alt.music.country.classic

Classic country music, pre-pop-crossover.

Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, the Bakersfield sound — a group defined as much by what it excluded (contemporary Nashville radio) as what it loved.

Reissue reviews and out-of-print record-hunting threads made it a collectors’ room as much as a fans’ one.

Reading alt.music.country.classic today

Historical archive: Google Groups — alt.music.country.classic (coverage varies by group and era).
Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.