Alt-Country Playlist

Alt-Country — Alternative country is a loosely defined subgenre of country music that includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music, mainstream country rock, and country pop.

🔒 The top 10 are this genre's must-play anthems — the biggest hits no DJ leaves out — so they stay pinned. Tap 🔀 and everything from #11 down refreshes into a fresh mix (from a pool of 154).

1. This Is How We Do Things In The Country — Slim Cessna's Auto Club
2. Cranston — Slim Cessna's Auto Club
3. Red Pirate Of The Prairie — Slim Cessna's Auto Club
4. The Night We Met — Lord Huron
5. Far from Any Road — The Handsome Family
6. In Hell I'll Be in Good Company — The Dead South
7. The Pirate's Gospel — Alela Diane
8. Meet Me in the Woods — Lord Huron
9. Wagon Wheel — Old Crow Medicine Show
10. Civilian — Wye Oak
11. Ten Million Slaves — Otis Taylor
12. Every Time the Sun Comes Up — Sharon Van Etten
13. Love Like Ghosts — Lord Huron
14. Vagabond — Caamp
15. Old Number Seven — The Devil Makes Three
16. The Yawning Grave — Lord Huron
17. Your Rocky Spine — Great Lake Swimmers
18. Black Soul Choir — 16 Horsepower
19. Brimstone Rock — 16 Horsepower
20. Luckiest Man — The Wood Brothers
21. Matty Groves — Fairport Convention
22. Dollar Bill Blues — Townes Van Zandt
23. There's A Light — Shirley Ann Lee
24. Wait so Long — Trampled by Turtles
25. Baltimore Blues No. 1 — Deer Tick
26. Kick Drum Heart — The Avett Brothers
27. Tarifa — Sharon Van Etten
28. This Year — The Mountain Goats
29. You Don't Care for Me Enough to Cry — John Moreland
30. Honey You — The Dead South
31. Afraid of Nothing — Sharon Van Etten
32. Eye Of The Tiger — The Rural Alberta Advantage
33. North Country Blues — Bob Dylan
34. Devil's Spoke — Laura Marling
35. I And Love And You — The Avett Brothers
36. Our Love — Sharon Van Etten
37. Orange Juice — The Wave Pictures
38. Old devils — William Elliott Whitmore
39. Bringin Home the Rain — The Builders and the Butchers
40. Graves — Whiskey Shivers
41. Wishing Well — The Dead South
42. Ain't No Grave — Crooked Still
43. Laundry Room — The Avett Brothers
44. Psycho girls & psycow boys — Philippe Cohen Solal
45. Seven Hells — Brown Bird
46. Go Tell the Women — Grinderman
47. Country Death Song — Violent Femmes
48. Blood On The Bluegrass — Legendary Shack Shakers
49. Head Full Of Doubt/Road Full Of Promise — The Avett Brothers
50. Blood Sweat & Murder — Scott H. Biram
51. Fuck the Government, I Love You — The Burning Hell
52. Bill McCai — The Coral
53. Black Elevator-Black Dresses — The Builders and the Butchers
54. Big Cheeseburgers & Good French Fries — Blaze Foley
55. Moonshiner — Uncle Tupelo
56. Parted Ways — Heartless Bastards
57. They Can't Kill Us All — Apes of the State
58. Shady Grove — Among The Oak & Ash
59. Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women — Jim Croce
60. For an Old Kentucky Anarchist — The Orphans
61. Proudhon in Manhattan — Wingnut Dishwashers Union
62. Harmony Parking Lot Song — Johnny Hobo And The Freight Trains
63. Caleb Meyer — Gillian Welch
64. Muck and Mire — Brown Bird
65. I'm in Love — S.G. Goodman
66. Heart's Too Heavy — John Moreland
67. We'll Get Arrested or Shot — Pat The Bunny
68. Oh, Girl — Hackensaw Boys
69. Black River Blues — .357 String Band
70. Waiting For The Sun — The Jayhawks
71. Crustfall — Days N Daze
72. Drunken Hearted Man — The Devil Makes Three
73. Bless Your Soul — The Bones of J.R. Jones
74. I'm Going to Work On Maggie's Farm Forever — Goodnight, Texas
75. Waiting Around to Die — The Goddamn Gallows
76. Shoulda' Known Better — Possessed by Paul James
77. Punk Rock Is a Full Time Job — Not Half Bad
78. Hymn #35 — Joe Pug
79. Here — Jon and Roy
80. Stone walls — Three Tall Pines
81. Down On A Bender — .357 String Band
82. Sanchez — Calexico
83. Take Me With You (When You Go) — The Jayhawks
84. Conservative, Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males — Todd Snider
85. The Long Cut — Uncle Tupelo
86. Oligarchy — The Haymarket Squares
87. Mr. Skeleton — The Pine Box Boys
88. The Dethbridge in Lethbridge — The Rural Alberta Advantage
89. 56, Ar — The Pine Box Boys
90. More Brother Rides — Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
91. I Hate Everything — Just Nick
92. Still Be Around — Uncle Tupelo
93. Glory — Chuck Ragan
94. Two Angels — The Jayhawks
95. Alabama Chicken — Sean Hayes
96. Jacksonville Skyline — Whiskeytown
97. Ragz n Bonez — The Goddamn Gallows
98. Martin's Song — The Jayhawks
99. Lightning From the North — .357 String Band
100. Losing Side of Twenty Five — American Aquarium

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