Essence to Essence [Import]

Track Listings

1. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

2. Lazy Daze

3. Life Goes On

4. There Is an Ocean

5. Dignity of Man

6. Wynken, Blynken and Nod

7. Divine Daze of Deathless Delight

8. Boy for Every Girl

9. Saint Valentine's Angel

10. Life Is a Merry-Go-Round

11. Sailing Homeward

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
1998 reissue on Columbia of the original 1973 release for the label. Features all 11 original tracks, including 'Lazy Daze' and 'Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth'.

Tracks:

Cosmic Wheels
Earth Sign Man
Sleep
Maria Magenta
Wild Witch Lady
Music Makers
Intergalactic Laxative
I Like You
Only the Blues
Appearances
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Lazy Daze
Life Goes On
There Is an Ocean
Dignity of Man
Yellow Star
Divine Daze of Deathless Delight
Boy for Every Girl
Saint Valentine's Angel
Life Is a Merry-Go-Round
Sailing Homeward

Album Description

UK twofer combines both the British folk-rock icon's 1973 albums, 'Cosmic Wheels' produced by Donovan & Mickie Most along with 'Essence To Essence' produced by Andrew Oldham & Donovan. 21 tracks. Edsel. 2004.

Album Details

In 1973, Donovan Signed to Cbs and Released "Cosmic Wheels" which Reached #15 in the UK and #25 in the is Album Charts. In the Producer's Chair, He was Reunited with Mickie Most, Producer of all his Greatest 60s Successes, who Hired Top Session Guitarist Chris Spedding, Along with Yes Drummer Alan White and Rolling Stones Saxophonist Bobby Keyes. The Album features "The Intergalactic Laxative" which Donovan Still Performs Live in Concert. "Essence to Essence" Issued in 1974, was Co-produced with Erstwhile Stones Manager Andrew Long Oldham, and features a Stellar Line Up of Guest Musicians (Carole King, Peter Frampton, Steve Marriot, Tom Scott, Danny Thompson, Henry Mccullough and Danny Seiwell of Wings).

Customer Reviews:

To Error Is Human.......2007-06-22

This is where things start to change and not for the better. Did you ever have the feeling that producer Micki Most and guitarist Jeff Beck undertood Donovan and his music a lot more than they ever recieved credit for? Change is inevitable, but production values are still production values and guitar licks are still guitar licks. The essence of Donovan starts to disappear here. For the next few albums, Donovan seems intent on a change of direction that leads him far away from what he does best. He trades his unique poetry and celtic charm for something that seems a lot less than he is capable of. The magic has dwindled and the fairy dust has scattered. The acoustic Donovan appears, disappears and reappears whenever the muse hits him. Both of these albums are uneven and need a lot more attention from Donovan and a lot less interference from everyone else. It makes you wonder if anyone ever listened to any of his previous work on Epic.

From pop star to has been.......2006-01-12

Cosmic Wheels was Donovan's last LP to chart in the top 40 (#25 in the U.S.). Essence to Essence only made it to #174, and a few years later Donovan slid off the charts for good. While there are many reasons why this happened (and it happened to many of the 60s stars), Cosmic Wheels certainly has to take some of the blame. It really isn't that good when compared to his fabulous albums from the 60s. His lyrics lack the whimsy and poetry of his previous songs (something he wouldn't fully regain until his "Beat Cafe" CD 31 years later!), his music is lackluster, and the whole LP is just not compelling.

To top it off, the LP also contains the worse song that Donovan ever wrote - "Intergalactic Laxative." I like to think of this song as one of the final nails in the coffin, the song that instantly pushed Donovan from popular to has been. In an instant, Donovan goes from whimsical to crude, from hip to insipid, from mystical to juvenile. It's truly an embarrassing song, and it blights the entire LP.

So why 3 stars for this CD? Actually, it's for the Essence to Essence part of it because that LP has always had a certain charm to it. Certainly it can't hold a candle to his 60s LPs or to "Beat Cafe", but it's more consistent than Cosmic Wheels, and while the lyrics still aren't great, his music has a playfulness to it that makes it fun to listen to. Worthwhile songs include "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth," "Yellow Star," and "Life is a Merry-Go-Round."

