Stewie, I think that the part of this No Depression music style that many roots country fans will have a hard time accepting is the integration of roots "spirit" with rock and roll. If you listen to any of the sound bites on the New Country Insurgent page, some of them sound a lot closer to the Sex Pistols than the Carter Family. You have to remember that most of the musicians in Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt etc are no older than 27. To them, the music of the Byrds, Parsons,Young and others ARE roots music, just as Travis, Williams, and the Carters are and were roots music to us. If Son Volt performs Pretty Boy Floyd, their reference is not the original version by Woody Guthrie, but the Parsons/Byrds version on Sweetheart of the Rodeo. The "Folk Process" in action....