You’re just as likely to spot Randy Rogers in the crowd as you are to see him on stage. He’s an all around fan of music having learned very early what it can do for the soul. His natural ability for "song" brought him solid respect for the art of music producing a passionate believer in honest, straightforward storytelling. Lyrics aside, don’t let your self be fooled into notions of sleepy folk persuasion because the Randy Rogers Band "ain’t no acoustic show." RollerCoaster, the band’s third independent release on Smith Music reveals a Texas-grown band that’s flipped the lid off the independent music vat spewing forth a rich sonic brew. Rogers penned nine of the eleven southern gritty tracks, three of which were co-written with the record’s producer, Radney Foster. Right out of the gate the record was deemed worthy of national kudos when USA Today rated it with three stars saying, "This Texas band’s guitars rock with an authority their Nashville counterparts rarely manage, but the songs on this Radney Foster-produced disc are pure country." Very much the successors of the autonomous music legion, the Randy Rogers Band comes up closely in line with grass-roots icons like Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker, and the like. Circa 2005, RRB’s reputation arrives weeks before the actual live concert date harvesting fans by the thousands. The band’s tour schedule has been intensive since the new release taking them across the country and into major radio airplay. The first single "Tonight’s Not The Night" has settled well into mass rotation on country radio placing them on the big daddy of charts, Billboard that is, as well as R&R, Americana and Texas Music charts. The Gruene with Envy Awards have become something of a big daddy event for the Texas music folk. The awards ceremony draws all the top musicians in the area where they are honored to receive awards that are based solely on fan votes. In January RRB swept up the majority of the honors including "Band of the Year," Album of the Year," Song of the Year" and "Songwriter of the Year." It was lucky for Rogers that his initial plans for post adolescence led him in pursuit of a public relations degree at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. It was there that he met and ultimately banded with the RRB counterparts. Musically all band members add their own personal music tastes. Guitarist Geoffrey Hill grew up on a rock diet pretty much exempt of any country music nourishment. Bassist Jon Richardson digested huge helpings of Waylon and Willie. Fiddle player Brady Black came from the bluegrass lineage, and drummer Les Lawless’s influences are still to be determined. Randy Rogers identifies himself just fine on his own. "As for me, my songwriting is as country as country gets. Add in the different flavors of the others and it comes out country rock with a fiddle." Their track record adds up to an admirable amount of units sold starting with the release of Live at Cheatham Street Warehouse in 2000 followed by Like It Used To Be in 2002. Nearly three years since its release, Like It Used to Be still remains on the top seller list on LoneStarMusic.com. Now on board with the William Morris Agency for national booking, the Randy Rogers Band will undoubtedly ride their RollerCoaster to the top.

You’re just as likely to spot Randy Rogers in the crowd as you are to see him on stage. He’s an all around fan of music having learned very early what it can do for the soul. His natural ability for "song" brought him solid respect for the art of music producing a passionate believer in honest, straightforward storytelling. Lyrics aside, don’t let your self be fooled into notions of sleepy folk persuasion because the Randy Rogers Band "ain’t no acoustic show." RollerCoaster, the band’s third independent release on Smith Music reveals a Texas-grown band that’s flipped the lid off the independent music vat spewing forth a rich sonic brew. Rogers penned nine of the eleven southern gritty tracks, three of which were co-written with the record’s producer, Radney Foster. Right out of the gate the record was deemed worthy of national kudos when USA Today rated it with three stars saying, "This Texas band’s guitars rock with an authority their Nashville counterparts rarely manage, but the songs on this Radney Foster-produced disc are pure country." Very much the successors of the autonomous music legion, the Randy Rogers Band comes up closely in line with grass-roots icons like Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker, and the like. Circa 2005, RRB’s reputation arrives weeks before the actual live concert date harvesting fans by the thousands. The band’s tour schedule has been intensive since the new release taking them across the country and into major radio airplay. The first single "Tonight’s Not The Night" has settled well into mass rotation on country radio placing them on the big daddy of charts, Billboard that is, as well as R&R, Americana and Texas Music charts. The Gruene with Envy Awards have become something of a big daddy event for the Texas music folk. The awards ceremony draws all the top musicians in the area where they are honored to receive awards that are based solely on fan votes. In January RRB swept up the majority of the honors including "Band of the Year," Album of the Year," Song of the Year" and "Songwriter of the Year." It was lucky for Rogers that his initial plans for post adolescence led him in pursuit of a public relations degree at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. It was there that he met and ultimately banded with the RRB counterparts. Musically all band members add their own personal music tastes. Guitarist Geoffrey Hill grew up on a rock diet pretty much exempt of any country music nourishment. Bassist Jon Richardson digested huge helpings of Waylon and Willie. Fiddle player Brady Black came from the bluegrass lineage, and drummer Les Lawless’s influences are still to be determined. Randy Rogers identifies himself just fine on his own. "As for me, my songwriting is as country as country gets. Add in the different flavors of the others and it comes out country rock with a fiddle." Their track record adds up to an admirable amount of units sold starting with the release of Live at Cheatham Street Warehouse in 2000 followed by Like It Used To Be in 2002. Nearly three years since its release, Like It Used to Be still remains on the top seller list on LoneStarMusic.com. Now on board with the William Morris Agency for national booking, the Randy Rogers Band will undoubtedly ride their RollerCoaster to the top.

