- Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo is an American musician. He is from a very musical family that has generated several professional musicians, including longtime Prince collaborator Sheila E (who is Escovedo's niece). Escovedo began performing in the first-wave punk rock group The Nuns, with Delphine Neid, Jennifer Miro, and Jeff Olener, in San Francisco, California. After Escovedo's departure, The Nuns recorded an album on Posh Boy Records, but had little commercial success. - Neil Young
Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Omemee, Ontario. His work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and an instantly recognizable nasal tenor (and frequently alto) singing voice. - Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk, and country music singer and songwriter. A three-time Grammy Award winner, she was named "America's best songwriter" by "TIME" magazine in 2002. - Townes van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt (March 7 1944 - January 1 1997) was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Although Van Zandt was not widely known before his death, he has since slowly gained a cult status. His songs have been covered by such notable musicians as Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Norah Jones, John Prine, Gillian Welch, Devendra Banhart, The Meat Puppets, GG Allin, Johnny Dowd, … - Robbie Fulks
Robbie Fulks is an American alternative country artist originally from Raleigh, North Carolina but who is a longtime Chicago, Illinois resident. Fulks is known for his disdain of mainstream modern country and the country music industry, as exemplified by his scorching rebuke of Nashville titled "Fuck This Town." His live performances feature improvised rearrangments of his original songs, off-the-cuff musical humor, and covers of songs by Michael Jackson and Cher, … - Neko Case
Neko Case (born September 8, 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and as a member of The New Pornographers. Her music is frequently labeled alternative country, although Case doesn't care for that description. She recorded and toured for several years as Neko Case & Her Boyfriends before switching to her own name. - Will Oldham
Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (born 24 December 1970 in Louisville, Kentucky), is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. Prior to adopting his current moniker, he performed and recorded under various permutations of the Palace name, including Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music (1993-1997). - Rodney Crowell
Rodney J. Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is a country music singer/songwriter. Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby. He is considered to be part of both the alternative country and the mainstream country music camps. He is a contemporary of Steve Earle and, like Earle, was also influenced by the songwriting greats Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Rodney played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band". - Allison Moorer
Allison Moorer (born June 21 1972) is an American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne (Moorer). - Jim White
Jim White (born March 10, 1957) is an American southern gothic singer/songwriter. White's music can be loosely described as Alternative Country, but veers off in different directions, with occasional nods to Tom Waits and the literary narratives of Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews. He is signed to David Byrne's Luaka Bop label. According to various sources, he has been a comedian, a fashion model, a boxer, a preacher, a professional surfer and a New York cab driver. - Dale Watson
Dale Watson (b. 1962) is an alternative country singer, guitarist and songwriter based in Austin, Texas. He recently decided to go on hiatus from music and move to Baltimore, Maryland to be closer to his daughters. In July 2006 however, he returned to Austin and has resumed playing regular gigs, including Sunday nights at Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon and a Monday night residence at The Continental Club on South Congress. - Gary Louris
Gary Louris (born March 10, 1955 in Toledo, Ohio) 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 folk-country toward a more progressive, poppier sound. - Fred Eaglesmith
Fred Eaglesmith is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. Some of his albums have been credited to Fred J. Eaglesmith. Eaglesmith was one of nine children raised by a farming family in rural Southern Ontario. As a teenager, he hopped a freight train out to Western Canada, and began writing songs and performing. Eaglesmith is a prolific and talented songwriter, and is known for writing songs about machines or vehicles, … - Mary Gauthier
Mary Gauthier is an American folk singer-songwriter. Given up at birth by a mother she never knew, Mary was adopted by parents of the Italian Catholic persuasion in Thibodaux, Louisiana. At age 15, she ran away from home and stole her parents' car, and spent the next several years in drug rehabilitation, halfway houses, and living with friends; she spent her 18th birthday in jail. - Gene Clark
Harold Eugene Clark (born Tipton, Missouri, November 17, 1944 - May 24, 1991) was an American singer-songwriter, and one of the founding members of the folk-rock group The Byrds. Gene Clark is best remembered for his association with the Byrds between 1964 and 1966 but there was much more to his body of work than that legacy. - Brandi Carlile
Brandi Carlile (b. June 1, 1981) is an American singer and songwriter. Carlile's music has been categorized in several genres, including pop, rock, alternative country, and folk. - Kurt Wagner
Kurt Wagner is the singer and songwriter of the Nashville based alternative country band Lambchop. - Johnny Dowd
Johnny Dowd (born March 29 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American alternative country musician from Ithaca, New York. Typical of his style are experimental, noisy breaks in his songs and strong gothic (in the sense of dark and gloomy) elements in the lyrics as well as in the music. There is also a strong undercurrent of black humor and the absurd in his work. Although his early albums were most celebrated in the Alt. - Sally Timms
Sally Timms is a singer and songwriter. Sally is best known for her long involvement with the Mekons whom she joined in 1986. She recorded her first solo album, Hangahar (an experimental improvised film score), at the age of nineteen with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks. She has released several other solo CDs, Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat in 1988, To the Land of Milk and Honey in 1995, and a country album, Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos, … - David Eugene Edwards
David Eugene Edwards (Born 1968 in Englewood, Colorado) is an American musician. He is the lead singer of Woven Hand, and also the main songwriter and the principal musician on the recordings of the band. He is the former lead singer of 16 Horsepower. Although many labels have been applied to his music, it defies simple genre categorization, including elements of old-time, folk, punk, medieval, gypsy and Native American music. - Edith Frost