If you're just starting to get into Donovan, don't buy this CD. Start with one of his excellent best of CDs, either his greatest hits, or "Try for the Sun" or "Troubadour." If you want to explore Donovan's music further, try any of his masterpieces from the 60s, and get the remastered imports because the sound is fantastic. I also highly recommend "Beat Cafe" his 2004 CD which compares favorably with his 60s music. But if you're a Donovan die-hard, you might as well get this CD too.

The Mystic Minstrel of the 20th Century.......2005-03-19

I was glad to find these two albums paired together. I don't have to sell anyone on Cosmic Wheels, one of Donovan's better efforts from the 70's. But Essence to Essence has always been slammed as a weak album, with so-so production and subpar material. However, there are always hidden gems and this LP has a few. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth and The Divine Daze of Deathless Delight remain two of my personal favorites. But if you are a true Donovan fan, or just now beginning to discover the wonder of his talent, then There Is An Ocean and
Sailing Homeward are absolute musts to have in your collection.
They both have minimal accompaniment and in my opinion that is when Donovan is at his best. Although he has made some great electric music over the years, all he really needs is an acoustic guitar and that great built-in vibrato voice of his to bring goose bumps to your skin. Listen and enjoy.

Finally on CD!.......2004-02-28

Cosmic Wheels was issued in Europe on CD for a very short time in the 1990s and went out of print shortly thereafter. Finally it's re released and available, this time as a twofer with Essense to Essense, the followup CD. Cosmic Wheels is Donovan's last great album, featuring his whimsical but still lyrical concerns with the earth, stars, astronomy, astrology, etc. There are some amazing and powerful orchestrations on this album, particularly on the title track, arranged by Chris Spedding. Great musicianship and songwriting on this overlooked and underrated album. Essense to Essense has some interesting material but is not nearly as good as Cosmic Wheels either in consistency of songwriting or in performance. Sound quality is good, thank God they refrained from using noise reduction, and this CD sounds quite acceptable.

Essence of Green: A Tribute to Kind of Blue

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Essence of Green: A Tribute to Kind of Blue
Ron di Salvio
Manufacturer: Origin Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000P7V4AS
Release Date: 2007-06-19

Tracks:

Six Shades Of Green 7:56
Crossing Lines 5:30
Green Pasture 5:06
Essence Of Green 7:53
Primavera 5:18
Cobb's Throb 3:50
Miles Davis - Bill Evans Reunion In The Sky 7:54
Good Morning Santa Cruz 4:33
Arcadia 5:15
Wasabi 6:06

Product Description

With Jimmy Cobb, the final remaining member of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue ensemble, pianist Ron Di Salvio creates a timely tribute to the top selling jazz recording of all time, nearly 50 years after the original recording. Currently living in Michigan, Di Salvio studied improvisation with the legendary Lennie Tristano, played jazz clubs in New York's Greenwich Village in the late sixties and performed with Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Enrico Rava, Renee McClean, Roland Kirk and Art Farmer.

Aaron Copland: The Essence of America [Box Set]

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Broke package
The Music is Beautiful, but the Extras are Priceless
It's not Bernstein and never will be
Aaron Copland: The Essence of America
The two faces of Copland

Aaron Copland: The Essence of America [Box Set]

Manufacturer: RCA
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Binding: Audio CD

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Ultimate Copland Album

ASIN: B00004WFNM
Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

Concerto For Piano And Orchestra: Andante sostenuto
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra: Molto moderato; Allegro assai
Orchestral Variations
Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2): Incisivo
Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2): Espressivo
Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2): Preciso e ritmico
Symphonic Ode

Tracks:

Billy The Kid
Appalachian Spring
Rodeo: Buckaroo Holiday
Rodeo: Corral Nocturne
Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz
Rodeo: Hoe Down

Tracks:

Fanfare for the Common Man
Introduction to The Modernist and Symphonic Ode
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Orchestral Variations
Short Symphony
Introduction to The Populist
Billy the Kid
Appalachian Spring
Rodeo
On First Meeting Aaron Copland and Aaron Copland the Man
Introduction to Fanfare for the Common Man
Fanfare for the Common Man

Customer Reviews:

Broke package.......2007-06-27

I could not give it as a gift because the case was damaged.

