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Skip James - Studio Sessions: Rare and Unreleased. - sound recording review

Skip James was the most eerily soulful artist in blues. The sound of his thin falsetto, crying out over his unique minor-key guitar arrangements transcended any limitations of genre. His two Vanguard LPs in the 1960s proved him to be the only one of the "rediscovered" recording artists from the early blues era who had continued to develop as an artist,

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The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings. . - Off the Beaten Track - sound recording review

This 4-CD boxed set brings together the seven original studio albums that the influential Canadian duo Ian & Sylvia recorded for Vanguard between 1963 and 1968. The first five of those albums are among the very best recordings of that era and while the last two were increasingly inconsistent, they do contain some worthwhile tracks.

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A long shadow: Stephanie Merritt on a posthumous album to move the most hardened old rebel - music - Sound Recording Review

According to the spiky notes scratched on the album sleeve in Joe Strummer's own handwriting, "Streetcore is a distillation of all the most extreme psychedelic music showing length knowledge [sic] of reggae + dub + funk + blues + jazz + folk + hip-hop". It seems a typical Strummer joke, to make explicit the cocktail of musical influences in print, in case the listener didn't get it.

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Shady business: Ted Kessler on the rise of a new rap star who just can't stay out of trouble. . - Music - Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's album Get Rich or Die Tryin' - sound recording review

A great deal is made of 50 Cent's lurid past when explaining the phenomenal impact of his debut album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. The New York rapper's been shot. He's been stabbed. He's at war with various other hip-hop stars. He only recently quit the trade in drugs that killed his mother. All these stories build great column inches, but they do not, in themselves, explain the kind of sales 50 Cent is currently enjoying.

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Sounding off. . - The Best In Recorded Music - Full Circle, The Pecan Tree, The Kiss - sound recording review

HARMONIZING maestros BOYZ II MEN are back with a sixth studio recording, Full Circle (Arista), on which Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman and Wanya Morris continue their well-tuned tradition of delivering great music. Among the standout tunes is the lush, beautifully orchestrated ballad "The Color of Love," written and produced by Babyface.

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