Like every other blogger out there I get a lot of press releases and music coming through my inbox everyday. I try to listen to everything that comes through and most of it is relatively good. Some days, it just takes being quirky enough to rise above the din of sameness makes something stand out. Christine Fellows new album Nevertheless is that one today. With a sound that falls somewhere between the overly arty poeticism of Joanna Newsome and the sarcastic showtune swagger of Nellie McKay it catches your attention. Nevertheless is named after a poem by Marianne Moore and is mainly influenced by her life and work. In fact I could easily see it being used as the soundtrack to a play about her.
Opening with the overture like Let Us Have Done With The Umbrella Of Our Contagion, the album winds it's way through poetically named vignettes like Saturday Night On Utopia Parkway and What Makes The Cherry Red before winding it up with the xylophone laced Yours, And With Ever Grateful Wonder.

Part of the album was recorded remotely at the historic Manitou Opera House in the tiny town of Manitou, and the rest at the Prairie Recording Co. headquarters, a factory loft in the St. Boniface industrial park of Winnipeg.

The Manitou Opera House sessions feature Leanne Zacharias (cello), Cristina Zacharias (violin), Ed Reifel (xylophone and percussion), with guests Howard and Jeannie Zacharias, who sang in our impromptu choir. The Prairie Recording sessions feature Barry Mirochnick (drums and vocals), Keith Mcleod (banjo and mandola), Greg Smith (bass), John K. Samson (vocals), Cam Loeppky (vocals and banjo) and Leanne Zacharias (cello, glockenspiel, vocals). I produced the album, sang and played piano, ukulele, glockenspiel, typewriter and Nord Electro II (Wurlitzer, Rhodes, organ), and compiled all the extraneous bird sounds.










MP3: Christine Fellows - What Makes The Cherry Red
Buy Nevertheless

Upcoming Shows
Nov 2 2007 8:00P Shadow Songs at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Lethbridge, Alberta
Nov 6 2007 8:00P **NEVERTHELESS** CANADIAN RELEASE DATE
Nov 7 2007 8:00P Phoenix Concert Theatre with The Weakerthans and Jenn Grant Toronto, Ontario
Nov 8 2007 8:00P Phoenix Concert Theatre with The Weakerthans and Jenn Grant Toronto, Ontario
Nov 9 2007 8:00P Call the Office with The Weakerthans and Jenn Grant London
Nov 29 2007 8:00P West End Cultural Centre, Nevertheless CD release Winnipeg, Manitoba
Nov 30 2007 8:00P Amigos with Baby Eagle Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Dec 1 2007 8:00P The Marquee Room with Baby Eagle Calgary, Alberta
Dec 14 2007 8:00P Nevertheless CD release at The Music Gallery, with Baby Eagle Toronto, Ontario

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Today for the Monday Morning Blues a taste of the worn and weary soulful voice of Ted Hawkins. A voice that really conveys the emotions of life's highs and lows like few others.

from Wiki
Ted Hawkins was an American singer/songwriter, born in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1936 and died in 1995.
Hawkins was an enigmatic figure through most of his career; he split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California where he was a mostly-anonymous street performer, and Europe, where he and his songs were better-known and well-received in clubs and small concert halls.
Born into a poor family in Mississippi, Hawkins lived a difficult early life, ending up at a reform school by age 12, and drifting, hitching, and stealing his way across the country for the next dozen years, earning several stays in prison including a 3-year stint for stealing a leather jacket as a teenager. Along the way, he picked up a love of music and a talent for the guitar. "I was sent to a school for bad boys called Oakley Training School in 1949," from a brief piece of autobiography he wrote. "There I developed my voice by singing with a group that the superintendent's wife had got together." After reform school, he ended up in the state penitentiary and was released at 19. "Then I heard a singer whose name was Sam Cooke. His voice did something to me." For the next ten years or so he drifted in and out of trouble around the country, living in Chicago, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and Newark. In the middle of the mid-1960s folk music boom Hawkins set out for California to try for a professional singing career. He recorded several tunes without commercial success, worked at odd jobs, and took up busking along the piers and storefronts of Venice Beach as a way to supplement his income. Hawkins made ends meet by developing a small following of locals and tourists who would come to hear this southern black man, sitting on an overturned milk-crate, play blues and folk standards as well as a few original tunes in his signature open guitar tuning and raspy vocal style (Hawkins claimed the rasp in his voice came from the damage done by years of singing in the sand and spray of the boardwalk).

