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Fleeting Trance - 4 - LSR-114

Fleeting Trance is the creation of Manasseh (Ma' NASA) Bernal, a Bay Area-based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. A musical collage of styles, influences and instrumentation depending on the song, Fleeting Trance refuses definition, category and genre. “I like to think we have multiple styles without blending them all into one song,” says Bernal. “I don't think we are a one trick pony and I think the longer people listen the more they understand what connects us to the various musical forms/styles we are putting out there.”

Track List:
1. Slowly Them Years
2. Part Of Me
3. Do You Need A Friend
4. Are We Alone
5. Super Great
6. Cobwebs
7. Stumbling In / Stumbling Out
8. Todays's A Good Day For Living
9. Out By The Bay
10. Glue
11. Dancida
12. Look Up Look Out
13. I Think You Know
14. Time Of Heart
15. It's Not Like You
16. Jack Of Trades
17. Last Strange Dream

Artist Web Link: http://www.fleetingtrance.com/

Alex James Muscat - Soundtracks - LSR-104

Sixteen instrumental compositions featuring lush orchestration pieces, bleak desert soundscapes and just a touch of circuit bending. Many hours were labored to put together this special album of emotional melodies and modern composition. A big departure from the American songwriting of the last three efforts. A milestone in AJM's musical evolution.

Track List:
1. Channel Two
2. Al's Overture
3. Lydia's Dream
4. Selection 23
5. Near Wandering
6. A Path for Travel
7. Burning Night
8. Never to Return
9. Light in the Dark
10. Figure 8
11. Sensitive Call
12. Tweedle Dub
13. Hogwart
14. Trigger
15. Broken
16. Tiny Universe

Artist Web Link: http://www.muscatsound.com

Scott Robertson - Transom - LSR-213

One of San Francisco's finest guitar players Scott Robertson delivers an incredible album of organic songwriting and a bit of new wave production.

Track List:
1. One percent
2. I know there's something wrong
3. Insomnia
4. The last Supper
5. Gone fishin
6. Wildlife
7. Pear cider
8. Meat farm
9. Love, Don't touch me
10. Poison contrails
11. Ruby room

Artist Web Link: http://www.myspace.com/scottyrnr

Andy Mason - Rural Sun - LSR-143

California native Andy Mason is a little bit rock n' roll. Imagine sweeping pedal and lap steel guitars, standup bass with a bow, crisp acoustic guitars, brushes on a snare drum, muted trumpets, soothing and punchy female backing vocals.....and stories…lots and lots of stories…delivered with bold lyrical explosions surrounding California lawsuits, wrecked cars, scavenging birds, love on the blink, high maintenance nicknames of the tallest order, struggling against all odds in a system coming loose at the seams, beauty and utter contentment revealed at a first glance.

Track List:
1. Side Saddle
2. Sorry That I Love You
3. Vultures
4. Simply You
5. Da Presidente
6. Words
7. Sue Me

Artist Web Link: http://www.andy-masontown.com/

Alex James Muscat - the ghost of electricity - LSR-103

Most of these songs were written in the final years of the 20th century and saw a few attempts at recording them over the last decade. A post-90's classic rock record, the ghost of electricity, was written, produced and performed by Alex James Muscat. Scott Robertson composed & performed additional guitars & vocals. Daren Wilkerson played drums & percussion. Manny Bernal played trumpet on 'Somehow complicated' & sang on 'Please don't'. Tom Hargarten played drums on 'Sold your soul'.

Track List:
1. Not a phase
2. Please don't (leave me alone)
3. You know I want to
4. Nothing to lose
5. Paint this town
6. See me through
7. Always on my mind
8. Sold your soul (for rock n' roll)
9. Somehow complicated
10. I think I found a way

Artist Web Link: http://www.muscatsound.com/

Fleeting Trance - Charm - LSR-113

Fleeting Trance's third CD explores elements of americana, folk, punk, rock, reggae and experimental soundscapes. No two performances are alike. A musical collage of styles, influences and instrumentation depending on the song, FT refuses definition, category and genre. “I like to think we have multiple styles without blending them all into one song,” says Bernal. “I don't think we are a one trick pony and I think the longer people listen the more they understand what connects us to the various musical forms/styles we are putting out there.”

