Alt Country CDs

Wilco (The Album) is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock group Wilco. The band has finished mastering the album and have released the track listing. According to lead singer Jeff Tweedy, the band will "allow [themselves] a little bit more leeway in terms of sculpting the sound...

With A GHOST IS BORN, Wilco continues in the melancholy and experimental direction of the preceding YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Those intrigued, if not downright fascinated, by Wilco's transformation from a no-frills alt-country group to an unpredictably inventive avant pop ensemble will find plenty to ma...

The Civil Wars is an enigmatic duo comprised of California-to-Nashville transplant Joy Williams and her Alabaman partner, John Paul White. The band are a raw and unique talent whose heartbreakingly sparse and beautiful melodies sit perfectly with their two agonisingly restrained individual voic...

Releasing the 'Neil Young Archive Performance Series', 'Dreamin Man' is the second of the series to be released. Dreamin' Man is a revisiting, containing different solo performances of his 1992 album 'Harvest Moon', before it had even been released. The mellower tracks like 'From Hank to Hendrix' an...

Ryan Adams is set to release his new album ‘Ashes & Fire’ on Monday 10th October. His first solo album to be released on his own PAX-AM label and Sony’s Columbia Records, the album was recorded in LA at Sunset Sound in Hollywood and produced by Glyn Johns, renowned for his work with the likes of The...

The Strokes: Julian Casablancas (vocals); Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar); Nikolai Fraiture (bass); Fab Moretti (drums).Recorded at TMF Studios, New York, New York.After the hype--and subsequent backlash--over the Strokes' debut album, IS THIS IT, many fans and skeptics alike came to real...

Personnel: Ryan Adams (vocals, electric guitar, guitar, harmonica, piano, synthesizer, bass, programming); Brad Rice (electric guitar); Bucky Baxter (guitar, pedal steel guitar, background vocals); John Paul Keith (guitar); Chris Stills (12 string acoustic guitar, background vocals); Greg Leisz (ste...

LOVE IS HELL includes the EPs LOVE IS HELL PART 1 and PART 2, available together on 1 CD.Personnel: Ryan Adams (vocals, guitar, piano); Greg Leisz, Johnny McNabb (guitar); Jon Cleary (10-string guitar, piano, Wurlitzer piano); Ruth Gotlieb (violin); Sarah Wilson (cello); Joe McGinty (piano); Ian McL...

The Strokes announce the release date for their highly anticipated fourth album, Angles, on March 21st via RCA records in the US. A new single titled “Under Cover of Darkness,” will be heard on radio starting in February. The complete track-listing for the album can be found below. More ...

Two albums in one package! Tracks: Disc 1 - Gold: 1. New York, New York 2. Firecracker 3. Answering Bell 4. La Cienega Just Smiled 5. The Rescue Blues 6. Somehow, Someday 7. When The Stars Go Blue 8. Nobody Girl 9. Sylvia Plath 10. Enemy Fire 11. Gonna Make You Love Me ...

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Wilco: Jeff Tweedy (vocals, guitar); John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche, Jay Bennett. Additional personnel: Craig Christiansen, Ken Coomer, Jessy Greene, Fred Lonborg-Holm, Jim O'Rourke. Rec...

The Chicago rock band Wilco release their eighth studio album - The Whole Love - through their newly launched dBpm Records. It follows the band’s 2009 Grammy-nominated Wilco (The Album) and was recorded at the band’s Chicago recording studio The Loft. The Whole Love features 12 new original tune...

Christchurch alt-country band The Unfaithful Ways release their debut album. It's been an unsettling road for the four-piece – the album was recorded and produced at The Sitting Room studio which was closed down after the September 4th earthquake. Then following the second quake on February 22nd,...

A limited edition of Ryan Adams latest album Easy Tiger now comes with the Everybody Knows EP Legendary singer/songwriter, Ryan Adams, has carved a successful and highly acclaimed niche for himself in the music industry with his own brand of alt-country. Ryan Adams' ninth full-length solo studio ...

Personnel includes: Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, piano); Ethan Johns (acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, mandolin, celeste, electric piano, harmonium, Hammond B-3 organ, strings, vibraphone, drums, percussion); Chris Stills (acoustic & electric guitars, bass, backgrou...

Like a cadre of musical brothers finally uniting after years on the road apart, Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Gob Iron, Uncle Tupelo), Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), Anders Parker (Vamaline, Gob Iron) and Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket, Monsters of Folk), gratefully deliver New Multitudes, an...

The Chicago rock band Wilco release their eighth studio album - The Whole Love - through their newly launched dBpm Records. It follows the band’s 2009 Grammy-nominated Wilco (The Album) and was recorded at the band’s Chicago recording studio The Loft. The Whole Love features 12 new original tune...

Legendary singer/songwriter, Ryan Adams, has carved a successful and highly acclaimed niche for himself in the music industry with his own brand of alt-country. Ryan Adams' ninth full-length solo studio album, Easy Tiger, will hit stores via the illustrious Lost Highway label. The new album is the f...

