To be sure, there is the label of alt-country and folk.    From Wordnik.com.  [dulligirl Diary Entry] Reference

Is is automatically alt-country if it has a slide guitar?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yay, a new band to follow] Reference

If you are a fan of alt-country, you will like it, I wager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forest Fire] Reference

I just don't think "alt-country" specifically applies to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [You're Lookin' At Country] Reference

Performing a combination of rock, alt-country and pop music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pop Rock Folk Jazz Etc.] Reference

Now that alt-country is more well known, how do you feel about it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melody Riot] Reference

What was the name of Ryan Adams '1990s alt-country band? a. Son Volt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shawn Amos: WATCH: Pop Music Quiz - Singer-Songwriters] Reference

If you weren't going to call this alt-country, what would you call it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melody Riot] Reference

This week's music pick is a singer songwriter with an alt-country flair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

THE GOURDS The alt-country band from Texas released "Haymaker!" last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Out Guide for Northern Virginia, Sept. 16-22] Reference

In general these guys seem to be a little indie rock, a little alt-country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

I suppose alt-rock necessarily preculdes alt-country, so no “Chickamauga.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Ultimate Nineties Alt-Rock Playlist] Reference

MICHELE NORRIS, host: The alt-country band Son Volt is trying out a big new sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son Volt's Farrar & Co. Back With 'Search'] Reference

Yesterday, my partner asked me, “Where have all the alt-country flowers gone?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Crown Medicine Show] Reference

The Tuscon Weekly talks with and about the legendary alt-country band the Knitters.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2005] Reference

You put on two more folk albums, one distorted noise album and one alt-country album.    From Wordnik.com.  [A mostly true story about the Coca-Cola Museum] Reference

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The Old 97's are a band that's been pigeon-holed as alt-country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old 97's 'Blame It On Gravity': Taut and Delicate] Reference

Mink describes his style as “alt-country” and shows off his stingray cowboy boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference

For all my supposed alt-country/punk credentials, I'm still a 70s white girl at heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference

For all of "alt-country" 's shortcomings, Bruntnell finds what's great about it: melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propping up the bar (Music (For Robots))] Reference

Drive-By Truckers is the Southern alt-country rock ensemble hailing from Athens, Georgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighty] Reference

"The music business is upside down," said alt-country singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Music Festival Grows Up] Reference

Heather Browne: Expertise in alt-country, bluegrass, indie rock, local music, and classiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angora Holly Polo: The Gloating Hour: We Win at Life! And Trivia] Reference

My Morning Jacket is now the most exciting thing to rise out of the alt-country bin since Wilco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Sweeney: Everyone's a Critic: The Top 10 Albums of 2008] Reference

Band of Horses, Blind ­Pilot, the Greencards and Mr. Keen represented alt-country and Americana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Music Festival Grows Up] Reference

In recent years, Michael was invited to tour with alt-country heroes Son Volt and Lucinda Williams.    From Wordnik.com.  [HuffPost Reviews : Beyonce, Rihanna, Buddy Holly, The Doors, Susan Boyle, and More] Reference

Update: Remember when we mentioned that alt-country crooners Phosphorescent had their van stolen?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuli Kupferberg, singer of The Fugs, dies; Jilted promoter sues Ne Yo; California ponders Neverland state park] Reference

The alt-country band delivers a despairing ode to another summer that's failed to meet expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tamara Conniff: The Comet's Top 20 Summer Songs for Labor Day Weekend] Reference

Mark Olson left the alt-country polish of the Jayhawks in 1995 to travel down the musical fire roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: New Music for July 27] Reference

Thur 8/27 - Motel Motel, Mercury Lounge (from New York! and pretty great, sweeping, alt-country rock).    From Wordnik.com.  [Marissa Moss: Four Local Acts You Should Hear] Reference

The group strayed from their own collection of alt-country compositions on a couple of other occasions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Bialas: Denver Concert Review: Putting the Heat in the Band of Heathens] Reference

And we've still got such country-based originals as Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams and such alt-country good new boys as Ryan Adams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope For Our Country] Reference

In spite of his rough, throwback look, he's being embraced by mainstream country fans and programmers as well as the alt-country crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Willman: Jamey Johnson and John Rich Help Country Radio Get Real] Reference

Delta Spirit makes its musical home somewhere between indie-rock and alt-country, with soul-crashing vocals and a few creative instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delta Spirit's 'Ode To Sunshine'] Reference