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Volume 2

Computer vs. Banjo Guitars Need a Sinner's Touch "Computer vs. Banjo takes traditional folk and old-time instruments into the space of electronica. Drawing from their own uniquely individual backgrounds and approaches to creative music, Beau Stapleton and J.Mann have discovered a common approach that is a real extension of each of their own musical philosophies. There is something new happening in Music City." -Juan Take For more information, visit www.computervsbanjo.com For an airplay copy, contact  Rachel Heussenstahmm

 

Paul Sprawl Blue Suitcase Paul Sprawl has developed a thing that everyone seems to agree is his own and unique. It involves poetry, storytelling, a baritone singing voice, and some unusual guitar techniques that you've just got to check out for yourself. Catch this vagabond troubadour as he traverses the dirt roads and interstate highways near you... For more information, visit www.paulsprawl.com For an airplay copy, contact Paul Sprawl

 

The Avett Brothers Shame If you put your ear to the street, you can hear the rumble of the world in motion; people going to and from work, to school, to the grocery store. You may even hear the whisper of their living rooms, their conversation, their complaints, and if you're lucky, their laughter. If you're almost anywhere in America , you'll hear something different, something special, something you recognize but haven't heard in a long time. It is the sound of a real celebration... For more information, visit www.theavettbrothers.com For an airplay copy, contact Dolph Ramseur

 

Bill Sheffield The Legend of John Montgomery The Delta, dark and muddy, flows through his veins. His voice laments and wails, it prays and pleads. His fingers dance along the strings of a travel-worn guitar to an ancient and mystic melody. His heart beats sin. It beats again for salvation. There may just be a hellhound on his trail, but he's got one foot on the church step. Everything about Bill Sheffield is the blues. It's there in the intense, transcendent way he finger picks his guitar with hints of John Hurt and Blind Blake flashing through. It's there in his songs that wrestle with earthly pleasure and the need for redemption... For more information, visit www.billsheffield.com For an airplay copy, contact Jeff Catton

 

Bluehouse One More Kiss As one of Australia's premier independent bands, Bluehouse have stamped out their own unique style by combining folk-flavored pop melodies meshed with powerfully intricate harmonies and inspired guitar and bass playing (along with healthy doses of sardonic wit thrown in between songs)! The dynamic duo, Jacqueline Walter and Bernadette Carroll, met in a pub in Melbourne in 1995 and moments later were singing together on stage. They have since forged a successful career, by honing their performance skills through beautiful singing, clever thinking and near constant touring... For more information, visit www.bluehouse.net For an airplay copy, contact Linda Baker

Jon Pousette-Dart Oklahoma Jon Pousette-Dart captained the Pousette-Dart Band through four albums for Capitol Records between 1976 and 1980, a run that acquainted a generation with his formidable gifts as a singer, songwriter, guitarist and all-around musical adventurer. During this time, the Pousette-Dart Band became one of the busiest touring groups in the U.S. working with such acts as the Byrds, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, James Taylor, Peter Frampton, Yes, the J.Geils Band, Eddie Money, Journey and Billy Joel... For more information, visit www.pousette-dart.com For an airplay copy, contact  Jon Pousette-Dart

John Prine & Mac Wiseman Pistol Packin' Mama Prine is a songwriting legend from the suburbs of Chicago and a star of counter-culture country and Americana. Mac Wiseman, raised on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, is one of the framers of the bluegrass constitution and one of the most artful song interpreters in country music history. They are separated by 21 years, a full generation. And yet to hear their voices twine together on this set of deftly-chosen songs, one is struck by a deep and moving kinship, an empathy that goes beyond mere collaboration... For more information, visit www.johnprine.net and www.ohboy.com For an airplay copy, contact Josh Talley

Diana Jones All My Money On You Diana's music is informed by the themes that have run through her life…love, loss, and redemption…bringing to mind both Emily Dickinson & Loretta Lynn in the same breath. From the mournful lament of a dance hall girl, to the stomping melodic rant of a young woman's burial instructions, each of Diana's original songs from her latest CD, My Remembrance of You, draws life from the rich cross currents of old timey, country blues and mountain music... For more information, visit www.dianajonesmusic.com For an airplay copy, contact Pamela Cole

Susan Werner Did Trouble Me A farm girl, raised in a large Catholic family in rural Iowa, Werner spent years caught in the spiritual middle between a healthy religious skepticism and a true appreciation for all that Christianity means to millions of people in the United States. “For me, The Gospel Truth is the most American of Americana projects,” she says. “My personal doubts aside, religion gives us much of our energy as a nation, and is a source, I think, of the beautiful naiveté we have about truly being a force of good in the world..." For more information, visit www.susanwerner.com For an airplay copy, contact  Michelle Conceison

Poco Running Horse Poco, the band that defined country rock in the Sixties and Seventies, resulting in million selling albums and number one hit singles over a more than three decades career, announces the release of "Running Horse," their first CD in 13 years, on Drifter's Church Productions. "Poco's biggest success came with Legend, when it was just (guitarist) Paul (Cotton) and me basically making a record together, and this new record is Paul and me together again, and that's just really special for me," said Poco co-founder, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rusty Young... For more information, visit www.poconut.com For an airplay copy, contact Rick Alter

Keith Greeninger Glorious Peasant Keith Greeninger paints intricate portraits of the human condition with powerful melodic images, deep engaging guitar rhythms and warm heart wrenching vocals. He is a multi award winning singer songwriter and this year’s winner of the prestigious Telluride Troubadour National Song Writing Competition. A third generation Northern Californian, Keith grew up at the edge of the vanishing orchards of the Santa Clara Valley. As a young boy he would often fall asleep at night with a transistor radio under his pillow... For more information, visit www.keithgreeninger.com For an airplay copy, contact John Condon

Lisa O'Kane Ain't Done Nothin' When Joni Mitchell sang, "I've looked at life from both sides now," she could have been singing about Lisa O'Kane. A mountain girl all grown up and thriving in the city, a dedicated single mom with an exploding international recording career, a world-class vocalist and a singer/songwriter of uncommon depth and integrity, O'Kane shares Mitchell's knack for squeezing every drop of emotion out of every song she writes and anything she sings... For more information, visit www.newlightent.com For an airplay copy, contact Lisa O'Kane

 

Chris Knight If I Were You In the summer of 1996, inside a sweltering singlewide trailer outside a small Kentucky mining town, an unknown singer/songwriter named Chris Knight recorded an "unofficial" batch of tracks prior to the release of his major label debut album. Over the next decade, through a combination of leaks, bootlegs and legend, those sessions would become something much more. "People have been talking about these tapes ever since I recorded them," Chris Knight says. "To me, they were rough and stark and I never thought they'd see the light of day..." For more information, visit www.chrisknight.net For an airplay copy, contact Rick Alter

 

Minton Sparks When You Coming Home, Girl? Fusing music, poetry and her intoxicating gift for storytelling, wildly original spoken word artist Minton Sparks releases her latest triumph, Open Casket. Her debut live show DVD is yet another ground breaking performance that further proves Sparks is in a category all her own. Sparks peeks over the edge into the warm spot where most would prefer sleeping relatives lie. Open Casket is a raucous, provocative, brilliant one-woman show... For more information, visit www.mintonsparks.com For an airplay copy, contact Jen Johnson

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