The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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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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Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed
By the time he reached his early twenties, both Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed began to refer to Richard Smith as their “Hero” – and still do. There seems to be no limit to Richard’s ability to quickly master whatever guitar style captures his ... A native of Noblesville, Indiana, Wariner was influenced by his father, Roy Wariner, and by notables such as Chet Atkins, James Burton, Jerry Reed, The Beatles, Merle Haggard and Glen Campbell. Steve is also known for giving back to the community ... Knowles is a renowned musician who has played alongside and recorded music some of with the world’s finest finger style and classical guitarists including Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Lenny Breau, the Romero Family and James Galway. His “Gorilla Song ... Plenty of guitarists idolized Chet Atkins while growing up, but not all of them got to record a CD with their idol ... Over the World " with Atkins who also declared him a "Certified Guitar Player " -- a distinction shared only by Jerry Reed ... It was that year that his hero, Chet Atkins, gave him the title of "Certified Guitar Player" for his lifetime contribution to the art of fingerstyle playing. Only three others in the world — Jerry Reed, Steve Warner and John Knowles — share that ... ... is a who's who -- George Jones (in razor-sharp form), Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, Chet Atkins ... Cash was keen to make sure his old Sun Records pals weren't left behind in the '60s wake, with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl ... Smith, an English born, fingerstyle expert, brought his own Chet-Atkins-meets-Jerry-Reed-at-a-Beatles-concert show of six-string dexterity to the stage that evening. Edgar Cruz rounded out the mixture, bringing his world-renowned lineup of audience ... This awesome teenage guitarist is a 'must see' performer for fans of the Chet Atkins/Merle Travis/Jerry Reed sound and has been a sell-out at most of his gigs. Pearson is also appearing tomorrow night at Enniskillen's Ardhowen Theatre and ...
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