Monthly Archives: April 2010

WORD UP!  Okay, this is some cool shit kids … we used to boogie our asses off to this track back in “the day.”  Never would of thought of this approach … some soul-FUL singin’ goin on here with that resonator….

Every Sunday, I do at least two things.  Edit my show, the Colorado Sound, for our affiliate stations, and put together the MMMM (Monday Morning Music Meeting).  And every week I am still amazed at the quality of music and recordings that cross my desk, or come in via email.  This week is pretty much no exception, with releases that cover the gamut from funk-rock, to soft-pop, americana-c0untry-folk, and nu-grass-jazz.  Lots of flavors in the basket this week…  so do enjoy — and thanks for supporting Colorado music.

Also, congratulations to all the winners at this year’s FoCoMA Peer Awards.  Another excellent year and another excellent presentation. 

Bop Skizzum – Push
Format – EP CD
Genre/Style: funk, r&b, rock
Website: www.bopskizzum.com
Notes: Bop Skizzum is the band that Flobots guitarist Andy “Rok” Guerrero started before joining the Flobots.  It’s nice to have him back doing some Bop Skizzum stuff.

Andy Hackbarth – {the last love song}
Format – LP CD
Genre/Style: pop, adult contemporary
Website: www.myspace.com/andyhackbarth
Notes: Andy grew up in Colorado.  Like others before him, namely folks like Celeste Krenz and Rebecca Folsom, he went to Nashville (2006) to learn songwriting and performance skills.  He loves pop.  He’s got an excellent voice and the kind of looks that young girls swoon over (do they still swoon?).  Hackbarth emerged as one of the brightest young stars on the touring circuit in 2009, playing over 150 shows from, quite literally, coast to coast. It included stops such as the legendary Bitter End in New York, the historic Fox Theater in Colorado, the Hotel Café in California, as well as Venice Beach and Nokia Plaza as part of the Los Angeles Triathlon.  Andy has opened for Jimmy Wayne, Lonestar, Katie Armiger, Buddy Jewell, Due West, Blue County, and many others. He was named to the “Top 10 New Artists” list by Soundsugar, and is the winner of several major competitions, including that of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA). Andy was also recently selected as a finalist and Honorable Mention Awardee in the International Songwriting Competition (from a pool of over 15,000 applicants).  Hackbarth’s song, “We Ain’t Done Yet”, was featured by Major League Baseball during the World Series and aired on over 40 major radio stations. He is also the co-founder of the Nashville-based non-profit, Songs for the Cure (www.SongsForTheCure.org).

Matt Campbell – How Can I Love You/Gunfighters
Format – 7″ single
Genre/Style: Americana, country-folk
Personnel:
Matt Campbell – guitars, vocals
Mike Wolf – Electric guitar
Dennis Bigelow – upright bass
Chris Kennison – pedal steel
Ben Brown – drums
Produced by Mike Wolf
Recorded by Chris Kennison at Seldom Fed Studios, Fort Collins CO
Mastered by Jim Wilson, Airshow Mastering
Notes: Matt Campbell no longer lives in Colorado.  He moved to Chicago a couple of years ago.  However, he’s still a Coloradoan and the personnel are all from Colorado – mostly NoCo… and he has a brother living in Telluride – so hopefully KOTO will pick up on this release.

Grant Gordy – Grant Gordy
Format: LP CD
Genre/Style: Neo-acoustic, bluegrass, newgrass, jazz, “dawg”
Website: www.myspace.com/grantgordy
Produced by: Grant Gordy & Jayme Stone
Personnel:
Alex Hargreaves (fiddle)
Paul Kowert (bass)
Dominick Leslie (mandolin)
Jayme Stone (banjo)
David Grisman (mandolin) – special guest
Recorded by Mario Casillio at Notably Fine Audio Denver
Mixed and Mastered at Airshow Mastering Boulder
Notes: Grant is now the David Grisman Quintet guitarist.  That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?  World class acoustic music all the way around, impeccably produced and recorded.

There are two different playlists for this week’s episode.  KRFC’s spring fund drive show and then the one that went out for syndication… and if you don’t mind, I’m going to rant a bit here.  Two times a year, KRFC does a fund drive.  The goals are extremely modest – raise $40,000.  The Colorado Sound has a ridiculously modest goal of $200.

