#thewalkabouts

The other stick-out from Sub Pop 200 is a band called the Walkabouts. Witness their driving country-rock-folk contribution to the comp:

And witness the Stranger's half-remembrances of milk-faced alt-country singers and Whitman alum. (Milk-faced? I dunno.)

The Walkabouts had 20 years after this to find better producers and sharpen their sound, and they produced some impressive (and slow) tunes.

They don't sound like a traditionally Seattle band, but they grew out of and were a big part of the scene of the late 80s.

The epic "Feel Like Going Home" from 1993's "Satisfied Mind":

The driving, creepy, thickly-orchestrated "Dustlands" from 2011's "Travels in the Dustlands":

I'd have to ask to be sure, but latter-day Seattle band Carissa's Wierd and their offshoots Grand Archives, Band of Horses, and Sera Cahoone have the same kind of windswept, chime-y countryness about them. And so another theoretical branch on the hypothetical family tree.

Carissa's Wierd – Ignorant Piece of Shit (2002)

Grand Archives – George Kaminski (2008)

Band of Horses – No One's Gonna Love You (2007)