Darrell Scott - on the fringe of Nashville

Darrell Scott should be a lot more famous.

I found out about Darrell Scott while I was wandering though my favourite download site emusic.com. I came upon his collaboration with Tim O'brien - a cd called Real Time. It includes a version of Long Time Gone which, I learned, Scott wrote and was a big hit for the Dixie Chicks. Great tune - great songwriter.

Darrell Scott is a powerful musical spirit. A Grammy-nominated artist, an award-winning songwriter, and a first-call session musician, living and working (literally and figuratively) on the fringes of Nashville’s Music Row, Scott occupies his own unique half-acre in this city’s crowded musical landscape. In a town that’s got pigeonholing down to an art, Darrell Scott stands out as a refreshingly mischievous artist.
-- his website bio.

James Hunter - R'n'B 'n' Soul

James Hunter should be a lot more famous.

"James is one of the best voices, and best kept secrets, in British R'n'B and Soul."

That's a quote from Van Morrison.

When it comes to endorsements, it doesn't get much better than that.

The first time I heard James Hunter on the radio, I thought it was a great old Sam Cook song from the '60s. I was wrong. James Hunter's music somehow manages to walk the line between sounding fresh and nostalgic at the same time.

He has two CDs available People Gonna Talk which is on Rounder records and ....Believe What I Say which is on Hepcat, which, by the way describes Mr. Hunter to a T.

Eve Goldberg - folk, country, blues and swing

Eve Goldberg should be a lot more famous.

She is a wonderful singer song-writer, a hell of a guitar player and a very nice person indeed.

Imagine a kitchen party where Mother Maybelle Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Mississippi John Hurt, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Patsy Cline show up, and you begin to get a sense of what it feels like inside Eve's head. She has performed her trademark mixture of folk, blues, country, bluegrass, old time, and jazz in venues ranging from small house concerts to the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington DC since 1990.

She has three recordings out including a new one called A Kinder Season .. with a very cool picture of a pomegranate on the cover.

Check it out at Borealis music.