Now we made our goal – but I was saddened and disappointed that not a single contributor was a musician from a band in this area.  We got contributions from Vermont to Hot Sulfur Springs – but none from any musicians… how sad is that, right?

Deni LaRue was my co-host yesterday.  She’s an old friend in radio, who is also on the board of directors for KRFC.  We spoke candidly about our needs and our desire to be the place where local music can be featured on a regular basis.  In fact, KRFC airs more Colorado music than any station in the state — and Fort Collins is a leading market for local music in the state … yet no calls from any local bands?  Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Better luck next time, I suppose.  If you wanted to contribute and couldn’t for some reason, that’s understandable.  It’s not too late.  Call the station at 970-221-5065 and let the operator know your contribution should be attributable to the Colorado Sound — and thanks for allowing me this space to rant and a radio station to broadcast Colorado music from.  I’m blessed that I have that much to offer.

KRFC FUND DRIVE PLAYLIST
Apples in Stereo “Dance Floor” from Travellers in Space and Time (2010)
NEW – Bop Skizzum “Prove It To You” from Push (2010)
Matt Morris “Money” from When Everything Breaks Open (2010)
The Foot. “High Design” from Primary Colors (2010)
Great American Taxi “Reckless Habits” from Reckless Habits (2010)
Todd Adelman & the Love Handles “Baby’s Gonna Be A Country Girl” from Todd Adelman & the Love Handles (2009)
Romano Paoletti “Can You Run” from Story of a Lifetime (2009)
The Jurassicasters “People Get Ready” from The Jurassicasters (2010)
Lelah Simon “Green” from Third Week of April (2009)
Chain Gang of 1974 “Devil Is a Lady” from White Guts (2010)
Tommy Metz “Dreams Will Collide” from The Blossom Frontier (2010)
NEW – Andy Hackbarth “The Last Love Song” from The Last Love Song (2010)
Kyle Hollingsworth “The Way It Goes” from Then There’s Now (2009)
NEW – Grant Gordy “Blues to Dawg” from Grant Gordy (2010)
Head for The Hills “One Foot in the Grave” from Head for the Hills (2009)
Lindsey O’Brien Band “Broke My Heart” from As Long As It Matters (2008)
The Informants “Salvation” from Crime Scene Queen (2009)
Keith Oxman “All Dudes” from Doing All Right (2009)

AFFILIATE PLAYLIST – Vol. 2, Episode 15
The Apples In Stereo – Dance Floor – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
NEW – Bop Skizzum – Prove it to you – PUSH ep (2010)
Matt Morris – Money – When Everything Breaks Open (2010)
John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light - Love Is A Shark – Beautiful Empty (2010)
The Foot. – High Design – Primary Colors (2010)
Great American Taxi – Reckless Habits – Reckless Habits (2010)
Todd Adelman & the Love Handles – Baby’s Gonna Be a Country Girl – S/T (2009)
Romano Paoletti – Can You Run – Story of a Lifetime (2010)
Megan Burtt – Other Side of Lonely – It Ain’t Love (2010)
The Big Motif - Bad Cat (radio edit) – Big Motif (2010)
The Jurassicasters – People Get Ready – The Jurassicasters (2010)
Lelah Simon – Green – Lelah Simon’s Third Week of April (2009)
Chain Gang Of 1974 - Devil Is A Lady – White Guts (2010)
Tommy Metz - Dreams Will Collide – The Blossom Frontier (2010)
NEW – Andy Hackbarth - The Last Love Song – {the last love song} (2010)
Kyle Hollingsworth – The Way It Goes – Then There’s Now (2009)
Everything Absent Or Distorted (A Love Story) – Houses – The Great Collapse (2008)
NEW – Grant Gordy - Blues To Dawg – Grant Gordy (2010)
Head for the Hills – One Foot in the Grave – Head for the Hills (2010)
Emmitt-Nerschi Band – New Country Blues – New Country Blues (2009)
Moonspeed – Water’s Edge – Flowers Of The Moon (2009)
Reed Foehl – Wolves – Once An Ocean (2009)
Lindsey O’Brien Band – Broke My Heart – As Long As It Matters (2008)
The Informants – Salvation – Crime Scene Queen (2009)
Keith Oxman – All Dudes – Doing Alright (2009)

Okay, this is just damned funny.  I’ve seen a lot of band promo videos before, but these guys win the goat award for artismatic excellence!  (that’s goat speak for oh-hell-yeah-it’s cool!)  Oh, I would not have even known about these guys if Jeff Koepke at KRFC had not played them on his show, House Rent Party on Wednesday nights at 8PM, and he hadn’t logged his playlist here.

