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I've been listening to Hightide Blues "Dreamin' Alone" off Love Come Easy for days, and I can't get that tune out of my head.  I struggle to put them into a niche because they just play good Rock-N-Roll. Southern Style. "Dreamin' Alone" is one of those songs that gets better everytime you listen to it.  But don't let the laid back vibe of "Dreamin' Alone" fool you. These guys ROCK.

Love Come Easy is one of those CDs you can listen to for years.

Don't just take my word for how good Hightide Blues are:

"Yesterday afternoon I caught the end of a set from an Atlanta-based
band called Hightide Blues, who play a rollicking, jangly, southern
brand of rock n’ roll. The band came to Bonnaroo after winning first
prize in a radio contest, and they were like kids in a candy shop,
jumping around stage and grinning from ear to ear. This sort of
enthusiasm is refreshing after seeing a bunch of shows from more
established artists, and can be powerful stuff. Best of luck to them." -
Nick Anderman, The Village Voice (New York) 6/15/08

Here's Hightide Blues' "Official" bio

Hightide Blues took the stage for the first time in 2006 and has
been gracing hundreds of stages for thousands of fans ever since.
Their sound is a throw back to southern rock with a modern twist
and an original delivery that's in a category of its own. With their
high-energy performances and huge fan base it's no surprise that
Hightide Blues has shared the stage with national acts such as
Sara Bareilles, Graham Colton, Jason Isbell, Matt Costa,
Donavon Frankenreiter, Sister Hazel, The Whigs, Dead
Confederate, Karl Denson, and many more.
Their delivery of acoustic and electric guitars with a hard-hitting
rhythm section has lead to sold out shows all over the Southeast
and won't be stopping there. Hightide Blues played Bonnaroo
2008 and are expanding their touring with shows throughout the
Midwest and up the East Coast.
In January 2008 Hightide Blues signed with Atlanta-based Bowe
Inc for management. In February 2008 Hightide Blues recorded
their second EP "Love Come Easy" with producer Richard
McLaurin at House of David Studios in Nashville, where music
legends Elvis, Neil Young, B.B. King, Joe Cocker, and Roy
Orbison recorded some of the most influential albums in music
history. The highly anticipated "Love Come Easy" is generating
excitement from fans and major record labels alike. Being labeled
the fastest up and coming band in the Southeast, Hightide Blues
is following in the footsteps of the many music legends who
graced the very same studio, and anything is possible for this
band as they tour the country picking up momentum and fans
along the way.
MySpace www.myspace.com/hightideblues
Website www.hightideblues.com

Popularity: 16% [?]

Buy Sam Thacker Music

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I've been playing Sam Thacker's upcoming CD Lines (Out In September) in my ipod for almost a week, and the best way to describe this Atlanta Georgia singer/songwriter's Sophomore effort is "Solid".

Thacker really shows his songwriting skill on Lines, and its obvious that Sam's true calling is writing good songs.

• "Yes", the first cut sweats emotion, and starts Lines off with a real bang. If you've ever been scorned by a woman (or a man I guess) you'll identify with this tune.
• "Don't Leave Here Tonight" has a chorus that's infectious, and I'd swear I hear a Cure influence in there somewhere.
• "Who I'd Rather Be" is an introspective song, with another amazing chorus that makes you sing along (Da Da Da Da, Da Da Da Daaa)
• "North" should have the Kids snuggling this fall at HomeComing dances everywhere

But if you really want to get a taste of Sam Thacker, and Lines, just listen to "Right Where We Want It" and you'll know why I'm wondering why every pop station in the country isn't playing Sam Thacker. By its "official" release in September, they just may be.

"Right Where We Want It" features Corey Smith, but this song would stand strong without Sam's frequent Touring Buddy. (BTW, Corey Sounds amazing with that power behind him, the appearance reminds me of seeing him back at Classics, AKA The Night Owl when he was in a "Rock Band" in the mid-nineties.)

So if you're looking for a solid Power-Pop CD to purchase this fall, you'll definately want to wait for Lines. Of course, unless you're planning on getting to one of Sam Thacker's Shows this summer (he's got less than 100 copies left) , you'll have to wait until September.

Popularity: 22% [?]

Freshman 15 - "Our California Song"

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Freshman 15 - A Flowery Branch GA band is making its way up the myspace charts fast, and its no wonder - "Our California Song" is radio ready, and all their songs have a real potential for mass appeal. They make no bones about the fact that its pop. If they played pop like Freshman 15 on Star94 more, I might try to listen sometime

From The Freshman 15 myspace Band Page

With intricate harmonies and catchy rhythms, Freshman 15 has been hitting the Southeast with an infectious pop-punk sound that has been known to energize crowds and leave you with a song stuck in your head. Originally formed in 2001, Freshman 15 has gone through a lot of changes and struggles over the years. Through all of the financial and personal difficulties, the group has hurdled over ever obstacle with a new found determination.

