Instruments: banjo, banjo player, acoustic bass, electric bass, string bass, upright bass, bass player, bassist, dobro player, drummer, drums, fiddle, fiddle player, fiddler, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, guitar player, guitarist, harmonica, harp, keyboardist, keyboards, mandolin, mandolinist, multi-instrumentalist, organ, organist, percussion, percussionist, pianist, piano, piano player, saxophone, saxophonist, singer, songwriter, pedal steel guitar, pedal steel guitarist, synthesizer, violin, violinist, vocals, vocalist.
States: Connecticut, Conn, CT, Maine, ME, Massachusetts, Mass, MA, New Hampshire, N.H., NH, Rhode Island, R.I., RI, Vermont, VT.
Styles, genres: alt folk, alternative folk, alt country, alternative country, alt rock, alternative rock, bluegrass, country and western, country music, country rock, country-rock, country western, folk singer songwriter, folk singer-songwriter, fusion, jazz, rhythm and blues, rhythm n blues, rock and roll, rock n roll, roots music, roots rock, roots-rock, string band, stringband, swing band.
BETHANY YEAKLE: Small Black Feather (CD, Bethanie BY601, 2002). Index: Phil Bloch, Brattleboro Reformer, "Before I Settle Here and Die", "Can't Talk", "Everybody's Lucky", "It Was Raining", Duke Johnson, "Maybe I'll Be Gone", Small Black Feather lyrics, Vermont, "Water Run Deep and Wide".
YEAR 2003: Blowfish, Boston Groupie News, Ethan Covey of Seven Days (Burlington Vermont), Tom Huntington of the Burlington Free Press (Burlington Vermont), Luanne, Miss Lyn, Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke (CD, Edge Music B0000907-02, 2003), Top 10 Albums of 2003, Top Ten Albums of 2003. Album of the Year: Madison Smartt Bell and Wyn Cooper, "Forty Words for Fear" (CD, Gaff 6036, 2003). Book of the Year: Scott Alarik, "Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground" (Cambridge: Black Wolf, 2003, paperback).
2003 PIONEER VALLEY TOP TEN ALBUMS: Susan Angeletti, "Bittersweet", Got Sole Records; Philip Price, "Honey in the Chemicals (A Screenplay)", Listen Here Records; the Ray Mason Band, "Idiot Wisdom", Captivating Music; Erin McKeown, "Grand", Nettwerk; the Stone Coyotes, "Rise From The Ashes", Red Cat Records; the Fountains of Wayne, "Welcome Interstate Managers", Virgin; Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem, "Gambling Eden", Signature Sounds; Superkart, "4 x 4", http://www.superkartrocks.com; Brooks Williams, "Nectar", Signature Sounds; Various Artists, "Homegrown II", Greenfield Community Television. Index: Sue Burkhart, Chris Collingwood of Northampton Massachusetts, the Maggies, Barbara Keith.
YOUR NEW FAVORITE CD: Various Artists, "Your New Favorite CD: Summer 2003" (CD, Primary Voltage Records VOLT005, 2003). Index: Caged Heat, "Bus Stop", the Charms, "Tragic", Favorite Atomic Hero, "Wake Up", Good North, "Postcards", Brett Rosenberg Problem, "Thinking of You", Ellie Vee.
CD Baby, Paste magazine, Signature Sounds Recordings.
NEMS, New England Music Scrapbook newsletter.
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