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Dave Heumann, a musician with something of the rustic, poetic bent who supported music artists like Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Cass McCombs, started Arbouretum in the first 2000s. The music group was made up of Heumann’s friend Walker David Teret on electric guitar, ex-Lungfish member Mitchell Feldstein on drums, and …

A onetime person in the post-punk device Government Mozzarella cheese, singer/songwriter Tommy Womack later on resurfaced in the roots-rock music group the Bis-quits, finally heading solo in 1998 using the LP Positively Na-Na. Stubborn implemented two years afterwards. As an writer, he also gained acclaim for his memoir Mozzarella cheese …

Irish quartet Hal comprises of brothers Paul (vocals/guitar) and Dave Allen (vocals/bass), drummer Paul Hogan, and keyboardist Stephen O’Brien. The Allens’ parents had been folk music artists and their like of music was imbedded within their sons, Dave playing in rings since his early teenagers and both of these writing …

After departing Ho Hum, a band that had produced the rounds from major label next big thing to independent local, Kevin Kerby made a decision to have a different go through the music he was making. Having more than enough of the normal corporate band stock, he made a decision …

Along with his evocative baritone and twang-soaked, nocturnal yarns, Tom Heyman, onetime guitarist for acclaimed Philly origins rockers Head to Blazes, released his debut album, Boarding House Rules, in nov 2000. Helping from the effort had been such origins rock and roll notables as Chuck Prophet (Green on Crimson), who …

While she might not have envisioned it in early stages, Sarah Lee Guthrie, the little girl of Arlo Guthrie and granddaughter of Woody Guthrie, finished up answering the decision of family custom, releasing her self-titled debut in the family-owned Rising Son Records in 2001. Cautious observers will observe that her …

Austin, TX’s Adult Rodeo formed in 1995 from the ashes of guitarists/bassists/vocalists Stephanie Mankins and Rob Erickson’s collegiate music task Harmala. After shifting from Rhode Isle to NY to California, in 1998 the duo installed with keyboardist/programmer Kristin Erickson and documented their debut record, The Kissyface. A duplicate of the …

The brainchild of frontman and primary songwriter Graham Guest, Moses Guest continues to be delivering straight-up Grateful Dead-influenced jam band music since their inception. Arriving collectively in 1995, the Texas-based Visitor became a member of with bassist Sean Simon and drummer John Chupin. With Guest’s anthemic folk-rock songwriter in the …

Scottish rural folk combo Appendix Away was shaped in middle-1994 by singer/guitarist Ali Roberts and bassist/violinist Dave E. While at a Palace Brothers concert the next year, Roberts handed down Will Oldham an Appendix Out demonstration cassette, and in early 1996 Oldham released the one “Ice Age group” on his …

Despite their background (punk), geography (Seattle), and label affiliation (Sub Pop), the Walkabouts were not a grunge band; dark, haunting, and elegiac, their function rather sprung forth from your storytelling customs of American origins music as well as the kinetic enjoyment of rock and roll & move. The Walkabouts had …