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Mythic songwriter Cosy Sheridan and her wryly insightful songs have been showcased everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The Dr Demento Show. Sheridan is one of the pre-eminent songwriters on the folk scene documenting the lives of modern women. She places the fast-paced culture of 21st century America into a mythic context with insightful, energetic and at times comic effect. Who else would think to make botox injections the modern equivalent of the beauty cream of Persephone, Queen of the Underworld? Or to find a modern Psyche reminiscing about Eros from a women's prison?

TR Ritchie's life in music almost didn't happen. "It was the summer of my second year in college," he relates, "I got a job as a fire lookout up in Montana, but as it turned out I found myself instead on a crew building back-country trails, alongside a kid from New Jersey who played guitar. In the evening after work he'd take it out and fingerpick the blues and it was magic to me. I come from people who aren't all that musically inclined, so this kid was something. I remember thinking, 'This is it. This I gotta learn.' That fall I bought my first guitar. All these years later it's still magic, but if it'd gone the way I'd planned, if I hadn't ended up on that trail crew, with that kid for that summer, who knows where I'd be. Sometimes you just get lucky."