Here's a great example of just what great work goes on well below the Label Radar:
CD Baby: HECTOR QIRKO: Wherever You Go
Hector's been a mainstay of the Knoxville Tennessee Music Scene for years. He's been in some very influential regional bands (Balboa, the Lonesome Coyote's)... now he teaches Anthropology and plays for fun, and does Studio Work in Nashville every so often.