MP3: Ted Hawkins - Strange Conversation
Buy The Next Hundred Years
MP3: Ted Hawkins - Happy Hour
Buy Happy Hour
MP3: Ted Hawkins - Cold & Bitter Tears
Buy Happy Hour
MP3: Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
Buy Watch Your Step
MP3: Ted Hawkins - I Gave Up All I Had
Buy Watch Your Step
MP3: Ted Hawkins - As Long As I Can See The Light
Buy The Next Hundred Years

[Photo Marc Marnie]

In support of the launch of the Led Zeppelin YouTube channel there's a Led Zeppelin contest/sweepstakes with YouTube. The Grand Prize winner will receive the complete Led Zeppelin catalog and a Gibson Guitar. We want Zeppelin fans to film themselves and explain what Led Zeppelin means to them. Below are links to the contest.

Apple® announced that a special digital boxed set containing Led Zeppelin’s entire discography, “The Complete Led Zeppelin,” is now available for pre-order exclusively on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). “The Complete Led Zeppelin” is a 165-track collection of all 13 of the legendary group’s albums, including the new career-spanning “Mothership” retrospective, for only $99.

Led Zeppelin’s “Mothership,” a 24-track collection of the group’s best-known songs, hand-picked by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, is also available for pre-order. Touching on every studio album, the collection contains defining songs including “Whole Lotta Love,” “Rock and Roll” and “Kashmir.” In addition to “The Complete Led Zeppelin” and “Mothership,” Led Zeppelin’s entire catalog of songs and albums will also be available for individual purchase and download beginning November 13.

Fans who pre-order “The Complete Led Zeppelin” or “Mothership” will be automatically entered to win the chance to see the band’s reunion performance at London’s O2 Arena on November 26 as part of the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute. The winners will receive two tickets to the show, round-trip airfare and hotel accommodations.*

Led Zeppelin on YouTube:
Led Zeppelin YouTube Contest
Led Zeppelin Contest Rules
Led Zeppelin YouTube Group (this is where users' sweepstakes entries will appear)

Led Zeppelin on iTunes :
Complete Box
Mothership
Sweepstakes


While you're preordering the box set and pondering just what Led Zeppelin means to you so you can enter the contest, here's a live track that's not included in any of the collections for your listening enjoyment.

MP3: Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times
Live August 31, 1969 at The Texas International Pop Festival

There's a reason Rolling Stone magazine picked Philadelphia as it's Hot City recently. The city's music scene has more amazing quality bands playing around town on a regular basis than it has in at least 20 years. I mentioned The Swimmers earlier this week, they're playing a cd release party at Johnny Brenda's tonight. Grammar Debate and The Creeping Weeds are just a couple doors down at The M Room. Philadelphia's Fishtown section is going to have the roof blown off all around. Beretta 76 are taking their blistering rock show on the road to Trenton NJ and are playing the 449 Room tonight, and today's featured band Public Record brings it to The Khyber in Old City along with Brown Recluse Sings. That's just four of the many choices for tonight. All of them well worth seeing on any night.

Public Record lists their influences on their myspace page as Bohannon, Orange Juice, Al Green, Studio One, Caetano Veloso, Motown, Joe Gibbs, Stax, Josef K, Broadcast, Ethiopiques, Channel One, James Brown, Jackie Mitoo, Talking Heads, The Contortions, Jorge Ben, Sound Dimension, Big Flame, King Tubby, David Axlerod, Hard Bop, Impressions, Fela Kuti, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Carlton & the Shoes. Now I'm sure as you read that list you're probably saying to yourself how can they possibly roll all that into one sound. As I sit here listening to a couple mixes of tracks from their upcoming release I'm trying to put into words for you how it all really does make sense. An all instrumental septet, they bake jazz,funk,indie rock,afro beat and more into one heavily danceble, highly textured rhythmic cake, all iced with Hilary Baker's slinky saxophone lines. Their new record on Philadelphia's own High Two label comes out early next year and it's one you don't want to miss. Many thanks to Gareth for sharing an early taste you can all hear below.