Track List:
1. Scarecrow
2. The Kitchen
3. Wine & Beer
4. Core Us
5. Esther Yay
6. Sometimes Awareness
7. Mission Control
8. The Store
9. Change
10. Kinda Like A Plane
11. Falling In Love
12. Damn All The Pirates
13. East Bay
14. Kinda Scary
15. All I Really Want You To Do
16. Welcome Back
17. Stand Up & B Known

Read Record Review at Performer Mag!

Artist Web Link: http://www.fleetingtrance.com

Hoptown Hoptown - (self-titled) - LSR-611

Hoptown are from San Francisco Bay Area. It is the brain child of bassist/songwriter Roy Elder. The band began in 2006 as a musical collective of musicians who share a common interest in roots music. Through the course of a year the musicians collaborated with Roy in the studio to forge a sound using both electric and acoustic instrumentation. The result is a 10 song disc that digs deep into Americana and classic rock.

Track List:
1. Fly High
2. Water When the Well Runs Dry
3. Figure It Out
4. Missed Too Much
5. Cry Your Name
6. Days Passed By
7. Tear Down These Walls
8. Calistan
9. El Dorado
10. Never Kiss You Goodbye

Artist Web Link: http://www.hoptownhighway.com

Jon Bennett - Submarine - LSR-751

Jon Bennett paints a bleak landscape of the American experiences using a combination of classical finger picking and urban metaphors. Artist notes on Aquarium: the late great Los Angeles poet Steven Jessie Bernstein wrote a poem about a waterless aquarium in his apartment. It was full of dust, candy wrappers, melted army men, dead flies, etc., and he wrote the line "everything dies in there". The closeness of that small, bleak world in miniature inspired me to write the song Aquarium.

Track List:
1. Down at The GA
2. Burning Out
3. Rosary
4. Submarine
5. I am just a wino
6. Lindey Rhea
7. Sing for my supper
8. Hard Hearted Man
9. The Angel of Suffering
10. Jane
11. Aquarium
12. The Clockmaker
13. The Fall

Artist Web Link: http://www.myspace.com/jonathanbennett

fleetingtrance1.jpg (8316 bytes) Fleeting Trance - (self-titled) - LSR-112

Fleeting Trance is the songwriting & recording project of Oakland based, Manasseh Bernal. The group has been performing in the in Bay Area nightclub scene for more than 10 years. Organic and American, this collection of songs capture some of Manny's best songwriting and is treated well with some great preformances from a long list of musicians who were part of the line-up through the years.

Track List:
1. To Get Her Together
2. Simple Plan
3. Jimmy
4. Somewhere on a Cloud
5. RU-486
6. Tear N. Swell
7. Children of God
8. It's All New (Velvet Curtain)
9. Blue
10. Ohhh
11. East Wind
12. Berry Haze
13. Jack Hammer Suzy
14. You've Got Me (You've Got One)
15. Seconds
16. Fall Apart
17. Bored Games

Artist Web Link: http://www.fleetingtrance.com/

Jesse Grant - Pigeonholed - LSR-001

Jesse Grant's studio debut, Pigeon holed is an examination in limitations, how they bend really for the good, the bad and the funny. The slippery slopes and frayed labels of our modern world may be simultaneously beloved and derided. "Like a New York bar band gene-spliced with the Pogues, Jesse Grant is boozy, slightly obnoxious but in an endearing way, old-school bluesy rock. In an age of pre-fab emo/scremo bands and self conscious hipsterism, Pigeonholed is a welcome little reminder that things weren't always this way" -Kirsty Evans:East Bay Express

Track List:
1. License to Li(k)q('er)uor
2. An L. Ron Hubbard Day dream at a San Francisco Bus Stop
3. Casual Sex
4. Young in the Butter
5. Greener
6. Here's To a Bright Future
7. Manifest Destiny
8. WhiteHorse Circle
9. Revolver
10. Dude That's Dark as Hell

Artist Web Link: http://jessegrantmusic.blogspot.com/

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Moonbunnies - eleven - LSR-721 Moonbunnies - eleven - LSR-721

It is not often that we get the chance to hear a CD filled with as much energy and tenderness as Patrick Drayus' Moonbunnies. Drayus' lyrical innovation begins with such universal themes as love, anxiety, politics and longing and shifts gears with the playfulness of his magical wandering , aliens, rainbow eyes and the beautiful sublimity of love.

