New Folk City Records, formerly 109 Records - label of the Anti-Folk movement takes off
where it left off 20 years later to bring independent artists to the people. Relax and Listen to the sounds of New Folk.

PLAYLIST:
1. Histoire d'Amour - Alain Rozan
2. Hillbilly Rapper - Jef Kooper
3. Chai Song - Julie Ann Layne
4. In The Pines - Paul Kostabi
5. Two Halves - Pamela Means
6. Going Cross The Mountain - Tod Purcell

6. Tod Purcell was born in Connecticut and started playing in rock bands at the age of 13. He traveled the country as a trumpet player with the U.S Air Force Band in the 1960's and in the 1970's he was a touring musician in Southern Europe with Spanish psychedelic guitar legend Gualberto Garcia Perez. Tod sang and played 12-string guitar with Gualberto on the 1975 album "A La Vida, Al Dolor." In the 1980's Tod was a founding member of the Old #7 Band, playing an eclectic mix of cowboy, country & western, Irish traditional, folk, and country/rock music at festivals and concert halls all over the East Coast. Tod, who also plays the Irish whistle and mandolin, then played with an Irish traditional music group and has since done studio work, writing and performing dozens of songs across a variety of genres. He lives in Connecticut. Going Cross The Mountain is a traditional folk song that came to be identified with Frank Proffitt. This Old #7 Band arrangement features Tod Purcell on lead vocal and playing acoustic guitar along with Bill Shute, with Tom Conger on bass and vocals and Lisa Null joining Tod on harmony.

5. Pamela Means was born in Milwaukee, WI, where she studied classical guitar and jazz at the WI Conservatory, then ultimately relocated to the east coast. From the recording of her first tape in the living room of Violent Femmes' bassist, Brian Ritchie, Means has since released seven critically acclaimed albums, including a fantastic foray into jazz, strummed a hole in TWO acoustic guitars, and lived in Boston, New York City and the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts. Averaging 150+ shows a year, accumulating awards and accolades along the way, including Milwaukee's Best Acoustic Act (twice!), WI Folk Artist of the Year, WI Female Vocalist of the Year, Top Ten Album of the Year (Pamela Means Jazz Project, Vol. 1), Most Wanted New Artist (Falcon Ridge Folk Festival), and a Boston Music Award nomination, Means is ever the consummate songwriter and performer.Pamela has shared the stage with artists including Ani DiFranco, Joan Baez, Neil Young, Shawn Colvin, Richie Havens, Patty Larkin, Melissa Ferrick, Violent Femmes, Pete Seeger, Janis Ian, Holly Near and many others.

4. Paul Kostabi, born in Whittier, California, is an artist, musician, and producer. Going by the nickname "ENA", he is the son of Estonian war refugees who fled to the United States following the Soviet occupation of Estonia. He is the brother of artist Mark Kostabi. Kostabi was a founding member of the following bands: Youth Gone Mad (1981) White Zombie (1984) and Psychotica. In 2002, Kostabi joined friends Dee Dee Ramone and CJ Ramone on "Blitzkrieg Bop" at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, along with Daniel Rey, Christian Martucci, Stefan Adika, and Marky Ramone. This was the last time these Ramones ever shared a stage. Paul has also performed and recorded with False Alarm Hammerbrain and is currently going on a world tour with Psychotica. Kostabi in 2006 opened a recording studio, Thunderdome studios in Piermont, New York. Where he records and produces such bands as The Willowz, Los Gattos, Barracks, Urban Waste, Cults, Psychotica, Love Pirates,GLINT and Paleface.

3. Julie Ann (Layne) McClain was born in Palo Alto, California in 1959, just in time for CSN&Y, Jimi, Joni, and Janis to be the soundtrack for her primary school years. At the age of 4, she was playing piano by ear, at 6 she wrote her first song on the way to kindergarten. She learned guitar at 14, joined a garage band at 15 and began studio work as a vocalist at 18. Julie has since released 3 full play cds of original music including the self-produced Daughter of the Dark Blue Gates, Pendulum, produced by Johannes Luley and Creekside, produced by longtime collaborator Robert Powell. Julie has appeared in coffee houses, San Francisco rock clubs, International Forgiveness Day and various benefits over the past 25 years. A very happy marriage and a deep dive into the world of painting graces her recent music with rich colors and evermore of her abiding passion for life. She is currently working on her fourth album, slated for release in 2011.

2. Jef Kooper was born in Staten Island, New York in 1958 in the dust of the Manhattan Project. Jef grew into the psychedelic seventies nurtured by early trips with The Dead, Moody Blues, Frank Zappa. A self-professed Dylan freak, Jef saw the play “American Song, the story of Woody Guthrie” and began to write. His evocative psychedelic folk style weaves comedy and content into original compositions. Jef’s first album, “Nightwatch” by Sentinel was recorded at the studio Steve Miller built in Southern Oregon, now “the studio at Pacifica Gardens”. Jef performs regularly with fiddle and dobro legends Willie Warwick and Al Brinkerhoff, as well as “State of Jefferson” trumpet great Mikey Stevens, a lifetime collaborator who has contributed many melodies to Jef’s body of work. Hillbilly rapper was inspired by a face-off with a possum. Jef has been organic farming in Southern Oregon for three decades, and lives with his wife of twenty-five years, Lori Hava.

1. Alain Rozan was born in France and immigrated to the United States in 1981. Alain started writing songs and playing guitar at the age of 13 after hearing the Bob Dylan record “The Times They are a Changin”. He writes and sings in French and English and could be categorized as a French folk and American folk/rock singer songwriter. He has played in many New York venues such as Life Café, Bar B, Lakeside Lounge and at many Bastille Day celebrations including a legendary one in 1995 where he sang 3 songs 23 times in 23 different restaurants/clubs in one day and without amplification, accompanied only by his dear friend, Walter Kuehr, the New York master of the accordion. Alain is also an actor and played in several French plays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Anhouilh, among others, under the direction of the late Marcel Lidji and his Studio Dramatique. He lives in New York City. Histoire d'Amour was written and sung by Alain and features Erik Della Penna (guitarist to Joan Baez and Nathalie Merchant) on guitar.