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• Absolute Whores
  Absolute Whores
  'Absolute Whores' are a Canadian indie rock/Cowpunk band most active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band consisted of Greg McConnell as Ugly Dick Adonis, Vaughan Passmore as Blind Pig Neuton, Albert Saxby as Clint Rude. Michael Lavery as Sven Campbell and Johnny Trash as himself...
  
  
• Ryan Adams
  Ryan Adams
  David Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...
  
  
• Akron/Family
  Akron/Family
  Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and its members currently live in Portland, Oregon , Tucson, Arizona and New York City, New York.-Music and history:...
  
  
• Joey Allcorn
  Joey Allcorn
  -Style:Allcorn's music is a blend of neotraditional and alternative country music. He cites Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Faron Young, Buck Owens, and Jimmie Rodgers among his idols; modern-day influences include BR549, Robbie Fulks and Dale Watson...
  
  
• Terry Allen
• Dave Alvin
  Dave Alvin
  Dave Alvin , is a guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has been one of the leading proponents of 'roots' or 'American' music, bringing together elements of rock-and-roll, blues, rural and tejano music....
  
  
• Eric Ambel
  Eric Ambel
  Eric Ambel is a New York City-based guitarist and record producer, originally from Batavia, Illinois. He has worked with a wide range of artists including Steve Earle, the Yayhoos, Del Lords, The Bottle Rockets, Joan Jett, Mojo Nixon, Blood Oranges, Blue Mountain, Freedy Johnston and Mary Lee's...
  
  
• Andrew Jackson Jihad
  Andrew Jackson Jihad
  Andrew Jackson Jihad is an American folk punk band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2004.-History:Andrew Jackson Jihad was formed after its original drummer, Justin James White, approached Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty, who had just left Rodan and The Sub-Standards...
  
  
• The Angels of Light
  The Angels of Light
  Angels of Light are an experimental group that was formed circa 1998 by singer/guitarist Michael Gira after he disbanded Swans, the group he had founded in 1982...
  
  
• Joseph Arthur
  Joseph Arthur
  Joseph Arthur is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio. Combining poetic lyrics with a layered sonic palette, Arthur has built his reputation over the years through critically acclaimed releases and constant touring; his unique solo live performances incorporate the use of a...
  
  
• The Asylum Street Spankers
• The Audreys
  The Audreys
  The Audreys are an ARIA Award-winning Australian five-piece blues/roots band who formed in Adelaide, South Australia in 2004.-Biography:The pre-cursor to The Audreys started in Melbourne as a duo consisting of lead singer Taasha Coates and guitarist Tristan Goodall...
  
  
• The Austin Lounge Lizards
• The Autumn Defense
  The Autumn Defense
  The Autumn Defense is an indie band composed of multi-instrumentalists John Stirratt and Pat Sansone.-History:The Autumn Defense began as a side project for John Stirratt, best known for his work as bassist for alt-country bands Wilco and Uncle Tupelo...
  
  
• The Avett Brothers
  The Avett Brothers
  The Avett Brothers is a folk rock band from Mount Pleasant, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Scott Avett and Seth Avett, who play the banjo and guitar respectively, and Bob Crawford who plays the stand-up bass. Joe Kwon, cello, and Jacob Edwards, drums, are touring members of...
  
  

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• Babasónicos
  Babasónicos
  Babasónicos is an Argentine rock band, formed in the early 1990s along with others such as Peligrosos Gorriones and Los Brujos. After emerging in the wave of Argentine New Rock bands of the late '80s and early '90s, Babasonicos became one of the banner groups of the "sonic" underground rock...
  
  
• Eric Bachmann
  Eric Bachmann
  Eric Bachmann is an American musician/producer who is currently the lead singer of Crooked Fingers and the Archers of Loaf. He hails from North Carolina and Florida, but currently lives in Athens, Georgia. His first solo effort, Short Careers was recorded as a score to the film "Ball of Wax."Saddle...
  
  
• The Backsliders
  The Backsliders
  The Backsliders was an alternative-traditional country-rock band composed of Chip Robinson, Steve Howell, Danny Kurtz, Jeff Dennis, and Brad Rice. Chip Robinson teamed up with Steve Howell to form The Backsliders, which began as a duo in 1991 in Athens, GA...
  
  
• The Bacon Brothers
  The Bacon Brothers
  The Bacon Brothers is the American musical duo of Michael Bacon and Kevin Bacon. Although they have played music together since they were boys, the brothers have only been a working band since 1995....
  
  
• Band of Horses
  Band of Horses
  Band of Horses, originally briefly known as Horses, are an American rock band formed in 2004 in Seattle by Ben Bridwell. They have released three studio albums, the most recent and most successful of which is 2010's Grammy nominated Infinite Arms...
  
  
• Danny Barnes
  Danny Barnes
  Danny Barnes is a banjo and guitar player whose music is influenced by country, jazz and punk. Born in Temple, Texas and raised in Belton, Barnes was exposed to music at a young age: he recalls picking up a love of country and bluegrass from his father and grandmother, Delta blues from one brother...
  
  
• Tim Barry
  Tim Barry
  Tim Barry is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the former lead singer of the Richmond, Virginia-based punk rock band Avail. In addition to performing with Avail, he was the bass guitarist in the Richmond-based folk punk band Pioneers from 1994-1995...
  
  
• Eef Barzelay
  Eef Barzelay
  Ifar "Eef" Barzelay is an American musician, born in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 12, 1970. Most notably known as the principal songwriter and singer of alt country band Clem Snide, he has performed in a number of Boston-based bands, as well as toured as a solo act, both as headliner and as...
  
  
• Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
  Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
  Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are a country music band led by singer and songwriter Mark Stuart. The band formed in San Diego, California in 1995. The band received permission to use Johnny Cash's name before his death...
  
  
• The Be Good Tanyas
  The Be Good Tanyas
  The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian traditional music group, whose influences included folk, country, and bluegrass. The style of music they performed can be referred to as alt-country or Americana.-Career:...
  
  
• Beachwood Sparks
  Beachwood Sparks
  Beachwood Sparks are an American alternative country band from Los Angeles. A Daily Telegraph article on America's underground psychedelic pop scene described Beachwood Sparks as "country through a kaleidoscope".-Biography:...
  
  
• The Beasts of Bourbon
• The Beauty Shop
  The Beauty Shop
  The Beauty Shop was an Americana rock / alt country band, led by singer-songwriter-guitarist John Hoeffleur, based out of Champaign, Illinois. Formed in 1999, they released two EPs and two full length albums before disbanding in 2008...
  
  
• Beck
  Beck
  Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...
  
  
• Jay Bennett
  Jay Bennett
  Jay Walter Bennett was an American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer, and singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Wilco.-Early life and work with Wilco:...
  
  
• Willie P. Bennett
  Willie P. Bennett
  Willie P. Bennett was a Canadian folk-music singer and song writer.-Life and career:Born William Patrick Bennett in Toronto, Ontario, Bennett was part of the 1970s folk music scene in Canada, alongside such figures as Bruce Cockburn, Stan Rogers and David Wiffen...
  
  
• Ridley Bent
  Ridley Bent
  Ridley Bent is a Canadian country singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Bent was raised throughout Canada in a military family. He formally launched his musical career in 2000....
  
  
• Big John Bates
  Big John Bates
  Big John Bates began recording for Germany's Rookie Records and Glitterhouse Records in 2010 with upright bassist Brandy Bones. They moved away from their original punkabilly style to follow their rustic, southern influences with dark, rural lyrics & melodies...
  
  
• Billy Eli
  Billy Eli
  Billy Eli is an Austin based Americana singer and songwriter from Livingston, Texas.-Career:Eli worked on oil and gas pipelines before starting to write and play music in his early twenties. His musical influences include the Stones, Steve Earle, Tom Petty, Guy Clark, the Eagles and the Byrds.Eli...
  
  
• Ryan Bingham
  Ryan Bingham
  Ryan Bingham is an Americana singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, California.After garnering critical acclaim for his first two studio releases on Lost Highway Records, 2007's Mescalito and 2009's Roadhouse Sun, Ryan Bingham went on to collaborate with Grammy-winning producer T Bone...
  
  
• Scott H. Biram
  Scott H. Biram
  Scott H. Biram, aka Scott Biram, SHB, Hiram Biram, or The Dirty Old One Man Band is an American blues, punk and country music musician, based in Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. BRMC is known for their garage rock, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia sound. They are influenced by bands such as: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Verve, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, T...
  
  
• Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
  Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
  Blackie and the Rodeo Kings are a Canadian folk rock/alternative country band with blues and country influences. The band was formed in 1996, in Hamilton, Ontario, by Tom Wilson, Stephen Fearing, and Colin Linden.-Early Period: 1990s:...
  
  
• John Patrick Blake
  John Patrick Blake
  John Patrick Blake is an American musician & singer-songwriter who writes records and performs Americana and roots rock music. In September 2010, his first solo release, Daytime High Overnight Low, was released on Second Chance Soul Records.-References:*...
  
  
• Blanche
  Blanche (band)
  Blanche is an American alternative country band from Detroit, Michigan. Their music is based in Americana, early country, and folk blues, with a touch of haunting Southern Gothic stylings and garage rock mentality. Blanche is known for wearing vintage fashion of the early to mid-20th century.The...
  
  
• Blitzen Trapper
  Blitzen Trapper
  Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Oregon-based experimental alternative country/folk band signed to Sub Pop Records. Formed in 2000, the band currently operates as a sextet, with Eric Earley , Erik Menteer , Brian Adrian Koch , Michael VanPelt , and Marty Marquis...
  
  
• Blood Oranges
  Blood Oranges
  The Blood Oranges were an alternative country band that formed in the late 1980s.The founding members were Jim Ryan , Cheri Knight , Mark Spencer , and Ron Ward . Between 1990 and 1994 they released two full albums and one EP...
  
  
• Blue Mountain
  Blue Mountain (band)
  Blue Mountain is an American alt-country/roots rock band formed in 1991 in Oxford, Mississippi by husband and wife duo Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirratt , who is notably the twin sister of John Stirratt, the bass player for the like-minded Americana band Wilco.-History:After the dissolution of...
  
  
• Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo
  Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...
  
  
• The Boggs
  The Boggs
  The Boggs is an independent rock band from New York City that formed in 2001 and quickly became a part of the then burgeoning "New New York" scene that included groups like The Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Calla, Interpol, and The Walkmen....
  
  
• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
  Will Oldham
  Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...
  
  
• The Bottle Rockets
  The Bottle Rockets
  The Bottle Rockets are an American rock band formed in 1992, currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. The founding members are Brian Henneman , Mark Ortmann , Tom Parr and Tom Ray . Current members are Henneman, Ortmann, John Horton and Keith Voegele...
  
  
• Carla Bozulich
  Carla Bozulich
  Carla Bozulich is an American musician based in Los Angeles, known for her work as the lead singer, lyricist and founder of both The Geraldine Fibbers and and as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow. Her 2006 album, Evangelista, was released by Constellation Records, that label's first release by a...
  
  
• BR5-49
  BR5-49
  BR549 is an American country music band. Founded in 1993, the band originally comprised Gary Bennett , Don Herron , "Smilin'" Jay McDowell , Chuck Mead , and "Hawk" Shaw Wilson...
  
  
• Cory Branan
  Cory Branan
  Cory Branan is an American singer-songwriter who was born in Southaven, Mississippi.-Trivia:He has a long association with Lucero. He performed backing vocals on the song "Sweet Little Thing" on Tennessee . He is also mentioned in the lyrics of the song "Tears Don't Matter Much" on That Much...
  
