Artist: Pointed Man Band
Album: Swordfish Tango
Description: "A combination of Tom Waits and Shel Silverstein, the Beatles and Parisian cafes, the music smells of hardwood floors and flannel and wood construction blocks. Let's put it this way - it's an album that besides featuring a song about an invisible duck and Western Washington witches, it includes a song about dancing without pants -- in French." (Read the rest of the brief review.)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Papa Crow
Song: "In All of the World"
Album: Full Moon, Full Moon
Description: A mellow track emphasizing the universality of emotions from the Michigan-based musician, who says he wrote the song "sitting by the plastic kiddie pool" on the 4th of July in 2010, long before his fine debut album Things That Roar came out. A hint of Van Morrison in the song, which'll be on Papa Crow's upcoming album, due out later this year.
Source: Soundcloud
Artist: Elizabeth Cotten
Song: "Freight Train"
Album: Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes
Description: An all-time classic, kids or otherwise, performed by its creator, Elizabeth Cotten, who came to national attention relatively late in life after she -- entirely coincidentally -- found herself working for Ruth Crawford Seeger.. It's from the reissue of Cotten's first album, recently reissued by Smithsonian Folkways.
Artist: Helen Austin
Album: Colour It
Description: Another album of kid-friendly pop from the Vancouver Island artist. Like its predecessor, Always Be a Unicorn, there's a music-box quality to the songs, and a majority of the songs are essentially love songs that could be (or maybe even were) repurposed from an "adult" love song. Bright and sunny, even in this, the darkest time of the year.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Johnny & Jason
Album: Be Alive
Description: "Fuzzed-out" rock for your indie-loving preschooler from the Portland duo. Also, for your Wiggles-loving preschooler. (Review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Chris Doud, Willy Tea Taylor, and more (Heckabad Records)
Album: Color This Album
Description: The spiritual sequel to the classic Bloodshot Records kiddie compilation The Bottle Let Me Down, this collection of tracks from eastern Northern California features some of the finest Americana-for-kids you'll hear this year. If you stream just one song, make it "Take You Into My Arms." But don't stream just one song. (Review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Baron Von Rumblebuss
Song: "Bubble Wrap"
Album: N/A
Description: It's been a little while since we've heard new music from the North Carolina-based power-popper, so glad to hear that Tray Batson hasn't lost his touch. It didn't arrive via "ups" man, but digital will do just fine. (Except for the bubble wrap popping -- gotta have the real thing for that.)
Source: Reverbnation
Artist: Jesse Olsen Bay
Song: "Doggy in the Diner"
Album: N/A
Description: A delightful little single from the Bay Area-based, er, Bay. Animals in places they probably shouldn't be, doing things they probably shouldn't be doing, with lo-fi ("mason jar percussion") accompaniment. (The "explicit" version is 99% a joke, by the way -- it earns it for using the word "cigarette.") It's a name your price download, if you'd like...
Source: Bandcamp
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