Another grey and cold day in the UK with frost hanging around all day and the prospect of freezing fog overnight. At least the weather can only get better.
The music will, I hope prove cheering with a slightly longer show this week including a track from my  "Find of the year 2008" - Luthea Salom (right).

Hesitations and Cliches - Verona Red (Chicago, IL, USA)
Chris, Mike, Tony, Taz
Date: 2 Jan 09
Venue: Martyrs'
Address: 3855 North Lincoln, Chicago, IL, 60613, US
Details: Verona Red 9:30
Dirty Blue 10:30
Cobalt & The Hired Guns 11:30
www.myspace.com/veronared

Nightmares and appointments - Jenny Gillespie (Chicago, IL, USA)
Jenny: vocals, piano, guitar
Josh Stewart: cello and bass
Alan Ollendorff - pedal steel
John Knecht: drums
Jenny has worked as a waitress, a nanny, a hair model, a bed and breakfast concierge, a poetry teacher, and currently, a children's literature editor. But music has always remained her north star. Born in central Illinois, she has lived in Virginia, Rhode Island, Paris, and Austin, Texas, and currently calls Chicago home, where she performs with her band and soaks up the seasons of a vibrant city.
In 2008 she recorded Light Year, her first full-length album, funded mostly by donations by fans, at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio with additional production by Darwin Smith at Austin's Cacophony Recordings. Anticipate a West Coast tour in spring 2009. The album which will be available tomorrow Jan. 1 on iTunes and CDbaby.
www.myspace.com/jennygillespie

Gorgeous Behaviour - Marching Band (LinkÃping, Sweden)
Formerly known as Second Language, Erik Sunbring and Jacob Lind realized their musical connection while attending college. Together, they began to play around with an array of more eccentric musical instruments such as xylophone, marimba, banjo, vibraphone and unique vocal harmonies. The result of this experimentation is found within their eclectic 12-track album.
Their critically acclaimed debut album Spark Large features an assortment of instrumentation that delivers atmospheric folk and Indie-Pop.
They have a gig at Luminaire in The King's Head in Kilburn, London on 8th Jan.
http://marchingband.se/
www.myspace.com/marchingband

Marching Band
"For Your Love" (mp3)
from "Spark Large"
(U & L Records, Inc.)

Buy at Rhapsody
More On This Album

Utopie - San'jyla (Vannes, France)
From their first album Premier Pas, which is "le fruit d'un travail commencà sur scÃne et dans les caf'conà du grand Ouest.â
Là oà l'envie de partager des bonnes vibrations sont plus fortes que tout.
Le groupe est composà de :
- D'une section rythmique (batterie - basse - percussions - guitares - claviers)
- D'une section de soufflants (flÃte traversiÃre - sax tÃnor - sax alto)
- De chants (2 leads, 1 choeur).
www.sanjyla.com

Something's Wrong - Neal Fox (Florida, USA)
Something's Wrong, is a kind of primer for the song I'm not going to play this week called "Fuck the Fed". Really you do have to see the video. Follow the link to "stuff" and check out Neal's other work while you're there. Such a talent.
www.wireduck.com

Upon seeing Simone - Stewart Francke (Detroit, USA)
With hard work, great songwriting and soulful singing, Stewart Francke has found true indie success in today's rough & tumble music business. He's made ten highly praised CDs, the most recent being Stewart Francke Alive And Unplugged at The Ark, to be released in on January 20, 2009 through Blue Boundary Records and Burnside Distribution. His previous CD, Motor City Serenade, was recorded with the legendary Motown session band the Funk Brothers. Stewart has sold 50,000 records-all without a major label and its promotional muscle.
Building his devoted audience one person at a time over the years, Stewart is now known as one of the most exciting and beloved live performers around, playing his own headlining shows as well as support touring with the likes of Sheryl Crow, Warren Zevon, Steve Earle, Chris Isaak, Robert Cray, Shawn Colvin, Hall & Oates, Michael McDonald, Stevie Winwood, Eddie Money, Foreigner, Chicago, & many others.
Now performing with his own Detroit Soul band, Francke"s show is exciting, smart, humorous, and loaded with a warm, soulful vibe that makes every night pure magic.
www.stewartfrancke.com/
www.myspace.com/stewartfranckemusic

Murray's Wives - Ruth Theodore (London, UK)
Another track from Worm Food, Ruth Theodore's fine debut album. 13 tracks of beautifully twisted, political and personal mayhem. Her style of delivery makes you really listen and the effort is well worthwhile. You can get the album as MP3 from Jamendo but do yourself a favour and go to her site and get it in gleaming CD quality for just Â9.99
www.ruththeodore.com
www.jamendo.com/en/album/17052

When I'm dead write me a song - Pie Boys Flat (Queens, New York, USA)
From their album Uproot the Island.
Pie Boys Flat hit the NYC music scene in 2003 with their unique blend of Reggae, Blues, and Funk. Their writing shows influences ranging from Bob Marley to Jack Johnson to Sublime to Paul Simon and has melded into a form of ethnic Rhythm and Blues that sits firmly in the pocket of a style all its own. Laced with soaring three-part harmonies, their music is the manifestation of a many year friendship and collective musical intuition. Patrick Hambrick (Guitar/Vocals), Fitz Harris (Percussion/Vocals), and Jason Liles (Bass/Vocals) met in the late 1990's at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, where the trio formed a bond that is now apparent in both their writing and performing.
www.pieboysflat.com
myspace.com/pieboysflat

Accidents - Luthea Salom (New York, NY, USA)
From Luthea Salom's fine new bittersweet album Sunbeam Surrounded By Winter produced between NY and Skopje, (Macedonia) by Malcolm Burn and Luthea herself.
I think that if pushed to make a choice I'd say that Luthea is my find of the year 2008. Then the struggle is to narrow the choices to a single track.
On the face of it, just another girl with a guitar, but there is something else which I find utterly entrancing about the music from Luthea who is part Spanish and part Canadian.
www.lutheasalom.com
www.myspace.com/lutheasalomsongs

Thanks to all the artists, labels and enlightened managers who have seen the benefit in making their music available for me to include in the show over the past year. Your trust in the new way of working is appreciated.

Energy levels were running very low earlier today but 45 minutes or so of interesting music has sorted that problem out completely. It really must be the cheapest therapy available - and pretty damned effective too.
A rich mix of styles and challenges for you in this week's show including a rare phenomenon and on, and on ... - a sing-along track on Suffolk 'n' Cool, right at the end. Of course, the combination of Lauren Fincham and strong coffee could have something to do with it!
As the inspiring Ashley Brilliant says: "I have explored and rejected every other possibility, life, after all, is for having fun."

R'N'R en la radio - BadRriles (San Roque, Cadiz, Spain)
Pepe: Voice
Juan: Drums
Miguel: Bass
Andres: Guitar
www.myspace.com/badrriles  

Something in the air - Lauren Fincham (Jacksonville, FL, USA)
Southern eclectic folk artist, Lauren Fincham has performed in, and organized several Indiegrrl concerts and benefits.
Discography: Perfect Pain - 2007 Burning Tree - 2001 Show & Tell - 1997
She is currently working on new cds and songs, watching the eclipses, and seeking that ever elusive perfect cup of coffee.
www.laurenfincham.com/
www.myspace.com/laurenfincham

Sweet swing - Trafic de Blues (Chateau du Loir, France) Jamendo
From the excellent and very varied album Fin de Cavale.
Roman Stadnicki (TOURS) : Harmonica
Jonathan Truillet (TOURS) : Guitare Solo
LÃnaÃc Hureau (NANTES) : Guitare Rythmique
Fabrice Lecoffre (TOURS) : Basse
Fabien Beillard (AIX EN PROVENCE) : Batterie
Pierre Poussin (TOURS) : Sax Alto
Damien Brosseau (TOURS) : Sax TÃnor
Vincent Foussard (CHOLET) : Trombone
Alexandre Loyau (RENNES) : Percussions
www.traficdeblues.fr.st - which doesn't seem to work so go for:
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/trafic.de.blues

Trafic de Blues featured on Jeremy Gugenheim's The G Spot - a brand new specialist blues podcast which is being crafted by Jeremy Gugenheim. The first show went up last week and I hope we can expect more. It"s really good to have someone who knows a bit to guide you through a form of music. You can subscribe through iTunes. More about how you can find the G Spot when Jeremy gets back and can tell us!

