- Ryan Adams
David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised by his mother and grandmother, Adams dropped out of school at age 16 and performed with several local bands before moving to Raleigh and forming the band Whiskeytown. Three albums and five years later Adams went solo, releasing "Heartbreaker" in 2000. A long-term resident of New York City, Adams is best known for his song "New York, … - Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. A solo artist as well as a member of the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, he is best known for a series of recordings which anticipate the so-called country rock of the 1970s and the alt-country movement that began around 1990. Parsons described his records as "Cosmic American Music". He died of a drug overdose at the age of 26. In 2004, … - Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller, born Stewart Ransom Miller II in Austin, Texas on September 6, 1970, is the lead singer of the alt-country band Old 97's as well as a successful solo musician. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas in 1989. Miller briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College before dropping out after one semester. In 1990, Miller joined Murry Hammond and drummer Benjamin Warrenfells to form Sleepy Heroes, a Dallas-based "alterna-pop" band. - Todd Snider
Todd Daniel Snider is a singer-songwriter born October 11, 1966 in Portland, Oregon. Best known for his wry humor, Snider has been a fixture on the Americana, alt-country, and folk scene since his debut on MCA, entitled "Songs for the Daily Planet", named after The Daily Planet bar where Snider used to play regularly in Memphis. On that album were the minor hits "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues", … - Caitlin Cary
Caitlin Cary is an alt-country musician originally from Seville, Ohio, USA. Cary began playing the violin at age six. She joined the band Whiskeytown in 1994, while in college at North Carolina State University. She currently lives in Raleigh, NC. Cary released her first solo EP, "Waltzie", in 2000. She has since released two full-length solo albums and an album of duets with Thad Cockrell. Cary has also collaborated on albums with other artists such as Tres Chicas, … - Joe Henry
Joe Henry is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Henry's first few albums were country or alt-country affairs, and earned mostly positive reviews. 1996's "Trampoline" saw Henry stretching out a bit, employing metal guitarist Page Hamilton (who demonstrated his own eagerness to stretch by collaborating on the album) and sounding less like country or folk music. - Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan (born Ryan Christopher Webb) is an American singer-songwriter whose music can be roughly characterized as alt-country. He changed his name to avoid being mistaken as a relative of Jimmy Webb and to honor his older brother who's now serving a 30 year prison term. Ryan also collaborated with Neilson Hubbard to form the band Strays Don't Sleep. Ryan's voice has been described as a "hushed rasp, … - St. Thomas
Thomas Hansen, previously known as St. Thomas and now performing under the name Saint Thomas, is an alt-country musician from Norway. He became a musician after quitting his job as a mailman after hearing music from Elliott Smith and Will Oldham. He formed a short-lived band before attempting solo work. His music caught the eye of a very small Norwegian label, … - Will Kimbrough
Will Kimbrough, born in Mobile, Alabama in 1964 is an American Singer-Songwriter, musician and producer. Kimbrough currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Will started his musical career with "Will & the Bushmen" — a popular college band in the eighties that produced a handful of albums and singles — and made it to MTV. He then went on to form the "Bis-quits" with long-time buddy Tommy Womack. - Rod Picott
Rod Picott is a soulful songwriter whose genre toggles between Americana, alt-country, and folk. His ability to tell stories that are deep and personal makes him an "underground" favorite. He moved as a child to South Berwick, Maine where he went to school and became friends with Slaid Cleaves. The two collaborated musically for years. Their co-write "Broke Down" was the one of the most played songs on Americana radio in 2000. - Justin Rutledge
Justin Rutledge (born 1978) is a Toronto-based alt-country singer-songwriter signed to Six Shooter Records. His debut album, "No Never Alone", was highly praised by UK music critics, prior to him developing a more widespread reputation in his native Canada. His musical style is most often compared to that of American alt-country singer Ryan Adams. In 2006, he was named Toronto singer-songwriter of the year by "NOW" magazine. - 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, … - Tommy Womack
Tommy Womack — born November 20 1962 in Sturgis, Kentucky — is an American Singer-songwriter, musician and author. Based in Nashville, Tommy Womack pens folk/ rock /county /alt-country/ indy songs — plays guitar and writes, a lot. He turns his true life experiences into song — witty, poignant and often self analytical. - 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. - Denison Witmer
Denison Witmer is an indie singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His first release was a cassette in 1995 entitled "My Luck, My Love". He has released five LPs, a cover album ("Recovered"), two EPs, and an LP with his side project, The River Bends, which Witmer plays guitar and sings for with a backup band including members of Philly-based alt-country band One Star Hotel. - 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. - Laurie Stirratt
Laurie Stirratt is most notably a member of the seminal alt-country band, Blue Mountain, in which she played bass and sang harmony with her ex-husband, Cary Hudson. She released an album with her twin brother, John Stirratt, who plays bass in Wilco, as Laurie & John in 2004. She is also a member of Healthy White Baby along with Danny Black of alt-country band The Blacks. - Chad Price
Chad Price is best known for being the lead singer for the pop-punk band ALL and alt-country band Drag the River. He is the third singer for ALL, having replaced Scott Reynolds in 1993. Although ALL has not done anything lately, they are still officially together with Price as their singer. While he was a member of ALL, he also formed Drag the River with Jon Snodgrass in 1993. They released the album "It's Crazy" in 2006. - Pete Krebs
