Blog: Barryfest

Though Alt-Country has exponentially grown in popularity over the last several decades, it has rarely seen artists capable of pushing its boundaries while remaining decidedly within them. Even the very avant leanings of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , generally regarded as the sub-genre's creative apex, has been accused of representing more the preternatural evolution and singular ingenuity of Jeff Tweedy and Co. than an artistic thrust typical of the grouping as a whole.  This lack of a bona fide yet stereotypical success story has left a void that Cass McCombs - a nomadic folk, rock, punk hodgepodge of a [...]