I was told I would get a return label.

Roger

The Music is Beautiful, but the Extras are Priceless.......2006-02-21

Michael Tilson Thomas has long been known to have had a happy and fruitful relationship with the great Aaron Copland. His intimate knowledge of Copland's music and heart are evident in these recordings. The second symphony and the Appalachian Ballet(! as opposed to suite, which leaves out a very gorgeous, mysterious movement) are gorgeously rendered, as is the inimitable Fanfare for the Common Man. Billy the Kid is always a delight, of course. The Orchestral Variations are so invigoratingly different from what most people think of when they think of Copland, and this rendering is lively and precise. If I had one complaint, and it is a small one, it would be that I had a hard time with this interpretation of Rodeo, which didn't seem to find it's rhythm and gallop the way I'm used to. Still good, but I've heard better.

But for me, an aspiring composer, the thing that puts this set over the top is the absolutely delightful commentary on the contents of the set by MTT. Not only do you get to hear a wonderful history lesson, but MTT obviously has a light, joyous love of music, and particularly that of Copland, that is infectious and inspiring. After hearing the commentary, I found myself much more deeply involved in the second listening of the set. I must disagree with the reviewer who compared MTT with Bernstein, not that one has more "quality" than the other, but that such a comparison has any merit or point in the first place. They are two very different people. MTT's commentary makes this set a must-have for Music lovers and especially for Copland aficionados.

It's not Bernstein and never will be.......2005-09-21

Tilson Thomas flirted briefly with trying to be the next Bernstein but luckily has gone his own way. He is not a fiery or driven conductor--one can't say of him that he is possessed by music, a phrase Bernstien used about himself. In these Copland recordings he certainly conducts well, but the spirit of Copland seems lost among the careful detailing. This should be simple music to conduct but somehow only Bernstein catches the rollicking joy, the democratic dance rhythms, and the underlying sophistication at the same time. These readings strike me as too sophisticated by half, although they are in great sound.

Aaron Copland: The Essence of America.......2003-06-23

Having heard MTT perform Copland live and with astounding impact I was delighted with this set. MTT's perfomances are exciting and have alot of insight. The 'Modernist' CD is perhaps a little dry compared with the 'Populist' one but the two compliment each other well as a result. MTT's comments as an interpreter and friend of Copland are invaluable and provide an accurate and lively interpretation of the composer's music. He delivers his words with great enthusiasm and clarity and his 'scat' singing on the disk is not to be missed!.. All in all this is a great box set and every Copland fan/student should have it. I hope it's not too long before MTT releases a recording of the 3rd Symphony - if it turned out like this set then we would have another definitive Copland recording.

The two faces of Copland.......2001-10-29

This set contains 2 music CD's: One CD has Copland's earlier more chaotic works, and the other CD has the Copland's more famous works: Rodeo, Billy the Kid, and Appalacian Spring suites. The third CD is a commentary on the works on the other two disks, and also contains "Fanfare for the Common Man".

The Appalacian disk is the greatest of the set. All three works have a new fresh interpretation, and the Appalacian Spring suite includes a section that is usually cut in most performances. (When I first listened it definitely took me by surprise!) MTT is perhaps the greatest living conductor for modern music and he does not disappoint.

I did not care much for the CD containing Copland's modernistic works. The early works are very aggressive and "in-your-face" with irregular rhythms, which some may prefer, but they are a bit too modern for me.

The commentary disk is delivered in a somewhat dry manner, but is worth listening too for some insight about the music. The commenary for the Appalacian Suite (where he explains the restored "Preacher" section) is good, and it is necessary to listen to the commentary to even hope to understand the modern works. (Actually, it helped me to appreciate the "Orchestral Variations" on the first CD -- perhaps the only modernist work in this set that I really enjoy.)

