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Paul Buckberry: "To Generation X, Y & Z (As Far as I'm Concerned)"
Created: 05/17/2006
Every generation blames the one before so I decided it was high time to blame the generations that come after. It's all their fault, apathetic b@$#^)&s! If your forefathers hadn't invented electricity we'd all be using the internet by candle light. The mp3 of this song is available for immediate download from buckberry.com
David Ball: "Riding With Private Malone"
Created: 11/02/2005
While singers all over Nashville scrambled to get into recording studios to record patriotic songs after Sept. 11, the country song that tapped most subtly and profoundly into the emotions of its audience was already on the radio. Shipped to country stations a month before the terrorist attacks, David Ball's "Riding With Private Malone" tells of a man who buys a '66 Corvette for $1,000, then finds a note from the car's previous owner in the glove box. Penned by a soldier shipping out for Vietnam, it reads: "If you're reading this, then I didn't make it home. But for every dream that's shattered, another one comes true. This car was once a dream of mine. Now it belongs to you." Later, the man wrecks the car and is saved from the fiery crash by a mysterious stranger he swears was the private.
Matt Ralph: "Waiting for the Country"
Created: 01/24/2006
This is my debut clip. It is very simple but meaningful to me, and maybe for you too. This song is from my album, Under the Treehouse. You can download the complete album, song by song, at download.com/mattralph
Jerry Hawkins: "Dancin' With This Ol' Cowboy"
Created: 03/27/2006
A bright original tune written by Jerry Hawkins and performed "Live" on television for Urban Almanac and Money Talks niteclub...(now Club "Gravity") - I have spent alot of time in niteclubs over the years and I found that one basic challenge to quite a number of men is simply going up to a lady and asking if she would like to dance with him. This is after talking to many dudes who go through a certain "ritual" with women in niteclubs....this song came about as a result. Mr. Bob Long of Tulsa's Guitar House and Urban Almanc made all this possible for television viewing. Pat Richardson, a very funny dude, guest M.C.'d this show. This was aired on Cable channel 10 and channel 41 television. Late..at nite.
Created: 03/07/2006
Cole Coburn Music Studios in the heart of White Mountains of New Hampshire and the Green Mountains of Vermont. Hillbilly Heaven depicts the natural resources and beautiful scenery of where we live each and every day. Filmed in various places around vt. and nh., this video is only the first of many more to come out of these mountains. Visit www.colecd.com for more information on this hot new country artist.
Created: 02/23/2006
After driving across this country in a volkswagon micro mini bus, much like the kind Arlo Guthrie has mentioned in his music,...I decided to write a special song about truck driving and the life of Truckers out on the beautiful highways and interstates of America. This is an orginal song I wrote about a very special breed...The Truckers of America! Copyrighted in Library of Congress, Washington, D.C..
Created: 02/23/2006
Hi. This is me singing Garth Brookes' popular song entitled "The River"
Willy Mason: "Oxygen"
Created: 03/06/2006
Hailing from Martha's Vineyard, MA, Mason is all of 20 years old and already an extraordinarily accomplished singer-songwriter. Mixing the blues, folk and country traditions of John Lee Hooker, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash with the spirit of politicized punk rock, Mason forges a sound all his own, at once incisive, ramshackle and timeless.
The Foggy Few: "Pint of No Return"
Created: 01/30/2006
The Foggy Few from Bergen, Norway, is a folkrock band inspired by Irish and Scottish music.
From its start in September 2003, the band has been on the bill with major Norwegian artists,
touring every corner of the country.
In a short amount of time The Foggy Few has gained a reputation as an awesome live band,
and has developed into one of the most exciting new folkrock bands in Norway.
Their music has made people compare them to bands such as The Pogues, The Waterboys and The Hooters,
which must mean that The Foggy Few are on to something good, although their sound is very much their own.
The band's summer hit "Summerfeelgood" has been playlisted on Norway's biggest radio channel, NRK P1.
