Music plucked from lastfm account... leaving all the totally obscure stuff out (which had the effect off ridding this of skapunk. Not entirely of course. And thus also of making it more countryesque than it might have been)... and some stuff that ain't bad but that that thing plays to often (Pandora is much better at understanding what you want. But on Pandora you can have multiple stations. So the last.fm account mixes styles straight thru, the Pandora stations don't.) The list was done by going through the entire list, writing down acts until I got to 32, then going back up the list finding first round opponents - fudging it a couple of times because I was pitting too similar stuff against each other. And then fudging it some more when I came up a few people short that way, just adding anything left out at the start from the top down. And then randomizing the order the 32 matchups are listed here (and also ordering the acts in every matchup alphabetically. Basically I'm covering my tracks.
). Oh, and obviously some people were left on for variety. Still,
this includes nothing I don't listen to so if you think you have reason to complain about the absence of some favorite act, the fault is probably yours for having no taste in music.
Dropkick Murphys vs Kris Kristofferson
Beck vs Carter Family
Old Crow Medicine Show vs Rancid
Billy Bragg vs NoFX
Mary Gauthier vs Taj Mahal
Phil Ochs vs Reel Big Fish
Mighty Mighty Bosstones vs Tom Waits
Cop Shoot Cop vs Joe Ely
Justin Townes Earle vs Peter Tosh
Steve Goodman vs Mudhoney
Neko Case vs Ton Steine Scherben
Corb Lund Band vs John Prine
Lee Scratch Perry vs Sonic Youth
Lightnin' Hopkins vs Doc Watson
Johnny Cash vs Todd Snider
Suburban Legends vs Townes Van Zandt
Del McCoury Band vs Pavement
James McMurtry vs OMC
Burning Spear vs Uncle Tupelo
John Lee Hooker vs Social Distortion
The Clash vs Jimmie Rodgers
Pixies vs Lucinda Williams
Howlin' Wolf vs Loretta Lynn
Nirvana vs Hank Williams
Woody Guthrie vs Mad Caddies
Guy Clark vs Slaid Cleaves
Ramblin' Jack Elliott vs The Pogues
Son Volt vs Gillian Welch
Rodney Crowell vs Steve Earle
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds vs Robert Earl Keen
Lyle Lovett vs Bob Marley & the Wailers
Robert Johnson vs New Model Army
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