Track List:
1. Your Face
2. Pathway
3. Jellyfish
4. Voice
5. Robots
6. Wash
7. War Games
8. Education
9. Human Ammo
10. Happy Island
11. La La (Holding on...)

Artist Web Link: http://www.electricballoon.com

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Black-Tape - TRASH - LSR-501 BLACK-TAPE - TRASH - LSR-501

Some have described Black-Tape as a psychedelic rock experience, with churning riffs and a powerful rhythm section. The debut album TRASH features 11 tracks from the San Francisco based quartet, literally years in the making. With personnel changes, only playing live and enough ups/downs to already have a Behind The Music program.

Track List:
1. Burnin'
2. Toothpaste
3. Mexico
4. Guilty Parties
5. Fireworks
6. Trash
7. Good Fight
8. Civilized
9. Gring This Stone
10. Rust
11. Awake

Artist Web Link: http://www.black-tape.com

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John Predny - Ugly On The Inside John Predny - Pretty On The Outside - LSR-312

Predny's second album, Pretty On The Outside features John playing all the instruments. The album blends indie-rock stylings with keen musicianship and even a touch of circuit bending.

Track List:
1. Urban Cowboy
2. Sweet Dreams
3. Dirty Bird
4. Red Cross
5. Unauthorized
6. Entitlement Town
7. Genuine
8. Seventeen
9. Orpheus
10. One In a Million
11. Run Rabbit Run

Artist Web Link: http://www.myspace.com/jmpredny

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Jacopo De Nicola - Mia Come Ora Jacopo De Nicola - Mai Come Ora - LSR-371

"Inspired by European cafe rock, Tropicalia and global rhythms, Jacopo manages on his debut cd to show a wide variety of styles and directions but keep it encapsulated as a satisfying whole. Treading a path between the baroque pop of Lucio Battisti and the frenetic rhythms of Manu Chao, Jacopo manages to charm with infectious songs sung in both Italian and English and unique instrumentation including mandolins, hand percussion, and some rather masterful kazoo playing! Nice! " (Aquarius Records review).

Track List:
1. Mia Come Ora
2. Aquiloni
3. It Was Just Us
4. Distanti
5. Motherland
6. Fratello Serella
7. One Day
8. La Mia Citta'
9. Allah Aum
10. Stati Emozionali
11. Stolidi Pensieri
12. Quasi che
13. Figlia di Kong

Artist Web Link: http://www.jacopodenicola.com/

John Predny - Dude in Distress John Predny - Dude in Distress - LSR-311

John Predny played trombone in the Marian Catholic marching and symphonic band, and sang in chorus and musical productions from 1991-1995. Attended the University of Florida under trombone scholarship and performed in the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Renaissance Ensemble, Marching Band, and Trombone Quartet as well as sang with the University Choir and Vocal Studio program. In 2000, moved to Chicago and sang with Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus (Parsifal, Aida, and Gotterdammerung), Grant Park Symphony Chorus, L'Opera Piccola, Sarasota Opera Apprentice Program, and La Musica Lirica in Urbania, Italy. Moved to San Francisco in 2008, began recording with Last Stop Records in August and formed a band in November 2008

Track List:
1. Never Resolution
2. Save me Princess
3. Punka
4. A Likings To Vikings
5. 2/11/77
6. Snoopy's Song
7. Bride of Punka
8. Stab!Stab!Stab!
9. Heaven
10. Static
11. Goodbye to the Y
12. Showdown

Artist Web Link: http://www.reverbnation.com/johnpredny

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Fleeting Trance - 17 Fleeting Trance - 17 - LSR-111

Fleeting Trance are an oakland based band fronted by Manasseh Bernal. This album contains 17 original songs written and recorded over the last 10 years. When buying this record you save the lives of millions of oppressed people, puppy dogs, birds, and whales.

