Country » Mood: Brooding
AMERICAN MARS: No City Fun
A pedal steel-laden, song-driven disc rich with gentle sadness, melodic acumen and knotty wordplay whose reference points fall somewhere between Yo La Tengo, Calexico and the Flying Burrito Brothers. In a just world, America
CD price: $10.99
JAMES LOW: Blackheart
Low is a gifted songwriter with a great, just-got-off-ridin'-the the rails, wayward soul of a voice...country tinged, sincere and emotive.
MP3 price: $12.97
AMERICAN MARS: Western Sides
“Hailing from Detroit, yet having not a trace of the Motor City rock element, the ethereal sound of American Mars is an impassioned and moody brand of indie-Americana. One might compare this to the mid-period work of Joe Henry."
CD price: $10.97
SHAWN BYRNE: But I Digress
Award winning, Nashville based singer/songwriter takes an expansive view on the possibilities of roots music with this stunning collection of beautifully produced, masterfully written songs performed by some of Nashville's finest.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SONS OF PERDITION: The Kingdom is on Fire
They play psalms for the spiritually dead. Running wide-eyed through the dusty attics of regional American music (country, folk), spinning tales of sorrow, madness, revenge and soul-gnashing woe.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
RICHMOND FONTAINE: Obliteration by Time
Americana from the Great Northwest
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
THE CROOKED JADES: Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait
Across the wide seas, distant mountains, and the vast emptiness of the soul, this soundtrack by The Crooked Jades emphasizes the lonesome in "high Lonesome" music, their old-time music roots reflecting the cultural melange and longing
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
PINEBOX SERENADE: Let the River Take Them Home
Pinebox Serenade continue to spread their dark, snake-oil concoction of folk, country, and rock with their sophomore release on Devil's Ruin Records.
CD price: $11.99
WILL QUINLAN & THE DIVINERS: Navasota
Will Quinlan and his Diviners imbue Alt-Country/Folk/Americana's classic hallmarks with introspection, emotional resonance and a truly original energy.
CD price: $9.99
HONKY TONK HUSTLAS: Hallways of the Always
High-Octane Honky-Tonk from the Heart of Dixie
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
THOSE POOR BASTARDS: The Plague
A carnival of infirmity and disgust.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE BEAU ROLAND BAND: The Road to Wichita
Smoothly easing its way out of the genre trap, the Beau Roland Band is a little bit old-time waltz and a little bit indie pop mixed with a heavy dose of the down-home auditory aesthetics associated with classic country.
MP3 price: $9.99
ANDERS PARKER: 14th and Division, Live in Portland, Oregon
Live album from the lo fi melancholic americana guitar noise wizard.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THEODORE: Songs for the Weary
What it might sound like if Raymond Carver wrote some songs for a dirty country rock band that was playing at his favorite bar for a one-nighter and then they never stopped.
MP3 price: $12.97
MICE AND RIFLES: Beginner's Luck
The Austin quintet’s dusty ballads cut with a sardonic edge with whip-smart lyrics and hypnotic croon accented by pedal steel.
MP3 price: $4.99
THE HAPPY TALK BAND: There there
Funereal love songs from the fetid underbelly of New Orleans.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
A CATAPULT WESTERN: A Catapult Western
ACW set out to achieve two simple goals: write and record in the spirit of collaboration, and make an album they would like if they heard it somewhere. The result is engaging storytelling set to an unconventional score.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE NEWFANGLERS: Blood in the Pines: The Story of Hollis Sheppard
This very original concept cd sounds like sweat drippin' from the armpits of whores in Sunday sermon; sonically, its like Hank Williams Sr. tanglin' with Pink Floyd on a lonely back road in South Georgia.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BLUE DIAMOND SHINE: That Godforsaken Road
Jerry Renshaw of The Austin Chronicle says this is, "Country rock a la Gram Parsons with moody vocals and reflective lyrics. Stark has a keen and rumbling voice that makes for solid post-country grooves."