Now, the band is looking to hit the road utilizing the talents of David Fortner (Guitar/Vocals), Jeremy Smith (Guitar/Vocals), Breck Blanchard (Drums) and David Lind (Bass/Vocals). Building on their past accomplishments and recent triumphs, Freshman 15 is organizing a spring/summer tour to support their new EP, "Five Ways to Get to Third Base."

Following their dreams, having the dedication and the talent to make it happen; Freshman 15 will be the next name placed on marquees across America.

Bonus Track : The Honor Roll

If You Like Freshman 15 - Try The Honor Roll - "O' Captain My Captain"

The Honor Roll On the Jukebox | The Honor Roll On Myspace

Popularity: 26% [?]

Buy Blackberry Smoke Music
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Listen to "Son Of The Bourbon"

We've been down with Blackberry Smoke since day one. These guys are Southern Rock. and rock they do. They've toured with ZZTop, and it looks like they're spending their summer on the water (They're on Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man Cruise, and Rock Boat 9.

Its the Summer of Georgia Music, and Blackberry Smoke's getting in the act with Honky Tonk Bootlegs. You can here "Son of The Bourbon" on the station, and on this blog anytime you want. But to really experience the Blackberry Smoke experience, you'll need to scoot on over to to the band's website and pick up HTB.

BBSmoke has a distinctive Southern sound that is unfortunately missing on over-the-air radio, but I don't see how they can hold this band down much longer.

Popularity: 22% [?]

Update!! - Due to overwhelming response, the show has been moved to Ridge Ferry Park at 300 W. 3rd St., Rome, GA.

http://www.licksnsticks.com/

If you are looking for a good place to listen to some great southern rock this summer, then you need to get to White Georgia for Licks N Sticks.

The concert will also benefit Save A Pet

Here's some of the line-up for this great show:

• Marshall Tucker Band
• Atlanta Rythm Section
• Georgia Satellites
• Jimmie Van Zant

Also, a Georgia Jukebox Fave, and local band The Thrillhammers will be playing. Its worth the trip to see them, and the Jukebox will be there to party with the crowd!

Popularity: 13% [?]

Dinosaurs Turn Into Birds, the new release from Atlanta based Silent Kids is now available for download or purchase via CD Baby or iTunes. Like its predecessor, 2003’s Tomorrow Waits, the newest offering from Silent Kids, features tape loops and sound effects, and an overall spirit of inventiveness. The band’s sound has been dispatched as “a distinctive blend from what must surely be an impressive record collection.”

Silent Kids Feature Prossional Sound for Dinosaurs Turn Into Birds

Fans of Silent Kids will immediately notice the production values on the new drop. The lo-fi home recordings have been replaced by professional studio equipment that that highlight the originality of Silent Kid’s compositions. The kids don’t just use the studio for gimmicks, they pushed it to the limits.

Silent Kids are Michael Oakley and Jeff Holt, who founded the band in 2001. The band’s line-up has changed many times through the years, though Oakley and Holt have remained consistently at the helm.

Upcoming SIlent Kids Shows

Date	Location	Details
Fri March 28th 2008	The Earl East Atlanta	Record Release Party with Luigi and The Preakness

Popularity: 30% [?]

Buy The Thrillhammers: Long Story Short

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Click The Play Button To Hear The Thrillhammers: Almost Gone

Members of The Thrillhammers, a Canton Georgia Based band grew up within miles of each other in the North Georgia Mountains. They got a steady diet of country music. They grew up in musical families, and music has been a part of them their entire life.

The Thrillhammers: Just Want To Play Some Good Music:

In 1987, they had their first jam. They didn't form Thrillhammer to get famous, they just wanted to play some good music.

Thrillhammers upcoming shows

May 17 2008 9:00P	Downtown Kitchen	Canton, Georgia
May 22 2008 9:00P	Bubbapalooza - The Star Bar	Atlanta, Georgia
May 31 2008 12:00P	Battle of the Bands-Twelve Stone Farm	Talking Rock, Georgia

Popularity: 12% [?]

Buy Age Of Daze -Hollywood Ending

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Hollywood Ending the newest release from Age Of Daze was released in the winter of 2007!

Afflicted is the band’s first single to be released on traditional radio in Canada and on Sirius satellite radio in the US.

