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About Alternative Music
Alt.Country
Steve Almaas
You may have known him as
leader of the 80's great alt. country group Beat
Rodeo or as a member of seminal Minneapolis punk band
The Suicide Commandos. Since that time, he has
released three solo albums in Europe.
Bloodshot Records
In their own words "Serving as a profane burr
under the saddle of all the complacent, morally
bankrupt forces responsible for the freefall decline
of contemporary music period."
Junior Brown
One
of Brown's notable achievements is in co-designing
(with guitar maker Michael Stevens) the
"guit-steel," a double-necked instrument
that combines a six-string guitar with it's steel
counterpart.
Steve Earle
Sometimes called the Grandfather of alt country, a
little commercial in my opinion but check out a great
fan site at Lisa's place.
Freight Train Boogie
The Freight Train Boogie is
a website dedicated to Americana Music: Country
& Folk singers and songwriters, with a special
emphasis on "Alternative Country" and Roots
Rock music.
Jack Ingram and The Beat Up
Ford Band
He's got the twang, find tour
dates and check out his new release Hey
You.
Lucinda Williams
Often considered on the
mainstream, this woman still has a voice of her own,
sings what she feels and does not tow the Nashville
line.
Read
All About It
Desperados
by John Einarson
Einarson
traces country rock back to Buck Owens'
Bakersfield, California, strain of country music
and forward to the Eagles and today's mawkish
"new" country. The latter is a lot to
blame on earnest, then-young musicians like Gram
Parsons, Chris Hillman, and Roger McGuinn. The
latter two were original members of the Byrds,
whose sixth album, Sweetheart
of the Rodeo, made when
Parsons was a Byrd, marked country rock's
commercial birth. (Parsons' pre-Byrds group, the
International Submarine Band, may have been the
first country rock combo.) Parsons and Hillman
soon flew off to form the Flying Burrito
Brothers, of whom the Eagles became a smooth,
syrupy analogue. Einarson covers all the
breakups, makeups, and world-class twangin' of
the genre that Parsons styled "Cosmic
American Music," paying plenty of attention
to such subgenre stalwarts as Mike Nesmith (once
of the Monkees), Linda Ronstadt, Rick Nelson, and
Neil Young, not to mention modern mogul supreme
David Geffen, who got his start in country rock.
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From Mike Tribby at Booklist~
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Resources:
All Music Guide 4th Edition
Edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra &
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Backbeat Books, San Francisco, CA
2001
The Spin Alternative Record Guide
Edited by Eric Weisbard with Craig Marks
Vintage Books - A Division of Random House, Inc., New
York
1995
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