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The music rolls through the holler's misty dawn, crescendo up the mountain, diminuendo down the slope, oscillates like fields of grain across the plains, and lifts hauntingly as it meets the sea. The guitar chunking rhythmic chops, banjo 3 finger rolling hard driving the melody, dobro fills with lonesome mournful slides, beautifully sublime harmonies lifting the soul and of course the fiddle weaving in and out, up and down topping the music off with heavenly tones. Tonight's music features a genre near and dear to my heart, Bluegrass. Born of Scottish/Irish/English descent and blended with traditional old-timey and mountain music, topped off with a thorough baptism of blues and gospel music, its lonesome and wistful sounds move me to my core. Enjoy!
Tonight's tunes are a sampling of contemporary bluegrass fare. We're all familiar with the original progenitors, so I thought it a good idea to highlight some of the new generation of pickers, and there are some great ones. You with savvy ears will note that some of these cuts are from some of the "old dogs", but the songs presented are from their recent releases.
"The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged...."
Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux Chief
News and Opinion
ACLU Calls Out NSA's Christmas Eve Document Dump
Reports on compliance violations were published 'when basically no one would be paying attention to the internet or in the mood to think about unchecked government snooping for at least the next 30 hours.'
The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday accused the National Security Agency of using the holiday as cover to "minimize the impact" of its Christmas Eve document dump, which showed—amidst heavy redaction—that the agency's mass surveillance program targeting U.S. citizens went on for more than 10 years and was rife with both human error and technical mistakes.
"I certainly think the NSA would prefer to have the documents released right ahead of the holidays in order to have less public attention on what they contain," Patrick Toomey, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s national security project, told the Guardian.
Toomey told the paper that the documents, made up of annual and quarterly reports filed since 2001 and released in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the ACLU, "really vindicate some of the things [Edward] Snowden said when he first described the NSA surveillance in terms of the ability of analysts to conduct queries—without authorization—of raw internet traffic."
Posted to the NSA's website at 1:30 pm on Christmas Eve, the internal report reveals a large number of compliance violations, including examples of data on Americans being e-mailed to unauthorized recipients, stored in unsecured computers and retained after it was supposed to be destroyed, according to reporting by Bloomberg.
Pro-Russian Separatists Release 8 More Ukrainian Prisoners
Ukraine's security service says pro-Russian separatists have released four more Ukrainian prisoners as part of a major prisoner swap.
A Ukrainian statement said the four released Saturday included three civilians and a member of the Ukrainian military.
Separately, Russia's Interfax news agency is reporting that separatists released three Ukrainian servicemen and one civilian on Saturday without an exchange for rebels.
The releases bring to 154 the number of Ukrainians who have been freed in the past two days.
On Friday, 146 Ukrainian servicemen were released in exchange for 222 rebel captives in the largest prisoner swap since separatists launched their uprising in April.
Amid Heightened Tensions With the West, Russia Declares NATO is Top Military Threat
New doctrine also says Russia could use nuclear weapons as retaliation or 'deterrent measures'
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a new military doctrine that names NATO's military presence near the country's border and expansion in Eastern Europe as Russia's top external threat, according to a Kremlin statement.
The doctrine, which Putin signed as Russia's economic power and international relations continue to deteriorate, maintains many of the provisions put into place in its previous edition, signed in 2010. Among those is the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons in retaliation to other nations targeting Russia or its allies with weapons of mass destruction—though the doctrine concedes that those scenarios are unlikely.
A new provision, however, adds that Russia could use precision weapons "as part of strategic deterrent measures," without elaborating on how and when those weapons would be used.
"Despite a decreased likelihood of a large-scale war against Russia, some security threats continue to grow," the doctrine says.
Also included in the military document is the new goal of protecting national interests in the Arctic.