  
• Brandi Carlile
  Brandi Carlile
  Brandi Carlile is an American singer and songwriter.-Early life:At age eight, Carlile performed a rendition of the country music song "Tennessee Flat Top Box" with her mother. She began to play the guitar and write songs at fifteen. At sixteen, she began to perform as a backup singer for an Elvis...
  
  
• Bright Eyes
• Briertone
  Briertone
  Briertone is a band from the Central Coast of California. They combine indie, Southern rock and bluegrass elements to create a musical style that they refer to as "outlaw rock."...
  
  
• Brother Henry
  Brother Henry
  Brother Henry is a rock 'n' roll band from Nashville, Tennessee. As touring and recording sidemen, they have contributed to artists such as Ben Folds, Indigo Girls, Cowboy Junkies, Guster, Sixpence None the Richer, Steve Earle and R.E.M.....
  
  
• The Broken Family Band
  The Broken Family Band
  The Broken Family Band were a British rock band from Cambridge and London.The band was formed in Cambridge, England by Steven Adams, Jay Williams, Micky Roman and Gavin Johnson in 2001, following the break-up of Adams and Williams’ indie rock band Hofman. Their musical style has variously been...
  
  
• Junior Brown
  Junior Brown
  Jamieson "Junior" Brown is an American country guitarist and singer. He has released nine studio albums in his career, and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts. Brown's signature instrument is the "guit-steel" double neck guitar, a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel...
  
  
• Joe Buck
  Joe Buck (musician)
  Joe Buck is the stage name of Jim Finkley, an American country and Punk Rock musician from Murray, Kentucky. His primary instruments are double bass and guitar....
  
  
• Richard Buckner
  Richard Buckner
  Richard Buckner is an American singer-songwriter born in California. After living in Edmonton, Alberta for a number of years, he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY...
  
  
• Ed Burleson
  Ed Burleson
  Ed Burleson is a Texas Country singer/songwriter from Denison, Texas.Ed Burleson is a baby-faced, sixth-generation Texan who works construction by day and crafts traditionally minded honky tonk by night. He has counted among his supporters the late Texas legend Doug Sahm, who served as Burleson's...
  
  
• Buster Jiggs
• Jonathan Byrd

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• Calexico
• The Can Kickers
• Laura Cantrell
  Laura Cantrell
  Laura Cantrell is a country singer-songwriter and DJ from Nashville, Tennessee. She used to present a weekly country and old-time music radio show on WFMU in New Jersey called The Radio Thrift Shop...
  
  
• Canyon
  Canyon (band)
  Canyon was a slowcore band from Washington, D.C., USA. Their style was heavily influenced by Americana, folk and country music.-History:The band was formed in 1999 after ex-Boys Life member Brandon Butler relocated from Kansas to the Washington, D.C. area and briefly fronted the band Farewell Bend...
  
  
• The Cardinals
• Hayes Carll
  Hayes Carll
  Joshua Hayes Carll , known as Hayes Carll, is a Texas Country singer-songwriter from The Woodlands, Texas ....
  
  
• Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer...
  
  
• Cletis Carr
  Cletis Carr
  Cletis Carr is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Carr was a founder of the Pacific Northwest 70's new wave music band Sneakers before embarking on an on-off solo career between forming other bands such as Big Whiskey and Hillbilly Moon.-Early life:Carr was born into a family of...
  
  
• Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.-Biography:...
  
  
• Caitlin Cary
  Caitlin Cary
  Caitlin Cary is an alt-country musician.Born to Hall Cary and Carol Campbell Thomas in East Cleveland, Caitlin Cary was raised with her half-brothers, Brian, Craig, and Keith Thomas, in East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights. She began playing the violin at age six. She attended the College of...
  
  
• Neko Case
  Neko Case
  Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
  
  
• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
  
• The Cash Brothers
  The Cash Brothers
  The Cash Brothers are a Canadian alternative country/folk rock duo, consisting of brothers Andrew and Peter Cash.-Career:Prior to the creation of The Cash Brothers, Andrew and Peter Cash both had established careers as songwriters and musicians. Andrew was a member of the bands L'Étranger and...
  
  
• Cat Power
  Cat Power
  Charlyn Marie Marshall , also known as Chan Marshall or by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer/songwriter and occasional actress and model. Cat Power was originally the name of Marshall's first band, but has come to refer to her musical projects with various backing bands...
  
  
• Centro-matic
  Centro-Matic
  Centro-Matic is an alternative country band based in Denton, Texas. It started in 1995 as a side-project for Will Johnson. It released a few singles that year and grew into a full-fledged group in 1997. The initial 60 songs recorded in a Millstadt, Illinois studio supplied the material for the...
  
  
• Chamberlain
  Chamberlain (band)
  Chamberlain is an indie rock band from Indianapolis & Bloomington, Indiana, previously having been known as Split Lip, they changed their name and their general sound away from post-hardcore punk in 1996.-History:...
  
  
• Kasey Chambers
  Kasey Chambers
  Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of steel guitar player Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.-Solo success:...
  
  
• Vic Chesnutt
  Vic Chesnutt
  James Victor "Vic" Chesnutt was an American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. His first album, Little, was released in 1990, but his breakthrough to commercial success didn't come until 1996 with the release of Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation, a tribute album of mainstream artists...
  
  
• Cigar Store Indians
  Cigar Store Indians
  Cigar Store Indians is a roots rock, rockabilly band from Crabapple, Georgia.The band formed in the summer of 1991 when singer/songwriter Ben Friedman and lead guitar player Jimmy "Lownote" Lavender began to jam together as both shared a love for the 1950s rock/country sound . In 1995, after...
  
  
• Clamtones
  Clamtones
  Clamtones was an American folk rock group, and Jeffrey Frederick's most notable band. Most of the band's lineup also performed with The Holy Modal Rounders at one point.- Biography :...
  
  
• Guy Clark
  Guy Clark
  Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....
  
  
• Slaid Cleaves
  Slaid Cleaves
  Slaid Cleaves is a singer-songwriter born in Washington, D.C. and raised in South Berwick, Maine and Round Pond, Maine. An alumnus of Tufts University, where he majored in English and philosophy, Cleaves lives in Austin, Texas....
  
  
• Clem Snide
  Clem Snide
  Clem Snide is an alt-country band featuring Eef Barzelay , Brendan Fitzpatrick and Ben Martin .-History:"Clem Snide" is a character in several novels by William S. Burroughs, including Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded, and Exterminator!...
  
  
• Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers
  Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers
  Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers is a rock band from Tempe, Arizona, USA. The band is typically referred to by the fans as the abbreviation "RCPM"...
  
  
• Marc Cohn
  Marc Cohn
  Marc Craig Cohn is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician.- Personal life :Cohn was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Beachwood High School in Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb. He then attended Oberlin College....
  
  
• Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (musician)
  Paul Collins is an American writer, author, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his work in the power pop groups The Nerves, The Breakaways and The Beat.-Biography:...
  
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• Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
  Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
  Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is an American country rock band founded in 1967. Core members included founder George Frayne, John Tichy, Billy C. Farlow, Bill Kirchen, Andy Stein, Paul "Buffalo" Bruce Barlow, Lance Dickerson, and Bobby Black....
  
  
• Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
  Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
  Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band is the name taken by Conor Oberst and his backing band, which is composed of Nik Freitas , Taylor Hollingsworth , Macey Taylor , Nate Walcott and Jason Boesel .-History:...
  
  
• The Court and Spark
• Corndaddy
  Corndaddy
  Corndaddy is a band, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, whose style is rooted in Americana/alt-country sound, though there are also strong accents of power pop and straight-up rock & roll in their music. Lead guitarist Kevin Brown, a devotee of counry rock legends Gram Parsons and Clarence White, played...
  
  
• The Cotton Jones Basket Ride
  The Cotton Jones Basket Ride
  Cotton Jones , is an indie folk-pop band based in Cumberland, Maryland and currently signed to Suicide Squeeze Records....
  
  
• Cowboy Junkies
  Cowboy Junkies
  Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins , Michael Timmins , Peter Timmins and Alan Anton ....
  
  
• Cracker
  Cracker (band)
  Cracker is an American alternative rock band featuring founders/songwriters singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. They are best known for their platinum-selling 1993 album, Kerosene Hat, featuring the hit songs "Low", "Euro-Trash Girl", and "Get Off This".Founders Lowery and Hickman...
  
  
• Roger Creager
  Roger Creager
  Roger Creager is an award-winning Texas Country singer and songwriter.-Biography:Roger aspired to become a country music singer since he was six years old. He started learning how to play piano in the second grade, but didn't learn guitar until he was a student at Tuloso-Midway High School...
  
  
• Crooked Fingers
  Crooked Fingers
  Crooked Fingers is a North Carolina band led by former Archers of Loaf lead singer Eric Bachmann. The band was previously based in Seattle, Washington and Atlanta, Georgia before moving to Denver. The band released albums on WARM Records and Merge Records before going completely independent in 2008...
  
  
• Crooked Still
  Crooked Still
  Crooked Still is an alternative bluegrass band consisting of vocalist Aoife O'Donovan, banjo player Dr. Gregory Liszt, bassist Corey DiMario, cellist Tristan Clarridge and fiddler Brittany Haas...
  
  
• Cross Canadian Ragweed
  Cross Canadian Ragweed
  Cross Canadian Ragweed was an American Red Dirt/Texas Country/Country rock band. The name of the band came from the combination of three band members' names, Grady Cross , Cody Canada , and Randy Ragsdale . Jeremy Plato's name was not involved in the band naming...
  
  
• Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....
  
  
• Castanets
• Cuff the Duke
  Cuff the Duke
  Cuff the Duke is a Canadian band from Oshawa, Ontario. They play a blend of traditional country and folk music with indie rock influences, and can be categorized as an alt-country group.-History:...
  
  

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• Natalie D-Napoleon
  Natalie D-Napoleon
  Natalie D-Napoleon is an Australian singer/songwriter and musician. Through fronting the Perth-based ensemble Flavour of the Month, she was a fore runner in the emergence of alternative country music within Australia....
  
  
• The Decemberists
  The Decemberists
  The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk , Jenny Conlee , Nate Query , and John Moen .The band's...
  
  
• The Deep Dark Woods
  The Deep Dark Woods
  The Deep Dark Woods are a Canadian alternative country band from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, currently signed to Sugar Hill Records in the United States and Six Shooter Records in Canada...
  
  
• Deer Tick
• Defiance, Ohio
  Defiance, Ohio (band)
  Defiance, Ohio is an acoustic punk rock band from Columbus, Ohio. They are known for their extensive touring and intense, enthusiastic live shows. They are named after the real town Defiance, Ohio. The band features a violin, cello, and double bass...
  
  
• Grey DeLisle
  Grey DeLisle
  Grey DeLisle is an American voice actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. To date, she has released four solo albums and has featured on the tribute album Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash and film soundtrack of Loggerheads...
  
  
• Delta Spirit
  Delta Spirit
  Delta Spirit is a band from San Diego, California. The group combines unconventional instruments such as trash cans lids and orchestral bass drums, multi-instrumentalism and spiritually themed lyrics into a hybrid of rock and northern soul...
  
  
• Iris DeMent
  Iris DeMent
  Iris DeMent is an American singer and songwriter. DeMent's musical style encompasses the genres country and folk music.-Early life:...
  
  
• Devil in a Woodpile
  Devil in a Woodpile
  Devil in a Woodpile is a band from Chicago, Illinois. Although they routinely give a fresh sound to 80-year old songs, their repertoire and instrumentation categorizes them as a country blues or jug band.-History:...
  