Edith Frost is an American singer-songwriter who describes her music as "pensive countrified psychedelia". Born in San Antonio, Texas on August 18, 1964, Frost moved to Brooklyn in 1990 where she played in the country bands the Holler Sisters, the Marfa Lights and Edith and Her Roadhouse Romeos. In 1996 she moved to Chicago after signing to the city's Drag City label, which released her demo as a self-titled EP. Debut album "Calling Over Time" was released in 1997, … - Max Johnston
Max Johnston is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work on fiddle, Dobro, banjo, and mandolin with the bands Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and more recently, The Gourds. Johnston is the younger brother of singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked and has supported her in concert tours as well. - Carolyn Mark
Carolyn Mark is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She has recorded both as a solo artist and as a member of the duo The Corn Sisters with American colleague Neko Case. Previous bands she has been in also include the Vinaigrettes, Showbusiness Giants, the Fixin's, and the Metronome Cowboys. She has also provided backing vocals on recordings by The Buttless Chaps, Greenfield Main, Neko Case and Frog Eyes. She is known for her onstage antics and powerful voice. - John Carter Cash
John Carter Cash (born 3 March 1970) is an American Country-singer, songwriter and producer. He is the only child of Johnny and June Carter Cash. He was born into a family of great musical tradition. He has five surviving half-sisters: Rosanne Cash, Carlene Carter, Kathy Cash, Cindy Cash, and Tara Cash; a sixth half-sister Rosie Nix Adams died in 2003. Three of his half-sisters, Rosanne, Carlene, and Rosie, all continued into the family business. - Brian Henneman
Brian Henneman is an alt-country musician best known as the frontman for the Bottle Rockets, and his collaborations with Uncle Tupelo and Wilco. Henneman released a solo single "Get Down River" backed with "Wave that Flag" and "Indianapolis" the latter of which features Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy in their only collaboration since Uncle Tupelo's break-up. - Cory Branan
Cory Branan is a singer-songwriter who was born in Southaven, Mississippi, United States. He joined the ranks of Ryan Adams, Pete Yorn, and Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst with the release of his 2002 debut album "The Hell You Say". - Blaze Foley
Blaze Foley (1949 in Malvern, Arkansas;February 1 1989 in Austin, Texas) was an American singer-songwriter. - Grey Delisle
Grey DeLisle (born August 24, 1973 in Fort Ord, California) is an American singer, songwriter, and voice actress of Irish, Dutch and Hispanic descent. - Steve Young
Steve Young (born July 12, 1942) is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for his song "Seven Bridges Road" (on Rock Salt & Nails & Seven Bridges Road). He is a pioneer of the Country Rock, Americana, and alternative country sounds, and also a vital force behind the 'outlaw movement' that gave support to the careers of Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Jr. and more. - Carla Bozulich
Carla Bozulich is an American musician, based in Los Angeles, best known for her work as lead singer of alt-country band Geraldine Fibbers. Her most recent album, Evangelista, was released by Constellation Records. It is their first release by a non-Canadian artist. Bozulich was born in New York City. Her recording career goes back to 1982 where she contributed to a recording by Gary Kail called Zurich 1916. She has since played with numerous bands including the Neon Veins, … - Anne McCue
Anne McCue is an Australian alternative country singer-songwriter and guitarist currently living in the United States. - Spooner Oldham
Dewey Lyndon "Spooner" Oldham is an American songwriter and session musician. An organist, he recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and at FAME Studios on such hit R&B songs as "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge, "Mustang Sally" by Wilson Pickett and "I Never Loved a Man" by Aretha Franklin. As a songwriter, Spooner Oldham teamed with Dan Penn to write such hits The Box Tops' "Cry Like a Baby", "I'm Your Puppet", "A Woman Left Lonely" and "It Tears Me Up". - Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage. - Nicolai Dunger
Nicolai Dunger is a singer and acoustic songwriter from Piteå in Sweden. He has released eleven EPs and albums, singing primarily in English, and collaborated notably with Will Oldham, the Esbjörn Svensson jazz trio and Ebbot Lundberg. He also records under the alias A Taste of Ra. - Paula Frazer
Paula Frazer (Born April 24th, 1963) 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. She first came to notice by fronting the band Tarnation in the 1990s and has appeared on recordings and in concert with many bands and solo artists including Cornershop, Sean Lennon, Frightwig, … - Edward Burch
Edward Burch (born June 9, 1968 in Centreville, Illinois, near his home town of Dupo, Illinois) is a Chicago and Champaign, Illinois-based musician and journalist. As a guitarist, he is a founding member of alternative country band The Kennett Brothers and, as a suitcase player, of the quasi-skiffle combo The Viper and His Famous Orchestra. He has been a longtime collaborator of former Titanic Love Affair and Wilco multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett. - Mike Daly
Mike Daly is a Producer/Songwriter/ Multi-Instrumentalis who grew up in Roselle Park, NJ. Mike attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 1994. Soon after, he joined the band Swales, and recorded one album, "What's His Name?" for Bar/ None Records. Mike has forged a bomming career for himself after coming on the radar as the Whiskeytown resident multi-instrumentalist / co-writer. - Miller Williams
Miller Williams (born April 8, 1930) is an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He has authored over twenty-five books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments have been chronicled in "Arkansas Biography". However, he is perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's 1997 inauguration. Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas. - Jay Munly
Jay Munly (also credited as Munly and Munly Munly) is a banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado. He is one of the major participants in the "Denver Sound", music that mixes elements of country, Gothic, and gospel. He is a member of Slim Cessna's Auto Club and Denver Broncos UK as well as the leader of his own band, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots. - Kate Maki
Kate Maki is a Canadian singer-songwriter. 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. She taught grade 7/8 in Ottawa for several years before deciding to pursue a full time musical career. She released her debut album, "Confusion Unlimited", in 2003.
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