Russia, China mock divide and rule
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
ROME and BEIJING - The Roman Empire did it. The British Empire copied it in style. The Empire of Chaos has always done it. They all do it. Divide et impera. Divide and rule - or divide and conquer. It's nasty, brutish and effective. Not forever though, like diamonds, because empires do crumble.
A room with a view to the Pantheon may be a celebration of Venus - but also a glimpse on the works of Mars. I had been in Rome essentially for a symposium - Global WARning - organized by a very committed, talented group led by a former member of European Parliament, Giulietto Chiesa. Three days later, as the run on the rouble was unleashed, Chiesa was arrested and
expelled from Estonia as persona non grata, yet another graphic illustration of the anti-Russia hysteria gripping the Baltic nations and the Orwellian grip NATO has on Europe's weak links. [1] Dissent is simply not allowed.
At the symposium, held in a divinely frescoed former 15th century Dominican refectory now part of the Italian parliament's library, Sergey Glazyev, on the phone from Moscow, gave a stark reading of Cold War 2.0. There's no real "government" in Kiev; the US ambassador is in charge. An anti-Russia doctrine has been hatched in Washington to foment war in Europe - and European politicians are its collaborators. Washington wants a war in Europe because it is losing the competition with China.
Summit of Failure: How the EU Lost Russia over Ukraine
One year ago, negotations over a Ukraine association agreement with the European Union collapsed. The result has been a standoff with Russia and war in the Donbass. It was an historical failure, and one that German Chancellor Angela Merkel contributed to.
Submitted by: NCTim
Only six meters separated German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych as they sat across from each other in the festively adorned knight's hall of the former Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. In truth, though, they were worlds apart.
Yanukovych had just spoken. In meandering sentences, he tried to explain why the European Union's Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius was more useful than it might have appeared at that moment, why it made sense to continue negotiating and how he would remain engaged in efforts towards a common future, just as he had previously been. "We need several billion euros in aid very quickly," Yanukovych said.
Then the chancellor wanted to have her say. Merkel peered into the circle of the 28 leaders of EU member states who had gathered in Vilnius that evening. What followed was a sentence dripping with disapproval and cool sarcasm aimed directly at the Ukrainian president. "I feel like I'm at a wedding where the groom has suddenly issued new, last minute stipulations."
North Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, calls Obama 'monkey'
(Reuters) - North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a "monkey" and blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages it has experienced during a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures.
The National Defense Commission, the North's ruling body chaired by state leader Kim Jong Un, said Obama was responsible for Sony's belated decision to release the action comedy "The Interview", which depicts a plot to assassinate Kim.
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unnamed spokesman for the commission said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, using a term seemingly designed to cause racial offense that North Korea has resorted to previously.
In Hawaii, where Obama is vacationing, a White House official said the administration had no immediate comment on the latest North Korean statement blaming the United States for the Internet outages and insulting the president.
Despite Box Office Patriotism, Experts Question North Korea Hacker Claims
"In the post-Watergate/post-Snowden world the U.S. government can no longer simply say 'trust us.'"
Security experts are claiming that, despite official rhetoric, North Korea was likely not behind the Sony hack that spurred patriotic zeal and widespread rallying around the Christmas Day release of the comedy film The Interview.
The Sony Pictures film, which on Thursday opened in 331 theaters and was made available for online viewing, boasted sold out crowds, $1 million in sales, and was the number one downloaded movie on all the digital platforms on which it was released: Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft's Xbox Video, as well as on a Sony website.
Moviegoers cited "patriotism" and defense of the First Amendment as reasons for watching the film, which was reportedly the motive behind the recent security breach. The film is a satire about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
However, security researchers are questioning whether North Korea was really behind the hack and, alternately, are saying it looks like a possible "inside job."