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
MICE AND RIFLES: All Kites Up
Giving a well-worn sound, namely old school country, a new spin.
MP3 price: $5.99
ANDRE CAMILLERI & THE BROKEN HEARTS: One Fine Day
Alternative country
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KENAN BOYLE: Kenan Boyle
Once described as 'apocalyptic', Kenan Boyle's brutally self-revealing and bruising songs also offer brief glimpses into a sweetness in this young country rocker's soul.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
ANNA COOGAN AND NORTH19: Sleepwalker
Anna Coogan & north19 draw from traditional bluegrass, country, rock and Americana to deliver tales of hope, heartbreak, and desolation.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CREECH HOLLER: With Signs Following
Blood soaked, Whiskey Sippin', Overdriven Appalachian Murder-Blues.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
HAZY LOPER: The Ballad Of Lucy Gray
Dark american folk with a strong gypsy bite. Banjo, guitar, fiddle, upright bass and drums drive a haunting path through the shadowy landscape of deep longing to create a raw, gritty and wild blend of eastern and western sounds. Moody and haunting.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE CROOKED JADES: World's on Fire
Innovative road less-traveled: rare & obscure repertoire, hypnotic fiddle tunes, haunting original ballads, inspired arrangements & eclectic/vintage instrumentation.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
KEVIN CONNOLLY: Mystery Water
New York Times..."Connolly’s music cuts a fairly wide swath through pop music culture, touching on everything from blues to folk to country to rock — and often a combination of all four"
Recommended if you like John Hiatt, Steve Earle.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
VERA DEIRDRE: Before Morning Arrived
Folk and old-timey. Kind of dark country music. Somewhere between a waltz and a funeral march.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DARYL SCAIRIOT: Saint Rose Parish
AMERICANA NOIR. Well, this album's a bit grave... except when it's creepy or hostile instead. Here's the power-point presentation: 1.Literate, thoughtful lyrics (economy-class philosophy); 2.Strong, memorable melodies; 3.Big voice; 4.Fire; 5.Brimstone.
MP3 price: $9.99
COTTONHEAD: Happy Tree
Alt-country masterpiece of understatement - a charming mixture of sweet singing and roadhouse-bluesy guitars. Sweet and tender, with shocking eruptions of vocal passion and six-string muscle.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DEADMAN: Cuatro Canciones
DEADMAN's debut E.P. is the sound of soft yearning, marked in places by plangent guitars that flare like sheet lightning in the darkling gloom of brushed drums and gently rolling bass. Collins' plaintive vocals nestle in a gown of crushed velvet..
MP3 price: $8.99
HIGHSPEED HAYRIDE: Thought You Should Know
A band that fuses several styles of good country music together to form a sound unlike any other in the scene. True country sound with real heart and a love for their music that is unparalleled.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BLAME IT ON TINA: Calling Me Back
Alt-country, singer-songwriter, rock-n-roll.
Recommended if you like Shawn Colvin, Mark Knopfler.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE HEADLESS ACROBATS: On Any Page
Alternative rock mixed with blues, country, and gothic.
Recommended if you like Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.CD price: $4.99
BEN SURES: No Absolutes
Uncle Tupelo meets Don Freed, Wilco, Townes Van Zandt, acoustic road wrecks, No Depression.
Recommended if you like Uncle Tupelo, Townes Van Zandt.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ANGRY JOHNNY: Finally Gave Up Missing You Today
Acid folk and Americana in the vein of Neil Young and Nick Cave.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
PETER BRITTON: Co2al Train To Amos
West Virginia mountain music that tells stories that could be called coal black/bluegrass, describing the shame of America: the violent destruction of the Appalachian mountains and way of life to get filthy coal.
MP3 price: $12.97
DAN WEINTRAUB: Rudderless
If Woody Allen played folk music he'd write a few of these tunes.
