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Alternative country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the 1990s however, "alternative country" came to refer to a disparate group of musicians and singers operating outside the traditions and industry of mainstream country music. The artist most commonly identified as the originator of country rock is Gram Parsons (who referred to his sound as "Cosmic American Music"), although Jason and the Scorchers and Steve Earle are frequently identified as important innovators. Alternative Country is a term applied to various subgenres of country music. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternative_country

BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Farrar abandons 'alt country' Farrar added that the alt country tag was a "mixed blessing" that had never adequately described the music he and other bands were creating even at the time of Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo are seen as the founders of alt country after they dared to do their own take on the genre - outside the mainstream with little or no commercial radio play. Ironically, Farrar is not keen on being described as alt country, and is reluctant to accept his part in its creation. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3420055.stm

History Examining Alt Country means examining Country Music in general, it's place in 20th Century history and art, and the sticky question of what is and isn't a part of the format. When people ask me about Alt Country, I like to tell them that it came from a lot of places, but it had five historical sources, and then sprang up along side its more popular brother, grunge rock. Country radio is littered with tight playlists made up of songs that cater to a very specific demographic. www.othersideofcountry.com /Historypage.html

Brent's Alt Country Blog Alt country singer-songwriter Brent Hoodenpyle and his band The Loners will be performing a tribute to Steve Earle in honor of the hardcore troubadour's 50th Birthday at the Hideout in Chicago, IL on Wednesday January 19th. Kinky Friedman, alt-est of alt country musicians, one of my favorite mystery writers, friend of both the Bushes and the Clintons and self-pronounced gypsy pirate, officially entered the race for Governor of the State of Texas. If you'll recall my previous post An Alt Country Look At Kenny Chesney, Big and Rich and the 38th Annual CMA Awards sent you over to Jack Sparks's blog to read his scathing send up of the CMA Awards show that was televised last week. altcountrybrent.typepad.com

The Wrenfields - Detroit - Americana - Alt-Country - Detroit Country Music Country music has a true home in the Motor City, and well-attended events like this year’s festival show the great need for more country music establishments around town. You can tell by the cover art that this band is into living the country life with a abiding respect for mother nature, and many of their songs represent this feeling. If country radio was really interested in playing real country music, country music that doesn't bow down to today's fads, it would be playing a Wrenfields song every hour. www.wrenfields.com /reviews.htm

Alt Country - MilesofMusic.com An alt country vet, Joe Flood's services playing fiddle, mandolin and guitar have been utilized by folks like the Hangdogs, Bottle Rockets and Cheri Knight, while the Band, among others, have covered his songs. Armed with an ace blend of original songs and alt country classics (courtesy of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Tom Russell, and Butch Hancock), Ely's latest once-every-ten-years live album is another winner. Their debut was critically hailed, and with their sophmore release, the Southern Californian alt country rockers Beachwood Sparks surpass that effort. www.milesofmusic.com /alt_country.html

The Other Side of Country : The source of alt country has always been the competing stream of young people who stayed dialed into edgy rock and/or roll while picking their little hearts out to their favorite old timey records. One of Country's greatest failings of the last 40 years or so is that Nashville has never had an answer for the combination of Buck, Don Rich and Doyle Holly when they were tuned up and plugged in and pouring kerosene all over everything. Loretta has always been the Country Joan of Arc for the modern housewife, true to her man and family, but not afraid to take a swing at the son-of-a-bitch, or the whore that led him astray, if she has to. babelogue.citypages.com:8080 /jsparks

alt. country artists He gave the world cajun country, and that was fine with me. I still love to play his old records. Buck and I were talking about country music in general, and agreed on a lot of things. Twenty-five years doing their job, playing hard-core country music, writing intelligent songs, and keeping their promises. www.americanmusicbelgium.homestead.com /altcountryartists.html

How did alt-country become musical roadkill? In the early '80s -10 years before anyone thought to add "alt" to "country" - the movement was known as "cowpunk." As Lone Justice, Jason & the Scorchers and Rank & File began attracting critics and radio play, predictions of platinum records swirled Ranging from high-decibel rock bands to whispery folk singers to hard-core country crooners, alt-country is a genre of a thousand sounds. And by 1994, when Rick Rubin produced Johnny Cash's "American Recordings" CD, alternative rock fans began figuring out that country was cool. www.azcentral.com /ent/music/articles/0819altcountry.html

Alt-country chameleon Hogan is an artist who switches with ease from country to jazz to indie rock. A former member of Jody Grind and Rock*A*Teens, Hogan originally hails from Georgia but has been living since 1997 in Chicago, where she hooked up with "musical genius types." She recorded her latest album in Athens, Ga., "to be near my momma’s biscuits" and to work with Son Volt producer David Barbee. archive.showmenews.com /2002/Mar/20020314Go!006.asp

