Justin Townes Earle and The Cowlicks

Can't stop listening to this guy! Been listening to his latest release-  Midnight at the Movies. Maybe a bit more country than I usually like but I'm hooked. I could play "Can't hardly wait" (a wonderful cover of the Replacements song) on repeat for a long time - beautiful use of the mandolin!

I stumbled upon another possible gem today which I'll be doing some more digging on - 'The Cowlicks' an Alt country band out of the SF bay area. They are described as "If  Hank Williams and Tom Petty met, got trashed and ended up jammin, it might have come out like this!" -Brad Kava San Jose Mercury News. I caught a song of theirs while listening to Slacker radio - sounds like my kind of thing!