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Gurf Morlix Gurf Morlix
Toad Of Titicaca
Gurf Morlix has been around a long time, as a guitar player, a producer, and now with the release of his new album, songwriter and solo performer. Raised in Buffalo, New York, Morlix is a fixture on the Austin and Los Angeles scenes. He currently splits his time between performing, and producing some of the best alt country records around.

1. "Meet Gurf Morlix" - Long a guitar player and producer for Lucinda Williams, Gurf Morlix has stepped out on his own with this CD of original songs.
2. "Dan Blocker and the Greatest Show On Earth" - Getting in touch with some of Morlix's edgier sensibilities.
3. "Influences" - Blues and country, country and blues, and two of Morlix's musical heros.
4. "Weird Names" - "Toad of Titicaca"? "Gurf"? Good luck getting a straight answer!


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Peter Case Peter Case
Flying Saucer Blues
(Vanguard)
Peter Case is a veteran of the punk-power pop scene of the late 70's and early 80's. He played with The Nerves and had a hit with the Plimsouls. By 1986 Case embarked on a solo career that has produced seven critically acclaimed albums of rootsy original material.

1. "Kind of a Middle-Aged Crisis" - Songs with a more realistic view of life and love... and a sense of humor.
2. "Paradise Etc." - Oh, oh, maybe everything won't be okay! New perspectives on old problems.
3. "A Crisis of Justice" - In spite of everyone's good intentions and best efforts, all parties pay a big price.
4. "Unsung Heroes" - Looking for inspiration in all the wrong places.


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James Talley James Talley
Woody Guthrie and Songs of my Oklahoma Home
(Cimarron Records)
James Talley is a talented singer/songwriter who recently returned to recording and performing with a collection of songs he first heard growing up in Oklahoma—Woody Guthrie songs sung by his father. Talley's renditions are as good as it gets. He draws on his memories, and his parents' Dust Bowl struggles and migration West, to sing Guthrie with true passion and grace.

1. "The CD" - Oklahoma-born songwriter James Talley says he's sung these songs all his life.
2. "Deportee" - The tragic story behind Guthrie's famous song about migrant workers.
3. "Influences" - Talley talks about the roots that he and Woodie Guthrie share.


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Mark Brine Mark Brine
Real Special Feeling
(Wild Oats Records)
This recording by folk singer/songwriter Mark Brine is a collection of favorite songs picked by his wife, Karen. Brine has a sparse, elegant style that he likes to compare to a Norman Rockwell painting; his songs evoke a simpler time of fewer distractions and heartfelt emotions.

1. "The CD" - Singer-songwriter Mark Brine says he chose all of his wife's favorite songs.
2. "Real Special Feeling" - The story behind the title cut, it was a Christmas present.
3. "Love songs" - Two songs about the crazy things guys do for love.
4. "Americana" - Mark Brine talks about writing songs that sound like a simpler time.

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Natalie MacMaster Natalie MacMaster
My Roots Are Showing
At 27, Natalie MacMaster is rapidly building a reputation as a world class fiddle player. Rooted in the vibrant musical traditions of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, her album, In My Hands, artfully blends street grooves with square dance rhythms.

1. "The CD" - To follow up on her last CD, “My Roots Are Showing”, Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster has tried some adventurous new directions.
2. "Cape Breton Music" - MacMaster says Cape Breton music is more traditional than the traditional Scottish music from which it came..
3. "In My Hands" - In this veiled love song, MacMaster weds Cap Breton to Pop.
4. "Family" - Natalie MacMaster’s musical legacy.


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Slaid Cleaves Slaid Cleaves
Broke Down
Singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves blends a wry world view with a classic mournful sensibility on “Broke Down”. Produced by Lucinda Williams’ former guitarist Gurf Morlix, the album features Cleaves gritty and melodic vocals, and Morlix’s spare guitar work.

1. "The CD" - Slaid Cleaves says that making his new CD at home was refreshingly fun and productive.
2. "Broke Down" - A friend from the fourth grade collected some of the hard times in this song about bad luck in love.
3. "Sad Songs" - Cleaves ruminates on the strange appeal of really good sad song.
4. "Breakfast in Hell" - Cleaves hearkens back to his Maine roots in this classic tale of a lumberjack hero.

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