"You know what I want to come out of this record? I just want people in West Virginia to know I hear them, to know that I give a f--k, that somebody who lives in New York City gives a f--k."
“I thought that, given the way things are now, it was maybe my responsibility to make a record that spoke to and for people who didn’t vote the way that I did,” Earle explains.
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.
Earle, Tom Petty's ex-wife, the Tupac Shakur estate and the bands Hole and Soundgarden filed a class-action lawsuit over the 2008 fire that damaged or destroyed as many as 500,000 master recordings held by Universal Music Group (UMG).