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Elton John - Greatest Hits (2002)

Source: Something Else!
January 25, 2011

By Nick DeRiso The truth is, she never really left me. We would ride around, listening to eight-track tapes—or else pull a stereo speaker outside and swing on the back porch—then sing. We listened to Elton John, me and Mom. “They say Spain is pretty," I can hear her echoing, in a high voice, one summer day, “though I've never been." For too long, I felt the pain of scars that wouldn't heal. And, to be honest, very old Elton ...

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Steve Earle: I'll Never Get out of This World Alive

Source: JamBase
January 25, 2011

NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL 26 VIA NEW WEST RECORDS Steve Earle is set to release I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive on April 26 via New West Records. The album is the anticipated follow up to the Grammy Award winning 2009 release Townes. The 11-track set was produced by T Bone Burnett and is Earle's first collection of original material since his 2007 Grammy Award winning, Washington Square Serenade. I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive will ...

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Jazzwax List: 7 Jazz Days

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 25, 2011

Everyday you can't have the blues. Sometimes you need something else, something a little lighter or swinging to brighten up the day. Get out your e-calendars: Here are seven jazz songs named for the different days of the week, the artists who recorded them and the albums on which they can be found: 

Monday—Manny Albam, Steve's Songs Tuesday—Greg Marvin, Greg Marvin Quartet Wednesday—Paul Motian, Time and Time Again  Thursday—Count Basie, Complete Decca Recordings Friday the 13th—Thelonious Monk, Quintet.  Saturday—Mose Allison, ...

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From The Download Den: January 24, 2010

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January 25, 2011

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Band of Heathens New CD is "Top Hat Crown & the Clapmaster's Son:

Source: conqueroo
January 24, 2011

Produced by George Reiff (Chris Robinson, Courtyard Hounds, Ray Wylie Hubbard), new album comes on heels of Austin City Limits (PBS) appearance, festivals and #1 Americana record AUSTIN, Texas: 2010 was a year of making noise and news for the Band of Heathens. With 200-plus show dates, a fifth anniversary celebration, appearances at Lollapalooza and other top national festivals and a taping of Austin City Limits with Elvis Costello, it is remarkable that the Heathens even found time to write ...

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Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues (Rounder, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
January 24, 2011

Organist, occasional guitarist and singer Gregg Allman has seen a fair amount of ups and down during his lengthy career, none more serious than the serious health problems that required a liver transplant last year. But Allman is nothing if not a survivor, and delving deeply into the blues he has recorded an excellent album that marks a hard won victory over adversity. He knows the blues well, both musically and personally and that really shows in the music, as ...

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Unsigned Treasures: Brian Hugh O'Neill - Free World (2010)

Source: Something Else!
January 24, 2011

By Nick DeRiso New York City-based Brian Hugh O'Neill can't get away from hard truths on Free World. “The light's not very kind in this place," O'Neill sings in the anthematic “Careful What You Want." “There's a shadow moving over your face." That shadow is moving, really, over the whole record, as O'Neill's characters toss and turn through a very long night. There are repeated themes: Girls leave, or else they are run off. Life deals us a bad hand, ...

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Gerald Cleaver - Be It as I See It (2011)

Source: Something Else!
January 24, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Gerald Cleaver, along with Nasheet Waits, seems to always be the drummer on some really outstanding jazz records of late. Michael Formanek's The Rub And Spare Change required virtuosic musicians playing at peak level to make it work, and Cleaver did his part and then some, helping to compel me to make this my Mainstream and Modern Jazz Album of 2010. You can add to that his work with other major artists like Roscoe Mitchell, David ...

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