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Day One Hundred Fifty Six (Year Three)

All right, so a quick-ish one tonight, highlighting the rest of my band list(s).

As of the other day, I had 8 artists that I was thinking of focusing on.  To recap, they were as follows:

1) Son Volt
2) The New Pornographers
3) Missy Higgins
4) The Decemberists
5) Drive By Truckers
6) Jackie Greene
7) Ryan Adams
8) Tom Waits

After quickly generating these 8 off the top of my head, I went through my ipod and came up with the following artists to add to my list:

9) Arcade Fire
10) CAKE
11) Crash Test Dummies
12) Default
13) Incubus
14) Joseph Arthur
15) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Then, I had a list of artists that I only had two albums by (the original list necessitated that I have access to at least 3 records).  Here was that list:

1) Ben Lee
2) Ben Harper
3) Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers
4) Jukebox The Ghost
5) Paul Sanchez
6) Primitive Radio Gods
7) Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
8) Tool
9) Travis
10) Spoon

This brings my total to 25 artists.  Not entirely sure how I'm going to go about choosing who belongs to what month and who gets left out, but I know that I will likely start with one of the artists from the top list... unless I find music by one from the bottom list when the Mrs. and I are in the DSM on Saturday and Sunday.  Either way, I'll have to make a decision shortly thereafter.  Whichever way I go, the one thing I know for sure is that it will be a good decision.

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