Alexi Murdoch"All My Days"
Time Without Consequence
Zero Summer 2006
www.aleximurdoch.com
OK, Alexi's music has appeared on the hit (and atrociously cheesy... in my opinion) TV show The OC, but I am not going to hold that against him. I mean he could have jumped right on that big-label, overy-hyped music marketing engine and rode off with a truck full of money. Instead, the Scottish singer/songwriter self-released hi debut album Time Without Consequence. This album is probably best summed up as a delicate folk-pop release but it isn't prententious and begs for many replays on your stereo. The guy knows how to write a song that has amazing melody, catchy rhythym and interesting storylines.
Lori McKenna
"Jealousy"
The Kitchen Tapes
Gyrex 2004
www.lorimckenna.com
Rani Arbo & Daisi Mayhem
"Red Rocking Chair"
Gambling Eden
Signature 2003
www.raniarbo.com
Here is a taste of Rani Arbo...
The Dappled Grays
"Night Life"
Doin My Job
Band Ranch 2007
www.dappledgraysmusic.com
Grada"The Gammel Dansk"
Cloudy Day Nation
Compass 2007
www.gradamusic.com
Jim Lauderdale
"High Timberline"
Headed For the Hills
Dualtone 2004
www.jimlauderdale.com
Various
"Telluride"
100% Handmade Bluegrass
Acoustic Disc 2004
The Hunger Mountain Boys
"Departure Day"
Three
Old-Fi Records 2007
www.hungermountainboys.com
The Byrds
"Pretty Boy Floyd"
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Columbia 1968
Check out this video of The Byrds playing You Ain't Going Nowhere with Earl Scruggs.
Bela Fleck
"Deviation"
Deviation
Rounder 1984
www.belafleck.com
Chris Thile
"Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground"
How to Grow a Woman From the Ground
Sugar Hill 2006
www.christhile.com
Thile's new band The Punch Brothers album will be released February 28, 2008 and you can catch them live in Paducah, KY at the Clemons Fine Arts Center on March 9. More info at http://focus.westkentucky.kctcs.edu/CampusSeries.shtml#Chris
Eilen Jewell"Rich Man's World"
Letters From Sinners & Strangers
Signature 2007
www.eilenjewell.com
Van Morrison
"My Buckets Got A Hole In It"
Pay the Devil
Lost Highway 2006
www.vanmorrison.co.uk
Jim Hurst
"Swamp Reed"
Open Window
NN Guido 2005
www.jimhurst.com
Phil Ochs"I Ain't Marching Anymore"
I Ain't Marching Anymore
Hannibal 1965
Phil Ochs called himself the "singing journalist" and that term and his devotion to the political causes he sang about acted as a barrier to his popularity... not that Ochs cared.
Ochs lived in the shadow of Bob Dylan but his music never took a backseat to the folk legend. His music arguably carried a better melodic feel than Dylan and his lyrics were as innovative as anyone at the time. Ochs truly believed in what he sang and his career may have taken a beating for it. Even though there were times when protest songs were the rage that came to pass but Ochs couldn't let go and depression followed. His bout with mental issues ended in 1976 as he was found hanging at his sister's home in Queens, NY. If you allow yourself to look past the message in Ochs music (if you feel you have to) you will find one of the best song craftsmen in folk music history.
The Weary Boys
"Kneeling Drunkards Plea"
Good Times
2003... out of print
www.thewearyboys.com
Rob Ickes"Stanford & Son"
What it IS
Rounder 2002
www.robickes.com
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