The Foggy Few's debut album is out in 2006 and it is called "Pint of No Return". To promote the album The Foggy Few will tour all around Europe. More info at www.thefoggyfew.com
Ed Silver: "My Name Is Julie"
Created: 01/25/2006
Inspired by a true story, the young girl that inspired Ed Silver to write this song passed away from a rare form of leukemia. "She was so brave and so strong. She inspired in me a strength that I never new I had," states Ed Silver. The proceeds from this song and video will benefit The Children?s Miracle Network. "Children's Miracle Network is the alliance of premier children's hospitals. Every year, Children's Miracle Network hospitals treat 17 million children for every disease and injury imaginable." "Children's Miracle Network hospitals impact the lives of more children than any other children's organization in the world." Julie was cared for by a children?s hospital.
If you would like to donate to The Children?s Miracle Network visit www.edwardsilver.com for links to The Children?s Miracle Network. Be sure to let them know you saw the video, just so we can judge the impact the video has had.
Sarah Harmer: "I Am Aglow"
Created: 01/24/2006
My friend gave me a tarot card reading over the phone one night as I was watching TV with a guitar in my lap.
"I've drawn a mountain," she said.
"I'm a mountain," I said.
So begins a song that became the title track of my new record. Most of these songs have been milling about in my mind for a while now. Some I started writing back when I put down the electric guitar and ding-digga-dinged my way through summer on the back porch. All of them live in the same wide frame and seem to belong together.
"I am Aglow," "The Ring," and "I'm a Mountain," are tunes inspired by country music and bluegrass bands, singing for the joy of it, and telling new versions of old stories in song. "The Phoenix" builds on the themes of courage and regeneration and the inspirational "How Deep in the Valley" came from somewhere deep in the hymnbook of my memory. Down low in the picture frame (under a log) is "Salamandre," a children's song written by my friends Kate Fenner and Chris Brown. I am thrilled this modern classic can be part of this collection as it expresses my own love for the magical and precious amphibian and the time-honored relationship between nature and imagination.
"Luther's Got the Blues" is my old pal Luther Wright's enduring, scruffy sidewalk lament, and Dolly Parton's "Will He Be Waiting For Me" lives in the world of lost love and yearning that I, too, know something about. I wrote "Goin' Out for an AIDS Vigil," and I am so happy to have my dad singing it with me. He also lends his warm and wise timbre to "Oleander."
And finally, casting its glow over the entire record is the new folk song "Escarpment Blues," which tells the story of a current land-use conflict in Southern Ontario on the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. I grew up on the escarpment on the farm where my family still lives, within a long green corridor prized for its fresh water resources, its endangered species habitats, its prime agricultural soils, and its wetlands and forests. These lands are under serious threat from the aggregate (sand, gravel, and shale) industry. The problem is large multinational companies want to open new quarries on top of the escarpment and extract the rock below these ecosystems, thereby removing and destroying them. So, after writing the song, I got the idea for the "I Love the Escarpment" Tour and set out in June 2005 with some of my best musical mates to hike the escarpment and make music along the way.
Julie Fader (vocals, keys), Jason Euringer (vocals, stand-up bass), Spencer Evans (clarinet, accordion), Joey Wright (mandolin, guitar), and I hit the Bruce Trail (the continuous hiking trail that goes from one end of the escarpment to the other) and spent two weeks rock climbing, caving, hiking, and performing in theaters and community halls along Southern Ontario's spine. All proceeds of the tour went to help finance the research and advocacy work of Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (PERL), a volunteer organization I helped form last winter when the new quarry proposal came to light in my old stomping grounds of North Burlington. After a wonderful tour we put away our hiking boots and went into Reaction Studio in Toronto to capture these songs, all wrapped in up our camaraderie.
This record was made for everyone, everywhere. Like the smiles we had on our faces when we made it, we hope it spreads far and wide.
Bobby Bare: "Are You Sincere"
Created: 01/19/2006
A country outlaw long at large, Bobby Bare drifts through this breezy country tune.
Nordic Stream: "Endless Meaning"
Created: 12/07/2005
A kinda postcard from home video, looking back on my roots and the memories of my days on the coast, unrequited love and also the love for the landscape of southwest England.
The Bacon Brothers: "Peace Dance"
Created: 12/15/2005
The Bacon Brothers offer a living-room performance of their catchy tune "Peace Dance."
