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Songs for My Mother and Father by Hugh Marsh

Release: 1996

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Intimate and inventive interpretations of traditional songs.

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Songs for My Mother and Father Hugh Marsh

Relative by Wide Eye Dream

Release: 2013

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Debut EP from Virginia-based Rock & Jam Band, Wide Eye Dream

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Relative Wide Eye Dream

Dream #1 by Antonio Dibartolomeo

Release: 2013

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A 3 song EP of new music. The plaintive, beautiful simple lyrics, haunting organ and slide guitar pull at your soul. From haunting and dreamy to brash and solemn. 13 minutes of emotion.

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Dream #1 Antonio Dibartolomeo

Mercury by Marisa Anderson

Release: 2013

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Lo-fi modern Americana experimental solo guitar instrumentals traveling from the Delta swamps to the high lonesome sounds of the Appalachian region and heading west to follow the trail from Nashville to Bakersfield and beyond.

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Mercury Marisa Anderson

Spirits (Live at the Jazz Estate) by Jamie Breiwick

Release: 2013

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Spirits demonstrates extraordinary range and vision from this new jazz generation, and delivers on promise as if tapped into a musical wellspring flowing through their veins.

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Spirits (Live at the Jazz Estate) Jamie Breiwick

Adventure by Luke Vajsar

Release: 2013

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Melodic solo bass music with the use of loop pedal in the style of experimental lounge.

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Adventure Luke Vajsar

Perfection Is Overrated by Bergman

Release: 2013

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Songs of transition with raw and genuine lyricism.

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Perfection Is Overrated Bergman

Bonjour by Jules Day

Release: 2013

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Melodic and carefree style delivered by a unique and mesmerizing vocal.

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Bonjour Jules Day

Providence by Sam Arnold

Release: 2013

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Another album of benevolent art-pop violence. Quirky rock meets americana with dashes of funk and electro.

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Providence Sam Arnold

The Lines by Kevin Gant

Release: 2013

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Re-release of 1993 Tune; Featured in Jay Duplass Music Documentary, "Kevin" on Netflix

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The Lines Kevin Gant

Adalaide by The Listens

Release: 2013

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A song of love and perseverance. Featuring the soaring vocals of Tim Lamar.

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Adalaide The Listens

Too Close by The Listens

Release: 2013

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A song of flirtation and romance. combining old and new world folk styles with a Mediterranean flavor.

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Too Close The Listens

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The Devil Herself by Megan Jean and the KFB

Release: 2013

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Charleston, SC-based duo Megan Jean and the KFB arrange a demented blend of americana,punk,dance, and the avant-garde.

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The Devil Herself Megan Jean and the KFB

Smoke & Steel by Julia Crowe

Release: 2009

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Stunning instrumentals performed fingerstyle on electric guitar, ranging from bluesy rocking roots music to electronica to haunting melodies that linger.

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Smoke & Steel Julia Crowe

All My Friends by Jack O' the Clock

Release: 2013

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The third release by Bay-Area avant-folk quintet paints a stark contemporary American mythology, colored by the band's broad multi-instrumentalism alongside an expanded woodwind/brass section, guzheng, no-input mixer, corrugated pipes, and more.

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All My Friends Jack O' the Clock

Left for Dead by Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band

Release: 2012

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Pure, raw, essential Root Boy Slim - LEFT FOR DEAD is a spontaneous blues jam recorded 1979 in one take, unwritten and unrehearsed - a testament to the rapid fire wit of Root Boy and the masterful chops of the Sex Change Band!

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Left for Dead Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band

Time Forgets by David Elias

Release: 1998

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A landmark recording for independent acoustic music in the digital age. Often compared to John Prine for songwriting and delivery, this album has been played on radio station folk shows all over the globe since the early Internet days. .

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Time Forgets David Elias

Kiss You Down South by Ned Sublette

Release: 2012

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The celebrated singer-songwriter pays homage to New Orleans and the mighty Mississippi River with this funny, dramatic, virtuosic, all-acoustic solo set, recorded at New Orleans's Piety Street Recording.

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Kiss You Down South Ned Sublette

No Place to Go by Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra

Release: 2012

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Part Woody Guthrie, part Woody Allen, this musical ode to the unemployed features songs from the hit show "No Place to Go"

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No Place to Go Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra

Return To Struggleville by Listener

Release: 2009

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Talk Music at it's finest.

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Return To Struggleville Listener

Revelations Of The Secret Diva by Essra Mohawk

Release: 2007

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The legendary singer/songwriter's favorite unreleased recordings spanning 30 years. Wondrous uncategorizable songs and essra's transcendental soulful voice make this cd a musical treasure trove you'll return to again and again.

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Revelations Of The Secret Diva Essra Mohawk

Ten Cent American Novels by Sunshone Still

Release: 2007

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Cinematic songscape for a lovelorn and bloody western novel.

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Ten Cent American Novels Sunshone Still

Transformed by Linda Heck

Release: 2012

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Linda's sophisticated original songs explore rock, blues, jazz, country, and beyond. Recorded in Memphis w/Doug Easley, featuring John McClure, Kurt Ruleman, Jimi Inc., Jim Spake, Jim Duckworth, Rick Steff, Greg Easterly, Jonathan Kirkscey and more.

