ha not particularly. but you know what i mean. she has a soulful wonderful jazz voice. and she's going to be singing "the man i love" or something, and i just never know where that comes from!!!

I'm listening to Dixie Chicks now...... still love their old stuff. Also listening to Courtyard Hounds that Emily and Marty have now started.

This is Red Molly doing one of Susan Werner's song "May I Suggest". Gives me chills every time. Beautiful song and Beautiful Harmony!!

i SOOOO love this, mary alice!!!! i was a susan werner fan back when she lived here in the neighborhood and was getting started! and i'm a huge red molly fan too. thanks for this terrific suggestion!!!!

yay! glad you like it too. Red Molly has a new member that has either just joined or is by the end of the summer. Her name is Molly and she is from Austin.

I've been listening to Josh Ritter's new cd. I'm still very much in like with his song 'Girl in the War'. 'Invisible Boy' by John Amos is brilliant. The Baseball song by David VIdal is brilliant as well, in an altogether vein. Can't find it anywhere but I've been listening in my head to Donovan's 'A Gift from A Flower to A Garden'......double album....I've forgotten nearly all of it but I think about it and it does me good. 'Happiness runs in a circular motion, thought is just a little boat upon the sea, everybody is a part of everything everywhere, you can be happy if you let yourself be....'

Loved that album, Rick. OMG, the memories! i can remember dancing around my room to the one with the reggae beat and singing my hear out to Isle of Islay. I may have to dig this one out of the vinyl cabinet!!

I don't know Josh Ritter (looking forward to learning about him), but I really like John Amos' stuff, and I LOVE David Vidal's windows into Americana. highly recommended from here too!

Twistable Turnable Man--A tribute album of Shel Silverstein songs came out recently. I can't wait to hear it!! Fantastic artists including John Prine, Nanci Griffith, Lucinda Williams, Ray Price..... wow!!

Jud Caswell, in particular his Lost & Found album. I love pretty much every song on it.

Also, Elliott Brood, who are coming to my town in September (and I can't wait to see them!)


And, always Jason Mraz.


He never gives less than all he's got.

Jealousy - Bettye LaVette (can't get it out of my head - ugh)
Sometimes the Song Writes You - the great Guy Clark
Purgatory Line - Shonna Tucker of Drive By Truckers
Solitary Man - Johnny Cash
Josephine - Kevin Kerby
Mescalito and Roadhouse Son - Ryan Bingham
The Felice Brothers
Roseanne Cash
Lucinda Williams

Oh, and....The Big To Do - Drive By Truckers.
There, that's 10.

gracey, i love the way you put rosanne cash without the specific songs. if you're like me, you like all of them! ;-)

I'm not a big t.v. fan... however, I do love American Idol and America's Got Talent. I love these shows because they make me laugh, cry, and feel wonderful. I enjoy seeing such great talent rise to the top. This past week on America's Got Talent there was the cutest young man on that sang opera. Did anyone see it? I forget his name, but I will be sure to remember it next time. Anyway, he voice was fabulous. I had chills. In stature he is small but in talent he is huge. And his personality was absolutely adorable! I love raw talent...even though he really wasn't raw.

Lillian, was he the guy from Puerto Rico? I don't watch that show, but I happened to be flicking through when I saw him. He was magnificent!

Here's a song by the band that got our family hooked on Celtic music. This one is an original, not too Celtic (except for the 'pipes) but I LOVE the blend of the fiddle and 'pipes. It never fails to hit me like a fist to the gut.

...thanks for posting your love of music. I like that this video showed the words, so I could hear the story. Although, Celtic music is not my cup of tea, I listened.... blame is such a waste of energy, isn't it! I'm curious as to what that means to you, "hit me like a fist to the gut"... sounds like it hurts.

Lillian - can't explain what the song does to me. But it has had this effect from the first time I heard it - it was a poor recording of the demo and you couldn't understand the words at all, so a lot of my reaction was solely to the instrumentation. The way the fiddle and the 'pipes "interact" turns me inside out. For years, whenever I heard the opening strains, I'd start to puddle up - kind of embarrassing because a lot of the times I was listening, it was live and I was in a crowd of people!

When I learned the lyrics, it moved me even more. Not sure what inspired them, but I can imagine it was painful. I've often been tempted to ask the songwriter about it, but it just seems so personal...

i'm listening to red molly sing "my sweet carolina"....here's a vid of it....

What pure, lovely voices they have! Thank you, Lisa - I'll be looking for more of their tunes!!

I'm a sucker for harmonies (always loved bands like the Hollies and CSNY). It's one of the reasons I always loved the Allman Brothers - those guitar harmonies were magical!

There's a band out there called Clandestine. When I first saw them there were two women in it with voices that were much like Red Molly's. Sadly one of the women left - they're still a great band but I so miss their harmonies!

i am so surprised that you guys don't know red molly yet. they have been a big sensation here in the philly area for a little while now. but they are getting bigger and more nationally known. they have song after song of beautiful old timey harmonies. and they are wonderful live too. check them out all over itunes and youtube!!!