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Recorded Live at Club Passim// Danny Donnelly guitars, dobro,vocals-David Miner Bass, vocals-Christopher Williams guitar, djembe, vocals, harmonica. Tracks: Introduction//Each other's blessing//Never wrong//These days//Tread light//Hope for morning//Empty my hands//Ever after//Breathe//Take mehigher//Every time I say goodbye//End of the tunnel//Fly freedom fly//

"The Beatles: Live at 12 Cold Creek Street" is an engaging fictional account of the Fab Four set amidst the hysteria of 1960s Beatlemania. Laurie Donaldson, one of their most devoted fans, receives the shock of her life when the band arrives at her doorstep for an unexpected weekend visit. Besides dealing with a annoying younger sibling, a jealous boyfriend, two Beatle-infatuated best friends, and parents who don't understand the magnitude of the situation, Laurie gets a comical once-in-a-lifetime glimpse into the lives of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. This version of the novel is significantly revised from its previous incarnation on the World Wide Web, including a number of new scenes that add to the merriment of the original story that hundreds of online Beatle fans, whether young or old, have enjoyed reading.

From Christy: "We were giggin’ again and I felt the performances were worth capturing. The response to this collection would indicate that many of you agree with me."

In The Street Where They Lived Richard O Mara, a former reporter, columnist, foreign correspondent and editor for the Baltimore Sun, evokes the years of the Great Depression, an epoch that recedes further and further from living memory, as the people who lived through that era shuffle off, one by one, into the mists of the past. Reading these engrossing essays, the reader is gripped by two emotions: admiration at the author s story-telling skill, and wonder wonderment that a young man with such a background, raised in a home still steeped in the traditions of the Irish immigrants who poured into this country from their ruined homeland, struggling against the crushing poverty endured by so many during the years of the Great Depression, could develop into such a skilled and remarkable writer. --Betsy Olavarueth, editor, The Puerto Escondido Times This selection of pieces about his early life constitutes a lively and engaging autobiography that moves apace, carrying the reader along with the writer as his adventures and misadventures unfold. The Street Where They Lived is a narrative for the general reader, but it will hold a special enchantment for those who experienced a childhood marred by stark poverty during those tragic years of the Great Depression. --George Core, editor, The Sewanee Review

ATOMIC ROOSTER were so popular during 1980-81 at the Marquee Club, Wardour Street, London that they made an appearance virtually every month. The gig featured on this CD is drawn from the personal archives of the only living member of this great band, JOHN DU CANN and sees the welcome return of drummer PAUL HAMMOND, viewed by most AR fans as the best the band ever had. He had rejoined the band at very short notice, having to fill the vacancy left by ex Cream drummer GINGER BAKER, who had been dropped for "incompatability reasons". Paul took to the kit like he had never been away and once again the classic line up is restored and picking up just where they had left off back in 1971. Whether possessed by demons, or just plain hard working, ATOMIC ROOSTER was THE live act to see and they gave the fans everything they could. Du Cann has said that immediately after leaving stage they would feel like they were about to collapse and to do an encore would practically kill them. Play it loud.

