Somewhere Someone Else, Wes Willenbring
A very nice recent acquisition via emusic.com is Somewhere Someone Else, by Wes Willenbring. The record has a really nice pace, and has a nice variety of instrumental sounds, from piano to guitar and on to more traditionally "ambient" sounding stuff. The record sounds maybe a bit "cold," but I mean that mostly in the way I meant when I was talking about the Angels of the Universe soundtrack. This means it might get pushed out of rotation for a while as spring and summer come along, but it's certainly something I see getting a lot of plays towards the end of the year. It's definitely something I recommend you have a listen to. Wes Willenbring's web site offers some tracks via streaming if you're not an emusic user.