Angola Prisoners' Blues - Various Artists

Advantages: Great film
Disadvantages: none

...The songs on this cd include ...1.: Con Air (theme) 2.: Trisha 3.: Carson City 4.: Lear Crash 5.: Lerner Landing 6.: Romantic Chaos 7.: Takeover 8.: Discharge 9.: Jailbirds 10.: Cons Check Out Lerner 11.: Poe Saves Cops 12.: Fight 13.: Battle In The Boneyard 14.: Poe Meets Larkin 15.: Bedlam Larkin 16.: Fire Truck Chase 17.: Overture Con air is all about a military man called Cameron Poe from Alabama who uses self defence when he is attacked by two men and unfortunately kills one of them. The main charcter is played by Nicolas Cage. After he kills the man he is sentenced to 7 years in prison for manslaughter, usually the charge would have been less than 3 years but becuse he is a military man he gets more years. It then zooms forward to about one week before his release date, in which he is going to get a plane back... Read review

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Advantages: All his best hits on 1 cd
Disadvantages: There are none that i can find

...Johnny Cash who performed with several other artists including, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Car Perkins, Chet Atkins and of course his wife June Carter Cash. This man for me is the King of Country his styles have changed from what ever style or frame of mind he was in at the time, his voice offers both depth and tone to any song even a badly written song perfromed by JC sounds good. He spent time in prison and engaged these visits into his music and portrayed him self to be an honest man by hiding no facts that he had strayed from the right ways of life he also encourage others to do the same, come clean and your fans will understand and love you more for being truthful he told one country star. This cd embraces the best of him and his styles with his country guitar riffs and deep voice some of his best hits ever are on this cd, his last song... Read review

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Advantages: Great jazz tunes from the Golden Age
Disadvantages: None

...-performed and fluid love song. Sadly the female singer with the honey-dripping tones is not credited on this CD. There's Harry James and his Orchestra with a waltz time piece called Carnival of Vencie, with some trumpet playing that is straight out of the trumpet section of a classical orchestra. There's Moonlight in Vermont sung by Ella Fitzgerald. If you haven't heard her sing, hear this song and you'll know why Ella Fitzgerald is so well-loved to this day by people from all over the year. Prisoner of Love by Teddy Wilson is good, solid jazz fare. A simple rhythm, slightly muted trumpet and lilting piano. Eventually, the music is joined by a female singer with a voice that is slightly reminiscent of Mae West. Closing Hour Blues by Meade Lux Lewis is a blues jazz cross-over. Somehow the crackles from the original master recording just add a little... Read review

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