Jul 19, 2006
Intro: Happy - Jimmie Bratcher
(Missouri, USA)
http://www.jimmiebratcher.com/
Hot day in the UK and harvest is underway
Unblue - Silja Nordlindh
(Denmark)
Silja, half Danish half Swedish, sings in many different
constellations, but has finally decided to let her own music be
enjoyed by the PMN. Started singing in musicals in the northern
part of Denmark and since then, joined other bands and acting
communities. But it's her own music that really brings it...
There we go again - run out of characters! No weblink for Silja yet
but I'll keep an eye on it.
Irk - George Hrab
(Pennsylvania, USA)
What don't we know about Geo! See last week's shownotes for
details.
http://www.geologicrecords.net/
Movin in the
right direction - Tracy Jane Comer (Winconsin, USA)
Tracy Jane Comer is a multi-instrumentalist and award-winning
singer/songwriter, presenting multi-flavored acoustic originals.
She earned nominations for both BEST ACOUSTIC ARTIST and BEST
ACOUSTIC ALBUM by Madison Area Music Awards in 2004 and 2005.
It's great to hear her on Suffolk 'n' Cool again. I've been
listening to this track all afternoon!
Dreaming - Hathead (Ontario,
Canada)
Awakened after spending a millennium in cryogenic freezing with his
hat on, HatHead discovers he is the only living human musician and
so returns to the present to save music from the machines but
....
http://www.hatheadmusic.com/ seems to have
been taken over by blog spammers!
YouTube's 'New' Terms Still Fleece
Musicians
Musicians such as Billy Bragg have been complaining about
networking/music site MySpace's terms of use - and rightfully so. MySpace is said to
be changing its tune, and should be posting updated terms soon
(currently, its About page is offline).
The video site YouTube constitutes an equal or larger threat to
small content producers. Before you upload that video of your
19-person indie rocker reggae band, for instance, you may want to
read the fine print. YouTube's "new" Terms & Conditions
allow them to sell whatever you uploaded however they want.
Among other things, this means they could strip the audio portion
of any track and sell it on a CD. Or, they could sell your
video to an ad firm looking to get "edgy"; suddenly your indie
reggae tune could be the soundtrack to a new ad for SUVs. The sky's
still the limit, when it comes to the rights you surrender to
YouTube when you upload your video.
See the whole story on the Wired blog at: http://blog.wired.com/music/index.blog?entry_id=1523392
Waverly - Martha's Trouble
(Alabama, USA)
When they released Sleeping
Dogs, Rob and Jen Slocumb were simply hoping to make a good
record that would sell. They had worked to produce a disc that
would attract attention from bigger record labels and make Martha's
Trouble a more recognizable entity on the folk music scene.
The music duo, who split their time between the U.S. and Canada,
got what they were bargaining for, and much
more.
Forget October is
available as a download album from iTunes
Live at Eighth & Rail
album now available exclusively online and at shows. Recorded
November 2004 after "The Making of the Band" contest.
Wed. July 19 - Auburn, AL 8:00 PM : Niffer's Place
Sat. July 22, 2006 9:00 PM : Eighth & Rail
http://www.marthastrouble.com/
Stay Awhile - Paula Toledo
(Vancouver, Cananda)
Melancholy shadowing optimism. Jangly guitars to atmospheric
sounds. Paula Toledo's melodic pop songs have aired on Lifetime TV
programs. Paula co-produced her current CD with Jonathan Anderson,
additional prod. & mixing by David Odlum (Josh Ritter, The
Frames) at Black Box Studios in France.
http://www.paulatoledo.com/
Get together - T Nile (British
Columbia, Canada)
Like fresh-planed cedar, T. Nile's clawhammer stark music is nicely
redolent of the west coast. If her rootsy EP is anything to go by,
Nile may find herself and her much anticipated debut album dragged
kicking from out behind the woodpile and into the front parlor
mainstream.
Band comprises:
James Forrest on double
and electric bass,
Kate Hennessy on harmony
vocals, mandolin, and percussion, and
Malcolm Shoolbraid on
drums and percussion.
Rounding out the album is Jon
Wood on guitars, Tamara's Father, Dan the Man on melodica, harmonica,
and washboard, and Adam
Popowitz on mandolin and acoustic guitar.
New album "At My Table" has a Vancouver release party tomorrow
night
(20th July) at the Railway Club (get there early if you want
a seat!)
http://tamaranile.com
All this talent in BC.
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Don't forget that Hachfest is next weekend at Hacheston, near
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Peter