Artists #3

Jon Dee Graham

· 8th album, Garage Sale

· 11 tracks

· Captures an adventurous side

Beth McKee

· 2nd album, Next to Nowhere

· 11 tracks

· Tracks tap into blues, R&B, swamp rock, gospel, and soul

Robert Francis

· 3rd album, Strangers in the First Place

· 12 tracks

· Single, Heroin Lovers, guest appearance by Mike Campbell from The Heartbreakers

Sarah Jarosz

· 2nd album, Follow Me Down

· 11 tracks

· Single, Annabelle Lee

Steep Canyon Rangers

· 5th album, Nobody Knows You

· 12 tracks

· Follows 2010’s Deep In The Shade and 2011’s Rare Bird Alert

Todd Snider

· 14th album, Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker

· 14 tracks

· Guest vocalists include Amy LaVere, Elizabeth Cook and Kix Brooks

The Mastersons

· Debut, Birds Fly South

· 11 tracks

· Worked with Grammy Award Winning Engineer Steve Christensen and others to record the album’s rootsy, melodic, twangy, pop songs

Joe Pug

· 2nd album, The Great Despiser

· 11 tracks

· Features musicians including Sam Kassirer and Josh Ritter

Treme

· 2nd album, Treme: Music from the HBO Original Series, Season 2

· 18 tracks

· "HBO series Treme interweaves stories of musicians and other residents who are trying to rebuild their lives while also preserving the city's unique musical heritage and cultural traditions after Hurricane Katrina."

· "Offers...a sampling of the music from many of New Orleans musicians and other acclaimed artists..."

· Music ranges from brass bands to roots rock and traditional jazz. Henry Butler, Jon Cleary and others are featured. And a "once-in-a-lifetime" collaboration between Galactic, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Juvenile.

· Recorded live on the streets and in clubs.

The Honeycutters

· 2nd full-length album, When Bitter Met Sweet featuring singer/songwriter Amanda Anne Platt

· 11 tracks that "touch upon childhood and loss of innocence; finding a sense of belonging and one's voice; truth, love and patience; traveling and embarking on new life-journeys (and the fears that go along with these); plus the understanding that comes about when life's circumstances come full circle"

· "...[S]ongs are shaped by a raw honesty that comes straight from the heart and emits a sort of melancholy happiness."

The Lumineers

· 1st full-length album, The Lumineers

· 11 tracks

· Single, Ho Hey