Every month I send out a spread sheet to stations throughout Colorado.  This is the current list.  It contains 194 titles from March 2009 thru April 18, 2010.

Rel-date	ARTIST  NAME	ALBUM
Mar-09	Honey Gitters, the	Barrel-Sniffer’s Holiday
Mar-09	Redline Rockets	RPM Thousands
Mar-09	Adam Stern	Twang Shui
Mar-09	Danielle Ate The Sandwich	Things People Do
Mar-09	Glove Trucker	Tengo Sueno
Mar-09	Hollyfelds, the	Black Heart Blue e.p.
Mar-09	Nancy Thorwardson	Something In the Air
Mar-09	Taarka	Seed Gathering for a Winter Garden
Apr-09	Bad Weather California	Young Punks
Apr-09	Blue Canyon Boys	House Full of Sorrow
Apr-09	Cowtown	No End of Love
Apr-09	Gritch	Sunday Morning Train EP
Apr-09	Keith Oxman	Doing All Right
Apr-09	King For A Day	Ghost In the Mainstream
Apr-09	Weekend Weather	Heat Lightning
May-09	20XIII	Take Two and Call in the Morning
May-09	After Midnight	Autumn Leaves
May-09	Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck	Queen of This Mess
May-09	Arliss Nancy	Dance to Forget
May-09	Eileen Simon	The Visit
May-09	Ethyl & the Regulars	Fill ‘er Up With…
May-09	Gregory Alan Isakov	This Empty Northern Hemisphere
May-09	Houses	Spring EP
May-09	Jasco	Ain’t Just Blues
May-09	Kort McCumber	Ain’t the Same As Before
May-09	Mighty Eighteen Wheeler	Stimuls Package
May-09	Motorhome	Almost Vegas
May-09	Neil Bridge 7+	“Yes, I Am Still Here”
May-09	North 17th Street Band, the	Dirt On the Tires
May-09	Other Side of Clearview	Sweet Release
May-09	Piggies, the	Rusted Bullets
May-09	Reed Foehl	Once An Ocean
May-09	Spring Creek	Way Up On a Mountain
May-09	Stanleytones	Women Make Me Act Like A Fool
May-09	Wentworth Kersey	EP Two
May-09	Stella Luce	Zugenruhe
Jun-09	Fierce Bad Rabbit	Everything Is Alright
Jun-09	Honey Don’t	Honey Don’t
Jun-09	Love.45	Into the Ether
Jun-09	Michaela Ray	Blues With A Backbone
Jun-09	Mojomama	My Heart for You
Jun-09	Otis Taylor	Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
Jun-09	Palmer Divide	Shenandoah Train
Jun-09	Paper Bird	A Sky Underground ep
Jun-09	Paul Soderman	This House is Blue!
Jun-09	Saints	Saints
Jun-09	Wendy & Robin	Saving Grace
Jul-09	Erik Lunde	Another Country
Jul-09	Fafi aka 3Percent	Groove or Die
Jul-09	Handpicked Holler!	Road to Gemini
Jul-09	Lelah Simon	Third Week of April
Jul-09	Motet, the	Dig Deep
Jul-09	Ode to the Marionette	Uncomfortable Situation
Jul-09	Ricky Sweum	Pulling Your Own Strings
Jul-09	Trampolines, the	Between the Lines
Jul-09	Yvonne Meek	Mosaic
Aug-09	Aloft in the Sundry	Fore (ep)
Aug-09	Andy Irvine	Soul Clap
Aug-09	Boulder Acoustic Society	Punchline
Aug-09	Churchill	Churchill
Aug-09	Dwarf Planets	Far and Away Sessions
Aug-09	Flying Dragon Orchestra	Flying Dragon Orchestra
Aug-09	Fred Hess	Hold On
