Americana Unsung

The true* stories of alt.country’s lesser lights

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Unless your band is The Supremes, The Ramones, or AC/DC and you’ve already hit on perfection, there’s no shame in adapting your art to suit the times, in evolving it to reflect your changing interests, knowledge, and personal development. Legacy artists have often found well-springs of creativity and challenge (not to mention commercial success) by…

Jeffrey Friedman

            Jeffrey Friedman, formerly the bass player of Storm & Twang and front man of The Fried Men, took what little earnings he got from a publishing deal that he’d lucked into upon first arriving in Los Angeles, and started a lucrative pot growing business out of his Eagle Rock…

HUCK PAXTON

Normally we at Americana Unsung research and write our own profiles of alt. country’s lesser lights. Recently, however, we received an unsolicited auto-biography from former Bloodshot & Yep Roc recording artist Huck Paxton. Not that we necessarily want to encourage this sort of thing, we felt this story was simply too good not to publish.…

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*Our crack legal team has advised us to point out that, despite the tagline promoting the veracity of the tales contained herein, none of the stories featured in Americana Unsung are, in fact, true; that the resemblance of any of the names or characters featured in Americana Unsung to people IRL is wholly and purely coincidental; and that any people or organizations featured in Americana Unsung that do exist IRL, did not do or say, so far as we know, any of the silly or illegal things to which we have ascribed them. Mmk?