Charlie Daniels - Charlie Daniels

Advantages: Great album, great voice, great tracks
Disadvantages: none for me

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Powter - Daniel Powter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Born in 1971, Daniel grew up in a place called Okanagan in British Colombia, He had always known he would do something with music…never being into sports like his friends. He learnt to play violin instead, which gave kids an excuse to tease him, which along with being dyslexic didn't make school life easy or a very happy time for him! 2 things happened to make him want to break free from it all, firstly his violin teacher pointed out to him that he was reading his music sheets upside down (not taking into account his dyslexia) secondly getting a black eye from another kid at school…….He eventually managed to break away from it all. He moved to Vancouver, Canada when he was 20yrs old and met producer Jeff Dawson, and spent the next year writing... Read review

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Advantages: beautiful, emotional, charming - you will keep returning to this record
Disadvantages: none at all

...Acadie takes the listener on a series of journies - a journey through Daneil Lanois' homelands in Canada; a journey through the past, as traditional ways of life are half remembered and the folk songs of the past are referenced; and also a deeply moving spiritual journey. By 1989 Daniel Lanois' reputation was second to none - Rolling Stone hailed him as "the most important record producer to emerge in the Eighties" and artists such as Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Peter Gabriel and U2 queued up for his services. His production style became a byword for quietly epic, atmospheric, stirring, delicate yet impassioned music. Above all Lanois captured the essence of the acts he produced. By insisting on relatively 'live' recording, with the control board frequently amongst the musicians to absorb the feeling of the music, Lanois was able to... Read review

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Advantages: Charlie Parker of course.
Disadvantages: None.

...Crazeology - Charlie Parker Jazz time again folks, well bebop to be precise (mostly). I make no secret of being a huge Charlie Parker fan. Not just because he was arguably the greatest alto saxophone player ever, but because he was a pioneer. At a time when black music was seen as something that was somehow less accomplished, and the musicians somewhat less worthy than their white counterparts (in fact it was thought that hardly any black musicians could read music, a common myth), Parker broke the mould. He wrote, he practically invented a new genre (be bop), well maybe I exaggerate, he was certainly one of the leading lights. He also played with chord structure and melodies and harmonies, tearing up the rule book and inventing his own style. His sound is incredibly distinctive, despite the fact that he played... Read review

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