Track List:
1. Spent On Forever
2. World Is In My Head
3. She's Got Music
4. Somewhere Square
5. Cheap Motel
6. Know It All
7. Oh My
8. Working On the Floor
9. Ricky Martian
10. Four Leaf Clover
11. Tireless Supporter
12. Things
13. Crayon
14. Last Night
15. Little Girl
16. First Thing You Want
17. Party In Albany

Artist Web Link: http://www.fleetingtrance.com

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Andy Mason - Stories Told Andy Mason - Stories Told - LSR-142

This album "Andy Mason Stories Told" is collection of recently written folk songs from Andy Mason, who is a San Francisco Bay Area Native. Andy is a singer/songwriter/activist who crafts songs about politics, polution, human rights, and daily slice-of-life stories. The style of this album is a gritty folk, americana, alt-country vibe. Look for the sounds of guest bay area local musicians playing lilting Pianos, warm pedal steel guitars, bright telecasters, and thundering acoustic bass. Andy plays acoustic guitar and sings on all the tracks. Harp is played throughout the album but used on roughly half the tracks. Every song is done differently with a common human theme. Every "Story Told" is done in a unique style...Take your time pull up an easy chair and a glass of beer and listen to "Andy Mason Stories Told"

Track List:
1. Bridge to Panama
2. Dark Eyed Junco
3. Honeydew
4. Piano Chords
5. Glowin Ember
6. Bride On Home
7. Paper Bag
8. Grandfathers Eyes
9. Teatime

Artist Web Link: http://www.andy-masontown.com

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Andy Mason - Songs From Town Andy Mason - Songs From Town - LSR-141

Andy Mason, is a local folk singer/songwriter/musician. A Bay Area native, his songs are crafted around local happenings, social movements, political issues, hometown pride and raw human experiences. Expect to here songs about the iraq war, pollution, frustrations with modern life, cops, women, booze, and being thirsty. His songs are reminiscent of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings.

Track List:
1. Teatime
2. Sorry
3. Alhambra Way
4. Glass O' Water
5. Dark Eyed Junco
6. LA Girl
7. Cell phone Charger
8. Hotel Swimming Pool
9. Tinez
10. Christmas In Fallujah
11. Teatime (2)

Artist Web Link: http://www.andy-masontown.com

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Phil Void - Delusions of the pampered Phil Void - Delusions of the pampered - LSR-771

Phil Void is a somewhat avant-rock collective....in the traditions of Pink Floyd, NIN or The Mars Volta. The groups sound on this current disc is eclectic, wide-ranging & ambitious... welding together elements of punk, free jazz, noise, electronica & metal. Equal measures challengeing, listenable and entirely facinating. An elaborate piece of conceptual music that portrays as much as it explores, with all the cosmic tendencies of grandoise art rock, off-set by sonically enhanced garage-beats and jarring electric outbursts.

Track List:
1. So Mighty
2. In Tune With Everything
3. Tapping On the Glass
4. Horrible Vulgar Exhibition
5. No One's Listening
6. Dramatico Y Sine
7. Clever Alien
8. Game of Chance
9. Lame Ass Smash
10. Exile
11. The Word of God
12. Rendition Reprise

Artist Web Link: http://www.laststoprecords.com/PhilVoid

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Bernie Reilly - No Place to Hide Bernie Reilly - No Place to Hide- LSR-903

Reilly has just completed his fourth album, "No Place to Hide". On this latest collection he has reached new heights of songwriting by leaving the electric band sound behind and delving into the lyrical world of truth and self examination. With all of his flaws and worries unapologetically exposed, the level of honesty has given the album an intimate feel that will transport the listener to a musical world all its own. "So much of todays music is all flash and bravado", says Reilly. "With this album I really wanted to get back to the sounds and feelings that made me love music in the first place. Making music that you like for its own sake always seems to resonate better with the listener, as opposed to trying to second guess an audience's expectations. A melody or lyric that comes straight out of my unconscious musical hum will in the end be more catchy and classic than a premeditated construction." Reactions to early versions of No Place to Hide have confirmed that it represents a new degree of depth in Reilly's work. While still playing in various ensembles from rock to jazz to bluegrass, Reilly has begun to focus more and more on his solo shows. "I like the freedom of playing solo. It affords me the opportunity to change dynamics and repertoire without warning and really put a piece of myself out there, like it or not, for all to see." Tune in!

