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What Are You Listening To?

Botch said:
Holy Crap! I just checked Youtube and found a whole mess of Chase videos, and dammit I gotta go to work tomorrow! I checked years ago and there wasn't much of anything on the web about them. You need to skip almost to the middle of this video to hear "Get it On", but the trumpeting is pretty great before that:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ODTINxIzQ[/youtube]

Okay Wow! It was like four trumpeter's playing one trumpet, simultaneously! :bow-blue:

Thanks Botch, I've got my "used music" guy on it! :handgestures-thumbup:


Dennie
 
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Wrecking Ball -- CD

Emmylou Harris

1995 Asylum Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Emmylou Harris's formula has been to match a crack crew of left-of-center country players with an assortment of tasteful tunes and head into the studio with a nonintrusive producer. Now and then (most notably the 1980 bluegrass collection Roses in the Snow), she tampers with her basic blueprint and comes up with something exceptional. Wrecking Ball is one of those. Daniel Lanois's radiant production no longer seems as fresh as it did on albums by U2, Peter Gabriel, and Bob Dylan, but here its hum enfolds Harris like an electric blanket. Lanois's usual recruits, including U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr., and New Orleans regulars Malcolm Burn, Brian Blade, and Daryl Johnson, lay down a solid base for Harris's weary vocals and Lanois's buzzing guitar. At its core, Wrecking Ball seems almost too finely calculated. Hot producer plus sought-after songwriters plus venerated performer frequently totals to deadly bore. Here, however, all that calculation adds up to something. --Steven Stolder

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Here's a copy of the studio version of Get It On, not anything to watch but it gives you a better idea of the song itself, plus the power of the band.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yev4UNQzxTg[/youtube]
I'll try to find a recording of them doing "Bochawa", IMNSHO the best thing they've ever done...
 
Damn, I love EweTube! Here's Chase playing Bochawa, IMO one of the most powerful records ever made.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8AVKpQUWto[/youtube]

If you watch it on YouTube, on the sidebar you can find recordings of the studio cut. Wow! :music-rockout:
 
If you like Bluegrass.......

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Soul Journey -- CD

Gillian Welch

2003 Acony Records

Amazon.com

Blessed with a soulful and expressive voice and an innate grasp of the melodies and themes of traditional country music, Gillian Welch has made three beautiful, often brilliant, albums. Yet, one can make the case that she's still searching for her own true artistic voice. Soul Journey brings her ever closer to that elusive goal. After 2001's austere, solemn, at times inscrutable Time (The Revelator), this follow-up finds Welch showing more warmth, ease, and openness as both singer and songwriter. As the title portends, the concept of travel (physical and emotional) is a prevailing thread throughout these 10 tracks; she sings of rolling stones "on the road to sin," travelers on "black highways," girls "running around with the ragtop down" and "at the station rolling slow." These characters, perhaps autobiographical, are simultaneously searching for and running away from their pasts, while soft drums, fiddles, organs, and Dobros add a welcome bit of lightness. With the trusty David Rawlings again at Welch's side, the songwriting and production till the earth between their old-time heroes and more modern troubadours like Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young (both the bucolic strummer and, on the closing "Wrecking Ball," the ragged electric wanderer). For Welch and for us, Soul Journey is yet another fascinating rest stop on the never-ending road to self-discovery. --Marc Greilsamer

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I'm Just Sayin'! :handgestures-thumbup:
 
Botch said:
Damn, I love EweTube! Here's Chase playing Bochawa, IMO one of the most powerful records ever made.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8AVKpQUWto[/youtube]

If you watch it on YouTube, on the sidebar you can find recordings of the studio cut. Wow! :music-rockout:

Hey Botch, I will check these out tomorrow. I have some company over this evening, but I'm looking forward to it. :music-rockout:

Thanks,

Dennie
 
Listened to this in the work truck today.....

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Merry Christmas -- CD

Johnny Mathis

1958/2004 Columbia/Legacy Records

BEAUTIFUL REMASTERING OF A CLASSIC, September 20, 2003
By Tom Anderson (Piney Flats, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)

Christmas albums don't get more lovely or Christmasy-sounding than this 1958 classic. It is widely considered to be one of the very best Christmas albums of all time and has sold over 5 million copies so far in the U. S. alone. This recording has some of the best singing of Johnny Mathis' early career, and Percy Faith's arrangements are very evocative, particularly in the secular songs--you can almost see the snow and feel the chill.

In its previous CD incarnation, the album's only drawback was its fairly anemic and somewhat hissy sound. I am very happy to report that Columbia/Legacy has done a really nice job remixing and remastering this album. It now has greater fidelity and presence, with greater clarity to the vocals and instruments. Also, it seems to me that some of the excess echo has been removed--a good thing, since it was the style in the Fifties through part of the Sixties (particuarly if the tasteless Mitch Miller had a hand in the production) to add so much echo that albums sounded as if they were recorded in a wind tunnel. While certain instruments at times still seem a bit muffled in the mix, this is probably as good as this album
can sound given recording limitations of the time. My advice is to gladly throw out your old copy and quickly snap up the new edition. You'll be very glad you did!