ATOMIC ROOSTER were so popular during 1980-81 at the Marquee Club, Wardour Street, London that they made an appearance virtually every month. The gig featured on this CD is drawn from the personal archives of the only living member of this great band, JOHN DU CANN and sees the welcome return of drummer PAUL HAMMOND, viewed by most AR fans as the best the band ever had. He had rejoined the band at very short notice, having to fill the vacancy left by ex Cream drummer GINGER BAKER, who had been dropped for "incompatability reasons". Paul took to the kit like he had never been away and once again the classic line up is restored and picking up just where they had left off back in 1971. Whether possessed by demons, or just plain hard working, ATOMIC ROOSTER was THE live act to see and they gave the fans everything they could. Du Cann has said that immediately after leaving stage they would feel like they were about to collapse and to do an encore would practically kill them. Play it loud.

Desperate homeless kids or the blood drinking undead? At the End of Church Street takes you to the forgotten that huddle in the shadows of a tourist wonderland. The Vampires of Orlando. Discarded and starving, Rebecca joins her new family and is reborn. As a Goth, she soon revels in the lifestyle of 'no rules'. Love whoever you want. Seek whatever high you wish. Live forever young. Every night is an adventure-hunting down tourists, challenging the local police, screaming to the world vampires really exist. They finally get the television coverage they crave to ensure the respect they've been denied. It's Neverland. ...Until the first murder. There's someone else hiding in the darkness. Goth kids are found beheaded with wooden stakes pounded through their chests. The hunters have become the hunted. As the bodies pile up, Rebecca and the Family are forced to ask 'Who do you turn to, who can you trust, when the only person who believes you're an actual vampire is a vampire killer?' This is not your father's Nosferatu. This is not teen romance disguised as horror with prom date vampires. Welcome to a world you already know. Welcome to the world at the end of Church Street.

"On Water Street, every person has at least two stories to tell. One story that the light of day shines on and the other that lives only in the pitch black of night, the kind of story that a person carries beneath their breastbones for safekeeping." Water Street examines the secret lives of neighbors and friends who live on Water Street in a small town in Kentucky. Assured and intimate, Wilkinson weaves us in and out of the lives of Water Street's inhabitants, dealing with love, loss, truth and tragedy, as the narration switches from person to person and their remarkable, varied and authentic voices are revealed under Wilkinson's sure hand. This is a superb, cohesive work which marks Ms. Wilkinson's evolution as a gifted observer and writer.

Recorded during a live concert on August 20, 2005, at the 2nd Street Theater in Bend, Oregon, this newest CD is the result of fans asking for not only more music by Richard Gilewitz, but for a recording of his stories and live performances. A look at the song titles will bring to mind familiar tunes that are often included in Richard’s concert performances. However, interspersed among the songs is what makes this 46-minute, 13 track CD live and kicking– those amusing and quirky stories that are always true! The neck snap, throat capo tale relives the adventures of Florida’s heavy metal air guitar champion, while “Walbert, Wigs, and Nope” leaves little room for doubt that Richard is not like the other kids on the block! And true to form, this latest project will not disappoint even those who have attended a number of Richard’s concerts, as once again there is always a surprise around each turn. This time joining Richard is Radim Zenkl, master mandolin player and fellow Breedlove Guitars clinician. Their combined efforts on “Minuet for the Backroads, “The Last Steam Engine Train”, “The Maison Blanche Exit Song”, and “Study in Bm” delighted the crowd that magical evening in Oregon, and will give the listener countless reasons to put this CD in rotation! Here’s what folks are saying about Richard’s performances: “Richard Gilewitz is possibly one of the strangest men in acoustic music today. Much of the charm of a Gilewitz performance is in the stores he tells.” Spectrum “Similar to like-minded souls Jorma Kaukonen, John Fahey and Sandy Bull, Gilewitz’s acoustic magic works best in a live setting.” NASHVILLE/ “Richard Gilewitz has found a superb balance of playing skilled techniques in a wide range of styles in a rousing own signature.” Bridge Guitar Reviews

From Christy: "We were giggin’ again and I felt the performances were worth capturing. The response to this collection would indicate that many of you agree with me."

