Mike & Ruthy
“On My Way Home” is a rousing sing-a-long that grabs a hold and pulls you into the song. The 
feel of community, of one together, infects The NYC EP as much as its melodies infect our minds and feet. The seven song project began as a one off recording of Woody Guthrie’s “My New York City”, which appears on the EP and will be featured as part of a four CD collection of Woody’s New York songs entitled ‘My Name Is New York’. The NYC EP is late night beers with musical cohorts and a spirited Williamsburg Brooklyn recording session that left the magic of the moment intact.
Mike & Ruthy met and fell in love in New York City and the pair connected with the Woody Guthrie lyrics for the “My New York City” track, “I’ve walked and rode in the rain and sun through Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens, seen a billion jillion faces that are New York town to me”. With the Woody Guthrie track leading the charge, the songs that come on board for the remainder of the EP effort join in the celebration. “Romance in the Dark” is a dueling playful tease between the banjo and Ruthy’s voice, “Toast My Memory” is a request to those left behind and an understanding of the travelers road and “Raise Your Glass High” is a rousing closer that will have the song on lips long after the last note fades.
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Sarah McQuaid
Sarah McQuaid pitches a folk tent in the campground of genres peers on ‘The Plum and The
Rose’. Vocally, Sarah offers warm resonance in her delivery, an intimacy that shares texture with artists such as Judy Collins, Odetta and Joni Mitchell on album tracks “The Sun Goes on Rising”, “Lift You Up and Let You Fly”, “So Much Rain” and “What Are We Going to Do”. Sonic comparisons to Sandy Denny and Maddy Pryor come to mind on “Hardwick’s Lofty Towers”, “In Derby Cathedral”, “Can She Excuse My Wrongs”, “Kenilworth”, “New Oyster New’ and the title track, as Sarah treads the paths of Old English Folk ballads to track the ghosts in her rural England home. ‘The Plum and The Rose’ honors folk tradition from the British Isles through the Appalachian mountain range. Sarah McQuaid has a voice that captures catches air on the first note as it sails across jazz piano riffs and sparkling guitar work on her third album effort.
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Patrick Brooks
What can be better than a getaway? Patrick Brooks captures the element of spontaneity needed 
for proper “Road Trip” and plays it out on his recent release “Rust and Weeds”. All dressed up and ready to roar, Patrick Brooks takes a look around a sleepy town Saturday night. The light bulb goes on giving off a good idea, “a couple of hundred miles from here the band’s just a going on and they’ll still be playing when I get there if the trip don’t take that long”. The freedom in the story takes a wrong turn and by the last verse, life has gotten a lot worse.
Patrick Brooks has a knack of seeing the tale as a picture to be broken down and folded into three minute snapshots of life and living. Rust and Weeds nods to the environment when he arrived in Canal Fulton, Ohio at birth. The town is just down the road from what were once massive tire production plants in Akron and former steel giants, Canton and Youngstown, Ohio. Patrick was born into the decay that would come to be termed the Rust Belt due to decrease of industry that upheld local economy from the late 19th through mid-20th centuries. His songs mirror his surroundings with the coarseness of its life, the depth of its beliefs and the glory of its past.
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The Blues: An Evolution
Chicago-based Electro Glide Records rolls out a compilation to sample its blues with The Blues: Evolution. The compilation features Memphis vocalist/harmonica man Brandon Santini , Danny and The Devils bubbling up the Blues with fat organ notes and crisp guitar riffs, Tom Holland and
The Shuffle Kings slathering Blue class over their tracks and Big Dog Mercer bleeding electric Blues.
Each artist lends three tracks to the sound buffet. Big Dog Mercer marinates notes in blue distortion with the slow motion “Some Other Fool” and the full traction “Big Dog Blues”, Tom Holland and The Shuffle Kings offer smooth grooves and silky vocals in “S.A. Blues”, singing to the rays of joy coming from the light of a great relationship and Danny and The Devils swagger in and stomp the blues to powder on the searing condemnation of “Don't Come Back This Time”. Brandon Santini dances his blues into some uptown struttin’ “You Ruined Poor Me”, steps to some funky country blues in “What Can I Do” and lays it out for his lady love in “She’s Sweet Like Honey”.
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Natasha Borzilova
The care with which Nathasha Borzilova crafts her songs and leads her tracks with confidence can be traced to classical training as a child guitar prodigy. The results are Out of My Hands, an 
album that showcases Nathasha’s vocal as a force that gracefully cradles in “Gypsy” and “Winter Season”, stutters and sparkles across the surface of “The World Below”, become a quiet storm in “One Second Flat” and walks with “Fisherman’s Wife” as it carves a heart in the sand of an empty harbor.
