"The One That Got Away". The Civil Wars' new release

Finally some new material - though the entire album won't be available until August. This song is a sampler of what to expect. Listen here.

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BARTON HOLLOW goes GOLD!

The Civil Wars' debut album is celebrating in Nashville on September 26th! If you haven't heard of Joy and John Paul...well, you should. Grammy Awards, Americana Music awards....I'm beginning to lose track. I first caught wind of them in April 2011 - saw them here in Milwaukee in November 2011.

Here's the official music video for the song "Barton Hollow". I should fly off to Nashville...

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TGIF! presents....Johnny Cash's "Hurt"!

Had no idea this was a Nine Inch Nails cover. Cash owns it.

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TGIF! presents...Charlie Rich's "The Most Beautiful Girl"!

A #1 smash hit for Charlie. My favorite line/melody:

"...I stood alone in the cold gray dawn

Knew I’d lost my morning sun."

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TGIF! presents...The Civil Wars' "20 Years"!

Check out this previous blog post on the band and some of their tuneage.

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The Civil Wars.

I like them.

Discovered their music the day AFTER they played in Milwaukee last week. Here are a few favorite tunes - "Poison and Wine", "Falling" and "Barton Hollow".

Did I say I like them? And to think, they had separate careers before they came together. ;)

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Sahara Smith & Pieta Brown.

Sahara Smith's (top) "The Real Thing". Pieta Brown's "Are You Free?".

Both have been featured on NPR. I heard one of their songs (not even sure if it's either of these songs). Looked up the playlists and I can't find the song I heard. Both have similar styles, I think. Driving me nuts. Which one do you like?

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