After hundreds of hours listening to all types of new music from the last year, we’re pleased to bring you our “best of 2009″ list with some of our favorites and a few that slipped through the cracks in our radar but we love just the same.
Download our Best of 2009 iMix with our favorite track from each of these records.
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“That’s a love song,” Amy Speace laughed after playing the title song from her latest record, The Killer In Me, at Denver’s Swallow Hill. “I played that song for my therapist and she said it was the first truly codependent love song. I asked her if I could stop coming, she upped my sessions.”
The songwriter spent the evening joking about her roots, her old hometown of New Jersey and even Pete Seeger while playing tunes both new and old.
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Actress turned Singer-songwriter Amy Speace is out on the road promoting her latest album The Killer In Me, her second national release following Songs for Bright Street released in 2006. She’s recently played at Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and will be opening several shows for Nanci Griffith in October.
She took some time to answer our questions between dates on her busy touring schedule.
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Amy Speace is our latest musical addiction and her latest album “The Killer In Me” is a habit-forming combination of eloquent songwriting and Amy’s passionate voice.
The New York-based artist started her career in theater, making the jump to music first as half of Edith O. Speace and later set out on her own with the independently-released Fable.
Within the record are a dozen songs of love, loss and redemption most of which were written in a secluded cabin in the Catskills.
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M. Ward, David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
After three days of (mostly) beautiful, sunny Colorado weather, over twenty artists and hours of fantastic music, the 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Folks Festival drew to a close as the audience singing I’ll Fly Away with Gillian Welch, David Rawlings and M. Ward.
While there were far, far too many great moments to name them all, here’s a short highlight reel of the festivities.
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