Police turn backs on de Blasio at funeral of NYPD officer Rafael Ramos
~Ramos and Officer Wenjian Liu were shot dead last Saturday
~Union chief Lynch says police feel ‘betrayal' by mayor
~Thousands attend funeral of NYPD officer Rafael Ramos – in pictures
~Opinion: Dear fellow white people: protest, but don’t throw bottles
Hundreds of police officers turned their backs on the New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Saturday as he spoke during the funeral service for Rafael Ramos, one of two New York Police Department officers killed in an ambush shooting in Brooklyn last week.
Thousands of officers gathered outside Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens for the funeral, where speakers included vice-president Joe Biden, New York governor Andrew Cuomo and NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton.
Ramos and his partner, Wenjian Liu, were shot dead last Saturday by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who had posted anti-police statements on social-media. Police have said Brinsley, who killed himself, was troubled and had first shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore before travelling to Brooklyn.
At a hospital after the shooting, the police union’s president, Patrick Lynch, and others turned their backs on the mayor in a sign of disrespect. Lynch blamed the mayor then for the officers’ deaths and said he had blood on his hands, because of comments made by de Blasio in relation to protests in the city last month over the death of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man, at the hands of police in July.
View video here.
U.S., allies conduct 12 air strikes against Islamic State: Task Force
(Reuters) - The United States and its allies carried out 12 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force said.
Six strikes near the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border destroyed Islamic State buildings, fighting positions and vehicles, a task force statement said.
In Iraq, targets including buildings, vehicles and an Islamic State refinery were hit in six strikes near Al Asad, Mosul, Falluja, Al Qaim and Baiji, it said.
Iran tests suicide drone in military drill
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's army said Saturday it has deployed a suicide drone for the first time in massive ongoing military drills near the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf.
Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, the army's chief commander of ground forces, described the unmanned aircraft as a "mobile bomb," according to state media, which said the aerial device is designed to strike air, ground and naval targets.
He did not provide the name of the drone. The conservative Kayhan daily referred to it as the Yasir, while an online news website called it the Raad. Officials could not be reached for comment.
The Yasir drone, first unveiled last year, can fly for up to 10 hours and carry out 360-degree imaging, officials said at the time. Western military analysts say the Yasir is a modified version of the American ScanEagle drone. Iran said in December 2012 that it had seized at least three Boeing-designed ScanEagle drones after they allegedly violated its airspace over the Persian Gulf.
Iran is believed to have produced its own remotely piloted suicide drone, the Raad-85, which is designed to crash into targets and set off its warhead.
Syria 'ready' for peace talks with opposition
Foreign ministry says Syria is ready to meet the opposition in Moscow talks due to be held in late January.
Syria is ready to meet with the country's opposition in Moscow in an effort to find a way out of the nearly four-year civil war, a government official has said.
"Syria is ready to participate in a preliminary and consultative meeting in Moscow to respond to the aspirations of Syrians who are trying to find a solution to the crisis," the foreign ministry official said on Saturday, quoted by SANA state news agency.
"The Syrian Arab Republic has always been ready for dialogue with those who believe in its unity, sovereignty and freedom of choice," the official said.
It is unclear whether Syria's fractured opposition leaders in exile, or armed rebels on the ground, would attend a conference hosted in a government-controlled area of the country.
Hadi al-Hahra, head of the Turkey-based opposition National Coalition said on Saturday that "there is no initiative as rumoured", dismissing the Russian plan.
China's Economy Eased Pace in 2014
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
The past year may mark a turning point for China's economy, or merely a downturn after decades of higher growth rates.
In November, President Xi Jinping told leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit that China's lower growth rates are now the "new normal," using a label he first applied to the decelerating economy in May.
"We must boost our confidence, adapt to the new normal condition based on the characteristics of China's economic growth in the current phase, and stay cool-minded," Xi said during a tour of central Henan province seven months ago.
Since then, economic activity has continued toward its third consecutive year of below 8-percent growth, posting an expansion of 7.3 percent in the third quarter after 7.7- percent increases in 2012 and 2013, the slowest annual pace since 1999.
