Wednesday May 18th

7pm We have Joshua Sanders. Joshua Sanders’ music has recently been receiving radio airplay on Americana/country radio (WICR 88.7 in Indianapolis) as well as internet radio (Terry Ann McClean's Bluegrass Mix). Josh’s songwriting shows the influences of his two longtime heroes, Bruce Springsteen and Townes van Zandt. Though a native of New York City, he became corrupted driving cross country on his way to college in California when he heard local bands covering “Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too Young to Marry” and “Mama Don’t Let You Babies Grow up to be Cowboys”. A summer spent hanging out in Santa Barbara and listening to country bands covering Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash tunes at the now defunct Sportsman Bar sealed the deal Josh’s musical background is primarily in jazz, blues and bluegrass. He studied voice in Los Angeles with Susan Strietwieser and in New York with Janie Barnett; guitar in Los Angeles with Gary Mandell of Boulevard Music and in New York with Glenn Alexander and Matt Smith. He is currently studying with New York City guitar legend Robin Greenstein and performs regularly at small venues in and around NYC and the Hudson Valley. Mr. Sanders' early band experience was primarily electric blues, which he found was tremendously helpful in terms of putting all those lessons to some kind of practical use, as well as figuring out how to work with the bass and drums to form a singular sound. Since 1999 he has attended several songwriting circles here in New York, with a goal, rarely achieved, of writing one song every week.

8pm, all the way from Phoenix, AZ, we are proud to have, Brian Chartrand. Brian Chartrand has been writing and performing his songs for over 15 years. When he is not touring the US and recording as a solo singer/songwriter, he performs with his bands: The Sweet Remains, The Voce Project, and Ten Dollar Outfit. Brian’s most recent endeavor, The Voce Project, is currently in the studio completing their first studio record with famed producer Clarke Rigsby at Tempest Recording Studio in Tempe, AZ. The Sweet Remains recently released it’s debut album “Laurel & Sunset.” Their single “What I’m Looking For” was featured twice in a nationwide advertising campaign for Subaru. Since it’s inception in 2005, Ten Dollar Outfit has independently released 6 albums, and continues to help define the music scene in Phoenix, Arizona, Brian’s new hometown. Since 2009, Brian has completed three European tours, which have taken him through Norway, Denmark, Holland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.

at 9pm, we have the amazing talent of Peter Kirk who will be joined by Jared McCarthy to perform as an acoustic duo. Here's what some peeps are saying about Peter... "...single-handedly put a stamp on catchy-as-fuck, melodramatic, highly-produced songs reminiscent of the 80's finest pop songs. You'll have these tunes stuck in your head all day, and you might even begin imagining yourself walking through the intro of some long-forgotten TV show."-Cold Atlantic "Brings a fresh voice to the male vocalist role"-Sad Steve" Peter Kirk is a one man operation who must be a production master because his EP, "Chasing Rainbows," is incredibly polished. Every little nuance in a track serves a kick ass purpose."-The Coughing Dog "These tracks are great and they bring back memories of blasting Phil Collins while out on the quad." -Vibe to This

at 10pm, we have Suitcase...We know he's from New York and that he's had 66,707 profile views on his MySpace. We're guessing some of his profile viewers include Sting's daughter Coco and 2007 New Band Esser, because they're among his eight MySpace friends, although whether they socialise in person we haven't a clue.

So we've got no information on him, we don't know his name, anything about his past, whether he has credentials or a back catalogue. Like we say, we're driving blind. But we have got ears and there are four songs on his MySpace from which to draw conclusions. Our main conclusion, listening to his gruff vocals over fuzztone guitar, is that he's the American Seasick Steve. Seasick Steve is American? OK, then he's Seasick Steve, period. Or think of him as a replacement White Stripes, only minus Meg, and without Jack's overbearing ego.

The MySpace URL refers to a suitcase AND a laptop. We have no idea why this is or what role, if any, the laptop plays, because this is the least computer-generated music we have heard since the time Robert Johnson came round our house with Blind Willie McTell and had a stand-up row about whose turn it was to plug in the guitar. It might have been a sit-down row, it was a long time ago. The point is: the guitar's electric, but electronica this ain't.

No, it's the blues, pure and simple, with fuzz for frills. And that's it. You can tell Mr Case – Suit to his friends – is singing the blues from the titles. Fishing With the Devil is one. My Friend Devil is another. He does a lot of consorting with the devil, does ol' Casey. On the latter he growls, "I sold my soul to the devil and I'm feeling fine". All right for some. It's not all satanic, though. Nails in My Coffin and Diving Duck aren't that far removed from Cor Baby, That's Really Free, the No 27 novelty hit from December 1977 by John Otway (and Wild Willy Barrett) that was basically a gift to buskers everywhere. This has about as much chance of getting to No 27 as I Blame Coco.

Finally, at 11pm... Session 73 is proud to have Michael Brunnock join us for the first time! Irish Singer/songwriter Michael Brunnock performing Session 73 April 13th 11pm
' I just went to see a screening of
"This must be the Place" . It is really great . Sean Penn at his best !
I'm singing the songs of David Byrne and Will Oldham on the soundtrack. I will be performing some songs from the movie in the next couple of shows .
I have my own album in the works - 'The Orchard" releasing to coincide with the movie soundtrack.
I believe the movie will be on general release in September . You can follow me on twitter @michaelbrunnock
Go on !'