Mark Kirkland - Guided Spirit

Singer/Songwriter based in Tuscaloosa, AL. Couch By Couchwest '13 Alumni, Mark Kirkland has been making music for over 35 years. A retired from drummer and self-taught guitarist, he recorded this collection of reflective original songs using a ribbon mic with no multi-tracking giving it a live house concert intimacy. The songs are insightful and poignant with witty word play and easy going guitar strumming. Two standouts for me are 'Over You' and ‘Getting Old’ which highlight his unique vocals.
He is an engaging, delightfully witty character to follow on Twitter @maggiesfavorite

"This Project, "Guided Spirit" was done to celebrate my first half century on this rock we call Earth. You learn a lot about yourself when you write songs. I have been writing for more years than I care to admit going back to High School". 

Track List:
1.) Good Times
2.)Over You
3.) Southern Kinda Girl
4.)Getting Old
5.) A Little of You
6.) Loving Arms
7.) Angel

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Hollis Brown August Tour Dates and Free Download 'Doghouse Blues'

Upcoming Tour dates for August and a free download of the killer bluesy tune 'Doghouse Blues' from their excellent debut album  'Ride On The Train'

Hollis Brown's Ride On The Train is available now in all formats.
Limited Edition Color Vinyl available through Bomp-mailorder
"Ride on the Train"
2013 Alive Records
CD / Vinyl | iTunes

Here's what our friends over at Ear to the Ground have to say>

Ride On The Train is an album that a lot of people are going to love for its multi-generational appeal. But besides that, it’s just good rock music. It’s hard to peg a specific sound on it. There are no “skip” songs on this album though. Be prepared to keep it in your player, on repeat, for a long time.

HOLLIS BROWN SUMMER 2013 TOUR DATES
August 3 @ Midd Summer Festival – Middlebury, VT
August 22 @ Rumba Cafe – Columbus, OH
August 23 @ Tonic Room – Chicago, IL
August 24 @ Dog Dayz Afternoon Fest – Neenah, WI
August 26 @ Crunchy Frog – Greenbay, WI
August 27 @ 1st Ave & 7th St Entry – Minneapolis, MN
August 29 @ MOTR Pub – Cincinnati, OH
August 31 @ Paper City Music Fest – Chillicothe, OH

Mission Dorado - Yannash Naholl

Trey Brown: Rhythm Guitar, Vocals 

Christopher Cox: Bass

Simon Page: Lead Guitar, Lap Steel

Matthew Shepherd: Drums & Percussion

Texas-bred Mission Dorado, led by laid-back, dusty-voiced frontman Trey Brown satisfies all my cravings a concoction of noirish tinged, trippy experimental psychedelia mixed with plugged in dreamy folkish song structures.  With its entrancing guitar-scapes and inventive song structures, Yannash Naholl (Comanche for White Buffalo) is an album to get hypnotically, delightfully lost in.

Track List:
1. Terlingua Dawn
2. On The Range.mp3
3. White Buffalo
4. Cibolo Bayou Pt. 1
5. Call Up Dem Children.mp3
6. Wonka's Tunnel
7. Tangled in Deep
8. Cibolo Bayou Pt. 2
9. One Within the Other

Available on Bandcamp for ‘Name Your Price’

Released 09 July 2013
Engineered by Grant Johnson
Mixed by Danny Reisch
Recorded on 2 inch - 16 track tape.
Also appearing:
Paul Banks - Harmonies
Grant Johnson - Ocarina

Abstract Artimus Latest Album "My Wild Dreams" Free Download

The newest release from one man rock and roll arsenal Abstract Artimus combines pure rock and roll energy with a dark tribal attitude. The album will be pressed as 12" classic black vinyl with jackets printed on recycled board. Available as a free download or on vinyl.

Order "My Wild Dreams" on 12" Vinyl from Dire Life Records NOW!!!
Track List:
1. My Wild Dreams
2. Signs Of The Weathered Kind
3. Tucuman y Ayacucho
4. Snakes
5. Sweetshine
6. Soothe The Beast
7. Ghosttown
8. Rx Confliction
9. Beast Soothed

Released 01 August 2013
all songs written and produced by Abstract Artimus
mastered by Vinz Clortho at Key Mastering NYC
cover photo by Rachel Rednor

Bio:
Abstract Artimus is an American music composer and performer from the deep South currently living in Manhattan, New York. He was born Artimus Alexander Pace, June 21st, 1983, in Jacksonville, Florida. At the time of his birth, his father was the drummer for the Jimmie Van Zant Band. After quitting the band, his father moved the family back to his home town of Mobile, Alabama. Much of Artimus's early life consisted of going to his father's rock shows as well as local and national concerts.