Let me in - Stereoaccident (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands)
As of 20-04-2008 StereoAccident continued under the name Signal to Shore, Comprising of Vocalist/Singer-Songwriters Chris Valentijn and Australian Shaun S Marshall.
Signal to Shore are the lastest acoustic duo out of The Netherlands. With lilting melodies, powerful vocals and hook laden tracks they are sure to have written one of your new favourite tunes. Comprising of Vocalist/Singer-Songwriters Chris Valentijn and Australian Shaun S Marshall, Signal to Shore creates and performs songs in their purest form, 2 guitars and vocals. Cutting out all the extra bells and whistles the songs have a honest and pure feel. Take a listen to an acoustic version of that song at:
www.myspace.com/signalstoshore

Solid Ground - Poxfil (France)
Iâve played a few Poxfil tracks but I know little about the artist, except that:
So Poxfil is a collective him himself all alone, but if he thinks beer is expensive in France, he should try to UK. Three albums are currently available on Jamendo.
www.poxfil.net
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/poxfil

Spankology - AfterThem (East Brunswick, NJ, USA)
Afterthem describes their sometimes polished...sometimes raw music as "Avant Garage Funk"...Keyboardist and alleged vocalist Dave George sites Frank Zappa as one of his musical heroes .... Lead vocals are done mostly by Joy Epting but they also have featured guest singers Laurel Barclay (of New York rockers "Daddy") and Liz Matta ... who also plays sax but neither are on this track - I think.
Dave says you should hurry and buy their music while it is still inexpensive because even as you read this they will be attending conferences and seminars so they can take their music to the "next level".
Windy Jones...Bass...
D.George...Keyboards...
Joe Positive...Guitars...
Richard Johnson...Bass
Tomar DeFresco...Vocals
Giraffe is taken from their new CD Time Is Fun When You're Having Flies
cdbaby.com/afterthem8
www.myspace.com/afterthem

Lying back - Fire in our eyes - Azoora (GÃteborg, Sweden and London, UK)
"Azoora" are a blend of acoustic electronica which combines that dreamy shoe-gazing feel with a charming British indie twist. They have recently released their debut EP Tall Tales in which they have two alternative takes of each of their tracks, having both an original, and respective remix to tantalise most tastes. The album Long Time Standing is well underway to being completed this year. It will offer more of a wide mix of genres, being a double album with original and remixes presented separately.
London based multi-instrumentalist John Purcell produces the band. Vocals are provided by the songwriter Paul Loader who now lives in GÃteborg, Sweden and travels back to London to record in the studio with John, Ben Cochrane provides live drums and Trudi Laurence the fantastic backing vocals.
www.23seconds.org/azoora.htm
www.myspace.com/azoora

Dancing with my Brother - Entire Cities (Ontario, Canada)
Entire Cities are riding high on the success of their latest album, Deep River, the product of ten musicians using banjos, violins, flutes, pianos, minimoogs, singing saws, trombones, whatever else they saw fit to bring their work to life. The result is a heady mix of country, indie, gospel and rock.
www.myspace.com/entirecities

Can't beat fun - Thom Hopkins (Oregon, USA)
From his album Cloud Writing.
www.thomhopkins.com/

Sig tune: Happy - Jimmie Bratcher
www.jimmiebratcher.com

Still rather chilly here in Suffolk - a kind of deep persistent cold that permeates the house ... and my poor old bones! A pretty impressive sunrise this morning over the meadow with the old oak trees against the sky.

The Winter Blues - Robin Grey (Hackney, London, UK)
I thought I had played a track by Robin a few weeks ago, but now I can't find it. I've certainly been listening ... a lot ... having been put onto him, through Jamendo, by Carolyn who points out that he was responsible for mandolin and bass on Ruth Theodore's excellent album Worm Food which we've heard a couple of tracks from on this show as well as playing bass on the Blue Swerver album which, again we've heard on SnC.
The Winter Blues is from his album I love Leonard Cohen on Jamendo. Robin is normally located in a small white room with a blue door tucked away in a leafy corner of Hackney, East London, where he makes music.
Inspired by the timeless work of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Ani Difranco amongst many others, he colours in his songs about love and life with guitar, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, piano, double bass, organ, percussion toys, and any other instruments he can afford and fit into his little studio.
Robin has asked if I can recommend any places locally where he could come and play. He is also on the lookout for potential house gigs, so if you have a decent sized room and can muster a respectable size crowd give me a shout and I'll pass the word on. Alternatively send Robin a message through Jamendo or his site.
www.robingrey.com
www.myspace.com/robingrey

Ladylike - Amber Ojeda (San Diego, CA, USA)
I'll admit to being surprised that I really liked this. I'm not normally a great can of soul and R&B but this is magic.
Amber Ojeda is a singer- songwriter based out of the San Diego Metro area. Equal parts talent and ambition Amber has managed to precisely dial into the new digital world of music. She is continuously included on the MySpace Top 100 Artists Charts in the Jazz/Soul/R&B division. Her music can most recently be heard on the Style Networks new hit show "Dress My Nest" in addition to feature film placements.
Amber's musical approach centers around the blending of jazz and soul with hip hop undertones.. Her voice lends itself to the likes of Jill Scott and Alicia Keys with the poetic flow of Erykah Badu. With a growing fan base, looks and a distinctive voice, Amber is destined to be in the R&B/Soul/Jazz annals of music. PLEASE ENJOY FREE DOWNLOADS OF MY MUSIC AT www.trueanthem.com/amberojeda
www.amberojedamusic.com/
www.myspace.com/amberojeda

Message from Andy Fidler expressing his appreciation for the wax cylinder recording by Madam Pamita on last week's show SnC147

A message from Madam Pamita:
The pix are on the new Gallery page on the main SnC site.
I saw a production of "Marie" a one woman show which takes a look at the life of Marie Lloyd, the Queen of the Halls around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, which as a review in The Stage says:
"Elizabeth Mansfield, as Marie, describes the music hall atmosphere in three or four lines of dialogue and immediately the audience can see, hear and smell a crowded music hall.
Mansfield is as spiky and wonderfully bawdy as Lloyd was. The songs are made very much part of the narrative and many are sung, as was the fashion, with an opening spoken verse. Mansfield has the audience joining in the chorus and, at the same time, enjoying her performance and voice - the very essence of music hall. She confides in the audience just as a music hall star would.
When the play is over, the audience leaves with a greater understanding of the impact of Lloyd on popular entertainment."

Madam Pamita is planning a trip over to the UK to play a few dates and hopes that one will be near Suffolk. I hope so too.

OK This is the pops - Orpheos (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Bay Area producer Orpheos DeJournette stands poised to write the next chapter in a revelatory musical journey with the release of his debut LP, The Mirror With No Reflection. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Orpheos first broke ground as co-founder of West Coast dance pioneers, Mephisto Odyssey, enjoying both popular and critical accolades long before electronic music had hit the mainstream.
After a string of seminal original productions made their mark on dance floors and in after-hours parties worldwide, the group was chosen to remix the Jane"s Addiction comeback single, So What. The four Mephisto remixes charted on Billboard's maxi-singles chart for six weeks and remain the only remixes ever sanctioned by Jane's Addiction. A slew of remix work for Static-X, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Soul Coughing followed.
Never one to remain content with past achievement, Orpheos amicably left Mephisto to begin work on his solo artist career. Four years in the making, the LP of his new material infused with shockingly original production work, as the producer has meticulously and single handedly written, produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered every song and created each sound and vocal from scratch.
The Mirror With No Reflection LP possesses a sense of craft and an individuality sorely lacking in most contemporary music. That said, listeners will note hints of Massive Attack, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails and Pink Floyd supercharged with a groove-oriented attack that is immediately accessible, but, ultimately, unique to Orpheos alone.
www.orpheos.net/
www.myspace.com/orpheosmusic

Pat Steir - Cagey House (Maryland, USA)
Cagey House has been releasing free podsafe music since 2005--through Umor-rex, Nishi, and Jamendo.
"There's a new Cagey House album on Jamendo. [which I couldn't find last month] It's called Earth Covered A-Frame. Most of the tracks have been up here before. Lots of them have computer-generated vocals. It's pretty nice, if I do say so myself.â
www.myspace.com/cageyhouse
www.jamendo.com/en/album/33394

