Buffalo Live! Music Podcast

I don’t have much (or any) local Christmas music, so this is becoming an annual tradition: the Podsafe Music Christmas Show!

I picked out a few Christmas songs from the Podsafe Music Network, an internet repository of music that has been cleared for use in podcasts by the artists. It’s quite good! I hope you like it. Put it on while you wrap some presents or sip egg nog by the fireplace and get in a Merry Christmas mood!

[I've split this podcast into two parts, each about 45 minutes each. Be sure to listen to both! If you download the podcast, download the second part while you're listening to the first.]

Part 1

Lee Harris & The Tijuana Trumpets – Greensleeves
For the last 5 or 6 years, Lee Harris and his friends have been making Christmas CD’s to give away as gifts over the holidays.

Andy Buscemi – Santa Story 06
Andrew Buscemi is a music educator at Alden Central Schools near Buffalo NY. He also had a podcast called Another Tech Podcast but the server seemed to be gone when I tried to check it out. Not much information at his website, which is too bad as he’s the only local participant in this podcast.

Poorpete – Happy Belated Christmas!
What is in a Bio? I am not my past. I am my music. Enjoy my music.

Thehipcola – Sleigh Ride
thehipcola. music that drives and grooves. music that takes you somewhere.
thehipcola is Rob Cosh – a multi-instrumentalist songwriter from Ottawa, ON. Piano technician, musician, recording enthusiast, Rob also teaches the dark art of home-based recording. He�s currently playing guitar for Brad Sucks, co-producing Brad�s 2nd album, a contributing writer and player in the internet based supergroup Gert, one half of redcar, and in between all of that is slowing pinning down his muse to put out his own album.

Geoffrey C Smith – My Own Merry Christmas
Geoff’s catchy piano driven pop is quite contagious these days. Geoff is also the madman behind such DSC jingles as Roger Smalls, Metrosexual Moment, and Trinity. Buy Geoff’s CD at CDBaby and NOW ON ITUNES!!!!

Jill Parr – Do You Hear What I Hear
Jill Parr is a well known, well traveled artist in Contemporary Christian Music having generated five nationally charting singles on her two releases. New record releasing in early 06.

Jimmie Bratcher – 1941
The Blues are all about the soul of a man. Who better to play the blues than a man who lost it all only to regain it again? Thats what The Reverend Jimmie Bratcher is about! A man who gave up his love of the blues for a higher calling, only to have the blues come back to him as his higher calling 20 years later. A boy who went to Memphis to follow a dream that over 25 years later is realized every time he steps on the stage in blues clubs like Club Isaac Hayes in Memphis or The Ground Zero in Clarksdale Mississippi.
Preachin the gospel, singin the blues… Jimmies MySpace page

The Hot Rods – Dear Santa Claus
Originally out of the fabled Coachella Valley, the L.A. based Hot Rods do their thing at dive bars and honky tonks. They work outside the system, streamlining the operation and boiling it down to the good stuff. Look out for The Hot Rods! Coming to your town, soon.

Jimmie Bratcher – Bell Carol Blue

Richard Taylor – Midnight’s Almost Here
Richard Taylor’s rambling guitarwork is an edgy rhythmic style that shakes like a railroad car careening off the tracks. Perfectly crafted guitar hooks, infectious bluesy licks, with a lot of care-free attitude. Roots Rock at it’s primal best. With Tim Pruitt on lead guitar, Joe Goltz on Bass.
Richard is also the host of Roots Rock Radio, one of the finest Roots-rock/Americana podcasts in the world!

The Hot Rods – I Dont Want Your Christmas Presents I Just Want Your Christmas Kisses

Jimmie Bratcher – Man It’s Christmas

The Hot Rods – Pink And Powder Blue

Part 1

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Part 2

Roadside Attraction – What Santa Wants
At a time when substance is eschewed for entertainment, Roadside Attraction works to embrace both. When people are wrapped up in their comfort zones of stress, depression, and anxiety, Roadside Attraction works to bring them back to a more true reality. A reality where none of the little problems matter.

