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Plastic Horse is a Danish band that plays beat music with a focus on groovy arrangements and quality song writing. Echo and reverb together with vintage synthesizers are deployed to give the band their sound; a sound that is retrospective and futuristic, reminiscent of a time that has been while forward-looking, progressive and dynamic. The band is a trio consisting of J.S. Knudsen, Anders Pedersen and Peter Dombernowsky.

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The day before his senior year as a playwright student at the University of North Carolina, Joe Pug sat down for a cup of coffee and had the clearest thought of his life: I am profoundly unhappy here. Then came the second clearest. Pug packed up his belongings and drove the longest route possible to Chicago. Working as a carpenter by day, the 23 year-old Pug spent nights playing the guitar he hadn't picked up since his teenage years.

Old Man Luedecke (Chris Luedecke) is a singer and banjo player living near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Old Man Luedecke left the big old city of Toronto, met a girl in the Yukon, fell in love, bought a banjo and fell in love again. After a couple of years of love and banjo and the makings of a brilliant performing career in sunny Halifax, he returned to the Yukon with his sweethearts. There he woodshedded. He wrote a ton of songs over the next year and a half.

Tim Easton (born 1966 in Akron, Ohio) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. Easton formed the band Kosher Spears while at college. In the 1996 Easton joined The Haynes Boys. When they split up, Easton embarked on a solo career, with his debut album, Special 20, released in 1998. He subsequently relocated to California, signed a deal with EMI Publishing, and a record deal with New West Records.

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