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Evangeline

Evangeline is a folk rock band out of Houston, TX
They released their first album "We're Alright Down Here" on Rainwater Records to national radio and distribution on Sept 18, 2007 They can be found at:
[url=http://www.evangelinegroup.com http://www.myspace.com/evangelinegroup]http://www.evangelinegroup.com http://www.myspace.com/evangelinegroup Current Members include:
Jonathan Barrick
Jeffery Armstreet
Joe Degelia
Beji George Their current single "Rain" from "We're Alright Down Here" is rising up the R&R charts and the MediaBase charts as of January 2008.

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Emily Barker

Emily hails from the quiet Blackwood Valley, where lies a town called Bridgetown. It's in the South West of Western Australia. As a teenager she was known to sing heavy metal and soul covers at highschool assemblies (it was a compromise with the bogan boys in the band: she would sing heavy metal, in return for them playing soul. Fair enough she thought.) Emily's love of music spilt beyond her schooling years and across the seas to the UK.

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Suzy Bogguss

Suzy Bogguss (born December 30, 1956) is an American country music singer and one of the most acclaimed female country singers of the 1980s and 90s. Her résumé includes the Academy of Country Music's award for Top New Female Vocalist, the Country Music Association's Horizon Award, six top ten singles, one platinum album, and three gold albums. After taking a brief recording hiatus in the mid-1990s to start a family with her husband, songwriter Doug Crider, Bogguss returned to the country music scene to find that her charting power had already faded.

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Mike Newsham

Having played all over the country supporting the likes of Jesse Malin, Guillemots, The Yards, Laura Veirs, Deadstring Brothers, Mohair, Shed Seven, Four Day Hombre and Eileen Rose. Hailed as one of the best guitarists in his hometown York, "with his playing so fluid and textured and so damn fast! but still tidy, its a show in itself"

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Vince Gill

Vince Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music musician, songwriter, singer and a member of the Country Music Hall Of Fame. He achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country-rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in high demand as a guest vocalist, and a duet partner (with artists including Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Amy Grant and Barbra Streisand).

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Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts

::Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts: !!! me no dj !!! Ever an energetic actor in the electronic music scene, Montreal based artist Guillaume Coutu Dumont maintains numerous collaborative projects, performing regularly in his hometown and around the world. Driven by his passion for hybrid forms of musical expression, Guillaume continues on his quest for the ultimate ham bone funk recipe with his solo project: Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts a special blend of funk, house, techno, gospel, swing, barbershop quartet and afro-beat.

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Johnny Russell

John Bright "Johnny" Russell was an American country singer, songwriter, and comedian famous for his song Act Naturally, which was made famous by Buck Owens, who recorded it in 1963, and The Beatles in 1965. His recording of his song Rednecks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer was his only top 10 hit, peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in October 1973. The song was nominated later that year for a Grammy Award.

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Charley Pride

Born to poor sharecroppers, one of eleven children in Sledge, Mississippi, Pride is a timeless everyman, revered by his musical peers and adored by countless millions of fans around the globe. Charley Pride unofficially started his music career in the late 1950s as a ballplayer with the Negro American League’s Memphis Red Sox singing and playing guitar on the team bus between ballparks. Self-taught on a guitar bought at the age 14 from Sears Roebuck, Pride would join various bands onstage as he and the team roved the country.

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Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett (born December 25, 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States) is a singer/songwriter, best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday". He has a rabid, but genial, cult following known as "Parrotheads." They call the youngest members "Parakeets." Buffett has written three No. 1 best sellers. Tales from Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? both spent over seven months on the New York Times Best Seller fiction list.

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