Reply to: Re: Time line?
>>>John Magee wrote:
>>>Who was the first alt.country artist?
>>Hanspeter Eggenberger wrote:
>>I think the line begins with Hank Williams. >
Christopher M Knaus wrote:
>How? He was Nashville, popular, mainstream, did adds for just about anything,
>and wrote songs for the sole purpose of selling alot of them to a
>mainstream audience. The man was country. No alt.
But, Christopher, Hank Williams' work has a greater influence on many alt.country
artists from Rank & File to The Waco Brothers than on Garth Brooks.
HP
