NEW SOUNDS: JBM "NOT EVEN IN JULY"

Jesse Marchant is someone with a buttery tongue. Known as JBM to the music community, we recently were turned onto his music, and specifically the honey-of-a-song called "Ambitions & War" off his soon to be released album on July 27th (Partisan Records), "Not Even In July". "Ambitions & War" is like BREAD meets AMERICA, and it's a song my wife plays about 5 times a day about someone that's losing their mind. It's brilliant and I'm told it's about life in Los Angeles, which makes sense about losing your mind. The record is an acoustic jewel, my Sunday morning-cookin' breakfast type of jam.

Next week he'll be hitting the road with another one of our favorites - NATHANIEL RATELIFF for dates up in the Northeast and anyone catching this double team is in for a blessed evening. He recently hit the road with Rougue Wave & Avi Buffalo and Sondre Lerche.

June 1st -The Middle East - Boston
June 2nd - Le Poisson Rouge - New York NY
June 3rd - Union Hall - Brooklyn, NY

WOW! NATHANIEL RATELIFF'S ALBUM "IN MEMORY OF LOSS" IS BRILLIANT

I finally got my copy of the latest release by NATHANIEL RATELIFF, "In Memory Of Loss" (Rounder) and after only getting two songs in was already to fire up the 'ol blogspot and start yapping about how absolutely brilliant it is. I hope you already know of Rateliff from his other bands, BORN IN THE FLOOD and THE WHEEL. We were lucky enough to have The Wheel play our Skewer CMJ party at Pianos last year and got to spend a little time with him, only to release he's not only supremely talented, but one of those guys you just want to see win. I had already thought that he had met his quota of having one of the most beautiful songs in years with "Just For Me, But I Thought Of You" off this 'Desire and Dissolving Men' album, but he's struck lightning TWICE with this song - "Early Spring Till" (click here to download), which could very well be the most beautiful song of 2010 thus far. Track down this release if you can, it's worth your hard earned cash.