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Singer/
songwriter/ guitarist Chuck Melchin expresses loss, regret and some bitterness
in this heartland roots-rock. The Boston-based band draws on the acoustic leanings
of luminaries like John Mellencamp's mid-80s bands or an early Jayhawks. A potlatch.
is a highly complex ceremony that includes the celebration of births, rites of
passages, weddings, funerals, puberty, and honoring of the deceased. Bean Pickers
Union try to capture the nuances of this ceremony with a cohesive album that sets
tone, works your emotions and provides redemption and a very satisfying conclusion.
-- Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music (self-released)
Recorded at home, the EP is a more intimate work. Essentially a folk record, the
new collection includes Eastern-flavored blues romps, an old time prison waltz,
love ballads, a working man's anthem, a woozy travelogue and a spiritual thrown
in for good measure. Not only does EP showcase Kimbrough's talents as a multi-instrumentalist
on slide, flattop guitar and banjo, but also his warm vocals and literate songwriting.
(Thirty Tigers) 
The bastard cousin to Jon Spencer's genre-demolishing Blues Explosion, Heavy Trash
features Speedball Baby's guitar brawler and producer extraordinaire Matt Verta-Ray
in a project that drinks down the best of roots, R&B and rock-a-billy. Going
Way Out with Heavy Trash, the second offering from these kings of buzz saw guitars
and late night incantations, was recorded in three different countries and features
an international cast of musicians - Canada's the Sadies, members of Denmark's
Tremolo Beer Gut and Powersolo, and New York City's Simon Chardiet and Phil Hernandez.
Heavy Trash is what the name implies - filthy and hard - the soundtrack to the
strung-out road trip from which there can be no return. (Yep Roc) 
The performance that ToHeavenURide comprises was digitally captured at the 2003
Telluride Bluegrass Festival - and this despite the fact that Shocked's contract
had specifically stated "no recording." But because that year's festival
was being documented for a projected DVD by a production crew with no knowledge
of the contractual stipulation, Shocked's entire set just happened to be captured
for posterity - assuming it was ever unearthed. The recording would have continued
to be hidden away in binary limbo had it not occurred to Shocked's new manager
to inquire about the possibility of its existence, and there it was, preserved
in the virtual amber of a Pro Tools file. When she heard this group of songs,
Shocked realized how perfectly they connected with her present musical and spiritual
direction. (Mighty Sound)
"When Your Feet Hit the Stars is an excellent, soft album featuring thoughtful,
pensive, and ultimately hummable pop tunes. Biell's music sounds something like
a cross between Janis Ian and Suzanne Vega and yet...she never gives the impression
that she is aping or copying the sound of others. The arrangements on this album
fit the songs perfectly. These tracks have a nice thick sound that is pushed over
the edge thanks to some exceedingly tasty pedal steel guitar playing. Carrie has
a beautiful, sincere voice that is immediately effective and real...and her songs
seem to come straight from her heart." -- babysue.com 
The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band is the first Imperial Teen record in over
5 years, but it never misses a beat. It's a career defining album for sure. On
first listen you can just feel how much fun these guys and gals are having making
music together. From the upbeat shimmy of "Shim Sham" and "Sweet
Potato", to the more reflective cool of "Room With A View" and
"What You Do"; from the full on romp of "Everything" and "One
Two", to the seductive vamp of "Fallen Idol"...every song seems
pitch perfect. You can sense that this is a band that is comfortable in its own
skin. Recorded over three weeks at Kingsize Studios with longtime collaborators
Steve McDonald (Redd Kross) and Anna Waronker (That Dog), The Hair... captures
the raw spontaneity and chemistry that make Imperial Teen a such unique group
of friends and musicians. (Merge)
Prosser is the new project from Eric Woodruff (formerly of Bellingham, WA, space
rock band Delay). His self-titled debut release is a melding of Indie Rock and
Alt-Country, with some psychedelic and folk influences thrown in for good measure.
