Best alt-country & americana music according to redditors

If you actually liked this, pick up Straight to Hell by Hank Williams III.

He's a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll and a little bit crazy

is this really a deal?

https://www.amazon.com/Yankee-Hotel-Foxtrot-Vinyl-Wilco/dp/B000063TE5 has it for $21

That Ryan Adams is a couple bucks cheaper on Amazon at the moment.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000W1V83U/ref=pd_aw_sim_15_3?ie=UTF8

Another few soundtracks that are fantastic:

Natural Born Killers

The Crow

Donny Darko

JD Crowe and the New South - Rounder 0044 also called the Brown Album

Hot Rize - So Long of a Journey

Here Today - Self Titled

Muleskinner - A Potpourri of Bluegrass

The Steeldrivers - self titled

Seldom Scene - Act One

Blue Highway - Marbletown

Larry Sparks - Classic Bluegrass

Dan Tyminski - Wheels

Lonesome River Band - Old Country Town

Country Gazette - Hello Operator

Chril Thile and Micheal Daves - Sleep With One Eye Open

Okay, I tried to keep it to ten, but I can't. I also kept it to albums and not compilations or collections.

If that was the case... I would add these two

25 Years of Rounder

Flatt and Scruggs - The Complete Mercury Sessions

And there's SO many albums I missed.

Uncle Tupelo. You might start with their anthology 89/93.

Someone already mentioned Townes Van Zandt. I'd start with his live record Live at the Old Quarter.

You might also enjoy Guy Clark. You can get his first two CDs for one price here.

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|name|Hank Williams III|
|about artist|Shelton Hank Williams (born December 12, 1972 in Nashville Tennesee) is an American musician. He is sometimes credited as Hank III or Hank 3. The grandson of Hank Williams and the son of Hank Williams Jr., he spent much of his early years playing drums in metal and punk rock bands. In 1996, child support payments led Hank III to sign a contract with Music City giant Curb. Three Hanks: Men With Broken Hearts was issued shortly thereafter, which brought the voices of all three generations of Williams men together. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Hank Williams III))|
|album|Straight to Hell, released Feb 2006|
|track|Low Down|
|images|album image, artist image|
|links|track on amazon, album on amazon|
|tags|country, outlawcountry, cowpunk, altcountry|
|similar|Bob Wayne, Assjack, Wayne Hancock, David Allan Coe, Hellbound Glory|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 144,154, lastfm plays: 3,639,133, youtube plays: 18,380, radd.it score: 16.25|


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this one

It's no Krispy Kreme donut, but...

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This is really good. Bluegrass isn't my favourite genre, but when done well, and against other compositions like this, I find I sometimes really like/respect how it's done. This actually does an admirable job. About the only negative would be that there's no real break in it to emulate the change in dynamics from the original. And yet...it still works, so it's not really a negative. This may be one of the best covers I've heard, possibly because they're not even trying to emulate Gilmour's playing.

If you like this, you should love this album (note that you can get it at the cheaper prices used...that new price is insane...it was $14 when I got it):

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You're going to let that stop you? Come on, you're more resourceful than that.

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All of them in-stock.

http://www.amazon.com/Jacksonville-City-Nights-Vinyl-Adams/dp/B000AOFB7S Up for about $24 on Amazon.

I was pretty bummed out about it.

What's weird is that Pink Floyd seem to be the progenitors of a whole new subgenre of covers: Covers of entire albums. I have three.

• Rebuild the Wall, by Luther Wright and the Wrongs, which is an astonishingly good bluegrass rendition;
  
  
• Dub Side of the Moon, a reggae/dub take on DSOTM. Fun bit: the repeated song starting "Money" is a bong bubbling instead of a cash register.
  
  plus the Lips one.

The famous (within the bluegrass community anyway) Bluegrass band Hot Rize would alternate sets with their alter-egos Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers, a kitschy country band.

While Hot Rize would perform in the traditional suitcoat style that many Bluegrass bands would wear, Red Knuckles wore lots of fringe and bright sateen shirts - he even had fringe on the neck of his guitar. Red Knuckles would also rag on Hot Rize for playing that "itchy scratchy" music - which was what the audience came to see.

Red Knuckles was damn entertaining, with excellent musicianship, humor and a willingness to try genres and do covers of other bands, something that the purists would wail and gnash their teeth if Hot Rize tried. Red Knuckles actually did a fake commercial a'la late night television for an album of rock and roll standards in a traditional country style (Not Shania, more like old Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard). The song that comes to memory when I reminisce was "Hey Joe" done to an upbeat country standard.

Of course, if you find that interesting, I highly recommend Luther Wright and the Wrongs song-by-song cover of Pink Floyd's "the Wall" Album done in a country/bluegrass style.

Sackcloth 'N' Ashes
-- Sixteen Horsepower

I really love the song Black Soul Choir.

Oliver Stone's movie "Natural Born Killers" has Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) switch the wording to "catch a redneck by his toe" and the sample of which can heard on one of the most underrated soundtrack albums of all time assembled by no less than Trent Reznor

https://open.spotify.com/album/3xMz73a6wKzu4pmF1mYRtU

https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Born-Killers-Soundtrack-Oliver/dp/B000001Y6N

You're all wrong. Natural Born Killers. Groundbreaking use of contemporary alternative rock and classic tunes. Produced by Trent Reznor.

Closest thing you'll find to Dylan is Woody Guthrie. And even that's not entirely accurate. I'd recommend this album. Bob is in a class by himself.

However, if you're feeling that "great songwriter who can't sing a lick" vibe, I'd second the recommendations of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Townes Van Zant. (I think all those albums are on Spotify, BTW.)