Loose By Nelly Furtado CD Review
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Posted March 6th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Nelly Furtado has released her latest CD entitled Loose and it doesn't exactly sound like some of her past releases, but it's a very good collection.What we're hearing here is the fact that she is of course growing as an artist. Just as it should happen with a serious artist, her music is clearly evolving.I developed a liking for her voice and have followed her career since the release of her first CD, Whoa Nelly, which had the mega hit Like A Bird on it.I'm always curios to see if an artist can...
Alan Jackson Precious Memories CD Review
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Posted March 5th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
My sister told me about this CD and I'm glad she did. It's a great CD on which all of the songs are done very well both technically and musically.Alan Jackson does a great job singing the old time favorites like Blessed Assurance, How Great Thou Art, The Old Rugged Cross, and Jackson's voice is an absolutely perfect fit to these timeless hymns. You can almost picture him standing in the church pew with his family singing the songs.This is a feel good album done in the deep rich voice of Alan Jac...
Brian Culbertson It’s On Tonight Smooth Jazz CD Review
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Posted February 23rd, 2010 at 5:02 am
Oh My Goodness!!!These three words perfectly express what I think of Brian Culbertson's seductively titled It's On Tonight CD.This CD, although mostly containing songs completely without lyrics, comes extremely close to being explicit. I mean it just drips track after seductive track with some of the most intensely suggestive smooth jazz you'll ever hear.It starts off HOT with track 1, Let's Get Started and only gets hotter.Track 4, Sensuality, he should have just flat out named Sex. It's that g...
The Mixtape Movement And How I Fell In Love With Her
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Posted August 17th, 2009 at 6:01 am
The mixtape (or sometimes mix tape) has been an awkward symbol of affection for many people. A story, a theme or an emotion is usually subtlety spelt out over sixty, ninety or a hundred and twenty minutes. This music art form has gained a new breath of popularity recently, with advancements in the availability of mp3s and the range of marketing available for new bands to publish their work through the Internet.Since the introduction of the cassette tape, in 1963, and especially after the popul...
Mindi Abair Life Less Ordinary Smooth Jazz CD Review
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Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 1:58 am
Preceded by Come As You Are and It Just Happens That Way, Life Less Ordinary is the third solo release for Mindi Abair since signing with GRP Records. I believe this is by far the most versatile of her works and may just be her best CD to date.Mindi Abair plays with a maturity and style that are uniquely her own. I really appreciate the way the songs are tightly woven with those who accompany her on them, yet without being completely swallowed up.She certainly deserves kudos for being an artist...
Walter Beasley For Her Smooth Jazz CD Review
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Posted July 30th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
With the release of For Her Walter Beasley makes his much anticipated debut on the Heads Up record label.As the story goes the CDs title, For Her, comes as a result of the fact that when Walter first started making it he had just started seeing a new and special woman so it just made sense to him to call it For Her. However at some point during the process of completing the project he broke up with Her. Walter kept the title because he felt she was the emotional inspiration behind the album.At a...
CD Labels And That Voodoo Jive
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Posted July 28th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Have you ever wished that you could make your own car? You know, have a little factory set up in the back yard next to the storage shed where you could just create the cars of your dreams? Well, for decades, people have longed to make their own albums, CDs, or whatever format they happen to take at the time. The only problem was, of course, having the equipment necessary to create your own CDs. But now, thanks to dramatic improvements in pricing and technology, people can in fact create and ...
More Subtle Than Any Beast Of The Field
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Posted July 5th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), composer of ?O Holy Night,? once observed, ?In Paris, at the hub of the arts, one cannot enter a church without being followed by one or sometimes two serpents.? Most believe the bewitching instrument he was referring to was invented around 1590 by French priest Edm? Guillaume of St. Steven Auxerre Cathedral to add a fuller baritone/bass voice to his choir. The serpent consists of a wooden tube carved as two half-rounds, glued together and then firmly wrapped with a coi...
Don’t Go Tubthumping
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Posted July 4th, 2009 at 6:00 am
I have always had a big problem with my addiction to music. I tend to hear I song I like, then rush out to the local record store to buy the CD, without consideration for whether or not I would actually like the rest of the songs on the set. After years of this habit, I have amassed a huge CD collection, but I have been left with many one-hit-wonder discs that I no longer listen to and just gather dust while taking up space in my small apartment (anyone else fall for the infectiousness of Chumba...
CD Clubs: How To Get The Best Deals Online
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Posted July 29th, 2008 at 9:31 am
(1) The BMG Music Service offers the best deal you'll find -- 11 CDs for the price of shipping ($2.79 each) when you buy one CD at full club price, which is typically about $15 plus shipping. That works out to about $4 per CD. Its chief competitor, Columbia House, has an offer that works out to about $8 per CD.(2) When you join, you will receive a catalog in the mail about every three weeks, along with a postcard that highlights a featured selection in the genre you selected when you joined. You...