  
• Devil Makes Three
  The Devil Makes Three (band)
  The Devil Makes Three may refer to:* The Devil Makes Three , an American band* The Devil Makes Three , a 1952 film...
  
  
• The Dexateens
  The Dexateens
  The Dexateens are a five-piece rock and roll band out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.Formed in 1998, the Dexateens have released five albums on the Estrus and Skybucket labels...
  
  
• Alela Diane
  Alela Diane
  Alela Diane Menig is an American singer and songwriter living in Portland, Oregon.-Life and career:Alela Diane Menig, she grew up singing with her musician parents and performing in the school choir...
  
  
• The Ditty Bops
  The Ditty Bops
  The Ditty Bops is an American band from Los Angeles, California. Though previously with Warner Brothers, they now self-produce. They are noted for their tight vocal harmonies and playful style. They are headed by Abby DeWald and Amanda Barrett...
  
  
• Dixie Chicks
  Dixie Chicks
  The Dixie Chicks are an American country band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines...
  
  
• Johnny Dowd
  Johnny Dowd
  Johnny Dowd is an American alternative country musician from Ithaca, New York. Typical of his style are experimental, noisy breaks in his songs and strong gothic elements in the lyrics as well as in the music...
  
  
• Drag the River
  Drag The River (Colorado band)
  Drag the River is an alt-country band hailing from Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. The band formed in 1996 when members Chad Price and Jon Snodgrass recorded 20 or so songs which were released as demos in 2000. All the members of the band come from a punk rock background. Price and ex-member...
  
  
• The Drams
• Drive-By Truckers
  Drive-By Truckers
  Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia, though three out of six members are originally from The Shoals region of Northern Alabama, and the band strongly identifies with Alabama. Their music uses three guitars as well as bass, drums, and now...
  
  
• The Duhks
  The Duhks
  The Duhks is a band from Winnipeg, Canada.The members play a blend of Canadian soul, gospel, North American folk, Brazilian samba, old time country string band, zydeco, and Irish dance music. Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, their music draws heavily on all of the North American musical traditions,...
  
  
• Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
  
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• Fred Eaglesmith
  Fred Eaglesmith
  Frederick John Elgersma , known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter, one of nine children raised by a farming family in rural Southern Ontario. As a teenager Eaglesmith hopped a freight train out to Western Canada, and began writing songs and...
  
  
• Steve Earle
  Steve Earle
  Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
  
  
• Kathleen Edwards
  Kathleen Edwards
  Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Her 2003 debut album, Failer, contained the singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates".- Personal life :...
  
  
• Eleven Hundred Springs
  Eleven Hundred Springs
  Eleven Hundred Springs is a Texas Country rock band from Texas. Their influences include Willie Nelson, Buck Owens and Doug Sahm. They are known as one of the few remaining outlaw country bands....
  
  
• Billy Eli
  Billy Eli
  Billy Eli is an Austin based Americana singer and songwriter from Livingston, Texas.-Career:Eli worked on oil and gas pipelines before starting to write and play music in his early twenties. His musical influences include the Stones, Steve Earle, Tom Petty, Guy Clark, the Eagles and the Byrds.Eli...
  
  
• Curtis Eller
  Curtis Eller
  Curtis Eller is a banjo player, yodeler and songwriter based in New York City.Eller's work has an old-time feel, drawing on an abundance of direct or indirect influences from the first half of the 20th Century, combined with a modern perspective and a healthy dose of rock & roll energy. Many of...
  
  
• Elliott BROOD
  Elliott Brood
  Elliott BROOD is a three-piece, alt-country band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, and harmonica, Casey Laforet on guitar, backing vocals, bass pedals, keys and ukulele and Stephen Pitkin on percussion, sampler and backing vocals...
  
  
• Joe Ely
  Joe Ely
  Joe Ely is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll....
  
  
• Stace England
  Stace England
  Stace England is a musician from Cobden, Illinois, United States. He has released several solo recordings including Salt Sex Slaves documenting the Old Slave House near Equality, Illinois, and Greetings From Cairo, Illinois documenting the history of that city...
  
  
• Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:The son of Mexican immigrants to Texas, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo, and Sheila E...
  
  
• John Evans
  John Evans
  - Academics :*Sir John Evans , English archaeologist and geologist*John Davies Evans , English archaeologist specialising in the prehistory of the Mediterranean and Malta, former Director of the Institute of Archaeology, London...
  
  
• The Everybodyfields
  The Everybodyfields
  the everybodyfields were an independent folk/country band from Johnson City, Tennessee. The band was fronted by Sam Quinn and Jill Andrews who met when they were nineteen while both working at a summer camp. Most recently, they were joined by guitarist and keyboardist Josh Oliver, pedal steel...
  
  

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• Fake Problems
  Fake Problems
  Fake Problems is a four-piece American rock band from Naples, Florida. They released their first album Spurs and Spokes. They released their second album, How Far Our Bodies Go, on Sabot Productions on April 27, 2007. Their third record, It's Great to Be Alive, was released through Side One Dummy...
  
  
• Farmer Not So John
  Farmer Not So John
  Farmer Not So John was a popular music group based in Nashville, Tennessee, that was often categorized as alternative country. With members Mack Linebaugh, Brian Ray, Sean Keith and Richard McLaurin, the band released two recordings on Compass Records....
  
  
• Jay Farrar
  Jay Farrar
  Jay Farrar is an American songwriter and musician currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. A veteran of two critically acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001...
  
  
• The Felice Brothers
  The Felice Brothers
  The Felice Brothers are a folk rock/country rock band from Upstate New York founded in 2006.-History:The Felice Brothers got their start as a band playing in the New York City subway,. The sons of a carpenter, they would play together on Sundays at their father's afternoon barbecues...
  
  
• Firecracker
  Firecracker
  A firecracker is a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise, especially in the form of a loud bang; any visual effect is incidental to this goal. They have fuses, and are wrapped in a heavy paper casing to contain the explosive compound...
  
  
• The Flatlanders
  The Flatlanders
  The Flatlanders are a country band with considerable country rock influence from Lubbock, Texas founded by singers/songwriters/guitarists Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock....
  
  
• Fleet Foxes
  Fleet Foxes
  Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...
  
  
• Rosie Flores
  Rosie Flores
  Rosie Flores is a rockabilly and country music artist of Mexican American heritage. Her music blends rockabilly, honky tonk, jazz, and Western swing along with traditional influences from her Tex-Mex heritage...
  
  
• The Flying Burrito Brothers
  The Flying Burrito Brothers
  The Flying Burrito Brothers was an early country rock band, best known for its influential debut album,The Gilded Palace of Sin . Although the group is most often mentioned in connection with country rock legends Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, the group underwent many personnel changes.-Original...
  
  
• Johnny Flynn
  Johnny Flynn
  Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit are an English folk rock band signed to Transgressive Records. They are fronted by Johnny Flynn , an actor, poet and songwriter who cites W.B. Yeats and Shakespeare among his influences...
  
  
• Steve Forbert
  Steve Forbert
  Steve Forbert is an American pop music singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980....
  
  
• Robert Francis
  Robert Francis (musician)
  Robert Francis is a multi-instrumentalist, Americana singer-songwriter. His debut full-length album One By One was released in August 2007 by Aeronaut Records...
  
  
• Frank Black and the Catholics
• Paula Frazer
  Paula Frazer
  Paula Frazer is an American singer-songwriter. She grew up in Georgia and Arkansas and moved to San Francisco in 1981. Her music is frequently described as melancholic alternative country, but with an eclectic mix of folk, blues and pop, among other genres...
  
  
• Freakwater
  Freakwater
  -Career:In 1989, Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Irwin founded the band, and they have been supported by several musicians since then, including members of Califone . Bassist David Wayne Gay, formerly of Stump The Host, is another long-time member of the band...
  
  
• Jeffrey Frederick
  Jeffrey Frederick
  Jeffrey Sutton Frederick was a songwriter, guitarist and performer specializing in good-time Americana music—an idiosyncratic blend of folk, country and rock and roll. He was a largely uncredited predecessor of today's alternative country music genre. Also notorious for his pranks, he was a...
  
  
• Frightened Rabbit
  Frightened Rabbit
  Frightened Rabbit are a Scottish indie rock band from Selkirk, formed in 2003. The lineup consists of lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and lyricist Scott Hutchison, guitarist and bassist Billy Kennedy, guitarist Andy Monaghan, drummer Grant Hutchison and guitarist and keyboardist Gordon Skene...
  
  
• Frontier Ruckus
  Frontier Ruckus
  Frontier Ruckus is an American folk-rock band from Michigan. The project is centered on the lyrically intensive songs of Matthew Milia, and was formed by Milia and banjo player David Winston Jones while living in Metro Detroit. The band released its debut full-length record, The Orion Songbook,...
  
  
• The Fruit Bats
• Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks
  Robbie Fulks is an American alternative country artist originally from Pennsylvania but who is a longtime Chicago, Illinois resident...
  
  
• Futurebirds
  Futurebirds
  Futurebirds are an indie rock band formed in 2008 from Athens, Georgia. Their first album Hampton's Lullaby, was released on Autumn Tone Records on July 27, 2010. Their self titled EP was re-released in February 2011 and their second EP, Via Flamina, was released in April 2011.- Overview...
  
  

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• The Gaslight Anthem
  The Gaslight Anthem
  The Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, consisting of Brian Fallon , Alex Rosamilia , Alex Levine and Benny Horowitz...
  
  
• Mary Gauthier
  Mary Gauthier
  Mary Gauthier is an American folk singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Gauthier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Given up at birth by a mother she never knew, Gauthier was adopted by an Italian Catholic couple in Thibodaux, Louisiana...
  
  
• Geraldine Fibbers
  Geraldine Fibbers
  The Geraldine Fibbers were an alt-country band founded in 1994 by Carla Bozulich. Initially, band members included Bozulich, Daniel Keenan, Julie Fowells, William Tutton and Kevin Fitzgerald...
  
  
• Gear Daddies
  Gear Daddies
  The Gear Daddies are a band from Austin, Minnesota that enjoyed moderate success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its members were Randy Broughten , Nick Ciola , Billy Dankert , and Martin Zellar...
  
  
• Giant Sand
  Giant Sand
  Giant Sand is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The name is shortened from the original Giant Sandworms, a reference to the creatures in the Dune books. Overseen by singer-songwriter Howe Gelb, its membership has shifted over the years—at times with each album...
  
  
• Jimmie Dale Gilmore
  Jimmie Dale Gilmore
  Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Gin Club
  The Gin Club
  The Gin Club are an Australian folk rock musical collective from Brisbane. The band formed when the various members met whilst frequenting an open mic night at a local hotel. The Gin Club have won three Q Song awards and have toured in Canada...
  
  
• The Giving Tree Band
  The Giving Tree Band
  The Giving Tree Band is an American indie folk-rock group started in 2004 by brothers Todd and Eric Fink and based in Yorkville, Illinois. Though the group uses an instrumentation largely associated with bluegrass and Americana, their sound often drums up comparisons to such classic rock icons as...
  
  
• Golden Smog
  Golden Smog
  Golden Smog is a loosely connected group of musicians comprised, at various times, of members of Soul Asylum, The Replacements, Wilco, The Jayhawks, Run Westy Run, The Honeydogs and Big Star...
  
