The Best Cowpunk Bands

This cowpunk artists list contains all of your favorite male and female country punk rock musicians, ranked best to worst by votes, and with the order decided by cowboys/cowgirls, cow punk aficionados, and musical hillbilly fans internationally. From Drive-By Truckers and Social Distortion, to Sheryl Crow and Hank Williams III, every talented group and singer across the niche genre is featured below.

The list includes both classic and newer/modern cowpunk bands, serving as an accurate compilation of the best examples of cowpunk, as well as a good place to start if you're asking yourself, or friends, exactly how to get into cowpunk music.

This list answers the questions "what are the best cowpunk bands of all time?" and "who is the greatest cowpunk musician ever?" If you know enough about the genre, please vote based on the quality of the artists' music (albums and songs) instead of just voting for the most popular or famous cowpunk musicians that you might've heard of, but not really listened to closely enough to cast an informed vote.