Public Record :
Hilary Baker - saxophone
Brent Bohan - bass
Gareth Duffield - guitar, keyboards, melodica
Charles Duquesne - percussion, drums
Ted Johnson - drums, percussion
Matt Lyons - drums, percussion
Greg Pavlovcak - guitar

MP3: Public Record - Comfortability
MP3: Public Record - French Suburb

Upcoming Shows:
10/27/2007 08:00 PM - The Khyber 56 S. 2nd St., Philadelphia, PA
Public Record w/ The Lodger, Small Sins, & Brown Recluse Sings.

10/28/2007 08:00 PM - The Velvet Lounge The Velvet Lounge 915 U Street, Washington, DC
Public Record w/ The Lodger, Lorelei, and Julie Ocean

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Back about a month ago when I saw Vampire Weekend play a sold out show a Philadelphia's M Room two highlights of their set were the songs M79 and I Stand Corrected. Thankfully now you don't have to wait until after the new year when their album is released to hear them. They were kind enough to include them in an amazing session they recently recorded for Daytrotter. Head on over to Daytrotter to hear a couple more songs from the same session.


Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected (daytrotter session)
Vampire Weekend - M 79 (daytrotter session)

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If you're a regular reader of the is blog you know that The Swimmers have been one of the absolute favorites here since I received a copy of their as yet unreleased cd Fighting Trees back in January. I even boldly proclaimed it "the first truly important release of 2007" and talked it up relentlessly to anyone who would listen. Well folks "all the new sounds" are here, Fighting Trees will be seeing a national release on March 4 of 2008 on Mad Dragon Records and distributed by Ryko/Warner.
The lucky Philly peeps get a jump on the rest of the world at a special local release party this Saturday October 27th at Johnny Brenda's, recently named Rolling Stone Magazine's "2007 Hot Music Club". It's going to be a special night you won't want to miss.

See the new cover artwork above by Janell Olah, but better yet see it in person, as anyone who comes to the show gets a copy of the cd right then and there with admission. I'll be there so should you, and you, and you and you and you.

MP3: The Swimmers - It's Time They Knew

Saturday October 27th
Y-Rock on XPN Welcomes - Swimmers CD Release Show
The Swimmers, Audible, Adam & Dave's Bloodline, Denison Witmer
9:30 PM
$10 includes a copy of the CD! - Door Sales at 8pm

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Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells the true story of San Francisco in the 1960s.
Love Is The Song We Sing : San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 is a comprehensive portrait of the psychedelic scene in San Francisco from the late 60's into the Summer Of Love right through into the early 70's and the scene's influence on music then and still continuing to this day. The hippie folk beginnings of bands like The Charlatans and Country Joe and The Fish to the early Grateful Dead are all here. Garage rockers like The Count Five or the Chocolate Watchband bring on the fuzztone guitars. The subsequent LSD influenced morphing of the two genres into what we now call psychedelia is well represented here with bands like Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The early sounds of free form FM radio with acts like Santana and Janis Joplin are also here. This box documents the birth of a movement as well as it's impact on society at large. An amazing snapshot of an incredibly creative period in American music history. Grab your favorite mind altering substance, pop this set on and be transported to another time when everyone believed music could fuel a revolution.

MP3: The Charlatans - Number One
MP3: Quicksilver Messenger Service - Codine
MP3: The Youngbloods - Get Together
BUY Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970


Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
Disc 1: Seismic Rumbles
1. Dino Valenti - "Let's Get Together"
2. Country Joe & The Fish - "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" (EP Version)
3. We Five - "You Were On My Mind"
4. The Charlatans - "Number One"
5. The Warlocks - "Can't Come Down"
6. The Beau Brummels - "Don't Talk To Strangers"
7. The Vejtables - "Anything"
8. Jefferson Airplane - "It's No Secret"
9. The Mystery Trend - "Johnny Was A Good Boy"
10. The Great! Society - "Free Advice"
11. The Grass Roots - "Mr Jones (A Ballad Of A Thin Man)"
12. Blackburn & Snow - "Stranger In A Strange Land"
13. Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Who Do You Love" (Demo Version)
14. The Mojo Men - "She's My Baby"
15. The Wildflower - "Coffee Cup"
16. The Family Tree - "Live Your Own Life"
17. The Sons Of Champlin - "Fat City"
18. The Frantics - "Human Monkey"
19. The Tikis - "Bye Bye Bye" (Warner Bros. Single Version)
20. Country Joe & The Fish - "Section 43"
21. The Sopwith "Camel" - "Hello Hello"