Age Of Daze Hollywood Ending Surely On Sirius Radio

Age of Daze have made themselves quite at home on Sirius Octane’s Top 20 Rock Charts, duelling with the likes of 3 Doors Down, Puddle of Mudd, Seether and Chevelle for most played and most requested song with incredible ease – like they were born to be there (and quite frankly, we think they were). Again, not an insignificant accomplishment for an indie band from somewhere.up.there.north.of.the.border. Even band members agree they’re not the type of band you’d expect from “out east.” The Band has managed to garner a loyal fans around the world - from New Zealand to Italy, from Portland to England, and every state in the mighty US.

Age Of Daze - Talent Behind it

But the one thing that really makes your head spin about this album is the talent behind it, and the focus of the band members. With dig deep, passionate vocals, the power of three rockin’ guitars, heavy bass and the craziest @%! drummer relentlessly thrashing his skins (not to mention the sweat flying around on stage) - they’re the real deal. They’re stoked and they’re in it to win it. Says lead vocalist Tim Morrison, “you gotta go big or go home” – full stop.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Buy Honeydew

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The first time I heard Shawn Mullins (Soul’s Core) his music hit home the way only a local songwriter from your part of the world can do. The language was familiar, the stories were the kind of stories I’d grown up hearing, and still seem uniquely North-east Georgia.

Fast forward to 2008, and Mullins newest offering, Honey Dew. You’d expect Shawn Mullins music and song-writing to have matured over the years, and that it has. But there’s still that sense of reality that’s missing in many mainstream artists’ albums these days.

“All In My Head” starts Honey Dew Off with a bang. This is a radio-friendly introspective song is a great way to start out the Atlanta Georgia (originally from Dawsonville) artists newest album.

“The Ballad of Kathryn Johnston” tells the story of inner-city troubles and a police shoot-out with the elderly Johnston, which left Johnston dead and the police to answer many questions.

“Homeless Joe” is a mix of Skynyrd’s “Curtis Low” and Arrested Devlopment’s “Mr. Wendell” and blends blues, folk, and rock into a unique mixture of Americana

“Cabbagetown” is perhaps the best song on Honey Dew, and represents the best of the “Old” Shawn Mullins and the best of what’s yet to come from this proud Georgia artist.

Its obvious that Shawn Mullins move to Atlanta has affected him as an artist in many ways. I’d dare to say Honey Dew could be an unofficial soundtrack to Atlanta that keeps you coming back to discover new parts of the music, like I discover new parts of Atlanta each time I bring myself to drive inside I-285. He tells his stories with the compassion you expect from someone living in rural America. One listen to Hone Dew will showMullins has not lost his soul.

You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy.

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Shawn Mullins On Honeydew

SHAWN MULLINS ON THE SONGS OF HONEYDEW:

“All in My Head”: The song’s theme of self-examination belies the fact that it was written by Mullins and Hansen as a prospective theme song for the sitcom Scrubs. The original 2002 recording was lighter and more uptempo than this powerful new version, in which Mullins delivers an arching falsetto vocal in the chorus. “When we FIRST started the recording, I was having a block, and Gerry said, ‘Shawn, I’m tellin’ you, that shit’s all in your head, just like that song we wrote.’ And I said, ‘Man, we oughta dig that up.’ The next thing I knew, we were all sitting around working it up in a whole different groove.”

“Home”: “The first verse is about my dear friend Melissa Hadley, a musician in Athens and the funniest woman I ever knew, who died at 38 of ovarian cancer. The second verse came to me as I was looking at old pictures of Cabbagetown, a section of Atlanta that was once inhabited by Irish immigrant mill workers. In one photo, there’s a boy sitting in front of a dimestore, looking as emaciated as a POW. I got to thinkin’ that it wasn’t that long ago, right here in my hometown.”

“The Ballad of Kathryn Johnston”: Literally ripped from the headlines, the song is about an aged woman living in a crime-infested Atlanta neighborhood who got a gun to protect herself. When intruders broke down her door one night, the woman started firing, not realizing her assailants were police officers, who, it turned out, had targeted the wrong house in search of drug dealers. “Reading Dylan’s Chronicles inspired me to look for news stories, and this one really grabbed me. So little was said about it because that’s how things are in rough neighborhoods, which is what I meant by the line, ‘everything stays the same.’ But it all changed for me, because I connected with her. Sometimes I don’t feel safe, especially after we got cleaned out last year. But we don’t have a gun in the house. Even though I’ve got a little army in me [after college, Mullins was commissioned in the U.S. Army Reserve], I don’t wanna live that way.”

“Homeless Joe”: “There really is a Homeless Joe here in Atlanta, along with Shorty, Blind Bob, Wolf and other strumming, homeless troubadours. They’re living through their art, even though their lives are tough, without enough to eat or a place to sleep, and they’re viewed as winos on the street. The song is a celebration of those people who are following their bliss, even in the most difficult of circumstances. I’ve always connected with them; I see them as modern-day examples of the wanderer.”