Vocals , cello and a few keyboards are sprinkled on top layers and layers of the
jangly guitars that form the basis of the sound. It is a modern take on a classic
sound, that many will fall in love with. Fans of Nick Drake, Red Stars Theory,
Elliot Smith, Bedhead, Wilco, and all manner of heartbreak-induced whiskey drinking
music will not be able to resist. (Clickpop Records) 
This is a double disc set consisting of the some of the best-known Townes Van
Zandt and live recordings. It features original artwork and soundclips from the
the Margaret Brown film off the same name. Track Listing:I've Designed It That
Way/At My Window/Highway Kind/Rake/Pancho & Lefty/My Proud Mountains/Nothin'/Dollar
Bill Blues/Waitin' Round To Die/If I Needed You/Where I Lead Me/Be Here To Love
Me/No Place To Fall/My Starter Won't Start/Wild Crazy Things/Rex's Blues/Black
Crow Blues/Don;t You Take It Too Bad/When She Don't Need Me/Snake Song/Mr. Mudd
& Mr. Gold/Flyin' Shoes/Delta Momma Blues/Marie/To Live's To Fly/Brand New
Companion/High, Low & In Between/St. John the Gambler/I Just Had To Fall.(Fat
Possum)
Recorded in 1968, now re-released on Fat Possum. Tracks: For the Sake of the Song/Tecumseh
Valley/Many a Fine Lady/Quicksilver Daydreams of Maria/Waitin' Round to Die/I'll
Be Here in the Morning/Sad Cinderella/The Velvet Voices/Talkin' Karate Blues/All
Your Young Servants/Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls. (Fat Possum)
"In her day job, Scialfa has a voice that's often compared to Ronnie Spector's
brassy wail, but on these tightly focused, grown-up vignettes about sin and salvation
and the hard-fought struggle for honesty in a relationship, she slurs and bebops
like Rickie Lee Jones. With a crack rhythm section (including a dude named Bruce
playing on almost half the tracks), Play It As It Lays reveals a woman on the
other side of the tunnel of love -- confused, a little scared and ready for another
spin. (3.5 STARS)" Alan Light, rollingstone.com (Sony)
Multi might be the best adjective to describe talented singer/songwriter Suzy
Bogguss. Multi-award-wining,multi-platinum, and as her CD Sweet Danger so expertly
proves, she's multi-faceted. She co-produced the album with famed jazz/pop keyboardist
and producer Jason Miles, who's worked with Miles Davis, Luther Vandross and Sting.
The two brought together Nashville and New York musicians, culling the best of
both worlds to create an instantly engaging, groove oriented record infused with
jazz rhythms and Bogguss' signature vocals. (Loyal Dutchess) 
In January 2007 a fantastic line-up of guests gathered at the Roundhouse in London
to pay tribute to the late Jim Capaldi of Traffic and to raise money for his children's
charity The Landmark Trust. Old friends such as Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens),
Pete Townshend of The Who, Joe Walsh of The Eagles, Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Gary
Moore, Dennis Locorriere of Dr Hook and of course his Traffic colleague Steve
Winwood, were joined by younger admirers such as Paul Weller and The Storys to
perform their favorite Traffic and Jim Capaldi tracks in front of a sell out audience.
Track Listing Disc 1: Paper Sun - Paul Weller/Lost Inside Your Love - Stevie Lange/Living
On The Outside - Joe Walsh, Bill Wyman & Jon Lord/Elixir Of Life - Dennis
Locorriere/Whale Meat Again - Simon Kirke/Love's Got A Hold On Me - The Storys/Forty
Thousand Headman - Joe Walsh/Man With No Country - Yusuf Islam/Light Up Or Leave
Me Alone - Steve Winwood/Dear Mr Fantasy - Steve Winwood. Disc 2:Evil Love - Gary
Moore/Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Paul Weller/Let Me Make Something In
Your Life - Stevie Lange & Jon Lord/Gifts Of Unknown Things - Phil Capaldi
& Jon Lord/Love You Till The Day I Die - Margo Buchanan/No Face, No Name,
No Number - Pete Townshend/John Barleycorn Must Die - Joe Walsh/Pearly Queen -
Paul Weller/Rock And Roll stew - Dennis Locorriere, Margo Buchanan & Stevie
Lange/Love Will Keep Us Alive - Steve Winwood, Joe Walsh & the ensemble.(Eagle
Vision USA) 
A tribute to what was probably the Stones' least commercial album, and for many
of the BJM's fans, this is their finest hour. A modern psychedelic classic. (Committee
To Keep)
He's been a producer to Elvis Presley and U2, an Arthur Murray dance instructor,
best friend to Johnny Cash, Sam Phillips' right-hand man, a U.S. Marine, a slasher-film
producer, and he discovered Jerry Lee Lewis, Charley Pride and Townes Van Zandt.
This off-the-wall feature about legendary Nashville record producer/performer/artist
Cowboy Jack Clement tells the story of his amazing career via home movies longtime
friends Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, John Prine, Bono and many more. Riding the
trail between Monty Python and Blazing Saddles, this film inspires with lessons
of creativity, mortality, and the risk and glory of a self-made life. (Shout Factory)
Get up close and personal with The Black Crowes' Chris and Rich Robinson and their
stunningly intimate Brothers of a Feather performance, culled from a 3-night sold
out stand at The Roxy in LA. Featuring a first time ever acoustic mix of Black
Crowes favorites, rarities, solo material, new songs and covers, the DVD/CD set
captures the intimacy of the performances from the Robinsons never captured on
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