Other acts who became prominent in the alt-country genre during the 1990s and 2000s included The Bottle Rockets , The Handsome Family , Blue Mountain , Robbie Fulks , Blood Oranges , Bright Eyes , Drive-By Truckers , Old 97 's , Old Crow Medicine Show , Nickel Creek , Neko Case , and Whiskeytown , whose lead singer Ryan Adams later had a successful solo-career .