I'm always here for you - Josh Charles (Brooklyn, New York)
I played Josh"s song The Answer a month ago on 144 but thought you'd be interested to hear something a bit more bluesy with a brilliant deep south piano sound. A very straight recording with no discernable enhancement to the voice - what you hear is what you get.
"Since I was a kid, I've played the gamut -- the worst dive bars with piano keys so jagged that I cut up my fingers every night, some amazing concert halls, outdoor festivals, great clubs and even floating theaters at sea. My mentor/teacher and friend is Dr. John and I can say that I am blessed to have had the opportunity to learn from a master."
Josh has just released his debut Josh Charles EP which features members of Dr. John's band, his touring band, and was recorded in New Orleans and New York.
www.joshcharlesmusic.com/
www.myspace.com/joshcharlesonline

I want your love - Axisgallery (UK and Italy)
The nucleus of Axisgallery are Brit Nick C and Italian Paolo Baldini who met in Florence in 2004 while DJing the local nightclubs on a European Tour . Both have a leftfield approach to music and soon started working together on remixes of old rock songs such as Billy Squiers 'Stroke' and Black Sabbath's 'Neon Knights' which rocked the local dancefloors . Drafting in old friend and socialite Princess Anya LeGalle on vocals and a boozed out Scottish guitarist Pip 'maddog' Kiernan - they set out to create their first album 'Dynamics Of Synergy'
Axisgallery have just released their third album Disturbing Behavior which references their experience of 'Haut de la Garenne' and refines their sound to a more mainstream Rock/Dance crossover.
www.axisgallery.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/axisgallery

Message from Jez, guitarist, percussionist and formidable harmonica player with the Dana Wylie Band.

St James Parish Bus and One Lucky Bastard - Dana Wylie Band (England, Canada, Taiwan)
Graham Holland at It's a Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast suggest that the band contact me.
Moving to Taiwan in 2003 in search of a quiet place to write, she was surprised to find herself immersed in a thriving ex-pat music scene. When she played her demo for Englishman Jeremy Hellard, he said, "I'd have liked that better if I had played on it", and the Dana Wylie Band was born. A swinging drummer, guitarist, vocalist and uniquely expressive harmonica player, Jez proved the perfect accompanist, moving seamlessly between the various idioms in which Wylie chooses to compose.
After more than a year of touring Taiwan, including two long-term residencies in Taipei nightspots, they moved to England and joined forces with virtuosic and in-demand jazz bassist, Nye Parsons. Nye has developed a formidable reputation over the last decade, and his lyrical, melodic style hovers between jazz and folk and perfectly complements Dana's fluid song-writing.
www.danawylie.net/
www.myspace.com/danawylieband

Do Rasta Works - Jah Jah Yute (Jamaica)
From the 2007 album Words Power on Sound.
Jah Jah Yute was born with the name Steadman Shearer, in the parish of Hanover, Jamaica in a little district called Rock Spring.
His father owned a nightclub with a sound system called Sir King B. Jah Jah was first performing as a DJ, on this sound system.
One evening Jah Jah heard the Sound System of Black Star playing and during entertainer time, instead of dj-ing he started singing free style of his spiritual meditations.
Jah Jah went to Kingston and was introduced by a friend to the owner of Mixing Lab Studio where he met Bunny Wailer, Yellow Man and others.
While visiting Montego Bay he was directed to African Symbol Studio where he recorded his first couple of songs, "Do Rasta Work" and "Too Much Slackness Inna Di Music".
www.jahjahyute.com/
www.myspace.com/jahjahyute68
http://cdbaby.com/cd/jahjahyute

A really interesting selection of music again this week, quite a bit from the UK plus tracks from Nashville, New York, California and Denmark. There are a couple of rather quirky tracks that you should look forward to.
Really cold, even in the barn, as I put the show together, but probably not as cold as it is out on the Dunwich marshes by the Suffolk coast where these semi-wild ponies keep the vegetation down and where Dartmoor ponies are being used to regenerate the landscape after years of commercial forestry.

Once, Twice, Again! - Dartz! (Teeside, UK)
From the sampler album from Deep Elm "Bonfire of Trust".
"In the last few years the northeast corner of England has produced a cluster of post-punk bands with a penchant for spiky riffs and melodic vocals. The Futureheads and Maximo Park have garnered the most critical attention, but Dartz! are now making waves of their own.
Once, Twice, Again! reminds us that, first and foremost, the band is here to make you move. Still, pigeonholing DARTZ! as anything other than an extremely intelligent, complex and exciting band would be doing them an injustice. Off-kilter riffs and catchy choruses rip a melodic groove into your brain while intersecting instrumental passages are compelling enough to keep the hipsters zigging and the punkers zagging.
20 Dec Academy 2 Newcastle UK.
www.myspace.com/darts
www.wearedartz.com/
Dartz!
"Once, Twice, Again!" (mp3)
from "Deep Elm Sampler No. 8 "Bonfire of Trust""
(Deep Elm)

Buy at Deep Elm Records
Buy at Rhapsody

Enough of you - The Sugar Dames (Nashville TN, USA)
Nashville, Tennessee has long been a city revered for it's music, but if you should ever wander into the outskirts of the city you might encounter the unique and wonderful sounds of a seductive duo known as The Sugar Dames. Amongst lonely antebellum homes, farm relics and rolling hills the Dames have been hiding away--hard at work on their first project. Jenn Palmer and Christina Elen are hardly your typical musicians.
Having both been solo acts for 5 years and have been a group for the past two years, The Sugar Dames deliver music that is a hybrid of the past and present, an all encompassing style. "We're influenced by anything and everything from the alternative genres to the classics, from Debussy and Tom Waits to old black gospel and Etta James." says Palmer.
You can get the album Sirens of the broken heart from iTunes.
www.myspace.com/thesugardames

Tammy is Lez - Esiotrot (UK)
From their excellent album Seven Apples
Cat, Matt, Adey and Duncan formed Esiotrot in the late 80's when they got together to play Tortoise covers backwards. Soon Thomas Stimson joined on vibes, and they went on to perform a series of incendiary live shows, which so inspired Roald Dahl that he was moved to name his latest book after them. After the recording of their now legendary debut album "Schmesiotrot" they recruited brass section Thom punton and John Edom, to record some overdubs and play some shows, and they ended up never leaving. After releasing an EP on unpopular records, and playing a radio session for Hugh Stephens, Esiotrot went on to record their great lost album, 7 apples, which is now due to see the light of day as a series of split seven inches.
Esiotrot's first EP sold out, but now available to download on itunes and napster (under Esio Trot rather than Esiotrot, if you wonder why you can't find it!).
15 Dec (Monday) they are playing the Get Wanted night at 333 Mother Bar on Old Street, EC1 in London along with Komla, The Yakataks and Ryco Saints.
www.myspace.com/getwanted
www.myspace.com/esiotrotschmesiotrot

F for Fake - ray On (London, UK)
frank okolo (hum)
matt donovan (drum)
shane gilliver (strum)
My thanks to Jessie for spotting the band and organising the contact.
www.myspace.com/rayonmusic
www.rayonmusic.com

Slow Guns - The Homosexuals (New York, USA)
The Homosexuals are often credited as godfathers of the D.I.Y. movement, Bruno Wizard with guitarist Anton Heyman, bassist Jim Welton and a cast of revolving collaborators accumulated a treasure trove of other-worldly art-punk in the late 70s and early 80s, shunning the sniffs of big-label bloodhounds, only sporadically performing, and self-pressing tiny quantities of their own records only to disband completely by '83.
Serious Business Records proudly presents Love Guns?, the first piece of new vinyl issued by The Homosexuals since the early eighties. The band's first ever US tour recently concluded with mesmerizing original writer / vocalist / auteur Bruno Wizard fronting a young band of tough-as-nails New Yorkers.
The three songs that comprise the heart of the Love Guns? EP are "Slow Guns," a full-scale 70-s styled, hook-laden, anti-establishment punk anthem, "3AM (Pink Pony)," a sweet, slow building slice of bedroom pop, and "Don"t Touch My Hair," a future-world mutant-disco dance-floor banger.
The Love Guns? EP is being initially released as a hand numbered 300-piece 10" vinyl pressing. Bruno Wizard has hand written a story across the entirety of the 300 pieces, with a unique sentence, a fragment or a few words appearing on each copy. Fans can compare their unique inscriptions, upload photos, and slowly piece together the entire story at www.thehomosexualsloveguns.com. This pressing is extremely limited so interested parties should order their copies NOW. http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/45-Love-Guns-