Amazon.co.uk: Music / Styles / Country / Alt. Country Having helped invent modern country rock with his contribution to the Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, Gram Parsons left the Byrds in protest at their decision to tour South Africa and formed the Flying Burrito Brothers with fellow ex-Byrd Chris Hillman. This comprises stand-out tracks of country standards Gram Parsons made with the Burritos shortly before he left the band, and three fantastic previously unreleased duets with Emmylou Harris which were inexplicably left off his wonderful second solo album, Grievous Angel, including the definitive... On his two early-1970s solo albums, collected here on one disc, Gram Parson lends his fragile, aching tenor to music that's the definition of what he called "country soul". www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/231178

Metroactive Music Alt-Country G iven the number of rabid bluegrass, folk, alt-country and country fans living in the North Bay, it's a wonder that the region no longer hosts a festival devoted to this particular roots sound (or Cajun or reggae for that matter). One of the best local alt-country bands, the Mother Truckers, deliver their irreverent country to the Rancho Nicasio on April 29. This insurgent country band tear up a shit storm of trouble that leaves BR5-49 and their ilk chokin' in the exhaust. www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/04.13.05/alt-country-0515.html

The Alt-Country Movement It'd be wonderfully romantic if this alt-country uprising spontaneously erupted as a reaction to dissatisfaction with the music played on commercial country radio stations, but that's not what happened. Now, had this article been written roughly three years ago--about the time someone figured some kind of label was required because so many non-mainstream country bands and solo performers were putting out music incorporating elements traditionally associated with country music--then maybe it could have passed for a scoop. Sure, the semi-hype will die down, the number of new bands experimenting with country elements in their music will dwindle, and--heaven forbid-- No Depression will stop being published, but a bunch of folks will continue to make rootsy music. www.penduluminc.com /MM/articles/altcount.html

RELEVANT magazine :: GOD.LIFE.PROGRESSIVE CULTURE. Dec 03, 2004 - 09:26 PM Alt country is not a genre, I don't even think that most "alt country" artists would even put themselves in that category. I'm not sure if they would fit under Alt Country But there is a Dallas band called "Sorta" that I would put under the catagory of freaking awesome. As long as someone has a can of beer, a guitar and a love for both country and rock, there will be alt country. www.relevantmagazine.com /article.php?sid=5301

NoSimpleLanguage » Blog Archive » Alt-Country But basically Alt-Country is country music that doesn’t suck and has good lyrics and sometimes minus the twang that most of us dislike. It’s called Alt-Country and I guess it encompasses artists I’ve heard of and listen to such as Wilco, Dylan, Cash, Nelson, Ryan Adams, etc, etc. I guess it also encompasses folk, grassroots-type music also, like Alison Krauss and Nickel Creek. www.nosimplelanguage.com /blog/2005/04/26/alt-country

Various artists, Exposed Roots: the best of alt.country Cash has always ridden the line between country, folk and rock 'n' roll rebellion; and Parsons is an icon, the legendary godfather of country-rock whose untimely death left the genre in the hands of the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd. If you don't like what currently passes for country music on American radio, but want a good dose of American Music in all its diversity and sometimes perversity, this isn't a bad place to start. That was what they called music that was "too country" to get played on mainstream country stations. www.greenmanreview.com /alt_country.html

Folk Music - Bluegrass Music - Alt Country - Americana Music - Roots Rock - MilesofMusic.com The hotly anticipated return of Son Volt is heralded with the raw guitar assault that has been a signature sound of alt. The brash and punchy roots-rock of Pittsburgh’s SodaJerk is exactly what you’d expect of a group who hold a strong appreciation for the old - school country (and all the drinking that goes with it) as well as AC/DC and The Replacements... Dwight Yoakam's new CD, Blame The Vain, is a fun, rockin' country album - and the first in his career that he's produced himself. www.milesofmusic.com

Alt-country group set to play locally Tonight the Jayhawks bring their strange combination of country sensibility and rock-and-roll spirit to Little Brother's for a leg of their acoustic tour. When the Jayhawks formed in 1985, Wilco had not yet been hailed as the savior of rock, and Ryan Adams' ubiquitous "New York, New York" wasn't a theme song for the Sept. 11 attacks. www.thelantern.com /main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=408799

Borders - List - Alt Country Yet this authentically twangy country girl is an Aussie, and this album won three ARIA Awards in Australia—Best Female Artist, Album of the Year, and Best Country Album. Jeff Tweedy and John Stirratt, formerly of Uncle Tupelo, supply vocals that range from the country sounds of "Far, Far Away" to the rock 'n' roll rhythms of "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" and beyond, into R&B and classical. Chambers doesn't let you forget you're listening to country music. www.bordersstores.com /features/list.jsp?list=rockaltcountry

