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This weeks Music Monday is somewhat of a departure from our regular musical path, but no less impressive or brilliant. This week we highlight emerging Americana artist Jesse Woods who combines classic country sound with his 90's kid upbringing. Born in Katy, Texas, Jesse originally started out on a path to American Football, becoming the star of his High School football team and earning a scholarship to Texas A&M to play wide receiver for the Aggies. Unfortunately for his footballing career, but fortunate for us as music lovers, a series of injuries cut short his playing career and he decided to turn to music. He cites his influences growing up as the gospel music his father would listen to which taught him about the correct use of harmonies, the explosion of grunge music he listened to as a rebellious teenager and the singer songwriters of the sixties and seventies that he discovered as a young man in High School. His debut album 'Get Your Burdens...

Prolific folk singer-songwriter Iron and Wine is set to release his fifth studio album 'Ghost on Ghost' next week and the good folks over at NPR have managed to snag themselves a stream of the album for our enjoyment!   Sam Beam, from North Carolina, released his first album under the moniker Iron and Wine titled 'The Creek Drank The Cradle' on Sub Pop records in 2002. The album was entirely written, performed, recorded and produced by Beam in his home studio and featured acoustic guitars, banjos and slide guitars, drawing a number of comparisons to Nick Drake, Simon Garfunkel and Neil Young In 2004, Beam released his second studio album 'Our Endless Numbered Days', this time recording in a professional studio in Chicago with acclaimed music producer Brian Deck. The sound of his second album differed slightly, due to the inclusion of other band members for the first time and with the increase in production quality. In the same year, the hit movie...