He's in the Jailhouse now - Madame Pamita (California, USA)
"In the spirit of bounteous munificence, Madame Pamita presents the most tantilizing, most mesmerizing, most edifying experience of augury and prognostication the world has ever known. This mystic seer and musical prodigy does nothing less than spiritually transform those who witness her act. The powers of the vibration of unselfconscious music coupled with the mystical science of fortune telling allow her to access the depths of the human soul and once there to tranfigure it with the power of divine light."
She travelled to Long Island, New York to make 13 wax cylinder recordings.
Enter into the curious and sublime world of Madame Pamita's Parlor of Wonders, an old-time medicine show filled with mysticism, music and melodrama: an entrancing array of spectacles both quaint and queer!
Madame Pamita plays songs written both by herself and by those who have moved on to the great beyond - rural blues, old time, jug band and proto-jazz numbers about romance and revenge and mirth and mayhem.
www.madamepamita.com/

LÃter fra Selsà - SelsÃlÃter (Denmark)
SelsÃÂlÃÂter
"Totur fra SelsÃÂ" (mp3)
from "LÃÂter fra SelsÃÂ"
(GO' Danish Folk Music)
Buy at Rhapsody
More On This Album


Chicken on a Raft - Pyrates! (Exeter, UK) direct
Pyrates! was finally formed properly as a band during the summer of 2006, an offshoot of the pirate nights we've been having around Exeter for the last 3 years, there are only so many verses a group of drunk people can remember during a night out!
Pyrates! are a sea shanty, folk, drinking, rock, songs of the sea type band, performing a variety of traditional, revival and alternative folk music all in our very own musical way!
www.myspace.com/ukpirates
www.pyrates.co.uk/

Out of it - Brad Sucks (Ottawa, Canada)
Title track from the album recommended to me by equalconquest over on Jamendo.
With his cheeky, disillusioned, home studio-recorded folky yet rocky songs, Brad, a 31-year-old musician from Ottawa, inevitably gets compared to Beck quite often. As much as it can be a compliment, no artist likes to be told they sound like another; but by now Brad has gotten to terms with the parallel. "It used to bother me, I took it as 'hey you're a crappy Beck impersonator with no ideas of your own!' But other musicians told me they get compared to Beck all the time also. So maybe it's the musical equivalent of 'tastes like chicken'.
On the other hand, getting compared implies getting heard. Brad started posting demos on the internet a few years ago, then released his first album, I Don't Know What I'm Doing, at the beginning of 2007, which started getting him some attention pretty far away from home. That's even how he got around to exotic places like Jamendo: "I started selling a bunch of albums to Europeans and got some emails suggesting I put my stuff on Jamendo. After I got enough, I finally checked it out and it looked like an interesting crowd of people. Lately I've been digging Professor Kliq a lot, for example."
Eventually, his music circulated in ways he wouldn't have imagined, ending up in ads for cars and condoms, or with "heroes of mine saying they like my music" and "artists doing well these days citing me as an inspiration. That feels awesome."
So now would probably be a good time to take things to the next level professionally. Brad has been considering getting help with press and booking gigs. But in the meantime, he's managing everything alone, while hoping that the new album, Out Of It, makes his music income go up (he's also into web design). "I'd like to do a bit of touring in the new year but Ive got to figure out if it makes sense money-wise. Other than that, I've got a lot of music I'm working on, as well as some stories and a few other things that I'm excited to get to."
www.bradsucks.net/
www.jamendo.com/en/album/31187

Sig tune: Happy - Jimmy Bratcher
www.jimmiebratcher.com

A couple of electronica tracks on this week's show from a very cold Suffolk along with some fine music from around the world. A call from one of our featured artists gives an insight into the life of a hard-working independent musician.
Most of the leaves on the trees outside the barn are gone now.

Those Damn Things - Ahmond (Brooklyn, New York, USA)
Ahmond is a singer-songwriter and instrumental composer. He has just released a self-produced debut album called A Boy You Once Knew.
On the album, and in live performances, you will hear Ahmond playing a variety of folk instruments such as mandolins and woodwinds, as well as heavier electric guitars.
Violins, cellos, and percussion often accompany Ahmond's haunting voice like on the epic track Go to Africa, which is getting Graceland comparisons.
www.ahmond.com/
www.myspace.com/ahmondband

Littleblood - Jenny Gillespie (Chicago, IL, USA)
Jenny: vocals, piano, guitar
Josh Stewart: cello and bass
Jenny Lee: violin
Wendy deBias: bgv
John Knecht: drums
Oops. Correction: Jenny just got in touch to point out that the above is the live band line-up.
Jenny has worked as a waitress, a nanny, a hair model, a bed and breakfast concierge, a poetry teacher, and currently, a children's literature editor. But music has always remained her north star. Born in central Illinois, she has lived in Virginia, Rhode Island, Paris, and Austin, Texas, and currently calls Chicago home, where she performs with her band and soaks up the seasons of a vibrant city.
In 2008 she recorded Light Year, her first full-length album, funded mostly by donations by fans, at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio with additional production by Darwin Smith at Austin's Cacophony Recordings. Anticipate the release in January 2009, along with a West Coast tour in spring 2009. The album which will be available Jan. 1 on iTunes and CDbaby...and if you want to be alerted to it, to email Jenny at begtodiffa@gmail.com.
If you really can't wait, get along to Green Genes in Chicago on 18 Dec to catch Jenny live.
www.myspace.com/jennygillespie

A clip of a well known song â

Fly like a beagle - Transient (Gloversville, USA)
A prolific artist with loads of stuff for you. a sudden soft implosion of noiselessness is a special release for Dusted Wax Kingdom by Transient - your ticket for a colourful journey from oldschool breakbeat worlds through experimental trancy ambience to glittering IDM planets in new downtempo and trip-hop dimensions.
I was put onto him my a fellow traveller in the land of Jamendo "sapiensfxâ who describes the album as "10 stars, great tunes and a must have" He (or she)'s dead right. I could have played any track from the album, They are all quite different but hugely engaging.
www.noisyvagabond.com

Join Jamendo (free) and not only will you have access to more music than you'll ever be able to listen to (currently a little over 13,000 albums) but you could go to my page at www.jamendo.com/en/user/clithers click to add yourself to my friends and we share links to interesting finds. I know I'll never find all the good stuff on my own!

Kick and Holler - Dare Dukes (Savannah, Georgeia, USA)
The songs that make up Dare Dukes' new album, Prettiest Transmitter of All, are a striking combination of incisive intelligence and sweet, doleful hooks. Looking past the shiny surfaces of American life, the singer-songwriter chronicles the everyday world, mining the margins for the eccentric characters and bizarre events that are the heart of his music.
"America is a crazy, scary, and fascinating landscape," Dare says. "The reality is a lot more interesting to me than what the nightly news depicts. The way I see it, it's a place filled with eccentric characters, all on their own strange mission--some nuts, some saner than the rest of us. These missions, these people, they are what my music is about."
I was chatting with Dare earlier and he was telling me that he's off to Vietnam for 3 weeks to eat lots of delicious food! He's also got a couple of great shows coming up in Athens, Georgia in the new year with a couple of great bands, Producto and Don Chambers + Goat, the latter of which is a Valentine's day extravaganza, whatever that is, but Dare's going to have to try and write a few songs for the occasion - he says his songbook is sorely lacking in love songs.
www.daredukes.com
www.myspace.com/daredukes

Sandy - Grace Valhalla (Nancy, France)
Great to hear that Grace Valhalla has a new album out on Jamendo it's called Summer Camp.
http://gracevalhalla.hautetfort.com/
http://myspace.com/gracevalhalla
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/grace.valhalla

Terje Nordgarden called in from Bologna, in northern Italyâ

Path of Love (piano version) - Nordgarden (Oslo, Norway)
Almost an extra track on Nordgarden's current album, this minimal piano version of the title track just blows me away.
If you have suggestions for places Terje could play, perhaps around New York next spring, let me know and I"ll pass on the word to the man himself.
www.myspace.com/nordgarden

OK, I'm getting travel sick - or at least sick of travel now. However, the journey back from Birmingham tonight was lightened by a look in at the Eurostar station at St Pancras (London). This delightful statue of the windswept (and train loving) poet Sir John Betjeman is in stark contrast with the champagne bars which are doing a roaring trade with "the suits" this Wednesday evening. Recession, what rece$$ion?
It feels like time for a break, especially since the winter arrived this past weekend with a good bit of snow which actually settled for a day or two - this is really unusual in November, we don't normally get any snow until January at the earliest. Ah well, Belfast on Friday!
The Wailers didn't like snow in November either.

