Dwight Sings Buck - Dwight Yoakam

Advantages: Brilliant!
Disadvantages: Mad! (Or is that still an advantage?)

...Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Dwight Yoakam, I just couldn’t relate to it. But I persevered and came to appreciate it. I was determined to give this music a chance. By about the fifth listen I absolutely adored it. It’s a classic non-song, of course, (see my REM op if you haven’t been keeping up!) and, but for the excessive lyrics, it would make a great instruMENTAL! I wish I knew what the instruments were for my favourite bits so I could try to explain what it sounds like. Anyway, I keep finding myself humming musical passages and stings from this song. This is the sound of the runaway Ghost Train crashing into the out-of-control carousel at the funfair. I think that’s made it pretty clear. Best bit: From 1:54 into the track until 2:06. Brilliant! (9.5/10) 3. Retrovertigo (4:58) "Now I’m finding... Read review

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Advantages: Not only historic but dam good entertainment
Disadvantages: The mixed style may not suit all

...by the chorus of the Red Army Ensemble. Very difficult to explain but it simply works as a great rendition. 3. 'Let's Work Together' - the concert continues with this Dwight Yoakam song (ok I had to look that up) which I'm pretty sure you will know if you hear it. Very powerfully delivered with lots of brass, again in a very Blues Brothers kind of way. 4. 'Volga Boatmen' (or the 'yo o heave ho' song to most of us) - the classic Russian song is given the full operatic treatment in a very 'Les Miserables' style showing that the Ensemble are not just there to make the stage look pretty. Whatever your taste in music you can't help but be impressed with their delivery. Much as with some of the other songs on the album the inclusion of this makes sense in the same way that the 'Theme from Rawhide' makes sense in the Blues Brothers. 5. 'Happy... Read review

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Advantages: Good played loud, very catchy
Disadvantages: You've got to like hip hop

...Buck 65 - his mum knows him as young Richard and Wikipedia speculates that a promoter mis-spelled his original stage name, intended as Buick 65 - is a hip hop artiste from Nova Scotia. His earlier albums struck me as having something but they were just too underground. A bit home-made. This new album is, on the other hand, ace. Last week I drove drown the UK and track nine "Cop shades" kept me awake on the M40. It has a bass line so solid you could land a plane on it. Situation sees Buck 65 go back to basic hip hop: huge bass lines and beats, over which Buck delivers his clever, witty and poetic lyrics. The album is apparently about events in 1957, as discussed in track two. On the internet, there's a lot of weighty discussion about the meaning of the album. 1957 was the year the Beat Generation emerged with "On the road... Read review

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