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Bitter
: 's Best of 1999:Me'Shell Ndegeocello's music is the most sublime of the new school of American funk and soul. In a marked departure from her previous offerings, Bitter is a dark, moody, and soulful album that displays Ndegeocello's creative evolution as she explores new depths of emotion in her music. --Michael Wells Amazon.com:The angular, sensual funk-rock blend of Me'Shell Ndegeocello's 1996 Peace Beyond Passion here gives way to a hushed confessional mood that recalls classics by Joni Mitchell and Rosanne Cash. Ndegeocello puts her formidable bass skills far off to the ...
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Country Ghetto
:Album Description:JJ Grey & MOFRO's Alligator debut, Country Ghetto features 12 original JJ Grey compositions that come right out of the Southern musical and literary tradition. Grey's ear for detail inhabits his songs, whether it is a story passed down to him from his grandmother or the tribulations of a childhood friend. His voice delivers them with an unflinching strength that makes the personal universal and paints a vivid portrait of an exact time or place with words and music. Like his songs, his rich, soulful vocals are forceful and commanding, ...
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Paradise and Lunch
:Album Description:Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007. 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 collection's highlights. Jazz legend Earl Hines guests on the dapper 'Ditty Wa Ditty.' --Steven ...
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Couldn't Stand the Weather
:Album Description:Reissue of 1984 album with 4 bonus tracks. 2001. essential recording:In a brief interview that precedes this CD's four bonus tracks--all unreleased gems from the original 1984 sessions--Stevie Ray Vaughan makes the point that 'music used to be more based on common everyday occurrences like a train's sound going down the track ... a horse walking.' Then he comes on with a version of Freddie King's 'Hideaway' that chugs like a locomotive. There's also a heretofore unheard slide-guitar-powered 'Give Me Back My Wig' and a blueprint of what became ...
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Crossroads: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
from: Warner Bros / Wea
:Album Description:Reissue of 1984 album with 4 bonus tracks. 2001. essential recording:In a brief interview that precedes this CD's four bonus tracks--all unreleased gems from the original 1984 sessions--Stevie Ray Vaughan makes the point that 'music used to be more based on common everyday occurrences like a train's sound going down the track ... a horse walking.' Then he comes on with a version of Freddie King's 'Hideaway' that chugs like a locomotive. There's also a heretofore unheard slide-guitar-powered 'Give Me Back My Wig' and a blueprint of what became ...
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Avalon Sunset
:Album Description:Reissue of 1984 album with 4 bonus tracks. 2001. essential recording:In a brief interview that precedes this CD's four bonus tracks--all unreleased gems from the original 1984 sessions--Stevie Ray Vaughan makes the point that 'music used to be more based on common everyday occurrences like a train's sound going down the track ... a horse walking.' Then he comes on with a version of Freddie King's 'Hideaway' that chugs like a locomotive. There's also a heretofore unheard slide-guitar-powered 'Give Me Back My Wig' and a blueprint of what became ...
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Get on Board
:Album Description:Reissue of 1984 album with 4 bonus tracks. 2001. essential recording:In a brief interview that precedes this CD's four bonus tracks--all unreleased gems from the original 1984 sessions--Stevie Ray Vaughan makes the point that 'music used to be more based on common everyday occurrences like a train's sound going down the track ... a horse walking.' Then he comes on with a version of Freddie King's 'Hideaway' that chugs like a locomotive. There's also a heretofore unheard slide-guitar-powered 'Give Me Back My Wig' and a blueprint of what became ...
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Plantation Lullabies
:Album Description:Reissue of 1984 album with 4 bonus tracks. 2001. essential recording:In a brief interview that precedes this CD's four bonus tracks--all unreleased gems from the original 1984 sessions--Stevie Ray Vaughan makes the point that 'music used to be more based on common everyday occurrences like a train's sound going down the track ... a horse walking.' Then he comes on with a version of Freddie King's 'Hideaway' that chugs like a locomotive. There's also a heretofore unheard slide-guitar-powered 'Give Me Back My Wig' and a blueprint of what became ...
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No Paid Holidays
:Album Description:Watermelon Slim is a relatively new luminary of the blues, rapidly building a career behind four albums and constant touring. In 2008 Slim was nominated for six awards, a feat matched only by the likes of B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Robert Cray. Slim has twelve nominations in the last two years, a feat unmatched in the event's 29 years. The highly anticipated follow up to 'The Wheel Man' is entitled 'No Paid Holidays' and features Lee Roy Parnell on slide guitar.
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One in a Million
:Album Description:One In A Million was Aaliyah's second album that saw her sound develop with a new maturity, partly through her collaborations with producers like Timbaland. Includes the singles 'One In A Million', 'If Your Girl Only Knew', 'Got To Give It Up' and '4 Page Letter'. Long out-of-print in the US. Features the same 17 tracks that graced the original pressing. Snapper. 2006. :She has already jammed with Gladys Knight in Las Vegas, eloped with influential R&B mogul R. Kelly, and scored two platinum albums--and she's just barely graduated from ...
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