Tag Archives: Alternative Country-Rock

While most widely known for his short stint being a guitarist with Yo La Tengo, Dave Schramm has silently developed a potent reputation among his fellow music artists among the most gifted and versatile music artists to emerge from the Hoboken/Manhattan indie rock and roll axis, mixing a folkie’s delicate …

While Gram Parsons might have the difference to be the grandaddy from the ill-named “alt nation” genre, Illinois farm guy Jason Ringenberg is obviously the person who brought the music — prior to the expression was coined — towards the levels of the globe using a vengeance. Blessed in 1959 …

With the discharge of the 1990 debut LP, No Depression, the Belleville, IL, trio Uncle Tupelo released more than merely their very own career — by fusing the simplicity and honesty of country music using the bracing fury of punk, they kick-started a trend which reverberated through the entire American …

Joel Plaskett is really a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician whose music fuses the energetic melodies and hooks of power pop using the muscular power of hard rock and roll; as he once quipped, his music “combines the very best of Big Celebrity and Led Zeppelin.” Created in Nova Scotia …

Indiana local Jason Wilber has generated a wide-ranging profession as vocalist, songwriter, maker, radio sponsor, and in-demand guitarist for a variety of artists within the folk and Americana globe. While his many recognizable gig continues to be because the longtime guitarist for folk story John Prine, Wilber offers distributed the …

Vocalist/songwriter Duane Jarvis continues to be on the road the majority of his lifestyle. Born within the Pacific Northwest, Jarvis’ father is at the Coast Safeguard, therefore he spent his formative years along the West Coastline (with a short stay static in Florida). Like a musician, he offers played throughout …

Lou Ford, a music group located in Charlotte, NC, named itself following a personality from a Jim Thompson book. The imaginary Lou Ford was somebody comprised of numerous layers, where everything you noticed on the top wasn’t actually the entire tale. The musical Lou Ford loves to explain itself the …

Alt-country/roots-rock singer-songwriter Rico Bell can be an accomplished multi-instrumentalist (taking part in acoustic guitar, accordion, melodion, harmonica, and keyboards), and a compelling storyteller whose good-natured laughter belies a darker worldview. Bell started documenting for the Bloodshot label with 1996’s The Come back of Rico Bell; he adopted it up with …

Vocalist/songwriter Johnny Dowd was nearly 50 when Wrong Part of Memphis, his debut single record of wracked country-folk-rock music, drew evaluations to Nick Cave in the choice press. To some level, that parallel was justified, as Wrong Part of Memphis dedicated itself to murder tracks and stories of doomed sinners. …

The Grievous Angels are an alternative solution country music group from Tempe, AZ, that recorded albums for Bloodshot Information. Like the Aged 97’s, Grievous mixes country, rock and roll, and bluegrass right into a hard-driving, frenetic audio. At concerts they’ll play the Sex Pistols’ “Physiques,” yet there is also a …