alt-country
Noun
Meaning
alt-country (uncountable)
(music) Clipping of alternative country.
Examples
Long before there was Yankee Hotel Foxtrotwas the genius behind Uncle Tupelo, as was a near-perfect collection of laid-back alt-country ballads like the brilliant windows-rolled-down “Windfall” and guitar-charged college rockers like lead single “Drown.”
In the alt-country vein, RYAN BINGHAM & THE DEAD HORSES followed up their disk of Willie Nelson covers with “Here’s to Taking It Easy,” and I’m still trying to wrap my ears around 25-song, double-CD, “The Guitar Song.”
Joseph Martens will be performing with his beloved alt-country band, Hindu Cowboys, on Thursday, June 26, at Will's Pub. His wife will join the band for that 8 p.m. show, then play later that night next door at Lil Indies.
The woman’s back catalog is full of edgy alt-country songs about mistakes made, drugs consumed, and lovers cast aside.
When he played with alt-country band the Scud Mountain Boys in Northampton, Mass., in the early ’90s, they arranged and recorded covers of Olivia Newton-John’s 1975 single “Please Mister Please” and Cher’s 1971 song “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves.”
Fans of alt-country can see him perform tomorrow night.