Contrary to its public persona as the reddest of all musical genres, country music has always been purple. Country music has the DNA of liberal populists like Woody Guthrie as much as the Christian ...

The 1990s offered music fans an explosion of options. There was something about the decade that pushed songwriters to want to experiment. They created genres and invented new sounds that are still ...

A popular Lancaster alt-country band of the aughts will play in public for the first time in roughly a decade this week — and this time, they’re doing it for the kids. After six months of secret ...

Alt-country is a genre that really came into its own in the 1990s and early 2000s. There have been many instances in music history of country music taking a non-Nashville path, such as the outlaw ...

If you're going to nominate alt-country acts such as Flatland Cavalry, Red Clay Strays and 49 Winchester at your awards show, wouldn't it make sense to also nominate the sub-genre's very biggest stars ...

Bruce Tull, the guitarist and pedal-steel player for the popular 1990s alt-country band the Scud Mountain boys, has died. He was 71. Rolling Stone reported that Tull died on June 22 in Tulsa, Oklahoma ...