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You can purchase our CD's online just listen to various tracks. If you like what you hear, or even if you don't, we would love to hear from you!

Enjoy your visit and many thanks! -- Bill, Robert, Joe & David.

Check out tracks from our new CD:
"Changin' My Mind"

CD is available for purchse online here

Album also available for download on iTunes

Review: "...This album is a treat and has something for everyone. The covers are masterfully done and bring something new to already-recognizable tunes. And the original works get the toe tapping and speak directly from the heart of the songwriter. This is a good album to have anywhere -- in the car with the top down, at the beach with a beer or sitting on the back porch, grilling steaks. -- Ben McNeely (North Carolina Journalist)"

**10th Anniversary of our first CD**
"Back Home Again"

Free mp3 downloads
20% off Online Purchases through Judgement Day!

Album also available on iTunes

Itsthemusic has produced three instrumental performance CDs by Bruce Emery and his duo partner David McKnight for sale here on this website.
"All is Calm All is Bright", "Windy and Warm", & "Night and Day"
These contain Bruce's fingerstyle guitar arrangements with David’s masterful embellishments on violin, viola, and mandolin.

More information is available from SkepticalGuitarist Publications

If you're in Durham, NC stop by OffBeat Music in Brightleaf Square where ItstheMusic CDs are now available for retail sale at $12.99.

"Changin' My Mind" by Cleaver Smith Swenson & McKnight. "Night and Day" by Bruce Emery with David McKnight. "Windy and Warm" by Bruce Emery with David McKnight.

You can purchase these CD's and more!

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CSSM started new recording session for next CD Project.

Made great progress on several nerw tunes for the upcoming CD project tentatively called "Tell Me" named after Bill and Robert's original and soon to be Jazz Standard - "Tell Me."
Click the link to download the sample mix of the title song as it stands from the previous 2008 session. mp3

Oct 23, 2011:
New CSSM Recording session!

"Mecklenburg Waltz" - by David McKnight --mp3- 06/11/2011
"Blue Ridge Morning" -- mp3 - 07/02/2011
"When You get Back to Town" - by David McKnight -- mp3 - 06/06/11
"Nearness of You" - Hoagie Charmichael -- mp3- 06/06/11
"The Fast One" - J.D. Souther-- mp3- 010/23/11

ItstheMusic NEWS!

October 23, 2011

New Mixies going up... for June 2011 "Tell Me" CD Recording Session!

Cleaver Smith Swenson and McKnight (CSSM) are once again getting material together for a new CD project. Tentatively called "Tell Me" after Robert Smith and Bill Cleaver's latest collaborative efforts. A spritely list of songs have been recorded: Robert Smith's and Bill Cleaver's "Tell Me" (title song), "The Fast One" (J.D. Souther), "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Charmichael), "Sometimes" (Jonathan Edwards), "When You Get Back to Town" (David Mcknigh), "Mecklenburg Waltz" (David McKinght), LIvely Cello Tune (Jill Soha), Blue Ridge Morning (David McKnight & Bill Cleaver), "Tennessee Trot" (David McKnight), and "Miner's Holiday" (David McKnight) are on the current list of tunes for this upcoming CD. Check out the current mixes on the "Works in Progress" page.

February 8, 2011

New Web Galleries: "My Stradivarius per se"