66 mixes taggedalt-country

An alternative country/indie mix featuring Uncle Tupelo, The Hold Steady, and Heatmiser.

A blue plate special of a mix featuring music by Justin Townes Earle, The Avett Brothers and the Lumineers

You ever just lay around and think about what songs you'd want in the soundtrack to your life? I think every music lover does. Mine is everchanging and has about 54 volumes so far.

I made this mix for my friend Joe for his 7 hour drive home to Aberdeen, SD.

Pure and unrefined. The love, the depression, the hopefulness -- all the things that tap into a true Midwesterner's soul. Some you know, some you may not.

As North Americana as apple pie: From The Dirty 30s' Ottawa, Ontario to Danny Click's Austin, Texas to the late Duane Jarvis' Portland, Oregon / Los Angeles, California.

Remember those days when the floodwaters came. As he mended the wire fence in the downpour, droplets striking in the empty whiskey bottle.

countryside, dry rains, ghosts, imagine woods and deserts, gardens and paths, vague dreams, lost love ...it's an incomplete set of themes that are present in this unusual, rather elegiacal, but at the same time philosophical collection. mainly alt-country 33 tracks including Bill Callahan, Woven Hand and Neil Young.

10 tracks including Julia Holter, Sharon Van Etten and Marian Call. Image: skumpia (by anka_zhuravleva)

It's springtime in Missouri! This is a soundtrack for blooming magnolia trees and front porch drinkin'. With Missouri's own Capybara and Grisly Hand, and the likes of Real Estate.

Tracks by artists playing Wildwood Promotions shows in Brighton UK over the next few months. Includes Woody Pines, Black Twig Pickers and Otis Gibbs. www.wildwoodpromotions.tumblr.com

10 tracks from 2012, as usual!