CD price: $12.97
DON RAWSON AND THE CONTRARIANS: Shoeing the Devil
Gritty roots oriented original music in the style of pre-Nashville country, country blues, hokum and old time mountain music. Picture the illegitimate love-child of Sun,Yazoo and Stax Records.
CD price: $12.97
ERIK BALKEY: Deadpan Alley
He's a moody, humorous, down and out, spirited, deadpan, self-conscious singer-songwriter and sloppy poet who isn't comfortable talking about himself in the third person but expects he'll get used to it.
CD price: $10.00
MARY GAUTHIER: Between Daylight And Dark
Southern gothic minimalism
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DANNY MACK (THE CEMENT CITY COWBOY): We All Fall Down
A dark moody cityscape. Tales of hookers, junkies and thieves. Very cool contemporary singer/songwriter CD written for the feature film of the same name. Starring Martin Cummins, Ryan Reynolds, Barry Pepper, etc.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LOU FORD: Poor Man's Soul
Charlotte North Carolina's alt-country darlings are back in 2007 with a new release. The disk is 14 previously unrecorded and/or unreleased tracks recorded entirely in Charlotte at Rocket 13 recording in 2006.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
JOHN BRANNEN: Scarecrow (EUROPEAN IMPORT)
Wandering from classic rock to alt-country songs, this is a modern full band sound country album with great writing, "John Brannen is an earthy troubadour who warrants comparisons to Dylan and Springsteen," John Lynskey, Httin' the Notes
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
BILL HEARNE'S ROADHOUSE REVUE: Heartaches & Honky-Tonks
Retro Country HonkyTonk oldschool Americana
CD price: $15.99
THE QUAVERS: Lit By Your Phone
The Quavers coax a luminous sound out of decayed samplers, walkmans, vibraphonette, footpedal loopers, tape echo violin and homespun harmonies. Like a space-age Carter Family, they weave low-tech electronics around songs sturdy enough to stand up even if
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JEFF FRANKEL: Sometime In The A.M.
Classic Rock with blues and country influences
Recommended if you like Lou Reed, Tony Joe White.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MARK LEGRAND AND THE LOVESICK BANDITS: Cold New England Town
While many Western-styled acts trade in up-tempo foot-stompers, these guys favor moodier material. There's a Southern Gothic vibe throughout the disc, with reverbed guitar and minor-key melodies trailing like smoke from an abandoned campfire.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.95
BROCK ZEMAN: Welcome Home Ivy Jane
Alt-Country/ Singer songwriter: Gritty story telling sung through husky vocals.
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
HANK CRANE: Hollow
Acoustic guitar-heavy Spaghetti Western influenced rock music.
Recommended if you like Johnny Cash, Motörhead.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAVID ROSS MACDONALD: Knuckled Brass and Bone
American Songwriter Magazine “Macdonald is one of those few songwriters like Nick Drake, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Josh Ritter that can captivate his listeners armed only with a voice and guitar.”
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
AMERICAN DEATH: Transmission Impossible
Country. Punk. Rock and roll. Tales for the common man. Tales of heartache and stories of americana gone wrong.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE NEW MEXICAN REVOLUTION: Theories of Sun and Rain
This album contains the sounds of gothic Americana, dark country and folk, with an array of instrumentation (clarinet, mandolin, accordion)
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
GERALD COLLIER: I Had to Laugh Like Hell
Gerald Collier's solo debut, I Had to Laugh Like Hell, positions him in the mode of a folky alt-country singer/songwriter, a far cry from his days with the Best Kissers in the World.
