Where it touches deep inside. Top 10 of my life... Together with "jumping jack flesh" and "brand new Cadillac"...

reflection

How To Win

Good old-fashioned country funk, with horns and banjos side by side. An outtake from the "VII" sessions.

Coming Home

"Roving Gambler" by Ramblin Jack Elliott from his 1964 Vanguard Records debut album 'Jack Elliott'. 

'Jack Elliott' vinyl to be reissued exclusively for Record Store Day 2014. Available in participating Record Store Day stores April 19. To find locations: http://recordstoreday.com/

Also available on Record Store Day from the Vanguard Vault: Big Mama Thornton 'Sassy Mama', Doc Watson 'Southbound' and Joan Baez 'Blessed Are'. 

Ramblin' Jack Elliott "Roving Gambler"

Alejandro Rose-Garcia, better known as Shakey Graves, still brings his Samsonite luggage on the road with him as an instrument, but his shows are no longer just a one-man band experience. This new sound is obvious in his Studio Z performance, but Rose-Garcia made sure to note that his shows now are an equal mix of his trio and his Samsonite companion. His latest album, And The War Came, is in stores now! 

Shakey Graves - Studio Z - Family and Genus - 2015-04-15

10. LETTERS FROM COLLEGE

Brown Bird "Bilgewater"

An acoustic tune from The Revivalists called 'up in the air' live on 3B radio 

REVIVALISTS-LIVE-UP IN THE AIR

Scott H. Biram, "Lost Case of Being Found"

Trampled By Turtles performs live at 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis. Recorded December 17th, 2011. Hosted by Keith Dudding. Sound by Aaron Ruby and Drew Freiberger. Discover more great music at http://kdhx.org.

Trampled By Turtles: "Midnight on the Interstate" Live at KDHX 12/17/11

"Payday" by The Wood Brothers. From the album Live, Volume One: Sky High - release date May 8, 2012.

The Wood Brothers - Payday (live)

Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Todd Snider’s inspirational album.

“I want to inspire people,” Snider says. “I want to inspire them to leave home, to do things traditionally considered wrong. If you listen to my record and vandalize your school, godspeed. If you listen to my record and punch your stepdad, thank you, you’ve made me feel better about
what I do. I don’t believe in the American dream, and family values can suck my asshole’s balls.”

Snider says this while smiling, because he says most things while smiling, because he knows family values are unlikely to do such a thing, and because he’s on the happy back end of happy hour at a favorite East Nashville bar. He’s laughing but not necessarily kidding, and Agnostic
Hymns & Stoner Fables is anything but a nice, folk/Americana troubadour album. It’s not a nice anything.

It is jagged, leering, lurching and howling, and filled with unhappy endings both experienced and intimated: “It ain’t the despair that gets you, it’s the hope,” he sings in the album-closer, “Big Finish.” That Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is also roaringly funny is tribute to Snider’s unique sensibilities, and to his standing as what Rolling Stone magazine calls “America’s sharpest musical storyteller.” Anguish without laughter is boring, like intensive care without morphine, and Snider has never been within 100 miles of boring. Also, he didn’t earn the
attention, friendship and fandom of American musical giants like Kris Kristofferson and John Prine by writing mopey protest songs.

Anyway, these aren’t protest songs. They’re inspirational. We’ve covered that already, right? It’s populated mostly by losers in the midst of losing, with a couple of spotlight appearances from the humbly anointed 1 percent. The result is something disconcerting, cracked and wholly original. It’s something that stands apart from the music of Snider’s heroes, and from Snider’s own, much-celebrated past. Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Snider’s 12th album (14th, if we count a “best of” set and a collection of B-sides and demos.

Snider doesn’t talk around the vulnerable part, or the angry part, or the part about how everything we’re taught about goodness and righteousness and capitalism, about God and family values winds up exploding into violence and chaos, wonder and longing. He doesn’t talk around how the whole deal is enough to make you vandalize your school, punch your stepdad, or make lewd suggestions as to just what family values might do in their spare time. And he doesn’t talk around the part about how he doesn’t know any more than you do about any of these things, or the part about how he might be wrong. It’s just that nothing has been delivered yet, nothing revealed. It is, as he sings, too soon to tell.

Here are 10 new songs for the waiting room. They’re here to inspire.

06 In Between Jobs

The .357 String Band - Stillest Hour

From 'Broken Hearts &amp; Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine'

Angel From Montgomery

William Elliot Whitmore stopped by the 88.1 KDHX studio in St. Louis on October 13, 2009 for a live performance. Discover more great music at http://kdhx.org


William Elliott Whitmore "Hell or High Water" Live at KDHX 10/13/09

Nathaniel's songs are rooted in a bygone era - both fresh and classic, imbued with a melancholy nostalgia, the rough honesty of rock 'n roll's past and the warmth and earnestness of folk storytellers.

Shroud is taken from his debut album In Memory Of Loss.

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj1gEVrUmSA

Scott H. Biram, "Lost Case of Being Found"

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