Posted in acoustic, fingerstyle, guitar on May 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Don Ross
“Michael, Michael, Michael”
This song was written as a tribute to Michael Hedges. Don Ross makes it clear that Michael Hedges was a major influence in his music. It’s a good one. I know I’ve featured Don before, but he needs another one. This week couldn’t be without one of his songs.
Posted in acoustic, fingerstyle, flamenco, guitar, spanish guitar on May 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Rodrigo y Gabriela
“Vikingman”
This is fantastic. I’ve posted These two before, but I had to post them again this week. Good times.
Posted in acoustic, fingerstyle, guitar on May 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Jay Robken
“Patterns of Snow”
This ends the Fingerstyle Guitar week. Maybe I’ll revisit it later, but we’ll see.
Jay Robken has been as musician for as long as I’ve known him. I went to High school with him, and he was pretty good back then. He’s been all over the place performing on guitar. He has more music on his myspace page.
Posted in acoustic, guitar on July 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
Sanders Bohlke
“Caroline”
There’s something very familiar to me in Sanders’ music. It reminds me of Ray LaMontagne. I think in time this guy’s music will be pretty widely known soon. It’s very soulful and honest. The guitar licks (at least in this song) are very minimalistic and diminutive.
Well, there you have it.
Posted in acoustic, downtempo, guitar on July 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
Meiko
“Reasons to Love You”
I found out about Meiko indirectly through Perezhilton.com. He actually exposes a surprisingly large number of music talents.
Meiko is based out of Los Angeles. Her music reminds me of Feist in a lot of ways, but with a little bit of a southern drawl to her accent in some of her songs. This song is currently my favorite of hers.
Posted in acoustic, guitar, soul, urban folk on July 28th, 2007 No Comments »
The Velvet Hearts
“History is Repeating”
Sometimes music finds me. I posted a video on youtube, and one of the members of the band Velvet Hearts requested to be added to my friends list. I listened to their music expecting to hear mediocrity, but I was very delightfully surprised. This band is excellent, and plays music from many genres.
Check our their myspace page, or some of their videos on youtube.
It looks as if they’re currently touring the UK. I hope they make it stateside soon.
Posted in acoustic, adult alternative, downtempo, fingerstyle, guitar on August 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
Matt Wertz
“I will not take my love away”
I’ve wanted to post a Matt Wertz song for quite a while now. Stacy reminded me tonight that I hadn’t yet. We listened to a few of his songs, and this one was the first one that I felt was right for the site. Just the other day, I was listening to a song playing on the TV as the end credits were rolling by at the end of a movie. It was a Matt Wertz song. This one – “I Wll Not Take My Love Away” – is fairly short, but just long enough for him to tell us exactly what he wanted to with the song. I love it when a song leaves you wanting more at the end. It’s usually the #1 reason I hit the replay button, and also serves as evidence that I’m hooked (on a feelin’).
Posted in acoustic, adult alternative, adult contemporary, downtempo, guitar, piano on August 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
Matt Nathanson
“Bulletproof Weeks”
Matt finally gets posted here with this amazing guitar/piano/vocal combo. This is no cheap radio song, but I’m sure I’ll be singing it (or at least humming). It’s a great, wonderful song about fixating on the wonderful times summer gave us, only to realize they’re now gone, and being sadly nostalgic.
Ahh, summer love. :) Enjoy, and thank Matt Nathanson by buying his new CD.
Posted in acoustic, adult contemporary, guitar on August 8th, 2007 5 Comments »
Jason Reeves
“Photographs & Memories”
If you didn’t know, Jason Reeves helped Colbie Caillat cowrite most of the songs on her new CD “CoCo”. If you are a fan of this site, you might remember I posted a song by Colbie already, before the CD was released. This was not well-received by the RIAA, but thankfully Colbie’s online marketing agency saw fit to give me clearance to post the music afterward.
Enjoy This song by Jason. He’s pretty good on the guitar and a good singer on his own.
Posted in acoustic, guitar on August 13th, 2007 14 Comments »
Marié Digby
“Umbrella”
She’ll be making big news by tomorrow. This song was just added to iTunes today. It’s a pretty good cover. A non-produced version is on youtube. Check it out. This version aired on MTV at the end of the season premiere of “The Hills” (3rd season). Don’t start. It’s not my fault I started watching it. Someone twisted my arm.
Marié has been recently in the studio (re?)recording 3 songs. You can find them on her myspace page (linked below). I love Rihanna’s version of this too, but I like acoustic takes on popular songs even more. Enjoy.