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Nathaniel Street-West

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MUSIC WE PUT ON THIS SITE IS OFTEN UNRELEASED ALTERNATIVE, EXPERIMENTAL TRACKS. If you really want to hear NATHANIEL STREET WEST'S music in raging Hi-Fi ((THE FORMALLY RELEASED ALBUMS) and catch up on the latest news,
VISIT THE OFFICAL SITE HERE. Click on the music button on the main site to hear selections from my three releases on Puffin Records, "WITNESS" (2006), "AMERICAN WAY" (2004), and "LIGHT OUT FOR THE TERRITORY" (2003). A total of 42 songs!! A new release is now being mastered and will be out in June 2009 — only a few weeks away.
..The "WITNESS" CD is Available Now
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"The extraordinary depth of character and feeling Nathaniel Street West presents here as a songwriter, arranger, producer, singer, and guitarist indicate a prodigious talent at work" --CDBABY.com
Watch this-here MySpace page for NEW and EXPERIMENTAL things, such as songs you're not likely to hear elsewhere (Special Releases & the like.) Thanks All for listening with your hearts and your minds.
A new video from a 2007 performance at BB Kings, Hollywood. Name of the song? Personal Jesus - Nathaniel Street-West LIVE

Read my blog for updates, notes and other stuff. Sorry it’s been such a bore up till’ now but I’m just getting the hang of it (what makes a good blog anyway? et…), and I never know what I might write stream-of-consciousness-wise for my friends to read. Shall be more interesting when I’m back out on the road I suppose!

A new video from a recent performance at BB Kings, Hollywood. Name of the song? Personal Jesus - Nathaniel Street-West LIVE

Personal Jesus - Nathaniel Street-West Live

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A new video of a recent live performance, BB Kings - Hollywood. The name of the song? I'm A Fool To Want You - Nathaniel Street-West LIVE

Im A Fool To Want You

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Here's a clip of my appearance on the show "Frequency" slated to air on local Public Television Stations all over the world in the near future. You can see & read more about it + see all the other artists that will be on the show (Ben Harper / Corinne Bailey Rae / & many others…) See www.fastfocus.tv