Track List:
1. No Place to Hide
2. The Curtain
3. Had to Come Over
4. Goin' Wrong
5. Growing Up
6. Wristslap
7. Valentine
8. This Cloud
9. Don't Look Now
10. Easy to Lie
11. Get up off the Ground
12. Mulch
13. Back Door Slam
14. Cruel Introduction

Artist Web Link: http://www.myspace.com/berniereilly

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Jack Jack "Da Hat" Luna - that Night - LSR-331

Jack Luna is well known around San Francisco’s North Beach clubs, his collection of hats and stylish vintage attire has earned him the name “Jack Da Hat” given to him by North Beach’s own icon Carol Doda while performing at one of her shows. His singing style is like no other. Some say a cross between Louie Armstrong, Leon Redbone and Louis Jordan. Weather it be a classical standard or original jazz tune, Jack makes it his own with his distinctive sound. Influence by Peter (Pop) Walsh and the Stompy Jones band, Boz Scaggs, Louis Jordan and Fats Domino's New Orleans style boogie woogie, Jack delivers an unforgettable sound that will keep you wanting more.

Track List:
1. That Night
2. Mumbles,Mumbles
3. Still in Love With You
4. Blue Monday
5. Out West
6. Knock Me a Kiss
7. Be Mine
8. Can't Find My Baby
9. Wasn't That a Party
10. Run N' Blue

Artist Web Link: http://www.jackdahat.com

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Danny Scherr - Richmond Special Danny Scherr - Richmond Special - LSR-281

Danny Scherr's solo debut cd, Richmond Special, has received commercial and non-commercial airplay in the US and Europe, and his song "Fade Me In" recently appeared on KFOG's Local Scene Vol. 5. Danny has been writing and performing since high school, originally for NYC area punk band Chappaquiddick +5 which played CBGB's and opened for Channel 3, Kraut, the Cromags and HR of Bad Brains. While attending the University of Michigan, Danny began playing solo shows, gigging around Ann Arbor and opening for Soul Asylum in Detroit. Back in NYC after college, Danny started power pop band the Sky Violets, became part of Lach's East Village anti-folk scene, and played guitar and sang backup for Zane Campbell of the Ola Belle Reed/Guy Campbell bluegrass family. Since moving to San Francisco in the 90's, Danny has been playing full band and solo acoustic shows and wrote songs and recorded with Jon Wilkins, now of The Postmarks. In 2004 Danny's song "Maybe You're Gone" played over the end credits of movie "The Girl Next Door," starring Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert. The song appeared in the movie as covered by Cash Money artist Kevin Rudolf, then recording as Binocular.

Track List:
1. Always Goes That Way
2. Fade Me In
3. How I Lost A Day
4. Too Far Down
5. Love Again
6. Make My Day
7. Don't Know Why
8. The Next Motel
9. 'Til I'm In Love Again
10. Let it Go

Artist Web Link: http://www.dannyscherr.com

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Ten to Six - Clockwork Ten To Six - Clockwork - LSR-471

In the early 90's the groups bombastic sound and crafty songwriting, fit right in to the hard rock/grunge scene made famous by such groups as Alice In Chains and Soundgarden. Tracks 1-3 recorded at squid hell, produced by eric micheal cohen. Tracks 4-6 recorded at Berklee College of Music, produced by brad mccarthy and Bob Nash. Tracks 7-13 recorded at 32 Desmond Street, produced by Alex Muscat, Tony Valli, Charlie Phillips & Andy Harris. compiled and remastered by Alex James Muscat for Last Stop Records.

