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sxsw 2008

Eli 'Paperboy' Reed

Eli "Paperboy" Reed has released two independently-released albums (Sings Walkin' and Talkin' and Other Smash Hits! and Roll With You), Come And Get It is Reed's third album and his major-label debut. Reed was nominated for Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2009 MOJO Awards.

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Zambri

Zambri is the ethereal duo of Cristi Jo and Jessica, sisters whom have been making music together since they shared a bedroom as kids. Spending endless hours creating stories and building universes with their voices and toys, their debut album, House Of Baasa, out now, is a powerful expression that embodies the spirit of adventure in all its glory. Strings are stretched to reveal alien textures, found sounds and field recordings weave in and out, all the while traveling through a colorful landscape that pulls the listener deep into the otherworld of Zambri...

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Luke Doucet And The White Falcon

Luke Doucet and the White Falcon is a band that takes on a very challenging sound. Some songs feel like you are listening to a "Neil Young" jam. Other songs feel like a "Wilco" or the "Band" sing-a long. A Canadian guitarist whom really takes on the southern rock feeling as many people have tryed. He adds a flavor to it that many people of Northern United States and Canada can feel.

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Oh Susanna

Suzie Ungerleider, who writes and performs as Oh Susanna, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, staring at the ocean, mountains and railroad tracks through sheets of rain. She sought refuge with song under burnt-out warehouses and in darkened clubs with the promise of guitar twang and a lonesome cry. Suzie cites a wide range of jazz, blues, pop, rock and folk influences as inspirations for her musical career. Discography
Oh Susanna EP (1997)

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Russell Taylor

Russell Taylor draws on his Southern family roots, his Philly up bringing, and his academic prowess to create a collection of songs that speak directly to the heart while echoing sentiments of old Hollywood glamour intertwined with progressive yet classic soul. These songs reverberate with the pains of unrequited love as in Let Me Love You and the elation of that first touch in Hands 2 Myself. Russell compels you to listen...

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Iota

There is more than one artist with this name:
1) iOTA is an Australian musician making his name not only in music, but on stage. He arrived on the music scene in 1999 with his debut album "The Hip Bone Connection". Since then he has had two ARIA Award nominations and gone on to release three more albums and a renowned EP "Little Carlos". In 2006 iOTA took to the stage as Hedwig Robinson, the lead of the cult musical Hedwig & the Angry Inch.

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Andre Williams

Andre Williams (born Zephire Andre Williams in Bessemer, Alabama, on November 1, 1936) is an American R&B and punk blues musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit. Some sources believe that Williams is the long-lost brother of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, a blues musician whose song "I Put A Spell On You" landed on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll charts.

Read more about Andre Williams on Last.fm.

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