As Artimus grew older, he started playing in different bands including his first serious endeavor Fry Cook. After nearly ten years of Fry Cook, the band called it quits in 2006 due to unresolved issues. Artimus then formed the first incarnation of what would become Abstract Artimus. Their first show was as a  supporting act for Gwar. Several successful shows were played and an EP was recorded, but after the other members quit to pursue the family life, Artimus had to devise a new plan. He went on to write and perform as a one man band with random musicians joining him over the years. In 2009, after the release of "God is Mad" he added a backing band and an extensive European and North American
tour followed. Abstract Artimus has toured the US, Canada and Europe both as a one man band and with his backing band which consists of a revolving door of musicians. He is currently touring and writing music at a constant pace. He has released several albums independently and on various independent labels in the U.S. and Europe.

Matthew Patrick – Blue Sun

Settling in Maryland after a whirlwind life that took him from Poughkeepsie to Palo Alto, Williamtown (MA) and Seattle, the multi-talented singer/songwriter Matthew Patrick recorded Blue Sun, his new full length country-blues-roots influenced set whose soulful and eclectic vibe he likes to call “redneck reggae” or “Memphis meets Kingston.”

“I was in the process of putting together new songs for my next project,” says Patrick, “and as a few of them were in the reggae vein, I looked him up. We re-connected, and Andrew took my scratch vocal and acoustic guitar tracks, hooked me up with a Jamaican bassist named Lyndon ‘Ace’ Webb, and knocked them out of the park. They sounded so good that I took all of the other tracks I had been toying with and decided to follow the same path on those.

It was really fun to take songs that I had originally conceived as country songs or New Orleans tunes and to see how Andrew and Ace would translate them. I have always loved music that crossed racial and social boundaries, from Chuck Berry playing straight up country on ‘Maybellene’ to Elvis playing Arthur Crudup’s ‘That’s Alright Mama,’ and the blues/rock/reggae hybrid we created fit right into that concept.” 

Kiddo's get on this groovy train, soulful Rhythm and Blues with a touch of “redneck reggae” and country highlighted by killer guitar, Hammond Organ and outstanding vocals and harmonies with layered instrumentation throughout.
The first song sets the stage with theCaribbean flavored intro on ‘Dog’ that then adds some bluesy harp vocals on top of a grooving melody, the track ‘I’ve Got Love’ adds a soulful Motown sound to these multi-cultural elements that carry throughout the album. “Bikes, Bullets and Beer” and ‘I Am Drunk’ are real country roadhouse rockers with ripping slide guitar. harp solos and barroom sing-along lines.  The smooth romantic crooner ‘Blue Green Eyes’ is rich with laid back reggae vibe was written when he first met his wife and features beautiful amorous vocals and harmonies. The middle tracks ‘Guess I've Gotta Do’, ‘I Ain't Got What You Got’ and ‘Too Old To Die Young’ throw a little country rock into the mix but maintain the “redneck reggae” vibe that is constant throughout. The final track ‘Ramblin' Rose’ is a beautiful soulful ode to love.
The album has varied musical influences that seem effortlessly melded together with stellar instrumentation, craftsmanship and a passion felt throughout.

Track List:
1. Dog

2. I've Got Love.mp3
3. Cry, Cry, Cry
4. Bikes, Bullets, and Beer
5. Rich Man Blues
6. Blue Green Eyes.mp3
7. Guess I've Gotta Do
8. I Ain't Got What You Got
9. Too Old To Die Young
10. I Am Drunk
11. Ramblin' Rose

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Joe Kille - Arkadelphia

I imagine Joe Killa as a man with holes in the soles of his shoes, rolling along with his fiddle on his back setting in anywhere there’s a stool and a jam going on.  Arkadelphia is a wandering soul’s album, the songs harken to the joys and sorrows of the journey, with a skip in your step on the road less traveled, aimless but persistent in going forward.
He is a proficient multi-instrumentalist on fiddle, lap steel, banjo, guitar from the Philadelphia area and has sat in with Morning River Band and The Miners as well as Soft Gut, Wes Mattheu & The New Way Down, and Sonya Cotton to name a few. He is also playing and recording with The Broken Prayers and Los Culeros. You can get your copy of Arkadelphia by contacting Joe at arkadelphia.music@gmail.com avalible digitally and on vinyl.