Disc 2: Suburbia
1. Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"
2. The Front Line - "Got Love"
3. The Mourning Reign - "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
4. The Oxford Circle - "Foolish Woman"
5. The Stained Glass - "My Buddy Sin"
6. The Otherside - "Streetcar"
7. Teddy & His Patches - "Suzy Creamcheese"
8. The Immediate Family - "Rubiyat"
9. Syndicate Of Sound - "Rumors"
10. The Harbinger Complex - "Sometimes I Wonder"
11. The New Breed - "Want Ad Reader"
12. The Generation - "I'm A Good Woman"
13. The Chocolate Watchband - "No Way Out"
14. Butch Engle & The Styx - "Hey I'm Lost"
15. People - "I Love You"
16. Public Nuisance - "America"
17. Country Weather - "Fly To New York"
18. The Savage Resurrection - "Thing In 'E'"
19. Frumious Bandersnatch - "Hearts To Cry"

Disc 3: Summer Of Love
1. The Charlatans - "Alabama Bound"
2. The Mystery Trend - "Carl Street"
3. The Great! Society - "Somebody To Love" (LP Version)
4. Country Joe & The Fish - "Superbird"
5. The Beau Brummels - "Two Days 'Til Tomorrow"
6. Moby Grape - "Omaha"
7. The Serpent Power - "Up & Down"
8. Grateful Dead - "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)"
9. Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Codine"
10. Big Brother & The Holding Company - "Down On Me" (Live)
11. Salvation - "Think Twice"
12. Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit"
13. Steve Miller Band - "Roll With It"
14. Notes From The Underground - "Why Did You Put Me On"
15. Sly & The Family Stone - "Underdog"
16. Blue Cheer - "Summertime Blues"
17. The Ace Of Cups - "Glue"
18. Santana - "Soul Sacrifice"
19. The Loading Zone - "The Bells"

Disc 4: "The Man Can't Bust Our Music"
1. Santana - "Evil Ways"
2. Fifty Foot Hose - "Red The Sign Post"
3. Kak - "Lemonaide Kid"
4. The Sons Of Champlin - "1982-A"
5. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away"
6. Mad River - "Amphetamine Gazelle"
7. The Steve Miller Band - "Quicksilver Girl"
8. Mother Earth - "Revolution"
9. Moby Grape - "Murder In My Heart For The Judge"
10. Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Light Your Windows"
11. Flamin' Groovies - "I'm Drowning"
12. Seatrain - "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Lady"
13. It's A Beautiful Day - "White Bird"
14. Grateful Dead - "Dark Star" (Single Version)
15. Blue Cheer - "Fool" (Single Version)
16. Jefferson Airplane - "Mexico"
17. Janis Joplin - "Mercedes Benz"
18. The Youngbloods - "Get Together"

Hear More at The Rhino Records Listening Party

Bruce Springsteen and Arcade Fire - State Trooper


Bruce Springsteen and Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running

This is just about everywhere, but who cares I'm going to do it too. In case you haven't seen this yet, it's amazing. Last night's surprise guest appearance by Regine and Win of Arcade Fire with Bruce Springsteen in Ottowa, Ontario CA.

[video by trendwhore.ca]

Elmore James was one of the true pioneers of electric slide guitar whose influence san still be heard in modern day players for the Allman Brothers to The White Stripes.

More from Allmusic guide:
No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down. Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the '60s blues revival as his contemporaries Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf did, James left a wide influential trail behind him. And that influence continues to the present time — in approach, attitude and tone — in just about every guitar player who puts a slide on his finger and wails the blues. As a guitarist, he wrote the book, his slide style influencing the likes of Hound Dog Taylor, Joe Carter, his cousin Homesick James and J.B. Hutto, while his seldom-heard single-string work had an equally profound effect on B.B. King and Chuck Berry. His signature lick — an electric updating of Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and one that Elmore recorded in infinite variations from day one to his last session — is so much a part of the essential blues fabric of guitar licks that no one attempting to play slide guitar can do it without being compared to Elmore James. Others may have had more technique — Robert Nighthawk and Earl Hooker immediately come to mind — but Elmore had the sound and all the feeling.