Karmyn Tyler – (I’ll Be There) On Christmas Day
Karmyn is a versatile singer, actress and former Miss America contestant. She has worked in movies, theater and in the broadcast industry in both on-air and voice-over work. Her music has been featured in many radio shows and podcasts and she has her own podcast, the KarmynKast! Get her music at CDBaby or iTunes and check out her podcast: KarmynKast

Matthew Ebel – Walk A Thousand Miles
He’s been called a soulful white guy, an acoustic geek-rocker, and the love child of Elton John and Billy Joel. His fans know him as everything from Matthew to Birdman to simply “Hot Wings”. Whatever you call him, though, Matthew Ebel is more than just a singer-songwriter, he’s a space pirate captain that takes his fans and friends beyond the mundane.
Adam Curry says:”Oh yeah, top-down drivin’ around music…feeling alive, awake, and full of fun.”
CC Chapman says:”The whole album [Beer & Coffee] is rock-solid good!”
Matthew Ebel’s latest CD – Beer and Coffee is available on CDBaby and iTunes.
I had no idea Matthew had a podcast until I started researching this podcast. Check out his High Orbit Podcast.

Monkeyshine – Cold And Blue
Tim Foley and Cate Doefer are two friends in their mid-40s who have been friends since high school and have been sitting in each others living rooms making music together for over 20 years, and on a whim two years ago, began co-writing original songs.

Oppenheimer – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Oppenheimer are Rocky O’Reilly & Shaun Robinson from Belfast, N.Ireland.
Their debut album was released on Bar/None records in June 2006. They share a love of synthesizers, harmonies, kraut-rock, traveling, movies, people and pop music. You can visit Oppenheimer and be their friend on MySpace. It looks like Oppenheimer will be coming to the US next march for the SXSW festival.
Oppenheimer’s CD at Amazon.com or iTunes

Pale Beneath The Blue – Christmas Break
Ohio-based performing songwriter, Pale Beneath the Blue writes an eclectic mix of music. From pop songs that are being used in indie films to dance/trip hop for tv. Whether PBTB is playing piano or guitar, with a cellist or a full-band, the poetic lyrics are what you carry home.
Pale Beneath The Blue’s CD Snow Emergency on CDBaby or iTunes

Psychovoyager – Merry Christmas & A Funky New Year
PsychoVoyager is Edshugeo The GodMoor is George Isaacs. I/We am/are PsychoVoyager. Am/are Edshugeo. Am/are George. I/we make music… or something like it.

Rodger Christmann – Now That Its Christmas
German singer/guitarist Rodger Christmann has produced a genre all of his own what one might describe as ‘New Age Classic Sound’ – kind of a melting pot with the likes of Bread, Clapton, and Paul Young. His bluesy guitar style and sexy, smoky vocal delivery make his music instantly recognizable.

Ron & Maryann Sfarzo – It’s Christmas (Short)
Ron Sfarzo, a retired Police Officer for the City of Menlo Park, California is an accomplished arranger, composer and keyboardist. His wife Maryann Sfarzo is a vocalist/lyricist and voice-over talent. Maryann has been writing lyrics to Ron’s music for over 20 years and both are members of BMI. They perform together throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Their son Chris, an accomplished percussionist, inherited Ron and Maryann’s musical talents and has written and produced several of their songs.

Slau – If Everyday Were Christmas
Slau is a singer/songwriter & producer in New York city. He’s a regular contributor to the New York city Songwriter’s Circle at The Bitter End.

Steve Stellavato – When Gentle Snowflakes Fall
“Smart.” “Catchy.” “A little known songwriter who doesn’t deserve to be.” “Not only a great writer, but a great singer as well.”

Vittoria Conn – Merry Christmas Angel
A singer/songwriter whose music is autobiographical. She writes and sings many styles, and uses her music to not only tell her story, but to lift the spirits of those who hear it.
“I write songs about my life, in any style that happens to appeal to me at the moment. When you listen to my music, you’re essentially peeking into my diary. And that’s ok with me; my life’s an open book.”

MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Buffalo Live! Music Podcast.

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