I began the month on August 3rd with a show called "nothing new" since I was listening to over 250 new cds. I will end this month with "everything new" and try to give some air time to the new aquistions from this summer. The theme title is not meant to say this list represents all new releases this summer, only a selection of new releases that I have aquired.

1. Christine Lavin - Jack and Wanda
I Was In Love With a Difficult Man - Red Wing Records
The story of a couple who honor each other regularly
A true story honoring love

2. Will Danforth - Angel From Michigan
Live at Mamma's - Namaste Music
This is a true story honoring ghosts

3. Kat Goldman - The Great Disappearing Act
The Great Disappering Act - www.katgoldman.com
"I've been disappearing here for just another guy"

4. Joel Mabus - Shake Them Hard Luck Blues
Thumb Thump - Fossil Records
"Down so low I had nothing to lose"

5. Antje Duvekot - Long Way
Little Peppermints - antjeduvekot.com
"we didn't know who we would be"
"with that old cello, the one that would get stolen in a town in Idaho"

6. All About Buford - (Jonatha Brooke) How Deep Is Your Love
Supercar - allaboutbugord.com
"I don't think I ever really knew, I don't think I ever really saw"

7. Full Frontal Folk - Jockey Full of Bourbon
www.fullfrontalfolk,com
"I've been stepping on the Devil's tail"

8. Terri Allard - You'll Learn
Makes No Sense - Reckless Abandon Music www.terriallard.com
"There is no turning back now"

9. Si Kahn - In The Spinning Mill
Threads - Double TIme Music
"When I was 12 years old ...I worked my life away"

10. Fran Mandeville - Two Bad Guys
I Have Walked With Angels - Flown Home Publishing
"He was not that old and I was not that young"

11. Scott Ainslie - (Oris Mays) Don't Let The Devil Ride
You Better Lie Down - Cattail Records
Learned from Dreddie Manning

12. Mark Haines & Tom Leighton -  The Point Du Chene Girl
Hand to Hand - Borealis

13. Uncle Earl - (Phillips) Orphan Train
"we have rode the orphan..we need a home, we need a name, take us in"

14. Short Sisters - Ticonderoga
Love and Transportation - Black Socks Press
"I have used Ticonderoga pencils all of my life"

15. We're About 9 - Albany
Something Magnetic EP - www.circanine.com
"I have got 50 dollars says Youll never make it to Albany"
"What is the gun for? To get me to Canada"

16. James Gordon - We're Canadians and Were Sorry
Tune Cooties (from Basic Black) - Pipe Street Pub.
"never wanting to offend, what we do we do politely"

17. Bitchin' Babes - Don't Mess WIth Me
Some Assembly Required - Shanachie
"I'm somebody's mother" "the hand that rocks the cradle thats the hand that makes the rules"

18. Kelly Willis - Find Another Fool
Easy - Rykd Records
"too many good things have fallen at your feet"

19. Sons of the Never Wrong - Witness
4 Ever On - Gadfly
Couldn't resist this title, as I'm  performing tongiht in "Witness for the Prosecution"

20. Aoife Clancy - (R.Tonninhill) Are You Sleepin', Maggie
SIlvery Moon - Appleseed Recordings
"winds they blow with winter fury"

21. Richie Havens - Slow Down
The Well - Stormy Forest
"that chance I'm taking"

22. Lynn Miles - Unravel
Unravel - Oxra-Tone Records
"you can read a lot of books, it don't make you smart"

23.Chuck Brodsky - Lefty
Baseball Ballads - checkbrodsky.com records
"he got too old to play the game"

24. Ruthie Foster - Smalltown Blues
Runaway Soul - Blue Corn Music
"I don't need no pity, just drop me in a city"
"I'm running out of things to do"

25. Jan Seides - Bored
Everyday People - Panda Productions
"I want to be bored, have nothing to do..as long as I'm able"

26. Chris and Meridith Thompson - Clearwater
Clearwater - cmthompson.com
"when we raise the white sail...everyone will know what it means"

27. David Massengill - Girl From Nebraska
My Home Must Be A Speacial Place - Gadfly
"she hadn't said yes, she dadn't said no"

28. Alan & John Kelly - Mountain Ranger/Harp and Shamrock
Four Mile House - Compass
instrumental - hornpipe, accordian and guitar

29. Andrew McKnight - Letter to Colonel Mosby
Turning Pages - Falling Mountain
"here in the future invading armies cross our land with biag machines..."
"I am a but simple man, but we are common in our love for Viriginia land"

30. Enoch Kent - Farm Auction
I'm a Workin' Chap - Second Ave Songs
Enoch's notes: in Canada the land near the cities became more valuable and the banks started to call in farm loans and take the land for re-sale. I witnessed this.."
"the sale was on until everything is gone"
 

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