alt-country

noun

alt-coun·try ˈȯlt-ˈkən-trē

: country music that is produced by performers who are outside the mainstream of country music and that is typically regarded as differing from mainstream country in being less polished, more original, and more eclectic especially in incorporating influences from such genres as rock, folk music, blues, and punk

Examples of alt-country in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Kinky Friedman, the tongue-in-cheek humorist and alt-country musician of the Texas Jewboys, has died, bandmate Little Jewford confirmed to The New York Times. —

Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 27 June 2024 When Uncle Tupelo, an Illinois band that was enormously influential on the development of the alt-country movement, broke up in 1994, four-fifths of their final lineup quickly formed Wilco. —

Al Shipley, SPIN, 22 June 2024 And among the most welcome transplants is this alt-country outfit led by Miles Patzer, whose visceral holler might make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. —

Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024 The Guide Music The alt-country band will perform June 15 at 8 p.m. at Songbyrd Music House. June 12, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. EDT Listen 3 min Share Comment Save Naming is complicated for Sarah Shook and the Disarmers. —

Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 June 2024 They’ve been name-checked by later alternative-rock acts and alt-country acts as well. —

Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024 April 12 leans more into Combs' alt-country and traditional country tendencies with folk group the Wilder Blue up first, followed by singer-songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin and then outlaw country artist Cody Jinks. —

Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024 Plenty of other moments rely on Mitski’s Patsy Cline inclinations to a far subtler degree, although the amount of pedal steel, fiddle and accordion played by Nashville alt-country veteran Fats Kaplan, the ace in her seven-piece band, is telltale about where this round of influences lies. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024 The last time the Los Angeles alt-country band put out new music was in 2012, with The Tarnished Gold, which was followed the next year by the archival release Desert Skies. —

Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2024

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