  
• The Good Life
  The Good Life (band)
  The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek records.Started as a solo project of Cursive's frontman Tim Kasher, The Good Life quickly grew to become its own established group. The original intent of The Good Life was to provide Tim Kasher with a vehicle to perform songs that did not fit...
  
  
• Jarrod Gorbel
• John Gorka
  John Gorka
  John Gorka is a contemporary American folk musician. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him "the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement."-Biography:...
  
  
• The Gourds
  The Gourds
  The Gourds are an American alternative country band that formed in Austin, Texas during the summer of 1994.-Career:Primarily evolving from the Picket Line Coyotes and the Grackles, The Gourds original line-up consisted of Kevin Russell , Jimmy Smith , Claude Bernard , and Charlie Llewellin...
  
  
• Great Lake Swimmers
  Great Lake Swimmers
  Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker. Originally from Wainfleet, Ontario, the band is currently based in Toronto....
  
  
• Adam Green
  Adam Green (musician)
  Adam Green is an American singer-songwriter.Green's off-kilter style has achieved a moderate college radio following in the United States, and enjoys increasing popularity in a number of European countries, particularly Germany.-Career:Green attended Emerson College for one semester in 1998 before...
  
  
• Dallas Green
  Dallas Green (musician)
  Dallas Green is a Canadian musician who releases music as City and Colour. He is also known for his work as the former vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire.-Name:...
  
  
• Pat Green
  Pat Green
  Patrick Craven "Pat" Green is an American Texas Country artist. Active since 1995, he has recorded a total of ten studio albums, including several independent works, three for Republic Records and two for BNA...
  
  
• Grievous Angels
  Grievous Angels
  Grievous Angels were a Canadian alternative country band, active from 1986 to 2004. The band's primary member was singer-songwriter Charlie Angus, who entered electoral politics in 2004 as the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Timmins—James Bay....
  
  
• Patty Griffin
  Patty Griffin
  Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16, 1964, is an American Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. She is especially known for her down-home crafting of songs and her connection to musicians including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, and the Dixie Chicks, who have played with...
  
  
• Nanci Griffith
  Nanci Griffith
  Nanci Griffith, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• David Grisman
  David Grisman
  David Grisman is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music.-Biography:Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey...
  
  
• The Gun Club

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• The Hackensaw Boys
  The Hackensaw Boys
  The Hackensaw Boys are an Americana band from Charlottesville, Virginia inspired by punk, bluegrass, and old-time music. They formed as a quartet consisting of Tom Peloso, David Sickmen, Rob Bullington, and Robbie St. Ours in the fall of 1999...
  
  
• Merle Haggard
  Merle Haggard
  Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
  
  
• Butch Hancock
  Butch Hancock
  Butch Hancock is a country/folk music recording artist and song writer. He was born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas. Hancock is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but he has principally performed a solo career....
  
  
• Wayne Hancock
  Wayne Hancock
  Wayne "The Train" Hancock is a country musician.Hancock began writing songs at the age of 12, and at 18 won a talent contest called the "Wrangler County Showdown." Immediately after the contest, he was shipped to recruit training and served four years with the United States Marine Corps. In 1994...
  
  
• The Handsome Family
  The Handsome Family
  The Handsome Family is an alternative country band, formed in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The band was formed in 1993 by husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks and Rennie Sparks and drummer Mike Werner, although the band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes...
  
  
• The Hangdogs
  The Hangdogs
  The Hangdogs are an alt-country band from New York City.- Albums :*Same Old Story *East of Yesterday *Beware of Dog *Something Left to Sell *Wallace '48...
  
  
• The Hanks
  The Hanks
  - The Hanks :The Hanks were formed in 1987 and helped usher in the alt.country or No Depression scene in North Carolina several years before Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams put the sound on the national map. They disbanded in 1989...
  
  
• Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
  
  
• Jeff Hart and the Ruins
  Jeff Hart and the Ruins
  Jeff Hart and the Ruins is a four-piece Americana and alt.country-styled power pop band composed of Jeff Hart , Brian Yamamoto, Symen Blumenfeld and Jim McPhail.-Career:...
  
  
• Hayseed Dixie
  Hayseed Dixie
  Hayseed Dixie is an American band which began in the autumn of 2000 with the release of their first album, A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC. The band performs a mixture of cover versions of hard rock songs and original compositions in a style that is a unique fusion of bluegrass and rock music and are...
  
  
• Hazeldine
• Lee Hazlewood
  Lee Hazlewood
  Lee Hazlewood , born Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous...
  
  
• The Heathens
  The Heathens
  The Heathens were an Americana, indie rock band hailing from the Orlando, Florida area. Their first album, Big White House, was released by Post*Records in 2006.- History :...
  
  
• Helldorado
  Helldorado (band)
  Helldorado is an Americana/Rock band from Norway. They draw inspiration from a wide variety of sources; including spaghetti western, film noir, alternative country/country rock, garage rock, surf rock, psychobilly/gothabilly, and tex-mex/mariachi...
  
  
• Hem
  Hem (band)
  Hem is an indie folk-rock band from New York City, United States. Band members include Sally Ellyson , Dan Messé , Gary Maurer , Steve Curtis , George Rush , Mark Brotter , Bob Hoffnar , and Heather Zimmerman .-Band history:In 1999,...
  
  
• Hemingway Corner
  Hemingway Corner
  Hemingway Corner was a Canadian-American folk pop group, active in the 1990s.-Biography:The group was formed in 1992 by two established singer-songwriters, David Martin and Johnny Douglas. Martin, from Atlanta, Georgia, was a musician and songwriter who lived in Nashville before moving to Los...
  
  
• Joe Henry
  Joe Henry
  Joseph Lee "Joe" Henry is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Henry's musical style spans several genres, including alt. country, rock, jazz and folk.- Early years :...
  
  
• Hillstomp
  Hillstomp
  Hillstomp is a punk blues duo from Portland, Oregon, known for unique versions of traditional material and energetic live performances.In December 2005, their album The Woman that Ended the World was named Album of the Year by Portland alternative weekly Willamette Week.Hillstomp credits RL...
  
  
• Kelly Hogan
  Kelly Hogan
  Kelly Hogan is an American singer-songwriter born in Atlanta, Georgia.In the 1990s, Hogan sang with The Jody Grind , singing on their full-lengths One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure and Lefty's Deceiver . The group disbanded after two of its members were killed in a car crash...
  
  
• Will Hoge
  Will Hoge
  Will Hoge is an American singer, songwriter and musician from Nashville, Tennessee.-Early life:Will Hoge grew up in Franklin, Tennessee, a rural suburb south of Nashville...
  
  
• The Hogwaller Ramblers
  The Hogwaller Ramblers
  The Hogwaller Ramblers are an alt-country/Americana band from Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Their style of music has been dubbed "Bluegrock". The group's line-up has changed over the years since they started playing as a street band in Charlottesville in 1991.The only original member is...
  
  
• The Honeydogs
  The Honeydogs
  The Honeydogs is a band from Saint Paul, Minnesota that opened at First Avenue in 1994.-History:When the band first started, the crowds that attended their concerts were small, but now the band is able to atrract large crowds...
  
  
• The Honorary Title
  The Honorary Title
  The Honorary Title was an indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The band released their first self titled Ep "The Honorary Title" in 2003 and then their first album in 2004, Anything Else But the Truth, which was later re-released with five additional songs and two bonus videos.In early 2007...
  
  
• Rita Hosking
  Rita Hosking
  Rita Hosking is an American composer and musician based in Davis, California. She plays Americana and bluegrass styles of music with both standards and original songs. Since the release of Are You Ready?, she has been performing around the country at concerts, festivals, and other...
  
  
• Hot Buttered Rum
  Hot Buttered Rum (band)
  Hot Buttered Rum is an American five-piece progressive bluegrass act based in the San Francisco Bay Area....
  
  
• Brodie Foster Hubbard
• Holopaw
  Holopaw
  Holopaw is an American indie band from Gainesville, Florida. The band was named after the town of Holopaw in Osceola County, Florida, although none of the members of the band have ever lived there. One of its members, John Orth, joined up with Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock and others in 2002...
  
  
• Cary Hudson
  Cary Hudson
  Cary Hudson is the lead singer, guitarist and main songwriter of the alternative country/Southern rock band Blue Mountain.-Biography:Cary was born in the small town of Sumrall, MS, located approximately 15 miles from Hattiesburg. Prior to Blue Mountain, Hudson was in a band called The Hilltops,...
  
  

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• I See Hawks In L.A.
  I See Hawks In L.A.
  I See Hawks In L.A. is an alternative country group from Los Angeles, California founded in 1999 by Rob Waller and brothers Paul and Anthony Lacques with the support of established West Coast country rock bassist David Jackson...
  
  
• Jack Ingram
  Jack Ingram
  Jack Owen Ingram is an American Texas Country artist signed to Big Machine Records, an independent record label. He has released eight studio albums, one extended play, six live albums and eighteen singles. Although active since 1992, Ingram did not reach the U.S. country Top 40 until the late...
  
  
• The International Tussler Society
  The International Tussler Society
  The International Tussler Society is a Country rock-band from Trondheim, Norway, formed in 1993.They started out as a side-project of fellow Trondheimers, Motorpsycho, who decided to record a country-album when their drummer, Håkon Gebhardt, bought a banjo. Their line-up got extended and the story...
  
  
• Iron & Wine
  Iron & Wine
  Samuel Beam , better known by his stage and recording name Iron & Wine, is an American singer-songwriter. He has released four studio albums, several EPs and singles, as well as a few download-only releases, which include a live album...
  
  

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• Jewel (singer)
  Jewel (singer)
  Jewel Kilcher , professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress and poet...
  
  
• Jason & the Scorchers
  Jason & the Scorchers
  Jason & the Scorchers, originally Jason & the Nashville Scorchers, are a Cowpunk / Country rock band formed in 1981 and led by singer/songwriter Jason Ringenberg....
  
  
• The Jayhawks
  Jayhawks (band)
  The Jayhawks are an American alternative country and rock band that emerged from the Twin Cities music scene during the mid 1980s. Their country rock sound was influential on many bands who played the Twin Cities circuit during the 80s and 90s like Uncle Tupelo, The Gear Daddies and The Honeydogs...
  
  
• Simon Joyner
  Simon Joyner
  Simon Joyner is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Considered by some to be the forefather of the burgeoning Omaha music scene , he has profoundly influenced the music of Bright Eyes. Joyner also collaborated with John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats, and Beck listed Joyner...
  
  
• Damien Jurado
  Damien Jurado
  Damien Jurado is an American indie rock singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Over the years he has released albums on many labels; today, his primary label is Secretly Canadian.-Music career:...
  
  

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• Kamikaze Hearts
  Kamikaze Hearts
  The Kamikaze Hearts are an upstate New York five piece band. The members are Bob Buckley, Nate Giordano, Matthew Loiacono, Troy Pohl, and Gaven Richard. Their reviewers generally class them as "porch rock" or "americana" style music. They are currently with Collar City Records , Tangled Up!, and OLI...
  
  
• Kasey Chambers
  Kasey Chambers
  Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of steel guitar player Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.-Solo success:...
  
  
• Robert Earl Keen
  Robert Earl Keen
  Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,...
  
  
• Key Witness
  Key Witness
  Key Witness is a Canadian alternative country band formed in 2005 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-History:Their debut album Mercury in Retrograde was self-released in 2007, following several hand-made EPs...
  
  
• Kings of Leon
  Kings of Leon
  Kings of Leon is an American rock band that originated in Albion, Oklahoma but formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999. The band is composed of brothers Anthony Caleb Followill , Ivan Nathan Followill and Michael Jared Followill Kings of Leon is an American rock band that originated in Albion,...
  