Aug-09	GT and the Sidewinders	Across America
Aug-09	Hard Pressed	In A Different Time
Aug-09	Houses	Summer EP
Aug-09	Informants, the	Crime Scene Queen
Aug-09	Juno What?!	Late Night
Aug-09	Kyle Hollingsworth	Then There’s Now
Aug-09	Maree McRae	Urgency
Aug-09	Marty Jones & the Great Unknowns	Drink & Song
Aug-09	Savage Henry	Step Lively
Aug-09	Shel	Try to Scream
Aug-09	Sonnenblume	Sonnenblume
Aug-09	Speakeasy, Tiger	The Public
Aug-09	Subdudes, the	Flower Petals
Aug-09	Trucker’s Daughter	Broken Down Love
Sep-09	Andy Ard	What She Did
Sep-09	Apples In Stereo, the	#1 Hits Explosion
Sep-09	Asia Jazz Project f/ Molina Soleil & Aju	Sacred Paths
Sep-09	Candy Claws	In the Dream of the Sea Life
Sep-09	Coles Whalen	The Whistle Stop Road Record
Sep-09	Devil Got Five	Devil Got Five
Sep-09	Dubskin	No End In Time
Sep-09	Emmitt-Nershi Band	New Country Blues
Sep-09	Erik Applegate	Red Skies
Sep-09	Gadzukes!	New & Used
Sep-09	In the Whale	Songs About You
Sep-09	Inactivists, the	Love Songs and Other Songs About Love
Sep-09	Jen Korte & the Loss	Jen Korte & the Loss
Sep-09	Los Rojos Calientes	Corazon
Sep-09	M. Pyres & New Past Tense	Apart The Echo
Sep-09	Martin Gilmore	Martin Gilmore
Sep-09	Mary Louise Buirgy & Pamela Robinson	A Call To Prayer
Sep-09	Post Paradise	Here to Anywhere
Sep-09	Todd Adelman & the Love Handles	Todd Adelman & the Love Handles
Sep-09	Yonder Mountain String Band	The Show
Oct-09	Adam Bodine Trio	The Chauffer
Oct-09	Chad Price	Smile Sweet Face
Oct-09	Changing Colors, the	Ghost of Red Mountain
Oct-09	Death Hickey Blues	Raleigh St.
Oct-09	Euforquestra	Soup
Oct-09	Grippe, the	The Grippe
Oct-09	Hello Kavita	To A Loved One
Oct-09	Houses	Fall EP
Oct-09	Mike Schikora	This Cowboy’s In Love
Oct-09	Mitguards, the	Lookin’ For Something True
Oct-09	Moors & McCumber	Moors & McCumber
Oct-09	Papa Juke	Junkin’ at Jack’s
Oct-09	P-Nuckle	Stand Up and Bitch
Oct-09	Pretty Lights	Passing By Behind Your Eyes
Oct-09	Reminders, the	Recollect
Oct-09	Robin Davis	Robin Davis
Oct-09	String Cheese Incident	Trick or Treat
Oct-09	Tango Red Tapestry	The Window EP
Nov-09	A Melodic Daydream	A Little Weird
Nov-09	Aakash Mittal Quartet	Videsh
Nov-09	Chris Daniels & Bmaster	We’ll Meet Again
Nov-09	Everything Absent or Distorted	The Lucky One
Nov-09	Flashbulb Fires	Glory
Nov-09	Mary Stribling	Litlting Little Heart
Nov-09	Scott Von	The Age of Plenty
Nov-09	Six Months to Live	This Is What Happens
Nov-09	Stone Project, the	An Art to Life
Nov-09	Ukulele Loki’s Gadabout Orchestra	Gadabout Orchestra
Nov-09	Weird Turn Prose	Sundowner
Dec-09	Epilogues & the Photo Atlas	Friendship EP
Dec-09	Head for the Hills	Head for the Hills
Dec-09	Leftover Salmon	Celebrating 20 Years of Leftover Salmon
Dec-09	Moonspeed	Flowers of the Moon
Dec-09	Quillion	To the Hilt
