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Keep Coming Back
: :Marking his debut release on Atlantic Records, this set of original tunes does more than that. Recorded in just 11 days at Nashville's historic Ocean Way Studios, Keep Coming Back confirms Broussard's position as an artist with a unique gift of channeling the multiple spirits of classic R&B and soul into contemporary terms.
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Teaser and the Firecat
: essential recording:The third album Cat Stevens put out in a 15-month burst that began in the summer of 1970 with Mona Bone Jakon, Teaser and the Firecat is where the enigmatic folk-pop idol crested commercially, if not artistically. Its immediate predecessor, Tea for the Tillerman, possesses an air of mystery and unforced whimsy that proved impossible for Stevens to replicate. That said, the singer-songwriter had it in him to pull together a captivating collection that boasted two of the biggest hits of his meteoric, if self-inhibited, career--'Peace Train' and the sublime hymn ...
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Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave
: :Sit Down for an Intimate Concert with Country Music's Greatest Legend A pale blue Cadillac travels down a long, empty freeway. The date, December 31, 1952. It's a lonely New Year's Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a concert in Ohio. In his solitude, he dreams about the concert he'd like to give in a small country bar like the ones passing by on the highway. Instead, Hank Williams died in the back seat of his Cadillac that night. He was just 29 years old. Sneezy Waters ...
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The Gift
:Album Details:Kenny Rogers original Christmas story.
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Sparks of Ancient Light
:Album Description:Magical history tours have been Al Stewart's trademark since the early 1970s, when he switched from writing about his own romantic turmoil to a wider view of the world and its rich cast of characters and events. While his 1976 international hit single, 'Year of the Cat,' was tied to no specific time, the albums surrounding it combined finely drawn character studies and detailed settings that ranged across continents and centuries, forming the template of history mixed with mystery for Al's subsequent recordings. Everything changes with time - except basic human motivations. ...
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Relentless
:Album Description:Jason Aldeans new album Relentless is a giant step forward. After achieving Platinum success with his debut every one involved knew that the best was yet to come. Jason has grown so much in the last 2 years and it shows in the songs that he has delivered for this album. :On his sophomore CD, Jason Aldean, the Academy of Country Music's Top New Male Vocalist for 2006, continues to rely on a proven formula--recording several John Rich co-writes, and reprising producer Michael Knox--while pushing harder on the rocking side of his ...
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Mescalito
:Album Description:Lost Highway will release Mescalito, the debut album from Texas singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham. Mescalito contains 14 songs written by Bingham, following in the tradition of some of the great Texas songwriters such as Towns Van Zant. Mescalito was produced by former Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford, who also plays on the album. Bingham's music, as well as his live performances have already made fans of acclaimed artists such as Patti Griffin and Texas legends Joe Ely and Terry Allen. At 25, the bumpy course of Bingham's life has already surpassed that of ...
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Lonely Runs Both Ways
:Album Description:GRAMMY WINNER FOR BEST COUNTRY ALBUM, BEST COUNTRY PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP, AND BEST COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE. Lonely Runs Both Ways is the highly anticipated new studio album from the world’s finest purveyors of Bluegrass, Alison Krauss and Union Station. Featuring instant classics such as 'Wouldn’t Be So Bad,' 'Goodbye Is All We Have,' and the lead single, 'Restless,' Lonely Runs Both Ways is another unforgettable collection of songs from this multiple Grammy-winning act. :Nobody makes somber sound more exquisite than Alison Krauss. She's come an awfully long way from ...
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Tim McGraw - Greatest Hits
: essential recording:With a sad tenor that sounded like Mr. Haney from Green Acres, Tim McGraw, a freshman in country's crowded class of '92, seemed the least likely to graduate to superstardom. But eight years and 20 million albums and singles later, here he is with a greatest hits package so stuffed with songs--15 in all--that it doesn't have room for any new tunes, or even the best of all, 'Everywhere.' McGraw's appeal is two-fold: Aside from his unlistenable duets with wife Faith Hill and the abysmal 'Indian Outlaw' that jump-started his career, ...
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Home
: :The Dixie Chicks aren't old enough to remember when radio programmed pop records next to country, rock, folk, and beyond, but their Texas DNA tells them that's the way music was meant to be heard. On Home, which they coproduced in Austin with Lloyd Maines, the father of lead singer Natalie Maines, they strip off the star-making gloss of Nashville and get down to the meat of the matter, turning out an acoustic record that gives a big Texas howdy to bluegrass. But that's only the framework they use to salute all their ...
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