Hillbilly Hip Hop Shuffle - Ashley Davies (Melbourne, Australia)
I found Ashley Davies' music a couple of weeks ago on Music Submit but it wasn't downloadable. However, Ashley sent me the CD Muscledrum Music 2 from Melbourne, Australia, and now it is here safely in the studio in Suffolk.
One half of Matt Walker and Ashley Davies, he won an ARIA award and opened forn the likes of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith< Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cruel Sea, Gomez and ZZ Top.
With his new solo project Muscle Drum Music Volumes 1 and 2, Ashley Davies comes to the fore as one of the great drummer-songwriters. A thrilling rhythmic adventure, Muscle Drum Music was recorded almost entirely by Ashley on two drum kits, guitar and harmonica, with no loops or samples. As the CD sleeve says "All instruments on this recording were played."
Find out more at:
www.ashleydaviesmusicanddrums.com
www.myspace.com/ashdaviesmusic

Sadly I'm not at the Jamendo show in Paris tonight  but I  hope it is going really well. If you have been, give me a shout and let me know.
No lack of travel at the moment, just not to the right places. I was in London AGAIN on Friday and Monday which was a 16 hour day. Travels again today in Birmingham and on Friday another flight to Belfast in Northern Ireland for a few hours - I just need to get through this week and that's it for a while.

L'ete en Hiver (Summer in Winter) - Maurice Gainen (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
The smooth flowing vocal stylings of Karoline Blandin adding her Parisian French flair in L'ÃTÃ EN HIVER (SUMMER IN WINTER)
Producer-Engineer-Saxophonist and Flutist, Maurice Gainen can take you around the world in 50 minutes and seven seconds in his new CD, 7 CONTINENTS-GLOBAL JAMS. This musically diverse masterpiece - two years in the making, features a total of 38 musicians and was created from sessions on the Internet, actually traveling the miles as the title boasts to Antarctica, North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia. "I was finishing my last CD, JAZZ FLUTE JAMS in summer '06.  I was reflecting on how I had done music from many parts of the world over my career.  So why not make a CD with at least one song from every continent?  The songs could be original or traditional....no limits on style.  That was not such a daunting proposition living in a place like LA with musicians from so many places and so many musicians versed in styles from all over the world.  But I decided to set up a challenge for myself having at least one principal musician in each song actually BE ON that continent.  So it was that musical and technical challenge, combined with the fascination of finding and interacting with new musicians all over the world that inspired me.  I have been rewarded many times over by the friends made and relationships nurtured on this journey. This is a landmark recording for me.  It is one of those special life/career markers that we all hopefully get from time to time."
www.mauricegainen.com/cds.html
cdbaby.com/cd/gainen3

Book of Lies - Miranda Vettrus (Salem, OR. USA)
Miranda Vettrus grew up in an amusement park, makes horror movies with her younger sister, Mariah and writes Go Go's inspired songs at 3 in the morning. By the age of 5, Miranda had already jumped off a 100 foot crane thrill-ride dubbed the Sky-coaster dozens of times. She's written dozens of songs and continues to grow her catalog by the day.
Her other interests include catching salamanders, playing basketball, and hanging out with her pet goats. "My guitar's become my prized possession, then my Mac laptop," Says Miranda. "I love singing and performing. I hope to be doing this for a long time!"
EP Book of Lies is available on iTunes and Amazon through her site, where there's also a rather fine video:
www.mirandavettrus.com/
www.myspace.com/mirandavettrus
http://mirandavettrus.com/music.html

100 Little Reasons - Hundred Little Reasons (UK)
100 Little Reasons are Andrew Grimes and Jim Crane. Find out just a little about them at:
www.myspace.com/hundredlittlereasons

iTunes review, my thanks to Graham. If you'd like toi add a review for Suffolk 'n' Cool you'll find the show on iTunes (search for Suffolk) or use this link to Suffolk 'n' Cool on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=121289766

Kou Chou Ching - Tiu Tiu Ssu Hsiang Chi (MoShang Little DingDong Mix) (Taiwan)
MoShang is a sound jeweller who blends downtempo electronica with Chinese instruments and sounds from the streets of Taiwan.
OK, so it is probably the most challenging of the 14 tracks on the Asian Variations album - not challenging for you - for me, in telling you what it"s called!
Get comfortable...
Discography:
Made in Taiwan (2004) [CD Baby, iTunes, etc.]
Chill Dynasty (2006) [chilldynasty.com]
http://moshang.net/

Motherless Child (Moshang Remix) - Lovespirals (California, USA)
Title track from the EP in fact, all the tracks are the title track! Anji Bee's sensual vocals and Ryan Lum's soulful guitar & keyboards have been remixed by numerous artists in various styles. This is a collection of remixes of the chillout duo Lovespirals by Chris Caulder, The Black Channel Citizen, Hungry Lucy and Karmacoda as well as a couple of remixes of their own. You can buy Lovespirals music trough an unbelievably comprehensive selection of on-line stores that you'll find on their site.
www.lovespirals.com/
Do check out Anji's excellent Chillcast at: www.anjibee.com

P'tit bonheur - Serge Cabon (Quimper, France)
Very light ion information here but there is just one track on Jamendo which you are welcome to download for yourself. Classic French chanson with a really interesting twist.
www.myspace.com/sergecabon
www.jamendo.com/en/album/31551

Gabor's Electrical Language is 150 this week. If you"ve not had a listen, DO. He finds some excellent music and is at:
www.electricallanguage.co.uk

Mayonme - Carlos de Nicaragua y Familia (Le Havre, Normandie, France)
Carlos Wiltshire, alias Carlos de Nicaragua, was born in Bluefields, on the Nicaraguan Atlantic coast. His name is not only in reference to his country of birth but mostly in reference to the legendary Indian chief Nicaraocai, philosopher, ferocious warrior and fighter. Carlos de Nicaragua was one of the precursors of the sound system concept in Paris.
In Paris, latinos, french and africans dance during the concerts under the blazing fire of a nicaraguayan named Carlos and his band "Familia", pioneers of the salsa reggae style. His admiration for the reggae prophets Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear [...] pushed him to dedicate himself to this music, reinventing it and mixing it with the tumbao of dancing rhythms from the Bronx and other great salsa capitals.
There is a video that you just have to see at:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MHqYGt6ejqE
www.myspace.com/carlosdenicaraguayfamilia
http://cdbaby.com/cd/carlosdenicaragua

Big Pink Blanket - Hundred Little Reasons (UK)
www.myspace.com/hundredlittlereasons

In London again yesterday and after a particularly stuffy-roomed meeting near the Houses of Parliament with a few rather difficult people, a lovely walk up St James' Park and through Horseguards Parade (flags fluttering in the winter sun reflecting off ancient windows) up Charing Cross Road and through Soho to meet Jessie and pass the decorations in Carnaby Street (right). It really is another world. Look carefully and you'll see that the snowman's anus is fitted with a loudspeaker. Fortunately these were not active at the time!

It seems to be the season of missed gigs, I'm going to have to get my priorities sorted out.

