A singersongwriter from the New York City area Sarah Fimms ethereal piano-based music first appeared in 2001 when her debut CD Cocooned was released Building on the success derived from her work on MP3com Fimm managed to get a fair amount of college…

Bursting on to the U.K. music scene seemingly out of nowhere in 2005, KT Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter who blends the earthy pop sensibilities of Sheryl Crow with the darker leanings of Cat Power and Beth Orton. Her debut album, EYE TO THE…

One of the brightest figures in the revamped soft-rock movement of the early 2000s, Amos Lee offers the sort of tastefully jazz-inflected singer-songwriter stylings that made artists like James Taylor and Carly Simon such stars in the 1970s. Lee has …

Kate Earl grew up in Chugiak AK where she started writing songs that blended the phrasing of Cat Power and Bjrk with the folk-chanteuse influence of Joni Mitchell for an earthy accessible sound Earl moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and quickly made an im…

If she had never made another record Lisa Loeb would still go down in the record books as the first unsigned artist to top the American charts her single Stay -- from the soundtrack to 1994s Reality Bites -- spent three weeks at number one soon after…

Joe Purdy a singersongwriter from Arkansas put in his time working at a loading dock and as a counselor at a private high school before his song Wash Away became synonymous with the 2004 season of ABCs Lost Purdy left Arkansas for California in 2001 …