Two songs made me really cry so far this year : ‘A Thought‘ from So it Goes last Colby Stead’s release  and  ‘Line of Ascent‘ from Annabelle Chvostek’s brand new Resilience collection. Want to try and test your own resilience ?
Resilience ? Funny how things are sometimes emerging around you… Or may be, should I say : funny how  sometimes, we are able to give our mind the faculty to merge some multiple non-sense details surrounding your daily life into a single fact. From puzzling to evidence, maybe it’s just a matter of perception…anyway.
Dealing with resilience, I’m testing mine in both psychological and physical way, quitting smoking… oh my !

I’m quite fascinating by the fact that 98% of our 400 daily visitors are reading this blog without leaving a single comment… Aren’t you ? what ? dubitative ? Mysterious ways of modern communication… No i’m not awaiting for support… just trying to experiment this changing audience constituted by a majority of North-American people ; definitly coping with humour today ! Still someone around ?

Hum… I was supposed to introduce you last Miss Chvostek album…. yes, music is just a deluder…

Resilience ? Without a doubt, my favorite album this year in the female songwriter genre. My fellow Canadian blogger Smansmith should have been more prolix about this charismatic member of The Wailin’ Jennys, who received contributions in this new project from an impressive collection of talented friends amongst them,  Cockburn, Marie Gauthier, Ani DiFranco to name few..

As usual when an album is so good, let me tease you with the intro track…

Artist : Annabelle Chvostek
Label : none
Where to buy : cdbaby.com
More Appetizers :  @ Annabelle.org many mp3s to listen / @myspace as usual

Procrastination is a word of mine when dealing to write couple lines about an artist i’m really fond of. This default proves to be a guarantee : i’m only writing about artists I love – I mean not only a single song ! And this is the case with Amber Rubarth. So, I won’t postpone for a new year this short introduction. So using the copy/paste function is an helpful easy way ! Here we go :

After 3 years of sculpting wood as an apprentice at a little shop in Carson City, Amber Rubarth had a late-night conversation with her mentor who told her the most important thing he had learned in life was for a person to follow their number one passion.  Amber said something along the lines of “Thank you, I am quitting and doing music then,” and off she went, trading her chainsaw for a guitar and teaching herself to write songs.

And what a gift to the music ! I’ve bought earlier this year – better later than never -, her first full length Something New (2005) and I’m now enjoying for couple weeks her new songs joined under the name of ‘New Green Lines‘. Amber is playing a delicious mix of folk, soul and pop and the more I’m listening to her music, the better this special blending invaded me. If you’re looking for a surprising, astonishing, fresh new and brilliant music… experience her last album. I bet you’ll be quickly addicted ! As, the release of her new album has been an epic adventure  ( read the full story )… please once again, click the where to buy links  !

Amber Rubarth: Sun Studio Sessions “Another Perfect Sunset”

Artist : Amber Rubarth
Label : None
Where to Buy : cdbaby.com / emusic.com
More Appetizers : @myspace / @lastfm

release date news about VTB from the man himself:

Vacilando Territory Blues and Labely Nues

VTB is going to see the light of dawn in January ‘09 thanks to the folks at Western Vinyl and Bella Union. It’ll be available digitally in the UK and EU in Oct. along with an EP/DVD kind of thing that’ll be for sale on the Fleet Foxes tour. Here’s the final tracklisting (this is for real, all is mastered and i can no longer drag songs kicking and screaming over the chopping block):

1. All You See
2. No Occasion
3. Firstborn
4. Vessels
5. James Blues
6. Steel On Steel
7. Laborless Land
8. Barter Blues
9. New Imperial Grand Blues
10. Master’s House
11. Someone, With Child
12. Above All Men
13. Vacilando Territory

Sometimes I just need to step away from the depressing folk and into a little more uplifting depressing experimental folk. It’s always interesting to see how artist classify them selves, she’s been described as “mainstream” to the likes of Tori Amos, which if you ask me can’t be all that bad. I find LeeRone to be a little bit like a breath of fresh air. She recently sent me her album and I popped it in my car a few days ago. Not only have I not taken it out but now I have everyone I know singing “Care for Some Whiskey”. It’s definitely one of my favorite tracks off this album. She’s recently shot a video for this song that you can view below. If you live in the Los Angeles area on would like to see her perform live she will be playing at The Derby on August 4th. Tickets are only $10.00, what a steal for such great talent.

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This wonderfully talented and always amusing musician never fails to make me smile.

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