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Dylan, Unplugged. Great musical journey.

Advantages: Dylan fans will love this.
Disadvantages: None-Dylan fanes my not.

Excellent sound quality thought-out. I think this is one of the best Live Dylan I have heard. Starts with the wonderful Tombstone blues-Clear messages great vocals. Then, settling goes into the romantic Shooting stars. Bursting into All along the watchtower followed by the times they are a changing’ makes you want to stand up and sway from side to side and join in with the singing. John Brown is harrowing; you can do nothing else but listen to ...
...then gets faster for Rainy day woman-this change in tempo is a real pleasure. A beautiful love song follows, this is really nice live and clear. Dignity is interesting-you have to just listen to it and enjoy. Knockin’ on heavens door is nothing unusual or exiting, just good music, and lyrics. Dylan finishes with God on our side a great finish to a great concert. ...

LicensedProducts 23.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Unplugged - Bob Dylan

Ding Dong on High Street

Advantages: Enjoyable listening
Disadvantages: Will not appeal to everybody

...It is called Voices at the door. The CD has 17 tracks. All are unaccompanied except the last one and I will say more about this later. The tracks are:- 1. How Beautiful Upon The Mountains 2.08 2. While Shepherds Watched/Hail Chime On 3.29 3. Curly Hark/Newtons 3.16 4. While Shepherds Were Watching 2.36 5. Holy Well 4.36 6. Bodmin Wassail 2.27 7. Barwell Old Hark 3.39 8. Time To Remember The Poor 4.13 9. While Shepherds Watched/Liverpool 2.31 ...
...12. George Dunn's Wassail 3.00 13. First Good Joy Our Mary Had 4.04 14. Star Of Bethlehem 3.51 15. Adam Lay Ybounden/Deo Gracias 1.52 16. Jacob's Well 3.32 17. Ding Dong Merrily On High 3.12 Total running time is 54.13 minutes The tune for track 17 is a rather old one first published in 1589 though these words were not written for it until 1924. There is a booklet giving details of the performers and details of the carols themselves included ...

Coloneljohn 12.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Voices At The Door (Midwinter Songs And Carols) - Various Artists

"Pour Myself A Cup Of Ambition"

Advantages: Many of Dolly's greatest hits are included
Disadvantages: Only 21 songs, so some hits are missing

Dolly Parton is one of the most successful country singers of all time. Whilst staying true to the music of her Smokey Mountain roots she has also crossed over into the realms of pop as well as acting, and her catchy tunes and heartfelt lyrics have appealed to people from all walks of life throughout the four decades of her career. THE 'IRON BUTTERFLY' SPREADS HER WINGS "I'm proud of my humble beginnings, the fact that dreams can come true for just ...
...Dolly Rebecca Parton was born the fourth of twelve children in 1946 to a mother married at fifteen and a moon-shiner sharecropping father, who paid the doctor who attended Dolly's birth with a bag of cornmeal. She grew up in a run-down one room mountain cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, soaking up the influences of her country surroundings. She was taught gospel music and the old mountain songs of Appalachia by her mother and grandmother, and began ...

VC81 21.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Ultimate Dolly Parton - Dolly Parton

A CD worth buying- The Best of LeAnn Rimes

Advantages: You Can listen to it with your children with no worries about language or content, for the most
Disadvantages: I think I enjoyed her voice more when she was younger.

This cd brought me back to being 10 years old when LeAnn's first major album came out. I like that you can hear how she's developed her own sound over the years, as she has grown from girl to woman. The lyrics are good and they get better with the ones that she is directly involved in writing. The whole album is a high quality recording. As far as being compared to others in her field, I'd say it fares pretty well. I mean, considering the fact that ...

LinzyMom23Boys 01.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Best Of LeAnn Rimes, The - LeAnn Rimes

The Long Way, But Not the Best Way

Advantages: More than just country music
Disadvantages: Not their best effort

It's been a tough few years for the Dixie Chicks since the release of their third album, "Home". Not long after it was released, singer Natalie Maines made comments against President Bush and the war in Iraq. As a result, people started burning their CDs, slinging insults at the group and threatening to boycott their records and gigs. As country fans turned their backs on the Dixie Chicks, they took a new musical direction in an effort to widen ...
...by Rick Rubin, better known for working in other fields, having produced artists as far apart on the musical spectrum as Jay-Z and Slipknot. What he's not known for is producing country music, although he did work with Johnny Cash. It seemed that the Dixie Chicks, having put out their most country music influenced album in "Home", were now following a similar route as Shania Twain did with "Come On Over" and trying to get more fans from other genres. ...

Soho_Black 20.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Taking the Long Way - Dixie Chicks