Recorded during a live concert on August 20, 2005, at the 2nd Street Theater in Bend, Oregon, this newest CD is the result of fans asking for not only more music by Richard Gilewitz, but for a recording of his stories and live performances. A look at the song titles will bring to mind familiar tunes that are often included in Richard’s concert performances. However, interspersed among the songs is what makes this 46-minute, 13 track CD live and kicking– those amusing and quirky stories that are always true! The neck snap, throat capo tale relives the adventures of Florida’s heavy metal air guitar champion, while “Walbert, Wigs, and Nope” leaves little room for doubt that Richard is not like the other kids on the block! And true to form, this latest project will not disappoint even those who have attended a number of Richard’s concerts, as once again there is always a surprise around each turn. This time joining Richard is Radim Zenkl, master mandolin player and fellow Breedlove Guitars clinician. Their combined efforts on “Minuet for the Backroads, “The Last Steam Engine Train”, “The Maison Blanche Exit Song”, and “Study in Bm” delighted the crowd that magical evening in Oregon, and will give the listener countless reasons to put this CD in rotation! Here’s what folks are saying about Richard’s performances: “Richard Gilewitz is possibly one of the strangest men in acoustic music today. Much of the charm of a Gilewitz performance is in the stores he tells.” Spectrum “Similar to like-minded souls Jorma Kaukonen, John Fahey and Sandy Bull, Gilewitz’s acoustic magic works best in a live setting.” NASHVILLE/ “Richard Gilewitz has found a superb balance of playing skilled techniques in a wide range of styles in a rousing own signature.” Bridge Guitar Reviews

Winner of the 2002 Tap Water Award at Edinburgh, native New Yorker Des Bishop has become one of Ireland's most outspoken and exciting comedians. Des is well known to viewers in Ireland for his hugely successful series, the Des Bisho Work Experience (RTE) - a savagely funny programme about working on the minimum wage in Ireland - as well as his appearance in X-It File and Don't Feed the Gondolas (RTE). His rap and comedy genius were first seen on the stage in Rap Eire, which he co-wrote with Arthur Riordan and was most recently featured in Jim Sheridan's hit movie In America. Unquestionably one of the most gifted comedians to emerge in recent years, Des Bishop delivers an hour of blistering stand-up which shows why he is one of Ireland's most popular comedians to emerge in recent years.

Author Jennifer L. Jackson lived in the Bay Area as a young girl. At age five and twelve she was sexually molested. Not having been informed enough about appropriate touching, Jennifer kept the horrific experiences of sex abuse to herself. She realized later how it affected her mentally. Because of the affect the abuse had on her, her feelings of neglect at home, her being young, naive only twelve years old Jennifer fell for the false love and attention she received from an older guy that frequently visited her at a school in Oakland, Ca. called, "The Street Academy." Jennifer recalls their meeting and all the nice things he use to say about her. Blowing her head up and making her feel really special. They became what she thought was boyfriend and girl friend. He gained her trust then used very brutal methods, like beating her with a wire clothes hanger to make her submit to him in order to get her to Prostitute for him. She was fortunate enough to escape from the influence of that vicious Pimp. But, the damage was done. Not knowing where else to turn to Jennifer ran to the streets for comfort and found just the opposite. She was introduced to heroin and crystal meth between the ages of twelve and fourteen years old. She eventually turned to prostitution as a means of survival and to support her drug habit. A drug habit that lasted for thirty years, she went from using heroin to crack cocaine when she relocated to Los Angeles, Ca. Where she would stay sober for six months to a year, work jobs like, Community Organizer, Staffing Coordinator, Job Developer, but having been on drugs for so long she could not face the pain of her past life of so much abuse and would relapse back into her addiction. Her addiction and involvement in prostitution became worse after her children were taken, leading her to walk the streets of Los Angeles six days to two weeks straight with no desire to sleep but to get money for drugs to numb the pain of her reality. In the book "The Streets, My Cradle" Author Jennifer L. Jackson not only shares information about the thirty year nightmare she was in, but when and how she eventually woke up, took responsibility for her life, got into therapy, went to a sober living home and finally, finally got out of the "Street Life" and off drugs for good! WHAT DO YOU ACCEPT? (From the book, THE STREETS, MY CRADLE) One day I was walking down the street. I smelt something & wondered could that be me? I took a shower, I knew I had. Could that still be me smelling so bad? Then God said it wasn't my underarms or my feet. But all the garbage that had been dumped in me. Because God cleaned me up, I now smell "Oh so Good!" And I don't accept what I normally would. Author Jennifer L. Jackson went on to graduate from Los Angeles Southwest College as a Chemical Dependency Specialist in Criminal Justice. Became a Certified Advocate, Anger Management Facilitator, Author and more. She's been interviewed in a number of newspapers, The Los Angeles Sentinel, La Opinion, several on-line podcast, The Dr. Thema Show, www.adviceradio.com, Judith Norman show, www.virtueradionetwork.com and KPFK 97.8 radio station. She continues to advocate and educate the Youth and Parents about her experiences growing up on the streets, experiences that could and do affect people from diverse communities world wide. She also shares what she learned from her experiences. THE STREETS, MY CRADLE is an amazing story of survival and the Author is an amazing person. This is a story with real lived experiences that should not be ignored. It is a must read! All rights to this 102 page memoir belong to the Author Jennifer L. Jackson. Copy right 2009. It is paper back with a gloss, size 5" by 8". The cover is orange and black. The inside is on white paper with black print. There are no illustrations inside the book. There's a review on the back text and the Author's picture.

