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Though it will go down in history as the band that spawned the precocious, bed-headed manchild David Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown was actually one the strongest groups to emerge from the alt-country/”no depression” glut of the mid- ’90s. Membership-wise, the North Carolina band suffered from revolving-door syndrome, the only two constants being singer-songwriter Adams and vocalist-fiddler…

Like many singer-songwriters with roots-music sensibilities who emerged in the ’90s, Richard Buckner was initially embraced by the alt-country camp. Nevertheless, the enigmatic artist soon outlined his own realm of moody, art-damaged country-folk and stirring, fractured poeticism. The California native bowed in 1995 with Bloomed, which he recorded in Lubbock with that Texas town’s eminent…

No man is an island, but Jay Farrar has made a pretty good go at it. “When in doubt, move on, no need to sort it out,” sang Farrar in “Drown,” a near hit from Son Volt’s debut album, Trace. The sentiment seemed to be the only explanation for the taciturn, inscrutable songwriter’s abrupt departure…

Blue Rodeo exemplifies the old ironic adage about Canadian bands doing Americana better than Americans: the Toronto group ably shouldered that mantle from predecessors like the Band and Neil Young. Unlike those artists, however, Blue Rodeo has had only limited US success. Crossing the border is like entering a new dimension — while the group…

The Figgs have certainly had their share of foul luck with record labels, but the biggest thing working against the long-running group from upstate New York might simply be the difficulty in categorizing the group or tethering it to any specific scene. Throughout a long history (starting in 1987), the Figgs have been a word-of-mouth…