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Transformed Linda Heck

The Rise EP by R.RING (Kelley Deal & Mike Montgomery)

Release: 2013

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R. Ring is Kelley Deal & Mike Montgomery. It is voices, guitars and keys. It is sparse, chaotic, abrasive and lulling, often within the same song.

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The Rise EP R.RING (Kelley Deal & Mike Montgomery)

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Exotic Believers by Ghost to Falco

Release: 2010

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Utilizing elements of minimalist orchestral composition, post-punk, and folk--while consistently veering towards a decidedly western brand of psychedelicism. 29 Portland music people lend a hand to this epic. Rewards repeated and careful listening!

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Exotic Believers Ghost to Falco

Westerns by Mill Race

Release: 2005

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A Sci-fi Country-Western concept album. Analog synth and spacey pedal steel featured. Dentist cowboys, disgruntled bureaucrats, asteroids, etc.

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Westerns Mill Race

Kentucky by Matthew Loiacono

Release: 2008

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Mandolin and Voice in a Million Ways

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Kentucky Matthew Loiacono

Elephants by Aaron Strumpel

Release: 2009

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“The only 5-star album I've heard thus far this year. If Nine Inch Nails sang the Psalms and invited avant-garde jazzbos, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, to the studio, it might sound like this.”- Andy Whitman, Senior Contributing Editor for PASTE magazine.

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Elephants Aaron Strumpel

Yfz (Yearning for Zion) by Shakers N' Bakers

Release: 2008

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Improvised creative music based on Shaker \"Vision\" songs of the 19th century and new reinterpretations of contemporary scores by John Adams, Arvo Part and Ligeti.

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Yfz (Yearning for Zion) Shakers N' Bakers

Nowhere Calling by Steuart Liebig/The Mentones

Release: 2006

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Little Walter meets Ornette Coleman plus a little country and something else thrown in

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Nowhere Calling Steuart Liebig/The Mentones

Minutes From Midnight by Ian Charles

Release: 2004

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Listen to this one while driving at night. Soulful, Timeless, Driving, Acoustic, Rhythmic, Sonic, Feedbacking... Ballads, Long Lonesome Blues, and melodic Alt-Folk/Psychedelic/Americana for the 21st Century wanderers, wonderers.

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Minutes From Midnight Ian Charles

Even the Kids Don't Believe Me by Aeroplane Pageant

Release: 2009

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Indie Pop Experimental

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Even the Kids Don't Believe Me Aeroplane Pageant

Everything for Everyone by The Viper & His Famous Orchestra

Release: 2002

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Dig the neo-skiffle, crypto-constructivist sound of this ukulele, suitcase, sliphorn, and double-bass quartet from turn-of-the-century East Central Illinois, caught in full monophonic splendor.

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Everything for Everyone The Viper & His Famous Orchestra

Wisdom Teeth on Bended Knee by Heidi Harris

Release: 2008

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new weird america / freak folk / folk

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Wisdom Teeth on Bended Knee Heidi Harris

This Murder Is a Peaceful Gathering by Levi Fuller

Release: 2006

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Lovely, spooky, pretty, sad songs. About crows.

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This Murder Is a Peaceful Gathering Levi Fuller

Remember This Dream by Mood Area 52

Release: 2008

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This album takes their acoustic demo of the same name and fleshes it out with acoustic/roots songs that draw from tango, folklorico, country, bluegrass, and irish traditions.

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Remember This Dream Mood Area 52

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Westerns by Mill Race

Release: 2005

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A Sci-fi Country-Western concept album. Analog synth and spacey pedal steel featured. Dentist cowboys, disgruntled bureaucrats, asteroids, etc.

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Westerns Mill Race

Yfz (Yearning for Zion) by Shakers N' Bakers

Release: 2008

Reviews:

Improvised creative music based on Shaker \"Vision\" songs of the 19th century and new reinterpretations of contemporary scores by John Adams, Arvo Part and Ligeti.

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Yfz (Yearning for Zion) Shakers N' Bakers

Exotic Believers by Ghost to Falco

Release: 2010

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Exotic Believers Ghost to Falco

Kentucky by Matthew Loiacono

Release: 2008

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Mandolin and Voice in a Million Ways

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Kentucky Matthew Loiacono

Elephants by Aaron Strumpel

Release: 2009

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Elephants Aaron Strumpel

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Echolyn by Echolyn

Release: 2012

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A beautiful collision of sound. This is a double album leaving you with a yearning to listen again and again.

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Echolyn Echolyn

What? And Give Up Show Biz? by Asylum Street Spankers

Release: 2008

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Double live album combining a musical revue with tales of the ups and downs of life on the road. \'\'Tapdances on the thin line between stunning virtuosity and goofy farce, an eight-person dervish minimally amplified for maximum impact.\'\' -Village Voice

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What? And Give Up Show Biz? Asylum Street Spankers

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