Alternative Country in the Aughties - Volumes Three and Four

      As promised, here's Volumes Three and Four of the 2000's alternative country compilation (once again together as one file.)  Enjoy.




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Volume Three

The Man of the People	Tres Chicas
Heartbreaks	Ben Mallott
Nowhere, Manitoba	Lee Mellor
Black Hearted Ways	Tim Easton
Catch Yer Own Train	The Silver Seas
He's Alright	Kurt Vile
Last Year's Leaves	Blanche
Plainest Thing	Tift Merritt
Listen Joe	Golden Smog
I Miss Being Broken, Lowdown And Alone	Andy Friedman
Honky Tonk Livin'	Starline Rhythm Boys
Bongo Ride	Jon Rauhouse
Vamos Nenas	Cordero
Long Time	Deer Tick
Why Would Anybody Live Here?	The Sadies
When the Night Comes	Dan Auerbach
Volume Four
Revelator	Gillian Welch
If I Could Only Fly	Merle Haggard
Faraway (From the North County)	John Doe
The Song of A Hundred Toads	The Handsome Family
The Chorus in the Underground	Great Lake Swimmers
When The Well Runs Dry	Drive-By Truckers
Barricades & Brickwalls	Kasey Chambers
In My Own Mind	Lyle Lovett
Chinese Translation	M. Ward
Nobody Wants To Go To The Moon Anymore	Kelly Willis
Telephone	Shelby Lynne
Indian Queens	Nick Lowe
The End	Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Lonely Still	Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
He Reached Down	Iris Dement
Heartaches of a Fool	Phosphorescent

Alternative Country in the Aughties - Volumes One and Two

       In an early Seinfeld episode, Kramer and Newman debate whether or not Tuesday and Wednesday have a "feel".  I'm not sure where I stand on that issue, but I was thinking about the idea of feel when putting together this compilation of alternative country music from the 2000s (i.e. the Aughties).  Specifically, I don't really discern a distinctive sound in the alternative country from that decade in the way that I do when listening to alternative country from the 1990s.  My 51 year old ears may be failing me so I've re-upped my 1990s alternative country compilations to let folks compare.  I did not include any acts that appeared on the 90s compilations, but I did include some of the bigger acts from both eras that I left off on the 90s compilations.   Volume One and Two are both one download (and I'll post Volumes Three and  Four in a month).

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Volume One

Andy	Neko Case
Wave	Alejandro Escovedo
Fine Lines	Bosque Brown
Murder Ballad In G Minor	The Rosewood Thieves
Graveyard	Grayson Capps
Stop and Think It Over	Sarah Borges & Broken Singles
On a Monday	The Detroit Cobras
Gimme Back My Dog	Slobberbone
Closest (Look Out)	Matt Pond PA
I've Got A Tender Heart	Eleni Mandell
Why Go?	Thad Cockrell
The Way That He Sings	My Morning Jacket
Fair to Midland	Dwight Yoakam
Blue Shadows	Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Where Is My Love?	Lucinda Williams
The Bluest Eyes In Texas	A Camp

Volume Two

Melt Your Heart	Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
Six Year Drought	James McMurtry
Hoping Wishers Never Lose,	Richard Buckner
Fleur de Lis	Slow Dazzle
The Pirate s Gospel	Alela Diane
Railroad Bill	Dave Alvin
Tell My Mother I Miss Her So	Ryan Bingham
Sputnik 57	The Minus 5
Throwin' Away My Money	Wayne Hancock
Slow Swinging Western Tunes	Sunny Sweeney
Adelaide	Old 97's
Your Adorable Beast	Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League
Close Behind	Calexico
I'm Wondering	The Mavericks
Sap	Freakwater
Sing Me to Sleep	Allison Moorer