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A folksinger from rural upstate SC, Jennifer Goree is an excellent addition to the Southern gothic college of folk-rock which includes the Lousiana-born non-sisters Lucinda Williams and Victoria Williams, aswell as (spiritually, at least) Canadian moodists Cowboy Junkies. Supported by the good (and aptly called) music group Appalachian Spirit (guitarist …

Called after a river that operates through Stephenville, TX, Bosque Dark brown is usually a lightly Christian-flavored alt-country strap, but is actually, when all is usually said and carried out, singer and songwriter Mara Lee Miller, whose haunting, dark, and oddly hopeful and spiritual narratives are somewhat similar to Gillian …

Jolie Holland was raised in Tx, where from a age she attempted composing, playing, and performing music. By her teenagers she had discovered piano, electric guitar, and fiddle, and was executing as a vacationing musician. SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA was home for a while in the middle-’90s before Holland was …

Not using into her androgynous-sounding performing name, A WOMAN Called Eddy fits the grace of Karen Carpenter as well as the brutal honesty of Aimee Mann and Beth Orton. She surfaced within the thicket of pop radio queens (Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne) during summer months 2004 and presented a sophisticated …

A fixture within the Americana panorama, Kathleen Edwards was created in Ottawa, Canada, the child of foreign services parents who played piano and acoustic guitar in their free time. At five, Edwards started to research traditional violin, which continuing through her early teenagers. At that time, the Edwards family members …

Urban art-folksier Peter Mulvey has lived an artist’s life since adolescence — he was a college theater main, spent period busking in Dublin, Ireland, and founded the Milwaukee music group Big Sky, all before his early twenties. But his professional music profession didn’t really start until 1991, when was terminated …

Elevated in Fredricksburg, VA, singer/songwriter Erin McKeown started her folk job by carrying out in local golf clubs and coffeehouses during the night. By day time, she attended Dark brown University to review ethnomusicology, a field that could eventually gas the variety and depth of her very own music. In …

Folk-blues vocalist/songwriter Karen Almquist is something of the equal North California folk picture that spawned the late Kate Wolf, and Almquist collaborates with a lot of Wolf’s music associates. Actually, Almquist’s debut record, 1996’s Tracking of your time, was made by Wolf’s longtime musical partner, Nina Gerber. Nevertheless, Almquist comes …