Al-Shabab leader wanted by US surrenders
The highly sought after Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi has surrendered to government and African Union forces in Somalia.
Submitted by: NCTim
A highly sought after al-Shabab leader with a $3m bounty on his head has surrendered to government and African Union forces, a Somali intelligence officer has said.
Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi surrendered to Somali police in the Gedo region where Somalia borders Kenya and Ethiopia, the officer said.
"Zakariya Ahmed was a very senior person who worked with Godane," said regional military official Jama Muse, referring to former al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed by a US air strike in September.
"He was in charge of intelligence and finances. He was one of the senior al-Shabab commanders who the Americans put a lot of money on their head," he added.
However, an al-Shabab media spokesman told Al Jazeera that Hersi had been a member of the group but had left it two years ago and surrendered to the SOmali government. The spokesman said that when he was an al-Shabab member, he was a mid-level commander and not an intelligence chief, as claimed by Somali officials.
'Enough is enough': US anti-racism protests
'Justice for All' demonstrations swell across the US over the deaths of African Americans in police encounters.
New York City - Cynthia Howell is angry. Eleven years ago, her aunt was killed after police tossed a concussion grenade into her apartment during a mistaken drug raid.
On Saturday, she was at the vanguard of a march in Manhattan over fears of racism in an overly-militarised police force.
"Enough is enough. This country cannot still allow these same police practices and let cops get away with it," Howell told Al Jazeera. "We love our loved ones as much as they love the ones they go home to. It's not just an issue of black or white, it's about abuse of authority."
Howell's aunt, Alberta Spruill, was a prime example of bad policing. The 57-year-old long-time city government worker died from a heart attack in 2003 after a stun grenade was thrown into her home in West Harlem, a mostly black neighbourhood of New York.
This so-called "no-knock" approach, used to surprise criminals, followed police receiving faulty information about drugs and guns at Spruill's address. Her death has been overshadowed by more recent examples of police killings of blacks that drew protesters onto the streets on Saturday.
Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock: Christmas Charity and Revolution
In a special Christmas episode of The Real News Network’s “Reality Asserts Itself,” Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and Detroit’s Rev. David Bullock discuss capitalism’s perversion of charity and the season’s potential to breath social justice back into national life.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal, which will feature an editorial from The Labor World of Dec 28, 1904 regarding the continuing efforts of Gov Peabody to overthrow the will of the people of Colorado. The Republican Supreme Court of Colorado throws out the votes of more Denver Precincts.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Malaysia flooding: PM Najib Razak to tour inundated areas
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
Malaysians are angry that during the worst flooding in decades, their leader has been filmed playing golf with President Obama, reports Jennifer Pak
Malaysia is battling some of the worst floods in decades along its east coast, which have killed at least five people.
More than 100,000 people have been forced from their homes, and Prime Minister Najib Razak has returned early from holiday in the US.
He was criticised for playing golf with President Barack Obama, but defended his trip in remarks on Saturday.
Eastern states are often flooded during the monsoon season but heavy rain and winds have worsened the situation.
Inequality: Are the rich cashing in?
Mehdi Hasan challenges former Reagan economic adviser Arthur Laffer on whether slashing taxes helps rich and poor.
Submitted by: NCTim
"You don't want to make the rich poor; you want to make the poor richer," says Arthur Laffer, an economist who laid the intellectual foundations for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's right-wing policies in the 1980s.
But should we really be cutting services to the poor while we cut taxes for the rich? Has the spread of 'Reaganomics' really helped the world's poor?
In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Arthur Laffer on whether free market economics still makes sense in the wake of the financial crisis, and on his famous 'Laffer Curve,' through which he advocates cutting taxes on high earners.
Arthur Laffer has been described as "the father of supply-side economics".
Joining the discussion are Ann Pettifor, Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), Faiza Shaheen, Head of Inequality at Save the Children UK, and Adam Memon, Head of Economic Research at the Centre for Policy Studies.