Track List:
1. Spaceman
2. Blinding
3. Fix
4. Without Another One
5. Lies
6. Now I Know Why
7. Rite
8. Stand
9. Forever Mine
10. Everyplace
11. Dre Paree
12. On Our Own
13. Give & Take

Artist Web Link: N/A

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Bocco Bovo - Days Away Rocco B - Days Away - LSR-692

The first LP commercial release from Rocco Bovo. Features some of the best joints with a bunch of dope up and coming, hip hop beatmakers and rappers.

Track List:
1. The Bovo Boys (feat. Big B)
2. Get It Right (feat. Big B)
3. Days Away (feat. Will Peng)
4. Night Crawlers (feat. Big B)
5. Skooby Snacks
6. The Breakup (feat. B. Lauren)
7. Ride Ride Ride
8. Pipe Man Shrug
9.A Day Without Music (feat. Will Peng)
10. In My Shoes (feat. Will Peng)
11. Creepin (feat. CK)
12. Drop A Dime (feat. Big B)
13. They Call Me (feat. Big B)
14. Booty Drum (feat. Big B)
15. Cloudy Paradise (feat. Brandon Moses Crouch)
16. Candy Girl (feat. Will Peng)

Artist Web Link: http://www.myspace.com/roccob1

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JJ Schultz - Traveling songs JJ Schultz - Traveling Songs - LSR-193

Hailing from the Wisconsin Northwoods, JJ Schultz captures the lonesome middle-America landscape with the wry clarity of Nebraska era Springsteen. Schultz’s wavering vibrato captures the snap shots of everyday people surviving the life of rural America. The dusty barrooms, the front porch steps and farmer's fields are images delivered with a subtle passion that's balanced between sparse guitar picking and a poignant vocal delivery that is as distinctive as Jay Farrar and Townes Van Zandt.

Track List:
1. Find Me
2. Willow Bay
3. Across the bay
4. The Greyhound bus
5. Tumbleweed
6. The cluds under the moon
7. the eastbound train
8. Come on, come on
9. Traveling song
10. Country backroad (live)

Artist Web Link: http://www.jjschultz.com

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Rich Hubbard - Making the Grass Green Rich Hubbard - Making the Grass Green - LSR-401

Track List:
1. Invocation/Rise Up
2. Rain on Baghdad
3. Now That You Know
4. When It Rains It Pours
5. Death of Democracy
6. Born of a Virgin
7. Create Peace
8. Father's Lament
9. Four Prayers
10. Warriors of Love
11. I Wish You Well

Artist Web Link: http://www.myspace.com/richhubbardmusic

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Elektrk Sunset - Weirdo Island Elektrik Sunset - Weirdo Island - LSR-321

Recording of this record took place at Last Stop Records, San Francisco. Alex James Muscat was the engineer. Musicians are Joe Gusich on Guitar.Mandolin.Vox.Drums, Accordion & AJM on Bass Guitar. EKKSE's reverb induced sound fetches influences from Rock, Surf, Psychedelia, Pop & Eastern Europe to bring together an original orgasm. ‘Quirky alternative rock which is at times very dark and catchy with lots of little extra ear candy sounds and ideas.'

Track List:
1. Weirdo Island
2. She Can't
3. Long Time Ago
4. Puddin'
5. Lisa
6. Shake Shake Shake (featuring Ruth Butler)
7. Blue On Blue
8. I Don't Know
9. Hey!
10. Bay Bridge To Beijing
11. Beatin' Da Eggs
12. I'll Find My Way
13. Nemoj Staviti Kuzitsu U Slatko
14. If You Should (qualm, psychosis, mutiny, laying down of arms,...
15. Don't Put Your Ass In Da Puddin'

Artist Web Link: http://www.elektriksunset.com

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Bryan Harrison - Raw Tracks Bryan Harrison - Raw Tracks - LSR-391

A Bay Area native, guitarist, singer and songwriter Bryan Harrison has built a strong reputation within the San Francisco music community. Established as a diverse song writer, drawing from his own life experience as well as from issues of the day, Bryan shapes his poignant material with musical colors that draw his fans in. An adept guitar player, he more often than not chooses song structure and chord progressions that go beyond the typical singer/songwriter. His warm vocals add a richness that makes his songs even more meaningful.

