Early Elvis at the tofu hut

THE TOFU HUT has a great picture of a very young Elvis and a nice mp3 of Blue Moon for your listening pleasure.

rilo kiley - click the letter M

A lot of webnoise about rilo kiley the last week or so, she has a few nice songs on her website under the first M for Music - I recommend With Arms Outstrectched, nice glockenspeil.

By the magic of MP3Blogs.org, I can tell you that there are loads of Rilo Kiley songs here.

The Soft Parade - Cry All Over Me

In a blatant piece of cross posting, here is a link to the marvellous Soft Parade song (not the electric soft parade) on my personal mp3blog woodentop.

Joanna Newsome - Sprout and the bean

I've been in turmoil since hearing Ms Newsome, I so wanted to like her. she plays the harp - the 2nd most rock and roll instrument after the harpsicord, well maybe 3rd after the recorder, oh, and the celeste. Anyway her annoying mewling vocals really grate after a while, but just the odd song is just about acceptable, a bit like the Cranes.

The Sprout and the Bean - video

american music club

A shared obsession with amc, who have a new album "Love Songs for Patriots" on Sept 13th, and the track Another Morning available for you to enjoy.

tim hardin

totally fuzzy has some lovely Tim Hardin, including Reason to Believe and If I were a Carpenter.

Rosie Thomas and her two dollar shoes

3hive do it again with a pointer to the little gentle song that is two dollar shoes by rosie thomas

Rachel Goswell - Plucked

Courtesy of Beggars Group, USA - the ever lovely Rachel Goswell (ex-slowdive, currently in Mojave 3 - see links below) with her single Plucked (warning Real Audio) - download the hassle free version from the BBC, or try Real Alternative. For those more technically minded you can do useful things with RealAudio if you read this article.

Jose Gonzalez

Via a discussion over at music for robots about felix mcteigue (streamed mp3s here), a link to jose gonzalez, who's biography isn't working, so I can't tell whether he's Norwegian, or just lives in Oslo at the moment.

Either way, it is tone-centred, altered tuning folk-pop. Quite a few songs to listen to on his site - please go and check them (and him) out. I liked Heartbeats best.

Devendra Banhart at 3hive

Keeping the folky Friday theme - check out 3hive: Devendra Banhart - the body breaks over at the tastefully upholstered 3hive.

Bleak songs from the tofu hut

Tofu Hut can make a brightening day turn black and white - go visit for a listen to
Kitty gallagher and Leadbelly.

get some Dolly in your life

Spoilt Victorian Child is offering you Dolly Parton's Silver Dagger.

sons and daughters

I described this to my sister as "like early PJ harvey playing the cold mountain soundtrack with a male accomplice", but then sons and daughters might not sound like that to you in these unusually upbeat clips:

fight

johnny cash

Mojave 3 - live on kvrx

These are Mojave 3 performances on kvrx radio.

been trying to reach you

queen jane, approximately

fairport convention

via said the gramophone, is fairport convention's version of - who knows where the time goes? from Unhalfbricking .

Make the most of it while you can, he can't keep it there forever.

The Lonesome Sisters

The Lonesome Sisters sound like their name.

From their album THE LONESOME SISTERS (available from tin halo music)

over the sea

elkhorn ridge

precious memories

i met with wild bill jones

western dream

and from THE LONESOME SISTERS
WITH RILEY BAUGUS (available from tin halo music)

god's golden key

they all pale