  
• Knife in the Water
• Chris Knight
  Chris Knight (musician)
  Chris Knight is a singer and songwriter from Kentucky. He only recently came to national attention, but has written songs for Confederate Railroad, John Anderson, and Randy Travis among others...
  
  
• The Knitters
  The Knitters
  The Knitters are a Los Angeles-based band who play country, rockabilly and folk music. At the time of their formation they were pioneers of country punk, cowpunk or folk punk, the genre which gradually evolved into alternative country...
  
  
• Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
  
  

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• Laconic
• Lambchop
  Lambchop (band)
  Lambchop, originally Posterchild, is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. Lambchop is loosely associated with the alternative country genre...
  
  
• Jon Langford
  Jon Langford
  Jon Langford born October 11, 1957, Newport, Monmouthshire is a Welsh-born musician and artist who is presently based in Chicago. He is the younger brother of science-fiction author and critic David Langford...
  
  
• Lay Low
  Lay Low
  Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir , better known by her stage name, Lay Low, is an Icelandic artist and singer.- Biography :...
  
  
• Leftover Salmon
  Leftover Salmon
  Leftover Salmon is a jam band from Boulder, Colorado, formed in 1989. Their unique blend of bluegrass, rock, country, and Cajun/Zydeco, which the band calls "Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass", has found favor with the jam band scene...
  
  
• Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
  Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
  The Legendary Shack Shakers are an American punk blues band. They are inspired by punk, Delta blues, rockabilly, Texas polka, gothic rock, and other traditional Southern music genres, formed in Paducah, Kentucky in the mid-1990s...
  
  
• Jeffrey Lewis
  Jeffrey Lewis
  Jeffrey Lewis is an American singer/songwriter and comic book artist.-Early life:Lewis attended State University of New York at Purchase and graduated in 1997 with a degree in Literature...
  
  
• Jenny Lewis
  Jenny Lewis
  Jennifer Diane Lewis , is an American singer-songwriter musician and actress. She was the primary vocalist of the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, and has released two solo albums. She currently performs as part of the duo Jenny & Johnny with boyfriend Johnathan Rice...
  
  
• Lilium
  Lilium (band)
  Lilium is a musical project begun by French musician Pascal Humbert, a member of the alternative country groups Sixteen Horsepower and Woven Hand. Lilium is presently a two-piece augmented by frequent guests based in Denver, Colorado, USA.-History:The project began in 1984, centered around home...
  
  
• Limbeck
  Limbeck
  Limbeck was an alternative country band, with pop-punk roots, hailing from Orange County, California.-Background:Originating in Laguna Niguel, California, Limbeck featured Robb MacLean on lead vocals and guitar, Patrick Carrie guitar and backing vocals, Justin Entsminger on bass, and Jon Phillip,...
  
  
• Lone Justice
  Lone Justice
  Lone Justice was an American country rock band formed in 1982 by guitarist Ryan Hedgecock and singer Maria McKee.-Early era:They began their career as part of the L.A. cowpunk scene of the 1980s. Lone Justice was inspired by Hedgecock and McKee's mutual affection for rockabilly and country music...
  
  
• The Long Ryders
  The Long Ryders
  The Long Ryders are an American alternative country and Paisley Underground band, principally active between 1983 and 1987, and which reformed in 2004 to do a reunion tour...
  
  
• Lost Dakotas
  Lost Dakotas
  Lost Dakotas was a Canadian alternative country band in the 1990s. The band originally consisted of vocalist Paul Dakota and bassist Greg McConnell , who began in 1989 as a busker duo at the corner of Yonge and Dundas Streets in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  
• Lost Dogs
  Lost Dogs
  Lost Dogs are an American musical supergroup formed in 1991, comprising vocalists, songwriters, and guitarists from multiple Christian alternative rock bands. Their current lineup includes Terry Scott Taylor , Michael Roe , Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong . The original lineup included Gene...
  
  
• Gary Louris
  Gary Louris
  Gary Louris is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music. He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks, and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the departure of Mark Olson; he is often credited with the band's subsequent move from...
  
  
• Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
  
  
• The Low Anthem
  The Low Anthem
  The Low Anthem is an American indie folk band from Providence, Rhode Island, formed in 2006. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Ben Knox Miller, Jeff Prystowsky and Jocie Adams, and rose to prominence with the re-release of its third studio album, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, in 2009.In...
  
  
• The Low Lows
  The Low Lows (band)
  The Low Lows is an American Americana musical band formed in Athens, Georgia in 2005, originally composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Mangham Parker , organist Daniel Rickard, and drummer Jeremy Wheatley, all of whom are former members of the band Parker and Lily...
  
  
• Low Skies
  Low Skies
  -History:Low Skies formed in 2000 after a chance meeting between Creps and Salveter. After deciding to record together, they played with a number of local musicians before settling on a permanent lineup. After signing with Flameshovel Records in 2002, the group released its debut full-length, The...
  
  
• Austin Lucas
  Austin Lucas
  -Early years:Austin grew up in Bloomington, IN the United States, but moved to the Czech Republic in 2003. In 2008, Austin relocated back to the United States. Contrary to some uninformed sources, Austin was never a Czech citizen. He is the son of Bob Lucas who is a producer/songwriter best known...
  
  
• Lucero
  Lucero (band)
  Lucero is an American punk/Texas Country infused rock band that is based in Memphis, Tennessee.-Biography:Lucero's punk rock roots flavor their now "country-ish" music, while their Southern roots give them the twang that they have come to be known by. They had their start in Memphis, TN. The band...
  
  
• Corb Lund
• Shelby Lynne
  Shelby Lynne
  Shelby Lynne is an American singer, songwriter and actress. The success of the 1999 album I Am Shelby Lynne led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, even though she had been active in the music industry for some time...
  
  

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• Martin Zellar
  Martin Zellar
  Martin Zellar born June 14, 1963, is the lead singer, main songwriter, and guitarist for the country-tinged rock band the Gear Daddies from Austin, Minnesota. After the band broke up in 1992, Zellar went on to form Martin Zellar and The Hardways...
  
  
• M. Ward
  M. Ward
  Matthew Stephen Ward, known by his stage name M. Ward, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to prominence in the Portland, Oregon music scene. In addition to his solo work he is known as a member of She & Him and Monsters of Folk.-Career:...
  
  
• Magnolia Electric Co.
• Kate Maki
  Kate Maki
  -Biography:Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Maki studied neuroscience at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and education at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario...
  
  
• Bill Mallonee
  Bill Mallonee
  Bill Mallonee is the songwriter and leader of Vigilantes of Love, an Americana/Alt-Country/Rock band from Athens, Georgia. Though the Vigilantes disbanded in 2001 and recently reformed in 2008, Mallonee continues writing, singing, and playing his music solo...
  
  
• Eleni Mandell
  Eleni Mandell
  Eleni Mandell is an American singer-songwriter. She currently publishes albums through Zedtone in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  
• Mando Diao
  Mando Diao
  Mando Diao is an alternative rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band got their breakthrough with the release of the album Hurricane Bar. Their main fan base is in Sweden, Germany, and Japan although their influence has recently spread to Western Europe, most notably the UK.-Origin:The roots of...
  
  
• Marah
  Marah (band)
  Marah is an American country band that formed in the early 1990s and is closely associated with the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York...
  
  
• Carolyn Mark
  Carolyn Mark
  Carolyn Mark is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the duo The Corn Sisters with American colleague Neko Case, as well as with the bands the Vinaigrettes, Jr. Gone Wild, Showbusiness Giants, the Fixin's and the Metronome Cowboys...
  
  
• Kathy Mattea
  Kathy Mattea
  Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...
  
  
• The Mavericks
  The Mavericks
  The Mavericks is a country music band founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida, United States. Between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums, in addition to charting 14 singles on the Billboard country charts...
  
  
• Matt Mays & El Torpedo
• Mike McClure
  Mike McClure
  Mike McClure is a singer/songwriter/producer from Tecumseh, Oklahoma. He is currently the frontman for the Mike McClure Band. McClure is a founding member of The Great Divide, and was a member until he and the band parted ways in 2002...
  
  
• Maria McKee
  Maria McKee
  Maria Luisa McKee is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for her work with Lone Justice and her 1990 UK solo chart-topping hit, "Show Me Heaven".-Music:...
  
  
• Lori McKenna
  Lori McKenna
  Lori McKenna is an American folk singer/songwriter. She lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts with her husband and five children.-Early work:...
  
  
• James McMurtry
  James McMurtry
  James McMurtry is a Texas rock/Texas Country singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader and occasional actor...
  
  
• Shannon McNally
  Shannon McNally
  Shannon McNally is an American singer-songwriter.Shannon was born in Hempstead, on Long Island. While studying anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College, McNally began singing and playing guitar in clubs. After graduating and honing her skills on the streets of Paris as a busker, McNally...
  
  
• Linda McRae
  Linda McRae
  Linda McRae is a Canadian rock and alternative country musician.-Career:McRae was a member of platinum folk rock band Spirit of the West from 1988 to 1996. A multi-instrumentalist playing accordion, guitar, bass, and banjo she also appeared as a guest musician on The Wonder Stuff's album Never...
  
  
• David Mead
  David Mead
  David Worth Mead is a Nashville-based pop singer-songwriter, best known for his soaring vocals and such albums as Indiana and Almost and Always...
  
  
• Meat Puppets
  Meat Puppets
  The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris Kirkwood , and Derrick Bostrom . The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix...
  
  
• The Mekons (most notably their 1984/'85 release, Fear and Whiskey
  Fear and Whiskey
  Fear and Whiskey is a 1985 album by Mekons, which marked their return from a several-year hiatus. It is credited as being the first alternative country album, as it blends the bands previously-established punk rock style with a country & western sound. The album was initially released by Sin...
  
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• Lee Mellor
  Lee Mellor
  Lee Mellor is an Anglo-Canadian author and alternative country musician distinguished by his intricate lyrics and growly vocal stylings.- Music :...
  
  
• The Mendoza Line
  The Mendoza Line (band)
  The Mendoza Line were a rock and roll band whose members began playing together while in college in the mid-1990s in Athens, Georgia, and who eventually settled in Brooklyn. Their name comes from the dismal .200 batting average of Mario Mendoza...
  
  
• Tift Merritt
  Tift Merritt
  Catherine Tift Merritt is an American singer-songwriter, musician and North Carolina native. With her longtime band, she has built what has been called a "unique" and critically acclaimed body of work of "sonic short stories and poignant performances." She has been compared to songwriters like...
  
  
• The Midway Delta
• Micky & the Motorcars
  Micky & the Motorcars
  Micky & the Motorcars is an Alternative Texas Country band formed in Challis, Idaho before moving to Austin, Texas.The band has released five mainstream albums, including a live album....
  
  
• Middle Brother
  Middle Brother
  Middle Brother is an American rock band consisting of songwriters and musicians John J. McCauley III of Deer Tick, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit. They played their first show at the 2010 the SXSW film conference and festival at the Ale House in Austin, Texas, where...
  
  
• Milk Kan
  Milk Kan
  Milk Kan is a musical duo from south London, England, formed in 2003. Their EPs, the acoustic "Bling!" and "Wat U See Ain't Wat U Get" were followed, in December 2005, by a single, "Bling Bling Baby" and their later single, "God with an Ipod"...
  
  
• Buddy Miller
  Buddy Miller
  Buddy Miller is a country singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee...
  
