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The Flying Burrito Brothers

Genre: country alt-country country rock americana rock Biography: The band best known as the "Flying Burrito Brothers" actually 'borrowed' their name from the original "Flying Burrito Brothers", composed of bassist Ian Dunlop and drummer Mickey Gauvin, bandmates of Parso... [more]

Townes Van Zandt

Genre: folk singer-songwriter country americana alt-country Biography: Townes Van Zandt (John Townes Van Zandt, Fort Worth, Texas, Born as Pisces on March 7, 1944 – Smyrna, Tennessee, January 1, 1997) was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. While alive, Van Zandt wa... [more]

Emmylou Harris

Genre: country female vocalists singer-songwriter folk alt-country Biography: Emmylou Harris is truly a modern innovator. For over 30 years, Emmylou has flowed effortlessly between genres achieving popularity in pop, folk, country and now alternative. The common bridge is an exquisite vocal style and a... [more]

Lucero

Genre: alt-country rock southern rock alt country indie Biography: There are two artists known as Lucero, an alt-country band from the U.S., and a pop-regional female singer from Mexico. 1) Lucero began quite humbly with vocalist/guitarist Ben Nichols and guitarist Brian Venable. They wan... [more]

Hank Williams III

Genre: country alt-country hellbilly psychobilly punk Biography: Shelton Hank Williams (born December 12, 1972 in Nashville Tennesee) is an American musician. He is sometimes credited as Hank III. The grandson of Hank Williams and the son of Hank Williams Jr., he spent much of his early... [more]

Woven Hand

Genre: folk alt-country singer-songwriter experimental folk rock Biography: Woven Hand is the personal project of David Eugene Edwards, former frontman of 16 Horsepower, featuring a revolving cast of collaborators from Denver, Colorado, United States formed in 2001. The band began in 2001 as a sol... [more]

Eliza Gilkyson

Genre: folk female vocalists singer-songwriter alt-country country Biography: Eliza Gilkyson (born in Los Angeles) has been recording and performing her unique blend of folk, country, and other genres since the late 1970s. She is the daughter of the late Terry Gilkyson, an accomplished songwriter note... [more]

BR5-49

Genre: country alt-country rockabilly americana honky tonk Biography: BR5-49 is an American country music band. The group was formed in Nashville in 1993 by co-leads Gary Bennett and Chuck Mead. Their music, referred to as alternative country or neotraditional, contains elements of western swin... [more]

Jason Molina

Genre: singer-songwriter alt-country folk indie americana Biography: Jason Molina was born in Lorain, OH. He grew up listening to a large amount of Black Sabbath and began his musical career playing bass in heavy metal bands around Cleveland. Always a songwriter, Molina eventually decided to p... [more]

Mike Ness

Genre: rockabilly country punk alt-country rock Biography: Mike Ness (born Michael James Ness, born April 3, 1962) is a country music singer and guitarist, best known as the vocalist, guitarist, and chief songwriter for the American punk rock band Social Distortion. Ness was born ... [more]

Carlene Carter

Genre: country female vocalists alt-country female country country and western Biography: Rebecca Carlene Smith (b. September 26, 1955 and professionally known as Carlene Carter) is an American country singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of June Carter (later known as June Carter Cash) and her first husband... [more]

Howe Gelb

Genre: alt-country singer-songwriter americana folk rock Biography: Howe Gelb is an American artist who fronted Giant Sand, and was a member of "OP8". THIS IS EROSION ROCK: Inaccurately yet affectionately dubbed “the Godfather of Alt. Country” by the British press, Tucson, A... [more]

James Iha

Genre: singer-songwriter rock alternative alternative rock alt-country Biography: James Yoshinobu Iha (井葉吉伸, Iha Yoshinobu or ジェームス・イハ born March 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is a Japanese American rock musician and runway model. He is most famous as the rhythm guitarist in t... [more]

Billy Ray Cyrus

Genre: country 90s american rock alt-country Biography: Billy Ray Cyrus (born William Ray Cyrus; August 25, 1961) is a Grammy Award-nominated American country music singer, songwriter and actor from Flatwoods, Kentucky, best known for his Number One single "Achy Breaky Heart&... [more]

Neal Casal

Genre: singer-songwriter alt-country americana country pop Biography: Neal Casal (Born November 2, 1968 in Denville, New Jersey) is an american singer-songwriter. He has released several solo albums and from 2005-2009 was a very important part of Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, with whom he wa... [more]

