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Sunday, September 07, 2025

VA - Alt-Country Round-Up Vol. 01 + Vol. 02 (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

Steve Earle - Guitar Town

 Aww shucks another Butterboy compilation to download . . . alt (ernative) country has always interested me from John Prine, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle to Gillian Welch and Neko Case, Nanci Griffith et al

ALT COUNTRY

Butterboy says: Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined sub-genre of country music and rock music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music. Alternative country artists are often influenced by alternative rock. However, the term has been used to describe country music bands and artists that have incorporated influences from alternative rock, indie rock, roots rock, bluegrass, neo traditional country, punk rock, rockabilly, punkabilly, honky-tonk, outlaw country, folk rock, indie folk, folk revival, hard rock, R&B, country rock, heartland rock, and Southern rock.

Here are the first of 2 Volumes, each 50 Tracks, of Alt Country songs from my collection. Some new, some old, some you know and some you may not know. But as always, some of my favorites. Enjoy!

Alt Country Round Up - here


oh you wanted a track list?
y’ere ’tis!

Track lists

Vol. 01 CD1

01 Handsome Family - Far From Any Road 2:44

02 Angaleena Presley - Wrangled 4:42

03 Green On Red - Easy way out 3:06

04 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires 3:37

05 Billy Bragg & Wilco - When the Roses Bloom Again 4:11

06 Lucinda Williams - Righteously 4:42

07 Band Of Horses - The Funeral 5:22

08 Drive-By Truckers - A Ghost To Most 4:41

09 Son Volt - Drown 3:18

10 Martha Scanlan - Abilene 5:40

11 Laurie & John - Ten Years Ago 3:37

12 Jayhawks - Waiting for the Sun 4:20

13 Steve Earle - Guitar Town 2:35

14 Mojave 3 - In Love With A View 6:09

15 Shelby Lynne - Leavin' 3:12

16 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Let It Ride 3:23

17 Golden Smog - Looking Forward to Seeing You 2:47

18 Lyle Lovett - Cowboy Man 2:51

19 Long Ryders - Harriet Tubman's Gonna Carry Me Home 3:35

20 Victoria Williams - Crazy Mary 5:15

21 Sparklehorse - Sick Of Goodbyes 3:32

22 Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues 4:53

23 Silos - When The Telephone Rings 4:03

24 Blue Mountain - Blue Canoe 4:24

25 Lucinda Williams - Blue 3:56


Vol. 01 CD2

26 Jayhawks - Blue 3:09

27 Buddy Miller - The River's Gonna Run 4:00

28 Lucinda Williams - Passionate Kisses 2:38

29 Steve Earle - Ben Mcculloch 4:09

30 Deslondes - Beautiful Friend 2:58

31 Kathleen Edwards - Copied Keys 5:07

32 Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed 3:46

33 Sam Outlaw - Tenderheart 4:36

34 Ryan Adams - New York, New York 3:47

35 Giant Giant Sand - Undiscovered Country 4:04

36 Infamous Stringdusters - Gravity 3:46

37 Audreys - Sometimes The Stars 4:32

38 Guy Clark - Hell Bent On a Heartache 3:34

39 Tin Cup Gypsy - Bury Me 3:49

40 Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat 3:09

41 Angaleena Presley - Groundswell 3:34

42 Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Soul Of A Man 4:16

43 Uncle Tupelo - Steal the Crumbs 3:43

44 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane 3:35

45 Green On Red - The Drifter 2:33

46 Gib Guilbeau - Sweet Rosie 3:30

47 Songs: Ohia - Almost Was Good Enough 4:28

48 Chuck Prophet - Love Won't Keep Us Apart 3:33

49 Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 4:44

50 Calexico - Waitomo 3:30


Vol. 02 CD1

01 Billy Bragg & Wilco - One By One 3:25

02 Old 97's - Timebomb 3:08

03 Whiskeytown - Jacksonville Skyline 3:01

04 Steve Earle - Telephone Road 3:42

05 Uncle Tupelo - Still Be Around 2:44

06 Drive-By Truckers - Outfit 4:04

07 Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On 2:46

08 Hank Williams III - Country Heroes 3:29

09 Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission 7:22

10 Jayhawks - Martin's Song 2:57

11 My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday 5:21

12 Gillian Welch - Revelator 6:22

13 Ryan Adams - Oh My Sweet Carolina 4:55

14 Blue Mountain - Soul Sister 4:55

15 Richard Buckner - A Goodbye Rye 4:15

16 Lucero - Sweet Little Thing 3:42

17 Bottle Rockets - 1000 Dollar Car 4:46

18 Son Volt - Windfall 2:58

19 Tift Merritt - Country Cemetery 3:57

20 Golden Smog - Cowboy Song 5:28

21 Easy Leaves - For The Darkness 4:41

22 Calexico - Let It Slip Away 3:10

23 Gillian Welch - Tear My Stillhouse Down 4:34

24 Steve Earle - Hard Core Troubadour 2:41

25 Wilco - Misunderstood 6:28


Vol. 02 CD2

26 Uncle Tupelo - Graveyard Shift 4:44

27 Whiskeytown - Somebody Remembers the Rose 2:30

28 Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street 3:53

29 Magnolia Electric Co. - Hold On Magnolia 4:44

30 Drive-By Truckers - The Day John Henry Died 3:48

31 Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It's Now 4:12

32 Joe Henry - Reckless Child 2:54

33 Fred Eaglesmith - Alcohol And Pills 3:59

34 16 Horsepower - Black Soul Choir 3:51

35 Avett Brothers - Hand-Me-Down Tune 4:07

36 Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life 3:08

37 Mary Gauthier - I Drink 4:31

38 Whiskeytown - Yesterday's News 2:52

39 Green On Red - Easy way out 3:06

40 Wilco - Outtasite (Outta Mind) 2:34

41 Hayes Carll - Kmag YoYo 4:19

42 Alejandro Escovedo - Castanets 3:28

43 Robbie Fulks - The Buck Starts Here 3:44

44 Steve Earle & Emmylou Harris - Taneytown 5:13

45 Mekons - Last Dance 3:11

46 White Buffalo - One Lone Night 3:29

47 Kathleen Edwards - Six O'Clock News 4:36

48 Felice Brothers - Bird On Broken Wing 5:14

49 Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire 1:57

50 Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner 4:23



 

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