CD price: $9.97
GUS MCKAY: All About Flight
Set the cruise... dial your mood... from 1 to 10 feel the groove...now's your chance,forget those blues
Recommended if you like Tony Joe White.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THOSE POOR BASTARDS: Songs of Desperation
Those Poor Bastards play miserable and primitive old-time gothic country music.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
KEVIN JOHNSON AND THE LINEMEN: Parole Music
Kevin Johnson is a singer/songwriter in the tradition of Jimmy Webb and Harlan Howard who is equally comfortable with pop and country music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LARS BYGDEN: Trading Happiness for Songs
Hard to pin a label on Lars Bygden as he shifts effortlessly between pure pop, alternative country, forlorn ballads and introspection
CD price: $16.97
THE LEFT HAND SET: Before and After
Low-tech rock, rock 'n' roll with acoustic guitar, country with distortion, lyrics that rhyme . . .
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SPITFIRE TUMBLEWEEDS: King James Version
Get this and more @ www.txmfrecords.com/store Discounts. Good stuffs. A group of friends from Denton Tx. coming from such bands as: Warren Jackson Hearne and the Merrie Murdre of Gloomadeers, Record Hop, Super Love Attack, Current Leaves, Fabulous Badasse
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
PINEBOX SERENADE: Pinebox Serenade
Texas collective known as Pinebox Serenade present their self-titled debut of gothic Americana. It`s a loose array of dirgey mountain folk, dark ballads and gypsy tales, all graced with bluegrass elements and bedeviled with the irreverence of alt. country
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAVE MCCANN & THE TEN TOED FROGS: Woodland Tea
"A Canadian who delivers honest hillbilly music that's more country than much of the pasteurized schlock coming out of major-label Music Row these days." (Performing Songwriter Magazine Nashville TN.)
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
BEN WEAVER: Hollerin' At A Woodpecker
Like a hillbilly Leonard Cohen
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BUZZ GAMBLE & JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO: Cheap Tequila
The Rick Derringer country rock classic as sung by Buzz and Johnette, a la Waylon and Jesse.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE INGHAM COUNTY REGULARS: Ingham County Regulars
Rockin' Alt-Country-Tonk with nods to Johnny Cash, Steve Earl and Hank Williams Sr
MP3 price: $12.97
THE HAPPY TALK BAND: Total Death Benefit
Alt Rock with traditonal country and early rock influences from four exiles in New Orleans.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
JEFFREY FOUCAULT: Stripping Cane
With the release of his sophomore record Stripping Cane, Jeffrey Foucault presents a collection of bright, spare songs; an Americana bus-tour that moves from Country Blues to Murder Ballad, Twelve-Bar to Gospel.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.49
RAVEN WYLDER: Raven Wylder
Country Rock with Diva Style Vocals and refreshingly progressive themes
CD price: $10.97
THE ROBBER BARONS: Dragging The River
Shades of early REM, 16 Horsepower and Steve Earle run throughout this impressive debut combining elements of classic country, alternative rock and dark, southern gothic folk.
Recommended if you like Steve Earle, Uncle Tupelo.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE LONESOME SISTERS: The Lonesome Sisters With Riley Baugus: Going Home Shoes
Sarah Hawker, winner of Merlefest 2004 songwriting contest & Debra Clifford team up with Riley Baugus of Cold Mountain. Hard hitting acoustic lonesome female duet. strong harmonies & mountain sound. Includes Merlefest prizewinning song "Forgiveness".
Recommended if you like Gillian Welch.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE LONESOME SISTERS: The Lonesome Sisters
Sarah Hawker winner of the 2004 Merlefest songwriting contest and Debra Clifford. Traditional lonesome mountain sounds, with sparse instrumentation and strong, distinctive high female harmonies, clawhammer banjo & fiddle.
Recommended if you like Gillian Welch.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
MYSSOURI: War/Love Blues
Dark and wild, sexy and violent, bluesy and spooky, a mad and heavy tour through the fiery regions of the soul. Enhanced CD. Contains complete video for "The Floorless Jig," playable on your computer.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
COTTONHEAD: Pretty Flower Cover
"NY's Cottonhead has the uncanny ability to fuse classic country song structures w/more contemporary indie-pop sounds. A charming mixture of sweet singing & roadhouse-bluesy guitars." - CMJ Music Report
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TIM NIELSEN: Ghosts
Memorable songs in a country/folk vein. Seasoned, believable vocals and great textural guitar work.
