Neil Young
Half a century of refusing to repeat himself.
Solo, with Crazy Horse, with Stills, with the Stray Gators — Neil has spent fifty-plus years writing the songs he needed to write, in whatever shape they needed to take. 'Harvest,' 'After the Gold Rush,' 'Tonight's the Night,' 'Rust Never Sleeps' — the catalog is a country unto itself, and most of Americana is still living in it.
- Hank Williams
- Bob Dylan
- The Shadows
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crazy Horse
- Stephen Stills
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.