New Adds, Festival Radio, January 10, 2009

First new adds post of the year for Festival Radio:

Artist – Album

• Roe Family Singers – The Earth and All That Is In It
• Various Artists – Acoustic Rainbow #33
• Rhythm Angels – Girls Like Us
• Richard Berman - Now and Then
• Molly’s Revenge (with Moira Smiley) – The Western Shore
• Various Artists – Oasis Acoustic Sampler Volume VII #21
• Johnny Flynn – A Larum
• Ben Bedford – Land of Shadows

I note here that Festival Radio may be one of the few places on earth where one can hear both John Flynn and Johnny Flynn.

Also,  I was very impressed with the Ben Bedford CD.  He is young singer/songwriter with a great deal of promise.  This album focuses thematically on historical topics, particularly the Civil War era, and Bedford’s tales are interesting and he has a fine voice, and the production is wonderfully spare (that’s a good thing – the production doees not overwhelm the songs.