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Played live acoustically at the ceremony:

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Bob Dylan - Make You Feel My Love
The Beatles - Real Love


Reception background music:

Adele - Make You Feel My Love
The Beatles - Something, Oh! Darling, Blackbird, Revolution 1, I've Just Seen A Face, Girl, In My Life, The Ballad Of John And Yoko, Real Love
Calexico - Two Silver Trees, Quattro (World Drifts In)
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
The Church - Under The Milky Way
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
The Cure - Close To Me
DeVotchKa - Along The Way, New World
Drive-By Truckers - Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife
Feist - The Water, Past In Present, 1234
The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over The Rainbow
Jenny Lewis - Pretty Bird
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!, Melt Your Heart, Handle With Care
Joan as Police Woman - Real Life, Eternal Flame, The Ride, Flushed Chest, Anyone, Holiday, To Be Loved, To Be Lonely, Start Of My Heart
Little Birdy - Into My Arms
Little Red - So Long
Lucinda Williams - Lake Charles
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Mazzy Star - Bells Ring (Acoustic Version), Fade Into You
Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond The Wizard aka Erol Alkan & Richard Norris Remix)
Neko Case - Deep Red Bells, Tightly, Look For Me (I'll Be Around), Stinging Velvet, I Wish I Was The Moon, Star Witness, Hold On Hold On, That Teenage Feeling, Lion's Jaws, Maybe Sparrow, This Tornado Loves You, Vengeance Is Sleeping, Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth, Middle Cyclone, Magpie To The Morning, The Pharaohs
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - A Teenager In Love
The Panics - Don't Fight It, This Day Last Year
Phoenix - Too Young
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Rand and Holland - It's Alright
Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
Ryan Adams - Two
Sade - No Ordinary Love
She & Him - I Should Have Known Better
Sia - Breathe Me (Four Tet Remix)
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
The Smiths - This Charming Man
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
The Watson Twins - Just Like Heaven
Wilco - I'll Fight


I had to cut the first pick of songs down from over 10 hours of music to 5 hours, it sucked cause there so many songs i wanted to sneak in but there was no point, so i just picked the more well known/more appropriate stuff and leaned towards more of the fun side.

Artists i had to cut:

The Beach Boys
Bernard Fanning
Bob Dylan
Bob Evans
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
The Cat Empire
Empire of the Sun
Gillian Welch
Gipsy Kings
The Handsome Family
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Imelda May
Jeff Buckley
Justin Townes Earle
Kate Miller-Heidke
Led Zeppelin
Merle Haggard
Metric
MGMT
Patsy Cline
Patterson Hood
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Roy Orbison
Tift Merritt
Willie Nelson

First off, the honorable mentions :

Danielle Peck - Can't Behave, which was apparently released late in 08, but I only found out about it this year!
and Taylor Swift - Fearless (the UK version)

And on with the main list:

Jake Owen - Take It Easy
Eric Church - Carolina
Rodney Atkins - It's America
Billy Ray Cyrus - Back to Tennesse
Rascal Flatts - Unstoppable
Luke Bryan - Spring Break With All My Friends - EP
Ashley Monroe - Satisfied
Sarah Reeves - Sweet Sweet Sound (EP)
Michael Giacchino - Star Trek (The soundtrack from the new film)
Tift Merritt - Buckingham Solo
Justin Moore - Justin Moore
Keith Urban - Defying Gravity
Gloriana - Gloriana
Jordin Sparks - Battlefield
Tanya Tucker - My Turn
Lenka - Lenka
Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
Cledus T. Judd - Polyrically Uncorrect
La Roux - La Roux
Victoria Banks - When You Can Fly
Billy Ray Cyrus - Back To Tennessee
Brooke White - High Hopes & Heartbreak
George Strait - Twang
Melody Gardot - My One And Only Thrill
Steve Martin - The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo
Whitney Duncan - Selections from Right Road Now - EP
Mindy Smith - Stupid Love

If you're anywhere North Carolina and you like anything resembling acoustic music, you're probably already there. Merlefest 2009 starts now.

