Rex Allen, Jr. - Today's Generation (1970)

Certainly there is nothing else in the Country Music canon quite like Rex Allen Jr..'s "Today's Generation". Promoted upon it's release in 1970 as " Underground Country", it is an album both ornate and very listenable. But no amount of adornment with electric sitars, melotrons and harpsichords can disguise the fact that this is also a howl of pure, neglected, post-adolescent angs. Obsessed with mortality, guilt, conformity, the Vietnam war and drug experimentation, Rex was clearly at a "troubled" juncture in his life. Imagine the Tibetan Book of the Dead as voiced with all the gothic undertones and crooner inflections of a southern Scott Walker and then interpreted by A-list Nasville session players.

Tracklist:
1 01. Rex Allen, Jr. - The Younger Generation (03:15)
1 02. Rex Allen, Jr. - I Back Up (02:11)
1 03. Rex Allen, Jr. - The Children (02:39)
1 04. Rex Allen, Jr. - Other Husbands and Wives (01:59)
1 05. Rex Allen, Jr. - Home Song (02:53)
1 06. Rex Allen, Jr. - Wake Up Morning (02:31)
1 07. Rex Allen, Jr. - The Father Needs a Man (02:35)
1 08. Rex Allen, Jr. - Push To The Ground (02:14)
1 09. Rex Allen, Jr. - Black Skies (02:23)
1 10. Rex Allen, Jr. - The Corners of My Life (02:38)