Artist: Yumzah!
Song: "Trash 2 Treasure"
Album: Freebee (Sampler)
Description: For those of you who thought that maybe Nashville's Steve Lee incorporating his music under a new "Yumzah" moniker would totally make his music bland and less happy, you, friends, ARE WRONG. This is glorious kitchen-sinky. It costs $1 via the link below (but you can get it for free or pay-what-you-will via the "Freebee" link above, which, as i tell you repeatedly, you need to do now).
Artist: Alice DiMicele
Album: If I Were an Otter: Songs for Kids of All Ages
Description: The album won't be out 'til June, but Oregon artist DiMicele's put the title track up on Bandcamp for your (our? my?) listening pleasure. The album will be a mixture of traditional folk songs along with some originals, like this one.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Papa Crow
Song: "Bongo Bong"
Album: Monkeylele
Description: Manu Chao and Papa Crow and ukuleles? What could be wrong? It's a rough mix for a cover song off Papa Crow's forthcoming monkey/ukulele crossover album Monkeylele.
Source: Soundcloud
Artist: Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
Album: Love Me For Who I Am
Description: On his celebrated 2011 album, Rymer manages the tricky feat of writing an album about the autistic experience without limiting its appeal to that narrowly-focused crowd. It celebrates people in all their forms and predilections and aversions. Rymer's sunny roots-rock musical bed helps the understanding go down easy. (Review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: The Alphabeticians
Album: Other Stuff
Description: It's not really an album as much as "just some random stuff that's not on an album," as the band puts it. I particularly like "All The Letters" (appropriate for The Alphabeticians), which is actually a reworking of a fairly famous song, though it takes a little bit for that to sink in.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Sharron Kraus
Album: Songs for the Twins
Description: Kraus is an English folksinger who's also spent some time in Philadelphia. This album was originally released 8 years ago but is getting a digital spin. It's a collection of nursery rhymes and folk songs, many -- but not all -- of which will be familiar to parents (or those who remember their childhood). Why would I suggest you give this album a spin when you've probably heard these songs dozens of times before? Because there's an eerieness and deliberate anti-modern sound to the album that is uncommon in today's kids' music. It's cleverly arranged, but one of the strengths of this album is that many tracks sound like they could have been recorded 250 years ago.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Charity and the JAMband
Album: Family Values
Description: Peace, love, and understanding -- and a healthy helping of RAWK -- from the Bay Area jam-band (and JAMband).
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Album: Easy
Description: The debut kids album from the kid-hop king, instantly catchy and endlessly inventive. "Luck" was Skidoo's first big break, and it has all the trademarks of the best of his work -- deft wordplay, positive but realistically so, and a mix of instruments and styles. Don't pigeonhole it as a "kid-hop CD," it's a "really good CD, period." (Original review)
Source: Bandcamp
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