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Monday, May 10, 2010

ZACH BROOCKE

BROUGHT TO YOU IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE RHYTHM BUILDING at MUSIC ROW in NASHVILLE TENNESSEE and THERECORDSHOPNASHVILLE.COM

zach broocke, born in milwaukee, wi, grew up listening to jim croce, harry chapin, cat stevens, and a lot of country tunes ala willie nelson, don williams, george jones, merle haggard. discovering he had a passion for songwriting zach traveled to boston to spend time compiling the songs that would make up his debut release, anywhere but here sessions ep. he was greatly inspired by simon and garfunkel, coffee, van morrison, cigarettes, greg brown and canadian beer.
as for 2010, zach's just completed his latest album, "watchdoglookout." contributers to watchdoglookout include producer/engineer chad brown (ryan adams, faith hill), percussionists ken coomer (wilco, steve earle) and fred eltringham (the wallflowers, rivers cuomo), upright bassist frank swart (morphine, norah jones), keys guru curt perkins (josh rouse, j.j. cale), guitarist doug lancio (patty griffin, john hiatt), complete with the mastering being done by andrew mendelson (van morrison, rolling stones). with a half a dozen more ancillary players, the teams total discographies account for well in excess of 40 million records sold.

zachs music is about all of the things we never say and wish we could have; all the times you let slip through your fingers; and being thankful for the moments where you then realize that maybe, just maybe, thats just the way its supposed to go. 

www.myspace.com/zachbroocke

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Saturday, May 08, 2010

STEPHEN SEBASTIAN

BROUGHT TO YOU IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE RHYTHM BUILDING at MUSIC ROW in NASHVILLE TENNESSEE and THERECORDSHOPNASHVILLE.COM

Steve Sebastian isn't going mad. Seriously. Granted, musical comparisons to eccentric influences like Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, and Elliott Smith abound. But Steve Sebastian is a young college graduate from Cleveland, Ohio who drives to work, eats home-cooked meals, walks his dog, attends church, and tries to call his parents every couple of weeks. Still, he's not strictly typical, either. His music might best fit into a cozy but lonesome middle ground between the mundane and the unorthodox, between the old and the new, tradition and rebellion. It's like the blues as seen in a funhouse mirror, or all of rock and roll history thrown into a blender and played in reverse, a twisting kaleidoscope of five decades worth of guitar-based pop music. Riffs and solos give way to twang and shuffle in a tag-team match of alt-country haze and classic rock immediacy, accented all the while by lyrics equally forceful and vulnerable, both visceral and broken. Rightly enough, his voice actually keeps up with the shape-shifting act. He growls like Tom Waits, croons like Ryan Adams, whispers like Thom Yorke, and bellows like The Boss. Equipped as such, he follows the blues around to just about anywhere it's made it's home in the past, from the delta to the honky tonk to the arena and all in between. Yet his vagabond sound is rooted firmly in the bright, not-too-distant future. Call him an observant scholar of the past or a bold poet of years to come, or maybe just a cool guy who might as well be your next door neighbor, but it's worth the trouble to listen to the evidence and decide for yourself.

www.myspace.com/stephensebasti...

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Thursday, May 06, 2010

KORBY LENKER

BROUGHT TO YOU IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE RHYTHM BUILDING at MUSIC ROW in NASHVILLE TENNESSEE and THERECORDSHOPNASHVILLE.COM

How does a quietly intense singer-songwriter reconcile the weathered box of snapshots from his past that includes a mortician father in Idaho, snake-handling religious revivals in West Virginia and live performances ranging from burnished bluegrass standards to arcane Cure covers? If you happen to be Korby Lenker, you make sense of it all by conjuring music every bit as eclectic and compelling as the improbable path that lead you to the stage.

Yes, Korby does indie pop. But at the same time, his voice and pen are both profound enough to appeal to fans of Americana poet laureates like Willie Nelson, Steve Earle and Ray Lamontagne, all of whom hes shared the stage with. Like Lenker himself, this music is intricate, multifaceted, heartfelt, brilliant. 

His electrifying live performances swing effortlessly between moments of rocked-out abandon and intimate, aching tension. It all adds up to one of todays most important new voices, as a growing legion of followers in North America and the U.K. can eagerly attest. One listen to his fifth self-produced work, Lovers and Fools, will leave no doubt. This is an artist with something to say. 

www.myspace.com/korbymusic

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