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(Nature Sounds)   www.nature-sounds.net   It's a depressing state of pop culture affairs when a musician receives more attention after they've died than they did during their lifeti more...

(Standard Recording Company)     www.standardrecording.com     A three-disc set of 43 songs about each of 43 presidents may sound like a gimmick worthy of They Might Be G more...

(Makeshift + Shangri-La Projects)   www.makeshiftmusic.com   www.shangrilaprojects.com   Memphis' music history extends not just deep, but broad. In addition to the early rock more...

(Rounder) www.rounder.com   The low-lit vocals, modest melodies and humble arrangements suggest a performer with tightly-reined ambitions, a singer/songwriter who's been content to veer more...

(Ruf)   www.rufrecords.de   There are those that have accused Jack Bruce of sometimes under performing by rehashing overly familiar fare (i.e. constant Cream) and lowering his stand more...

(XL Recordings)   http://www.xl-recordings.com   London native Jack Peñate garnered much media attention for 2007s debut album Matinee. Greatly inspired by 60s, rockabilly pop more...

(Thrill Jockey)   www.thrilljockey.com   Jack Rose, who died last December at the age of 38, was one of America's leading acoustic guitar players, an heir to the finger-picking geni more...

(Goner)   www.goner-records.com/   Back in the mid-1990s, before anyone had heard of the White Stripes or the Black Keys or any of the other millennial blues garage combos, Jack Yar more...

        www.insiderecordings.com   The knock against Jackson Browne's 1970s work was has always been that he's too sensitive-"Here Come Those Tears," indeed. Tonio K. more...

(Nutone Music)   www.nutonemusic.com   A lot of the beauty and ecstatic excitement in Jai Uttal's music - traditional Indian call-and-response devotional chanting married to rock, j more...