ASK A COUNTRY MUSIC EXPERT

Dear Tyler, Alt-country. Please discuss. —©chattanoogacharmer Goddamn it... First question? How much am I getting paid for this? All right, “alt-country” was one of several labels affixed to one of several moments in history when publicists and journalists agreed to lump a bunch of artists/bands together as if their music represented a collective and purposeful backlash to mainstream country music, a genre that almost none of the people mentioned in this sentence listened to very much at all, which was fine because neither did the audience they were trying to reach.