This deluxe version of Sky Blue Sky featuring the album on cd and a 45-minute film on DVD will also be available . The film, Shake It Off, captures the band discussing and performing songs from Sky Blue Sky at The Loft and features interview footage with Tweedy in his Chicago home. Wilco delivers...

Wilco delivers its new album, ‘Sky Blue Sky’, three years after the band’s last studio record-the two-time Grammy Award-winning A Ghost Is Born. Featuring the band that was assembled after the release of A Ghost Is Born, ‘Sky Blue Sky’ is the first studio album from ...

After a decade as the musical maverick leading The Black Seeds, creating and navigating the vaudeville circus that is Fly My Pretties, Barnaby Weir has taken a step to the side, taking the spotlight, with Weir to release his first solo album ‘Tarot Card Rock’. Twelve tracks of creamy ...

Ashes Of American Flags is a new film presenting Wilco live in concert during their 2008 tour - it successfully captures the energy, poignancy and musicality of this great band. Directed and produced by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and Christoph Green. Performances from five US venues: Cain's Bal...

Ryan Adams and U.S. psych rock zombies the Cardinals release a new record titled Cardinology - "the study of guitar astrology and jam technology. And with songs even." Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in NYC and produced by the Cardinals and Tom Schick. Like its predecessor Easy Tiger, wh...

'Jacksonville City Nights' is the second of an unprecedented three albums Adams is to release in 2005. 'Cold Roses', released in May, received high praise from the press and was considered by many as Adam's finest work as a solo artist. With its strong songwriting, solid performances and "old school...

As the title suggests, 'Family Man' is Shooter’s most personal and introspective album to date, focusing on his home life with Drea de Matteo and their two children, the endless temptationsof life on the road, his Southern heritage and upbringing, and his unique position among today’s country musici...

Reverie came to fruition when Joe Henry and his fellow musicians convened in Henry’s basement studio for three days of exploration. The result is an all-acoustic album more full of life – from the birds chirping through the open windows to the ticking and shifting of the musicians — than any Henry ...

Toronto-based singer-songwriter Lindi Ortega continues to receive praise for her debut full-length, Little Red Boots. The new album follows Ortega’s 2009 four-song EP The Drifter which was widely acclaimed throughout the folk music world. With a style described as rockabilly with a Dolly Parton S...

With its use of banjo, accordion, lap steel, and stand-up bass and its songs about creaking pine porches, shallow graves, prison shoes, and big horses, 16 Horsepower would seem to be drawing from the same ancient wells of Americana as the Band. The Band, however, handled this tradition from a wor...

Like a cadre of musical brothers finally uniting after years on the road apart, Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Gob Iron, Uncle Tupelo), Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), Anders Parker (Vamaline, Gob Iron) and Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket, Monsters of Folk), gratefully deliver New Multitudes, an...

Wilco: Jeff Tweedy (vocals, acoustic, electric, baritone, bowed, tremelo & 12-string guitars, harmonica, toy harp, synthesizer, bass, tambourine, claps); Jay Bennett (acoustic, baritone, E-bow, electric & lap steel guitars, banjo, tiple, piano, organ, Farfisa organ, keyboards, synthesizer, M...

Wilco: Jeff Tweedy (vocals, guitar, bass, radio); Jay Bennett (vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, harmonica, accordion, piano, organ, drums); Ken Coomer (vocals, guitar, drums, percussion); Max Johnston (vocals, banjo, dobro, mandolin, fiddle); John Stirratt (vocals, violin, piano, bass). Addition...

Wilco: Jeff Tweedy (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, bass); John Stirratt (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, organ, bass); Max Johnston (vocals, banjo, dobro, mandolin, fiddle); Ken Coomer (vocals, drums). Additional personnel: Brian Henneman (vocals, guitar); Daniel Corrigan (vocals); Lloy...

Wilco: Jeff Tweedy (vocals, guitar); Pat Sansone (vocals, guitars, keyboards); John Stirratt (vocals, bass instrument); Richard Parenti (baritone, saxophone); Nels Cline (guitars, lap steel guitar); Patrick Newberry (trumpet, flugelhorn); Nick Broste (trombone); MIke Jorgensen (piano, keyboards); Gl...

This 2-CD set from the controversial, self-proclaimed "Savior of Rock & Roll" is the first installment of a trilogy of albums to be released in 2005. This 18-track set was recorded with his backing band The Cardinals, and is a return to the unapologetic country-rock sound that he and his bandmates i...

English version contains the bonus track "Hypnotixed."As the album's title indicates, this is Ryan Adams' full-on rock outing. Here the former Whiskeytown leader/enfant terrible eschews all twang in favor of indulging his alt-rock id, and the result is a whirlwind tour through rock & roll history as...

"Titles never come easy to me, but this one did. Long before I recorded a single note I knew what I'd call it. That name, it was just in the air. Midway through it my wife left me. Just walked out the door...into the arms of younger man. We have kids, you know? Lord, what a mess. I was...well, what'...