Brett Terry is a singer/songwriter and guitarist based in Mystic, CT. He has been writing songs for almost 20 years and performs in a variety of bands. Recently, he has begun to focus on a 4 CD retrospective of newly recorded versions of all his songs, most of which will be featured on www.brettsongs.com.

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Sitting in his Seattle-area home, Casey Frazier quickly changes the albums on his record player. Switching from Pink Floyd to Ernest Tubbs, it's obvious his influences reach far and wide. He settles on "Hotel Chateu" from Elton John, whom he calls "a truly great player." One album into his career, Frazier has given breath to an engaging batch of... [+] Read More

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Folk-punk singer/songwriter Elliott Smith rose from indie obscurity to mainstream success in 1997 on the strength of "Miss Misery," his Academy Award-nominated song from the film Good Will Hunting. A native of Portland, OR, Smith began writing and recording his first songs at age 14, later becoming a fixture of the city's thriving music scene;... [+] Read More

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A gifted songwriter whose lyrics paint sometimes witty, often poignant portraits of characters often unaware of how their lives have gone wrong, Freedy Johnston seemingly appeared out of nowhere in the early '90s and quickly established himself as one of the most acclaimed new singer/songwriters of the day. Johnston was born in 1961 in Kinsley,... [+] Read More

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James Blunt sought entry into the music industry upon finishing four years in the Army. At 2003's South by Southwest conference, Blunt caught the attention of songwriter/producer Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera, Pink), who signed him to her Custard label. Back to Bedlam, Blunt's debut album, was produced in large part by Tom Rothrock (Beck,... [+] Read More

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Jesse Harris first came into the public's eye as a guitarist and songwriter on Norah Jones' 2002 Grammy-winning album Come Away With Me, but his musical career dates back well before his collaborations with Miss Jones. A native New Yorker, Harris grew up studying classical piano and teaching himself guitar, focusing on the songwriting end first,... [+] Read More

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Singer/songwriter Joe Pernice is usually tossed in with alternative country-rock artists because of the melancholy twang of his groups the Scud Mountain Boys and the Pernice Brothers. However, his sweet, crystal-clear, and sometimes mopey voice and poetic, introspective lyrics are much closer to the spirit of Mark Eitzel than that of Nashville.... [+] Read More

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This husky-voiced country-folk singer/songwriter is very much in the mold of the Lubbock, TX, school of mavericks, including Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Richard Buckner is actually based in San Francisco, but the Lubbock connection is no accident. His debut album, Bloomed, was recorded in Lubbock, for one thing, with... [+] Read More

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Playing brittle and evocative alt-country with lyrics that draw powerful and sometimes troubling portraits of life along the margins of the contemporary American West, Richmond Fontaine is the brainchild of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Willy Vlautin, who was born in Reno, NV. When Vlautin was in his early teens, his older brother moved to... [+] Read More

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The Mountain Goats are one of the more unusual bands to find shelter under the ever-expanding umbrella term of indie rock. Hyper-prolific and militantly lo-fi, there are over a hundred Mountain Goats songs scattered across compilations and label samplers, most of them recorded (by choice) on a department-store boom box. Although many musicians... [+] Read More

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After spending nearly a decade as the drummer with the seminal Minneapolis alt-country combo the Jayhawks, Tim O'Reagan stepped out from behind the kit to release a self-titled solo album in 2006, a breezy and sonically diverse set that proved O'Reagan was as good at singing, songwriting, and playing guitar as he was at keeping time. Tim... [+] Read More

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A band with as turbulent an existence as Whiskeytown was bound to implode sooner or later, but by the time they did, they had one of the largest cult followings of any alt-country band. Most accounts traced the source of all the turmoil to bandleader Ryan Adams, a gifted young songwriter whose flashes of brilliance came hand in hand with a... [+] Read More

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Wilco rose from the ashes of the seminal roots rockers Uncle Tupelo, who disbanded in 1994. While Jay Farrar, one of the group's two singer/songwriters, went on to form the band Son Volt, his ex-partner Jeff Tweedy established Wilco along with the remaining members of Tupelo's final incarnation, which included drummer Ken Coomer as well as... [+] Read More

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