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1.Cream Series: Sidney Torch at the Organ by: Sidney Torch November 18, 1993
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2.Deep River of Song: South Carolina - Got the Keys to the Kingdom by: Alan Lomax June 04, 2002
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I know it isn't titled that way at the top of this page, but this is the South Carolina installment of the Deep River of Song series of John and Alan Lomax recordings. I'll begin by stating the obvious. Lillie Knox is one of the shining lights of the entire series. You may or may not like everything else included here, but I have to assume that most everyone who hears this disc will love Lillie. She has such a gentle quality to her performances, and one of the most lovely voices in the series. Very soft and sweet. I'd choose Got the Keys to the Kingdom and Troubled About My Soul as her top 2 moments here. Zack Knox is another interesting performer here. He has a lonely, gentle quality to his music that is quite rare for males in the series. We can only wonder what ... Read More

3.Crystal Ball by: Prince January 05, 2001
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This was marketed as a four-disc set. However, at the time, he sold it on his website with a fifth bonus disc entitled "Kamasutra". I own it. Just trying to give you collectors something to go after!!! Anything Prince does is worth buying!!

4.Ghettoblaster by: Socalled June 12, 2007
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Great album. If you like good music, rap and sampling then you will like this album (or you are wrong). While not quite good enough to ascend to the level of Avalanches (Since I Left You) and Pepe Deluxe (Spare Time Machine), it is definitely just as enjoyable. A great album with great songs. Check out the music video for You are Never Alone on youtube! The bottom line is that a Jewish Canadian makes better rap than you will EVER hear on MTV.

5.5 Mile (These Are the Days) by: Turin Brakes April 27, 2004
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Great album. If you like good music, rap and sampling then you will like this album (or you are wrong). While not quite good enough to ascend to the level of Avalanches (Since I Left You) and Pepe Deluxe (Spare Time Machine), it is definitely just as enjoyable. A great album with great songs. Check out the music video for You are Never Alone on youtube! The bottom line is that a Jewish Canadian makes better rap than you will EVER hear on MTV.

6.Ether Song/Optimist by: Turin Brakes September 13, 2004
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Despite the rise of bands like Travis and Muse (not to mention Radiohead and Coldplay) some British rock bands don't get the attention that they deserve. One such band is the U.K. duo Turin Brakes, whose albums "Optimist LP" and "Ether Song" show off their unique space-folk-rock. They debuted in 2001 with "The Optimist" LP, and immediately gained a reputation from its spacey, floaty brand of folk music. Ollie Knights provides gentle wobbly vocals, while Gale Paridjanian provides everything else, folky guitar solos and the odd dash of keyboard. It's a good album, although it needed some beefing up. That beef-up came with their sophomore album, "Ether Song." Here Knights and Paridjanian experiment with their spacey folk sound, adding electric guitars and more keyboard to the ... Read More

7.5 Mile (These Are the Days) by: Turin Brakes October 07, 2003
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Despite the rise of bands like Travis and Muse (not to mention Radiohead and Coldplay) some British rock bands don't get the attention that they deserve. One such band is the U.K. duo Turin Brakes, whose albums "Optimist LP" and "Ether Song" show off their unique space-folk-rock. They debuted in 2001 with "The Optimist" LP, and immediately gained a reputation from its spacey, floaty brand of folk music. Ollie Knights provides gentle wobbly vocals, while Gale Paridjanian provides everything else, folky guitar solos and the odd dash of keyboard. It's a good album, although it needed some beefing up. That beef-up came with their sophomore album, "Ether Song." Here Knights and Paridjanian experiment with their spacey folk sound, adding electric guitars and more keyboard to the ... Read More

8.Ether Song by: Turin Brakes March 10, 2003
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Turin Brakes is one of those excellent British bands that hasn't gotten much attention in the American mainstream yet, along with the guys in South, Elbow and Mercury Rev. And after their shimmery space-folk album "Ether Song," their second, we can see that this is totally undeserved. A spacey organ buildup, a trippy beat and a folky guitar open the first song, "Blue Hour." This song sets the tone for the rest of the album, with its mix of spacey shoegazer and folk-rock, set to angsty lyrics about "let the sun be done/let the air wash the city clean." It's one of those songs that gets deeper and more layered the more you listen to it. But the album really catches your attention with the soft, rising "Long Distance," which is the softest song that Muse never wrote. And in ... Read More

9.Just for the Record... by: Barbra Streisand December 08, 1998
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Despite lots of omissions--and the fact that it's 14 years old and in desperate need of a sequel--"Just for the record . . ." is a colorful, exciting package for Streisand-addicts. Casual fans probably won't like the melding of demo track-into-actual-recording strategy that Barbra takes on several songs, but for those of us who already have those songs, it's an interesting way to get the gestation of the music. Omissions: nothing from "For Pete's Sake" or "Funny Lady", rare B-sides like "Frank Mills", "Look", "My Love", "Funny Girl(pre-movie), "I Am Woman You Are Man" are missing, early single versions of "My Coloring Book" and "Happy Days" are also MIA. But the best of what's here is worth mentioning: a live B-way performance of "My Man" on the final night of "Funny Girl", Streisand on The Tonight Show ... Read More

10.The King of Hot-Cha by: Harry Roy September 16, 1997
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You will like this band if you like the similar "sweet" British swing bands of Jack Payne, Ambrose, and Jack Hylton. The Harry Roy CD recording starts with 1933's Bugle Call Rag and proceeds through 1940's Goody Goodbye. I bought it at first for just one number, "What a Difference a Day Made" from 1935, with beautiful playing from the band and a blase vocal from Ivor Moreton, the band's pianist. It is probably the best song on the CD. Other interesting tunes on this CD are the vocal "That's the Way I Like to Hear You Talk" which sounds to me like the tune from the American song "Pop Goes Your Heart", and "Where did Robinson Crusoe go with Friday on Saturday Night?" Other covers of pop American tunes include La Cucaracha, Lullaby of Broadway, Maple Leaf Rag, King Porter Stomp, and Heigh-Ho from Disney's Snow ... Read More

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