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Blind Willies is a San Francisco rock band led by singer/songwriter Alexei Wajchman. After releasing two acclaimed Blind Willies albums, The Unkindness of Ravens(2007) and Everybody’s Looking for a Meal(2008), and performing extensively as an acoustic duo, Alexei has put together a new band of experienced, young musicians accomplished across diverse genres including rock, jazz, classical, world, and hip-hop. The new album, Needle, Feather, and a Rope, recorded all analog at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco, was released in April 2011.

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Tall Firs were formed in 1990 when teenagers Dave Mies and Aaron Mullan taught one another to play guitar over the telephone in Annapolis, Maryland. Eleven years later they played their first gig, having crawled to Brooklyn, NY in the interim. Halfway through the second decade of searching for a drummer, Ryan Sawyer finally assumed the throne. A near-telepathic nonchalance pervades the music of the Tall Firs.

Micah P. Hinson is a singer/songwriter from Abilene, Texas with a warm, husky voice. His music has an americana/alternative country slant, with hints of gospel and blues. Micah P. Hinson & the Gospel of Progress, his first real album, was produced in 2004 by The Earlies, Micah's friends, collaborators and sometimes tour buddies (where they play as his backing band). In 2005, his earlier 4-track recordings were produced and released properly as an album under the title The Baby & the Satellite.

Peter Knight (b 1947) is a folk musician, member of the electric folk group Steeleye Span. Peter Knight was born in London on 27 May 1947. As a child he learned the violin and mandolin before going to the Royal Academy of Music from 1960 to 1964. The recordings of the Irish fiddler Michael Coleman inspired him to take part in Irish pub sessions. He teamed up with guitarist and singer Bob Johnson until 1970 when he joined Steeleye Span. The parting was short-lived, as Bob Johnson himself also joined Steeleye Span in 1972.