Calexico

Genre: indie alt-country americana folk indie rock Biography: Calexico is an indie-rock band formed in Tucson, Arizona in 1996, known for playing an eclectic variety of music. The two main members are Joey Burns and John Convertino, who first played together in Los Angeles as part of th... [more]

Eastmountainsouth

Genre: folk alt-country female vocalists singer-songwriter indie Biography: At its core, the group is Kat Maslich and Peter Adams. Both are vocalists, instrumentalists and writers imprinted with the undeniable regional character one might expect from children of the South. Their music is an alloy of ... [more]

Reverend Glasseye

Genre: cabaret dark circus alt-country punk cabaret klezmer punk Biography: Reverend Glasseye (formerly known as Reverend Glasseye and his Wooden Legs) is a weird-dark-cabaret-folk-circus-gospel-alt-country-rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2000 the band is primarily the brainchild of A... [more]

Ryan Adams

Genre: singer-songwriter alt-country rock indie folk Biography: Ryan Adams (born David Ryan Adams on November 5, 1974) is an alt-country and rock and roll singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Adams dropped out of high school at age 16 to work in a shoe shop and make mu... [more]

Radney Foster

Genre: country alt-country americana texas country cowhat tex Biography: Radney Foster was born July 20, 1959 in Del Rio, Texas. Initially a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Foster made his debut in 1986 alongside Bill Lloyd in the duo Foster & Lloyd. Between then and 1990, the duo recorded... [more]

The Walkabouts

Genre: alt-country rock indie alternative alternative rock Biography: The Walkabouts were founded in 1983 by Chris Eckman and Carla Torgerson. Other members have been Michael Wells, Glenn Slater and Terri Moeller. Although the Walkabouts started in seattle, US their main base of popularity is ... [more]

Magnolia Electric Co.

Genre: alt-country folk indie americana indie rock Biography: In March 2003, while on tour, Jason Molina announced that he would rename his band (Songs: Ohia) Magnolia Electric Co. This new incarnation would retain many of the original players and the stylistic direction of the album of... [more]

Iris DeMent

Genre: country folk americana singer-songwriter alt-country Biography: Iris DeMent (born 5 January 1961) is an American country/folk singer and songwriter. She was the fourteenth and last child of Pat DeMent and the sixth child of his second wife, Flora Mae. She was born near the town of Paragou... [more]

A.A. Bondy

Genre: folk alt-country americana singer-songwriter alabama Biography: A.A. Bondy is actually the birth name (the initials stand for Auguste Arthur) of Scott Bondy, the former lead singer of Birmingham, AL's Southern grunge darlings Verbena. After Verbena broke up in 2003, Bondy retreated to his... [more]

Maria McKee

Genre: female vocalists country singer-songwriter alt-country rock Biography: Maria McKee (born Maria Louise McKee, on August 17, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer. A solo artist, McKee was a founding member of the cowpunk/country rock band Lone Justice, in 1982, with whom she r... [more]

Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris

Genre: country folk singer-songwriter alt-country rock Biography: Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris have collaborated on one album, released in April 2006, titled All The Roadrunning. The album was the result of a longtime collaboration between the two. Over the course of seven years, the... [more]

I See Hawks In L.A.

Genre: alt-country americana roots rock country country rock Biography: Formed in 1999 by Rob Waller and brothers Paul and Anthony Lacques during a philosophical discussion and rock throwing session on an East Mojave desert trek, I See Hawks In L.A. wrote their first batch of songs and then sough... [more]

Micah P. Hinson And The Opera Circuit

Genre: alt-country folk americana freak folk indie rock Biography: Born in the southern US town of Memphis, Tennessee, on the day that President Ronald Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt, Micah (pronounced my-kah) Paul Hinson was raised in a Christian fundamentalist household. As a ... [more]

David Allan Coe

Genre: country outlaw country southern rock alt-country david allan coe Biography: A life-long renegade, singer/songwriter David Allan Coe is one of the most colorful and unpredictable characters in country music history. One of the pioneering artists of the outlaw country movement of the '70s, he hasn't ha... [more]

Webb Wilder

Genre: alt-country americana roots rock rock classic rock Biography: There are roots rockers, and then there's Webb Wilder. Hardly a purist, he has described the music he and his band, The Beatnecks, make as, “Rock for Roots fans and Roots for Rock fans.” In essence: Rock and Roll. Ther... [more]