Out of My Hands is a powerful album. Its ability to play without bombarding the senses is testament to the control that carries with her into the studio. Natasha lends life experiences to the emotions of the tracks and brings her training in to have the music arrange with peaks and valleys that stretch their potential by relying on the voice work Natahsa brings to the studio. The polish of Pop is laid over the singer/songwriter make-up in Out of My Hands.
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Six Market Blvd
Grit and groove meet head on the Six Market Blvd. album opener, “Say It”. The groove hangs on through Shake It Down with the grit mixing it up with funky slightly Cajun rhythms (“White
Goose”), amped up rock (“Getting Out Alive”), finger picking country swagger (“Sante Fe Train”), heart tugging ballads (“In the Name of Us”) and retrospective ramblings (“Getting Older”). Six Market Blvd. have the rock’n’roll confidence to lay any style or form over their solid use of beats. As “The Painter” materializes from a blank canvas, the band slows down the movement without losing the demand of the sway as warm accordion tones adds splashes of watery color.
The Stephenville, Texas four piece met at hometown university, Tarleton U, in 2008. Shake It Down is the band’s sophomore effort. Six Market Blvd. take advantage of the diversity that Alt Country and Roots Rock offer, dipping their collective toes into ever changing pools of rhythm and swimming the currents with ease.
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Trailer Radio
Jimmy is having a bad day. He is striking out at love and the star bubble burst all with one line 
that Jimmy did not want to hear. The glass was half full though ‘cause the phrase worked great as a song title that carries its story in “A little Too Old (And A Lot Too Ugly)”. Harsh, but Trailer Radio do not pull punches. The bands toughness comes with the territory. They have to be on their game, coming up as a twang benders in New York City.
Singer Shannon Brown has the personal roots to give the band its name. She grew up in a small West Virginia town, explaining personal history and band name, “I spent some time living in a trailer with paneling on the outside, shag carpet on the inside and a crackling radio that picked up one local station twenty miles away, That station played country, bluegrass, rock, gospel and jazz. And that’s what we play, anything you’d hear on a trailer radio”. Trailer Radio ride a fat note riff on a chicken scratch rhythm in “Boll Weevil” and “He’s A Six”, countdown to a midnight death threat in “11:59” and rockabilly a Sunday afternoon intro to the “Football Widow”. The self-titled debut stretches out Tom Petty’s “Southern Accent” into a confession, the kind that comes courtesy of the lady next to you once you buy her a drink.
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Donna Adler
Folk music takes flight and finds a home to land in the music of Donna Adler. She steps
comfortably into the shoes of the men and women who have bared their souls with only a guitar as back-up. For “Stories to Keep”, Donna collects and hands out audio calling cards of ten self-penned songs, five cover tracks of Chicago songwriters and a breathy take on Emmylou Harris’ “Michaelangelo”.
Stories to Keep opens its heart in the form of songs. Donna Adler is your guide on self-discovery (“Why Do I Believe”), advice (“Marry Me (Before I Marry Him)”), fantasies (“If My Life Were A Book”) and a look into how others have navigated their lives and found inspiration (“Visions of Pontito”, “The Lamplighter”, “Poor Lewis Schroeder”). Donna Adler carries a story with delicacy. She captures thoughts and themes with the care of holding a butterfly, the music frees its wings as it heads for freedom.
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Mike Quick
Check it out, there is a lady who has a big head-on for Mike Quick in the album opener to his 
recent release, Down Bullfrog Road. Extending potential and sustainability is on sale at the local beauty parlor and Mike tells the tale of the woman in question and her “Big Hair”. Mike Quick struts with an easy Americana stride as he heads Down Bullfrog Road and passes self-reflecting folk mirrors (“My Father’s Shoes”), scratchy island cookouts (“No Peas, No Rice, No Coconut Oil”), electric barstool blues (“If You Love Her Let Her Go”) and looks for exits (“Iron Horses”).
Mike Quick was born in northwest central Wisconsin, a place of rolling wooded hills, rivers and lakes and dramatic weather and seasonal changes. He grew up geographically within a few hours of the Mississippi River to the west, the Great Lakes to the East, and Canada to the north. He lived for several years in southern California, then worked in various towns around the country before eventually returning to Wisconsin, where he lives today.
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