Tag: alt.country

• Tunesday: Lydia Loveless

  Lydia Loveless–what a voice.  Classic, yet transcendent.

  JunkChuck

  April 14, 2015

  Tunesday, video

  alt.country, classic, country, loveless, lydia, old school, rocking, sublime, throwback, traditional

• Tunesday: Lindi Ortega

  Another great, slightly under-the-radar singer/songwriter: Lindi Ortega doing “All My Friends.”  I picked this song in particular because not only is it a fantastic song by a talented artist with a mesmerizing voice, it would make the perfect opening song on a soundtrack of my nearly-finished novel, which opens with a whole lot of the…

  JunkChuck

  March 31, 2015

  video

  all my friends, all my friends want to see me dead, alt.country, country, folk, like dolly parton, lindi, ortega, Tunesday

• Uncle Tupelo

  I’m sitting here listening to Uncle Tupelo’s landmark album “No Depression” for the thousandth odd time–and I wanted to take a minute to thank Brian R. who introduced me to the band in it’s dying days back–oh–about 20 years ago. It took some urging–I thought Uncle Tupelo was a silly name and didn’t exactly rush…

  JunkChuck

  January 31, 2014

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  80s, 90’s, alt.country, and rold, anodyne, bloomfield, cat, classic, depression, fararr, indie, liberty, music, no, paul’s, pittsburgh, rock, son, sound, tupelo, tweedy, uncle, volt, wilco