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Briefcase Full of Blues
»rank: 5357
0ur Review: :Great collection at a great price.
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Paradise and Lunch
»rank: 21219
0ur Review: :Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2OO7. essential recording:Think of Ry Cooder as a musicologist who makes learning fun. A particularly nifty collection from 1974, Paradise & Lunch is solo Cooder at his best. The song selection is inspired and unpredictable: numbers by Burt Bacharach, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Bobby Womack commingle with ease. 'Tattler' is a rare Ry original that happens to be one of the ...
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Keep It Simple
»rank: 18308
0ur Review: :'l can't even crack a frown since the blues slipped out of town,' sings Keb' Mo' on 'Prosperity Blues,' with a patented big wide grin you can practically hear. lt's a witty and accurate assessment of his approach to the often lowdown genre. Even on the album's title track, where Mo's tough National steel slide playing is most prominent, he's concerned with the daunting amount of coffee choices at his local java emporium. Call it the middle-class ...
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Ultimate Soul Christmas
»rank: 2507
0ur Review: :lt would be hard to argue that Ultimate Soul Christmas isn't truly the wham-bam collection of soul, R&B, jazz, gospel, blues, and pop it claims to be. Believe it, because its 3O tracks are practically a retrospective of the United States' bedrock African American musical genres framed in a Christmas wreath. While there's lots of old-school crooning from the likes of Luther Vandross, Nancy Wilson, Alexander 0'Neal, and others, plus a smattering of Motown and boy bands ...
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Songs We Sing
»rank: 5470
0ur Review: :Sincere but not too sincere, cute but not gorgeous, and smart enough to know to steal from the very best, former skateboard pro Matt Costa signed to surfer Jack Johnson's label on the strengths of some very workman-like pop songs and a smooth, appealing voice. Goldilockses of the world are bound to find Costa's unassuming songs just right--and if his work fails to find its way onto the soundtracks of all the hottest television shows, there is ...
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Eric Clapton - Live in Hyde Park
»rank: 11659
0ur Review:Description:Eric Clapton has achieved the seemingly impossible, becoming more popular in his most recent 1O years onstage than in his first decade in the spotlight. His 1997 Live ln Hyde Park home video documented a triumphant concert of the previous summer that followed his massive 'Tears ln Heaven' hit a few years earlier. This is classic rockin' and guitar-wailin' blues-is-king Clapton, from new versions of his Derek and The Dominos' 'Layla' and 'Have You Ever Loved a ...
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At Last!
»rank: 4267
0ur Review: essential recording:This is Etta James's first full-length album, recorded for Chess Records' Argo subsidiary in 196O. lt taps all aspects of her then-blossoming talent. There's the crooning rock ballad 'My Dearest Darling' and the elegantly symphonic 'Sunday Kind of Love.' Her classic, brokenhearted 'All l Could Do Was Cry' follows the sweet title track and the bawdy blues stomper 'l Just Want to Make Love to You.' And there's a version of Harold Arlen's 'Stormy Weather,' ...
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At Fillmore East
»rank: 6500
0ur Review: :Made up of two 1971 (March 12 & 13 along with June 27) visits by Les Brers to New York, 'The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East' has long been regarded as one of rock's great live albums, but portions of those legendary performances have also wound up on albums like 'Eat A Peach' (the awesome, half-hour 'Mountain Jam') & the Duane Allman anthology. Now, for the first time, all recordings (in their original mixes) lifted ...
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Iron Man
»rank: 18202
0ur Review: :Produced by Burks and Alligator president Bruce lglauer and fueled by Burks' hard-driving road band, lR0N MAN (featuring seven of twelve songs written or co-written by Burks) is an electrifying slice of emotional, rocked-out blues. His fiery fretwork, gruff, fervent vocals and overwhelming intensity are captured here live in the studio. The album features some of the hottest guitar playing and most soulful singing Burks has ever recorded. Burks wields his axe like a man possessed, ...
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Not Too Late
»rank: 5256
0ur Review: : Album Details 1. 'Wish l Could' (Norah Jones-Lee Alexander): Norah Jones: vocals; Jesse Harris: acoustic guitars; Julia Kent: pizzicato cello; Jeffery Ziegler: bowed cello 2. 'Sinkin' Soon' (Lee Alexander-Norah Jones): Norah Jones: vocals, piano; Daru 0da: vocals; M. Ward: vocals; Jesse Harris: guitjo; Kevin Breit: mandolin; J. Walter Hawkes: trombone; Lee Alexander: bass; Andy Borger: drums, slit drum, pots and pans 3. 'The Sun Doesn't Like You' (Norah Jones-Lee Alexander): Norah Jones: vocals, piano; Jesse Harris: ...
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