2009 Artist Lineup

Doc Watson
Richard Watson
Susana and Timmy Abell
The Alberti Flea Circus
Darin and Brooke Aldridge Band
Angel Band
Banknotes
Buffalo Barfield
Bearfoot
Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet
The Belleville Oufit
Rory Block
Blue Highway
Roy Book Binder
Laura Boosinger
Bob Bovee and Gail Heil
Broken Wire
David Bromberg
Sam Bush
Cadillac Sky (yeah!)
The Carolina Chocolate Drops
The Circuit Riders
Clack Mountain String Band
T Michael Coleman
The John Cowan Band
Dailey And Vincent
The Dixie Beeliners
Donna the Buffalo
Pat Donohue
Robert Dotson
The Duhks
The Farewell Drifters
Loretta Freeman and Lynsey
Full Throttle Bluegrass Band
Rayna and Dan Gellert
The Gibson Brothers
Josh Goforth
The Grascals
The Gravy Boys
Buddy Greene
The Greencards
Mitch Greenhill
George Hamilton IV
Emmylou Harris
Wayne Henderson
Violet Hensley
Willette Hinton
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
David Holt
Clint Howard
Sierra Hull and Highway 111
The InterACTive Theater of Jef
Phil Jamison
The Kruger Brothers
Jim Lauderdale
Jack Lawrence
Mark Lippard
Jeff Little
The Little Rascals
The Local Boys
The Lovell Sisters
Doug MacLeod
Andy May
Del McCoury Band
Tift Merritt
Mountain Heart
Nashville Bluegrass Band
The Neighbors
New North Carolina Ramblers
Ollabelle
Out On The Ocean
Polecat Creek
Missy Raines and The New Hip
Tony Rice
Linda Ronstadt featuring Los Camperos de Nati Cano
The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
Patrick Sauber
Martha Scanlan
Scythian
Anne and Pete Sibley
George Shuffler
Smokey Valley Band
joe smothers
Spring Creek Bluegrass Band
The Steeldrivers
Rodney Sutton
Patrick Sweany
Tut Taylor
Joe Thompson
Tom, Brad & Alice
Happy Traum
Mac and Jenny Traynham
Travis Tritt and Jerry Douglas
The Waybacks
WCC Child Development Singers
Pete and Joan Wernick
Wilkes Acoustic Folk Society
Tony Williamson
The Zephyr Lightning Bolts

-jc
(holding profanities under the breath at lost.fm tiny New Journal Entry window and disfunctional buttons...)

marybeth-damico put up a very short journal last week.

It doesn't get much better than this. Tift Merritt recently interviewed Patty Griffin on her radio show, Spark. Listen here:
http://www.marfaspark.com/audio/pattygriffininterview.mp3

Don't know how soon Marfa (TX) Public Radio will cycle to a new interview, but go listen to this now. Grab it, give it a quick go, savor it, come back to it later and immerse yourself in this glimpse into an artist's soul.

I immediately fell in love with Patty Griffin from her first acoustic album. On the other hand I've been slow to warm up to the merits of Tift--unlike many one-hit wonders, I'm actually appreciating her talents more as she matures as an artist. Ms. Griffin has branched out into more pop-oriented ventures and well, maybe the older and younger edges of what I consder my generation are converging here.

Thank's for the lead, Marybeth! Good luck at your show tonight.

-jc

It doesn't get much better than this. Tift Merritt recently interviewed Patty Griffin on her radio show, Spark. Listen here:

http://www.marfaspark.com/audio/pattygriffininterview.mp3

Tift Merritt

Patty Griffin

w. www.popdepression.com

Bill Conti "Reflections" (Rocky OST_Capitol)
Gil Scott-Heron "Your Daddy Loves You (For Gia Louise)" (Real Eyes_Arista)
Ventolin "147" (Dreams And A Wake_Ammonite)

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Ventolin live in session
Case Closed
Boogeyman
Day In

Neil Young "#1 Hit Record Rap" (#1 Hit Record Rap [Live]_bonus download)

