Search - Various Artists :: Another Country 2

If you?re aware of the first critically acclaimed Another Country, you?ll already know that some of the finest, most affecting songwriting of our era is emerging from a landscape still recognizably ?Country?, albeit one without too many blonde-wigged chanteuses and still fewer Stetson hats?. Another Country 2 takes us deeper into the heartland of American ?Alt. Country? ? a place of otherworldly harmonies, stripped-down arrangements, plangent guitars, clanking banjos and a short-story anthology?s-worth of intriguing narratives. Not one artist here emanates from Nashville, though the rest of the country is well represented. There are beautiful, harmony-laced porch hymnals from New York?s elegantly melodious Cub Country and Georgia?s disarmingly intimate Azure Ray. There?s heart-swelling, arcane boogie from Brooklynites The Boggs and died-in-the-wool Southerners Iron & Wine. Elsewhere, Arizonan legends Giant Sand chip in with a slice of beauteous desert-flecked country rock, while North Carolina?s superstar-elect Ryan Adams and Austin?s bucolic troubadours Okkervil River tip their feed caps toward Dylanesque folk-rock. Another Country 2 showcases country music, then, but not so as you?d notice. These are songs that, irrespective of genre, you?ll simply want to inhabit. Like a tumbledown cottage or a beloved pair of boots; they have a lived-in charm that?s truly beguiling.