Lest we Forget: The Weight's Ten Mile Grace

Joseph Plunkett's The Weight are an Athens country band, now based in Brooklyn; their 2004 album Ten Mile Grace is an ignored or never acknowledged gem.  At its best it is country-rock album with echoes of Johnny Cash, Steve Earle or the Stones.  Try these for size:

mp3 The Weight: Hate Myself

mp3 The Weight: Ships

From another, try this:

mp3 The Weight: Black Roses

As far as I can divine, the only stuff available is on emusic, DRM-free here.

The exciting news is that they're up and running again; see their myspace here.