More new, great music from CBC radio.
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Her new album "In Technicolor" features songs written as part of her Canada Council for the Arts sponsored songwriting project: reclaiming family stories and found-poetry from women’s WWII journals. I think it's great. Check out this vimeo video from her site to see what I mean.
The album isn't available yet, so I bought "Part of You Pours Out of Me" from CD Baby instead. I've been wondering what the best way to pay artists is, and I've seen lots of online retailers lately. After reading this www.downhillbattle.org/itunes, I decided that iTunes probably isn't all that great for artists. And it seems that many artists can't get on iTunes without a middle-man like CD Baby, so I figured why bother with iTunes and bought straight from them.
www.sixshooterrecords.com
This is a great site that supports independent artists. There slogan is: "life is too short to listen to shitty music". I found them because I heard The Dozens by Amelia Curran (www.ameliacurran.com) on CBC radio, and Six Shooter Records was the only place to buy her album (a physical CD if you can believe it). They sent me the disc in a hand addressed padded envelope along with a hand-written thank you note. I'm impressed.
