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Children Running Through
(2007)
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Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin's raucous second album Flaming Red was a shocking departure from the critically noticed Living with Ghosts. It placed solid, searing rock & roll and big bad drumbeat up against the still developing authority of her voice. On Impossible Dream she married country and her own brand of gospel in an intimate and musically seductive mix. ...
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Labour of Love III
(1998)
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UB40
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Reggae Hits, Vol. 37 [Bonus DVD]
(2007)
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Various Artists
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Beautiful Dreams
(1998)
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Chris de Burgh
Beautiful Dreams holds interest mainly because Chris de Burgh is backed by a full orchestra, which adds brilliant depth to his material, presenting his romantically based ballads in an entirely new fashion. While the strings and woodwinds that accompany de Burgh showcase their splendor on "Say Goodbye to It All" and "Snows of New York" better than ...
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The Best of Freestyle Megamix
(2000)
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Bad Boy Joe
Grabbing the baton passed to him by Louie Devito (who gave him co-production credits on a few NYC Underground Party collections), Bad Boy Joe hooked up for What If Productions for his own freestyle megamix, and aside from a few sound-quality issues, basically lives up to the title. Announcing that school is in session with a history-of-freestyle ...
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Mic Mac's Greatest Freestyle Hits
(2007)
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Various Artists
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Wouldn't You Like It? [Bonus Tracks]
(2004)
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The Bay City Rollers
The third of the Bay City Rollers' British albums was the first to reveal the cracks that were set to shatter Rollermania -- ironically, just at the moment when it needed to be at its strongest. America was finally coming around to the group's charms, aided and abetted by the masterful remake of their first album's "Saturday Night", but the group ...
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Goldwax Story, Vol. 2
(2004)
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Various Artists
The follow-up to 2001's The Goldwax Story follows the same format as its predecessor: a couple dozen tracks of Memphis '60s soul from the vaults of the Goldwax label, most known for recording James Carr. Carr himself is only represented here by one track, an alternate version of "A Woman Is a Man's Best Friend" that appeared on a 1977 Japanese ...
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Everything I Own
(1974)
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Ken Boothe
While not the album of the same name Boothe cut for Trojan in 1974, this compilation does include songs from that release, along with many other standout tracks spanning the singer's rocksteady and early-reggae prime. Often likened to Wilson Pickett, Boothe, with his similarly gruff soul delivery, is in top form throughout the 26 tracks here. In ...
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King of the Bayous
(1970)
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Clifton Chenier
After gaining initial notoriety in the '50s and '60s on Specialty Records and a variety of small Texas and Louisiana labels, Zydeco King Clifton Chenier brought the blues-fueled Cajun music he practically invented to Chris Strachwitz's roots label Arhoolie, subsequently recording a series of fine albums including 1970's King of the Bayous. ...
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Blue Bird
(1994)
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Jimmy Rogers
This was Jimmy Rogers' last "proper" Chicago blues album, and it deservedly won a W.C. Handy Award in 1995. There are no moonlighting rock stars here; they would come out in droves for Rogers' subsequent album Blues Blues Blues. And with the exception of the last track -- which is basically pianist Johnnie Johnson showing off for eight minutes -- ...
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Battle of the Freestyle DJ's
(2007)
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Various Artists
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Party Time
(1977)
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The Heptones
Party Time matched vocalists Barry Llewelyn, Earl Morgan, and Leroy Sibbles with veteran producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, who knew how to keep the group sounding contemporary without losing the harmonic interplay that underlines their appeal. The combination proved too good for discerning listeners to pass up -- particularly in Britain, where ...
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Time and Again
(2004)
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Statens
Forget the fact that you might never even have heard of the Statens -- they were an extremely talented but hard-luck group out of New York's Staten Island, who could and should have crossed paths with the likes of the Mystics, Jay & The Americans, and Dion & The Belmonts, but never got their big break. This CD contains most of what they recorded, ...
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Freestyle Mega Hits, Vol. 2 [Warlock]
(2006)
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Various Artists
The Warlock label's Freestyle Mega Hits series pulls from several years of freestyle releases, and is fairly straightforward and reliant upon better-known material -- when compared to so many other freestyle series that have surfaced throughout the years -- so it's fairly reliable, and it provides each selection in full. Some of the more popular ...
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Go Ahead and Rock and Roll
(1958)
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Budd and Ella Johnson
Buddy Johnson was one of the top R&B bandleaders and composers in the '50s, as well as being an above-average vocalist. This was prototype '50s material, an era when swing-derived R&B was being mixed with country and gospel and rock was emerging from the stew. The songs are either raw, stirring uptempo tunes or steamy ballads, and they're done at ...
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Crying over You: Anthology 1963-1978
(2001)
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Ken Boothe
Toots Hibbert and Alton Ellis aside, Ken Boothe probably came closer than any other Jamaican singer of his generation to re-creating an island version of Memphis soul, and his gritty vocals on his frequent covers of American R&B hits often brought refreshing new dimensions to the songs. This two-disc, 49-track collection is a pretty good overview ...
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12 Inches of Micmac, Vol. 1
(2006)
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Various Artists
Each volume in the 12 Inches of MicMac series compiles two discs of tracks released by Mickey Garcia's long-running freestyle label. Since the tracks are unmixed, these sets provide those who don't buy (or spin) the vinyl releases an opportunity to own the tracks in full, rather than within the context of a DJ mix. Collectors will also be pleased ...
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Breakfast at Midnight
(2001)
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Rita Chiarelli
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Awesome Mix Tape, Vol. 6
(1999)
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The Pietasters
Awesome Mix Tape #6 is a perfect example of a CD that is as derivative as it is enjoyable. Greatly influenced by British punk/ska/reggae outfits like the Specials, Washington, D.C.'s Pietasters aren't innovative or groundbreaking -- this album often sounds like it could have come out in the late 1970s or early 1980s instead of the late 1990s. But ...
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Produced and Directed by the Upsetter
(1998)
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Lee "Scratch" Perry
Like most albums credited to Lee "Scratch" Perry, this one is actually a collection of performances by various reggae artists, some of them famous (the Heptones, the Meditations, Junior Murvin), others obscure (Easton Clarke, Winstone Heywood), but all of them touched by that particular pungent magic that hung like smoke in the air at Perry's ...
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A Man and His Hits
(1999)
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Ken Boothe
Contrary to the title, this is not a reissue of the 1972 Studio One album of the same name, although it does include many of that album's tracks, while also bundling up classic cuts from across the years, from the classic ska years into the rocksteady era and on into the reggae period, ending in the late '70s. Although the sleeve notes give a ...
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Alien Shores
(1985)
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Platinum Blonde
This album marked Platinum Blonde's commercial peak, and in retrospect you can only wonder why it failed to spread the band's massive Canadian success to America. Beyond the MTV-perfect hairdos, the quartet offered a savvy musical blend that suggested crossing Duran Duran with Def Leppard -- just the sort of thing you'd figure would have gone over ...
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Good Times: The Essential Stage Dolls
(2006)
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Stage Dolls
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Everything I Own: Definitive Collection
(2007)
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Ken Boothe
Often referred to as the Jamaican Otis Redding, Ken Boothe probably came closer than any other Jamaican singer of his generation (Toots Hibbert aside) to re-creating an island version of Memphis soul, and his gritty and nuanced vocals on his frequent covers of American R&B hits often brought refreshing new dimensions to the songs. This two-disc, ...
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