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Hot traditional jazz duo -- ''Ragtime'' Jack Radcliffe on piano and the late Al Oliveira on clarinet and tenor sax. Traditional roots music at its purest and hottest. 11 MP3 Songs JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo, FOLK: Traditional Folk Details: C......

Indie pop with folk and electronic occasions 7 MP3 Songs POP: Folky Pop, FOLK: Folk Pop Details: Kate Tucker is a Seattle-based singer and guitarist, originally from the great state of Ohio. She plays a blend of smart, eclectic music that isn'......

Kimmie Rhodes is a masterful songwriter and singer whose songs range from country to pop to blues. 13 MP3 Songs FOLK: Folk Pop, POP: Folky Pop Details: Kimmie Rhodes * Kimmie Rhodes is a native Texan who grew up in Lubbock, Texas and began......

Alt Country and Roots Rock - The bastard love child of Lyle Lovett and Barenaked Ladies, Langston uses steel guitars, mandolins, and hillbilly shuffles to dress his tales of an Alabama boy in the Big City. Featured on The WB TV & various Indi film......

Singer/songwriter/acoustic guitarist with a deep, husky, alto voice knocking back harmonies and melodies a la Indigo Girls, C,S,& N, Melissa Etheridge and The Eagles. Blends styles of folk, alt-country, roots, southern, and classic rock. AUTOGRAPH......

A storytelling troubadour with a keen sense of melody and a maddeningly addictive sound. 10 MP3 Songs ROCK: Folk Rock, ROCK: Roots Rock Details: A former university wrestler, music school dropout, oilfield roughneck, and road manager for Tegan......

Storysongs of shadows and forgotten lives backed by tar-heavy waltzes; warm sandpaper vocals twined with soapbubble harmonies, rhythm section like pounding silver nails, syncopated with electric banjo, mandolin, pedal steel and trumpet. 10 MP3 So......

Punk-a-Billy 11 MP3 Songs ROCK: Folk Rock, ROCK: Roots Rock Details: Pig Farmer has performed together over a decade. A band based on the life and times of its fearless leader, Jim Hellerich, Pig Farmer provides the unique soundtrack to this o......

This folk trio embraces intricate three-part harmonies backed by acoustic guitars and piano. 14 MP3 Songs FOLK: like Joni, FOLK: Traditional Folk Details: This trio of women knows its "reason for being": to sing together! And sing they do...in......

Original folk songs with a strong traditional British influence covering a variety of moods and styles from sad soulful laments to devilishly humorous ditties and featuring the instrumental contributions of some of the finest players in Canada 11......

Drawing together rock, blues, folk and country, you get Americana roots rock. Inspirational lyrics and soulful rythms carry this CD staight to your heart. 12 MP3 Songs ROCK: Americana, ROCK: Roots Rock Details: After ten years of working indep......

Intelligent, multifaceted songs from America''s heartland played with fun and fervor by the Plumb Bob String Band and guests. 19 MP3 Songs FOLK: Modern Folk, ROCK: Roots Rock Details: Bob Runyon Ain''t We Got Fun! The nicest thing about th......

A blend of roots, acoustic pop, country folk and non-traditional bluegrass, all paired with intelligent lyrics. If Buddy Holly were to have gone country folk and bluegrass, he might have sounded like this. 11 MP3 Songs FOLK: Folk Pop, COUNTRY: ......

"Contemporary Roots Music": Start with the rich traditions of American rock and roll, country, folk, and blues; add a dollop of pop sensibility; mix in literate and thoughtful lyrics, a heaping spoonful of soaring vocal harmonies, a sprinkling of ......

Roots rockin'' country, folk and blues- all the Country grit and edge yet with a penetrating female voice that''s been compared to Lucinda Williams, KD Lang, Joan Baez and Emmylou Harris. 11 MP3 Songs COUNTRY: Traditional Country, FOLK: Modern Fo......

An exploration of "thinking man''s Americana." Fans of Bruce Cockburn, Richard Thompson and Mark Knopfler as well as American roots music, take note. 12 captivating new songs that clearly do justice to the craft of songwriting. 12 MP3 Songs ROCK:......

Acoustic Handmade Music blending Old Time Country, Alternative Folk, and Singer-Songwriter Flatpicking Airbending Blues using guitars, fiddles, bass, mandolins, hand drums and multipart vocals. 8 MP3 Songs ROCK: Acoustic, FOLK: Power-folk Deta......

Finely-wrought acoustic-based songs from an Canadian east coast singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Melodic music packed with real-life emotion and introspection, as well as a dose of folk, roots and celtic influence. 12 MP3 Songs ROCK......

Boulder Singer-songwriter uses her powerful voice to deliver stories about real women using a combination of country, folk,and blues. 9 MP3 Songs FOLK: Modern Folk, COUNTRY: Modern Country Details: I have spent my life listening to other peopl......

Rock - Pop - Americana 10 MP3 Songs ROCK: Roots Rock, POP: Folky Pop Details: For the past ten years The Kickbacks have blended rock, pop, indie, folk and hints of Americana into hook-filled songs that at times draw familiar comparisons, but a......