Episode 108

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Explosive rock from The Raconteurs
Seattle's melancholy Band of Horses
An artful love song from Ian Love
New folk from the 18th Day of May
The neo-psychedelic sounds of Elf Power
Led Zeppelin-inspired rock: Rocco Deluca
A Bob Dylan cover from Nickel Creek

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Singer Brendan Benson and members of the Cincinnati band the Greenhornes started The Raconteurs with White Stripes guitarist Jack White. The musicians insist The Raconteurs isn't a side project for White or Benson, but a fully-formed and independent band. They're about to release a debut CD filled with tunes inspired by mid-'60s classic rock.

The Raconteurs

CD: Broken Boy Soldiers
Song: "Hands"
Label: V2

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Band of Horses is a Seattle rock band featuring Ben Bridwell, Mat Brooke, Chris Early and Tim Mienig. Their sound is acoustic, warm and aching in the spirit of Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Band of Horses

CD: Everything All the Time
Song: "The First Song"
Label: Sub Pop

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Ian Love is a New York-based singer-songwriter who played guitar for a number of hard rock bands before turning to quieter, more introspective solo work. On his debut release he played most of the instruments, recording and mixing his songs at home.

Ian Love

CD: Ian Love
Song: "The Only Night"
Label: Limekiln

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The Eighteenth Day of May makes music in the spirit of late '60s folk. They're a London-based group with members from America, Britain and Sweden. All profess a love for the early pioneers of the folk revival like Shirley Collins and Fairport Convention.

The Eighteenth Day of May

CD: The Eighteenth Day of May
Song: "Eighteen Days"
Label: Hannibal

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Elf Power is an Athens, GA rock group making inspired, artful and always original music. Their songs are often intense and driving, but equally gentle and introspective, with quirky instrumentation and lead singer Andrew Reiger's disarming, lonesome voice.

Elf Power

CD: Back to the Web
Song: "An Old Familiar Scene"
Label: Rykodisc

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Rocco Deluca and the Burden make rollicking, acoustic rock. The band appears on a new independent label owned by actor Kiefer Sutherland and Jude Cole. I Trust You To Kill Me is the first for both the label and the Long Beach, California-based band.

Rocco Deluca and the Burden

CD: I Trust You To Kill Me
Song: "Dope"
Label: Ironworks

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Nickel Creek is a folk group started by a group of you kids in 1989. Guitarist Sean Watkins was 12, his sister Sara was eight. Seventeen years later the group has grown up and is still making great music together. Their third and latest CD includes an inspired cover of Bob Dylan's "Tomorrow is a Long Time."

Nickel Creek

CD: Why Should the Fire Die
Song: "Tomorrow is a Long Time"
Label: Sugar Hill

Listen to "Tomorrow is a Long Time"

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