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
A: It was learning slide (guitar) through listening to (Robert) Johnson and Son House. (I learned) the use of a thumb pick by listening to Chet Atkins and Merle Travis. And, like you said, a lot of practicing and listening. Q: What do you like on your ... Chet Atkins, Kitty Wells and the Everly Brothers made regular visits to the house. And this made life anything but ordinary. Even the automobile served as a creative platform for the happy couple, primarily on rainy days. Bryant said his parents drew ... i t's a summer night in 1969, and in Nashville, Tenn., a tall man in black has been entertaining a packed Ryman Auditorium during a taping of "The Johnny Cash Show." Already, a man named Chet Atkins, who for five years lived way down in Columbus, Ga ... Most treasured instruments: 1953 Gibson ES-295 and the KB-295 (The KB-295 was custom built for me by a legendary guitar builder. It's the only one of its kind.) Musical Influences: Elvis Presley, Jim Campilongo, Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore, Johnny Cash ... PORTAGE -- Master acoustic guitarist Muriel Anderson, who was mentored by Chet Atkins and earned attention from greats like Les Paul, will bring a ``Harp Guitar Christmas'' to St. B's Coffeehouse at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. ``It has very beautiful ... ... Air Force for at least one year. A variety of process improvement workshops are also conducted, sponsored by the 309th Maintenance Wing. The program on base is overseen by Dale Emmerson, acting Center Training Office chief; and Richard "Chet" Atkins ... He was a fan of artists such as Hank Williams, Chet Atkins and Merle Travis and learned how to play his instrument. In time, he performed at the WKLY radio station, the Grand Ole Chicken House and other venues. When Bluegrass Express came about, Sayer ... The label was located in a house on the corner of 18th Avenue South and Chet Atkins Place. Sandy was the first one who told me about Billy Ray and introduced me to that cute guy from Flatwoods, Ky., who drove a red car. "He's gonna be big as Elvis ... From this collection come vocal and instrumental pairings by the likes of the Everly Brothers, Chet Atkins and Jethro Burns, Robin and Linda Williams, Leo Kottke and Iris DeMent, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Garrison Keillor and Meryl Streep and ... One of Donohue's biggest fans was the late Chet Atkins, one of his favorite musicians and ''Prairie Home'' partners. Donohue wrote ''Stealin' from Chet'' so he could play more often on the show with Atkins, who was fabled for giving country music an ...
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