CONTEST: Thanks!

Thanks to all of you who participated in our first contest ever! We finally decided on a winner, and they will be receiving their very own Tristan Prettyman tank top very soon.

It was actually really hard to decide on a winner, because so many of them were pretty great. Really. You should go back and check them out here. And while you're at it, here's one more Tristan tune to spin to really make it feel like summer. Enjoy.

Tristan Prettyman - Hello

from the album Hello (Amazon/iTunes)

CONTEST: Our first contest ever!!

It's summer.

A change of seasons, a change of pace, and a change of mind.
Also, a new Tristan Prettyman album.
We don't think this is a coincidence.
Tristan makes music that heralds back to a warmer time.

And as a special treat to celebrate her new album, Hello, we're giving away a very special lady's tanktop that Tristan designed for Elwood Clothing , perfect for summertime wearing (click on the image for a closer look).

All you need to do to enter to win this lovely little item is leave us a poem. That's right. A poem. It doesn't have to be some great work of literary merit, but it does need to be about summer.
Road trips, family vacations, no school, no responsibilities, summer flings.....the possibilities are endless.
Just go wild with it, and leave it in our comments section.
We'll even give you an example:

I'm unemployed and friendless
Dating is one huge mess
Wish I hadn't woken up, wish I'd died
But I go on, cause it's warm outside.

Ok ok, so we may have just set the bar pretty high, but I think everyone can handle something like that, especially since we have an extremely liberal definition of what constitutes a poem.
Submit as many poems as you want, we'll be looking for our favorite. Make sure you check back often for when we announce the winner.

In the meantime, sit back, prop your feet up, and bask in the soft radiance of Tristan's voice.

Tristan Prettyman - New Soul (Yael Naim cover)

ARTIST: Love love love

I can say with 100% confidence and without the least bit of apology that Tristan Prettyman is one of the most attractive singer/songwriters of all time.
She also makes some pretty good music.
And she is also very beautiful.

Tristan and I actually shared the stage a couple years ago at a club in Park City one cold February night. She sang and performed on it while I sat on it, still technically sharing the stage. (I was also sharing the stage with my date, a fact that escaped me shortly after Tristan started singing. I came to just in time to remember to take her home. Thus, I remain a great guy and a great date.)

Tristan is Jack Johnson and G. Love all rolled into one, but with a breathy female voice that just makes me melt. I think another beautiful talented woman is just what the Singer/Songwriter genre needs right now. So instead of throwing money away on a new Dashboard Confessional CD (he claims it'll be a concept album. Ugh.), invest your money in someone deserving it.

"There's something so amazing about music; it can transform the dullest environments into beautiful places. Put it on, hear it out, look around, revel in the moment. Here lie the beauty and clarity that get you through your day."
-Tristan Prettyman

Here is the single from her new album due out April 15th.

Tristan Prettyman - Madly Madly
from the album Hello (Amazon/iTunes)

(Ok, so it appears just as soon as we post a song it stops working. I've fixed the link to still download the song, so thats something positive.)