Witness: Got the Saint Louis Blues - Classical Music in the Jazz Age
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Historically significant music, wonderfully performed!

Witness: Got the Saint Louis Blues - Classical Music in the Jazz Age
Ryan French , Steve Burger , Harry T. (Henry) Burleigh , R. Nathaniel Dett , Carl R. Diton , W. C. Handy , Edmund Thornton Jenkins , James P. [composer] Johnson , Florence B. Price , Philip Brunelle , Paul Shaw , Jearlyn Steele , Michael Forest , Thomas Larson , Vocal Essence , and VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Manufacturer: Clarion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Witness: What a Mighty God - Spirituals and Gospels for Chorus

ASIN: B0001FVERC
Release Date: 2004-02-10

Tracks:

William C. Handy: Saint Louis Blues
Harry T. Burleigh: O Southland
Florence B. Price: Song for Snow
Florence B. Price: Moon Bridge
R. Nathaniel Dett: Listen to the Lambs
Harry T. Burleigh: Ethiopia's Paean to Exaltation
Carl R. Diton: Poor Mourner's Got a-Home
James P. Johnson: Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody
R. Nathaniel Dett: Chariot Jubilee
Edmund Thornton Jenkins: Charlestonia: Folk Rhapsody for Orchestra, No. 1
R. Nathaniel Dett: Ave Maria

Album Description

Vibrant music from the crossroads—South and North, African and American, church and street—characterizes the era between 1914 and 1930.

Customer Reviews:

Historically significant music, wonderfully performed!.......2004-06-01

Each of the composers here was a significant contributor to the Harlem Renaissance and by tune or text, these works document the coming jazz explosion. Many have never before been recorded.

For over 10 years, The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus (conducted by Philip Brunelle) has presented an enduring series of concerts showcasing the talents of trailblazing African American composers. Now this wealth of music is available outside the concert hall through a series of recordings called WITNESS.

The other three CDs are available as single titles, or in the boxed set THE WITNESS COLLECTION which includes:

WHAT A MIGHTY GOD: Spirituals and Gospels for Chorus
DANCE LIKE THE WIND: Music of Today's Black Composers
GOT THE SAINT LOUIS BLUES: Classical Music in the Jazz Age
SKYWARD MY PEOPLE ROSE: Music of William Grant Still

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Curator, AfroAmericanHeritage.com

Walk the Worn out Floor
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Better than Nora

What I've been missing!

Elegance

Walk the Worn out Floor
Julie Wolf
Manufacturer: Palimpest Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
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Continuum

ASIN: B00005Y954
Release Date: 1997-10-16

Tracks:

My Foolish Heart
I Only Mean It When I Sing the Blues
Wall
Fool That I Am
If I Loved You
Love Is Like a Cigarette
Trust in Me
Killing the Blues
My Song
Mountain Atop a Mountain
Baby Plays Around
Don't Go to Strangers
I Need You
Someone Else Is Steppin' In
How Will You Remember Me?
I Thought You Were Standing Next to Me

Customer Reviews:

Better than Nora.......2004-12-24

Now if you ask me, and a substantial number of torch song virtuosos do on a frighteningly frequent basis, this here album is far superior to the work that Nora Jones has popularized in recent years. See, this here Julie Wolf has a voice that is considerably warmer and more velvety than that of Nora. Don't go thinking that I am casting disparaging thoughts at Miss Jones because I ain't - I like her work to an extent, but then again I get pretty worn out listening to her CDs because she sings beautifully while at the same time she sounds like she is singing somebody else's songs. That ain't the case for Julie Wolf.

Julie Wolf sings all the songs on this here album like they was her own. She makes them personal like, and that lends itself to the quality of the product. She also happens to be a gifted musician and can play a number of instruments quite beautifully and while I don't want to ramble on in a comparison of the two women, I don't know that Nora Jones can do that. In fact, I lost interest in Nora Jones before her first CD reached its critical climax. This here Julie Wolf CD sneaked in under the critical radar and managed to garner only a smidgen of recognition. This, my internet savvy friends, was a travesty. This is the album everybody should have been talking about when they were discovering or rediscovering more mature music... not that Nora Jones thing. Sorry, I'm attempting to get away from the comparison but I find it hard.

