Dwight Yoakam
Bakersfield, by way of Los Angeles, in tight Wranglers.
Dwight took the Bakersfield template, ran it through L.A. punk venues in the 80s, and made country cool to a generation that thought it wasn't. Pete Anderson on Telecaster, songs that swing and ache in equal measure. 'Guitars, Cadillacs' is still a manifesto.
- Buck Owens
- Merle Haggard
- Gram Parsons
- Buck Owens
- k.d. lang
- Pete Anderson
Pull the thread
USA · 1944 — 1997
Townes Van Zandt
The patron saint of the kitchen-table songwriters.
USA · 1953 — present
Lucinda Williams
Louisiana made audible.
USA · 1978 — present
Sturgill Simpson
Walked into Nashville with a haircut and an attitude.
USA · 1991 — present
Tyler Childers
Appalachia, unfiltered and unembarrassed.
USA · 1988 — present
Sierra Ferrell
Sings like she found the songs in a creek bed.
USA · 1984 — present
Charley Crockett
Keeps the bones, throws out the gristle.
USA · 1979 — present
Jason Isbell
Wrote 'Southeastern' and meant it.
USA · 1983 — present
Margo Price
Outlaw country with a working-class spine.