Aubadecast 2.4: Trees With Roots

I kind of gave up on "alt-country" in the late 90s, when the tidal wave of anonymous twangy college kids moaning about their tribulations as dirt farmers got too much to wade through. Now that the old preoccupation with 'authenticity' is out the window and it's all but openly acknowledged to be pretty much all about the performance of one kind of fiction or another, there are a lot of artists indiscriminately pulling together influences from the worlds of rock, folk, blues & country in some interesting ways. Here are some bits & bobs that have caught my ear for one reason or another: not all great songs, not all great performances, but all with some appeal. Enjoy. Everybody Lets Me Down • Ad Astra Per Aspera Genevieve • Proof of Ghosts Big Iron • Jon Rauhouse Lazy Suicide • Megafaun Good Living • Supersuckers Life Of A Fool • Paul Burch Blue Chimneys • Jerry Leger & The Situation Everything I Say • Vic Chesnutt Preach • Tom Thumb And The Latter Day Saints I'll Never Drown • Tim Fite Martha Ann • David Karsten Daniels Tear Down the House • The Avett Brothers Packing Blankets (Live 2005) • Eels New Virginia • The Lonely Hearts When It Rains • Bruce Robison Small Town Murder Scene • FemBots