To watch this episode on Youtube click here.
Russia's ruble crisis: What's at stake for European businesses
Companies in Poland are wary of a recession in Russia and a downturn in trade and tourism. But Europe is probably less exposed than in 1998 when Russia defaulted on its sovereign debt.
Submitted by: NCTim
Warsaw, Poland; and Paris — Russia has said its currency crisis is over. But for Polish companies like the family-run shoe producer Conhpol, which just opened its first store in the capital Warsaw, the danger signs are still flashing.
The ruble fell four percent Friday. It had held steady for days after last week’s precipitous drop on falling oil prices compounded by sanctions imposed by the US and European Union over Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Many Russians have stopped traveling to countries like Poland for shopping and vacations.
Sebastian Konopka, who helps his father run Conhpol from its headquarters in the village of Stanislow Dolny, says orders from Russia have abruptly dried up. “If we were dependent only on Russian clients, we would have problems now,” he says.
For most of 2014, a militarily strong Russia has spooked the EU, particularly those countries formerly under the Soviet yoke. But as the year closes, an economically hobbled Russia is looking equally problematic for its some of its European neighbors.
Travel chaos in England as snow and gales shut roads, harbours and airports
Flights delayed and cross-channel ferries suspended while snow sees drivers stranded in Sheffield
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
Heavy snow and gale-force winds have caused major disruption to travellers across the UK, with flights delayed, cross-channel ferries suspended and motorists stranded.
The north of England was worst hit by the cold snap, with blizzards closing Leeds Bradford International airport in Yorkshire and Liverpool’s John Lennon airport for several hours while flights at Manchester airport were also delayed on Saturday.
The freezing weather also brought treacherous conditions to roads, with many motorists in Sheffield forced to abandon their cars overnight after snow left roads impassable.
The End of Tolerance? Anti-Muslim Movement Rattles Germany
Disenchanted German citizens and right-wing extremists are joining forces to form a protest movement to fight what they see as the Islamization of the West. Is this the end of the long-praised German tolerance of recent years?
Submitted by: NCTim
Felix Menzel is sitting in his study in an elegant villa in Dresden's Striesen neighborhood on a dark afternoon in early December. He's thinking about Europe. A portrait of Ernst Jünger, a favorite author of many German archconservatives is hung on the wall.
Menzel, 29, is a polite, unimposing man wearing corduroys and rimless glasses. He takes pains to come across as an intellectual, and avoids virulent rhetoric like "Foreigners out!" He prefers to talk about "Europe's Western soul," which, as he believes, includes Christianity and the legacy of antiquity, but not Islam. "I see serious threats coming our way from outside Europe. I feel especially pessimistic about the overpopulation of Africa and Asia," says Menzel, looking serious. "And I believe that what is unfolding in Iraq and Syria at the moment is a clear harbinger of the first global civil war."
Menzel, a media scholar, has been running the Blaue Narzisse (Blue Narcissus), a conservative right-wing magazine for high school and university students, for the last 10 years. His small magazine had attracted little interest until now. But that is about to change, at least if Menzel has his way. "The uprising of the masses that we have long yearned for is slowly getting underway," he writes on his magazine's website. "And this movement is moving toward the right."
In Dresden, at least, the sentiments expressed in the Blaue Narzisse have become more palpable in recent weeks. Protests staged each week on Mondays initially attracted only a few dozen to a few hundred people, but more recently the number of citizens taking to the streets has reached 10,000. The group, which calls itself Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (and goes by the German acronym Pegida), demonstrates against economic migrants and a supposed "cultural foreign domination of our country" -- whatever is meant by that.
'Just for lulz': Hackers leak 13,000 passwords from sites incl Amazon, PlayStation & Xbox
A group, claiming to be affiliated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous, released a file containing 13,000 passwords and usernames along with credit card numbers from popular sites like Amazon and Walmart.