1. "Winter Wonderland" – 3:19
2. "The Christmas Song" – 4:18
3. "Sleigh Ride" – 2:58
4. "Blue Christmas" – 3:02
5. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" – 4:04
6. "White Christmas" – 3:32
7. "O Holy Night" – 4:35
8. "What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)" – 3:58
9. "The First Noel" – 3:49
10. "Silver Bells" – 3:34
11. "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" – 3:08
12. "Silent Night, Holy Night" – 3:51
 
One of my Speaker Auditioning CD's.....

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Marc Cohn -- CD

Marc Cohn

1991 Atlantic Records

Amazon.com

With rootsier, acoustic neofolk ascendant, Marc Cohn's 1991 debut harkens back to the more sophisticated rock and pop inflections of singer-songwriters of two decades past. His supple, velvety baritone and elegant piano-based arrangements frame shrewdly crafted songs ripe with pop touches, none more intricate or deftly executed than the set's epochal "Walking In Memphis," an epiphany rooted in rich musical history, studded with allusions to Elvis and Al Green, Beale Street and Graceland, and buoyed by a rippling piano motif and surging gospel choruses. Giving the set depth, as well as commercial legs, are of "Silver Thunderbird," infectious and intimate in its evocation of his father, husky meditations "Ghost Train" and "Dig Down Deep," a sexy update of Willie Dixon's "29 Ways" (the probable seed for Paul Simon's antithetical "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"); and the fervent lover's anthem, "True Companion." --Sam Sutherland

All songs written by Marc Cohn, except "29 Ways" written by Willie Dixon.

1. "Walking in Memphis" – 4:19
2. "Ghost Train" – 4:13
3. "Silver Thunderbird" – 4:39
4. "Dig Down Deep" – 5:09
5. "Walk on Water" – 4:02
6. "Miles Away" – 3:23
7. "Saving the Best for Last" – 5:35
8. "Strangers in a Car" – 2:47
9. "29 Ways" – 3:06
10. "Perfect Love" – 4:23
11. "True Companion" – 4:10
 
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Greatest Hits -- CD

Mongo Santamaria

1960's Columbia Records

Amazon.com
Ever since Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría arrived in the United States from Cuba in the late 1940s and hooked up with bebop legend Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, and Pérez Prado, he's been the most imitated conga drummer in Latin jazz and salsa music. Further, his pioneering flute-violin charanga bands have almost singly expanded the parameters of Latin sounds in America.

These 1960s Columbia Records sides contain his coveted hip-shaking pop covers with flutist Hubert Laws, master santero Julito Collazo, drummer Bernard Purdie, and trumpeter Marty Sheller, with Santamaría and company conjuring up fun and campy red-beans-and-rice versions of Top 40 soul classics. Santamaría lays the boogaloo down on James Brown's "Cold Sweat," the Temptations' "Cloud Nine," Ritchie Valens's "La Bamba" and Booker T. and the MG's' hit, "Green Onions." But make no mistake, Mongo Santamaría was no novelty act. His rendition of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" and his own composition, the 6/8 syncopated standard, "Afro Blue"--recorded by legions of musicians, including John Coltrane, and captured live on this compilation--best showcases his thunderous and articulate polyrhythmic genius linking Africa and the Americas. --Eugene Holley Jr.

1. WATERMELON MAN
2. CLOUD NINE
3. SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY
4. WE GOT LATIN SOUL
5. FAT BACK
6. TWENTY-FIVE MILES
7. COLD SWEAT
8. GREEN ONIONS
9. THE NOW GENERATION
10. LA BAMBA
11. EL PUSSYCAT
 
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All Time Greatest Hits -- CD :banana-rock: :banana-dance: :banana-rock:

Zapp & Roger

1993 Reprise Records

Outstanding collection of their Hits!, November 18, 2005
By Psboston7 "~ And so it Goes ~" (Upland, CA United States)

I collect a LOT of Greatest Hits CD's and some of them manage to miss a few of the hits. Not so with this CD they have pretty much every song that got radio play during the years 80's-90's. I remember when Roger and Zapp came out and they paved the way with Roger's unique usage of the voice box it was SLAMMIN then and it is SLAMMIN now :) I am especially happy that the tunes with Shirley Murdach, songstress that sings {{AS WE LAY}} & {{GO ON WITHOUT YOU }}, are included on this CD.

This CD is perfect for cook-outs and family gatherings where you have young as well as old people attending. I understand they have another {Greatest Hits} CD out there as well but for the money you really can't beat this one.