MP3: Elmore James - Dust My Blues
MP3: Elmore James - Blues Before Sunrise
MP3: Elmore James - Standing At The Crossroads
MP3: Elmore James - Hawaiian Boogie No. 2
MP3: Elmore James - I Believe
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[Photo by JACQUES DEMÊTRE Chicago, Oct. 1959]

A few photos from Saturday night's excellent sold out Nada Surf / Jealous Girlfriends show at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia.
Jealous Girlfriends
Nada Surf

Some photos from last night's show at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia. The Cave Singers took the stage around 10:30 and played an enjoyable set of the quirky indie folk that stayed pretty true to the sound on their new record Invitation Songs. I didn't manage to get any pictures during their set, sorry guys.
Taking the stage in Philadelphia for the first time in nearly two years, Black Mountain was on next. They played a set heavy on new songs from their upcoming record, In The Future, which if last night is any indication, is going to be excellent. Their set was a rhythmic, ebbing and flowing juggernaut of psychedelic power. A mind altering experience with or without any help from your recreational substance of choice. One of the best shows I've seen this year, and if they haven't been to your town yet , I highly recommend checking them out.

Although their name may be reminiscient of a sound you'll hear on the new Radiohead album, Squaaks music is not. Their bio describes their sound as "crunchy guitars, a driving rhythm and catchy melodies" and it's right on the money. Their new album Rock Control is part sixties garage rock, part eighties post punk with songs that are catchy and often lighthearted. They're also not afraid to show they have a sense of humor, check out the opening track of the disc, Two Hippies, and you're sure to crack a smile. Catch 'em this Friday in Philly on the bill with American Princes, The New Motels, and The Sw!ms at The Khyber.

The Baltimore, Maryland based Squaaks are:
Songwriter Virat Shukla on vocals and guitar
Bassist and vocalist Elena Fox
Guitarist and keyboardist Justin Custer
Drummer Charles Cole














MP3: Squaaks - Two Hippies
MP3: Squaaks - Be Dry My Bleeding Heart

Upcoming Shows
Oct 12 2007 8:00P The Khyber Philadelphia, PA
Oct 13 2007 9:00P Lo-Fi Social Club Baltimore, MD
Oct 19 2007 8:00P The Metro Gallery Baltimore, MD
Oct 27 2007 8:00P The Vintage Porter Salisbury, NC

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Did you ever have that dream where you meet some of the most well respected songwriters of a generation and suddenly you've absorbed all of their musical knowledge and songwriting skills ? James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison, Brian Wilson they're all there and you're just soaking it all in. Well, I haven't had that dream either, but The Silver Seas must have because their new record High Society is all that and more rolled into one. It feels like you're listening to an old favorite from the word go, familiar enough to be comfortable yet still new enough to be engaging.

High Society is set for a November 13th release on Cheap Lullaby Records
[The Silver Seas were formerly The Bees (U.S)]

MP3: The Silver Seas - Imaginary Girl
Buy High Society

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A special edition of Monday Morning Blues today with BOS first guest post as our friend The Duke from The Late Greats takes the wheel. Enjoy.

Talking Late Greats Blues

Tom helped me out a few week’s ago with a Songs That Got Me Thru High School post, so I thought I could return the favor by doing a Monday Morning Blues Bash for Bag of Songs.

Truth be told, The Duke doesn’t have much of a singing voice, which deepens my love of the talking blues. If you are unfamiliar with this style of blues, try Wiki.

Arranged in order of release date:

Pete Seegar ~ Talking Blues

Pete Seegar ~ Talking Un-American Blues

Dave Van Ronk ~ Talking Cancer Blues

Billy Bragg ~ Talking Wag Club Blues

Coco Montoya ~ Talkin’ Woman Blues

Woody Guthrie ~ Talking Fishing Blues

Woody Guthrie ~ Mean Talking Blues

Dan Bern ~ Talkin’ Woody, Bob, Bruce & Dan Blues

Dan Bern ~ Talkin Al Kida Blues

Utah Phillips ~ Talking N.P.R. Blues

John McCutcheon ~ Talking Tinky-Winky Blues

Use some of you 25 FREE Downloads from eMusic to get more talking blues.

