78 mixes taggedalternative country folk

Reach into a basket of folk and maybe pull out a classic curve ball. Kick it with Trotting Bear, Bob Dylan, and Keller Williams.

some of the less mainstream country you need to know.
enjoy!

10 tracks including music by Neil Young, Reckless Kelly, and Eli Young Band.

in the field, on the road, with a guitar. all kinds of emotional with band of horses, fleet foxes, the tallest man on earth and more.

Townes Van Zandt Ryan Adams Uncle Tupelo

Deep songs that make you consciousness expand.

Some of my favorite songs from some great garage nights. Hope you all like.

Sixteen tracks including music by Brown Bird, Dawes, and Deertick.

Starts slow, ends slow, breaks your back in the middle. Bluesy, rootsy, folksy & whateversy.

Fifteen tracks including music by Giles Corey, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Bright Eyes.

Original picture by http://www.flickr.com/craigcloutier. Thanks.

you should be picking me up //
instead you're dragging me down

And you know who you are. Fifteen tracks including music by Alison Krauss & Union Station, Emmylou Harris, and Catie Curtis, c. 1 hr. Okay, so some of these are more likely to be categorized as folk, bluegrass, alternative, indie rock or singer/songwriter, but all of them are at least country-ish. Which, as everyone knows, is the gateway drug to liking actual country. Cover art credit: Robert Frank, "Rodeo--New York City," 1954, via http://blog.metmuseum.org/americanstories.

Do you ever feel like the invisible fist-sized ghost of your heart's identical twin is trying so hard to beat it's little canary wings behind the right side of your ribcage?