Dig It
Reminiscence Blues
/Ventolin: Vladimir Marinović, Nemanja Sarić, Uroš Smiljanić, Predrag Potkonjak/
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Songs: Ohia "Just Be Simple" (Magnolia Electric Co_Secretly Canadian)
Christina Rosenvinge "La Distancia Adecuada" (Tu Labio Superior_Warner)
Damien Jurado "Gillian Was A Horse (live)" (Daytrotter Sessions_daytrotter.com)
Jesse Winchester "Snow" (ST_Ampex)
Tift Merritt "I Know What I'm Looking For Now" (Another Country_Fantasy)
PD FAVOURITE Charles Spearin "Anna" (The Happiness Project_Arts & Crafts)
Animal Collective "My Girls" (Merriweather Post Pavilion_Domino)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Can't Hear My Eyes" (Can't Hear My Eyes/Evolution's A Lie 7"_Mexican Summer)
Music Go Music "Light Of Love" (Light Of Love EP_Secretly Canadian)
Sara Lov "My Body Is A Cage" (The Young Eyes EP_Nettwerk)
The Gutter Twins "We Have Met Before" (Adorata_Sub Pop)
The Shins "Strange Powers" (triple j like a version)
St Augustine "Polar Bears" (In A Field Of Question Marks_Kütü Folk)
Catbird "How Log Must I Wait?" (Among Us_Playgroup)
Pionir 10 "Zlatna stolica" (DIY)
Girls "Hallhole Ratrace" (Girls_True Panther Sounds)
Y la Bamba "Alida St." (Alida St_GypsyPop Records)

Just for fun... my top albums as of December 5, 2008.

khami6cr's top albums
1. Melissa Ferrick - in the eyes of strangers (518) 2. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shooting Straight in the Dark (346) 3. Mary Chapin Carpenter - A Place in the World (300) 4. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On (277) 5. The Weepies - Say I Am You (266) 6. Mary Chapin Carpenter - State of the Heart (236) 7. Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Calling (231) 8. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones in the Road (213) 9. Indigo Girls - Retrospective (204) 10. Eliza Gilkyson - Hard Times in Babylon (183) 11. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hometown Girl (183) 12. Girlyman - Little Star (164) 13. Get Set Go - Ordinary World (162) 14. Gary Allan - Tough All Over (153) 15. Lucy Kaplansky - The Red Thread (150) 16. Catie Curtis - My Shirt Looks Good on You (147) 17. Brandi Carlile - Brandi Carlile (141) 18. Keith Whitley - The Essential Keith Whitley (134) 19. Eliza Gilkyson - Paradise Hotel (129) 20. Girlyman - Remember Who I Am (125) 21. Dar Williams - Out There Live (122) 22. Catie Curtis - Acoustic Valentine (115) 23. Lori McKenna - Unglamorous (107) 24. Dar Williams - My Better Self (103) 25. Catie Curtis - Catie Curtis (101) 26. Aaron Tippin - People Like Us (100) 27. Kathleen Edwards - Failer (100) 28. Montgomery Gentry - Some People Change (97) 29. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here and Gone (90) 30. Bowling for Soup - A Hangover You Don't Deserve (88) 31. Ani DiFranco - To the Teeth (87) 32. Tift Merritt - Tambourine (87) 33. Catie Curtis - Truth From Lies (83) 34. John Michael Montgomery - Greatest Hits (82) 35. Avril Lavigne - Let Go (82) 36. Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (80) 37. Montgomery Gentry - You Do Your Thing (79) 38. Josh Turner - Your Man (79) 39. Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (79) 40. Lonestar - Lonely Grill (78) 41. The Weepies - Happiness (78) 42. Catie Curtis - Crash Course in Roses (78) 43. Rodney Atkins - If You're Going Through Hell (76) 44. Alabama - Greatest Hits (76) 45. Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle (76) 46. Melissa Etheridge - Lucky (73) 47. Gordon Lightfoot - The Complete Greatest Hits (73) 48. Melissa Ferrick - Massive Blur (73) 49. Eminem - The Eminem Show (70) 50. Melissa Ferrick - Goodbye Youth (70)



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The best and worst of 2008. Of course IMO. Feel free to comment/flame/rejoice.

