West Virginian singer-songwriter Jeff Ellis has returned home from his second US Army tour of duty in Iraq. I'm happy to have the opportunity to give away 1 copy of his magnificent CD The Forgetting Place (click the album title to read my rave review). Jeff will also be performing live at several local venues. Tour dates and giveaway details are below... The Prize: 1 copy of Jeff Ellis' new CD The Forgetting Place [...]
The other day I traded coverage of Jonathan Burks for coverage of Jeff Ellis. It was a simple thing to set up with the music blog Muruch. See, we both wanted to share the music of our favorite artists with more people than we could reach by ourselves. So she did a post on Songs:Illinois favorite Jonathan Burks and I promised a post on her new fave Jeff Ellis . The need to reach more people and spread our love of these artists is the reason we started music blogs in the first place. [...]
The Forgetting Place is the upcoming fourth album by Jeff Ellis, an incredibly talented local singer-songwriter from Huntington, West Virginia. I didn't doubt that any album released by Mountain Stage 's NewSong Recordings would be good, but I was still surprised at the high quality of these songs. Ellis was the winner of Mountain Stage's 2008 NewSong Contest. He is currently serving a thirteen-month deployment in Iraq, but his true calling is obviously music. The Forgetting Place will be released by NewSong Recordings on March 23rd. [...]
Muruch
songsillinois
Cadence Weapon - "Conditioning" (CFCF Remix)
Gaggie x Bo Deal – Loose Lips [Prod. by Young Chop]
Summer Camp - "Always"