I will have to admit that I purchased this CD when I saw Julie Wolf perform behind Bruce Cockburn a while back and took it home and played it once while I was out in the shed working. I was preoccupied with getting the reversible flange on my brush hog replaced and didn't pay so much attention to the music. So I didn't play it again until last week and since I put it in to the CD player I have now played it about eleventy hundred times. This thang is wonderful, ya'll. We done had us a fire last night and had this here CD on and the whole Huckabee clan was mesmerized. Even Junior, who usually takes to other types of music.

Me and Mama put the youngin's to bed and played the CD again and sat there on the fold-a-bed in the front room and made cow eyes at each other and boy-howdy is this a good CD for doing that. I guess my final critique is - if you plan on makin' cow eyes and need some music that isn't just background music, but rather music to give you something to think about while you get all romantic, then this here CD is the one you need.

What I've been missing!.......2004-04-24

Virtually stumbled accross this artist when looking up a favorite of mine (Catie Curtis). Any friend of Caties's is a friend of mine. LOVED the CD. The perfect CD when you are not sure what mood you are in. Prefect for ALL occassions. Crisp, clean, beautiful music to enjoy - always. This CD had moved into my favorite position. A CD you will never get tired of!

Elegance.......2002-08-05

Where shall I? Can I begin, in describing the incredible Julie Wolf? Everything I can think of is a 'Given'. Julie is a tremendous pianist. 'Given'. Ms. Wolf is an amazing singer. 'Given'. Julie is an talented songwriter. 'Given'. Julie Wolf knows her way around arrangements, interpretation and accompaniment. 'Given'.
Her solo cd "Walk the Worn Out Floor" is to beautiful for words, as is the woman. As her hands slowly, very slowly start to play the first track, "My Foolish Heart", you can hear Julie's lips part right before she begins to sing. It's one of those magical moments in music when you and the artist become one, the feeling that you are listening from a breath away. The moment is absolute heaven.

"If I Loved You" a song first penned by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein becomes Julie's. I'm taken aback time and time again by the maturity in her phrasing, not only on this song, but on so many of the songs in this collection. A gorgeous melancholy and quiet introspection live and breathe on this track. She posseses the ability of being able to deliberately hang on a phrase, a note, and then, allow it fall a bit behind the song's natural rhythm.

Listening to "Love is Like a Cigarette" I'm always taken aback by the softness, the gentle air that resonates in the woman's voice. "Trust in Me" a song by Denny Goodhew, is sung to perfection. The interplay between the words, her piano and her voice, astounds me. She touches me with the 'feeling' of all three as they merge into one, imparting an opening of the soul.

She does an interpretation of Keith Jarrett's "My Song". This song is just to beautiful, it kills me, leaves me in a gorgeous restful place-everytime. The lyrics written by Rhiannon, a friend of Julie's, overlap and seemingly decode the sax melody played on the original version. "A Mountain Atop a Mountain" is breathtaking. Close your eyes and you're floating totally free as the airiest of cellos plays the melody, it's quietly taken over by Hans Teuber's flute, flying just abit higher and then the sweetness of Julie's voice, holds you as the same melody is finished as it should be, with her angelic tones in duet with the flute. Listening to her arrangement of "Baby Plays Around", you hear an ominous series of basslines being played behind the lyrics, by John Silverman. It darkens the music and for myself, matches the many moods being sung by Ms. Wolf. Julie weaves many emotions as she sings the lyrics. She moves from a sad timbre, a voice of anger, of worry, for what is to become of both of them. She touches on a complicated matter of factness. A place where a person finds acceptance of the truth in someone they love beyond measure, beyond longing, beyond reason yet deep remorse in finally having let go. A proud love but one that may make you ashamed to have fallen so deeply for them.