Oh, you guys have to check out Black Crow/White Crow from Laramie, WY. They aren't well-known yet, and just play locally, but great harmonies, sweet voices, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and bass. Outstanding listening.

this isn't a great video, you guys, but it's a great song. "If I Came Back as a Song" by Barnaby Bright.

this is bet williams. she is featured on WIFF wiffledust web radio and was at the first wiffledust concert. i love her music. this is called "intution"....enjoy...

Oooo, I liked Bet, Lisa! And I REALLY liked that her voice made me think of Val from GrooveLily. Here's one of my favorite songs by them. I'd lost it for a while (just haven't been listening to music lately) - thank you for helping me find it! Unfortunately, this video is a little weird...and tehy cut the incredible violin solo off form the end of the song.

GrooveLily has Val's unbeilable violin skills - and that Mark Wood 6 string, that allows her to sing and move around while she plays (how DOES she do that?), but it also has the humor of the drummer Gene. Wish you could hear the words better - they really are funny...

I'll save the keyboard player for another time! he writes the neatest songs...

oh this is great, elle! thank you!!! i LOVE a good violinist. it's the instrument i grew up on, and it's so nice to hear it played in acoustic music.....!! as for bet, i have loved her for years. she's still at it, elle! and please listen to her on our radio station. just go to the main site and click listen live. she has great music AND great live performances!

Check these guys and gals out! They will not disappoint!
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/2426846

they were fun, ericka! thanks for that.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xZw9D9c18E&feature=related
I am not sure how to transfer video to the site like the others but here is a beautiful piece by one of my favorite artist. They are like "Peaches and Cream" to me!

ericka, you have to grab the embed code and put that in here....

every little thing..the police...

lori mc kenna "pieces of me".....

Hopefully this is where this belongs...

This was posted on another forum I frequent and it was fun to do a quick check of the old brain to see what would come up. I was amazed at how fast the list was complete!!

Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

I stuck to the "album" concept and didn't venture into music I listened to on 8-track, cassette, or CD.

Here's mine:

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James (actually considered kissing that cover a time or two!!)

Karol King - Tapestry

Bad Company - Bad Company

Santana - Abraxas

Larry Hosford - AKA Lorenzo (Ode To A Broken Coleus - I still know most of the lyrics!!)

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown (although anything he does influences me!!)

Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (I still can't believe I was over forty before I knew what "Rosie" was really about!!!)

The Doors - L.A. Woman (Riders On The Storm was popular the first time I went to the coast as a teen... sigh)

Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story

Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (I still remember the first headphones I wore!!!)

Asleep At The Wheel - Asleep At The Wheel (LOVED Ray Benson then, love him now!! And Chris O'Connell was the bomb!!)

Tony Joe White - The Train I'm On

Evita - The Original Broadway Cast Soundtrack (Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone - amazing!!)

Jesse Colin Young - Song For Juli

perfect, sheree! you are certainly not the only woman who kissed that sweet baby james cover! :-))) what a great list!!!

Carmina Burana... it's really inspiring me to organize. Yay!

I tried to do the list, Sher...and sadly couldn't think of 15 off the top of my head, although I will say you hit two of my faves with JT and Carol!!

One of the albums that I first thought of, I can't remember the name of. It was a 2 record compilation of "classics" (everything from popular to classical) that belonged to my mom and dad. I can remember Daddy putting it on the record player and the two of us snuggling on the sofa on a rainy Saturday afternoon and listening. I still have a love of Jerome Kern andCole Porter and a lot of "standards" because of Daddy and that album. The other, that came into my head immediately after, is a sound effect album that my aunt had...the very first stereo I'd ever heard. Unbelievable!!! The sound of a locomotive or a jet going from one side of the room to the other was mind blowing to a little kid (and probably a lot of adults LOL) who had never heard anything like it!!!

How funny, Elle!! Mike has an old LP of sound effects, but they're all of a military bent. So we not only have the sound of a jet taking off, but the sounds from the guts of the carrier as it strains to hold on to the "cat" as the jet returns to the ship and the "hook" catches!! It's a wonder the man can hear anything any more...

The Pond Hawks Have Landed! Link below for their Brilliant Music!

the pond hawks??? cool...i'm looking forward to this..thanks, dean!

I'm listening to the Damn Quails new cd as well as a Jared Tyler cut -The Dancer- interspersed with Joe Baxter's new 'Old Piano'.......

Listening to Buddy Guy with Carlos Santana and 2004 Montreaux Blues Fest. Also some Gypsy Kings for dancing purposes! Yesterday.......Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown to get my Mojo workin'!

i never heard of the damn quails, rick. thanks for that suggestion. i'm going to check them out. love joe! ..linda santana is always a fun saturday choice!!! and gypsy kings are great for dancing. i'm listening to more mellow stuff this morning....some cyndi lauper ballads. i love her voice!

I found this little lady last night while channel surfing (Yay! PBS!!) and fell in love with her voice. Searched her out and found this gem. I will definitely be buying some of her music as soon as life settles down some!!

oh elle...how wild! i found her on PBS too, but i knew that she plays eddie's attic in georgia, because i've seen her on the lineup. she's EXCELLENT! thanks for sharing this here!!!

She's played in Philly. I hope she does again!! I'd go!!!!

maybe she'll play at wiffledust.....!