Respectfully Reviewed

Track listing

1. More Bounce to the Ounce
2. Be Alright
3. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
4. So Ruff, So Tuff
5. Do It Roger
6. Dance Floor
7. Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)
8. I Can Make You Dance
9. Heartbreaker, Pts. 1-2
10. In the Mix
11. Midnight Hour - (Live '93-Remix, remix, live)
12. Computer Love
13. Night and Day '93 - (Remix, remix)
14. I Want to Be Your Man
15. Curiosity '93 - (Remix, remix)
16. Slow and Easy
17. Mega Medley
 
Christmas Music!!!! random on my Zune. We have everything from Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Chicago to Boy's II Men!
 
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Narada Christmas Collection Vol. 3 -- CD
Christmas Blessings

Various Artists

1995 Narada Records
SUPER CHRISTMAS MUSIC....., August 5, 2003
By W. G. Ellis (MORROW , GEORGIA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Narada Christmas 3: Christmas Blessings (Audio CD)

IF YOU LOVE CHRISTMAS MUSIC YOU WILL LOVE THIS CD. AS WITH ALL THE NARADA CHRISTMAS COLLECTIONS THIS IS WONDERFUL. I HAVE A 5-DISC PLAYER AND I PUT ALL NARADA MUSIC ON IT AND LET IT RIP. I CAN SIT BACK FOR HOURS AND LISTEN TO THE BEST MUSIC ON THE PLANET I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS AND ALL THE NARADA COLLECTIONS...

1. Silver Bells - David Arkenstone
2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Michael Whalen
3. O Holy Night (Cantique de Noel) - Brian Mann
4. O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) - Nando Lauria
5. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Wayne Gratz
6. Ding Dong! Merrily On High / Good King Wenceslas
7. First Noel, The (The First Nowell) - Ralf Illenberger
8. Carol of the Bells - Kostia
9. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Eric Tingstad
10. Silent Night, Holy Night (Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht) - Simon Wynberg
11. We Three Kings - Ira Stein
12. Little Drummer Boy, The (Der Trommelmann) - William Ellwood
13. O Little Town Of Bethlehem / The Holly And The Ivy - Michael Jones
 
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Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas -- CD

Ella Fitzgerald

1960/1988 Verve Records

Amazon.com

It'd be hard to imagine a happier wish than the one this jazz vocal legend wishes her listeners on this urbane-yet-homey collection of holiday favorites. The First Lady of Song recorded these tunes in 1960, at the peak of her interpretive powers. As such, she puts her singular stamp on everything from a sultry vamp like "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" to the sweet and cozy "The Christmas Song." Even potentially shopworn standards like "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" sound fresher when they're coming from Ella Fitzgerald. --David Sprague

1. "Jingle Bells" (J.S. Pierpont) – 2:21
2. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:56
3. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 2:56
4. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (Frank Loesser) – 3:32
5. "Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) – 2:56
6. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 3:00
7. "Good Morning Blues" (Count Basie, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing) – 3:15
8. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:43
9. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 2:16
10. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) – 2:51
11. "Frosty the Snowman" (Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins) – 2:12
12. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 3:02
 
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First Christmas -- CD

Bebe & Cece (Winans)

1993 Capitol Records

Amazon.com

From the first family of gospel comes siblings BeBe and CeCe Winans's First Christmas, recorded in 1993. Slightly dated by a heavy use of synthesizer and the squeaky-slick production prominent in popular gospel and R&B of the late '80s and early '90s, First Christmas is nevertheless right on time in its joyful celebration of the season. Newly arranged versions of classics like Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," Handel's "Joy to the World," and "For Unto Us (A Child Is Born)" cozy in with originals "Give Me a Star," "I Love You," and "Just Because." "The First Noel," a well-loved public-domain traditional, begins with a beautifully understated string arrangement. The album's finest moment is S. Vincent's "Ooh Child"; aurally pleasing and emotionally moving, Mom and Pop Winans, both of whom sing like angels, take on lead vocal duty, backed and supported by their gifted children. It's all about family here, and the more the merrier. --Paige La Grone

1. (00:04:24) Bebe & Cece Winans - Jingle Bells
2. (00:04:17) Bebe & Cece Winans - Silver Bells
3. (00:05:01) Bebe & Cece Winans - Give Me a Star
4. (00:04:49) Bebe & Cece Winans - Joy to the World
5. (00:04:37) Bebe & Cece Winans - I Love You
6. (00:05:24) Bebe & Cece Winans - Silent Night, Holy Night
7. (00:05:23) Bebe & Cece Winans - Hark the Herald Angels Sing
8. (00:04:59) Bebe & Cece Winans - White Christmas
9. (00:05:14) Bebe & Cece Winans - Ooh Child
10. (00:04:30) Bebe & Cece Winans - For Unto Us (a Child is Born)
11. (00:04:10) Bebe & Cece Winans - All Because
12. (00:06:02) Bebe & Cece Winans - The First Noel
 