  
• Julie Miller
  Julie Miller
  Julie Miller is a songwriter, singer, and recording artist currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. She married Buddy Miller in 1981...
  
  
• Scott Miller and the Commonwealth
• Chris Mills
  Chris Mills (musician)
  Chris Mills is an American singer-songwriter. In the 1990s and early 2000s he established himself as a mainstay on the independent Chicago folk and alternative country scene before moving to Brooklyn in 2003....
  
  
• Minibar
• The Minus 5
  The Minus 5
  The Minus 5 is an American rock band, headed by musician Scott McCaughey and featuring R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck.-Band history:Formed in 1993, McCaughey designed the Minus 5 as a pop collective, with each record the group put out featuring a new lineup...
  
  
• Jason Molina
• Monsters of Folk
  Monsters of Folk
  Monsters of Folk is an American supergroup, consisting of Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, and M. Ward, renowned solo artist. The band was formed in 2004 when the members were on tour with their respective bands and solo projects. After playing...
  
  
• Allison Moorer
  Allison Moorer
  Allison Moorer is an American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne. She signed to MCA Nashville in 1998 and made her debut on the U.S...
  
  
• Whitey Morgan and the 78's
  Whitey Morgan and the 78's
  Whitey Morgan and the 78's are honky tonk country band based in Flint, MI. In 2010 they signed a recording contract with Chicago based Bloodshot Records.-Formation and Early History:...
  
  
• Cory Morrow
  Cory Morrow
  Cory Morrow is a Texas Country singer/songwriter who has gained popularity throughout the Southwest. Morrow started playing guitar at Memorial High School in Houston. He continued to develop as a musician while attending Texas Tech University, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity...
  
  
• The Mountain Goats
  The Mountain Goats
  The Mountain Goats is an American indie rock band formed in Claremont, CA by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle himself, despite the plural moniker....
  
  
• Mt. Desolation
  Mt. Desolation
  Mt. Desolation are an alt-country duo from England.It is the side project of Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin, members of the rock band Keane.Their self-titled debut album was released on October 18, 2010....
  
  
• Shawn Mullins
  Shawn Mullins
  Shawn Mullins is an American singer-songwriter who specializes in folk rock, instrumental rock, adult alternative, and Americana music. He is best known for the 1998 single, "Lullaby", which hit number one on the Adult Top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award.-Career:Mullins was born in...
  
  
• Mumford & Sons
  Mumford & Sons
  Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band. The band consists of Marcus Mumford , Ben Lovett , Country Winston Marshall , and Ted Dwane...
  
  
• Jay Munly
  Jay Munly
  Jay Munly is a banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado. He has played a significant role in the development of the "Denver Sound", music that mixes elements of country, Gothic, folk, and gospel...
  
  
• The Muses
• My Morning Jacket
  My Morning Jacket
  My Morning Jacket is an American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky.The band consists of Jim James , Tom 'Two-Tone Tommy' Blankenship , Patrick Hallahan , Carl Broemel , and Bo Koster .-History:My Morning Jacket was...
  
  

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• Nathan
  Nathan (band)
  Nathan are an alt-country band from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada.After their debut independent album Stranger won a Prairie Music Award for Outstanding Independent Album, the band signed to Nettwerk Records...
  
  
• Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
  
  
• Mike Ness
  Mike Ness
  Mike Ness is an American guitarist, vocalist, and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion, which was formed in 1978. As of Dennis Danell's death in 2000, he is now the only original member of the band...
  
  
• Neutral Milk Hotel
  Neutral Milk Hotel
  Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
  
  
• Neko Case
  Neko Case
  Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
  
  
• Neva Dinova
  Neva Dinova
  Neva Dinova is an indie band from Omaha, Nebraska. Neva Dinova is named after the grandmother of lead singer Jake Bellows. They have been on crank! a record company , and have recorded a split-release with Bright Eyes entitled "One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels" that was also released on crank! a...
  
  
• Jim Neversink
  Jim Neversink
  Jim Neversink is a South African musician, singer and songwriter. His musical style spans over indie rock, country, americana and punk.He is best known as a solo artist who performs with changing line-ups...
  
  
• New Riders of the Purple Sage
  New Riders of the Purple Sage
  New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco, California in 1969, and its original lineup included several members of the Grateful Dead. Their best known song is "Panama Red"...
  
  
• Nine Pound Hammer
  Nine Pound Hammer
  Nine Pound Hammer is an American cowpunk band formed in 1985 by vocalist Scott Luallen and guitarist Blaine Cartwright in their hometown of Owensboro, Kentucky...
  
  
• Noah & the Whale
• NQ Arbuckle
  NQ Arbuckle
  NQ Arbuckle is a Canadian alternative country band, consisting of Neville Quinlan , Mark Kesper, Peter Kesper and John Dinsmore...
  
  

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• O'Death
  O'Death
  O’Death is an American alternative country band from Brooklyn, New York. They combine elements of folk, bluegrass, punk, metal and Americana music.-History:...
  
  
• Oakley Hall
  Oakley Hall (band)
  Oakley Hall is an American folk rock band based in Brooklyn, New York.The group was founded in 2002 and is named for Oakley Hall, an American novelist. The group's songs combine elements of rock, bluegrass, and old-time music, prominently featuring the male-female vocal harmonies of lead vocalists...
  
  
• Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
  Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
  Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band is the name taken by Conor Oberst and his backing band, which is composed of Nik Freitas , Taylor Hollingsworth , Macey Taylor , Nate Walcott and Jason Boesel .-History:...
  
  
• Nora O'Connor
  Nora O'Connor
  Nora O'Connor is an American musician. She sings and plays guitar with numerous bands and individuals from the U.S. and Canada, her primary involvements being Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire and the Blacks...
  
  
• Mary Margaret O'Hara
  Mary Margaret O'Hara
  Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress, who has been hailed as one of the greatest cult heroines in rock music despite having released very few of her own recordings. She is best known for the critically acclaimed album Miss America, released in 1988.-Early stages:O'Hara...
  
  
• Oh Susanna
  Suzie Ungerleider
  Suzie Ungerleider, who writes and performs under the name Oh Susanna, is an American-Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. Born in the United States, she was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia and is currently based in Toronto.-Bio:...
  
  
• Okkervil River
  Okkervil River
  Okkervil River is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas. Formed in 1998, the band takes its name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. They self-released their first album, Stars Too Small to Use, which led them to the South by Southwest music festival. After recording their first...
  
  
• Old 97's
  Old 97's
  The Old 97's are an alternative country band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1993, they have since released nine studio albums, two full extended plays, shared split duty on another, and have one live album. Their most recent release is The Grand Theatre, Volume Two...
  
  
• Old Canes
  Old Canes
  Old Canes is a rock band from Lawrence, Kansas currently composed of front man Christopher Crisci on vocals and guitar, and a rotating cast of musicians...
  
  
• Old Crow Medicine Show
  Old Crow Medicine Show
  Old Crow Medicine Show is an old-time string band based in Nashville, Tennessee. Their music has been called bluegrass, Americana, and alt-country, in addition to old-time. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs...
  
  
• David Olney
  David Olney
  David Charles Olney is an American folk singer/songwriter. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but did not graduate, instead joining Bland Simpson's band Simpson in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Mark Olson
  Mark Olson (musician)
  Mark Olson is an American musician. He is one of the founding members of acclaimed alternative country bands The Jayhawks and The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers and a respected singer/songwriter in his own right....
  
  
• One Hundred Dollars
• Or, The Whale
  Or, The Whale
  Or, The Whale is a San Francisco based Americana band, formed in 2006. The group has released two albums, Light Poles and Pines in 2007 and Or, The Whale in 2009...
  
  
• Over the Rhine
• Ox
  Ox (band)
  Ox is a Canadian alternative country indie band. The core of the band consists of Mark Browning on lead vocals and guitar, Ryan Bishops on guitar and piano, Shawn Dicey on bass and Max Myth on drums...
  
  

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• Patty Griffin
  Patty Griffin
  Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16, 1964, is an American Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. She is especially known for her down-home crafting of songs and her connection to musicians including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, and the Dixie Chicks, who have played with...
  
  
• Palace Brothers
  Will Oldham
  Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...
  
  
• Gram Parsons
  Gram Parsons
  Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music"...
  
  
• Jefferson Pepper
  Jefferson Pepper
  Jefferson Pepper is an American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist and social/environmental activist. He lives in the Conewago Mountains, outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA....
  
  
• Peter & the Wolf
  Peter and the Wolf (band)
  Peter and the Wolf is the American folk band formed by musician Red Hunter. Hunter says about his song writing, "I carry a journal everywhere with me. I will stop in the middle of whatever I'm doing to write down an idea, whether it's something I think about, hear, observe, or whatever...
  
  
• Phosphorescent
  Phosphorescent (band)
  Phosphorescent is the working moniker of American multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Matthew Houck. Originally from Alabama, Houck began recording and performing under this nom de plume in 2001 in Athens, Georgia...
  
  
• The Pine Hill Haints
  The Pine Hill Haints
  The Pine Hill Haints are a traditional bluegrass/folk/honky tonk/country band from Alabama, though the band members themselves describe their unique southern roots music as “Alabama Ghost Music.”...
  
  
• Pine Valley Cosmonauts
  Pine Valley Cosmonauts
  -History:The group was initiated by Jon Langford as a covers group, with a constantly shifting repertory and cast of backing members. The name was first used for Langford's 1995 album of Johnny Cash cover songs...
  
  
• Pinetop Seven
  Pinetop Seven
  Pinetop Seven is an American band from Chicago, Illinois. The group initially revolved around three core members, supplemented by instruments such as double bass, accordion, slide guitar, banjo, and mandolin; more recent recordings have a more fluid lineup and increasingly orchestral textures...
  
  
• Possessed by Paul James
  Possessed by Paul James
  Konrad Wert , known as Possessed by Paul James since 2005, is a one-man band from south Austin, Texas. The music is composed of string instruments including banjo, guitar and fiddle with written roots within folk, blues and punk...
  
  
• Punch Brothers
  Punch Brothers
  Punch Brothers are a progressive bluegrass band. The band consists of Chris Thile , Gabe Witcher , Noam Pikelny , Chris Eldridge , and Paul Kowert...
  
  
• Pure Prairie League
  Pure Prairie League
  Pure Prairie League, sometimes abbreviated PPL, is an American country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio with Craig Fuller, George Powell, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call. In 1970 McGrail named the band after a 19th century temperance union mentioned...
  
  

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• Robert Earl Keen
  Robert Earl Keen
  Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,...
  
  
• The Raconteurs
  The Raconteurs
  The Raconteurs is an American rock band that was formed in Detroit, Michigan, featuring four members known for other musical projects: Jack White , Brendan Benson , Jack Lawrence , and Patrick Keeler .-Formation:The...
  
  
• Chuck Ragan
  Chuck Ragan
  Chuck Ragan is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. From 1993 until 2006 he was one of the lead singers for Gainesville, Florida-based punk rock band Hot Water Music...
  
  
• Railroad Earth
  Railroad Earth
  Railroad Earth is a roots and Americana-based newgrass band from Stillwater, New Jersey. Their name was borrowed from the Jack Kerouac short story "October in the Railroad Earth," to which the band also has a song by the same name...
  
  
• Reckless Kelly
  Reckless Kelly (band)
  Reckless Kelly is an Austin, Texas based Americana/Texas Country band. The band was formed in Bend, Oregon, but moved to Austin in January 1997...
  
