Greetings Music Lovers Everywhere,

Well Elvis Presley’s birthday came and went yesterday — sad to say no sightings or Elvis look-a-likes were know to have occurred in this area. Although I did have an uncontrollable urge to play Burning Love (a hunka hunka) over and over. Maybe it was just the full moon. Our other start of the year tradition is the annual posting of the WNCW.org’s Top CDs of 2008. So come and get some (if you haven’t already). Avett Brothers snagged number 1, followed by Bob Dylan, Old Crow Medicine Show, Drive-By Truckers, Wood Brothers, Lucinda Williams, James McMurtry, Alejandro Escovedo, Fleet Foxes, and Abigail Washburn. We have set the top 40 of these CDs on display (plus some of them that are on LP) in that spot near the Café door just where the top CDs of 2007 were.

BTW — Check out the Charlie Pickett love in Rolling Stone!

Happily it’s exciting to note that 18 of these amazing artists of the Top 100 have played here in The Bohemian Café for our in-store series in recent times! That of course, sets me up to remind everybody about our next wave of FREE in-store CONCERTS: The GOURDS Tues. Jan 20- 6pm, and then FREE PLANET RADIO Sat. Jan 24 -3pm, and JASON ISBELL Thurs. Feb 19 -5pm. Not bad. More announcing shortly he said with a mysterious grin.

In the happy ongoing 34 year saga of Horizon Records and our local/regional artists, I’m very pleased to report that we have the TOUBAB KREWE LIVE AT THE ORANGE PEEL and LAURA REED & DEEP POCKETS recent CDs. Both are arriving direct from the band and get here because y’all requested them after much airplay on WNCW-fm. Now that’s a great team: Us, Y’all, WNCW and killer bands from the Carolinas. That’s it. For now. Come see us. Eat your vegetables. Love your neighbor. Recycle, re-use, reduce and RAWK like crazy, it’s a new year.

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