There’s nary a dud on this one, each song a gem and strong enough to satiate country fans with a sense of adventure.- Mark LoreĤ5. By the time Green On Red released Gas Food Lodging in 1985, they’d begun sneaking more elements of country music-a la The Byrds-into their music, while still retaining their jangly pop prowess. The move inched them closer to the Paisley Underground with the likes of Dream Syndicate, The Three O’Clock, as well as Thin White Rope up in Davis, California. Green On Red – Gas Food Lodging (1985)Īfter getting their start in Tuscon, Arizona’s punk scene, Green On Red moved to Los Angeles and expanded their sound to incorporate country and psych-pop influences. Here are the 50 Best Alt-Country Albums of All Time:ĥ0. We’ve limited our selections to two per band, otherwise the entire Uncle Tupelo catalog would be here. The following 50 albums span 30 years of alt-country and stretch the limits of “whatever that is.” We easily could have picked 100, and we’d love to hear your favorites that we missed. The ’90s kicked off with the first album from Uncle Tupelo, No Depression, which became synonymous with “alt-country” thanks to the magazine of the same name. But 1985 was really a watershed moment for the genre with Green on Red, Jason & The Scorchers and Mekons all exploring traditional country through the lens of punk rock. The alt-country movement had plenty of pre-cursors in the folk-rock of Gram Parsons and the renegade country of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Neither did folky Americana acts like Josh Ritter, The Civil Wars or First Aid Kit, though we’re huge fans of all three. So country stars we love like Kacey Musgraves and Chris Stapleton didn’t make the cut. Alt-country is such a hard genre to define that the wonderful music magazine devoted to it proclaimed itself the “alternative-country (whatever that is) bi-monthly.” For our best alt-country albums list, we’ve chosen to focus on albums with significant country elements operating outside of the mainstream country music industry.
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