While you may not agree that every song deserves a spot on this list, we hope you'll agree that alt-country deserves its place cemented in the history books.
"Up until I was about 9 years old, I didn't think about where songs came from. I thought about the singers, I didn't think about the creation of the songs."
In celebration of the third anniversary of the reopening of Kings Theatre, Isbell and McMurtry traveled to Brooklyn, N.Y., for a night of rock 'n' roll.
It's hard enough defining what exactly "country music" is nowadays, let alone trying to pinpoint who fits into its finer sub-genres. But when critics' brains fail to churn out worthy explanations, there is always a failsafe: Turn to the music.