Carrie Rodriguez

Raphael Wressnig & Alex Schultz

The Specials

DJ Logic

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Madeleine Peyroux

Tori Amos

Mr. Downchild

The Egg

Johnny Cash

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They Might Be Giants

Playing For Change

Patrick Sweany

Naomi Shelton

Ben Sollee

Charles Mingus

Wye Oak

Rainy Milo

Laura Veirs

Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Nadine Vega (née Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans 40 years. In the mid-1980s and 1990s she released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK, "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center", "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill". "Tom's Diner", which was originally released as an a cappella recording on Vega's second studio album, Solitude Standing (1987), was remixed in 1990 as a dance track by English electronic duo DNA with her vocals, and it became a Top 10 hit in five countries.

Deanna Bogart

Sista Monica

Potato Moon

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Niney the Observer

Winston Holness, better known as Niney the Observer OD (born George Boswell, 1944 in Montego Bay, Jamaica), is a Jamaican record producer and conscious roots reggae singer who is a key figure in the creation of many classic reggae recordings, discomixes and sound system dubplates dating from the 1970s and early 1980s. Holness gained his nickname "Niney" after losing a thumb in a workshop accident.

James Torme

James Tormé (born August 13, 1973) is a jazz vocalist based in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of American singer Mel Tormé and British actress Janette Scott and grandson of Thora Hird. After winning the Chuck Niles Jazz Music Award in 2007 and having released two independent CDs, he signed with KOCH records (now E1) in 2008. His debut album was released June 2011.

Lexie Blue

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John Brown's Body

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The Midnight Hour

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R.L. Burnside

Hamish Anderson

Anderson is a blues rock guitarist-singer-songwriter. In April 2013 he released a debut single, "Howl", which was taken from his self-titled extended play. The five-track EP was recorded at BJB Studio in Sydney. It was described as "encompasses a mix of blues, rock and folk with moments of loud, electric blues-soaked chords as well as delicate acoustic balladry, Hamish comes armed with a host of noteworthy tunes and a songwriting and vocal maturity well beyond his twenty-one years."The EP was released in November 2013. Anderson was the last artist to open for the late B.B. King.

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Ruth Gerson

She began a career as a self-supporting musician, performing her own booking, hiring musicians and doing her own promotion. Her 1997 album Fools and Kings was produced by veteran producer Don Dixon. She has opened for Dave Matthews, Hootie and the Blowfish, Suzanne Vega and Roger McGuinn, and performed at the Newport Folk Festival in 1994 and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. She also performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. In a reader's poll of Italy's largest music magazine Buscadero, she was named the second-best female vocalist of 1997, coming in behind Patti Smith. In the same year, Ruth Gerson collaborated with the Italian singer Massimo Bubola as the female vocalist in the song "Mio Capitano" by Bubola himself. After teaching at Princeton, in 2009, following her divorce, she moved to San Francisco where she founded San Francisco Vocal Coaching. In 2010 she released her album, This Can't Be My Life, about her emotional experiences while living in New York. She is the inventor of the Singingbelt, which is an accessory designed to train singers how to use the diaphragm to perfect breath support.

Rosalie Sorrels

Rosalie's first major gig was at the Newport Folk Festival in 1966. Rosalie recorded more than 20 albums including the 2005 Grammy nominated album "My Last Go 'Round" (Best Traditional Folk Album.) She authored two books and wrote the introduction to her mother's book. In 1990 Sorrels was the recipient of the World Folk Music Association's Kate Wolf Award. In 1999 she received the National Storytelling Network Circle of Excellence Award for "exceptional commitment and exemplary contributions to the art of storytelling." In 2000 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Idaho. In 2001 she was awarded the Boise Peace Quilt Award.

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Janelle Monae

Laura Nyro

Curtis Harding

Harding was born on June 11, 1979, in Saginaw, Michigan. His father is a mechanic, and his mother, Dorothy, is a gospel singer. He and his five siblings were raised as Mennonites.They moved to Alabama when he was three, then to Arizona, California, Texas, and other parts of the United States. His family had no permanent residence until they settled in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was 14. His mother toured in a van, stopping to sing at churches and work at homeless shelters. Though he originally wanted to play professional sports, Harding grew up around his mother's music, occasionally joining her on stage as a backing singer until age 15. His family would stay – sometimes for months – at communities with churches of any denomination. Harding's sister, an amateur rapper, introduced him to secular music.