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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Bessie Smith
If I have time to myself ... I play tunes on the ukulele, or have a stab at Bessie Smith's "Down-Hearted Blues" on the piano. You wouldn't know it but I'm very good at ... walking on my hands. A book that changed me ... Richard Heinberg's The Party's Over ... Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith were the first things I really listened to as a youngster (growing up in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. and Baltimore). Then I started to get into gospel. That was a turning point vocally. "All my friends were listening ... Born September 6, 1927, in Grand Rapids, the son of Albert and Bessie (Smith) VanTil, he married Marion Margot on June 3, 1950, in Ganges. Alfred was a U.S. Navy veteran and a farmer. He owned and operated VanTil's Greenhouse in Fennville for 34 ... The city also is known for producing artists such as Bessie Smith and Usher, so there is plenty of material to draw from, he said. He describes his shows as being down-home but not cornpone. "It's down-home downtown," he said. Franklin, who was general ... The city council has banned panhandling in some parts of downtown including areas with heavy tourist traffic like the Bessie Smith Hall, the Tennessee Riverpark and the block where the Tennessee Aquarium is located. But police still regularly receive ... Annie Mae Maxey, Cora Lewis, Bessie Lee Menefee, Essie Mae White, Frank Smith, Tameka Smith, Dora Mosie, Mary Scott, Laura Dean, Filma Jean Dorsey, Vada Buckner, Sterling Crowson, Jessie McCleary, Gracie Mae Williams, Billy Rigsby, Shirley Allen, Rev ... He was born Feb. 18, 1915 in Monument, a son of the late Earl R. and Bessie Shearer Shady. On March 28, 1934 he married the ... Smith of Castanea; great-grandchildren, Shadi R. Jahelka and Holt L. Jahelka of Tehachapi and Sierra Shady and Brock Shady ... ... including James Lardner (son of Ring Lardner Sr.), Joseph Vogel, Ralph Fasanella, Conlon Nancarrow, Edwin Rolfe, Alvah Bessie ... They lost their jobs and were prosecuted under the Smith Act and state sedition laws although few had convictions hold up. ... Barbara Abney of Detroit, Mich., Betty Smith of New Jersey, brother, Jackie Seaberson; thirty-one grandchildren; thirty-five ... Jones and the Reverend Elizabeth (Bessie) Coleman officiating. Anniston Funeral services is in charge of arrangements. The ... Snyder, Ariel Ranae, born Dec. 6 to James Snyder and Christine Smith, Springvale. Munroe, Carmen Marie, born Dec. 6 to ... Abbott, Kaiyahjane Bessie, born Oct. 20 to Korey Abbott and Jane LeBlanc, South Berwick. Grandparents: Willette and Michael ...
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