Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home - Taj Mahal

Advantages: Will appeal to Corrs fans new and old
Disadvantages: A little quiet in places for some tastes

...! So sad and delicate, this is maybe the most evocative song on "Home". Definitely five stars for this one. "Buachaill On Erne" swings in on a note of optimism, and then its carousel rhythm brightens and warms to full-on spine-tingling joy. Its swirling piano and major key string harmonies blend together to make this another masterpiece - especially when the volume is turned up. Five stars here too! Everyone out of your seats for the instrumental reel "Old Hag"! Crank up the volume, get your toe tappin', your blood pumpin' and (if you're like me) your feet stompin' and dancin'! Oh... foaming pints of beer, warm red faces, loud laughter and bawdiness, and drunken Ceilidhs. I wouldn't be surprised to find a Pogue hovering somewhere around somewhere. *****! "Moorlough Shore" brings the tempo down to earth again. Its folk... Read review

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Advantages: Quality album - vastly great tracks
Disadvantages: Some may not understand this bands fine charm

...You have to love this band - anyone that can combine Punk Rock with traditional Irish folk music and come out smelling of roses has to have a great talent. This album will be released on September 27th and I believe that it will have mass appeal due to its amazing blend of Irish folk and punk rock. While listening to this album you can't help but dance as the band belt their way through every single track at a million miles an hour. The music that Flogging Molly produce is absolutely infectious and will have you singing along for weeks - a truly inspirational, exciting, and fun album that will be entering your CD player at parties for years to come. There are 15 amazing tracks on this album and not a single one of them fails to impress. The fact that the band have mandolin, accordion, fiddle, and whistle really make them truly... Read review

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Advantages: Improvisation at it's best
Disadvantages: It's sad that there are only 3 songs in that record(+ 1 bonus track)

...death 11 years later, he did and played almost every conceivable style in jazz. Classic bop with normal II-V changes all the over the place like the "Blue Train" or "Giant steps("I don't know if someone can consider the title song as a normal II-V chord change tune. The song is named that way because of the "giant" distances that bassist Jim Garrisson had to overcome in the instrument in order to play it"), more modal jazz records like "impressions" or the ultimate " love supreme" and records that explored musical cultures previously unexplored into the jazz field like the "Africa" album. So where "ole" stands to all of the above? Ole is a somekind of a rare mixture of all of the above. The title track ,"ole", with which the record begins, has this spanish flavoured hypnotizing bass ostinato going throughout the tune(the tune... Read review

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