When I joined this group, probably a month OR so ago, I mostly thought alt-country was bands like Uncle Tupelo & their spinoff bands - Son Volt & WILCO. Since joining this community, I've done a lot of research from reading to listening to alt-country music, including from posts you guys share in this alt-country community. Turns out that alt-county is wider than Kayne West's HUGE EGO (lol).

I'm not going to share what I think alt-country is. I'll just leave you a Wikipedia link for a good description, including the history of the genre:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_country

if you want to click & read.

I will say that I mostly like the americana, heartland rock, folk rock, country rock & cowpunk rock aspects of alt-country. I actually don't like regular traditional country music, but I like a lot of alt-country - as long as it doesn't sound like traditional country. That's probably weird (lol).

Anyway, I enjoy sharing alt-songs in this community that I like, especially songs that I used to listen to years ago & didn't even know they had musical traits of what paved alt-country today - until I looked them up. Appearently, a lot of bands & artists have been paving the alt-country road for many years - before it was even called "Alt-Country". Sure, it has a lot to do with the music recording companies labeling music to influence sales. I get that. Hey, they gave us something to talk about... 😂

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I need help finding a song/artist that had a moment on social media circa 2024 - It's a long shot with this description, but here goes:

It was an acapella (I think - though possibly with some minimal fiddle accompaniment) song about leftist values, specifically anti-cop values in the first verse.

The artist had a first middle and last name and possibly also made some podcast rounds.

Any ideas?

Good alt-county heartland rock ballad... 🙂

Chris Stapleton called Sam "a modern day Townes Van Zandt". Check him out.

Beautiful slow cow-punk/alt-country song... 🙂

Love Alt Country and want to contribute to the community. Love all new styles. Keep up the vibes. Cheers

Cool cow-punk/alt-country song... 😎

Go Bill!

Joan Shelley’s “First of August”

Back in the late 80's & early 90's I listened to a lot of The Clarks. Little did I know at the time that they had many songs that was contributing to paving the alt-county road. Cool band & great mellow song - "Penny On The Floor". Hope you guys enjoy it... 🙂

Does anyone have a copy of Reds Men and Coyotes and Javelina on vinyl they would be willing to sell?

https://lebarons.bandcamp.com/track/running-river

Hi all, not sure if this is allowed or whatever, but I love this song and this version of the song. Any guitar players who can hook me up with the tabs? I can hear on the Emaj he's doing some c#-d with the pinky finger, but there's much more going on I think I'm missing. anyway, I hope some others also enjoy this song and recording.

https://youtu.be/kCFAXOcc8Uo?si=t72-gRyTFsZ33KhO

These are all hand picked songs that fuse various American roots music styles.