©   Week Beginning Monday, November 17th, 2008!

                 "roots in rock - branches everywhere" ©

▲ Upwardly mobile songs!   More than a two hundred different songs by Great Tampa Bay artists are heard every day.  Top 10 songs as ranked in the Great 48 above normally rotate approximately once every 5 hours, next 15 songs every 7-1/2 hours, and the bottom tier songs every 10 hours.   Approximately 150 additional, unlisted songs -  including NEW MUSIC - out of a total of more than 400 in the MTB Music Library are heard once or twice daily each.  Feature Artists are heard once each hour.                                                                             Playlists and site contents are subject to additions and deletions daily. 

	1	I Need Your Love	Soul Purpose	2nd Week #1
▲	2	Laylah's Theme	Winfield Davis	Tampa Bay's Smooth Jazz Maestro!
	3	Tet	Jim Sommers	Still shell shocked
	4	Rebecca's Ghost	Leigh Humes	Haunting ballad
▲	5	Water on Mars	Larry Reidt
	6	I Can't Undo Loving You	Stone Marmot
▲	7	Explosion of Love	Noah Chadee & Robert Andrew
	8	Slapped In The Face	Guitar Daddy	Kicked in the butt
	9	Long Grass and Tall Trees	Steve Vaclavik	No place to hide
	10	So She Says	The Uncertains
	11	Looking For Me	Soulfound
	12	Same Thing	David Shelley	Shelley Smokes!
	13	One Love	Fremont John
	14	Shell	Basic Rock Outfit	Zepplin Resurrected
▲	15	Goodtime Girls	Maxx
	16	Lights On	Jeremy (Gloffy) Gloff	Turn it up!
	17	A Girl I Knew	Offshore Riot	Onshore Hit.
	18	Wag More, Bark Less	Rob Gorley & Jeff Stottlar
▲	19	Sub Sonic	TY<>LEN - J.L. Tyche & David Leonard	Pink Floyd vibrations
	20	Be The Change	Dawn Willey	Yes We Can
	21	Life of My Own	Stormbringer	This band never quits
▲	22	Rage	Baluja	2009 BAAMO CD Artist-Elect
	23	Pissed	Abstract	Payin' attention?
	24	Leaving Stepford	Stephanie Carpenter	Arriving in Tampa Bay!
	25	Jack's St Pete Blues	Ronny Elliot
	26	Hit The Lights	Arietta
▲	27	Mojo	Koncrete Kite	Dedicated to Ken & Sandra Thomas
	28	She Marvels	Paul J. Watkins	Spoken Word, Soulful Sound
▲	29	Valerie's Theme	Bobby Palermo	Surprisingly beautiful
	30	Come All Ye Sinners	Have Gun Will Travel	Repent
▲	31	Mis Amigos Perditos	Jak Kelly	Jak never gets old
	32	City Lights	Variety Worskshop
▲	33	I'll Be Your Fool	Sarasota Slim
▲	34	Fashion Show	Awesome
	35	Freedom Time	Tribal Style
▲	36	Let's Go Shopping at the Mall	Lucian and the All Starts
	37	Don't Wanna Know	4 Star Riot	One of Bay's Hottest Bands
	38	Broke Down Engine	Damon Fowler Group	New National Recording Contract Artist
	39	Big Mouth	Soul Purpose	2 songs in Great 48
	40	Love Beneath Our Feet	Morrison's Code
▲▲	41	Remain	Rob Kosinski
	42	Liberty City	Greg Poulous with Greg Billings
▲	43	Southern Jewel	The River Boys
	44	Fourth Avenue Sharp	Tom Stewart
▲	45	Haunted by Chains	Mathew Halpern
▲	46	Jericho's Wall	Fremont John
	47	My Kind of Thing	Soulfound	The Bay's Band to Watch
	48	Wanton Soup	Offshore Riot	Delicious rhythm, tasty lyrics.