  
• The Refreshments
• Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
• Kimmie Rhodes
• Kim Richey
  Kim Richey
  Kimberly Kay "Kim" Richey is an American singer/songwriter. Though her work fits into the general country music category, her sound is not easily categorized. Her songs have been hits on both the country and pop charts...
  
  
• Richmond Fontaine
  Richmond Fontaine
  -History:Formed in 1994, Richmond Fontaine started touring the Pacific Northwest live circuit to support their first three albums released on Cavity Search Records. Gradually gaining attention in the UK and Europe the band began regularly touring there. Most of the core musicians and producer JD...
  
  
• Rilo Kiley
  Rilo Kiley
  Rilo Kiley was an American indie rock band based in Los Angeles. Formed in 1998, the band consisted of Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, and Jason Boesel....
  
  
• Josh Ritter
  Josh Ritter
  Josh Ritter is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and author who performs and records with The Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics. In 2006 he was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by Paste magazine.- Early life :Josh...
  
  
• Randy Rogers Band
  Randy Rogers Band
  The Randy Rogers Band is an American Texas Country group from the state of Texas. The band is composed of Randy Rogers , Geoffrey Hill , Jon Richardson , Brady Black , and Les Lawless . They have recorded four studio albums and two live albums, and have charted six singles on the Billboard Hot...
  
  
• The Reverend Horton Heat
  The Reverend Horton Heat
  The Reverend Horton Heat is the stage name of American musician Jim Heath as well as the name of his Dallas, Texas-based psychobilly trio. Heath is a singer, songwriter and guitarist....
  
  
• Rose's Pawn Shop
  Rose's Pawn Shop
  Rose's Pawn Shop is an Americana, bluegrass, rock, rockabilly and country band from Los Angeles, California. Their debut album The Arsonist was released in May 2006...
  
  
• Peter Rowan
• Rumbleseat
  Rumbleseat
  Rumbleseat was the acoustic-folk side project of Hot Water Music frontmen Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard, and Bitchin' frontwoman Samantha Jones...
  
  
• Justin Rutledge
  Justin Rutledge
  Justin Rutledge is a Toronto-based alt-country singer-songwriter signed to Six Shooter Records.Rutledge's musical style is often compared to that of American alt-country singer Ryan Adams. His influences, both of the literary and music world, include Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams, Richard Brautigan...
  
  
• Matthew Ryan

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• The Sadies
  The Sadies
  The Sadies are a Canadian indie rock and alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario.-Background:The band consists of Dallas Good , Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky...
  
  
• Salt
  Salt (band)
  Salt was a Swedish grunge alternative rock band, who had one hit single from the album Auscultate, "Bluster", in the United States in 1996. "So" was released as a second single from Auscultate but did not achieve the same level of success....
  
  
• Scott 4
  Scott 4 (band)
  Scott 4 are a three-piece indie rock band from London, described by Allmusic as 'Electronic cowpunks' for their blend of country-blues, hip hop and indie-punk.-Career:...
  
  
• Andrew Scott
  Andrew Scott (Canadian musical artist)
  Andrew Scott, born Robert Andrew Scott on September 27, 1979, is a Canadian musician and song writer, specializing in Alternative Country, Alternative Folk, and Folk Rock, with additional interests in Folk Music and Blues...
  
  
• Scud Mountain Boys
  Scud Mountain Boys
  Scud Mountain Boys was an American alt-country band. Formed in 1991 in Northampton, Massachusetts, it comprised Joe Pernice, Stephen Desaulniers, Bruce Tull and Tom Shea. Stephen Desaulniers left the band and was replaced by Frank Padellaro in Oct. 1996....
  
  
• Adam Selzer
  Adam Selzer
  Adam Selzer is an author, primarily of young adult and middle grade novels. His first novel was How To Get Suspended and Influence People, a 2007 Random House novel which was included on the Chicago Public Schools 2007 Summer Reading List...
  
  
• Billy Joe Shaver
  Billy Joe Shaver
  Billy Joe Shaver is a Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me is a classic in the outlaw country genre.-Biography:...
  
  
• She & Him
  She & Him
  She & Him is an American indie pop duo consisting of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward . The band's first album, Volume One, was released on Merge Records in March 2008...
  
  
• Shearwater
  Shearwater (band)
  Shearwater is an American indie rock band formed in Austin, Texas in 1999 by Okkervil River members Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff, although Sheff is no longer with Shearwater.-History:...
  
  
• Sleepercar
  Sleepercar
  Sleepercar is the alternative country project of Jim Ward, a member of Sparta and former member of At the Drive-In. Regarding the band, Ward has noted that: "I think it will always be “my” band...
  
  
• The Shivers
  The Shivers
  The Shivers were formed in 1989 in Austin, TX by founding members Carey Kemper and Kelly Bell, and released two albums internationally on Restless Records and Glitterhouse Records in 1994 and 1996. Though originally from Austin, they were primarily based alternately out of Portland, OR and...
  
  
• Shooter Jennings
  Shooter Jennings
  Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings is an American singer-songwriter active in the country music and Southern rock genres as well as making his first foray into psychedelic rock in 2009...
  
  
• Silver Jews
  Silver Jews
  Silver Jews was an indie rock band from New York City, formed in 1989 by David Berman along with Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich. Berman remained throughout and was the only constant member. During the last few albums, Cassie Berman became a regular member of the band...
  
  
• Six Mile Grove
  Six Mile Grove
  Six Mile Grove is a four-piece Alternative country outfit based in Rochester, Minnesota. The band draws influences from various genres such as oldies, Bluegrass, and classic country.- Members :* Brandon Sampson - Lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and harmonica...
  
  
• Langhorne Slim
  Langhorne Slim
  Langhorne Slim is an American singer-songwriter, . Scolnick attended high school at Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, part of the SUNY system.He began to gain public notice through several years of touring with the...
  
  
• Slim Cessna's Auto Club
  Slim Cessna's Auto Club
  Slim Cessna's Auto Club is an alternative country-gothabilly band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The constant in the band has been Slim Cessna, formerly a member of The Denver Gentlemen along with David Eugene Edwards and Jeffery-Paul of 16 Horsepower. Jay Munly is also a key member of the...
  
  
• Slobberbone
  Slobberbone
  Slobberbone is an American alt-country band from Denton, Texas that formed in 1994. Slobberbone toured across the United States many times. The best-known line-up consisted of Brent Best , Jess Barr , Brian Lane , and drummer Tony Harper, although their lineup changed over the years...
  
  
• Mindy Smith
  Mindy Smith
  Mindy Smith is an American singer-songwriter. Her music can be classified as all of the following: folk, country, Americana, bluegrass, pop, rock, and even alternative. Her voice and music have been compared to that of Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, Norah Jones, and Alison Krauss.-Biography:Smith...
  
  
• Smog
  Smog (band)
  Bill Callahan , is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders...
  
  
• The Snake The Cross The Crown
  The Snake the Cross the Crown
  The Snake the Cross the Crown is an indie/Americana band from Huntsville, Alabama signed to Equal Vision Records.-History:Originally known as Curbside Service, the group released one album under this name, I Packed My Bags a Year in Advance, before changing to their present name...
  
  
• Todd Snider
  Todd Snider
  Todd Daniel Snider is an American singer-songwriter with a musical style that combines Americana, alt-country, and folk.-Biography:...
  
  
• Son Volt
  Son Volt
  Son Volt is an alternative country group formed by Jay Farrar in 1994 after the breakup of the band Uncle Tupelo.-History:The group formed after Farrar met Jim and Dave Boquist during the final Uncle Tupelo tour. Together with former Uncle Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn, the band rehearsed and...
  
  
• Songs: Ohia
  Songs: Ohia
  Jason Molina is an American singer-songwriter, originally from Lorain, Ohio. He first came to prominence performing and recording as Songs: Ohia, both in solo projects and with a rotating cast of musicians...
  
  
• Souled American
  Souled American
  Souled American is an American alternative country band from Chicago, that was active mostly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band has its origins in Normal, a college town in central Illinois and revolves around vocalists Chris Grigoroff and Joe Adducci who previously played in a band...
  
  
• South San Gabriel
  South San Gabriel (band)
  South San Gabriel is an alternative country band based in Denton, Texas.The band is named after the San Gabriel river fork north of Austin, Texas. The group consists of the same players from Centro-matic with the inclusion of guests, but focuses on more introspective and subdued offerings from...
  
  
• Southern Culture on the Skids
  Southern Culture on the Skids
  Southern Culture on the Skids, also sometimes known as SCOTS, is an American rock band that was formed in 1983 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
  
  
• Split Lip Rayfield
  Split Lip Rayfield
  Split Lip Rayfield is a vocal and acoustic instrumental group from Wichita, Kansas. Though they are sometimes classified as a bluegrass, alt-country or cowpunk band, their music draws on a wide array of influences.-History:...
  
  
• Spoon
  Spoon (band)
  Spoon is an American rock band formed in Austin, Texas. The band is composed of Britt Daniel ; Jim Eno ; Rob Pope and Eric Harvey .-History:...
  
  
• Ginger St. James
• Leeroy Stagger
  Leeroy Stagger
  Leeroy Stagger is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter.Raised in rural British Columbia, Stagger worked in several local bands until gaining attention from acts such as Hot Hot Heat and Carolyn Mark...
  
  
• Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...
  
  
• Strangefolk
  Strangefolk
  Strangefolk is a rock-oriented jam band originally from Burlington, VT. Since forming in 1991, they have released five studio albums, two live albums and one live concert DVD...
  
  
• Stratochief
  Stratochief
  Stratochief is a Canadian alternative country band.The band was originally formed by Greg McConnell, following the breakup of his earlier band, Lost Dakotas. Vaughan Passmore and Johnny Trash, McConnell's 1980s bandmates in Absolute Whores, joined McConnell in the new band.The band's debut album,...
  
  
• Strawfoot
  Strawfoot
  Strawfoot is a six piece alternative country/Gothic Americana band from St. Louis, Missouri. The name is taken from the Civil War era march cadence of the same name. Their music infuses a variety of influences ranging from bluegrass, southern gospel and the blues, to eastern European folk and...
  
  
• The String Cheese Incident
• Eric Stuart
  Eric Stuart
  Eric Stuart is a voice actor, voice director, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. As the lead singer of his own band, the Eric Stuart Band , he is an award-winning independent artist with a growing US and international fan base.Stuart gained acclaim as a voice actor not only because of his...
  
  
• Sun Kil Moon
  Sun Kil Moon
  Sun Kil Moon is a music project of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek, best known for his previous band Red House Painters. Sun Kil Moon sees Kozelek undertake the writing, composing, singing, and guitar playing, accompanied by Tim Mooney and Anthony Koutsos on drums, and Geoff Stanfield on bass...
  
  
• Supersuckers
• Sunparlour Players
  Sunparlour Players
  Sunparlour Players are a Canadian alternative/folk rock band. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consists of Andrew Penner on lead vocals, guitar, bass, banjo, organ pedal, and kick drum, Dennis Van Dine on bass, keyboard, clarinet, banjo, glockenspiel, percussion and backing vocals, and Michael...
  
  
• Youell Swinney
  Youell Swinney
  Youell Lee Swinney was the only major suspect in the Phantom Killer case in Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946, although he was never officially charged with any of the murders....
  
  
• Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter

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• Tonya Watts
• The Tallest Man on Earth
  The Tallest Man on Earth
  Kristian Matsson is a singer-songwriter from Dalarna, Sweden. Since 2006, he has released two full-length albums and two EPs...
  
