(Artwork by Emily Eibel)
Herohill has a full album review of Halifax artist Dan Ledwell’s debut Two Over Seven. In it he points to the song “I Have Made You A Mixed Tape” as the showstopper.
Collective Common (some type of netlabel/blog) has the debut album from Champaign, Il native Morgan Orion. You can download the whole thing with all it’s ukele strumming, anti-folk weirdness here.
Time To Play B-sides has as good an interview with Marc Olson (ex-Jayhawks) as your gonna find.
Quarterlifeparty has some interesting freakgrass from Megafaun.
Alright, I’m getting a little fed up linking to You Crazy Dreamers (favorite them already!). This will be the last time I link to them (`til next week). Check out the latest goodness they’re sharing from John Craigie.
Goodtimes Goodtimes has sucked me and The Leather Canary into his orb of folk-tinged singer-songwriterlyness.
Cover Lay Down has Jeffrey Foucault covering Peter Case, Townes Van Zandt, Neil young, Chuck Berry and R.E.M. I’m a big fan of Jeffrey Foucault and I challenge you not to be enchanted by these cover versions.
I would like to state for the record that You Crazy Dreamers thinks Songs:Illinois is one of the best blogs around
thanks for the link to the Foucault…..saw him at Schubas a few months back. Fantastic show!