Get on with it - Val Emmich (New Jersey, USA)
I played Hurts more later on SnC 141. Since then Val has joined the cast of Ugly Betty, as a recurring character. Val is playing Jesse, Betty's love interst and a musician (no type casting there then). Ugly Betty is screening on ABC in the States.
http://valemmich.com/
www.myspace.com/valemmich

Ibobodub - Manze Dayila and the Nago Nation (St Marc. Haiti)
That song is taken from her album SolÃ. You may have already come across her music.
Haitian New Yorker, Manze Dayila, was inspired to write "CHANGE (The Barack Obama Song)" after being invited to perform at an Obamarama rally in her Brooklyn, NY neighborhood. Inspiration for an anthem stating "Barack Obama is my president," struck one morning in the shower and the rest is now history-in-the-making on YouTube, Myspace & Facebook.
This video is available for viewing and the MP3 single is available for free download on her site.
www.manzedayila.com
www.myspace.com/manzedayila
www.cdbaby.com/manzedayila

Giraffe - Afterthem (East Brunswick, NJ, USA) [Drop.io]
Afterthem describes their sometimes polished...sometimes raw music as "Avant Garage Funk"...Keyboardist and alleged vocalist Dave George sites Frank Zappa as one of his musical heroes....Lead vocals are done mostly by Joy Epting but they also have featured guest singers Laurel Barclay (of New York rockers "Daddy") and Liz Matta...who also plays sax but neither are on this track - I think.
Dave says you should hurry and buy their music while it is still inexpensive because even as you read this they will be attending conferences and seminars so they can take their music to the "next level"
Windy Jones...Bass...
D.George...Keyboards...
Joe Positive...Guitars...
Richard Johnson...Bass
Tomar DeFresco...Vocals
Giraffe is taken from their new CD Time Is Fun When You're Having Flies
cdbaby.com/afterthem8
www.myspace.com/afterthem

The Answer - Josh Charles (Brooklyn, New York)
"Since I was a kid, I've played the gamut -- the worst dive bars with piano keys so jagged that I cut up my fingers every night, some amazing concert halls, outdoor festivals, great clubs and even floating theaters at sea. My mentor/teacher and friend is Dr. John and I can say that I am blessed to have had the opportunity to learn from a master."
Josh has just released his debut Josh Charles EP which features members of Dr. John's band, his touring band, and was recorded in New Orleans and New York.
www.joshcharlesmusic.com/
www.myspace.com/joshcharlesonline

A really interesting set of influences here.
Munya - Yaya Ouedraogo (Shimotsuruma, Kanagawa, Japan)
From his album Clay Bora.
Yaya Ouedraogo, 22, musician from African street is singing the message of peace with African traditional music. Yaya, for long time, has not known his age. But he never thinks it really matters. Once he was asked by his friends when his birthday is, and he answered 'Everyday'. He says that he thanks everyday for that fact that his life is still continuing, and he wants to celebrate for that fact.
He is a survivor: survived through African poverty with his luck and his strong will, When he was in his mother's womb, his mother used 'African medicine' to cease his life, but he survived. When he was born, he was left in the street of Burkina Faso.
www.imeem.com/people/SgBG5FZ

Darkside of the Blues - Alexandria Quartet (London, Bergen and SÃmna, Norway)
I played this track in an "extraâ mini-show that I slipped in last weekend to let you know about the very first Get Wanted night that I wanted to get to but was totally unable to make. I thought the sound here was really interesting - some great vocal work. My thanks to Ãystein for getting the track to me so quickly.
Based in Bergen, Norway's main student city and the country's unofficial pop epicentre, the Quartet have been holed up in studios and rehearsal rooms for the last 18 months polishing their album.
Martin SkÃlnes - vox, git, keys
Ãystein Braut - guitars
Kim Ãge Furuhaug - drums
Chris Holm - bass
www.thealexandriaquartet.com

This - Tryad (USA, France, etc)
I've played a couple of tracks by Tryad in the past couple of weeks and I've been in touch with band-member Vavrek who tells me that Jamendo have flown him over from the States to perform a show with a live band on Wednesday of next week, 26th November. I have been trying very hard to get to get there but it just hasn't worked out, yet. I'm committed to a meeting in Birmingham in the English midlands in the afternoon and I just don't think I can get to Paris in time for the show nor the 6pm press conference. SO frustrating. If you can, it starts at 7pm and is at Glaz Art on Avenue Porte de Villette, Paris 19e quite near the Periferique.
The show features three artists, the Parisian rockers Hype, Drunksouls from Aix-en-Provence (France) and Tryad. Of course all three are on Jamendo.
http://tryad.org/
www.myspace.com/tryad
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/tryad

Promenons nous dans les bois - Drunksouls (Aix-en-Provence, France)
A strange team composed by a former dictator, a pedalo world champion(the famous Brazilian star Borgelao), a vicious missionaire, an Eric Clapton sosie and a couple of Chuck Norris fan twins. Don't be scared by their troubled individual path, just listen to the music they perform together and take a look at the rather fun video at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bueeu_7aBeE
www.drunksouls.com/
www.myspace.com/drunksouls

The Galway Fiddler - Linda Welby (Galway, Ireland)
A native of Loughrea, and now living in Roscahill, Co. Galway, Linda Welby has a very defined vision of where she is going and what is important to her in life. As a composer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and singer, music has always been at the forefront for Linda. "I love music and have a great interest in people with stories to tell of the older days of singing and music". Brought up in a very musical household with sessions on a regular basis, local musicians would gather for an all-night song and dance affair.
"The Galway Fiddler is an interesting song as for me it represents the real talent that can be found on the side of the street that isn't always showcased in the music industry".
Other songs on the album A story to tell are more on the country side of Irish but there is a really interesting influence from the like of Pat Boone and other 1950s artists getting in there in a was that really hasn't been heard for a long time. Perhaps now is the right time. Have a listen with fresh ears on her CD baby page where you can also get the album.
www.lindawelby.com
http://cdbaby.com/cd/lindawelby

A week of heavy travelling with two trips to London and one to Ireland four hours after completing the show tonight as well as a most enjoyable visit to the North Norfolk coast (right) to meet up with a friend from a long way in the past.
There really is some great music around and I'm trying to squeeze at least some of it into the show.

You're gonna lose - The Aces (CA, USA)
The Aces have attitude and a different idea of how to play blues. They reduce the blues to pounding riffs and a distorted wall of sound topped by wailing harp. They were among the first to absorb and recast the drone riff-based Hill Country Blues style, and The Aces do that their own way.
www.acesfan.com/

Alone - Tryad (various locations)
Since we last spoke I've done two all night work sessions followed by full days, yesterday a particularly frantic day in London. Gets to feel a bit unreal here in the barn in the very early morning just before dawn. I"ve been playing my current fave album on repeat for days Tryad's Listen. Amazing variety, some possible influences come to light after a few listens.
The album is available on Jamendo
http://tryad.org/
www.myspace.com/tryad
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/tryad

I'm delighted to report that the player seems to be working just fine a gain now (actually, I think it is a new player). How is it for you? So well done Jamendo for solving the technical problem.

Water - Deep 6 Holiday (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
From their Awake at the funeral album
Slightly shambolic sound from Deep 6 Holiday - but not in a bad way. It almost makes you listen harder.Deep 6 Holiday's music resonates with listeners because it allows them a space in which they can comfortably experience feelings that are difficult and taboo. The band's lyrical honesty, coupled with passionate performances, are meant to relate the idea that we are all going through the same types of struggles, and, in that way, we are all constantly connected. From its dark and discordant harmonies to its messages of hope, Deep 6 Holiday's Awake at the Funeral takes you on a musical journeyâone in which you realize that sometimes the only way you can feel at peace is by sitting alone in the darkness long enough.
www.deep6holidaymusic.com/
www.myspace.com/deep6holiday

Note from Steve Marshall in the UK.
Listening and storing? Just because of the sheer volume of material, for me it's mostly MP3s (of which I listen to around 400 per week), but if I really like something I"ll get hold of the CD and import into iTunes at one of the higher qualities which does make a difference. Of course, there is always the anxiety about hard drive failure but I'm pretty rigorous about backups. So, It"s amazing that I'm whinging about having to store all those CDs - they take a little less room than the equivalent in vinyl.
How about you - any good ideas that we can share? Why not pop a comment into the shownotes, drop me a line to peter@suffolkandcool.com
Or leave a message on the MyChingo message machine right nest to this week's show on the shownotes page at suffolkandcool.libsyn.com It really is dead easy and you can re-record the message until you get it how you want it to sound. You never know, there might even be a chance to play it in the show (no guarantees though).