CD price: $12.97
LITTLE SPARTA & SALLY TIMMS: Little Sparta & Sally Timms
Mini-symphonies with post-rock nuances and sublime melodic deliveries of lyrical fables.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
HOWARD MURPHY: 911-we Know
An elusive mix of country, blues, and unique rock.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $7.11
MASON SMITH BAND: Southern Roads
Sun, sand, and rock comprise the sound of the Mason Smith Band. Origninal music homegroun in North Carolina. Imagine a melodic mixture of Big Star, Molly Hatchet, and Merle Haggard. You get the picture, now get the sound.
CD price: $12.97
ROBYN LUDWICK: For So Long
Her words are beautifully impure, covered in blood, bone and marrow. Anyone with blood instead of sawdust in the veins will sit a few moments and drink in the extraordianry gift that for so long is.
Recommended if you like Stevie Nicks, Janis Joplin.CD price: $12.97
THE BROKEN PRAYERS: Crow
High Lonesome meets American Gothic in The Broken Prayers beautifully bleak and wind-swept recording, Crow.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE ARTS AND SCIENCES: Hopeful Monsters
Indie pop and alt country collide as one life crumbles.
Recommended if you like Pernice Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie.CD price: $10.00
TRACY MORROW: Morning Is the End of the Day
A stark, solemn collection of acoustic ballads for fans of of lonely back-roads, cheap whiskey, and maybe a little Leonard Cohen/Neil Young.
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Leonard Cohen.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DISTILLERY DAVE: Contemporary Country Classics, Volume 4
This album features a collection of country "tear-jerkers," both traditional and contemporary.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
DAN WEINTRAUB: What's Your Point?
Disdain is a good thing.
Recommended if you like Warren Zevon, The Cramps.CD price: $12.97
ANGRY JOHNNY: Overcome With Lonely
A broken heart soaked in whiskey, set to music and left to rot.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
DAN WEINTRAUB: Loose Ends
Dark, darker, darkest. Folk and country with an edge.
Recommended if you like Merle Haggard, Joe Jackson.CD price: $12.97
ESQUIMAUX: Tiger
Recorded by Steve Albini and featuring guest drummer Eric Stock of Stroke 9, Esquimaux's 3rd release is a journey down the winding rapids of southern rock, alternative country, and "no depression" rock without stopping to set up camp at either of them.
CD price: $6.95 / MP3 price: $4.95
TRACY MORROW AND THE MAGI CHIPPIE: Someday You Will Find A Home
A stark, solemn collection of acoustic ballads for fans of of lonely back-roads, cheap whiskey, and maybe a little Leonard Cohen/Neil Young.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DON HERMAN AND DON'S COUNTRY: Shoulda Coulda Woulda But I Didn't (Try To Talk To Her)
This is a Country song with a Blue Grass Sound with a Cajun Beat.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $1.00
OBLIO DUO + THE ARCHERS: Nuclear War Ep
"Gothic-Americana songs that stand tall, and should be great live." -Marquee Magazine November
CD price: $7.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
MARKUS RILL: The Things That Count
Driving rock'n'roll, atmospheric folk, and stark country with intelligent, moving lyrics. Markus Rill is an award-winning songwriter with a one-of-a-kind sandstone voice.
