WKU history students Rob Carpenter and John Ruby formed the duo Muckrakers in Bowling Green. Soon the duo became band when Brian Meurer, Dave Kidd and Michah Gerdis joined. The group created six albums and won a contract with Toucan Cove Entertainment which led to the national release of Front of the Parade. The group's final concert was held in 2009 in Louisville.

A collection of original songs written by brothers Artie and Tim Johnson, Mumphville is named for their hometown of Munfordville. Most of the tracks relate to Munfordville in some way. The cover features a photo of Clark's Drugs in Munfordville. The CD was recorded in Bowling Green and mastered in Glasgow, a truly local recording. Curtis Burch of New Grass and Deadnecks plays dobro guitar on this CD and autographed the copy held in the Southern Kentucky Music Collection.

1. Standing in the Light

2. Bedtime Stories

3. Miracles from the Air

4. Eddyville

5. Bad News Hughes

6. Slow Conversation

7. Grace

8. Old Fashion Dances

9. Loraine

10. Ina Faye

11. Southern Rivers

12. My Love's Dream

A trio made up of J.D. Minor aka Da Juice, Ed Fred and Mumbles formed in 2003. The group was named for Bowling Green's downtown park by Tommy Starr. The self-titled CD includes tracks: Conduct, Offset, Shelter, Seen from Above, Song, Driven and Asphyxiation. The group plays a mix of punk and heavy metal.

Fordsville native Mike Farmer is the Kentucky Prophet. A rapper and WKU grad he moved to Los Angeles in 2001 to pursue a career in music. After a brief stint on the telvision show Beat the Geeks, Farmer returned to Kentucky. He describes himself as a rapper, singer and comedian. Farmer has also fronted for Technology vs. Horse with Matt Bitner, David Prater, Josh Hines and Rafe Heltsley.

Brain Rap includes:

1. Kentucky Prophet Theme Song

2. Holland

3. Somehooow

4. Valet Parking at the Player's Ball

5. Mutant Hootchie Mamas

6. Emperor of Ithaca

See also "Music from the Hill: James Michael Farmer, A Big Voice in Local Alternative Music," by Jack Montgomery in the October 2010 issue of The Amplifier available in the Kentucky Library.

Bazuka Jo was a blues and classic rock cover band made up of Chip Kingrey, Andy Wells and Randy Rush that emerged out of Panster. The group was a mainstay at Picasso's.

Brand New World CD by Bazuka Jo, includes tracks:

1. Why Don't We Try

2. No One at Home

3. Out in the Country

4. Elivs

5. The Way it Goes

6. You Tell Me

7. Look Around

8. Money

9. You're Gonna Pay

10. A Dream

Skip Bethune, Matt Presby, Curtis Burch and Jeff Yurkowski make up the Deadnecks. The songs were written by Karl Richards and Bowling Green resident Skip Bethune. Guitar player Matt Presby was a member of the Pure Prairie League. Originally from Florida, he now lives in Lexington. Dobro player Curtis Burch is a former member of New Grass. Kentucky native Jeff Yurkowski plays keyboards and accordian.

What Was I Thinkin? is the followup to the group's hit debut Tornados and Trailers, which is also part of the Southern Kentucky Music Collection.

Dementia Cookie Box was a project begun in 1996 by Nicholasville native musician and visual artist Steven Baker. The music is influenced by early 1990's rock bands. A variety of Baker's friends have performed with him as DCB. He came to Bowling Green about 2006 to study Art Education at WKU. Baker creates his music and records alone in the studio and then assembles a band to perform in public.

No Rest for Heroes: The Return of White Debbie contains tracks:

1. Planting the Seed

2. Ginger Tree

3. You Alive

4. I Know

5. The Sorrow Stomp

6. Flaw

7. Arrogant Lethargy

8. Street Clown

9. Run Away

10. Mission to Mars

11. Kings Without Queens

12. Hidden Enemy

13. Have Duck Tea (Abductee)

14. No Rest for Heroes

See also "Music from the Hill: The Alt-Rock Sounds of Steven Baker and His Dementia Cookie Box," by Jack Montgomery in The Amplifier, November 2010 available in the Kentucky Library.

Dr. Richard Voakes tribute to ragtime pioneer and Bowling Green native Ernest Hogan. Voakes, a pediatrician with a love for music, began obtaining Hogan's compositions in 2002. From there he began to arrange and compose new instrumental renditions. These songs were compiled in this CD produced in 2006.

Ernest Hogan, born Ernest Reuben Crowdus in 1865, lived in the Shake Rag District through the 1870's. As a teenager, Hogan hit the road with a minstrel show and began composing music which he termed ragtime. He went on to have a career on Broadway, producing, staging and starring in The Oyster Man in 1907 Hogan's success was short-lived as he died of tuberculosis in 1909 at age 44.

Devastation Device is a heavy metal band out of London, Kentucky. The members are Jared Harris (vocals), Bobby Jones (guitar), Jordy Davis (guitar), Josh Jones (bass and Jonathan Martin (drums). The group formed September 2008 and Nuclear Dawn was their first CD. According to the band, the music "is an audible onslaught of crushing riffs, catchy chorus's and a good amount of headbanging brutality."

Recording of the Bowling Green High School A Cappella Choir singing traditional Christmas music.

CD by heavy metal band Basement, includes tracks:

1. Down

2. Come On

3. Never Behind

4. Grain

5. Sound

6. Forever Cold

7. Black Sea

8. Ecstasy

9. Circus of Pain

10. Breakdown

11. Believe

Self-titled CD by Off Center includes tracks:

1. Spell on You

2. School Me

3. In Like Flynn

4. That Pointed View

5. My Imagination

6. Dead Ringer

7. Finger and Thumb

8. Indifferent

9. If I

10. Little Girl

11. 2 Shy

Demo single by David K. Boles, contains two versions of his song The Price We Pay.

Gary Brewer's grandfather performed with the Carter Family and taught Maybelle Carter to play Wildwood Flower. Gary and the Kentucky Ramblers continue to play traditional bluegrass and compose new bluegrass songs. This CD includes tracks:

1. Going Fishing With Dad

2. I'll Be Danged

3. Pretty Women/Fast Horses

4. Old William Smith

5. A Mother's Love

6. Rich Beggar Man

7. Rosine, Kentucky

8. There's Better Times a'Coming

9. The Last Petal

10. My Sweet Little Cherokee

11. Memories of Home

12. I've Got Over

13. This Morning at Nine

14. Y'all Come.

The Outskirts is a pop music band from Bowling Green made up of Ruth Burch (guitar and vocals), Janine Keirnan (bass and vocals), Susan Morris (vocals) and Alice Templeton (guitar and vocals). Nathan Williams joined the group as guest artist on the Running from Rescue CD.

The group was formed by members of the larger Lender Be band and originally called themselves Second Nature. In 1993 or 1994 the group changed the name to The Outskirts. Susan Morris has described their music as "a wonderful eclectic mix of folk, soft rock, country and blues."

Read more about the band in Jack Montgomery's "Our Musical Memories: The Outskirts," in the May 2009 issue of The Amplifier, available in the Kentucky Library.

Demo CD of folk music composed and performed by Virginia of Burkesville, Kentucky. Includes tracks:

1. Iowa Girl

2. Honor Your Tribe

3. Run for Cover

4. Match My Speed

5. What About Jenny?

6. Lady

7. Real Revolution

8. Playing on the Blonde