Still In Season

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man live on KEXP with two beautiful acoustic tracks from their album 'Out Of Season'. Technorati Tags: Music, MP3, Beth Gibbons, Accoustic

Listen to 'Mysteries' Listen to 'Resolve'

Jana Hunter

BlogUp Musique has produced a compilation of Lullaby songs by independent artists, that are real gems. Credit goes to songs:illinois for pointing it out. One track that is especially beautiful is 'Oohuuh' by Jana Hunter. Some more tracks can be heard at her MySpace location. This is lovely, simple, spare and powerful music. Technorati Tags: Music, slocore, alt-country, Jana Hunter

Listen to 'Oohuuh'

Cowboy-Alien Groove

Gram Rabbit have a new CD out, 'Cultivation,', sequel to 'Music To Start A Cult To', and they did a show on KCRW's MBE. What a mixture - people have used 'Old West' and mentioned Jefferson Airplain, I'm reminded of the B-52's and there's sampling wizardery going on... You'll have to listen for yourself. There's a chinees ho-down song at the end of the show!

Listen to the MBE show Listen to 'Dirty Horse' Listen to 'Witness'

Palestine, Texas

T-Bone Burnett is an all-round musician, producer, band member in Bob Dylan's band it's real fun to see and hear him on this KCRW show singing material from his new Album 'The True False Identity'. I love the way he shows up at the KCRW studio with a sweater and tie... Palestine, Texas, is track #2 on the new Album. He has another new album out 'Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett' which is fun. My favorite though is 'T-Bone Burnett' from 1995 which is a country-folk kind of a deal, in which Burnett sounds a little like Johnny Cash, which reminds me that I read that he worked with the stars of the movie made about Cash, 'Walk the Line'

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The Boss pays his union dues

NPR's All Things Considered is streaming a track from Bruce Springsteen's 'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions'. If you go to the Amazon page, you'll see a video clip of the same song... It's a much more energetic take then the Seeger original, with a zydeco accordion added to the party.

Listen to 'John Henry'

More Julie Doiron

Goodnight Nobody has been out since 2004, and is as good as anything Julie Doiron has ever recorded. I like this quote from the Cincinati City Beat: "Although she is often compared to Joni Mitchell, Doiron's moody minor key whispers make Mitchell seem almost giddy" Got this from 3hive!

Get album for as low as $4.98! Listen to 'No Money Makers' Listen to 'Dance All Night'

Dana Falconberry

She's from Austin, has a sweet and sad voice, and an upcoming EP, named Paper Sailboats, the title track of which you can hear here. She is also featured on an Italian podcast, Indie - Eye. Get the episode here (21.9 MB). It's fun, starts out in Italian, but then we get Dana singing several tunes and reading out of Tom Soyer... songs:illinois is were I found this exeptional song on. Check it out, Craig has plenty good stuff on his pages.

Listen to 'Paper Sailboat'

Laura Veirs in Concert

Listen to a live concert from Laura Veirs as recorded by NPR On March 1st. It's acoustic, solo, sweet and neurotic, in a nice way...

Listen to concert

She has a Neil Young Roadie!

I don't usually like the allusions to one artists when you are looking to describe another (although I have done so myself, here for example). But when I listened to the show Lucinda Williams recorded for NPR' All Songs Considered, I kept thinking - it's beautiful in so many ways - like a Neil Young show might be. The country/blues/rock/gospel and country again mixture, with great melodies, great voice. This show has been playing on my PC in a loop in the past several weeks. And then I heard her saying one of her roadies works with 'Neil'... Strangely, the CD 'Live @ the Fillmore' is not that great. I don't like her presentation - too coarse. 'World Without Tears' is better, with some of the great tunes she plays on the show like 'Ventura' and 'Three Days'.

New Jolie Holland CD out in May

The lovely Jolie Holand has a new CD in the works - 'Springtime Can Kill You'. Click the link on the right to stream the title track. BTW, I've udated my original Jolie Holland post so it is linked to some 'Catalpa' tracks, instead of the now dead link to the whole album...

Listen to 'Spring Time Can Kill You'