Track List:
1. When You Were Young
2. RollerCoaster
3. Sunshine Girl
4. Grizzly
5. Gun Shy
6. Awkward Silence
7. (You Won't Know) My Name
8. This Freedom
9. Thru The Clouds
10. Come Dance with Me
11. Bird In A Cage
12. Drunk On You
13. Greener Side
14. Love It All

Artist Web Link: http://www.bryanharrison.net/

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The JJ Schultz Band - Something to me The JJ Schultz Band - Somthing to me - LSR-192

"Something To Me" (Last Stop Records) has a full, roving and rattling sound in the footsteps of Crazy Horse, without it sounding too heavy. Meaning it sounds exactly right. The endless row of telephone poles on the album cover already indicates that endless travelling is the overall theme of this great CD. And yes, the great leaving; the unwanted goodbye. Over the course of ten songs Schultz uncovers the white underbelly of today's America. The narrative, syrupy songs have titles like Ol' Billy The Cab Driver, He Drives and The Lonesome Truck driver, and from a musical standpoint the JJ Schultz Band swings like the proverbial train with its destination somewhere close to Sixteen Horsepower or even The Gun Club. Ballads are also safe in JJ's hands because slide, electrical guitar and Schultz' melancholy touch to the core. The cover of Ol' '55 is slightly superfluous, but you get full compensation by the tearing gallop of Drinkin' You Off My Mind: 'George Jones where are you now? I need you in my desperate hour.' Something To Me places JJ Schultz among unknown but very much loved country-rocking troubadours such as Steve Wedemeyer, Nels Andrews, Thomas Denver Jonsson, David Wolfenberger or Ramsey Midwood. What's great about Something To Me is that Schultz proves his capacity of not only creating wonderful country folk songs but also superior grating and enticing country rock songs

Track List:
1. Jackie you, Jackie me
2. Ol' 55
3. Drinkin' you off my mind
4. Ol' Billy the cab driver
5. Speed train
6. Someone who's not me
7. The Lonesome Truckdriver
8. Ol' Thomas Edwards
9. He Drives
10. Something to me

Artist Web Link: http://www.jjschultz.com

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Scott Robertson - Folklore Scott Robertson - Folklore - LSR-212

Track List:
1. Oh, Star
2. Nobody Knows
3. Sulfur & Cinnamon
4. Double Dose
5. Wine
6. Glass Like
7. The Sun Never Shines
8. In Pieces
9. Fairy Tale
10. Let Us Kiss This Goosbye
11. Papoose

Artist Web Link: http://www.myspace.com/scottyrnr

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Scott Robertson - Soul Lover Scott Robertson - Soul Lover - LSR-211

Also Known as Scotty Rocknroll is a solo artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He works with many local musicians FLEETING TRANCE ... BLAIR HANSEN ... THE WILDLIFE ... JAMES COLLEY ... JJ SCHULTZ ... TALL SHADOWS ...LVEO. Soul Lover ©2005 martian-mind Scott Robertson - vocals, guitar James Colley - bass Robert Johnson - drums Recording Engineer - Trevor Contreras

Track List:
1. Sick Moon
2. Bored People
3. Soul Lover
4. Houri
5. Spellbound

Artist Web Link: http://www.myspace.com/scottyrnr

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James Colley - California Skin James Colley - California Skin - LSR-151

James Colley is a singer/songwriter who brings together southern roots and a California upbringing to create a sound that is part rock and part classic country. Raised in Bakersfield, James found his musical inspiration in the works of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, The Stones and Lou Reed. James' vocal style is rebellious, reminiscent of many of country music's greats, but his true musical talent rests squarely in his songwriting abilities. The debut album, California Skin, brings superb lyrical arrangements that flaunt a youthful enthusiasm along with true Americana grit.

Track List:
1. City Song #12
2. Moving Faster
3. The White Line
4. August
5. 3 Chord Girl
6. Santa Rita
7. Round I Go
8. Carelessly
9. Bakersfield

Artist Web Link: http://www.jamescolley.com

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