Accompanied only by his drum, Kingston, Jamaica,-based reggae artist Garro has been busking on the streets of Asheville since last week’s Goombay Festival. In this video, he performs his song “Oh Jah” in front of Malaprop’s.

A relatively recent arrival to Asheville,  Tyler Lupton is yet another local busker without much of a presence on the web. Like what you hear? Your best bet of hearing more is to catch him playing live on the streets of Asheville. And when you do, be sure to request this tune, “Car By Car.”

Accordion-player Michael Stutesman may hail from Morganton, but he’s a regular visitor to Asheville. Unlike many of our local buskers, Stutesman isn’t looking for tips, performing without so much as an open case or upturned hat, insisting he’s only playing outdoors because he loves doing it. Here, he performs a traditional tune known by many names, including “Waltz of the Wooden Horses,” on his Hohner Erica.

Mary Sparks may not have a name for this new work, but she’s adamant that it was inspired by the creative atmosphere of Asheville. She should know. The hammered dulcimer player relocated here a few years ago, in large part because of the active local busking community. Here she is performing outside of Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe earlier this week.

Earlier in the week, we posted a video of local Americana musician Brian McGee performing in downtown Asheville. McGee was kind enough to let us record a few songs, and here’s another one of his tunes, “Let’s Bleed.”

Winston-Salem-based bluesman Daniel Rassum is hardly a stranger to the Asheville busking scene, regularly performing in the city for a week or so several times each year on his ongoing regional tour. In this video, he performs his original tune “You Can Call Me Daniel.”

Local alt-country and Americana musician Brian McGee performed his tune “First Kiss” from his forthcoming album The Taking or The Leaving on Wall Street earlier this week. He was joined by drummer Kevin “krum” Rumley. Added bonus track: McGee performing his tune “Walking Back To Love.”

Time for a little Monday morning a cappella. Here’s vocalist Rhoda Weaver performing her version of the classic Bill Withers song “Ain’t No Sunshine” a few weeks ago on the corner of Patton Avenue and S. Lexington.

We’re going back a few weeks into the past to revisit the busking performance of local singer/songwriter PJ Bond as he played his tune “You Know The Drill” to a small, enthusiastic crowd in front of Kim’s Wigs in the Miles Building in downtown Asheville.

Asheville-based singer/songwriter Sea Brooks performs her original song “Ain’t We Communicating Yet?” on a shady spot on Patton Avenue in downtown, as joined by her friend Alaska Wilde (backing vocals and pan flute). The two young performers braved the heat and the traffic noise on Friday afternoon.

There was something approaching a reunion of the gone-but-not-forgotten 90’s epoch Asheville band The Spoonbenders on the streets of downtown over the weekend, as Isaac Alexander Johnson and Jim Barton busked in front of the BB&T Building. Although significant cajoling couldn’t convince them to perform one of their older tunes, Barton (on acoustic bass guitar) joined in on an unrehearsed version of Johnson’s tune “The Highway Song.” Let’s have a listen.

Every so often, a downtown busking group really sink their teeth into what they’re playing and give a truly memorable performance. And that’s exactly what happened here, when Asheville-based singer/songwriter Taylor Martin and fiddle-player Lyndsay Pruitt performed Martin’s original tune “Devil’s in the Barroom” on Pack Square on Friday evening.

Having a bit of a low Sunday? If so, here’s a tune just for you. It’s “Lonely Sunday”, written by local singer/songwriter Nathan Taylor and performed with fiddler Darin Gentry on Pack Square last week.

Local singer/songwriter PJ Bond and Sirius.B’s musical saw player Lauren Baker performed this tune in front of Kim’s Wigs in the Miles Building in downtown Asheville to a small, enthralled crowd on Friday night.

Last week, the Xpressstaff was all in a tizzy thanks to a performance by Lyric (aka Leeda September Jones), but weren’t quite able to get a recording of the young songwriter and her band. Luckily for the rest of us, Lyric is no stranger to the downtown busking scene. Here she is performing her song “Blue Skies” on Pack Square.

Listening to how neatly the members of The Leather Britches fit together as performers, you’d be hard-pressed to guess that the group had only been playing together under that name for the better part of an afternoon. Composed of four friends who came to Asheville for the Swannanoa Gathering, the group is: Nick DiSebastian (guitar) and Charles Muench (bass) — both of the band River Wheel — Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddle) and Jen Starsinic (fiddle). Here, the quartet perform the cross-genre standard “Make Me a Pallet on the Floor.”

While Billy Joe Shaver has been influencing outlaw country music for nearly four decades, many younger listeners became introduced to his music when his tune “Warrior Man” was used as the theme to the Adult Swim cartoon Squidbillies. How influential was that theme song? Just ask buskers Obie Quiet, Ignorant and Captain Ahab, who performed their cover of the tune near Pritchard Park earlier this week. If you like what you hear, be forewarned that the trio lack any kind of Web presence, so your best bet to hear them live is to wander aimlessly on the streets of Asheville. Just a word of warning, though: The song is just a touch not safe for work.