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Mixing up the heartfelt angst of the singer/songwriter using the cocky brashness of the garage area rocker, Ryan Adams reaches once mostly of the artists to emerge in the alt-country scene to attain mainstream commercial success and the main one who most strongly refused to become defined with the genre, …

The Gourds certainly are a good-time, honky tonkin’ music group with plenty of quirk and underground appeal to justify the “alternative” tag in “alternative country-rock.” A part of Austin’s lively scene and well-known performers in the city’s nationwide music display SXSW, the Gourds 1st gained the interest of the Zero …

Balancing affinities for both old-time twang and AC/DC-style riff rock and roll, the Ohio quartet Big Back again Forty pumped some much-needed lifestyle into the past due-’90s alternative nation motion. Fronted by Sean Beal, the deep-voiced boy of the Baptist preacher, the group could change gears from bluegrass to steel …

North Carolina-native Thad Cockrell, known for his designs of heartbreak (his self-professed objective would be to put “the harm back in nation”), released his debut record, Stack of Dreams, in 2001 with backing group the Starlite Nation Band. The kid of the Baptist minister, Thad was raised mainly in Tampa, …

Frog Holler continues to be referred to as a “Philadelphia nation band,” that is misleading as the group isn’t actually from Philadelphia proper — Frog Holler is from Berks Region, PA, that is two counties from Philadelphia Region in southeastern Pa. And although Berks Region is only a couple of …

When Justin Vernon still left Raleigh, NEW YORK by method of Eau Claire, Wisconsin indie folkers DeYarmond Edison to be on to later-2000s indie wunderkind position simply because Bon Iver, the rest of the people of DE — Phil Make, Brad Make, and Joe Westerlund — continued in NEW YORK …

Missouri origins rockers Hadacol are named after a historical alcohol beverage that once served like a sponsor for Hank Williams’ radio display — a fitted moniker for an organization that provides boozy, rocked-up nation occasionally augmented by smoldering Crazy Horse-like guitars. Brothers Fred and Greg Wickham, who was raised in …

Even though Storys were from South Wales, the group’s 1960s and 1970s sunny pop sound felt enjoy it was straight from California, with solid songs, bright harmonies, thoughtful arrangements, along with a clear sense of what it had been they wished to do. Blessed with four gifted songwriters and performers, …

Within the middle-’90s revival of roots-rock, the Wallflowers kept a special link with among the unique inspirations: vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Jakob Dylan. Though he’s the son of the legend, Jakob’s commonalities to his dad are periodic — actually, the Wallflowers tend to be more affected by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers than …

Named honoring the Stanley Brothers’ “Five String Move,” the Clemson, South Carolina-based alt-country unit 6 String Move was led by singer/guitarist Kenny Roby, the onetime frontman of the punk group dubbed the Lubricators. Sense trapped with the confines of hardcore, Roby disbanded the Lubricators in 1992 and, with bassist Rob …