Nathaniel Street-West - PBS television video

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A shout out to a few of the radio stations spinning my tunes- including songs from my 2006 release "Witness" and also songs from my first two releases: "American Way" & "Light Out For the Territory":KRVS 88.7 FM - Lafayette, Louisiana KDUR 93.9 FM/91.9 FM - Durango, Colorado WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Bangor, and East Orland, Maine WXPN - 85.5 FM - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania WMNF - 88.5 FM - Tampa, Florida WERS 88.9 FM - Boston, Massachusetts WDPS 88.5 FM - Dayton, Ohio WMFO 91.5 FM - Boston, Massachusetts KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota KVNF 90.9 & 99.1 FM - Paonia, Colorado WEVL 89.9 FM - Memphis, Tennessee KRCL 90.9 - Salt Lake City, Utah WMKY 90.3 FM Morehead, Kentucky WMUA - 91.1FM - UMass, Amherst, Massachusetts WBRS - 100.1 FM - Brandeis Univ. Boston, Massachusetts WMSV - 91.1 FM Starkville, Mississippi WMUG 105.1 FM Indiana County, Pennsylvania KLC 97.5 FM - Lewis and Clark College - Portland, Oregon KSUB - Seattle Univ. - Seattle, Washington WSRI-75 - Univ. of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Wisconsin KRNL - 89.7 - Cornell College - Mt. Vernon, Iowa WJAB - 90.9 Alabama A&M University - Huntsville, Alabama WCCS - 1160 AM - The Voice of Indiana County Indiana, Pennsylvania (Street-West was interviewed for an hour about the 'Witness' cd. August 2006) XM SATELLITE RADIO - TV & Satellite [for XM RADIO Tune in to either: Channel 43 & XM RADIO online, or Direct TV (Channel 831). www.xmradio.com [Street-West was named 'America On Line Artist of the Week', August 10, 2006 on XM Satellite Radio]
ONLINE RADIO PLAY:WOODSONGS OLDTIME RADIO HOUR - Lexington, TN: http://www.woodsongs.com ACOUSTIC HOUR RADIO and Web show: acoustichour.blogspot.com BLUEPOWER RADIO - Live 365 - www.BluePower.com WCH - The Wave - St. Louis, MO - www.wchradio.com BUZZ RADIO - Ajax, Ontario, Canada RADIO CRYSTAL BLUE - New York City NY - http://www.radiocrystalblue.com GREEN ARROW RADIO - www.greenarrowradio.com TEXAS NOISE LIVE 365- Austin, Texas - www.texasnoise.com WHOLE WHEAT Radio - Talkeetna, Alaska - www.wholewheatradio.com RADIO PARADISE - Paradise, California - www.radioparadise.com GIDA FOLK Radio KILL RADIO.ORG - Los Angeles, CA - www.killradio.org **I did an hour long interview here with my drummer, Jimmy Paxson in July 2006.
BLOGS, PODCASTS, & MISCELLANEOUS SIGHTINGS: THE FEVERED BRAIN RADIO OF RADIO MIKE NETWORK & PODCAST: http://radiomike.libsyn.com/index.php?post_year=2006&pos t_m..10 I'M JUST A GIRL WITH A ONE TRACK MIND: A MUSIC LIST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/12/053427.php ON THE HORIZON BLOG & PODCAST: http://theothnetwork.com/blog/?page_id=98 BRIGHT EYES NEWS BLOG: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:5unA-yZkH58J:www.topix.n et/who/bright-eyes/2006/10+%22Nathaniel+Street+West%22&h l=en&ct=clnk&cd=100&gl=us AVID BEAUTY PODCASTS: http://www.avidbeauty.com/playlist/IndieFeed_Indie_Pop_Music MTRACKS MUSIC COMMUNITY: http://www.mtraks.com/genre/jazz/adult_contemporary MTRACKS MUSIC COMMUNITY: http://www.mtraks.com/genre/rock/alternative_rock EQ MAGAZINE September 2006 issue SWING DANCE NETWORK: www.usaswingnet.com/top_dj_tunes.htm NATIONAL DJ'S TOP TEN LIST (August, 2006) Hot Music Picks of Americas Top Swing DeeJays Song: "Reconsider Baby", Album: 'Light Out For the Territory' (2003) ODEO INDIE FEED: Indie-Pop - www.odeo.com MUSIC GORILLA: Play It For the Labels!: http://www.musicgorilla.com/message%20board/forum_posts.asp? TID=1069 MOJO DREAMS::HOGTOWN - hogtown.project1440.com THE HYPE MACHINE - http://hype.non-standard.net STREET KNOWLEDGE: CONSCIOUS MUSIC BLOG THE TRUE MIX: WORD ON THE STREETS - http://blogs.stolenmixtape.com ABC NEWS - C/Net Download.com (**many songs named as "EDITOR'S PICKs" on ABC News.) - http://abcnews.com NEW MUSIC TALENT: www.spectrumentertainment.net/newmusicaltalent/artists.html RHAPSODY IN BLOG: http://xpn885greatest.blogspot.com/2005_05_29_archive.html
I WORK WITH AND CAN BE SEEN ON: EVOLUTION PROMOTION - www.evolutonpromotion.com/artists FAST FOCUS TV: www.fastfocus.tv KWEEVAK RADIO- www.kweevak.com ** Review of the "Witness" cd here IODA PROMONET: promonet.iodalliance.com FRESH TRACKS - Brave Journal: http://freshtracks.bravejournal.com INDIE FEED FOLK AMERICANA: http://indiefeedvolkamericana.libsyn.com NYC PODCAST COMMUNITY: http://community.podcastnyc.net LAST.FM: the social music revolution http://www.last.fm www.mgrande.com luz.de.tecto MONKEY PUP - www.monkeypup.org PURE VOLUME: www.purevolume.com BROADJAM: www.broadjam.com

Thanks to BURNSIDE DISTRIBUTION for actually physically putting this album on store shelves as of September 2006! My songs are digitally distributed thru IODAlliance.com - full international online distribution in every online store, including iTunes, Virgin Records, Barnes and Noble, AOL, Amazon, MSN, Napster, Rhapsody, Starbucks, Verizon Wireless...many more!

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Member Since: 14/04/2006
Band Website: http://nathanielstreetwest.com
Band Members:

Nathaniel Street-West: Lead Vocals, Lead Guitars, Lap Steel, harmonica
Band In Transition

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Influences:

So many influences... Where do I begin? From before I was born living in a house filled with music, my mother singing as she went about her day, singing me to sleep, singing my brothers & sisters to sleep. Music on the stereo: all the great classic stuff of the 60's & 70's. Since my Mom had been a teenager in San Francisco during the early 60's scene & was also a musician, the household playlist was heavily weighted with music that grew out of that scence: Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, The Band, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Neil Young, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cat Stevens, Rolling Stones, Beatles, John Lennon, plus Joan Baez & other folk-based music. In addition, the playlist was considerably balanced by classical music: Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Hayden, Vivaldi, Mozart, & Verdi - lots of Verdi.

