Corey Smith RIYL (recommended if you like) – Busch light, shootin' fireworks on the beach, owning a Jeep, the color khaki, Chili's, yelling "you the man!" at golf tournaments (tee), "doin' some fuckin' Jager," the New York Jets, bank clerks with lower back tats, manicured beards, yelling "get in the hole!" at golf tournaments (green), AXE body spray, USC "Cocks" hats, USC "Cocks" hats turned backwards, Buffalo Wild Wings, and generally acousti-coolin' out with 35,000 of your closest MySpace "friends." Amos' Southend (Timothy C. Davis)

Wink Keziah & Delux Motel Charlottean Keziah has put in his time doing stints with Rollin' Tumbleweeds, the pre-DBT Adam's House Cat and six years with the Houdauls. Now on his own, Keziah's PBR-b-cue rural rock, country soul and honk hybrid sounds like ... well, it sounds like it came from an honest-to-god person. Instead of coming across as some sort of regrettable roots fusion, it instead is evidence of what seems like a solid cross-section of real life, and all the accompanying ups and downs that entails. With Velvet Truckstop. Puckett's Farm Equipment (Davis)

Delta Moon The core duo of Atlanta's Delta Moon, Tom Gray (lap steel guitar, songwriter for many hit-makers, leader of the 1980's band The Brains) and Mark Johnson (slide guitar), weave an American tapestry of blues, bluegrass, folk, rock and jazz. Rotating crews of singers and musicians have performed in the band where the veteran duo makes jaws pop open with dual snaky slide guitars. Double Door Inn (Samir Shukla)