“Leaving All Your Troubles Behind”: “This is the story of a girl who lives in a town in the North Georgia Mountains where there were once textile mills, but now the biggest industry is trailer meth, cooked up by the grandkids of moonshiners. There are a lot of people in small towns in the South that try to escape, and most of them wind up coming back. But not this girl; she’s seen enough to know that’s not where she belongs.”

“Fraction of a Man”: “A modern-day traveling salesman finds himself in Biloxi, and suddenly it hits him — ‘What am I doing with my life?’ That’s a really common thing for a lot of middle-aged American men, who want to follow their bliss and really go for it, but somehow they never do. This one leaves you with a reality check, with the

alcoholism, the loneliness, and the nomadic existence. It’d make a bummer of a movie.”

“See That Train”: “I love trains. My grandfather, father and brother-in-law all worked for the railroad, and I miss all the stories I used to hear. The song is about a hobo whose girl has left him asleep under a water tower and taken the train to Birmingham. I feel so unhip, because all the stuff I’m interested in is old. But there’s something about that America of yesterday that I long for; sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong time.”

“For America”: “I wanted to have something on the record that would express what I wanted to say not as a protest song but more like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger or early Dylan might have written. This song talks about the modern America and that feeling of what’s going on? Where are we headed? Where are our leaders? There’s a longing in the song for something that can’t be felt anymore.”

“Cabbagetown”: “It was a tough neighborhood until the late ’90s; now it’s one of the largest complexes of loft housing anywhere, surrounded by these rows of tiny shotgun houses where the mill workers used to live — now they sell for $400 grand. But this song is set in the late ’80s, when Cabbagetown was overrun by skinheads and junkies. It’s about a guy my age who wakes up one morning, looks around and decides he’s gotta get back to the mountains, where his grandfather came from. My family was full of sharecroppers and cotton mill workers — like my grandmother, who’s 93.”

“Nameless Faces”: “That one has to do with me leaving my family when I first hit the road. I really needed to get out of this little town where my first wife and I were living and play music and be with other people who were creating. I didn’t come home for a long time, and I lost contact with everyone, so it’s about my family trying to call me home.”

“Song of the Self (Chapter 2)”: “I wrote a song called ‘Song of the Self’ in ’95, right after I started going to therapy. I had a great therapist who showed me how to move on from my childhood demons, use them to my advantage and try to forgive. I hadn’t written another song like that since then, until this one. It just came to me early on in the process of writing this record. I sang these words into that little recorder, and it was exactly what I wanted to say. I’m talking to myself, but I’m also hoping that whoever listens can get something out of it. Because with all that’s going on, I feel like a little hope is a good thing.”

“Now That You’re Gone”: “That song is somewhat coming from me talking to my mom, but it’s also about my dad, who’s just had an awful time since she died. He’s remembering those times, especially in the second verse. The first is me imagining them dating, and remembering the stories they would tell about when they were childhood sweethearts in Lakewood Heights.”

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Popularity: 21% [?]

Buy Black Crowes' War Paint
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"Goodbye Daughters Of The Revolution" - From War Paint

War Paint, The Black Crowes first studio album in 7 years is now available on CD via Amazon, and download via iTunes. This Georgia band has been rocking the world for almost 20 years. Well the reviews are out on the latest effort, and it looks like The Black Crows will continue to rock us for some time

Rolling Stone -

"The Black Crowes have fallen out, broken up and been written off as washed-up. Hell, these guys did their Behind the Music almost ten years ago, and Rich Robinson isn't even forty yet. They've now been around as long as some of their own idols were when the Robinsons first started. But with Warpaint, for the first time in a long time, the Black Crowes seem like a band with a future. "

All Music guide -

"They're old-fashioned, but in the best sense: they're in it for the long haul, which the superb Warpaint proves beyond a shadow of a doubt. "

Billboard -

"Warpaint mines the same Allmans-to-Zappa synthesis of influences that's been the Crowes' stock in trade but finds the group fortified by sharp songwriting and lace-tight, live-sounding performances. "

Black Crows War Paint: New Album, Same Sound

Pop music has changed in the last 18 years, but the Black Crows continue to make the kind of music that endears fans, and keeps them coming back album after album, and show after show.

According to Chris, Warpaint is the complete package of the Georgia-born Crowes’ passions and influences. “It’s got all the roots,” But it’s also got a psychedelic feel." “Oh Josephine” is, Chris says, “one of the best things Rich and I have ever written.”

Popularity: 12% [?]