DBT #211 GRFF Songwriter Contest Week 3
This is our mirrored blog post of the Great River Folk Fest Songwriter Contest, Week 3 highlights. In this journey I'll tag the artists for future blog reference and add in Bandcamp or any other insights that are truly Dave's Basement Tracks style. So yes this will always be just a little more.
As promised, since we only have one more Tuesday Highlight left, we have moved to highlighting 6 of our favorite songs that have been submitted during the contest.
First up Sarah King from Ripton Vermont sent us some great songs, and here is one almost didn't make the highlight post but it did. Sarah is well known to our DBT followers with this being her fifth time in the blog, including a review of her EP, "The Hour" So glad she decided to enter the contest.
You can buy this song here:
Stuart Stotts is a fine writer and songwriter too based in Deforest WI, and while he wrote this great song he also got some folk legends to sing it:
Vocals by Susan Salidor, Bill Harley, Alina Celeste, Tom Pease, Sally Rogers.
Stuart is on Bandcamp but not this song.
Marty Kohn from Plymouth MI sent us a MP3 of this "Working 11-7 at the 7 Eleven" night shift song, and it just had to be shared because you all need to smile. Does make you wonder if it's autobiographical.
Lauren Oxford from East Tennessee sent us a haunting song deep in traditional Appalachian texture. Lauren is also part of The Starlight Darlins that has graced the blog a few times.
Here you can buy the song on Bandcamp:
Tom Carlson from California had us hooked on what was coming when Jack turned to Jill in the opening line and the melody just softly takes you along for the story.
Alex Toast from Brownsville MN is an artist on the guitar and wrote a special Info-commercial song to explain why marijuana should not be a Schedule 1 drug.
Yes this song was also a Monday Morning Song I picked after MN decided to legalize marijuana, here it is on Bandcamp. We still need to have our Federal government fix the Schedule 1 issue.
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Enjoy ALL the songs that have been submitted to the contest via a video link:
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