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Christmas on the Mountain: A Bluegrass Christmas
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The Essential Kingston Trio
:Album Description:The Kingston Trio was one of the biggest pop acts of the late ’50s and early ’60s, with no less than 14 Billboard Top Ten albums, including five that reached Number One. The two-time Grammy® award-winning group jump-started the folk movement, with hits such as 'Scotch and Soda' and 'Tom Dooley' paving the way for artists such as Peter, Paul & Mary, The Highwaymen, The Limelighters, and Bob Dylan. The Essential Kingston Trio collects 40 of the group’s biggest hits and fan favorites, all recorded during their prime years of ...
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Buena Vista
:Album Description:Robin & Linda Williams' music is the very definition of Americana: a sweet mix of country, folk and bluegrass, and they've been performing it for over 30 years - long before that musical term was coined. They've been regular guests on public radio's A Prairie Home Companion since the show's inception and have criss-crossed America on tour more times than they can remember. New release Buena Vista showcases their finest songwriting to date. An exploration of life's hard times and unexpected joys, these new tunes take us down south to ...
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A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor (30th Anniversary Season Celebration)
:Album Description:Robin & Linda Williams' music is the very definition of Americana: a sweet mix of country, folk and bluegrass, and they've been performing it for over 30 years - long before that musical term was coined. They've been regular guests on public radio's A Prairie Home Companion since the show's inception and have criss-crossed America on tour more times than they can remember. New release Buena Vista showcases their finest songwriting to date. An exploration of life's hard times and unexpected joys, these new tunes take us down south to ...
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Ana Hina
:Album Description:2008 release recorded with the Mazeeka Ensemble, Ana Hina is new direction for Middle Eastern music icon and singing sensation Natacha Atlas. The album finds Natacha exploring a more traditional roots world, again infusing Oriental and Western music but looking to the past to uncover a rich history of musical collaboration. Working with top British musical director and arranger Harvey Brough, the band features outstanding musicians from around the globe and from different musical backgrounds. In the specially created arrangements, locked in the embrace of this exciting band, Atlas's voice ...
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Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt/Evergreen, Vol. 2
:Album Description:For the first time on one CD, Raven presents two original albums from the purveyors of some of the finest Californian folk-rock of the 1960s - THE STONE PONEYS. The Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt and Evergreen Vol. 2 (both 1967) helped define a sound and style that remains pure and enticing to this day. As writer Richie Unterberger states in his liner notes, lead singer Linda Ronstadt's clear powerful vocals were the band's focal point and strongest asset. Their debut album is dominated by close harmonies and strong original ...
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Fair & Square
:Album Description:John Prine takes his own sweet time dancing with his muse -- and truly writes what's in his soul. So if it takes him a little longer to write the songs that capture moments and reveal the gently folded human truths that bind us all together. It's always worth the wait. Now, nearly nine years since the release of his Grammy-nominated Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings, the iconic American writer has put the finishing touches on his latest offering, appropriately titled, Fair & Square. 'It was just time,' says Prine ...
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The Kingston Trio/...From the 'Hungry i'
:Album Description:Capitol's From the Hungry I/Kingston Trio combines the group's first two albums on this excellent single disc. Among the highlights are Bay of Mexico, Tom Dooley, Fast Freight, Hard, Ain't It Hard, Scotch and Soda, Wimoweh (Mbube) and New York Girls. 27 tracks in all. Collector's Choice / 2001 release.
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Noël
:Album Description:Capitol's From the Hungry I/Kingston Trio combines the group's first two albums on this excellent single disc. Among the highlights are Bay of Mexico, Tom Dooley, Fast Freight, Hard, Ain't It Hard, Scotch and Soda, Wimoweh (Mbube) and New York Girls. 27 tracks in all. Collector's Choice / 2001 release.
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Celtic Christmas III
: :Bright pennywhistles, lonesome fiddles, mysterious flutes, strumming guitars, the brushed and pounding bodhran sounding like a horse at gallop over snowy roads, and female voices so clear and focused they might be angels calling out through the ether of time. All these elements combine to shape Celtic Christmas III. Among the more sterling tracks are David Agnew and David Downes's 'Wexford Carol' and the original compositions by Lisa Lynne ('Circle of Joy,' 'Home') and Brian Dunning and Jeff Johnson (the vivid 'A Raven in the Snow'). --Martin Keller
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