I also recommend the new Josh Ritter. I have a couple of his older discs - The Golden Age of Radio, which is not bad, and Hello Starling, which I think is excellent. The new one hasn't struck me as positively as Hello Starling yet, but it is very good. I'll have to give this Damian Jurado a listen as well. I have a couple of his songs from old issues of Paste, but I don't know much about him. I see that emusic has lots of his stuff - any recommendations of where to start?