Dec-09	Railbenders	Like A Wheel
Dec-09	Rosalie	Metaphors for Hard Living
Dec-09	Various Artists	Love, Everyday Joe’s | Vol. 3: Wake Up, O Sleeper
Dec-09	Vices I Admire	The Politics of Apathy
Dec-09	Beautiful Loser Society, the	The Long Slow Decline
Jan-10	Congress, the	The Congress
Jan-10	Don’t and Be Carefuls	Risk Assessment
Jan-10	Dovekins	Dovekins
Jan-10	Ellyn Cornelison Rucker & Ross Cornelison	Every Time We Say Goodbye
Jan-10	Joel Decatur	Seeking the House-Builder
Jan-10	John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light	Beautiful Empty
Jan-10	Kosmos	Skeptics In Love
Jan-10	Loose Cannon Bluegrass	Loose Cannon Bluegrass
Jan-10	Matt Morris	When Everything Breaks Open
Jan-10	Megan Burtt	It Ain’t Love
Jan-10	New Ben Franklins	New Ben Franklins
Jan-10	Paean	Songs For Us To Sing
Jan-10	Runaway Express	Howlin At the Moon
Jan-10	Sour Boy, Bitter Girl	Songs About the Landscape or Songs About Wolf Army
Jan-10	Tequila Mockingbird	Luck & Trouble
Feb-10	Almost Legends	Eyes
Feb-10	Chuck Pyle	The Spaces In Between
Feb-10	Dale Bruning Quintet, the	Classical Connections – Vol II
Feb-10	Dango Rose	Banjo Poems
Feb-10	Sam!! Well, Hell	It’s a Long Story, So It Goes
Mar-10	Andrea Ball	Dial Tone
Mar-10	Autumn Film, the	The Ship and the Sea
Mar-10	Barbara Ernst	April Child: Mistura Bela (Beautiful Mix)
Mar-10	Big Head Todd & the Monsters	Smokestack Lightening (single)
Mar-10	Big Motif, the	Big Motif
Mar-10	Carbon Choir	High Beams
Mar-10	Colcannon	Three Days in May
Mar-10	Dave LeMieux & House of Soul	Jazz Shaped
Mar-10	David Williams & the Wildgrass Band	The Crazy Kind
Mar-10	Fierce Bad Rabbit	All I Have is You (single)
Mar-10	Flobots	Survival Story
Mar-10	George Christiansen	Photosynthesis
Mar-10	Great American Taxi	Reckless Habits
Mar-10	Haunted Windchimes	Honey Moonshine
Mar-10	Intervention Band, the	Homey
Mar-10	Jaden	Midnight Sky
Mar-10	Jonathan Tierstan & Ten Tiers	Ten Tiers
Mar-10	Jurassicasters, the	The Jurassicasters
Mar-10	Knew, the	The Knew’s Pulperia
Mar-10	Molina Soleil & Aju f/ DJ Icewater	Soulaju
Mar-10	Rad Vibes	Mind is the Maker
Mar-10	Romano Paoletti	Story of a Lifetime
Mar-10	Tage Plantell	Words and Music
Mar-10	Tommy Metz	The Blossom Frontier
Apr-10	Andy Hackbarth	The Last Love Song
Apr-10	Apples In Stereo, the	Travellers in Space and Time
Apr-10	Bill McKay	Bill McKay
Apr-10	Chain Gang of 1974	White Guts
Apr-10	Grant Gordy	Grant Gordy
Apr-10	Johnny O.	A Volta
Apr-10	Jon Ridnell	Reliance
Apr-10	Nathaniel Rateliff	In Memory of Loss
Apr-10	Patti Fiasco, the	No Bridges
Apr-10	Sweet Sunny South	Carried off by a Twister
Apr-10	The Foot.	Primary Colors
Apr-10	Wentworth Kersey	((O))
May-10	The Hollyfelds	Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo

