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I can still hear his voice on the station’s answering machine, “Jesus, God, Kate McNally…what are you thinking?

Artist/Song/Album/Label
Sloan Wainwright/Mercy Me/Rediscovery/Derby Disc Music
Gravity/If I Should Fall Behind/Roadman/Enviken
The Horse Flies/Veins of Coal/Until the Ocean/Pest Control
Jonatha Brooke/New Star/The Works/Bad Dog Records
Duane D’Agnese/Happy All the Time/In our Time/Duane D’Agnese
Little Feat/Trouble (with Inara George)/Join the Band/429 Records
Bob Gibson/Me and Jimmie Rodgers/The Living Legend Years/Bob Gibson Legacy
Eilen Jewell/Where They Never Say Your Name/Songs from Sing Out! Vol. 52 #1/www.singout.org

I had an opportunity to see a rising star, Sarah Jarosz, (pronounced JaROSE) at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival. She’s only 16 years old and has shared the stage with some of the best bluegrass musicians around. At Grey Fox she was sharing the Masters Stage with David Grisman and Ronnie McCoury. She plays mandolin, claw hammer banjo and guitar and has a voice that has the soul of seasoned performer. She just signed with Sugar Hill records and should be putting out an album sometime in the near future. Visit her myspace page and sample her playing for yourself.

Artist/Song/Album/Label
Alouette Iselin/Windy and Warm/Recorded Live at Peterborough Players
Andrew McKnight/Wind Whispers Your Name/Something Worth Standing For/Falling Mtn. Music
Dirk Powell and Tim O’Brien/Wayfarin’ Stranger/Songs from the Mountain/Sugar Hill
Evalyn Parry/War Dream/Small Theaters/Borealis
The Greencards/Travel On/Virdian/Dualtone Music
Darrell Scott/Nobody Eats at Linebaugh’s Anymore/Modern Hymns/Appleseed Records
Lui Collins/The Endless Mile/Made in New England/Molly Gamblin
Battlefield Band/The Blue Lagoon, Easy Jig/Dookin’/Temple Records

Artist/Song/Album/Label
Tom Paxton/And if it’s not True/Comedians and Angels/Appleseed
Abbie Gardner and Anthony da Costa/I Feel Like Dancin’/Bad Nights –Better Days/Abbie Gardner and Anthony da Costa
Zoe Speaks/Family Reunion/Birds Fly South/Redbird
Zoe Darrow and the Fiddleheads/Shakin’s O’ the Pocky/Songs from Sing Out! V 51 #2/www.singout.org
Eliza Gilkyson/Peace Call/The Woody Guthrie Tribute Tour, Ribbon of Highway/
The Wiyos/Twenty Feet of Water/The Wiyos/Pie Records
The Duhks/Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm/Fast Paced World/Sugar Hill

Artist/Song/Album/Label
Patty Larkin/Hallelujah/Watch the Sky/Vanguard
Greg Brown and Bill Morrissey/He Was a Friend of Mine/Philo
Tracy Grammer/Mother I Climbed/Flower of Avalon/Signature Sounds
Tracy Grammer and Dave Carter/When I Go/When I Go/Signature Sounds
Kristin Andreassen/Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color For Your Eyes/Kiss Me Hello/Kristin Andreassen
Iris Dement/Train Carrying Jimmy Rodgers Home/Going Driftless/Red House Records
Amy Fairchild/Tuesday/Before Their Time, Vol. III/www.beforetheir time.com

Artist/Song/Album/Label
Kevin Burke and Cal Scott/Evening Prayer Blues/Across the Black River/Loftus
Kim and Reggie Harris/Get on Board/Get On Board!Underground Railroad and Other/Appleseed
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys/Let’s Dance/Best of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys/Rounder
Emilia Dahlin/Candy/God Machine/
Brooks Williams/You Don’t Know Me/The Time I Spend With You/Red Guitar Blue Music
Emily Kurn/Wait For the Roses/Things Change/Emily Kurn
Karen Mal/The Space Between/The Space Between/Waterbug
Jonathyn Byrd/Clean/The Law and the Lonesome/Waterbug

I bumped into Andrew in the coffee shop the other day and we discovered we were going to the same festival where Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet were performing. He said he thought the band was "amazing" and "hypnotic". Their new album is self-titled on the Nettwerk label and features Abigail Washburn on banjo and vocals, Bela Fleck on banjo, Casey Driessen on fiddle and Ben Solee on cello. So, that Sunday night, I featured the album. Honestly, I was torn.