  
• Tangleweed
  Tangleweed
  Tangleweed is a four-person acoustic Americana band from Chicago, Illinois. They have four full-length CDs, and were included on the "Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook Series, Volume 2", on Bloodshot Records...
  
  
• Tarbox Ramblers
  Tarbox Ramblers
  The Tarbox Ramblers are a musical group probably best labelled as Adult Alternative or blues/folk revival; in the words of founder Michael Tarbox, a "primitive blues and jug band". The original line-up with Robbie Phillips , J...
  
  
• Tarnation
  Tarnation (band)
  Tarnation is an alt-country-goth band, formed by Paula Frazer in late 1992, primarily recording on the 4AD label.-History:Tarnation originally consisted of Frazer on vocals and guitar. In 1993, she was soon joined by Brandan Kearney on lap steel guitar and Brent Johnson on guitar and vocals. Next,...
  
  
• Tarkio
  Tarkio (band)
  Tarkio was an alternative country band from Missoula, Montana which included Colin Meloy prior to his forming The Decemberists. Tarkio broke up in 1999, but found new popularity in a retrospective released by Kill Rock Stars in 2006.-History:...
  
  
• Teddy Thompson
  Teddy Thompson
  Teddy Thompson is a British folk and rock musician. He is the son of folk-rock musicians Richard and Linda Thompson and brother of singer Kamila Thompson...
  
  
• Television Hill
• This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
  This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
  This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb was a folk-punk band from Pensacola, Florida, USA. Their first recording was released in 1997 on Ghostmeat Records. Their later releases have been on Plan It X Records and No Idea Records, but now appear on their own label Plan-It X South. This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb...
  
  
• Rosie Thomas
  Rosie Thomas
  Rosie Thomas is an American singer-songwriter, originally from Michigan. It was through mutual friends that she met Trey Many and began playing shows with Velour 100. They recorded one EP together and played a few short tours, where she met Damien Jurado and Pedro the Lion...
  
  
• Thrift Store Cowboys
  Thrift Store Cowboys
  Thrift Store Cowboys are an alternative country and indie rock band, formed in 1999, in Lubbock, Texas by Daniel Fluitt and Colt Miller. Presently the band also includes Clint Miller, Amanda Shires, Cory Ames, Kris Killingsworth....
  
  
• Trailer Bride
  Trailer Bride
  Trailer Bride was a Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based alternative country rock band signed to Bloodshot Records. Formed in 1993, the band consisted of Melissa Swingle , Robert Mitchum , Brad Goolsby , Bryon Settle and Scott Goolsby...
  
  
• Los Tres
  Los Tres
  Los Tres is a Chilean rock band composed of four members: a rock/folk singer and three jazzmen. It was one of the noted bands in the Chilean nineties, together with La Ley and Lucybell....
  
  
• Trampled By Turtles
  Trampled By Turtles
  Trampled By Turtles is a progressive bluegrass band from Duluth, Minnesota. The group is most famous for its high-tempo, fast-paced songs but also features lead vocalist Dave Simonett's lyric writing abilities in slower ballads. Their high-energy concerts have attracted an ever-growing,...
  
  
• Tumbledown
  Tumbledown (band)
  Mike Herrera's Tumbledown is an alternative country band from Bremerton, Washington consisting of MxPx guitarist/vocalist Mike Herrera and Rocky Point All Stars...
  
  
• Frank Turner
  Frank Turner
  Frank Turner is an English folk/punk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke, Winchester. Initially the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, Turner embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005. To date, Turner has released four solo albums, two rarities...
  
  
• Two Cow Garage
  Two Cow Garage
  -History:The group was formed in September 2001 by singer/guitarist Micah Schnabel, born in Bucyrus Ohio, who began playing with drummer Dustin Harigle in and around Columbus. Guitarist Chris Flint joined the group after seeing one of their early shows, and bassist Shane Sweeney followed soon...
  
  
• Two Gallants
  Two Gallants (band)
  Two Gallants is a folk rock duo from San Francisco, California. The name comes from the title of a story by James Joyce in Dubliners.-History:Two Gallants are made up of Adam Stephens on guitar, harmonica and vocals and Tyson Vogel Two Gallants is a folk rock duo from San Francisco, California....
  
  
• The Low Lows
  The Low Lows (band)
  The Low Lows is an American Americana musical band formed in Athens, Georgia in 2005, originally composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Mangham Parker , organist Daniel Rickard, and drummer Jeremy Wheatley, all of whom are former members of the band Parker and Lily...
  
  
• The Snow Birds

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• Townes Van Zandt
  Townes Van Zandt
  John Townes Van Zandt , best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet...
  
  
• Stoll Vaughan
  Stoll Vaughan
  Stoll Vaughan is a singer-songwriter from Lexington, Kentucky. He is the great-nephew of United States Senator John Sherman Cooper. Vaughan began his professional music career as guitar player for the Indiana band Chamberlain. He was also a banjo and guitar player in the Rosalin Family Gospel Band...
  
  
• Rocky Votolato
  Rocky Votolato
  Rocky Votolato is an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Dallas, Texas on March 8, 1977. He was raised in a small town called Frost, roughly 50 miles south of Dallas, until the age of 13. After his parents were divorced, his mother remarried and moved the family to the Pacific Northwest...
  
  
• Van Meter

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• The Wailin' Jennys
  The Wailin' Jennys
  The Wailin' Jennys are a Juno Award-winning Canadian folk trio from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and New York, and they consist of soprano Ruth Moody, mezzo Nicky Mehta and alto Heather Masse. In previous years, the Jennys have also toured with fiddler and mandolinist Jeremy Penner, who is from Ruth's...
  
  
• The Walkabouts
  The Walkabouts
  The Walkabouts is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1984. The core members are vocalist Carla Torgerson and vocalist and songwriter Chris Eckman...
  
  
• Jerry Jeff Walker
  Jerry Jeff Walker
  Jerry Jeff Walker is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is probably most famous for writing the song "Mr. Bojangles.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Wakefields
  The Wakefields
  The Wakefields are an alt-country band based out of Seattle Washington that was formed in 2004 as the by-product of friendships started in previous projects...
  
  
• Jim Ward
  Jim Ward (musician)
  James David Ward is an American musician. A self-taught guitarist and pianist, he was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the band Sparta; he was also the co-founder of the seminal post-hardcore band At the Drive-In.-At the Drive-In:While in At the Drive-In, Ward played rhythm guitar and...
  
  
• The Weakerthans
  The Weakerthans
  The Weakerthans are a four-piece Canadian indie rock band.-History:The band was formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by John K. Samson, after he left the punk band Propagandhi to start a publishing company. Samson joined forces with bassist John P...
  
  
• The Weight
  The Weight
  "The Weight" is a song written by Robbie Robertson. It was released by The Band as Capitol Records single 2269 in 1968, and appeared one week later on the group's debut album Music from Big Pink. The song is listed as #41 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time published in 2004, and...
  
  
• Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
  
  
• The Welcome Wagon
  The Welcome Wagon
  The Welcome Wagon is a Gospel/indie pop band from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of Presbyterian minister Vito Aiuto and his wife, Monique...
  
  
• Paul Westerberg
  Paul Westerberg
  Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...
  
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• Whiskeytown
  Whiskeytown
  Whiskeytown was an alternative country band formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1994. Fronted by Ryan Adams, other members included Caitlin Cary, Phil Wandscher, Eric "Skillet" Gilmore, and Mike Daly. They disbanded in 2000, with Adams leaving to pursue his solo career...
  
  
• Jim White
• William Elliott Whitmore
  William Elliott Whitmore
  William Elliott Whitmore is an American blues singer and musician from Lee County, Iowa. He has recorded a number of albums released on Southern Records, and now is a member of the Anti Records family. His act consists mostly of playing the banjo or guitar while singing, though on occasion he...
  
  
• Wilco
  Wilco
  Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...
  
  
• Wilders
• Willard Grant Conspiracy
  Willard Grant Conspiracy
  Willard Grant Conspiracy is an alt-country band currently based near Palmdale, California, USA.Originally formed by Robert Fisher and Paul Austin in 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts, the band operates as a collective, with vocalist Fisher the only permanent member. Up to thirty other musicians...
  
  
• Hank Williams III
  Hank Williams III
  Shelton Hank Williams, known as Hank 3 , is a neotraditional country and punk metal singer, drummer, bassist, and guitarist. In addition to his honky tonk recordings, Williams' style alternates among country, punk and metal...
  
  
• Holly Williams
  Holly Williams
  Holly Williams is an American country music artist. She is the daughter of Hank Williams, Jr. and half-sister of country singer Hank Williams III. Williams has released two studio albums: The Ones We Never Knew and Here with Me, in 2004 and 2009 respectively...
  
  
• Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...
  
  
• Kelly Willis
  Kelly Willis
  Kelly Willis is an American country music singer-songwriter, whose music has been described as contemporary country, alternative country and new traditionalist.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Wood Brothers
  The Wood Brothers
  The Wood Brothers are musician siblings Chris and Oliver Wood from Boulder, Colorado. Chris is a founding member of Medeski Martin & Wood, and Oliver played second guitar with Tinsley Ellis before forming King Johnson....
  
  
• The Woodbox Gang
  The Woodbox Gang
  The Woodbox Gang is a band formerly based in Herod, Illinois, then out of Makanda, Illinois. They play an eclectic, unique style of bluegrass music labeled by some as "insurgent Americana," "jug-punk," "y'allternative," and "funk-a-billy;" though they prefer the terms "caustic acoustic" and...
  
  
• Woods
  Woods (band)
  Woods is an American lo-fi folk rock band from Brooklyn, which formed in 2005.The band's membership now includes singer-guitarist Jeremy Earl, tape-effects technician G. Lucas Crane, bassist Kevin Morby, and multi-instrumentalist Jarvis Taveniere....
  
  
• Woven Hand
  Woven Hand
  Wovenhand is a band from Denver, Colorado led by former 16 Horsepower lead singer David Eugene Edwards. Woven Hand's music combines elements of neofolk, alternative country, post-rock, punk, industrial music, folk rock, old-time music and native American music, among other influences.-History:The...
  
  
• Luther Wright and the Wrongs
  Luther Wright and the Wrongs
  -History:The band began as a side project for Wright when he was a member of Weeping Tile. When that band amicably parted ways following their 1998 recording This Great Black Night, the Wrongs became Wright's primary band. The band membership has shifted a number of times since its inception...
  
  
• Mark Wells
  Mark Wells
  Mark Ronald Wells is a retired American ice hockey forward. He is best known for being a member of the Miracle on Ice 1980 U.S...
  
  

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• The Yayhoos
  The Yayhoos
  The Yayhoos are an American rock group. The band was once described as the "Harlem Globetrotters of Roots Rock", "a genuine, supergroup of southern-rock and alt.country heavyweights" and just "supergroup." The four bandmates share singing, songwriting and playing duties.- Members' background :*Dan...
  
  
• Dwight Yoakam
  Dwight Yoakam
  Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...
  
  
• Yonder Mountain String Band
  Yonder Mountain String Band
  The Yonder Mountain String Band is an American progressive bluegrass group from Nederland, Colorado. Composed of Dave Johnston, Jeff Austin, Ben Kaufmann, and Adam Aijala, the band has released five studio albums and several live recordings to date.- History :The band's history stretches back to...
  
  
• Youell Swinney
  Youell Swinney
  Youell Lee Swinney was the only major suspect in the Phantom Killer case in Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946, although he was never officially charged with any of the murders....
  
  
• Neil Young
  Neil Young
  Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...