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A music blog featuring Alt-Country, Americana, Indie, Rock, Folk & Blues. Est. 2005.

Listen to KT Tunstall’s “Eye to the Telescope”

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Check out up and coming folk pop star KT Tunstall’s full release “Eye to the Telescope” on ARTISTdirect.com. Its so refreshing to see someone new to the pop scene that carries some solid songwriting, outstanding acoustic guitar and bluesy vocals. For her, I’m going to start an early campaign for Best New Artist of 2006. […]

Check Out Jon Nicholson’s “Stereo”

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They say that we all benefit from artists’ pain and sacrifice. Well here’s one tale that proves the point. A few years back, the drummer in Jon Nicholson’s former band broke into the band’s storage locker, stole all the gear and pawned it for cash. Nicholson took the tale and turned into this great track. […]

Listen to Diana Krall’s latest album, Christmas Songs

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Here’s a full stream for your holiday listening. This comes from one of today’s best jazz vocalists, Diana Krall. Listen to Christmas Songs Christmas Songs Diana Krall, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra release date 11/01/2005 (Verve) On her first full-length Christmas album, pianist/vocalist Diana Krall delivers a smoky, sophisticated, and slightly melancholy album perfectly suited to accompany […]

John Mayer Trio… Live Concert (Archived)

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Don’t miss this opportunity to see the best of John Mayer’s new band. Listen to archived version of the 11/23/05 Bowery Ballroom performance. — Source: AOL Music Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find a stream of the full concert, but you can listen to it song by song (and of course experience the advertising overkill).

Twangville Radio

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New! Yahoo LAUNCHcast members or anyone with a Yahoo ID can help us beta test Twangville Radio featuring recent songs, artists and albums mentioned on this web site. Occasionally, a song will play that is out of character. For instance, a Black Eyed Peas song played the other day. As much as I like Black […]

A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

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I had the fortune of attending “A Prairie Home Companion” at Wolf Trap Park in Vienna, VA this weekend with family. We hit the Friday night performance but here is an archived webcast of the Saturday night performance. Enjoy! I did. Also, here is the breakdown of the show.