CD price: $12.97
THE DESERT MOTHERS: Nowhere Motel - Enhanced Audio Single
Mysterious, atmospheric Americana, combining influences from alternative rock, alt-country and jazz.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $1.00
THE GREAT OUTDOORS: Food, Booze, and Entertainment
Drifting indie folk rock
CD price: $17.50 / MP3 price: $17.50
JON ASHLEY AND THE LITTLE TRIGGERS: Walking Free
A cross between Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Cash with Dylan-esque lyrics and lots of barroom soul.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
R.G. STARK: Not Crazy Tonight
"Texas troubadour R.G. Stark— chronicles his border-state life with such aplomb that it's a wonder he hasn't been picked up on yet by the legions of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt acolytes." Harp Magazine
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
NINTH HOUSE: Realize and It's Gone
Dusky cemetery western blend, complete with rousing cover of Cash's "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $12.95
FARRELL SPENCE: A Town Called Hell
Farrell's first album, "A Town Called Hell", is a collection of rail yard ballads and lullabies for the lost and lonely, delivered with ghostly, heart-wrenching beauty.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
KING TOBACCOVILLE: Orleans Blues
A unique blend of hillbilly rock and cowboy blues.
CD price: $8.95 / MP3 price: $8.95
HOODOO DRUGSTORE: Misfits, Murderers & Madmen
More great americana music from the hoodoo drugstore on thier second release.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
VANCE JOHNSON: Country Pie
With his deep baratone reminiscent of Johnny Cash, this singer/songwriter lays down performances of old- style solo country based grooves.
Recommended if you like Johnny Cash, Don Williams.CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $18.00
KATE SIMPKINS: Stars and Sorry
A rare kind of grace and honesty in the very essence of her voice. When she sings, you’ll believe it. And Kate has a very rich voice, one that can easily be classified with that of Joni Mitchell, Jonatha Brooke, and Jane Siberry.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
MAT D. AND THE PROFANE SAINTS: Brand New Faith EP
A rough and tumble Americana/Roots Rock ride down the hard luck back roads of lost love, sin and salvation.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $4.99
STRAWFOOT: Chasing Locusts
Dirge-Country Pioneers, Strawfoot create a sound steeped in the dark history of America and beyond. Haunting, cautionary tales of outlaw scarecrows, wayward preachers, falling pianos and the devil soothe yer weary ears and save yer wretched souls
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
GOD- FEARING ATHEISTS: Rustbelt Sun
Think a ghostly Neil Young playing with the Jayhawks , 11 songs for late late nights, early mornings and powerful hangovers, these songs will soothe you through them all.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
THE DIAMOND PLATINUM RINGS: The Stoned And The Lonely
It’s the Mekons and The Damned, The Louvins and Nick Cave, huddled in a Nashville basement waiting for the rain to let up.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE CALHOUNS: Some Of Billy's Best
This album is straight country with a little Texas flavoring.
CD price: $12.97
THE ATKINSONS: American Gothic
The most rocking alt-country east of the Mississippi.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CRAIG FISCHER AND BLUE SAGUARO: derailed
Alt.Country debut by Craig Fischer and Blue Saguaro. Derailed manages to capture the sound of a relationship gone bad. With Guest appearances by Dennis Caplinger (HBO's Deadwood) and Eve Selis (San Diego Americana artist of the year 2005 and 2003).
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PAT DURAN AND FRIENDS: Halfway to Heaven
Featuring Halfway to Heaven, the Balloon pilot's anthem, and High Times, a fun Reggae-inspired song about the glories of hot air ballooning. Other tracks include original Traditional Country,New Country and Blugrass.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $6.97
CHRISTIAN WILLIAMS: Built With Bones
13 songs of gothic country, inspired by mortality, the Book of Revelation and the dark side of love.
Recommended if you like Dock Boggs, Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson.CD price: $9.78 / MP3 price: $5.00
PATSY MCGLAMRY-DEAN: Patsy's Country Collection
Traditional country with a Patsy twist. Country pop, country swing, country jazz, country folk
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $5.00
KRIS HOLLIS KEY: West Of Texas
New lonesome country with a western twang
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CHARLIE FAYE: Last Kids In The Bar
A soulful Americana record that runs the gamut from country-rock to gritty acoustic blues.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
WAYNE SUTTON: Walking Disaster
Dark-edged and raw, lyric driven songwriter from Texas.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
UNBELIEVABLE LUCK: Unbelievable Luck
Weaving melodic indie rock with a fresh take on folk narrative, the group presents 12 lush tracks with succinct stories and subtle insights. Their harmonized vocals and dual guitar melodies evoke the loss, love and life present in their lyrics.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DB THRESHOLD: 1000 Miles
DB Threshold's sound is warm guitars, expressive rhythms and melody, fueled by the search for the perfect song,driven by a simple desire to make good music.
