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This is a listing of bands and musicians in the alternative country genre. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
- Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne (1993) The last entry in the band’s catalog before Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar parted ways saw the band at its most fully realized.
- Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998) Up until this album Lucinda Williams was primarily known for her songwriting, earning a Grammy for Best Country Song with Mary Chapin Carpenter’s crossover hit “Passionate Kisses.”
- Gillian Welch – Revival (1996) Gillian Welch and her musical partner may have hailed from Los Angeles and Rhode Island, respectively, but they arrived on the alt-country scene in 1996 as if they’d just melted out of Depression-era Appalachian Mountain ice.
- Son Volt – Trace (1995) Long before there was Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, it looked like Jay Farrar was the genius behind Uncle Tupelo, as Trace was a near-perfect collection of laid-back alt-country ballads like the brilliant windows-rolled-down “Windfall” and guitar-charged college rockers like lead single “Drown.”
Alternative country artists are often influenced by alternative rock. Most frequently, the term has been used to describe certain country music and country rock bands and artists that are also defined as or have incorporated influences from alternative rock, indie rock, punk rock, heartland rock, Southern rock, progressive country, outlaw ...
- The Jayhawks. Formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, veteran roots-rockers The Jayhawks’ sparkling back catalogue includes nine full-length albums. Recorded for Rick Rubin’s Def American label, 1992’s Hollywood Town Hallarguably remains their acme.
- Giant Sand. Based in Tucson, Arizona, Giant Sand are the brainchild of the feverishly proficient Howe Gelb, whose catalogue has so far yielded over 30 studio albums including 1999’s magnificent Chore Of Enchantment.
- Uncle Tupelo. This influential Illinois trio brilliantly melded their love of artists as disparate as The Carter Family, The Replacements and The Stooges on their 1990 debut No Depression.
- Wilco. Post-Uncle Tupelo, Jeff Tweedy formed Wilco, gaining sustained critical plaudits for albums such as Being There, the experimental alt.rock classic Yankee Hotel Foxtrotand 2004’s Grammy Award-winning A Ghost Is Born.
- Morgan Wade
- Joshua Ray Walker
- Lainey Wilson
- Hailey Whitters
- Ian Noe
- Ryan Culwell
- Kaitlin Butts
- Amythyst Kiah
- Sierra Ferrell
- Margo Cilker
When asked about artists she looks up to or is influenced by, Morgan Wade is quicker to mention Lana Del Rey than any traditionally country artist, and it makes sense. The Virginia native maybe has a little more of a Southern drawl than Lana, but her personal, emotive pop-Americana is coming from a very similar place. When Morgan sings a couplet li...
Rolling Stone has called 30-year-old Dallas native Joshua Ray Walker “country’s most fascinating young songwriter,” and it’s not hard to see why. Starting in 2019, he released three albums in as many years, all cut from the same cloth, all full of instant-classic songs, and all met with deserved acclaim. He cites Texas legends like Guy Clark and Bi...
The Louisiana-born Lainey Wilson moved to Nashville to pursue a career in country music over a decade ago, and her big break came after she released her first major label EP, 2019’s Redneck Hollywood. Its song “Things A Man Oughta Know” was released as a single the following year, and after her 2021 full-length Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’ – which feat...
…Hailey Whitters is opening that Jon Pardi tour too, and she’s not to miss either. Hailey released her breakthrough album The Dream in 2020, right before the pandemic really got bad in the US, and she’s coming out of the pandemic strong too, with her great new album Raised. Hailey reminds me of the more overtly country style of Kacey Musgraves’ pre...
One of the most underrated country debuts of the past few years is Kentucky singer Ian Noe’s 2019 LP Between The Country. He made it with Dave Cobb, the go-to producer for Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, and Sturgill Simpson, and in a just world, Ian would already be as big as those guys. It’s clear from listening that one of his biggest influences ...
Johnny Cash isn’t the only country singer with a great Nine Inch Nails cover. Last year, Texas native Ryan Culwell teamed with Aubrie Sellers for a stripped-back, countrified rendition of “Head Like A Hole,” his first song since 2018’s very good The Last American and the perfect stage-setter for this year’s even better Run Like A Bull. Like the NIN...
Oklahoma’s Kaitlin Butts released her debut album Same Hell, Different Devil back in 2015, but if you’re still seeing people describe her as a rising artist, it’s because her career has been more of a slow burn than an overnight success. In the time since then, she appeared on two albums by Texas band Flatland Cavalry (whose frontman Cleto Cordero ...
Even the biggest Joy Division fans are probably tired of hearing “Love Will Tear Us Apart” covers, but Tennessee-born country singer Amythyst Kiah’s recently-released rendition of the track totally reinvents it, and blows away every dime-a-dozen Ian Curtis wannabe in the process. How’s that for country with indie/alternative crossover? As a writer ...
The 33-year-old West Virginia native Sierra Ferrell is a very old soul, whose music often sounds like it could’ve been written in the pre-Beatles era, and who got her start in a very old-fashioned way, busking on the streets of New Orleans before moving to Nashville and landing gigs in local clubs. It’s a little ironic, then, that she got her break...
Margo Cilker’s music and lyrical themes often tap directly into the sound and feel of the American south, but Margo herself was born in California and now lives in Oregon, where she met Pacific Northwest indie icons like former Carissa’s Wierd member-turned-solo artist Sera Cahoone, who produced her 2021 debut album Pohorylle, and The Decemberists’...
May 7, 2022 · Read on to learn more about eight alternative country artists who defy tradition and challenge listeners to think outside the restrictive box of traditional country music tropes.
Sep 30, 2024 · The term alt.country (sometimes dubbed “insurgent country”) describes a number of musicians who eschewed the pop-infused country music that had begun to take hold in the late 70s and 80s.