Exposed Roots: Best of Alt. Country by Various Artists Lest we forget the creator of Alt country and the "No Depression" era: Jay Farrar. I was just getting into alt-country, americana, no depression, insurgent country, or whatever you want to call it. This collection of 24 cuts by different artists gives the listener an idea of how varied and interesting the roots of alt. music.sooknet.com /musicinfo.cfm/Album/B00000JIMZ.html

Alt-Country Musings My best description is "Crash Test Dummies play country!" and it's probably the alt-est of these alt bands. As their name indicates that they've incorporated a number of sub-genera in their usually noisy rock-influenced country party music, including a little punk and indie. Many say this is the paragon of country music! www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_va_altcountry_omni_2003.html

Joe Sixpack's Country Music Guide - Alt.Country & Twangcore Compilations Thus they are undone by their own push towards irreverence -- when it comes to Altman's sneering send-up of country as an artform, these modern day twangsters are all giggles, snorts and stereotypes -- sadly, the same seems to be true about their grasp of Altman's insights into human nature. This page is part of an opinionated overview of "alt.country" music, with record reviews by me, Joe Sixpack... These collections are good samplers of Bloodshot Records and the label's punk-flavored "insurgent country" ethos. www.slipcue.com /music/country/countrystyles/alt/02comps.html

Alt Country - Defined Arising during the early 90s, this is a hybrid of rock and country music, first innovated by Uncle Tuplo (later Son Volt and Wilco) and somewhat inspired by Gram Parson. This bit of jargon has been viewed 48 times. www.jargondatabase.com /Jargon.aspx?id=692

Whiskeytown: Pneumonia: Pitchfork Review Anyone who likes or simply tolerates country, or whose interest is piqued by "alt-," will continue reading until the next, more specific categorical filter. Were I to call Pneumonia "alt-country," for instance, my goal would be to act as a filter for the readers pouring through this review. Anyone who despises country in any form won't read any further. www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/w/whiskeytown/pneumonia.shtml

Alt. Country On TV, Country Music Television (CMT) has been good about giving alt. country is most at home in the clubs where folks go to have a few beers and maybe do a little dancin’. It goes by many names, but basically it’s music based on country traditions that’s made to rock. www.mindspring.com /~stever/Resou/AltC/altc.html

SlackerCountry.com - Your Alt Country Connection Back in the late eighties and early nineties - when everyone was going gaga over Uncle Tupelo and Whiskeytown and declaring that a whole new genre of music was being born - you could catch a real alt country show in Dallas, free of charge, almost any night of the week. Most people don’t know it, but Dallas was one of the true birthplaces of alt country music. So far, the Dallas faithful have had a variety of outdoor concerts — mostly in the alt country vein - that have been exceptionally good. www.slackercountry.com

Brent Hoodenpyle & The Loners -- Chicago Alt Country Music And we even supply you with an alt country RSS reader so you can keep track of your favorite alt country sites and listen to the podcasts even if you don't have an iPod or mp3 player. And, of course, you'll also be able to dowload and listen to our monthly alt country podcast, The Alt Country Opry, featuring songs by us and other independent country acts. View some of our favorite places to play and hear alt country music and some of our favorite independent artists in our alt country links page. www.brenthoodenpyle.com /home.htm

BBC - Music - Folk & Country Kenny Chesney, Vince Gill, and Gretchen Wilson are donating proceeds from their concerts to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. George Strait's "Somewhere Down in Texas" earns the country veteran his third No. 1 on The Billboard 200 this week... Bob brings you new releases and classics from the worlds of Country and Americana. www.bbc.co.uk /music/folkcountry

purevolume™ The Alt-Country Kid I play a Washburn acoustic /electric "wireless", Hohner harmonica's, a tambarine with a tunable drum head with my foot, and have a powerful, rock influenced voice, but I play alt-country music, americana, outlaw country or whatever gets the point across. I put on a performance like I would want to see if I was out to see a band. Ive had a six month contract with Harrah's in Reno, and played clubs and bars around Reno, California and Arizona. www.purevolume.com /thealtcountrykid

No Depression Archive Issue #17 Barry McCloud’s Definitive Country encyclopedia, after recounting Williams’ myriad accomplishments in a page-and-a-half entry, matter-of-factly winds his career down thusly: "Then in 1992, the party was over, and both his chart singles, ‘Too Much Love’ and ‘It’s Who You Love’, only reached the Top 75." Just like that. This despite a track record that included dozens of big country hits throughout the ’70s and ’80s – some so big that they started crossing over to the pop realm, which was the only reason I became familiar with him back then (when I wouldn’t have dared to be caught tuning into a country station). And how there’s no way any country music station today would touch what he does with a ten-foot pole. www.nodepression.net /archive/nd17/depts/hello.html

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