This two-disc release captures a rare live engagement at New York's Jazz Standard by the great pianist, Roger Kellaway, and features two of the hottest young players in jazz today, guitarist Russell Malone and vibraphonist Stefon Harris. Writing about the performances, Terry Teachout, culture critic for The Wall Street Journal, stated at the time: " Everybody in the band was smoking. Kellaway, though, was...well, I really don't have words to describe the proliferating creativity and rhythmic force of his piano playing. Sarah did pretty well, though: 'Did you see my jaw drop?' she asked me when it was all over. Russell Malone, with whom I chatted between sets, put it even more tersely. 'That man is scary,' he said, shaking his head."

This two-disc release captures a rare live engagement at New York's Jazz Standard by the great pianist, Roger Kellaway, and features two of the hottest young players in jazz today, guitarist Russell Malone and vibraphonist Stefon Harris. Writing about the performances, Terry Teachout, culture critic for The Wall Street Journal, stated at the time: " Everybody in the band was smoking. Kellaway, though, was...well, I really don't have words to describe the proliferating creativity and rhythmic force of his piano playing. Sarah did pretty well, though: 'Did you see my jaw drop?' she asked me when it was all over. Russell Malone, with whom I chatted between sets, put it even more tersely. 'That man is scary,' he said, shaking his head."

From street fights and seances to drunken parties and drug runs into Mexico ... J. Bronson Haley lived life so fast that he'd sometimes wake up in a jail cell without having a clue as to how he got there. As one of the most feared street fighters in Shreveport, Louisiana, Bronson had a reputation that preceded him-and usually made people get out of his way. But in spite of the breakneck life that he lived-and the tough childhood he'd endured-Bronson discovered Someone strong and loving enough to pull him out of the deep hole he'd dug for himself: Jesus Christ. Now, in The Depth of Grace, Bronson shares the highlights-and lowlights-of his life ... and he pulls no punches. All the raw, gritty details are here, showing how Bronson failed miserably time and again. Even more, though, Bronson shares the story of how, through Jesus Christ, he overcame his sin and struggles by the grace of God and the power of His Word. And as a bonus, Bronson offers you "Rest Stops" along the way-bits of what Bronson has learned from God's Word and how he found out that the heroes of the Bible were just as human, sinful, and in need of God's grace as we are today. So fasten your seatbelts for a wild ride that stretches from Louisiana and Colorado to Florida and Mexico-and all the way into the arms of Jesus Christ! Through this amazing story, you'll see that God's grace is always deep enough to reach us in our darkest hour if we hold on to Him and His Word!

How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some stories survive to become history.Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can’t locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau.A few blocks uptown, historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging from the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally, and perhaps even personally.As these men try to survive in early-twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. Two very different paths—Lamont’s and Adam’s—lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Chicago to Auschwitz.Epic in scope, this is a remarkable feat of storytelling.

In The Dark:Live at Vicar Street is his two sold-out nights in Dublin in spring 2006. Josh Ritter is a songwriter from Moscow, Idaho. This is Josh's first full-length live album. The album features 14 songs from the shows, from the crowd sing-alongs 'Kathleen' and 'Me and Jiggs' to the snowflake-intimacy of 'One More Mouth' and (the rather epic) 'Thin Blue Flame'. Independent Records. 2008.

In The Dark:Live at Vicar Street is his two sold-out nights in Dublin in spring 2006. Josh Ritter is a songwriter from Moscow, Idaho. This is Josh's first full-length live album. The album features 14 songs from the shows, from the crowd sing-alongs 'Kathleen' and 'Me and Jiggs' to the snowflake-intimacy of 'One More Mouth' and (the rather epic) 'Thin Blue Flame'. Independent Records. 2008.