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Champaign-Urbana-based trio the wonder Shop perform dark Americana dirges with wicked deadpan drawls. Vocalist/songwriter John Hoeffleur, bassist Ariane Peralta, and drummer Casey Smith perform acoustic rock and roll using a bleak twang on the national discharge Yr Cash or Yr Lifestyle, released in 2001.

Southern Gothic singer/songwriter Jim White colored was raised in Pensacola, Florida, enamored using the sounds from the white gospel music he noticed within the Gospel Jubilee tv series. After spending his formative years within the outskirts of the deeply Pentecostal community, he amused a profession as a specialist surfer, accompanied …

Playing brittle and evocative alt-country with lyrics that pull powerful and sometimes troubling portraits of lifestyle across the margins from the contemporary American Western, Richmond Fontaine may be the brainchild of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Willy Vlautin, who was simply blessed in Reno, Nevada. When Vlautin is at his early …

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. …

Irish-born singer and songwriter Bap Kennedy provides won a worldwide audience for his music, which fuses components of folk and rock using a decidedly Celtic world view. Blessed in Belfast, North Ireland on June 17, 1962, Martin “Bap” Kennedy got his begin in music when he was 16, playing within …

The very first officially released saving by Scottish cult star Jackie Leven (given birth to in Fife on June 18, 1950), a musician that has drawn from folk, punk, blues, nation, as well as the music of his Celtic heritage, was issued under another name. Control, an record released in …

Chicago roots rockers Souled American pioneered the choice country movement of the first ’90s prior to the music boasted the name or perhaps a fan subsequent. Even while kindred spirits like Uncle Tupelo started making industrial inroads, Souled American slipped with the cracks following a demise of its record label, …

Tracks: Ohia was 1 guy — Jason Molina — a tenor guitar-wielding songwriter through the shores of Lake Erie. Critics frequently compare Tracks: Ohia to Palace/Will Oldham, even though sonically the assessment is definitely valid, Molina’s ardent, soul-searching lyrics had been more aptly in comparison to Neil Youthful or Leonard …