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The old school soul man who played alongside Mick Jagger at the Grammy's this year was able to make the late Solomon Burke proud.
I picked up his album "The Way I See It," and one critique from another writer was that it was 'too Motown."
What can be bad about that?
I love the album because he is a solid representation of the soul sensibility, which I think in today's music, actually gives him a modern edge.
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Black Country Communion (First Album)
Released : (UK and Europe) September 20, 2010; North America (through J & R Adventures) September 21, 2010
Label : Mascot Records
Artists :Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham, Glenn Hughes and Derek Sherinian
From the BCC website :
"All songs are sung by Glenn Hughes, with the exception of Song Of Yesterday and The Revolution In Me which are both sung by Joe Bonamassa. Hughes and Bonamassa share lead vocals on the songs Sista Jane and Too Late For The Sun. Also included on the album is a new version of Medusa, the classic rock song that Hughes originally recorded with his first band Trapeze."
"The Black Country" is a region in the Midlands, England. It got it's name, as legend has it, because of the industrial iron and steel work practice of coal burning. which made the area buildings and landscape covered with soot. In literature, the Black Country has been referred to as dark by day, but ablaze with flames at night, because that is when the coal burning would happen in the villages.
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What, pray tell, shall I say ??
Maybe the way she hums at the end is indicative of the moaning in the real Danses Macabre? But then, the theme of her lyrics dovetails nicely with the moral of this ancient genre ... universality. In this piece, she seems to state that she is perfectly happy alone. To be kind is to be better than smart, and you can almost imagine her waltzing by herself in a room. Here is the similarity ... in death, indeed, you will from everyone part. (Will you be happy then? Content by the life you lead and all your earthy contrivances?) If you cannot accept even yourself as a partner, how can someone else, no matter how smart you are? If your whole life is a frantic run from (and to) death, how can you find the civilized and modest pace of the Waltz?
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The North Mississippi Allstars: Keys To The Kingdom
Released: February 1, 2011
Songs of the South Records
This album is dedicated to Jim Dickinson, Luther and Cody Dickinson's late legendary father. He died on August 15, 2009, and a few months later, Luther and his wife welcomed a baby into the family.
Jim Dickinson was a blues pianist and session musician, as well as a producer. He was also a blues historian enthusiast to preserve the style of music specific to Northern Mississippi. He told his sons that production in absentia is the highest form of honor and they took this seriously. With strength, courage, faith and humor, this family looked death straight in the eye - because in their circle - life is celebrated hill/country/blues style.
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The Ware River Club
Cathedral
A local record store owner introduced this band to me when I was looking for something new. Unfortunately, it was this summer 2009, several years after this album was published and the band had already dispersed.
Matt Hebert... Come back! Come back!
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Foghat? Really? Wait, let me check the calendar... nope, it is the 21st Century. And I haven't used a time machine (at least for this). But, I am really pleasantly surprised by this NEW, 2010 release.
I am currently listening to this online. CBS Records did a good thing and was streaming the entire new release, in a loop. I'm glad I found that stream, because I never would have thought of buying a new Foghat album. Last Train Home
This is not the Slow Ride 70's anthem rock, and it is not the horrible stuff they put out in the 80's. (I listened to a greatest hits, and the post-70's stuff were neither greatest, nor hits). But, wow, this new release sounds like a mix of old, very old Fleetwood Mac blues, some early bluesy Aerosmith, a little Black Crowes, and a bit of Buddy Guy.
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(Album Review)
I love to listen to movie soundtracks in advance of a film's release.This one bears interest for indie fans, curiously strange and less pop than the Twlight Original soundtrack , although there were some good picks on that one, too. We are now forever MuteMath fans.