Yet another addition to my list of interesting artists is Rodrigo y Gabriela, a pair of incredibly gifted guitarists who play a unique acoustic Latin-jazz fusion style.

You can listen to them on the MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/rodrigoygabriela

or check them out on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Rodrigo+y+Gabriela+&search=Search

It seems that lately, all of the new artists I am "discovering" are from background music from TV shows...

My latest "find" is Matt Nathanson.  I heard his beautiful song "All We Are" from his Some Mad Hope album playing at the end of this week's NCIS.  Of course, at the time, I didn't know the artist or name of the song, but, as amazing as it still is to me, the answer was fairly easily obtained with just a couple of Google searches.

Yes, I am a sucker for singer/songwriter folk rock.

References:

MySpace page

Wikipedia entry

Official Matt Nathanson web site

Solo acoustic version of "All We Are" on YouTube.

I had KT Tunstall's "Eye To The Telescope" album on my wish list for quite a while, and I finally broke down and purchased it from Amazon.com; and I am glad that I did!

I first "discovered" KT while watching "So You Think You Can Dance."  Her song "Suddenly I See" (She's a beautiful girl) was the song that was played during the video compilation for departing girls.

The album is full of great songs.  Her style is somewhere between folk and pop with occasional bluesy influences.

I listened to snippets of her "second" album, which was originally only available from her web site, and wasn't as impressed as I was with her first one.  All of the songs are very folksy with minimal production.  Usually this is just up my alley, but I guess in KT's case, I like a bit of the pop component and production enhancements.

She has recently released a new album titled "Drastic Fantastic" that does seem promising.  I have only heard snippets of the songs, but at first blush, quite a few of them were enjoyable.  About half of the songs have similar styles to the "Eye To The Telescope" while the other half tend a bit more toward pop/rock.

For more information on KT, check out the entry on Wikipedia. 

For full length versions of a number of her songs, check out her MySpace site.

I was reminded today of this wonderful new artist.  I had first heard her on the season finale of "Gray's Anatomy" (the song was Keep Breathing).  I heard her again today on "Side Order Of Life" singing Breakable.  To listen to both, hop over to Ingrid's MySpace page here: http://www.myspace.com/ingridmichaelson