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Artist: HEM
Website: www.hemmusic.com/music.html
Track Name: Reservoir
Playback: mp3 and stream
Download?: Yes

Rainy Night in Georgia features wispery vocals giving the track an intimacy that the pedal steel in the background reinforces by adding that wistful wail that only pedal steel can add.

Reservoir is a live recording of another well crafted song with delicious arrangements and harmonies, with a strong vocal performance from Sally Ellyson.

From the website:

“Less than two years ago, Hem self-released their first album Rabbit Songs. The band outgrew their cult following as critics from Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and NPR, among many others, praised the debut. The New York Times called them, “one of Manhattan’s most promising…bands,” and Magnet said, “American music doesn’t get any better than this.”

Where to hear them:
No Word From Tom – album worth of streaming audio
HEM’s Myspace site with more streaming audio
Links to an assortment of their tracks for download

jools is a graphic designer who used to front a band on vocals and bass. All evidence of which have mercifully been obliterated or otherwise lost.
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