Boot Heel Drag (The MGM Years) - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

Advantages: Old favourites remixed as "urban duets"
Disadvantages: Not for the purists; this isn't real reggae

...the way. Sort of (her child's father is one of Bob's sons - can't remember which but I don't think it's Ziggy). ---THE TRACKS--- My usual track by track listing with marks out of five for the track along with a little proof of how much the track has changed to curry favour with today's musical scene. I've called it T.A.P (This'll Annoy Purists). 1. Rebel Music (Featuring Krayzie Bone) This opener, from his 1974 album Natty Dread, features one quarter of the hip hop/doo wop quartet Bone Thugs N Harmony who had their day in the sunshine in 1996 and have rarely troubled the charts since. Chart watchers may know them through last year's Crossroads cover by Blazin' Squad. The remix itself is one of admirable restraint and Krayzie Bone generally stays out of the limelight save for a bit of chatter at the end. Not a bad start, but... Read review

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Advantages: Venus In Furs, Heroin, Waiting For The Man, Reed, Cale
Disadvantages: Run Run Run

...of the Primitives, then the Warlocks and finally the Falling Spikes. However, by the time they made their performing debut at a high school dance in New Jersey in November 1965, they had opted for the Velvet Underground moniker, suggested by a friend from a Michael Leigh book. They also had a new drummer in Mo Tucker, a short and totally untrained female percussionist. Her sparse and amateur approach fitted their sound perfectly with Cale's grinding viola offering the sound a distinctive and fearsome edge. They attracted the attention of New York art and fashion guru Andy Warhol - "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes" - and he became their self styled manager and guru. His credentials and notoriety got the band a contract with MGM's Verve Records and it was his idea for a German ex model called Nico to join on vocals... Read review

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Advantages: May be the best contemporary white female blues singer and acoustic guitarist you'll ever hear.
Disadvantages: None

...1981 she went back to her roots via the traditional music record label Rounder Records, and from then until now Block has recorded more than a dozen blues albums. In 1995 her album When a Woman Gets the Blues won the W. C. Handy Award for Best Acoustic Blues Album of the Year, and she was selected by the Martin Guitar Co. to endorse their strings in a national ad campaign. In 1998 she won the W. C. Handy Award again, this time as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year. “HIGH HEELED BLUES,” THE ALBUM: To me, though, Block was at her best in her very first anthology of blues standards, long before the whole world would learn just how good she was, and maybe even before she would even realize herself just how far she would go. The album High Heeled Blues was released in 1981 on Rounder Records as an LP and re-released in... Read review

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