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Lena Maude Wilson has a realistic outlook on what it means to be a singer-songwriter, though maybe she's a bit too modest.

She wrote this in response to a Facebook interview: "I've attempted to reach out but it's hard to get responses. Who am I anyway? There's certainly good reasons to be apprehensive about 'up and coming' singer-songwriters."

Yes, there are a lot of them; seemingly more all the time.

Yet Lena Maude is definitely worth a…

Note:I use the word 'dark' in the lead paragraph here. Steve was gracious about the blog post, but doesn't like the word. He believes it implies mystically dark or evil, which is not what I intend. I mean stark and brooding at times, but definitely not dark dark.

Steve Buse's…

Many of my fellow Michiganders are up in arms because Wisconsin has a new promo claiming the state looks like a mitten. Well, everyone knows that Michigan is the state that really looks like a hand.

But I do want to ask people in my state to be nice. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of…

One big hurdle for a tribute act is whether or not the singer/band look like the artist being imitated.

In The Name Of - a Black Sabbath tribute band that includes Dave Hall of Cedar on Bass - has Ozzy Osbourne nailed. That's Eddie Janes of the Flint area on vocals in this new promo vid, both looking and sounding like the Oz-meister.

And…