Once I got into music on my own I rediscovered much of the same material, although I leaned more heavily in the Dylan, Joplin, Band, Hendrix, Vaughan, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & Doors direction. Southern-based rock like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Steve Earle became fundamentally important & still are. At around age 13 I began seriously writing songs and playing the guitar, gaining a deeper understanding of artists like Bessie Smith, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and delving into a passionate journey of discovery that lead into almost every conceivable source for early Blues & Americana music, especially with the wonderful resources provided from & by legends like Alan Lomax… and all the other Smithsonian Recordings recently made widely available again on CD (Vinyl IS JUST BETTER, but what can you do!? Especially sitting here writing that 'Analog' is better than 'Digital' on myspace… kinda funny).

The blues was like this thing that instantaneously when I listened felt like it was already implanted in my soul. Artists like Lead Belly, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Bessie Smith, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Bronzy, and as I already mentioned Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan are simply giants to me. Musically, they represent everything I aspire to and more. The jazz of musicians like John Coltrane, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker & Miles Davis will also always remain at the top of my influences list. Their work has, and always will, blow me away.

Along with my close friends, I had gotten seriously into early punk music, and then when Nirvana came on the scene when I was about 10 or 11 it was instant rapport; they represented a synthesis of so much that had been going on in my own mind, in the culture. Kurt Cobain is without a doubt one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

Along with the soundtrack of my life (& the fact that music IS my life), my passion runs like the Nile for literature, poetry, history, current events & politics. Early on I read everything Jack Kerouac ever wrote, devoured the work of poets like Baudelaire & Rimbaud, ploughed through the works of Ed Abbey (becoming obsessed with the country round' the 4-Corners region) and then just kept going. There are many authors who have deeply influenced my life.


Sounds Like: Critics have compared Street-West's music to a diverse group of artists from past and present ; including the work of artists such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, John Prine, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Conner Oberst - Bright Eyes and others.

Green Lands - Nathaniel Street-West LIVE

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Record Label: Puffin Records, Inc.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Album & No More Sickness&

Hello all! No, I am not dead ;)  despite rumors and what have you, I did in fact make it through this last bout of sickness.Starting approximately the week of April the 20th 2009, I began to feel well...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 13:45:00 GMT

A’ CHANGE is Coming!

I CANT BELIEVE THE ELECTION IS ONLY 7-WEEKS & 2-DAYS AWAY;Vote for Change: GET REGISTERED!
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:51:00 GMT

IndieFeed Podcast

Cool Podcast: IndieFeedYou can download their weekly Podcasts for Free through the iTunes Music Store (just search "indiefeed: blues") or their website as well (www.indiefeed.com). It's a great podcas...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:47:00 GMT

Autumn Gazing

Hello to Everyone :) I've not been out of touch for so long without good reason! I'm working as fast as my Vasculitis legs will carry me. I've got a bunch of songs tracked now with my good friend Jim...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:05:00 GMT

Wintertime&

Hope everyone is enjoying their winter! Not much weather changes out here in Southern Cali unless you count wildfires. I'm working in the studio recording my new album. Wont be out until it is finishe...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:47:00 GMT

My direction musically is changing (for the better I hope&)

If you wanna see & hear what I'm doing musically check out the recent footage below from the BB King's performance. Everything I've released so far doesn't compare to the direction I'm Just STARTING t...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:43:00 GMT

About Blackwater; Just watch & Learn CAREFULLY

Just watch this video. It speaks loudly and clearly like a clarion call for the rise of all american patriots to stand up and put this scary future on the road to NOWHERE. VIDEO: NBC4 on Blackwater in...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:18:00 GMT

New BB Kings Show

Sorry for the Reschedule of last Saturdays show. My Next performance will be in a couple weeks at the B.B. Kings Blues Club in Universal City; Saturday September 15th at 6:P.M. I'm busy preparing for ...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:09:00 GMT

Concert Reschedule

Hey all, sorry for the inconvinience. This weekends show in the 26th is gonna be rescheduled. Let ya know when there are new dates - NSW.
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:34:00 GMT

Summer Performance's & Recordings&

Had a fun time at BB Kings last week on the 21st. Went really well for my 1st show in some months. Kicking off all the cobwebs and stale studio air. Thank's to all for coming out & Listening!! I plan ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:30:00 GMT