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Popularity, influence and critical acclaim. The lists includes artists in the genres alternative country (ie. Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams), Alternative country-rock or "alt country" (ie. Drive-By Truckers, Uncle Tupelo), Cowpunk (ie. Meat Puppets, Mekons) and other related genres. Does NOT include Outlaw Country (ie Willie Nelson) or certain artists labeled as "Country Rock" (ie. Gram Parsons, Dwight Yoakam).
1. Last Dance - The Mekons 2. Lake of Fire - The Meat Puppets 3. Screen Door - Uncle Tupelo 4. Fuck This Town - Robbie Fulks 5. If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett 6. New York, New York - Ryan Adams 7. Hurt - Johnny Cash 8. Constant Craving - kd lang 9. Copperhead Road - Steve Earle 10. Outtasite (Outta Mind) - Wilco 11. One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket 12. Righteously - Lucinda Williams 13. The Funeral - Band of Horses 14. A Ghost To Most - Drive By Truckers 15. Drown - Son Volt 16. Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies 17. Ways To Be Wicked - Lone Justice 18. Murder (Or A Heart Attack) - Old 97's 19. You've Been So Good Up to Now - Lyle Lovett 20. Make It Last - The Beat Farmers 21. Yesterday's News - Whiskeytown 22. Don Henley Must Die - Mojo Nixon 23. Banditos - The Refreshments 24. Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash 25. I've Forgotten What It Was in You (That Put the Need in Me) - Maria McKee 26. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams 27. Waiting for the Sun - The Jayhawks 28. The Way That He Sings - My Morning Jacket 29. Gun - Uncle Tupelo 30. Shop It Around - Jason & The Scorchers 31. Gravity's Gone - Drive-By Truckers 32. Can't Stand It - Wilco 33. Shelter - Lone Justice 34. Guitar Town - Steve Earle 35. Is There A Ghost - Band of Horses 36. Let's Kill Saturday Night - Robbie Fulks 37. Star Witness - Neko Case 38. I See A Darkness - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 39. Till I Am Myself Again - Blue Rodeo 40. God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash 41. In Love With A View - Mojave 3 42. Eight Piece Box - Southern Culture on the Skids 43. What Made My Hamburger Disappear - Jefferey Frederick 44. Leavin' - Shelby Lynne 45. Hard to Be Human Again - The Mekons 46. Help There's A Fire - Jason & The Scorchers 47. I Don't Know - Hank Williams III 48. Factory Belt - Uncle Tupelo 49. Comin' Down - The Meat Puppets 50. I'm Gonna Soothe You - Maria McKee 51. Danko/Manuel - Drive-By Truckers 52. Dark Light - The Beat Farmers 53. Let it Ride - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals 54. I'm the Man Who Loves You - Wilco 55. Lights of Downtown - The Long Ryders 56. Even If It's Wrong - BR5-49 57. Cowboy Man - Lyle Lovett 58. The Other Kind - Steve Earle 59. Steal Your Love - Lucinda Williams 60. Windfall - Son Volt 61. Goodbye's All We Got Left - Steve Earle 62. Goddamn Lonely Love - Drive-By Truckers 63. Magic Toy Missing - The Meat Puppets 64. 4th Of July - Shooter Jennings 65. People Got A Lotta Nerve - Neko Case 66. She Must Think I Like Poetry - Robbie Fulks 67. Radar Gun - The Bottle Rockets 68. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - The Jayhawks 69. Black Soul Choir - 16 Horsepower 70. Rusty Cage - Johnny Cash 71. Blue Collar Suicide - The Refreshments 72. Give Back My Heart - Lyle Lovett 73. Barrier Reef - Old 97's 74. I'm Amazed - My Morning Jacket 75. Mississippi Mud - Hank Williams III 76. I'm Down to My Last Cigarette - kd lang 77. What Else Would You Have Me Be? - Lucero 78. No One's Gonna Love You - Band of Horses 79. Jacksonville Skyline - Whiskeytown 80. No Depression - Uncle Tupelo 81. Looking Forward to Seeing You - Golden Smog 82. No More Room in Hell - Grievous Angels 83. Crazy Mary - Victoria Williams 84. She's A Jar - Wilco 85. Murder, Tonight, In the Trailer Park - Cowboy Junkies 86. She's No Lady - Lyle Lovett 87. White Freight Liner Blues - Jimmie Dale Gilmore 88. Amelia Earhart vs. The Dancing Bear - The Handsome Family 89. Hot Rail - Calexico 90. Clogger - 16 Horsepower 91. Sweet, Sweet Baby (I'm Falling) - Lone Justice 92. Burying Geraldine - Freakwater 93. Blue Canoe - Blue Mountain 94. Gotta Get Back - Shelby Lynne 95. When Leon Spinx Moved to Town - Califone 96. Sick of Goodbyes - Sparklehorse 97. Cursed Sleep - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 98. Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars 99. Lost Highway - The Mekons 100. Harriet Tubman's Gonna Carry Me Home - The Long Ryders
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