Album Notes

Get it while it's hot! Asheville's newest all-local CD, "Peaks And Curves: Music from Asheville NC"! The best-of-local disc boasts both selected album tracks and previously unreleased gems from some of the best-known and talented musicians in the area. "Peaks and Curves: Music from Asheville, NC" was compiled by producers Aaron Price and Bill Reynolds and includes tracks by:

Tyler Ramsey, voted "best local musician" several years running in the Mountain Xpress Readers' Poll;

up-and-coming pop stars Stephanie's Id;

the sultry swing ladies of Menage;

end-times revelating rock n' roll of Hollywood Red, aka Woody Wood

national recording artists DrugMoney,

Abe Reid (Blue Rags co-founder currently blazing trails on the post-blues psychedelia scene) and his band The Spikedrivers;

world-music Funksters Free Planet Radio, whose members include
Grammy-winning bassist Eliot Wadopian, local producer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Rosser, and international man of rhythm River Guerguerian (who
currently tours with the world-renowned Turkish musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek);

the legendary Malcolm Holcombe, whose ultra-sleek songwriting and transcendant live show place him at the top of the regional solo-act heap, and recipient of a 4-star review in Rolling Stone:

soul-and-roots evangelists The Choosy Beggars;

long-time organic hip-hop perpetrators Granola Funk Express;

producer and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Price;

Asheville Americana flagship Black Eyed Dog, whose frontman Brian Landrum is a noted local producer;

singer/songwriter Allison King, better known as the newest
multi-instrumentalist to join Menage;

post-beatnik rockers George Terry & The Zealots;

the bubblegum/battering-ram power-pop of Paperboy;

the horn-honking hokum and novelty-zen-stalwarts Mad Tea Party.

Complete track info, including band websites, is available in the liner notes to the CD. Check it out!