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Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart
by Chris May
An exemplary adventure in cross-cultural music making, banjoist Béla Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart deserves every bit of hyperbole that is going to be thrown at it. The third volume in Fleck's Tales From The Acoustic Planet series, it's subtitled “Africa Sessions" and finds him in East and West Africa, mostly on field recordings or in ...
Madeleine Peyroux: Half the Perfect World
by Aaron Basiliere
On Half the Perfect World, southern-born chanteuse Madeleine Peyroux follows in the footsteps of the collaborative Got You On My Mind (Waking Up, 2004), creating a pleasant medley of jazz, blues, and pop. With her backing band and Billy Holiday-inspired vocals, Peyroux crafts her own renditions of songs from the likes of folk-rock heroes Leonard Cohen, ...
Dislocation Blues
Label: Rounder Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Stagger Lee; Twelve Thousand Miles; When I Paint My Masterpiece; Rocket House; The Road Leads Down; Dislocation Blues; Forever in My Life; Velocity Girl; Ravenswood; Underground; Changing of the Guard; Motion
Bride; Hellhound on My Trail.
Chris Whitley / Jeff Lang: Dislocation Blues
by Doug Collette
Dislocation Blues is the work of kindred spirits in a sustained moment of inspiration. Recorded in April of 2005, months before guitarist/vocalist Chris Whitley's death from cancer, the album finds the late Texan united with his Australian cohort, guitarist Jeff Lang, as they confront their emotions and, by the alchemy that is music, transform that interaction ...
Downbeat The Ruler: Killer Instrumentals from Studio One
Label: Rounder Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Rockfort Rock; Real Rock; Swing Easy; Mojo Rock Steady; Heavy Rock; Freak Out; Tunnel One;
Moon Ride; Race Track; Throw Me Corn; Baby Face; Love Again; Darker Shade of Black;
Banana Walk; Heavy Beat; Return of the Scorcher; Popcorn Reggae; Death in the Arena.
Half The Perfect World
Label: Rounder Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: I'm All Right; The Summer Wind; Blue Alert; Everybody's Talkin'; River; A Little Bit; Once In A
While; (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night; Half The Perfect World; La Javanaise;
California Rain; Smile.
Madeleine Peyroux: Half The Perfect World
by Suzanne Lorge
Madeleine Peyroux confidently walks the line where jazz, country and blues collide--her understated vocals and Billie Holiday-esque phrasing are what pull the disparate elements of her performance together into an engaging pastiche. Peyroux's bailiwick is pop covers with stylized jazz arrangements: On the Leonard Cohen/Anjani Thomas title cut, “Half The Perfect World," her ...