"Don't Go to Strangers" not only showcases Julie Wolf's voice but also her extremely tasteful soloing. I really don't know what jazz pianists she's studied, but I hear bits of everyone from Jarrett, a bit of Corea, a touch of Zawinul, colors of Lyle Mays' solo work, a sprinkle of Donald Fagen. This song moves from some infectious, bright and upbeat chords to start, and some very tastefully executed soloing. It all slowly finds it's way back, reacquainting you with Julie's magnificent voice to open the song's first verse. As she delivers her lines she also slows and darkens the mood, ever so gently. The tones become very soft and dreamlike, and her vocal walks inside and around the chords. Glorious. The solo starts very slowly, with a thoughtfulness, a meditative brilliance that grows into a very steady moving river of notes delivered with such purposeful deliberateness. As her solo builds, the somber mood that had been painted, sharpens and like a flower, it starts to blossom. It opens, not only a very quiet breath but also a walking bassline that starts to move the solo into a new color, a new brilliance, a new rhythm. The chord clusters chime and ring out but quickly remember their earlier musical embrace, and begin to close around themselves and break into single, soulful notes once again. Julie has once again shifted the mood and rhytmn , her fingers start to lead us back to some very heartfelt closing verses.

Ah, what an artist. She moves quite easily from the melodies of Annie Lennox to Rodgers & Hammerstein to a self penned song called "The Wall". This song, "The Wall", is a promising look into what the woman could offer us if we could only get another Julie Wolf solo cd. Julie left me wanting to know more about the character she's singing about...and that's exactly the intent. We all put up walls in our lives, for protection of our hearts, for the sake of diverting someone who's getting alittle to close, or just a wall to put up the memories. On "Daisy Petals on My Head", a cd by her sister Kate, you can hear one song co-written by Julie, yet I would love to hear more of Julie's solo music.

There really isn't to much on Julie Wolf out in 'webland', I've looked. It's a shame that an artist of her ability, her promise, her grace is for our purposes, living a musical life of such anonymity. The talent of this woman is immense. I'm so proud to know of her talent. I'm so very happy that I've come to know her music. Her touch on the piano is as delicate as her voice, yet her ability for interpretation is so far beyond what has become celebrated in today's 'so called music'. To have Julie Wolf acknowledged by today's standards of artistry would be a giant step downward to mediocrity.

I'm very proud to have met Ms. Wolf in person. She left me feeling a wonderment, a melancholy that only a person of that kind of elegance could bring.

Songs of the Carter Family
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songs and performances to stop the heart

Songs of the Carter Family
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
Manufacturer: Appleseed Records
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Adieu False Heart

ASIN: B00004WMYD
Release Date: 2000-09-26

Tracks:

Away Out On The Old Saint Sabbath
Bear Creek Blues
Meet Me In The Moonlight
Single Girl, Married Girl
Sow Em On The Mountain
Dreaming Of You Darling
Bye And Bye
Motherless Children
Dark And Stormy Weather
River Of Jordan
Don't Forget This Song
March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away

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The Carter Family were the most enigmatic performers in the early days of the country music industry. Over the years people tended to ignore the mystery in their music and concentrated instead on the folksy charm of "Wildwood Flower" or the piety of "Keep on the Sunny Side." But on Songs of the Carter Family Kate Brislin and Jody Stecher mostly eschew the familiar songs in favor of lesser-known but equally powerful tunes. And on songs such as "Dark and Stormy Weather," with its "wrong" harmonies that sound so right, or "Away out on the Old Saint Sabbath," with its haunting, ambiguous lyrics, the pair revels in the wild, barely civilized side of the Carters. Stecher and Brislin are two of the finest duet singers to emerge from the old-time music revival of the 1960s, and their sweet mountain harmonies and beautifully understated guitar picking are a fitting tribute to Sara, Maybelle, and A.P. Carter, the greatest old-time singers of them all. --Michael Simmons

