So I need to clarify a little what I'm after with posting these music links. This is really the thing that got me wanting to do the weblog in the first place, so I should canonize the ground rules, if for no reason other than to allow myself to focus on what I'm doing.

Originally, I thought that I'd post links to musicians that:

1. I am enthusiastic about
2. Make their own MP3s available on the web (ie, they choose them to be there)
3. Are NOT major label/RIAA artists (this webcasting fee business is abominable)
4. Have some of that roguish air of independence about them

Now, today's artists presents a little challenge under point #3 above. She is a major label artist, yet she also is the owner of a local (to Atlanta) independent record label and the champion of many causes for the underdog. I'm talking about Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. I've always loved the Indigo Girls. The night I turned 21 I celebrated by seeing them play at the Little Five Points Pub - if that doesn't date me nothing will. Amy released a solo album, Stag that I really like. Most people seemed lukewarm on it, but I welcomed the departure from the standard Indigo type songs. One of them, Late Bloom I slipped into the automation rotation at WREK. The other one she has in MP3 form, Lucy Stoners is fabulous and would be worth note for no other reason than the feminist chorus "Lucy Stoners/don't need boners/no man could/ever own her." Both songs are great. Listen to them.