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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Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
Some of his influences are McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Chicago blues musician Chester Arthur Burnett (Howlin' Wolf) and Chicago guitarist Magic Sam Maghett. Raven has opened for Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Joe Willie Pinetop Perkins and the ... Thomas, Wayne Toups, Lonnie Brooks “Guitar Jr.,” The Fabulous Boogie Kings, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and Jo El Sonnier, Clarence “Frog Man” Henry and Joe Barry plus numerous other Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana performers. The ... Featured are masters of guitar (Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown," Walter "Wolfman" Washington) and piano (James Booker, Professor Longhair, Champion Jack Dupree) as well as singers like Ruth Brown and Solomon Burke who defined their style and acolytes ... The set is divided thematically, with the first disc covering the Big Easy Blues of artists including Marcia Ball, Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Johnny Adams, who is represented by a track - Just Because - previously unissued on CD. Also included are ... Artists range from Johnny Adams and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Monk Boudreaux and the Golden Eagles, George Porter, Professor Longhair and James Booker. Most interesting are a handful of vintage R&B tunes originally ... Among all the calamities of Hurricane Katrina, none hit me harder than the death of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. It wasn't noted much at the time - Fats Domino's narrow escape from the rising floodwaters was a much bigger story - and the fact that ... ... at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. A resident of the Crescent City, he is steeped in the Gulf Coast blues scene, where he occupied the keyboard seat in Gate's Express, the crack band of the late, great Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown ... A longtime keyboardist with the late Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's Gate's Express, he backed many a luminary, including Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, and fronted his own band, the Joe Krown Organ Combo, since 1999. The "Solid Blues" tour also performs ... New Orleans-styled piano and Hammond B-3 player Krown is a Big Easy favorite, where he has won numerous awards for his recordings and performances, including stints with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Dr. John ... But it was always with Gatemouth (Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown), so he never knew I was there until he saw my picture on the poster." Krown was raised on Long Island, attended the state university in Buffalo and then landed in Boston. In the mid-1980s ...
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