[foodnfoto]

I love I-tunes. I spend a lot of time alone in my kitchen with my laptop at hand, developing, writing and editing recipes. I-tunes keeps me company and I love finding new, emerging musical artists to listen to while cooking.
I thought I'd share a few that I've been turned onto recently and see if any of you know of them, or might be interested in listening too.
Following are a few that have got me all charged up-

A friend of ours who writes for the LA Times got us all excited about Ryan Bingham. Country, but funky and edgey. Kind of reminds me of a really young, coarse Bob Dylan.
Here's his website and an link to Scott's article
Ryan Bingham Music
For Ryan Bingham, the rawness is real - THE OUTSIDERS - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com

Also heard these folks recently-wild stuff, kind of techno-klezmer-gypsy music. Fun to listen to when doing repetitive tasks.
++ BALKAN BEAT BOX ++
Check out "Adir Adirim", "Cha-cha" and "Hermetico"

First heard this one-Holly Golightly-on the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers". My husband is nuts about her and listens to her all the time-me too.
Here's her Myspace page.
MySpace.com - Holly Golightly - UK - Blues / Country / Soul - www.myspace.com/hollygolightlymusic
The music on her page isn't some of the best she's done, but listen to "My Love Is" and some others from "My First Holly Golightly Album".

Anyway, let me know what you think?

[notoriouslyKEN]

I recently checked out a band that was coming through Baltimore for the recommendation of a friend who saw them play in Detroit a couple years prior. It was a small venue, but they totally rocked it out & I ended up buying their CD ( which is quite an accomplishment since I download all my music). The name of the band is Back Door Slam and they play like jimi hendrix, eric clapton and stevie ray vaughn had a love child. Definitely worth checking out.

[chrose]

Originally Posted by notoriouslyKEN

The name of the band is Back Door Slam .

A co-worker turned me on to these guys. Davey Knowles is a really good singer. Guitar is good also, another Hendrix, Clapton, etc? I don't know about that but they are definitely good!