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Perfect as Cats: A Tribute To the Cure
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute To Cole Porter
:Description:The wildly successful Red Hot + Blue project, featuring such world-class artists as U2, Annie Lennox, Tom Waits, and Sinead O’Connor, and such acclaimed directors as Wim Wenders, Alex Cox, and Jonathan Demme, is finally being released with the care that it deserves. Originally issued in 1990, the Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute To Cole Porter album created massive media attention for AIDS relief and became the first release in a 15-album series. An eclectic musical homage to the legendary songwriter Cole Porter, it went platinum, spent 24 weeks on ...
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Is it Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan
: :Bob Dylan's songs have been covered by everyone from the Byrds to Muzak. But performers from other traditions, unhampered by the original historic and social contexts and subsequent decades of awe-struck veneration, can just relax and sing their hearts out. Producer Dr. Dread has picked material from Dylan's Woody Guthrie-influenced early career ('Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol'), his anarchistic yet tender middle period ('Just Like A Woman'), and even his brief foray into born-again Christianity ('Gotta Serve Somebody'). Each selection is rhythmically revamped while the lyrics are sometimes reinterpreted via the ...
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Led Zeppelin: This Ain't No Tribute Series
: :Bob Dylan's songs have been covered by everyone from the Byrds to Muzak. But performers from other traditions, unhampered by the original historic and social contexts and subsequent decades of awe-struck veneration, can just relax and sing their hearts out. Producer Dr. Dread has picked material from Dylan's Woody Guthrie-influenced early career ('Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol'), his anarchistic yet tender middle period ('Just Like A Woman'), and even his brief foray into born-again Christianity ('Gotta Serve Somebody'). Each selection is rhythmically revamped while the lyrics are sometimes reinterpreted via the ...
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Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash
: :As the Man in Black celebrates his 70th birthday, he looks back on a career not only of legendary performances, but of remarkable songs that capture a bygone America, in vignettes of trains, rivers, rebels, street-corner shoeshine boys, and displaced lovers, moving on, never to return. To honor that contribution, now part of America's musical heritage, more than a dozen luminaries of country, rock, and folk--including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Sheryl Crow--gather to interpret Cash's word portraits of the downtrodden and disenfranchised. Nearly every performance is a keeper, though some ...
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The Bluegrass Tribute to Classic Rock Volume 2
:Album Description: While most of the neighborhood played outside, a certain breed of kid stayed in the bedrooms, learning and practicing their musical instruments. This tenacity birthed rock'n'roll gods and bluegrass legends. And when the hottest bluegrass pickers interpret indelible rock anthems, the results are breathtaking. The Bluegrass Tribute to Classic Rock Volume 2 contains another rousing round of great music all under one roof.
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Tribute to Miles
:Album Description: While most of the neighborhood played outside, a certain breed of kid stayed in the bedrooms, learning and practicing their musical instruments. This tenacity birthed rock'n'roll gods and bluegrass legends. And when the hottest bluegrass pickers interpret indelible rock anthems, the results are breathtaking. The Bluegrass Tribute to Classic Rock Volume 2 contains another rousing round of great music all under one roof.
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Speed of the Old Long Bow: A Tribute to Ed Haley
:Album Description: While most of the neighborhood played outside, a certain breed of kid stayed in the bedrooms, learning and practicing their musical instruments. This tenacity birthed rock'n'roll gods and bluegrass legends. And when the hottest bluegrass pickers interpret indelible rock anthems, the results are breathtaking. The Bluegrass Tribute to Classic Rock Volume 2 contains another rousing round of great music all under one roof.
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Tribute to the Gods
:Album Description:'Tribute To The Gods' offers a chance to experience the music that has fueled the band along all these years. Featuring covers of classics by KISS, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Blue Oyster Cult, Judas Priest, Alice Cooper & Black Sabbath. Century Media. Digipak. 2002. :It seems crazy to cover definitive metal songs such as 'Highway to Hell,' 'God of Thunder,' and 'Screaming for Vengeance' unless you are trying to redefine heavy metal, which surely isn't Iced Earth's intention. For their many young fans, however, Tribute to the Gods is a crash ...
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The Sandinista! Project
:Album Description:2-CD set honoring the epic Clash release to be issued May 1 on 00:02:59 Records Features The Smithereens, Camper Van Beethoven, Jon Langford & Sally Timms, Amy Rigby, Katrina Leskanich (Waves), Wreckless Eric, Willie Nile, Matthew Ryan, Stew, Sex Clark Five, Sid Griffin & Coal Porters and more; proceeds benefit two Clash-backed charities. BOSTON, Mass. - Sandinista!, recorded by The Clash in 1980, was one of the most ambitious records in the history of rock 'n' roll. According to one of its biggest fans, author and journalist Jimmy Guterman, 'It ...
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