Son Volt

…Tupelo (forerunner of Wilco and Son Volt). Blue Earth caught the attention of producer George Drakoulias when he heard it playing in the background during a phone call with the Twin/Tone offices, which led to the band’s signing with major label Def American Recordings and to Drakoulias’s producing the band’s…

…of young country rockers, notably Son Volt and Wilco, lumped together under the banner “alternative country” in the 1990s, tried to resurrect the less glitzy side of the movement. But country rock in the most popular sense became a period style, left to evoke the 1970s, a time when artists…

… movement led by Wilco and Son Volt.