Country Alternative Bands and Artists
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- Acres, The - Includes sound files, photos, and CD information for the 'porch rock' band.
- Andrew, Marc - The official site for this unique country / folk singer/songwriter. Visit his animated Western town and sample his debut CD in the Honkey Tonk Saloon.
- Angry Johnny and The Killbillies - Grab your gun and some beers and take a trip to Killville, Mass.
- Atkins, Ken and the Honky Tonk Kind - 100% Nashville Free country music with twang
- Baumgartner, Timmy - Biography for the alternative country musician.
- Birddog - Roots-filled alt-country indie pop from Kentucky. Similar to Elliot Smith.
- Bootheels, The - A four-piece country-rock band from Wisconsin. Includes calendar, photos, and sound samples.
- Bosworth, Libbi - Austin-based honky-tonk singer, alternative country music crooner, Americana music singer/songwriter whose songs have been recorded by Kelly Willis, The Hollisters and Toni Price.
- Bowe, Kevin and the Okemah Prophets - News, biographies, gig dates, reviews, sound files, and CD information for the Minneapolis band.
- Burnt Taters - Americana from the heart of Virginia
- Butterill, Kenny - Soothing melodic blend of authentic alt-country, Americana and folk
- Cash Monies & The Jetsetter - Country rock band from Boston. Includes photos, show dates, and links.
- 5 Chinese Brothers - They aren't Chinese, they're not brothers, and there aren't five of them, but they are playing country-rock / roots rock in New York City
- Clarke, Barry - Local Victoria artist singer songwriter cures what ails ya with his cool melding of alternative country and trip-hop grooves.
- Clem Snide - Brooklyn's own alt.country/indie-pop rising stars take their name from a William S. Burroughs' novel, Naked Lunch.
- Coffey, Bill - Singer-songwriter based in Boise, Idaho
- Cousin Lovers - Official site includes biographies, show dates, reviews, sound files, and CD information.
- Cowboy Buddha - News, biography, reviews, and show dates for the 'roots-pop' band from Costa Mesa, California.
- Cowslinger - A cowpunk band based from Ohio
- Damnations TX - A distinctive backyard blend of sibling harmonies, punk, bluegrass, and soul from Austin, Texas
- Darcy, Ryan - Official page for this indie singer/songwriter from San Francisco. Features bio, interview, Mp3 demos and regular news updates.
- Deely, James - Alternative Country and Rock and Roll
- Delevante, Bob - Biography, news, reviews and merchandise from this Americana singer-songwriter
- Diedrich, Mark - Americana singer/songwriter who digs the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield.
- Digglers - Bay Area alternative country act.
- Donna the Buffalo - Includes mailing list, tour schedules, reviews and lyrics
- Drive-By Truckers - Official site includes reviews, photos, lyrics, sound files and tour dates
- Dryer - From Portland, Oregon, playing alt. country with a minor twang
- Easton, Tim - With a classic '47 Gibson and a voice of equal distinction, Tim Easton has a knack for modern day storytelling.
- Foley, Dave - A traditional honky-tonk, rockabilly revivalist who has opened shows for Willie Nelson and Loretta Lynn and has worked with BR5-49 and The Jones Boys.
- Fulks, Robbie - Chicago-based insurgent country artist.
- Ghost Writer Band - Haunted country, a new hybrid of rock and country.
- Gibson, Scott - Americana artist and singer/songwriter blends country/folk and alternative country from Austin, Texas, featuring dobro, accordion, lap steel, and acoustic guitar.
- Gilbert - Male country singer-songwriter from NYC and Atlanta.
- Giorgio & the Phreaktones - Nashville's schizo Giorgio & the Phreaktones, cow-jazz rockin' out.
- Grasshopper Highway - Show dates, biography, photos, CD information, sounds and merchandise for this alt. country band.
- Haney, Pat - Official Web site of Pat Haney & the Well Readnecks
- Hangdogs - The Doghouse - Home of NYC's drunken alternative country/roots rock band
- Helmkamp, Eric - Country-Rock music artist from Maui
- Hillbilly IDOL - Roots-influenced Americana and Alternative-Country Music
- Hogwaller Ramblers - Virginia based alternative country/bluegrass band. Includes sound files, band information and news
- Hollisters, The - Honky tonkers from East Texas.
- Honeydogs - Mid Western country rock band
- Izak and West - Original music from a Colorado female duo.
- James Apollo - Troubador of roots-rock and roll saavy James Apollo.