---------TOP 20-----------------

Cut Copy- In Ghost Colors
TV on the Radio- Dear Science
The Tallest Man on Earth- Shallow Graves
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Portishead - Third
Nomo - Ghost Rock
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Gang Gang Dance -Saint Dymphna

Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
MGMT- Ocular Spectacular
Animal Collective- Water Curses [EP]
Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
Rachel Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking into Heart
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Islands - Arm's Way
Plants & Animals - Parc Avenue

-----------Excellent----------
Calexico - Carried to Dust
M83- Saturday = Youth
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology
Atlas Sound- Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Hot Chip- Made in the Dark
Dr. Dog - Fate
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Avett Brothers - Second Gleam [EP]

Hercules & Love Affair ~ Hercules & Love Affair
HEALTH - Disco
Goldfrapp - 7th Tree
Horse Feathers ~ House with no Home
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Saw
My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark Teeth
Shearwater - Rook
DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling
helio sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Scary Mansion - Every Joke is the Half Truth

High Places - 03/07-09/07/High Places
Born Ruffians- Red, Yellow, & Blue
Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
Sun Kil Moon - April
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Johnny Flynn - A Larum
Deerhoof - Offend Magpie

-----------Good--------------------
Stars - Sad Robot [EP]
Stereolab- Chemical Chords
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
Santogold- Santogold
The Dodos - Visiter
No Age - Nouns
Final Fantasy - Spectrum, 14th Century [EP]
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Ray LaMontage - Gossip in the Grain

Joan as Police Woman - To Survive
Coldplay - Viva la Vida and Death and All His Friends/Prospekt March [EP]
Brendan Canning -Something for All of Us...
Beck - Modern Guilt
Girl Talk ~ Feed the Animals
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- Pershing
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
Lili Haydn - Place Between Places
The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series
Spiritualized -Songs in A&E

--------------Meh------------------------
Punch Brothers - Punch
Peter Bjorn & John - Seaside Rock
Cloud Cult- Feel Good Ghosts (Tea Partying Through Tornados)
Kings of Leon - Only By Night
Lil Wayne -Tha Carter III
The Killers - Day & Age
Tift Merritt - Another Country
Lykke Li - Youth Novel
Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Guillemots - Red

Final Fantasy -Plays to Pay [EP]
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything that Happens will Happen Today
Portugal.The Man - Censored Colors
Noah & The Whale - Noah & The Whale [EP]
Tilly and the Wall - O
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Joseph Arthur - Vagabond Skies [EP] and Crazy Rain [EP]
Bob Schneider - When the Sun Breaks Down on the Moon
Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst


---------Not Really Worth Your Time----------
Railroad Earth - Amen Corner
Bob Mould - District Lines
Panic! At the Disco - Pretty.Odd
Grand Archives- Grand Archives
Matthew Ryan- Matthew Ryan vs. the Silver State
Love Psychodelico - This is Love Psychodelico
The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues
Ruby Suns- Sea Lion
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Hayden- In Field and Town

Lydia - Illumination
Cat Power - Jukebox
O.A.R. - All Sides
Port O' Brien - The Wind and the Swell
The National - Virginia [EP]
Pete Francis - Under the Iron Sea
Black Keys - Attack and Release
Tapes 'n Tapes- Walk It Off
British Sea Power- Do You Like Rock Music?
moe. - Sticks and Stones (ULTIMATE SUCK)

FYI I did not listen to Mars Volta...I think I will keep it that way.

Top Tracks
1. The Rip ~ Portishead
2. Water Curses ~ Animal Collective
3. The Gardener ~ The Tallest Man on Earth
4. An Eludrian Instance ~ of Montreal
5. The Rabbit, The Bat, and the Reindeer ~ Dr. Dog
6. The Youth ~ MGMT
7. Bye Bye Bye ~ Plants & Animals
8. Blind ~ Hercules & Love Affair
9. Clarion ~ Guillemots
10. Touch Me I'm Gonna Scream Part II ~ My Morning Jacket