A trip through Colorado last year provided the inspiration for Urban Monroes' guitarist Fran Kent to write the song "When the Aspens Turn." Affectionately known as "Aspens" on the Urban Monroes' set list, it has become one of the band's favorite songs. Poetman Records liked it too. Saying the song was "a winner with top notch playing," the band's recorded version is scheduled for release in January 2010 on Poetman's Acoustic Rainbow Volume 35 .

The Acoustic Rainbow radio sampler is distributed… Continue

Antiqcool : Girl in a Room — Wistful, sad and beautifully spare track with acoustic guitar, vocals and synth.

Free Music Monday

In a perfect world we would give all our music away for free and survive on touring revenue, merchandising and licensing income. Alas this is not always possible. In order to eat we have to sell a few CD’s. The good news is that much of our catalog has been released under this creative commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 We have made many Antiqcool songs free to download for a reason, we want you to sprea… Continue

The music business is feeling the effects of the economic woes of the nation, including local music stores. I suggest that we support local music stores. It's true that the best prices on instruments and accessories are available from the big catalog companies like Musician's Friend and Guitar Center. But how is the service of those chains? You be the judge of their service after you get an unplayable instrument dropped on your door by FedEx or UPS.

The economic trends all point to a dramatic d… Continue

Hi all,
I received emails regarding my blog but am unable to open them to respond to. When I click on them it says "sorry, unable to find..."
Then I looked thru all the members and did not find them there.
There names are Nicolasa Sims and Lavenia Collier.

Any help on solving this problem and/or reaching them would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary Milici
my blog post is "bluegrass tunes needing lyrics"