I've never really made a strong connection between the blues and the mandolin - just not obviously good bedfellows, or so I thought until Bert Deivert kindly dropped a track of his in the Suffolk 'n" Cool drop box. This is something of a revelation and I thank Bert for it.
Seems like a Dream - Bert Deivert
This song is on the cd TAKIN' SAM'S ADVICE, released by Bert Deivert, blues mandolinist and American living in Sweden. The song is included on the Yank Rachell Tribute cd at yankrachell.com
Yank Rachell was the most famous blues mandolinist in the world. Right now thee a re a handful of active recording and touring blues mandolinists in the world.
Came in via the Drop.io page at suffolkandool.com
www.deivert.com/blues.html

Graham Holland at the Liverpool-based It's a frog's life acoustic podcast generally plays acoustic music only from the UK (frankly I don't understand all this nationalism in music but that"s another matter) Anyway, Our Graham who is a lovely guy has invited a bunch of AMP member music podcasters to submit an acoustic track from anywhere which he'll feature in future IAFL shows in a "Hopping around the world" feature.
I've a few ideas for a track that I'd like to send but what do you think - any favourites from previous Suffolk and Cool shows that you think should reach a wider audience.
Use the same means of contact to let me know and I'll slip a couple of tracks to Graham - he'll never notice.

Harper Valley pta - Samantha Dann (Queensland, Australia)
I'm not usually a great enthusiast for cover versions but two factors conspired to make an exception this week.
Grumbler put together an entire show (Music and Mumblings 037) of covers but I think that was just as an excuse to cram in more cheesy links than seems quite decent. I just don't know how he keeps a straight face as he does shows like that. Good on yer Grumber.
A cover of the old classic Harper Valley pta cropped up from Music Submit - I don"t know if it is just that it is newer or because it is by an Australian artist but for me it just cuts it as a really fresh take.
There was a great video on Samantha's site too but it has been removed. You"ll find it at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OgMh5fdTerY
www.myspace.com/samanthamdann

OK now this is getting really interesting ... salsa, reggae an unusual blend.
La Jurumba - Carlos de Nicaragua y Familia (Le Havre, Normandie, France)
Carlos Wiltshire, alias Carlos de Nicaragua, was born in Bluefields, on the nicaraguayan atlantic coast. His name is not only in reference to his country of birth but mostly in reference to the legendary indian chief Nicaraocai, philosopher, ferocious warrior and fighter. Carlos de Nicaragua was one of the precursors of the sound system concept in Paris.
In Paris, latinos, french and africans dance during the concerts under the blazing fire of a nicaraguayan named Carlos and his band "Familia", pioneers of the salsa reggae style. His admiration for the reggae prophets Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear [...] pushed him to dedicate himself to this music, reinventing it and mixing it with the tumbao of dancing rhythms from the Bronx and other great salsa capitals.
There is a video that you just have to see at:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MHqYGt6ejqE
www.myspace.com/carlosdenicaraguayfamilia
http://cdbaby.com/cd/carlosdenicaragua

Thanks to Ross Patzelt from Norwich, here in the UK for posting a really nice review of Suffolk 'n' Cool on the iTunes store. If you have iTunes check it out.
Ross has a couple of shows of his own at www.rosspatzelt.co.uk
If you'd like to post a review of Suffolk 'n' Cool, that would be really appreciated.

I mentioned that I was meeting up with Nicky on Saturday after a gap of almost exactly "a lot of yearsâ which went really well, walked on a wonderfully wild North Norfolk beach and a heartening meal at a rather fine restaurant at Holkham called The Victoria.

More travels, I'm off to Belfast in a few hours, very early tomorrow morning (and regrettably back in the afternoon) so it seems only appropriate to play something from across the Irish sea, although in fact this is from across the Irish sea â and the Atlantic Ocean.
Rising Gael contacted me during the week and my thanks are due to Erin for turning round my request for a track in record time to get it into this week's show.
Fierce - Rising Gael (Wisconsin, USA)
Rising Gael is a young Irish band that is setting the standard for modern Celtic music. The driving rhythms played on guitar and drum race with the fast fingers and electrifying bowing of the fiddle. This mix is paired with pure, powerful vocals, resulting in a rich and innovative sound.
This four-piece band is comprised of young and talented musicians who share a passion for music. The versatile guitar playing of Peter Tissot delivers sweet finger-picking and driving rhythm. Added to the rhythm section are the energetic and racing beats of the bodhran, played by Jeff Olson. The flying fingers and electrifying bowing of Katie Dionne add beautiful and commanding fiddle to the band's mix. Layered in the vibrant sound of the group is Erin Ellison's powerful and nuanced vocals. In addition to singing in the band, Erin contributes graceful and technically impressive flute playing.
You can order the CDs and get some great looking gear direct from their website.
http://risinggael.com/
www.myspace.com/risinggael

Bonfire night in the UK and my ignorance was evident in the show. At the last possible moment - just as I was finishing the shownotes Our Graham (It's a Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast) Holland sent a note through to say that his new show is up â along with a bit of info:
"Here in the UK we celebrate the anniversary in 1605 when Guy Fawkes and his co-conspiritors failed to blow up King James I during the Stare Opening of the Houses of Parliament. Read more about it at www.bonfirenight.net" Thanks Graham!
Dark and dank here in Suffolk this week so here's a reminder (right) of Ibiza a couple of months ago. We want our summer back!

 
Blame it on me - The New Duncan Imperials (Chicago, IL, USA)
I know it's only a few weeks since I played High School Soul by the New Duncam Imperials who have been giving Chicago and all points elsewhere a good time for the past 20 years. They have a new album in nearly eight years titled End Of Phase One. Bristling with the kind of straight-ahead-yet-twisted songs that characterize their best work, this album reveals a band that is tough, vital, and still poking rock in the ribs. It's on Pravda Records.
www.newduncanimperials.com
www.myspace.com/newduncanimperials
www.pravdamusic.com/

A relatively laid back and in places almost chilled SnC this week. It is probably geared to what I feel I desperately need - chill, relax and get away from the computers. Saturday looks the best bet for that - meeting up with Nicky who I last saw when we were around 11 years old. Recognition could be a bit of a problem so we are meeting on a huge windswept a beach in North Norfolk where we will probably be the only two idiots foolhardy enough to brave the elements!

Riley B. King - Robben Ford (California, USA)
Echos of James Taylor? From the album Truth
Robben Ford is one of the premiere electric guitarists today, particularly known for his blues playing as well as his ability to be comfortable in a variety of musical contexts. A four-time Grammy nominee, he has played with artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Bonnie Raitt and more.
Robben Ford will present a master class on guitar and music theory for beginning and intermediate level musicians on Saturday Jan 24th, 2009. The class will focus on the basic building blocks of music theory, chord progressions, the use of voicings, listening and improvisation. There will be an emphasis on the importance of the blues in building a strong musical foundation.
www.robbenford.com

Silver - Conductive Alliance (Illinois, USA)
Conductive Alliance formed in 2007, when long time friends began composing music on acoustic instruments that evolved into short, powerful arrangements. Electronics, traditional ethnic instruments, and even children's toys are used in inventive song-writing.
http://myspace.com/conductivealliance

I saw School of Seven Bells last week at The Social in London.
The sort of venue that I quite like - for sweaty rock. The beer was OK, the floor sticky and probably the most vandal proof furniture which was all built into the floors, being cast concrete blocks to sit on and put glasses on. A small venue but that's fine for showcasing a band. It did have probably the smallest stage I"ve seen in a few years though. Indeed the first band up, Daniel Land and the Modern Painters had their drummer and kit set off to the side of the stage.
So far so good but oh dear, the sound was just awful. It did no justice at all to the School of Seven Bells whose singers Alejandra and Claudia Deheza might have saved the air fair and had an early night. I know they were there, they were only a few feet away from me but I heard almost nothing of them. Their keyboard and guitar work complemented Ben Curtis who was playing some very interesting stuff and constructed some remarkable layered sound with half a stage of pedals. There were real problems with the PA, although I don't envy the guy on the desk which is behind the stage (perhaps more of  DJ booth) and mixing seems to be done through headphones and occasional attempts to get in front of the stage to take a listen.
I"m afraid I was so disappointed that my companion and I left after four numbers. Not that the band were bad. Indeed it was evident that they were as good and perhaps more interesting than I'd expected the frustration of not being able to hear them was almost worse than not hearing them at all. Not a good call by whoever booked them in at that venue if it was for the purpose of showcasing - although, come to think of it anyone with an ear would have recognised the talent despite the sound.
Connjur - The School of Seven Bells (Brooklyn, NY)
From their excellent album Alpinisms on Ghostly International.
School of Seven Bells
"Connjur" (mp3)
from "Alpinisms"
(Ghostly International)

Buy at Rhapsody
More On This Album

www.schoolofsevenbells.com/

Two for top cat - Cagey House (Maryland, USA) PMN and Jamendo
Cagey House has been releasing free podsafe music since 2005--through Umor-rex, Nishi, and Jamendo.
"There's a new Cagey House album on Jamendo. [but I coundn"t find it] It's called Earth Covered A-Frame. Most of the tracks have been up here before. Lots of them have computer-generated vocals. It's pretty nice, if I do say so myself.â
www.myspace.com/cageyhouse

Jamendo player problems continue.

