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Jim McShee is a singer/songwirter from Stoke on Trent, UK. He started writing music at age of 15. At the start of his musical career, He relsead instrumental guitar tracks as a way of expressing his musical thirst. It wasn't until a couple of years later that he decided to put pen to paper and express his feelings through lyrics. His first single, Bad Blood, was released as a part of the NULC Unplugged compilation album. From there, he has moved around the local gig circuit, performing in top local venues The Old Brown Jug and The Sugarmill, to name a few.

When Paul Chesterton first heard bluegrass music back in 2003, he fell in love with the banjo. He soon had purchased his first banjo and started teaching himself how to play it. At a local bluegrass festival, he learned the clawhammer style at a workshop. After spending the past couple of years focusing more on that style and writing songs, Paul put together a hard driving, old time string band.

A New Yorker who relocated to Nashville several years ago, Rigby makes terrific, all-too-overlooked roots-pop records that nail the likes of class, men and "middlescence" with wit, grace and self-deprecating charm. At her quotidian best, though, she sings the song of herself, conveying the blues, as lived by urbanites and suburbanites, like a citified niece of Loretta Lynn. Country radio, are you listening? --Bill Friskics-Warren