Pistols, Hazeldine, Chatham County Line, Phil Lee, The Accelerators, 6 String Drag, The Ruins, The Woods and Thad Cockrell. But one band dominated: Whiskeytown – and before long it seemed like half the musicians in the area had served time in the group. Whiskeytown was co-founded in 1994 by punk-rocker Ryan Adams (vocals, ...
a series of brilliant albums under Welch’s name, most notably 1996’s Revival and 2001’s Time (The Revelator). Styles & Forms | Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival Personalities | Whiskeytown | Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival ...
country music’s past, even if it meant working at the margins of the current country-music marketplace. Key Artists Sam Bush & Bela Fleck Kasey Chambers Alison Krauss Uncle Tupelo Whiskeytown Styles & Forms | Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival Inside the Music | O Brother, Where Art Thou ? | Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival ...
rock bands that had found the punk format too constricting – most notably Uncle Tupelo, Blue Mountain, The Old ’97s, The Jayhawks, The Bottle Rockets, Whiskeytown and The Blood Oranges – had reached out to country music as a vehicle for the same iconoclastic fervor. Many of these younger acts looked to Earle and his generation ...
performers taking the pioneering spirit of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers and producing what became known as alt.country – Wilco, Son Volt, The Jayhawks and Whiskeytown among them – that came up with more exciting, if lesser-selling results. The post-Nirvana alt.rock scene was increasingly attacked by British acts as the pendulum swung. The Manic ...
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