Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
What bands sing about wagons? Old Crow Medicine Show? No worse than a Portland band with a fake British accent singing sea shanties.
i'd rather not go into a dissertation on alt-country and alt-country-rock ... but i'm sure you know that the former genre encompasses many staunch traditionalists who try their best to stick to old-timey and mountain instruments and songs
alt-country-rock, as i understand it, is rock n' roll informed by the spirit of country and roots music (not country music that exists outside of nashville's popular and modern conventions) ... wilco, DBT, and many of the more "popular" alt-country groups would fall into this category, i guess ... while OCMS, sun volt, lyle lovett, etc would be straight-up alt-country
and who ever said anything bad about it? defensive much?