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MTB music is NOT genre specific.  Every conceivable kind and era of music - dating back so far to the 1970's - is included:  all kinds of rock, country, rap, blues, ballads, jazz, head bangers and screamers, contemporary Christian, and even something resembling big band can be heard.  The only criteria used is that the artists, musicians, writers and/or composers must be recognized as part of the local Tampa Bay music scene.  Songs recorded in local Tampa Bay studios are also generally included in this category, if the talent involved is not signed to a major recording company or recognized nationally.  Also, artists from other parts of Florida, may be included, provided they are current or occasional performers at Tampa Bay venues.  

More than a thousand local solo artists and groups, as found on www.TampaBayMusicScene.com and other sources, are all being targeted in the ongoing on-line MTB continuous music streaming format. Downloads from various band sites, and numerous contacts already well established, are already being compiled for addition to the existing playlist.  MTB also purchases local CDs and downloads, though budget restraints limit the number of these transactions over time.  Songs are also "ripped" from MySpace and other on-line sources.  Permission sought from artists by email or other means to included these within MTB programming.

MTB Goes Vinyl.  Music Tampa Bay added a brand new turntable (no kidding) to its hardware mix in 2005.  Older recordings of local groups on 33-1/3 & 45 rpm records are now being added to the MTB Classic collection.  The first local "golden oldie" (added 9/05) is the song I've Been Thnkin' from the 1977 Boot LP Turn The Other Cheek.   While in fairly good condition, some record groove static and a few nicks can be heard in this almost 30 year old mp3 dub.  MTB is anxious to add classics from other bay area musicians.  Anyone who can provide any good classic local recordings is urged to contact MTB. 

MTB accepts audition and demo recordings, promotional CDs, tapes, records and digital audio files, along with bios and artist information and current activities if appropriate.  Send materials to MTB, PO Box 11874, St Petersburg, FL 33733, or by email file attachment to link at MTB, or by any convenient means.  

♫ MTB MUSIC - It is hoped the songs and artists displayed above, and heard on MTB will provide a showcase for the rich heritage of local talent which is clearly in abundance in and around "Great Tampa Bay".   Songs are ranked by a variety of criteria, most notably:

        ♫ frequency, longevity and current status of local appearances by the artist(s)

        ♫ recording production quality

        ♫ media exposure in newspapers and TV & radio

        ♫ artist and fan response by email and on MTB Contact and MySpace pages

         ♫ availability and marketing of CD's and on-line listening and download capability

and to some extent,

        ♫ artistic and creative ability displayed in each recording made available to MTB for web-play. 

With some exception, MTB does not, however, attempt to determine what constitutes talent or the degree of musical ability revealed in songs, as it is felt these are generally subjective qualities that can truly only be determined by listeners.  This rule might be interpreted as "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", or more appropriately, "great music is in the ear of the listener".  To this extent, listener feedback is a critical component in the determination of what is heard on Music Tampa Bay, and what is not. 

Footnote: The "exception" to the general criteria described above refers to the purging of ear-shattering, head-banging, soul-wrenching selections often described as punk, grunge, heavy & death metal, industrial, and other versions that might be collectively regarded as "hard rock", and ascribing these songs to what broadcast radio has come to recognize as certain day-parts, primarily late at night and/or in selective time slots on weekends.  Other genres such as gangsta rap and  hip hop may also be bunched in with the "hard rock" group for selective listening, though moderate and well produced rap is often heard in the general MTB collection.  Some rather obscure music types such as something called porn groove, new wave, chants, jungle and others not yet identified may appear on rare occasion, though not likely to be part of the normal MTB music mix.   It may also be noted that so far, not one single polka has shown up in the search of Great Tampa Bay music, though if a decent quality song in this genre is uncovered, it may well reach the regular rotation of the "MTB Great 48". Finally, a certain "Trade Secret" cited in making decisions regarding web-play on this site simply refers to the personal preference and special interest in artists and songs by your MTB host.