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OST Crazy Heart (2010)

Album: Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Year: 2010 Genre: Country Link: RS Buy: amazon “It’s all magic.” That’s the phrase the late Stephen Bruton used in September 2008 to describe working on the set of Crazy Heart, and with good reason. Actor Jeff Bridges embodies his role as an original outlaw songwriter – confident, crooked, and hardened with time. Paired with Bruton’s lyricism, co-producer T Bone Burnett’s saturated Americana backdrop, and Joel Guzman’s accordion brushes, Bridges notches a Tex-Mex trifecta starting with opener “Hold on You” that bodes well against Burnett’s other soundtrack selections, including Townes Van Zandt (“If I Needed You”), Waylon Jennings (“Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way”), and Lightnin’ Hopkins (“Once a Gambler”)

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Courtney Jaye – Exotic Sounds of Courtney Jaye (2010)

Artist: Courtney Jaye Album: Exotic Sounds of Courtney Jaye Year: 2010 Genre: Hawaiian, Country, Garage Link: RS Buy: itunes “Like the best pop, Courtney Jaye’s new full-length The Exotic Sounds of Courtney Jaye masks its heartbreak with loopy guitars and offhand melodies…Jaye hints at Jackie DeShannon in “Queen of Sabotage” and the Faces in “Sometimes Always.”…Seth Kauffman’s graceful production frames Jaye’s modest vocals perfectly.

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Malcolm Holcombe – For the Mission Baby (2009)

Artist: Malcolm Holcombe Album: For the Mission Baby Year: 2009 Genre: country, folk, americana Download: rapidshare Buy: amazon There are very few artists that I love enough to check websites/myspace/twitter, hoping for any insight about upcoming releases. Ironically, one of the few people I cyber stalk, is a man that probably could care less about the internet or keeping his fans current. Malcolm Holcombe has been making music for 30+ years with a gravelly voice as worn as the tires on an old rusted out pickup truck

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Vintage Vinyl – Leonard Cohen – Songs from a Room [1969]

Artist: Leonard Cohen Album: Songs from a Room Year: 1969 Genre: Folk/Country/Singer-songwriter Try: RS Buy: Amazon 1969 saw the release of, one of Canada’s most legendary singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen’ s most poignantly dark records, Songs from a Room . Songs like “the Butcher,” have Cohen’s quasi singing/speaking, as he butchers his body throughout “ Well, I found a silver needle, I put it into my arm. It did some good, did some harm,” and “ Blood upon my body and ice upon my soul, lead on, my son, it is your world.

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