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Review of High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project

March 10th, 2010 No comments
High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project

Charlie Poole was an American banjo player. He was part of a string band that recorded in the 20’s and 30’s. He is revered by many folk and rock stars,and one of them is Loudon Wainwright, III.Charlie Poole’s band “The Ramblers’, was “a bluesy fiddle lead, backed up by long, flowing, melodic guitar runs and [...]

Review of Crows

March 8th, 2010 No comments
Crows

Prime Cuts:The Broken Girl, The Stars and I, Easy in the Summertime
While she entitled her last CD “Mockingbird,” this time around another feathered creature gets the honor: the crow.As the harbinger of doom, “The Crow” is an adept symbolical summary of the tenure of these 13 tracks.Each track is cut from the same cloth of [...]

Review of Spirit – A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song (1999)

March 7th, 2010 No comments
Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song [VHS]

I Loved this video! It is a contemporary musical with a Native American tribal foundation. The blending of the old and new music was amazing! The spectacular choreography is powerfully danced by incredible talent. Thecast was culturally diverse and a beautiful composition of the young andold ways. It moved me to tears to see where [...]

Review of Dear John: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

March 7th, 2010 No comments
Dear John: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The music from the movie was simply amazing. Each individual song in my opinion, fit well within the movie.
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Product Description: Featureing tracks by Joshua Radin/Schuyler Fisk, The Swell Season, Donovan Frankenreiter, Amanda Seyfried, Dan Wilson/Racheael Yamagata, Snow Patrol, Ozomatli, The [...]

Review of Diamond Life

March 6th, 2010 No comments
Diamond Life

There has never been a singer quite like Sade Adu.Although she is of Nigerian origin, and her voice is clearly that of a woman of color, she is equally influenced by her English upbringing; the resulting combination of African heat and British coolness, particularly when combined with her band’s elegant mixture of both American and [...]

Review of Odd Blood

March 4th, 2010 No comments
Odd Blood

US trio Yeasayer are musical magpies, cut from the same cloth as acts like MGMTor Santogold. “Odd Blood” is their sophomore disc, comprising catchy jittery electronic Pop with a myriad of influences.
The woozy “Strange Reunions” has a Middle Eastern feel as does “Madder Red” (with a hummed wordless chorus), while the psychedelic clap-filled ballad “I [...]

Review of One Life Stand

March 3rd, 2010 No comments
One Life Stand

I started listening to Hot Chip shortly after The Warning came out, in 2006, and I fell in love with the band’s knack for writing catchy, melodic, and danceable tunes. The album had a brilliant balance of hard and fast dance tracks and slower, smoother ballads and pop songs. When Made in the Dark came [...]