ways. Lee Zimmerman

Congratulations, Webb. Really great that your record made the list.

Thanks, Glom-ster! I know you were there to support us when that album was NEW! Great memories of the 8 x 10, you, Joe Ely, David Grissom, Dickie and Baltimore. WW

Congratulations also to Jimmy Lester, Denny Blakely, Donnie Roberts, and Robert Field for their contributions to the record.