American singer/songwriter Brooke Waggoner has just released a new CD, entitled Originator. Brooke, who hails from Nashville, has been steadily gaining much-deserved attention over the last few years. The 2009 release of her third album, Go Easy Little Doves, debuted at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter Charts and was also nominated for an Independent Music Award for Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album.
I’ve found another gem from Tompkins Square Records, and it’s the rerelease of Ever Changing Minstrel by Bill Wilson.
The story goes that Wilson drove to Nashville, to the home of producer Bob Johnson. Johnson had producer Bob Dylan’s benchmark album, Blonde on Blonde. After listening to a few of Wilson’s songs and liking them, Johnson rounded up many of the musicians who appeared on Dylan’s album and got them in the
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