The information was released in a massive text document posted to Ghostbin, a filesharing site on Friday. By Saturday afternoon the document was no longer accessible.
The leaked account information came from several popular sites, including PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Hulu Plus, in addition to a handful of porn sites. The Daily Dot has published a full list of the nearly 40 websites whose users may be compromised.
For good measure, the group also included a pirated copy of ‘The Interview’, a Kim Jong-un assassination buddy comedy, which gained international relevance during this month’s devastating Sony hack, causing the company to initially pull the film from release.
Regin spying tool linked to NSA among first malware meant for espionage
Security researchers turned up new evidence that Regin, the sophisticated surveillance malware linked to the NSA, may be one of oldest specimens of its ilk.
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
JERUSALEM — The malware known as Regin – linked to the National Security Agency as a tool for tapping mobile phone networks and infiltrating foreign computer systems – now appears to have been developed as early as 15 years ago, making it among the first major pieces of invasive computer software built to enable government espionage.
The program was revealed last month in reports from security companies Kaspersky Lab and Symantec Corp. Soon thereafter, The Intercept published new leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden that shed light on how programs such as Regin (pronounced Re-gen) were used to collect sensitive, technical information on more than 70 percent of the world’s cellular networks.
Between the Snowden documents and the disclosures from computer security professionals about Regin, for the first time researchers think they’ve linked NSA wiretapping operations to the particular tool the agency used to accomplish it, caught in the act invading a foreign cellular network.
“This is the first time we’ve seen it for real with our own eyes. For us it was pretty surprising,” says Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team.
FBI warned Year Ago of impending Malware Attacks—But Didn’t Share Info with Sony
Nearly one year before Sony was hacked, the FBI warned that U.S. companies were facing potentially crippling data destruction malware attacks, and predicted that such a hack could cause irreparable harm to a firm’s reputation, or even spell the end of the company entirely. The FBI also detailed specific guidance for U.S. companies to follow to prepare and plan for such an attack.
But the FBI never sent Sony the report.
The Dec. 13, 2013 FBI Intelligence Assessment, “Potential Impacts of a Data-Destruction Malware Attack on a U.S. Critical Infrastructure Company’s Network,” warned that companies “must become prepared for the increasing possibility they could become victim to a data destruction cyber attack.”
The 16-page report includes details on previous malware attacks on South Korea banking and media companies—the same incidents and characteristics the FBI said Dec. 19th that it had used to conclude that North Korea was behind the Sony attack.
The Evening Greens
Weekend Edition Editor - Agathena
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
“LEAKED: Secret Negotiations to Let Big Brother Go Global”
NPR Propagandizes Against Putin, for Regime-Change in Russia
Taking the Initiative Back For the Movement After the Brinsley Killings
Hellraisers Journal: The wretched life of women working in factories all night & at home all day.
Housing Controversy at Cornell
President Obama Sells Out On TPP
Think About It: The U.S. Is the Richest Country as Well as the Most Unequal: 8 Consequences of American Greed
A Little Night Music
The Earls of Leicester - Dig a Hole in the Meadow
The High 48s - That Train Has Left The Station
The Roys - Nothin' I Can Do About It Now
The Steeldrivers - Blue Side Of The Mountain
Rebecca Frazier - Darken Your Doorway
Dan Tyminski - Carry Me Across The Mountain
Della Mae - Jamie Dear
Peter Rowan - That's All She Wrote
Jim Lauderdale - Triple Crossroad Blues
Della Mae - Empire
Del McCoury Band - Blues Rollin' In
Blue Highway - Talk Is Cheap
Bryan Sutton - Cricket On The Hearth
The Infamous Stringdusters - You Can't Stop the Changes
The Roys - Coal Minin' Man
Dailey & Vincent - Brothers of the Highway (Full Album)
The Infamous Stringdusters - Don't Mean Nothin'
Town Mountain - I'm On Fire
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen - The Letter
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