What the radio industry should be doing is building local programs with local personalities featuring local bands and artists and originating from local stations. -  iTunes “Radio” Is Coming by  Jerry Del Colliano from Inside Music Media

This quote is worth repeating every day by all of us concerned with local music… and local radio, which is changing before our eyes and ears.

Since I track Colorado music spins at public radio stations around the state, I can state with near-absolute certainty that KRFC plays more Colorado based music than any other public radio station in Colorado today.  In the past month ending April 18 KRFC has aired 253 unique album titles by local Colorado artists and/or bands.  That is ON TOP OF the Live @ Lunch feature that airs approximately 21 times a month.

Become a member.  Support Colorado music.  Support locally produced local radio.  Without your continued support what we have today may be gone tomorrow and I’m not kidding.  We NEED your support (all public radio needs your continued support) in order to sustain, and to grow as technology around us advances relentlessly.

Please don’t wait, or expect that someone else will be the one who gives…. and as much as I’d love it if you called in during this Saturday’s Colorado Sound program, I’d be just as happy if I knew you became a member via any mechanism we have established for you to do that.

I hope to see your name on the list of those who became a member and showed your support of local programs with local personalities featuring local bands and artists, originating from a local station.

The KRFC Spring Fund Drive runs April 23 to May 1

There is no MMMM (Monday Morning Music Meeting) per se this day… (but see the end of the blog for a taste).

That’s because I’m still in the midst of a home remodel that is kicking this old goat’s ass – and has to be done before Mom arrives for an inspection in early May.  So bear with me gang.  What I did find this morning however, piqued my interest enough to share it with you… and it was this quote:

What the radio industry should be doing is building local programs with local personalities featuring local bands and artists and originating from local stations.

This quote came from the op-ed piece iTunes “Radio” Is Coming by Jerry Del Colliano from his Inside Music Media blog this morning.

So, this is my call to my brothers and sisters at public and community radio throughout the state — that we are among those fighting the good fight on behalf of our LOCAL bands and artists, and we are among those who fight the good fight for LOCAL news and information, presented by LOCAL personalities.

Let’s not lose sight of the service we offer our neighbors – our family and friends – who trust us to deliver  something different than what they get from the “Clear Channels” of the radio world.

It saddened me when a friend I spoke with this weekend, who is a host at a local community radio station, told me that he listens not to the station he broadcasts from, but rather to a local NPR affiliate everyday on his drive home, in order to get the kind of news delivery he considers important to him.

It saddens me when a group of volunteer programmers in a blind survey and in a public showing of hands admit to listening more to other other stations and to other devices like iPods and Pandora than to the station that they are personalities at.  Of course, all of these same people privately and quietly make the assumption that their shows are being listened to by others… even when the ratings research and their own survey answers indicate otherwise.

All of the evidence that’s being presented today indicates that radio as we’ve known it in my 55 years is fading into obsolescence.  I cannot predict how long that will take.  No one can, really.  At least not until the government dictates that this old technology needs to be put to rest permanently – as the British government has done (they’re turning off their analog signals in 2015 I believe).  How behind the Brits we are is a good question — but when iTunes becomes iRadio you just know it isn’t far behind.

And since this is the MMMM here’s a taste of the new Sweet Sunny South album … enjoy!

Sweet Sunny South – Carried off by a Twister
Genre/Style: Americana, bluegrass, folk
Notes: this is as authentic as you’ll find anywhere in the country today … pure, unfiltered, and unadulterated country/bluegrass music from and for the soul.

Earth, Wind & Fire “That’s the Way of the World” from That’s the Way of the World (1975)
Jennifer Lane “In A Magzine” from In A Magazine (2008)
Jon Ridnell “Angels” from Reliance (2010)
The Congress “Minutes” from The Congress (2010)
NEW Chain Gang of 1974 “Funk Giants” from White Guts (2010)
The Knew “Picnic” from The Knew’s Pulperia (2010)
NEW Sweet Sunny South “Ghost of Gram” from Carried Off By A Twister (2010)
Andy Monley “All Hail” from Triplight (2006)
Bobby Walker “Turn Me Around” from Git It (2009)
Xiren “Circus” from Bullets and Rainbows (2001)
John Common “Same Scar” from Beautiful Empty (2009)
Adam Bodine Trio “Omar’s Uptown Jubilee” from The Chauffeur (2009)

Lois Lane “Count the Memories” from The Best of Lois Lane (2004)
The Starlite Ramblers “Ghost Riders in the Sky” from 1992 (1992)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “Limon” from Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (1995)
Great American Taxi “One of These Days” from Reckless Habits (2010)
Romano Paoletti “Can You Canoe” from Story of a Lifetime (2009)
The Motet “Dig Deep” from Dig Deep (2009)
Scott Von “Stop and Stare” from The Age of Plenty (2009)
The Autumn Film “Because We Are” from The Ship and the Sea (2010)
Dave Beegle “Big Fish Rumba” from A Year Closer (2000)
Nathaniel Rateliff “Whimper and Wail” from In Memory of Loss (2010)
Dwarf Planets “Suddenly It’s Over” from Far and Away Sessions (2009)
The Grippe “Hucklebuck” from The Grippe (2009)

This is one of my favorite songs of the past few years.  Michael Olson’s fretless bass work is up there with some of the best I’ve ever heard.

Here’s a video sampler from Jennifer’s last album In A Magazine, recorded live at the Soiled Dove Underground in Denver