Editorial Product Review:Album Description:One listen to Randy's soulful singing is enough to convince you that you are listening to a star. His deeply felt lyrics are proof, that Randy Houser has not only lived the life of a true 'Paycheck Man', but is major songwriting talent. His open-hearted, charismatic personality shines through in his debut album. Whether getting his 'Boots On' to party Country style or plunging into sadness, Randy Houser has what all great country artists have- believability. Thanks to his riveting vocal prowess, Randy is receiving great responses from both fans and ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:3 LP set. The most anticipated of the Anthology series, this disc covers what was arguably the Fab Four's most intensely creative period ('65-'67) when they single-handedly changed the course of popular music. Anthology 2 doesn't disappoint. Outtakes and demos show the building of songs like 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite,' while the pure pop song writing of Rubber Soul and Help! is also documented, along with the sonic experimentation that characterized Revolver. Even if the legendary proto-metal jam of 'What's the New Mary Jane' ...
Editorial Product 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 Amazon.com:Ashton Shepherd arrives at Sounds So Good, her memorable 2008 debut, with a long line of remarkable women to thank, starting with the feisty Loretta Lynn and leading all the way up to country’s current wild child, Miranda Lambert. A deep-dish Alabaman (she says “pitcher” for ...
Editorial Product Review: :There's a feeling you get when you put on an Anne Murray record, and--apologies in advance to all you anti-sentimentalists--it's best summarized by the vocal legend herself in the classic tune 'I Just Fall in Love Again.' You can't help yourself; you fall in love. Those who've been listening along swollen-heartedly since the 1970s know the feeling well, and those who are about to discover Murray via this duets album and its handful of younger-skewing songs--the Nelly Furtado team-up on 'Daydream Believer' especially--are going to have a hard time not submitting. It's ...
Editorial Product Review: :Though the arrangements stray from Lucinda Williams's motherlode blend of blues, country, and folk, West may well be her best album. It is easily her most musically adventurous, and often her most lyrically inspired. Williams's singing has never sounded better, from the aching tenderness of 'Where Is My Love?' to the ravaged catharsis of 'Unsuffer Me.' New York producer Hal Willner, who has worked with artists such as Marianne Faithful and Lou Reed, enlists the support of eclectic progressives like guitarist Bill Frisell, keyboardist Bob Burger, and violinist Jenny Scheinman, along with ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is not a review about Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon's hair. However--as any self-respecting fan knows--in country music, after proving you can pluck a guitar and carry a tune, the power of the right hairstyle is not to be underestimated. Johnny Cash, in fact, was famously vain about his locks--perhaps one of the few things he was vain about--and many a guitar store employee can attest to the fact that when the Man in Black came in to buy his special brand of guitar pick, his hair was dyed a jet ...
Editorial Product Review: :Formerly the lead singer of Trick Pony, Heidi Newfield steps into the next career chapter with her solo debut, What Am I Waiting For. The album features six tracks co-written by Heidi including the album's crown jewel, Johnny & June. Of the album, Heidi remarks, I really was only interested in cutting a record that was going to step out and have some relevance in this day and age, when we are head-to-toe in pop culture, videos and imagery...we don' t always listen with our ears anymore, we listen with our ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:Joni Mitchell would go on from this '71 recording to make more popular, more ambitious, and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better one. Working with minimal accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the four sidemen), the Canadian thrush summoned an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and gracious. Songs such as 'All I Want,' 'Carey,' 'California,' and 'A Case of You' work equally well as poetry and pop music. --Steve Stolder
Editorial Product Review: :During the 'folk music-scare' of the early 1960s, a bunch of white middle-class youths with names like the Greenbriar Boys and the Even Dozen Jug Band discovered the mountain music of the Stanley Brothers, Skillet Lickers, and Uncle Dave Macon and set about introducing it to the country's college kids. Four decades later, the members of OCMS fit the profile of those early revivalists, yet if anything they have tapped deeper into the primal elements of an American art form. As demonstrated on their debut, they have assimilated not just the sound--banjos, ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:American music icon Earl Scruggs helped give birth to bluegrass music when he first appeared on the legendary stage of Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in 1945. Another historic night for Earl Scruggs came in 2007 when he headlined his first-ever Ryman concert. On this career-spanning set of many of his signature tunes, the ingenuity and undiminished vitality of Earl's playing, along with the stellar contributions of his Family & Friends Band, make for a magical and unforgettable listening experience. Eddie Stubbs WSM Grand Ole Opry Announcer Nashville, Tennessee Featuring Gary Scruggs, Randy ...
Steering clear of many of the pitfalls that sapped past video-on-demand broadband solutions, Vudu delivers the closest thing to "Netflix in a box" that we've seen to date.
It's June 29th and Apple is finally ready to let the public play with the iPhone. The past six months have shaped up to be the highest profile mobile phone launch ever, Apple has conjured up an...
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