Wilco

[GweedoeBrew]

Wilco rocks!! Sky Blue SKy should have won album of the year.

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If you are an Alt Country Fan.... Well here are some bands you have to check out...


-wilco... Obviously but check out where they came from Uncle Tupelo started it all...

-Old 97's... Rhett is the man!!!

-Jay Farrar and SonVolt must be checked out..The other 1/2 of "UT"

-Cracker rocks... I used to sit with David Lowery at Poe's Pub in Richmond.. He bought me a beer once!!

-Ryan Adams... a little too pop for me... but still good stuff!

-My Morning Jacket...

-The Jayhawks!! Ohhh the Jayhawks rock!!!

-Billy Bragg

-The Gourds... are cool... Most people know their cover of Snopp's "Gin'n'Juice"

-Drive-By-Truckers are really cool.. "ead Drunk and Naked"should be a song on the BN..

----No one knows this band... But "Ass Ponys" are the best!!! They are my favorite band!!! Check them out if you get a chance... great Cinci band!! Their song "casper's Coming Home" is probably one of the best hooks ever written!! They had a song in the movie "Empire Records" (the one where Liv Tyler looked Hot)...Called "Little Bastard" Anway... the Ass Ponys are now defuncted... couple of them have a new band called Wussy... Not as big of a fan of that band as I am of "AP"

I am kind of a Alt-Country fan!

[ChrisKennedy]

How do you leave Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers/The Byrds (circa Sweetheart of the Rodeo) off of any list of good alt country? Blasphemy!

Also, I have never heard a better alt. country album than Jacksonville City Nights by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot comes close, but not quite there. Wilco for me (like Ryan Adams I suppose) is fairly inconsistent. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Summerteeth are SUPERB. AM and Ghost is Born......ehhhhhh.

If you are new to alt. country, the quintessential introductory album is a Gram Parsons tribute, called Return of the Grievous Angel.

http://www.amazon.com/Return-Grievous-A ... 648&sr=8-1

If you don't think you like country, buy this album. If you think you like country, buy this album. Simply put, buy this album.