Townes Van Zandt
The patron saint of the kitchen-table songwriters.
Townes wrote 'Pancho and Lefty' on a kitchen table and changed what country music was allowed to feel. He spent most of his life broke, mostly broken, and mostly right about what mattered in a song. He is the writer every songwriter you love keeps a yellow legal pad open for. Steve Earle famously said he was 'the best songwriter in the whole world,' and Steve was not the only one who knew it.
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Hank Williams
- Bob Dylan
- Guy Clark
- Steve Earle
- Emmylou Harris
Townes Van Zandt on tape
Late-night listening. Hit play and let it run.
Pull the thread
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.
USA · 1996 — present
Drive-By Truckers
The South as it actually is.