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Article: Album Review

Barb Jungr: Hard Rain (The Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen)

Read "Hard Rain (The Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen)" reviewed by John Eyles


Ever since Barb Jungr released her first album of Bob Dylan songs, Every Grain of Sand (Linn, 2002), she has been consistently praised as a Dylan interpreter par excellence. Each of her subsequent albums has included at least one Dylan song--she even included a couple each on her tribute albums to Elvis Presley and Nina Simone. ...

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Durga Rising

Label: Keda Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Watch Me as I Fall; Still Moving; How Could I Ever; Deeper and Deeper; Tears in a Bottle; The Cutter; Bombay Dreaming; Choose to be Alone; Go Down Easy; Unchain My Heart; Spit It Out; Crimes Against Nature; Train on the Move; Blind Willie McTell; We Don't Walk Alone.

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Stockport To Memphis

Label: Naim Jazz
Released: 2012
Track listing: Stockport to Memphis; Change is Gonna Come; River; Old Man; New Life; Urban Fox; (S)he’s Not There; Fisherman’s Blues; Lay Lady Lay; Sunset to Break Your Heart; Till My Broken Heart Begins to Mend; Lost on the River; Down in the Hole.

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Barb Jungr: Stockport to Memphis

Read "Stockport to Memphis" reviewed by John Eyles


Since her breakthrough Chanson: The Space in Between (Linn, 2000), vocalist Barb Jungr has mainly released albums of songs by other people. Several have focused on the work of one performer, notably Every Grain of Sand (Linn, 2002), consisting of Bob Dylan songs, the Elvis Presley tribute Love Me Tender (Linn, 2005) and Just Like a ...

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Article: Album Review

Mari Wilson: Cover Stories

Read "Cover Stories" reviewed by John Eyles


Back in the 1980s, when she was renowned for her retro beehive hairstyle and her spectacular live shows, Mari Wilson had a string of chart-making hits that included “Just What I Always Wanted" and “Cry Me a River." These days, the only remaining vestige of that hairstyle is in the name of her record label. More ...

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Article: Album Review

Barb Jungr / Kuljit Bhamra / Russell Churney: Durga Rising

Read "Durga Rising" reviewed by John Eyles


Durga Rising was recorded in 1996 but not properly released at the time. Featuring Barb Jungr on vocals, Kuljit Bhamra on percussion and Russell Churney on piano, it seems likely to attract more attention today than it did back in 1996. Since then, Jungr has enjoyed a burgeoning solo career accompanied by a string of awards ...

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News: Recording

Linn Records offers Studio Master collections in ALAC

Back by popular demand Linn's brilliant value, no-hassle, highest quality Digital Music Collections make a welcome return for a limited time only. And, for the first time, our premium Digital Music Collections are all available in Apple Lossless as well as FLAC. Each collection is expertly put together, with all artwork included and embedded, ready for ...

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News: Recording

The Art Of The Torch Singer, Piers Ford Reviews Man In The Long Black Coat and Durga Rising

The Art Of The Torch Singer, Piers Ford Reviews Man In The Long Black Coat and Durga Rising

There are three elders at the top of the tree when it comes to British female singers who have an instinctive ability to tell the whole story in a song: Norma Waterson, June Tabor and Barb Jungr. Forget any ungallant connotations. I use the word simply to connote wisdom and an almost forensic approach to their ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Mercurial Songwriter Fran Landesman Back In Spotlight With Shepley Metcalf's Show

Mercurial Songwriter Fran Landesman Back In Spotlight With Shepley Metcalf's Show

SHEPLEY METCALF RETURNS TO NEW YORK'S METROPOLITAN ROOM TO REPRISE “SOMETHING IRRESISTIBLE" BEGINNING MARCH 2 The Boston-based singer Shepley Metcalf who, last year, was the first American to record and perform a new trove of songs by the lyricist Fran Landesman, is bringing back her critically acclaimed Landesman tribute to the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd ...

Album

The Men I Love: The New American Songbook

Label: Naim Label
Released: 2010
Track listing: Once in a Lifetime; I'm a Believer; Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache; Night Comes On; Can't Get Used to Losing You / Red Red Wine; The River; I Saw the Light; This Old Heart of Mine / Love Hurts; Everything I Own; You Ain't Going Nowhere; My Little Town; Wichita Lineman.


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