- JC Flyer - Includes several photos of an original high flying country rocker
- Johnson, Ralph - Writing, performing and recording his own alternative country music, in the tradition running from the Carter Family to Neil Young
- Lee, Greta - Includes a biography, sound files and tour dates
- Manders, Mark David and Nuevo Tejas - Includes tour dates, lyrics, sound files, merchandise, and photos.
- Marah - Alternative country band based in Philadelphia. News, CD samples, photos, reviews and tour information.
- Maurice Frawley & Working Class Ringos - Alternative country band from Melbourne, Australia. Band members include Charlie Owen, Conway Savage, Shane Walsh, Des Hefner and Maurice Frawley
- McGees - An alt-country, kitchen-sink blend, featuring a new country version of Ace Frehley's "Rock Soldiers."
- Memphis Exchange - Includes performance updates and biography for the band.
- Minus Men - A cowpunk band out of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
- Mitchell, Ginny - Includes song clips, biography, photos, and tour dates
- Moss and Hammonds - Contemporary acoustic in the story telling tradition, featuring sound clips, biographies, photographs and lyrics.
- Nashville Station - Information on the band Nashville Station.
- Nebraska Guitar Militia - Includes free MP3 and RealAudio clips of this alt.country/alt.rock group
- Orr, Tucker - Americana joins a guitar army. New Riders of TPS, Willie Nelson, Ozzy's Sabbath, Led Zeppelin all wrapped up in a gun belt.
- Ray, Violet - Canadian, female, independent singer / songwriter and recording artist serving up soulful alt country.
- Red Meat Country - Americana woven from Western Swing Revival, folkie country songs, and lonesome, California Honky-Tonk angel anthems
- Revenants - Arizona band playing original honky-tonk music
- Reverend Glasseye and his Wooden Legs - Recklessly tread the line between old folk Americana/Vaudeville and Eastern European Gypsy. Their range of instruments includes harmonium, banjino, bass fiddle and accordion.
- Rhodes, Kimmie - Includes a biography, tour dates, news, lyrics, reviews
- Riptones - Making country, blues, roots rock for the legendary Bloodshot Records since 1990.
- Rite Brothers - Acoustic originals played on accordion, dobro, banjo, violin, mandolin and guitar
- Sahner, Billy - Profile and links to sound files for the alternative country musician.
- Sam Hill - Lo-fi alt.country band from Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Sawgrass - Real Audio songs by this all acoustic group from the coast of South Carolina.
- Scarecrows, The - Scandinavian country rock band. Site includes news, a discography and lyrics.
- Scary Wagon - A renegade country rock band from Boston
- Slick Pelt - Raw, big alt-country cow-punk with a guitar driven psychobilly twist.
- Smith, James Curtis - No depression and americana music featuring Dead Frame Music artist James Curtis Smith.
- Star City - Five-piece insurgent country outfit inhabiting the smoky bars of New York City.
- Style, Lyle E. - Alternative country singer, songwriter and Nashville recording artist from Winnipeg.
- Taconite Haven - Urban country folk rock miners from Minneapolis
- Texas God - Alt-country punk band from Austin, Tex.
- The Blacks - insurgent country music from Chicago - If these Bloodshot artists threw a party, Bertolt Brecht, Hank Williams Sr., Lux Interior and Marc Bolan of T. Rex would be hanging around the punch bowl, getting drunk and trying on Gina Black's fishnet stockings.
- The Coal Men - Nashville band fronted by David Coleman
- The Railbenders - Alternative country rockers from Denver, CO
- Tiny - Female fronted alternative country band out of San Francisco, featuring sultry, graceful harmonies, twang-tinged melodic hooks.
- Trainwreck - Dallas-based Americana band.
- Trouble With Sweeney - Home of the Philadelphia original alt-country/indie-rock quartet.
- Twang - An electric string band from the Boston/Worcester area
- Unplayable Sofa Guitar - Alternative country band from Portugal. 14 musicians who have never met play 9 original and 3 cover songs.
- Van Tassel, Susanna - The Official Website for Austin based country chantuese Susanna Van Tassel.
- Wagner, Pete - Stark songs about the life and death of the American working man.
- Walkabouts - An unofficial site dedicated to the Walkabouts and its offshoots, such as Chris & Carla.
- Weeks, Randy - Former Lonesome Stranger, now a songwriter and solo artist.
- Whiskey Dent - Texas cowpunk/psychobilly from Austin, Texas. Powerful performance with lead vocals from by a soultry dame.
- Wired County - A rough country band from London.
- Wynn, Steve - Veteran of the paisley underground scene and former member of Dream Syndicate.
- Yeehaa Cowboys - Purveyors of cowpunk from Toronto. Read the humorous screenplay of the band history.
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