Recommended if you like Wilco, The Go-Betweens.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
PERLA BATALLA: Bird on the Wire/The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Modern Folk, Like Joni, Leonard Cohen
CD price: $12.97
RIP CARSON: My Simple Life
Down home roots rockabilly with a traditional country feeling.
MP3 price: $12.00
TRAMPLED BY TURTLES: Blue Sky And The Devil
Original, non-traditional bluegrass inspired as much by Nirvana as by Bill Monroe.
Recommended if you like Yonder Mountain String Band, Charlie Parr.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAVE MCCANN & THE TEN TOED FROGS: Country Medicine
"A Canadian who delivers honest hillbilly music that's more country than much of the pasteurized schlock coming out of major-label Music Row these days." (Performing Songwriter Magazine Nashville TN.)
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
HAZY LOPER: High in the Murk
dark american folk. with alot of gypsy and eastern traces that tangle through the classic mix of banjo and guitar. two voices wailing sad and lonely tunes that haunt the rafters of the soul like wind whistling through the trees.
CD price: $12.00
BENGT WALKER: What Would Jesus Do?
Dark melodies haunt Bengt Walker's southern gothic debut, a tour de force of stripped-down songwriting reminiscent of Johnny Cash and Nick Cave. What Would Jesus Do will send chills down the spine, and a hush across the room.
Recommended if you like Johnny Cash, Nick Cave.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE SECONDHAND BAND: Cluck Cluck
Old-Time Noir, trio of banjo, fiddle, fife, various drums and bluesy vocals
Recommended if you like The Horse Flies.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
RED SHAG: red shag
rock, country, punk, salt, pepper, vinegar, tranquilizers and hot sauce.
CD price: $10.00
BARRY MAUER: Fantasy Life
Sounds like Hank Williams, The McGarrigle Sisters, Nick Drake, Paul Westerberg, Wilco, the Jayhawks, Buddy Holly, The Byrds, and Richard Thompson.
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
JOHNNY GRINGO: Red River Blues
Americana with an Attitude. Find out why Ray Wylie Hubbard calls John "a young poet with the soul of an old roots-rocker."
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
BOXSTEP: The Faces All Look On
Brooding gothic ballads with enormous fortitude, rolling grand pianos, menacing violins, country slides and bitterness... strong strings and soft guitars... angelic male and female harmonies...
CD price: $12.97
THE MAD HOUSEWIVES: Stories From The Alley
Achingly moody, unique roots rock. Stories From The Alley is honest and gritty and over way too soon.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
RICHARD BATES: Looking Back
Yahoo... You got to listen to these songs. Modern Country/Americana sound. East Texas Music from the heart with songs you won't forget.
Recommended if you like Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw.CD price: $9.95 / MP3 price: $9.95
HAZY LOPER: Wander On
Knowing, not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets; the album combines the sounds of american roots music with that of middle eastern genres, using a variety of stringed instruments, clarinets, harmonica, trumpet, tablas and voices.
MP3 price: $12.00
EUCLID: Carthage e.p.
Melodic siren vocals and acoustic arrangements ranging from lush to minimal, Carthage EP is a unique combination of melancholy/ethereal, gothic Americana and traditional folk balladry.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $3.99
KORBY LENKER: The Ghost of Whiteboy
Alt-bluegrass, emo-billy. Quite simply, Korby is the crooked Beethoven of the bluegass world. Whatever you thought acoustic music was, the game just got bigger. Hot-picking, smart lyrics, golden harmonies.
