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(503) 231-0876 / www.bdcdistribution.com 3 BDC New Releases April 2012 (503) 231-0876 / www.bdcdistribution.com 4 STREET DATE: April 17, 2012 (5% discount through April 24) BDCAMERICANA New Releases Emily Grace Berry, Emily Grace Berry Emily Grace Berry grew up listening to Texas singer/songwriters, and now she is one. It didn’t take much time; CD EP she’s singing beautifully now at 20. Growing up on a Texas ranch is a good way to find country music; but her Cat: SB-0038 music-loving parents wanted her tastes to transcend genre, so they turned her on to category-defiers like Linda Label: SteadyBoy Records Ronstadt, Dixie Chicks, and their own Texas favorite, Jerry Jeff Walker. When Jerry Jeff played a ranch party gig in UPC: 614511797627 2000, Emily got up and sang Redneck Mother with him. She was in the third grade. Jerry Jeff’s drummer that day Price: $3.85 was power pop rocker Freddie Steady Krc, now Emily’s musical mentor (and label). 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Home Base: Nashville xgEDBFHy42085tz Top Markets: National 6 4315-74208-5 9 Marvin Etzioni, Marvin Country! There’s country, there’s alt. country, and there’s Marvin Country; presided over by the man the L.A. Times called 2xCD SET “one heck of a songwriter,” and Billboard compared to John Lennon. Grammy award winner Marvin Etzioni Cat: NMR 0240 has been known as producer (Toad the Wet Sprocket, Counting Crows, Peter Case), sideman (T Bone Burnett, Label: Nine Mile Records Dixie Chicks, Grey Delisle), and songwriter (Cheap Trick, Victoria Williams). Even before there was No UPC: 616892026846 Depression, Marvin was the co-founder of Lone Justice. Marvin Country is his ambitious fourth album. The two- Price: $10.90 record set features Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, John Doe, Richard Thompson, Buddy Miller, Maria Mckee, and more. The Mandolin Man is back! Have mandolin, will travel... 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