Pete Krebs is an independent musician from Portland, Oregon, best known as a member of the punk-pop band Hazel, and for a split record with Elliott Smith. Having already served successful tours in the Northwest punk bands Thrillhammer, Hazel (two albums on Sub Pop records) and the rambunctious bluegrass band Golden Delicious, Pete Krebs has established himself as a prolific contemporary singer-songwriter. Much like his friend and collaborator Elliott Smith, … - Randy Thompson
Randy Thompson is a Virginia-based Americana,alt-country singer/songwriter. As of 2006 he has recorded three CDs. He is one of a few artists who have reached the top 40 on Americana, country, and roots rock charts. - Todd Deatherage
Todd Deatherage is a Dallas, Texas born musician and songwriter. In 1995 he formed the alt-country band The Calways with Steve Visneau and Todd Pertll, and they opened for such acts as Wilco, the Old 97's, and Reverend Horton Heat. Their album "Starting at the End" was released on Red Label Records in 1998. Deatherage began his solo career in 1999, and in 2001 released the album "Dream Upon a Fallen Star" on Summer Break Records. - Chris Collingwood
Chris Collingwood, born in 1968 in Pennsylvania, is a founding member of the power pop band Fountains of Wayne. His roles in the group include lead vocal, guitar, keyboard and he also writes songs for the band. Collingwood's major influences are The Beatles, The Zombies, The Hollies, Aztec Camera, and Blue Öyster Cult. His side project is the alt-country band The Gay Potatoes. He also toured with Ben Lee in 2005. Collingwood lives with his wife Linda in Northampton, … - Sarah White
Sarah White is an acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Charlottesville, Virginia, whose music can be roughly characterized as folk or alt-country. She was born in Warrenton, Virginia, and relocated as a child to Monroe County, West Virginia. When she returned to Virginia she became involved with the growing music community in Charlottesville and played in several bands towards the end of the 90's (White Trash Cookin', Pat Nixon, Miracle Penny). - 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. - Scott Tuma
Scott Tuma is a musician from Chicago who is best known for having played guitar in the pioneering alt-country band Souled American. Since his departure from Souled American in the late 90s Tuma has released two solo albums, performed and recorded with Chicago's Boxhead Ensemble, and collaborated with members of the band Zelienople in a project dubbed Good Stuff House. Tuma's unique guitar work is one of the primary features responsible for Souled American's highly distinct sound, … - Carson Ellis
Carson Friedman Ellis (born October 5, 1975) is an artist from Portland, Oregon. Her artwork is known for its subtle palette and dictinctive line quality. She is best known for her work on the album covers of rock band The Decemberists. She was responsible for the covers for their albums "The Crane Wife", "Her Majesty The Decemberists", "Castaways and Cutouts", and the "5 Songs" and "The Tain" EPs, … - Jack Hayter
Jack Hayter is a British musician. He was a multi instrumentalist with Hefner and is a folk singer-songwriter in his own right. Jack also played pedal steel guitar with alt-country band Spongefinger. Since Hefner went quiet in 2001 Hayter has been a member of ambient rock band Dollboy ...their album "Plans For A Modern City", released in 2005, was well received throughout Europe. Hayter played pedal steel on a large number of records by artists as diverse as Tram, … - Cassie Gaines
Cassie Gaines was an American singer. She was a member of female gospel vocal trio The Honkettes, who in 1975 became the backup singers for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. When Lynyrd Skynyrd was in need of a guitar player to replace recently departed Ed King, Cassie recommended her brother, Steve Gaines, who joined the band soon after. On October 20, 1977, a plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, … - Kjartan Sveinsson
Kjartan "Kjarri" Sveinsson is a keyboardist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. Being something of a multi-instrumentalist, he has also played such instruments as the flute, tin whistle, oboe and even the banjo, as well as many of the unorthodox instruments that contribute to Sigur Rós' distinctive sound. He also plays guitar. - Robert Charles Griggs
Robert Charles Griggs (1936-) is a country musician living in Hemet, CA. - Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her blend of country, folk and pop music made her a favourite of music critics, and a rising star on radio in 2003 with her debut album, "Failer", made popular by her hit singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates". Her style of music is sometimes placed in the music genre "alt country". - 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, … - 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". - Eef Barzelay
Eef Barzelay is a American musician, born in Tel Aviv, Israel. 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 international support for artists such as Ben Folds. - Jason Ringenberg
Jason Ringenberg was the lead singer of a band called "Jason and the Scorchers." He is also a songwriter and guitarist. The band had several minor hits, including "Golden Ball and Chain" and a blistering rock version of Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie." Ringenberg was especially influential in the mid-1980s when the indie country/rock fusion movement was at its height. - Christian Kjellvander
Christian Kjellvander is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Before going solo, he played in the alt country band Loosegoats. They released three studio albums and one EP collection, before parting ways in 2001. In the summer of 2000, Christian along with some fellow band mates and brother, Gustaf Kjellvander, recorded "The Painted Trees of Ghostwood" under the name Songs of Soil. - 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. - Hayden
Paul Hayden Desser, who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Born in 1971, his father is Sherwin S. Desser, a retired University of Toronto professor of parasitology and current visual artist. Hayden received post-secondary education at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in Toronto and received a B.A.A. (Bachelor of Applied Arts) degree in Radio and Television Arts in 1993. - 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. - Warner May
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