MP3 price: $13.97
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Nothing Left to Lose: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson
The compilations includes cuts by the Handsome Family, Califone, Calexico, Rebecca Gates, Court & Spark, and more all paying tribute to that prolific songwriter of Americana, Kris Kristofferson.
PILGRIM BEWARE: shanghaied and haunted
Haunting and exotic tales of americana set to loungy, smokey rythyms, featuring female vocals with accordian and pedal steel guitar, also some mandolin, harmonica, etc.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE AKIBAS: Queen of the South
New album from Devon country tinged rockers, proper songs, proper job
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DARCIE MINER: The Fragile EP
Alternative/Singer Songwriter/Soulful/Fun
Recommended if you like Patty Griffin.CD price: $8.29 / MP3 price: $6.89
MAT D. AND THE PROFANE SAINTS: Small Town Burning...
Electrified earthbound ambition meets rustic and rootsy alt. country flavored rock and blues...the Profane Saints romance you like a truck stop waitress from hell, and fly you off to glory like a Roller Coaster Rocket Ship...all-a-board and AMEN.
MP3 price: $9.99
BETH DAVIDSON: Writing the Wrongs
From Classic to Contemporary Country with shades of Blues and Bluegrass, Beth's unpretentious and sincere delivery connects listeners with an assortment of songs that are honest, straightforward, completely relatable.
MP3 price: $12.97
CHOP TOP TORONADOS: The Good Life
A mix of Rockabilly, Country, Punk, and Surf.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MIKE TREBILCOCK: Shield Millions
Keen Basement pop-smithery shot through with roots music.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
HAF BITTEN MOON: Haf Bitten Moon
A big voice captures attention early on and delivers a hard hitting portrayal. The slide guitar merges to perfection. It's Country with a classic Metal edge. Solid lyrics, a little blues, some southern rock, with a dose of Country Rock.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
ROY WILLIAMS: The Middle Class
How can it be new and old both at the same time? I don't know but it is. This album is about feeling feeling every line and living every song. These haunting vocals and music hasn't been around since early Merle Haggard.
CD price: $9.95 / MP3 price: $5.00
DRUNKEN PRAYER: Drunken Prayer
This is unapologetic American music--straight, no irony chaser. These sorrowful, brutish, hell-bent songs pick up a narrative thread that's too long been left in the dirt.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MAT D. AND THE PROFANE SAINTS: Mermaid EP
Electrified Americana combined with Alt. Country Rock and Blues filled with plenty of earthbound ambition and dark rural grit...Mat d. and the Profane Saints hit you like a Mac Truck on a dark highway, and romance you like a Vegas showgirl from Hell. Amen
MP3 price: $3.99
DEAD END ARMORY: Debut EP
Willie Nelson meets the Pixies...
Recommended if you like Neil Young, My Morning Jacket.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
DIRTBIRD: High Water Dover
Acoustic alt-country, slow, sparse and dark.
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Gillian Welch.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TRAILSIDE RANGERS: Peacemaker
Country Rock, Roots Rock, Alt Country, Alt-Country
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Hüsker Dü.CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
TRAILSIDE RANGERS: Promise and Prayer
Country Rock, Roots Rock, Alt Country, Alt-Country
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Hüsker Dü.CD price: $12.99
MILES OF WIRE: Can You Feel It?
Americana, Alt-country, Midcoast rock.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
RHUMBLE FEATURING STRONJA: Love
Rock, Country, Blues
Recommended if you like Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner.CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
WILLIE LEWIS: Colored Records
Raw Rockabilly and Hillbilly
Recommended if you like Hank Williams.CD price: $15.99
PATRIK TANNER & THE FARAWAY MEN: Done Broke Down
First effort with The Faraway Men. Roadhouse rock & roll, slung way down low.
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