The Mavericks don't have nearly the stature of the others. It was probably whimsical of me to include them but they recorded one album I can listen to over and over -- this one.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Crying-Shame-Mavericks/dp/B000002OR0/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1287402222&sr=1-3

Their lead singer was a guy named Raul Malo, surely one of the few Cuban-American C & W singers. What a voice.

>I'm don't agree with some of those. Definately Hank, Merele. Waylon. I can listen to Patsy Cline and Buck Owens, but not Yoakum. I'm not familiar with the Mavericks unless it's Bart & Brett.
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