Customer Reviews:

songs and performances to stop the heart.......2000-11-11

Like James Talley's brilliant collection of Woody Guthrie songs, Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin's Songs of the Carter Family is no collection of "covers." You can have heard the Carters most of your life, as I have, and still be awed and moved by the masterly treatment this veteran husband-and-wife team gives material associated with A.P., Sara, and Maybelle. Still, Stecher and Brislin wisely focus on the more obscure stuff. They choose it well, starting with the underdeservedly neglected "Away Out on the Old Saint Sabbath" -- one of those romantic, surrealistic Western songs in the vein of "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "Away Out on the Mountain," set in a frontier landscape of dreams. With California folk singer Larry Hanks, Stecher and Brislin turn their gorgeous neo-Appalachian harmonies to a stunning meditation on death and resurrection, "Bye and Bye," to heartbreaking, even eerie, effect. "Meet Me in the Moonlight" and the odd, archaic-sounding "Dark and Stormy Weather" grab the heart and don't let go. With one terrific song and magnificent performance after another, Songs of the Carter Family is surely one of the 10 best folk albums of 2000 and perhaps the finest Carter tribute ever.

The Essence of Viennese Music [Hybrid SACD]

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The Essence of Viennese Music [Hybrid SACD]

Manufacturer: Chesky Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0002IQHHA
Release Date: 2004-07-27

Tracks:

Unter Donner und Blitz (Polka schnell)
Das eine kann ich nicht verzeih'n (Wiener Blut)
Radetzky-Marsch
Sei mir gegruesst du holdes Venetia (Eine Nacht in Venedig)
Deh vieni non tardar (La nozze di Figaro)
Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schoen (Die Zauberfloete)
Vilja Lied (Die Lustige Witwe)
Overture (Die Fledermaus)
Lippen Schweigen (Die lustige Witwe)
Entr'acte Musik No. 2 (Rosamunde)
Licht senkt es sich vom Himmel (Das Dreimaederlhaus)
Mein Herr Marquis (Die Fledermaus)
Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Das Land des Laechelns)
An der schoenen blauen Donau
Tanzen moecht' ich (Die Cardasfuerstin)

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Tender Trap
Amanda Carr
Manufacturer: Original Music Svc
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ASIN: B0007VF1YM
Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

Never Will I Marry
(Love is) The Tender Trap
I'll Close My Eyes
Do It the Hard Way
What We Were Asking For
Tulip or Turnip
I'll Never Be the Same
That Old Devil Moon
Throw it Away
I Couldn't Live Without You
Foolin' Myself
What Am I Here For
No More Blues (Chega De Saudade)

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Lineage of Dhrupad
Sayeeduddin Dagar
Manufacturer: Sense World Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

India | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music

General | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0006VYEVO
Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

Raga Bhairav Alap
Raga Bhairav - Jor/Jhalla
Raga Bhairav Dhrupad in Sadara [10 Beats]
Raga Gunakali Dhrupad in Tivra
Raga Komal Rishabh Asavari In (Sooltaal) [10 Beats]

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Essence
Marion James
Manufacturer: Soul Food Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0000C8W7R
Release Date: 2003-07-22

Tracks:

Tables
Give Me Love
My Mama
Let's Straighten It Out
24 Hours
Until The Real Thing Comes Along
Please Don't Waste My Time
I Should Have Known
Be Anything
Feel It
You're History,Baby
I Want To Be Loved (But By Only You)
Live Interview featuring Marion on Vocals and Piano

Album Description

Essence showcases a blend of blues, R&B, and jazz. The album features some of Nashville's finest musicians like Beegie Adair, Chucki Burke (Willie Dixon, Issac Hayes), Bob Babbitt(Legendary studio bass player), Jack Pearson (The Allman Brothers), and Reese Wynans (Stevie Ray Vaughan). Marion's latest effort, showcases her incredible singing talent. She tackles slow burning blues, uptempo soul to soft, jazz-oriented ballads.

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1. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
2. Lazy Daze
3. Life Goes On
4. There Is an Ocean
5. Dignity of Man
6. Wynken, Blynken and Nod
7. Divine Daze of Deathless Delight
8. Boy for Every Girl
9. Saint Valentine's Angel
10. Life Is a Merry-Go-Round
11. Sailing Homeward