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Susie Arioli Shines On Her Latest Album, "All The Way"
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Vivo Musique Internationale
Another step in her rich and inspired career finds Susie Arioli pushing the limits of her art with a new album appropriately titled All the Way. The sparkling singer invites us to follow her on a sublime adventure as she brings her finely modulated voice to bear on thirteen numbers drawn from the immortal repertoire of the Great American Songbook. Displaying the maturity of performers who are in it for the long haul, Arioli brings her singular touch to legendary ...
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Music Legend Merrell Fankhauser Releases Definitive Collection "The Best Of" Two-CD Set
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London, UK: Music collectors worldwide rejoice! Legendary singer/songwriter/guitarist Merrell Fankhauser, who has led one of the most diverse careers in music, has released for the first time a new compilation 'The Best Of' two-CD set on UK's Gonzo MultiMedia. Featuring vintage tracks, hard to find gems and unreleased material, Merrell Fankhauser's The Best Of is sure to please the most avid fan. Merrell Fankhauser is considered one of the main innovators of surf music and psychedelic folk rock, and is ...
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Nanette Workman Returns With The 21st Album Of Her Career: "Just Gettin' Started"
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Glenda Rush
Just Gettin' Started 13 electrifying tracks of blues-tinged southern rock Six years after completing her blues trilogy—Roots’n’Blues, Vanilla Blues Café and Mississippi Rolling Stone, Nanette Workman returns with Just Gettin' Started. This new album, the 21st of her career, delivers 13 electrifying tracks of blues-tinged southern rock. Nanette pours her soulful, powerful and above all, immediately recognizable voice into songs that plumb the breadth and depth of breakups and loneliness, but also seduction, freedom and independence. It’s a repertoire perfectly ...
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Billy Martin & Wil Blades To Release "Shimmy" May 22 on The Royal Potato Family
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Calabro Music
Billy Martin and Wil Blades wanna make you Shimmy. The organ/drums duo waste no time getting right down to it on their debut album due May 22 from The Royal Potato Family in collaboration with Martin's own Amulet Records. Martin and Blades go old school in the tradition of essential organ-groove sides by the likes of Charles Earland, Brother Jack McDuff and Groove Holmes. Martin, the drummer for the legendary Medeski, Martin & Wood, and Blades, a much buzzed about ...
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Chris Smither's 'Hundred Dollar Valentine' Due in June
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conqueroo
First long-player by fingerpicker/singer/songwriter to feature all original songs features session support from Morphine, Groovasaurus, The Lemonheads players BOSTON, MA: There are such things as the cosmic blues. Janis Joplin once recorded a song by that name — she spelled it kosmik. But Chris Smither lives them. Smither's cosmic blues are on full display in Hundred Dollar Valentine, a brilliant amalgam made of equal parts past, present and future. It is music that traces its roots back deep into tradition, ...
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My New Album "One Life Left" Was Released In Cluj and Bucharest
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Iordache
Iordache's new album One Life Left (Fiver House Records) was released in Cluj and Bucharest last week. Personnel include: Iordache (saxophone), Petre Ionutescu (trumpet), Lucian Nagy (saxophone), Dan Alex Mitrofan (guitar), Toni Kuhn (keyboards and guitar), Utu Pascu (bass) and Tavi Scurtu (drums). One Life Left was recorded by Alexandru Pascu from AudioTM at Casa Tineretului in Timisoara and mastered by Dan Griober in the UK. The music was composed entirely by Iordache between 2007 and 2011. The album cover, ...
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Afrolicious Releases New Pleasuretime EP/MP3
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Press Junkie PR
Following on the heels of the success of the first EP Dub For Mali, the Pleasuretime EP takes the Afrolicious sound to another level of songwriting, production, and dance heavy beats. Dub For Mali topped the #1 spot on Bay Area station KALX, while becoming a “pick of the month" on tastemaker station KCRW with continued spins and strong radio play nation-wide. The Pleaseuretime EP, focuses more on up-tempo tracks like the title track “Pleasuretime" and “Never Let No One" ...
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Threads Orchestra Debut Album Release
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Threads Orchestra
Having received an award from the PRS for Music Foundation, the Threads Orchestra are releasing their outstanding new album ‘Threads’ on April 2 through iTunes and all other major digital stores. Produced by violist Adam Robinson, this emerging band combines some of the most dynamic jazz and classical musicians in the UK, including guitar virtuoso Chris Montague (Troyka, Django Bates), Mercury Prize nominee pianist Kit Downes and BBC Philharmonic violinist extraordinaire Julian Gregory. With such strong writers in the group, ...
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