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Cat Stevens - Greatest Hits(more) »rank: 1241by: Cat Stevens
Our review: :Before Cat Stevens changed his name to Yusef Islam, he had a slew of hits built around his soft, yet sometimes coarse, vocals. Stevens utilized a variety of instrumentation and rhythms in his predominantly acoustic arrangements, and songs like 'Peace Train,' and 'Another Saturday Night' had a multi-cultural feel to them. Greatest Hits provides a decent overview of his more popular work, including the poignant 'Oh Very Young' and 'Father & Son.' Unfortunately, the delightful yet brief 'Tea for the Tillerman' is not present. The lovely 'Morning Has Broken' has elements of Stevens's growing concern with religion, philosophy, and the relationship ... Detail |
Just Us Kids(more) »rank: 1150by: James McMurtry
Our review: :Before Cat Stevens changed his name to Yusef Islam, he had a slew of hits built around his soft, yet sometimes coarse, vocals. Stevens utilized a variety of instrumentation and rhythms in his predominantly acoustic arrangements, and songs like 'Peace Train,' and 'Another Saturday Night' had a multi-cultural feel to them. Greatest Hits provides a decent overview of his more popular work, including the poignant 'Oh Very Young' and 'Father & Son.' Unfortunately, the delightful yet brief 'Tea for the Tillerman' is not present. The lovely 'Morning Has Broken' has elements of Stevens's growing concern with religion, philosophy, and the relationship ... Detail |
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Relentless(more) »rank: 1798by: Jason Aldean
Our review: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 Georgia roots. A platinum-seller his first time out, ... Detail |
Backwoods Barbie(more) »rank: 1585from: Dolly Records
Our review: :Parton's first mainstream album in 17 years appeals to all her fans without sounding insincere or compromising. The title track, a fiddle-and-piano colored two-beat that's a sympathetic bit of autobiography, belies her campy doll-like cover pose. The debut single 'Better Get to Livin'' is a page from her own upbeat canon, and when she's downhearted in the steel-guitar weeper 'The Lonesomes' and the cocktail lounge arrangement 'Made of Stone,' she draws on the influence of earlier country queens like Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline. Parton's vocal tones remain equally pure, distinctive, and captivating over grinding six-string power chords as she blasts ... Detail |
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan(more) »rank: 970by: Bob Dylan
Our review: :Dylan's outstanding second album is a tremendous jump from its predecessor. Whereas the debut established him as a peerless interpreter of folk and country-blues classics, and a singer like none before, this followup features some of the most pungent original songs of the '60s. 'Blowin' in the Wind,' 'Masters of War,' 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,' 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right,' 'I Shall Be Free': if this sounds like the lineup for a greatest-hits collection, you've got the idea. Nat Hentoff's liner notes are charmingly dated, but Dylan's idiosyncratic singing, unexpected lyrics, and inimitable guitar and harmonica playing are as ... Detail |
Youth & Young Manhood(more) »rank: 2027by: Kings of Leon
Our review: :Already tagged with the unfortunate critical label of 'southern-fried Strokes,' the full-length debut by the brothers Followill (Nathan, Jared, Caleb) and cousin (Matthew Followill) may well have its roots in their itinerant evangelist father Leon blasting his sons with relentless doses of ‘70s rock as they traveled the South from one preaching gig to the next. But the way the Kings channel sources as disparate as Led Zeppelin's 'That's the Way' into 'Joe's Head' or the Who's 'Circles' into their ''Molly's Chambers' seems almost subconscious; after a decade of bands trying to reinvent the rock wheel, it's refreshing to hear one ... Detail |
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Sounds So Good(more) »rank: 1615by: Ashton Shepherd
Our review: :Ashton's debut album, Sounds So Good, is scheduled for a March 4, 2008 release. The album features the lead single, 'Takin' Off This Pain'. She also made a video for the song, which was premiered in December of 2007 on CMT and GAC. Ashton Shepherd Photos Detail |
Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits(more) »rank: 1686by: Patsy Cline
Our review:Album Description:This is the longest selling album in the history of country music. Released in 1967, this collection of a dozen gems from country music's greatest female voice raced to #5 on the country charts upon release and has spent over 630 weeks on the country catalog charts since reissue on CD in 1988. Digitally remastered/HDCD. MCA. 2003. essential recording:In the late 1950s and the '60s, country music was essentially a singles medium. This album, first released in 1967 and reissued on compact disc in 1988, collects Patsy Cline's biggest hits--all of them from the country singles market--including 'Walkin' After ... Detail |
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Bringing It All Back Home(more) »rank: 1688by: Bob Dylan
Our review: :'You sound like you're having a good old time,' a purist Dylan fan is spotted telling the artist in the documentary Don't Look Back just after the release of this, his first (half-)electric album. He certainly does. Updating Chicago blues forms with hilarious, tough lyrics--in fact, all but stealing the meter of Chuck Berry's 'Too Much Monkey Business' for 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'--on one side, dropping some of his most devastating solo acoustic science ('It's All Over Now, Baby Blue,' 'Mr. Tambourine Man') on the other, the first of Dylan's two 1965 long-players broke it right down with style, substance, and elegance. ... Detail |
A Wonderful World(more) »rank: 1646by: Tony Bennett, k.d. lang
Our review: :Never mind the project's odd couple, 'He's got a girlfriend; so does she' marketing shuck. This is a musical love affair in all its splendor. Produced by the seemingly chameleonic producer T Bone Burnett (who previously revived traditional bluegrass with spectacular success on O Brother, Where Art Thou?), the septuagenarian legend and his unlikely contemporary foil affectionately court a dozen songs from the Louis Armstrong repertoire with the warmth and natural grace that have been a deceptively effortless Bennett trademark for 50-plus years. The pair kick proceedings off with a playful, irony-free 'Exactly Like You,' then perform a tender vocal waltz ... Detail |