SONG OF THE WEEK

Brad Hammonds is a singer/songwriter from New York City.

SONG OF THE WEEK

Our featured song is from The Avett Brothers' newest one. It's the title song "I and You and Love."

SONG OF THE WEEK

Our song this week is "This Ain't My Home" from the new album Coldwater by Shannon McNally.

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week our song, "Cyclone Country" is from a singer named 8 Ball Aitken from Australia.

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week's song is by a favorite of this site, Nicholas Howard. This is "Mother" from his God In The City album.

SONG OF THE WEEK

This weeks song is from a band called F&M from Canada. I'm really digging their music. This is the title song from their newest album called Every Light Must Fade.

SONG OF THE WEEK

Today we feature Assembly of Dust with a Spotlight and Simply Six so we thought we'd feature them as Song of the Week also. From their new album with Richie Havens is "All That I Am Now".

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week for Song of the Week we pick someone closer to home. Irene Sage is a local singer and she is singing "At Last" from her live album Live at the Maple Leaf.

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week's song is by the singer Lennon. Lennon's music covers the range from piano driven to metal.

SONG OF THE WEEK

Nathan Lee is a rocker from New York and Nashville. This week's song is from his forthcoming album Risk Everything.

SONG OF THE WEEK

When I first heard this performance I was literally blown away. Every now and than you hear something live that just reaches out and grabs ahold of you and moves you. That's what the best music does. And that's what this song did. It was at the recent New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The singer was John Boutte and he was accompanied only by Paul Sanchez on guitar. John is a singer in the tradition of Sam Cooke and can take a song from another writer and make it uniquely his own. That's what he did with this song, "American Tune" by Paul Simon. And Paul's playing is gorgeous.

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SONG OF THE WEEK

This week's song is by Grace Potter and The Nocturnals. Grace and band are from Vermont. They are at work on their third album with producer T Bone Burnett. Their sound ranges from blues to americana.

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week's song is from the recent Simply Six. It's by Stark which is lead by the talented singer/songwriter and rocker Lani Ford.

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week we present Maggie Brown and "Forty Dollars." Maggie is a semi local artist, she lives in Mississippi but plays around here enough to be considered local. Maggie is one of my favorite artists, even though I have yet to be able to see her live, everytime she is playing near me something comes up preventing me from seeing her. Still I think she has a great sound and should be heard on the radio.

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week's song is by one of the most talented musicians out there. I've written about him before and I'll write about him again I'm sure. I'm talking about Will Hoge. I truly believe that it's people like Will Hoge that are the future of the music industry. Will was in a very serious accident not long ago, but he's mending and back playing music. He's done some limited touring and is putting the finishing touches on a new album that will hopefully be out soon. This is a live version of "Ain't No Sunshine."

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week's song is "Orphan Train" by Julie Miller. Julie makes music on her own and with her husband Buddy, but she doesn't make enough of it. It's been a long time since she's done a solo album, but luckily she did work with Buddy on their recent album Written In Chalk.

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SONG OF THE WEEK

This week's song is "Mercy Now" from Mary Gauthier. Mary was born in New Orleans and raised in Thibodaux, Louisiana. She moved to Boston and opened a Cajun restaurant. She didn't write her first song until she was 35.

SONG OF THE WEEK

This week's song is from the band Bloodkin and taken from their album The Bloodkin Community Gospel Rehab and is called "Crosses By The Highway." Bloodkin is a band from Athens Georgia that have been playing together for over twenty years.

Song of the Week

This week's song is an old familiar done new. The song is Paul Simon's "American Tune" from his second solo album There Goes Rhymin' Simon. It is done today by New Orleans' John Boutte and Paul Sanchez and is from their collaborative effort Stew Called New Orleans.

SONG OF THE WEEK

Today's Song of the Week is from Alejandro Escovedo and his album A Real Animal. The album is a song story of his life and his career in music and Alejandro has been around for awhile, since he was a young man in the punk band the Nuns. This song is "Chelsea Hotel '78" and is about the time he lived at the hotel and other punkers like Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen lived there. For the previous decade No Depression magazine named Alejandro the Artist of the Decade.

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