Artist	Song
Steve Earle	Hard-Core Troubadour
from I Feel Alright (2008)
Joe Henry	Fireman's Wedding
from Kindness of the World (1999)
The Rolling Stones	Far Away Eyes
from Some Girls (Remastered) (2011)
Dwight Yoakam	The Heart That You Own
from Last Chance for a Thousand Years - Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's (2008)
Blue Rodeo	Till I Am Myself Again
from Blue Rodeo Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (2004)
My Morning Jacket	Phone Went West
from At Dawn (2001)
Loretta Lynn	Portland, Oregon
from Van Lear Rose (2004)
Son Volt	Medicine Hat
from Wide Swing Tremelo (2008)
Lucinda Williams	Real Love
from Little Honey (2008)
The Gourds	Lower 48
from Blood of the Ram (2004)
Kathleen Edwards	Mercury
from Failer (2010)
Old 97's	W.I.F.E.
from Early Tracks - EP (2000)
Richard Buckner	22
from Bloomed (2009)
Blood Oranges	Pounding Pipes
from Corn River (2007)
Minibar	Holiday from Myself
from Road Movies (2001)
Whiskeytown	Inn Town
from Strangers Almanac (1997)
Lambchop	For Which We Are Truly Thankful
from How I Quit Smoking (1996)
Robbie Fulks	The Buck Starts Here
from Revenge! (2007)
Drive-By Truckers	Hell No, I Ain't Happy
from Decoration Day (2003)
Radney Foster	I'm In
from Are You Ready for the Big Show? (2001)
Lee Ann Womack	Does My Ring Burn Your Finger
from Lee Ann Womack: Greatest Hits (2004)
Neko Case	Loretta
from The Tigers Have Spoken (2008)
Drive-By Truckers	Carl Perkins' Cadillac
from The Dirty South (2004)
Scud Mountain Boys	In a Ditch
from Massachusetts (1996)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore	Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
from Come On Back (2010)

Comment:

Alt enough for you yet? How about recording an album with someone old enough to be your grandma? White Stripes leader Jack White snatches country legend Loretta Lynn out of Butcher Holler and drops her in a garage for a smoky, bluesy, lo-fi workout in "Portland, Oregon," taken from her 2004 White-produced critical fave, [i]Van Lear Rose[/i]. At first blush, with its tumbleweeds-rolling emptiness and ghost town gloom, "I Will Be There When You Die" doesn't seem quite like the love song that My Morning Jacket leader Jim James claims it to be, but love haunts as well as hurts — just [i]feel[/i] the ache in his voice. And just like the prairie, alt-country doesn't stop at the border: in "Mercury," Canadian Kathleen Edwards conjures up the restless dreaminess of a small-town summer night, as airy and sparse as the wheat fields' endless expanse, stretching along the interstate from nowhere to nowhere else.

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