Various, Michelle Shocked, Stephen Mallinder, Steve Mack, Sally Timms, David McComb, Marc Riley, Pete Shelley, Cathal Coughlan, Tracey Bryn, Melissa Brooke Belland, Brendan Croker, Mary Mary, The Mekons, Marc Almond

Bakersfield Sound

Dust Bowl honky-tonk cut loud and live: Telecasters, pedal steel, no strings, no Nashville polish.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.