Sierra spent years busking and train-hopping before the industry caught up. The songs sound like they were always there — like Appalachian standards you'd somehow forgotten. She's the rarest kind of artist: one whose first record already feels older than it is, and somehow more alive for it.
- Hazel Dickens
- Dolly Parton
- Django Reinhardt
- Billy Strings
- Sarah Jarosz
- Charley Crockett
Sierra Ferrell on tape
Late-night listening. Hit play and let it run.
Landmark records
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 · 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.
USA · 1996 — present
Drive-By Truckers
The South as it actually is.