Here's one I'm really looking forward to. I'll be catching them live next week at Johnny Brenda's In Philadelphia. If they're coming your way you should too.
Here's a great song from their first record to enjoy while you read about the new one.

MP3: Black Mountain - Druganaut

via JAGJAGUWAR:
BLACK MOUNTAIN reveal cover artwork and track-listing for "In The Future", currently touring North America

It will not only make your heart flutter, but it will cause your temples to pulse and, if you stare long enough, your eyes to bleed. You must check out the new and very psych-and-prog-spiritual Black Mountain album cover at the new Black Mountain website: http://www.blackmountainarmy.com/

And if you already don't know, the new album is coming out on January 22. And the track-listing is as follows:

1. Stormy High
2. Angels
3. Tyrants
4. Wucan
5. Stay Free
6. Queens Will Play
7. Evil Ways
8. Wild Wind
9. Bright Lights
10. Night Walks

You can check out live previews of the album wherever the band is performing this month and into the next. Go to http://www.blackmountainarmy.com/tour.php for a comprehensive list of tour dates for Black Mountain (or see below). Also, let this be a reminder that the band will be taking along with them a very special tour-only record, which includes a digital download coupon that will provide a preview of the upcoming full-length on November 13.

Tour dates:

10/03/07 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle w/ Cave Singers
10/05/07 Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern w/ Cave Singers + Oakley Hall
10/06/07 Montreal, Quebec - Le National w/ Lightning Dust + Oakley Hall + Sunset Rubdown
10/08/07 Allston, MA - Great Scott w/ Cave Singers
10/10/07 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge w/ Cave Singers
10/11/07 Brooklyn, NY - Southpaw w/ Cave Singers
10/12/07 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's w/ Cave Singers
10/13/07 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop w/ Cave Singers
10/14/07 Bloomington, IN - Bluebird w/ Cave Singers
10/15/07 Louisville, KY - Headliners w/ Cave Singers + Wax Fang
10/17/07 Norman, OK - The Opolis w/ Cave Singers
10/18/07 Denton, TX - Dan's Silverleaf w/ Cave Singers
10/19/07 Austin, TX - Emo's w/ Cave Singers
10/21/07 Phoenix, AZ - Modified w/ Cave Singers
10/22/07 San Diego, CA - Casbah w/ Cave Singers
10/23/07 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo w/ Cave Singers
10/24/07 San Francisco, CA - The Independent w/ Cave Singers
10/26/07 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge w/ Cave Singers
10/27/07 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe
11/03/07 Vancouver, BC Canada - Richards on Richards

Black Mountain links:

Black Mountain on Jagjaguwar's website: http://jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=blackmountain
Black Mountain on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/blackmountain
Black Mountain's webpage: http://www.blackmountainarmy.com/

Following up on their just re-issued with 3 bonus tracks EP, From The Decker House, (read Heather's take on that one here)The Rosewood Thieves have put together the Lonesome EP, due out on November 20th and are heading into the studio to record a new full length.

The Lonesome EP is six songs of pure alt-country folk influenced goodness. Working with Thom Monahan(Pernice Brothers, Devendra Banhart) they have crafted a warm, acoustic, earthy sound that perfectly wraps Erick Jordan's lyrical imagery like a wool blanket. Watch for it, this is one you'll want to pick up for sure.

The Rosewood Thieves :
Erick Jordan (voice, guitar)
Mackenzie Vernacchio (organ, Wurlitzer)
Paul Jenkins (guitar and bass)
Mark Bordenet (drums).

The Rosewood Thieves - Honey, Stay Awhile
Buy Lonesome EP

Upcoming Shows
Oct 5 2007 9:30A Pianos (concert for peace) New York
Oct 16 2007 11:15P Southpaw (CMJ Music Marathon) Brooklyn, New York
Oct 17 2007 8:00P Mercury Lounge (CMJ Music Marathon) New York, New York

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Some brand new blues influenced music today from some artists not necessarily thought of as blues.

MP3: Steve Earle - Oxycontin Blues
Buy Washington Square Serenade
MP3: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
Buy Raising Sand
MP3: Band Of Horses - Window Blues
Buy Cease To Begin