The Muse is the title of the free sampler from American Songwriter and the February mix is a stormer featuring amongst others Sharon Van Etten, Lambchop, Hacienda, Ani DiFranco and The Wrinkle Neck Mules.

Here are a couple of our own favourites from it, the wonderful Dr. Dog with an up-tempo taste of new album Be The Void in the shape of the brilliant That Old Black Hole and taken from Kathleen Edwards excellent Voyageur album we have Change The Sheets.

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Download Dr. Dog – That Old Black Hole mp3 (from The Muse February Sampler)

Download Kathleen Edwards – Change The Sheets mp3 (from The Muse February Sampler)

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