On the Day I Found My Hands - The Brilliant Mistakes (Brooklyn, NY) Ariel
From their album Distant Drumming.
The Brilliant Mistakes are a New York City-based band who specialize in melodic roots rock brimming with smart songcraft, vintage pop sounds and lush harmonies. Fronted by two songwriters, Alan Walker and Erik Philbrook, they draw you in with infectious melodies and seductive rock flourishes, then beguile with unexpected sonic twists, insightful lyrics and provocative themes, best exemplified by such envelope-pushing kindred spirits as Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Spoon.
Album sales via the band's website:
www.thebrilliantmistakes.com/
www.myspace.com/brilliantmistakes

How far can I push you? - Deni Bonnet (New York, USA)
Yes, I know I only played Deni's track Too much fun a few weeks ago (actually it was on 129 on 6 August) but I wanted you to hear another tune from this very New York artist.
Both are on Last Girl On Earth, Deni's first, new, full-length album since the 2002 release of the critically-acclaimed CD, Bigger Is Always Better, and it features a collection of new originals, an unexpected re-working of a classic 80"s song and two bonus tracks of alternate versions of two of the songs on the album.
www.denibonet.com/
www.myspace.com/denibonet

Codger's taking a break so, sadly no new PC Podcast and no Dub Zone for a few weeks. I do find myself listi-ening to old Dub zones whilst I'm working the absence of words is ideal. Thanks for them Pete.

Struttin' - Tryad (everywhere)
t r y ^ d is one of the world's first 'virtual bands'. formed across the oceans and spawned by the combination of opsound and creative commons, a growing international number of t r y ^ d members collaborate online, building a body of 'open source music' which can be freely shared, copied and remixed
http://tryad.org/
www.myspace.com/tryad
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/tryad

Suddenly it is very wintery here in Suffolk. A cold blast of arctic air is streaming down the east coast of the UK bringing unusually low temperatures for this time of year - it was still freezing at lunchtime today. All a bit of a shock, I can tell you. Recording a little early this week so that I can get down to London for the School of Seven Bells gig tonight.
We've an apparently all American show this week but it is not all quite as it appears.

Intro / sig tune
Happy - Jimmie Bratcher (Missouri, USA)
www.jimmiebratcher.com

South Roxanna Wiggle - Kentucky Knife Fight (Edwardsville, Illinois, USA)
Kentucky Knife Fight is a hardworking, modest 5 piece hailing from Edwardsville, Illinois that combines the influences of early 1970's proto-punk and punk rock groups such as The Stooges, MC5, and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers with the garage rock of late 90's and early 2000 bands such as The Murder City Devils and The Hives. The sounds of early Van Morrison and dirty blues rock work their way in to the fold, as does a sometimes subtle, and at other times, not so subtle twang of blue grass.
One day, Singer Jason Holler (J-ho), guitarist Nate Jones (the Viper), guitarist Dave Wiatrolik (White Chocolate), Bassist Jason Koenig (Mr. Cool) and drummer "Handsome" James Baker met at a bar, drank way too much Stag, and formed a band the likes of which Madison County had never heard.
Their first LP The wolf crept, the children slept is out now. Available at all Slackers locations, Vintage Vinyl or through any member of the band. ALso on iTunes. Dates coming up around Illinois and St Louis, Missouri.
www.myspace.com/kentuckyknifefight

Incomplete - Yaana (LA., CA, USA)
From her album I believe in love
Yaana Gupta is an Indian Bollywood actress-model-singer-writer, born in Czech Republic in the city called Brno. Yaana has been modelling since the age of 16, in the fashion cities of Europe and Asia. In 2001 she shifted to Mumbai, India where in no time she became one of India's most sought after supermodels and actresses. In 2008 she recorded her first album in UK called I believe in love and soon after that shifted to Los Angeles to pursue her music career.
www.yaanasworld.com/
www.myspace.com/yaanasworld
 
Later with Jules Holland - oh dear, dear dear!

Guns or Butter - Hot Buttered Rum (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Hot Buttered Rum's political, environmental, and social activism is inseparable from their San Francisco acoustic rock sound. In this election seasonâthe most important in a generationâHot Buttered Rum is committed to energizing like-minded citizens to enact meaningful change. Now, the band is playing political benefits to support Democratic candidatesâand making available free downloads of two of their most pertinent tunes. Buy tracks through their site.
www.hotbutteredrum.net/
www.myspace.com/hotbutteredrum

Adeline - Noush Skaugen (California, USA)
This British artist born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a Persian father, raised just south of London in the UK. Her time spent in France and now the States has undeniably added a special flavor to Noush's sound. Classically trained on flute, piano and saxophone Noush playedu in jazz, wind, rock and funk bands as well as the renowned London Barbican Orchestra.
Noush decided to get out of her element in LA, and record the album in a totally new location. This turned out to be Nashville, Music City, where she met with an amazingly talented guitar player and producer, Ilya Toshinsky, who understood her vision for the record, and from there Lost and Found was born. Incredible musicians were found to play on the record, whose credentials are ridiculous. "All the songs were tracked in just a few takes, that's how good these guys are", She says, "I would go into the studio and sing the songs live with the whole band".
Noush Skaugen released Lost and Found June 14, 2008.
www.noushskaugen.com/

I'm not keen on hip-hop. Now I know that's a gross generalisation but it is what I thought and I was not aware of any exceptions, until last week when I discovered Michael Lynche.
Southern Belle - Michael Lynche (New York, USA)
Michael Lynche has been described as a hip-hop artist which, frankly, tends to put me off a bit but listening to him is like hearing the whole of black music in one artist but it doesn't really sound like a mash up of different styles. Existing in the space between soul, modern r&b, funk and hip-hop, his music somehow ties the tradition together while placing his own unique stamp and personality on it.
Perhaps "Dirty Blues" conveys it all.
Michael is playing the Cutting Room in New York tonight then he has a at the Rialto Theater in Atlanta, GA in Atlanta on Sunday. Watch out on his site for upcoming dates.
www.michaellynche.com/
www.myspace.com/mlynche

Double Standards - Patti Rothberg (New York, USA)
Patti Rothberg is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter whose songs have the power to take over a stadium without losing their lyrical intimacy. Rothberg's razor sharp wit and stark honesty trade barbs in the studio where she thrives in her creative freedom and at last releases an album that reflects her talent as a whole. With material that's split down the middle between hard rock and heartfelt acoustic songs. Rothberg's an electric guitar-wielding rock chick with a novelist's introspection, Patti is the rare artist who can work both sides of the musical spectrum.
AT the last moment `I decided to slip a contrasting track in from Patti to illustrate my point about her voice.
Wavelength - Patti Rothberg
www.pattirothberg.com/
www.myspace.com/pattirothbergmusic

Hurts more later - Val Emmich (Jersey City, NJ, USA)
"Songs can be powerful toolsâlike weapons," muses New Jersey singer-songwriter Val Emmich. "In the past, the weapons of choice for warfare were swords, spears, even longbows - things that could do damage from a distance. Knives and daggers were for more intimate occasions." You might find this talk of weaponry perplexing coming from an artist discussing the significance of his new album's title. Then again, if you're familiar with Emmich and his work, you know there's often meaning lurking beneath the surface. "With knives and daggers," he adds, "you had to figure out how to get close enough to use them."
On Little Daggers, Val Emmich's sixth release, he manages to do just that, drawing listeners close with great pop melodies and playful arrangements while a penetrating lyrical story unfolds underneath.
"Pop music is tricky because we've been trained not to expect much meaning in it. I love big melodies, but I also love songs with a strong, lasting message. The truly great songs somehow marry the two. Lennon was great at it. Marvin Gaye, Paul Westerberg, Burt Bacharach. They all wrote super catchy songs with lyrics that struck a nerve. Those songs make you want to dance but also make you think."
The songs on Little Daggers nimbly bal