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White Christmas -- CD

Al Green

1983 Hi Records

Amazon.com

Pure, loving, and honest. Those words describe the spirit of this holiday--and the voice of this soul music giant. Al Green, who became an ordained minister many years ago, could be expected to put his all into songs of praise such as "O Holy Night" and "Silent Night." On this collection, however, he gives equal time to more modern holiday favorites, lingering languidly over the melodies of numbers such as "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland." The sounds are sweeter than the candy canes. --David Sprague

1. White Christmas
2. The Christmas Song
3. Winter Wonderland
4. I'll Be Home For Christmas
5. Jingle Bells
6. What Christmas Means To Me
7. Oh Holy Night
8. Silent Night
9. It Feels Like Christmas
 
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A Merry Little Christmas -- CD

Linda Ronstadt

2000 Asylum Records

Amazon.com

Linda Ronstadt's A Merry Little Christmas plays, in part, like an old Nat King Cole Christmas record, with orchestrated versions of classics and a knowing vocal command at work on every track. Where Ronstadt makes her departure is midway through the 14-song set, when the CD suddenly becomes an album of sacred music, complete with "The Welsh Carol," "Lo, How a Rose E're Blooming," the lesser-known "O Magnum Mysterium," and "Past Three O'Clock." Ronstadt's record also features two producers and two respectable choirs, one from Tucson, Arizona, and the other from Los Angeles, and she works well with them and as a soloist, including her take on what may be this year's most covered song, Joni Mitchell's bittersweet lament, "River." --Martin Keller

1. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 4:24
2. "I'll Be Home For Christmas" (Buck Ram, Kim Gannon, Walter Kent) – 4:15
3. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:22
4. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 3:55
5. "River" (Joni Mitchell) – 4:10
6. "O come, O come, Emmanuel" (John Mason Neale) – 3:29
7. "Xicochi, Xicochi" (Gaspar Fernandez) – 2:17
8. "I Wonder As I Wander" (John Jacob Niles, Traditional) – 3:20
9. "Away In A Manger" (Traditional) – 2:08
10. "Lo, How A Rose E're Blooming" (Traditional) – 2:10
11. "Welsh Carol" (Traditional) – 3:57
12. "Past Three O'Clock" (George Ratcliffe Woodward, Traditional) – 0:41
13. "O Magnum Mysterium" (Traditional) – 3:19
14. "Silent Night" (Josef Mohr) – 3:06
 
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Only Time Knows CD

Bearfoot Bluegrass

2001 Bearfoot Bluegrass

An awesome group from Alaska, April 20, 2003
By A Customer

Bearfoot Bluegrass won the "Best New Band" contest at Telluride...they are up and comming! This CD showcases their many styles, from fast, well-played instrumentals to beautiful vocal and fiddle harmonies. My favorites are the soft, sensitive tunes such as " When you say nothing at all" and "Palm of your Hand"; the lead vocals are sweet, the harmonies are wonderful, and the mandolin playing is creative. These kids can make you cry and make you dance...as the title says, only time knows where their music will take them.

Track Info:

1. True Life Blues
2. Boston Boy
3. When Say Nothing
4. Wheel Hoss
5. Lonesome City
6. Sittin' Alone in the Moonlight
7. Telluride
8. Only Time Knows
9. Everyday I Have to Cry
10. In the Palm of Your Hand
11. I'll Be True
12. Cry, Cry, Darlin'
13. Opus 38
 
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The Best of Emerson Lake & Palmer -- CD

Emerson Lake & Palmer

1980 Atlantic Records - Import Germany

The original 3, February 16, 2009
By John Sposato (Syracuse, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best Of Emerson Lake & Palmer (Audio CD)

I bought this CD for Carl Palmer to autograph when I saw him with Asia again in April (he signed the Asia CD instead). Since I have grown to love prog over the past several years, I thought maybe I'll play this. You get "Fanfare for the Common Man", "Jerusalem", and "Lucky Man". Lacking are "From the Beginning", "Knife Edge", and "Pictures at an Exhibition" due to lack of space, though they appear on later, superior compilations anyway. I'm just starting to like ELP, and if you are as well, this is the way to go. This time, I will slowly add the studio and live albums, instead of just getting them all at once.
This particular release is long out-of-print, as they've changed labels a few times, recently to Shout! Factory in North America. My copy is an early West German import for US release.

1. Hoedown (3:46)
2. Lucky Man (4:38)
3. Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part 2) (4:48)
4. Jerusalem (2:45)
5. Peter Gunn (3:37)
6. Fanfare for the Common Man (2:57)
7. Still...You Turn Me On (2:54)
8. Tiger in a Spotlight (4:35)
9. Trilogy (8:51)
 
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