Good Rockin' Tonite - Charlie Feathers

Advantages: Vocals, music, lyrics
Disadvantages: Hard to find, not to everyones taste (unlucky them)

...Keeping to the same formula as my past few music reviews this one might as well follow suit, despite it's much more obscure artist (compared with Katie Melua, The Streets and Arctic Monkeys, it's not really anything against Mr Baxter himself). After seeing Tom Baxter on www.myspace.com I actually wrote little blurb for my own private site about the young man: "The unsigned Londoner claims to sound like "Tom Baxter", so at least he's honest, he fails to mention he also sounds a bit like Elbow, with a dreamy sound of an apocolyptic future wearing down on his mind. A guy who has been compared to two artists I'm fans of (comparasions by The Evening Standard to Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake). After his first album, released in 2005 ("Feather and Stone), his follow up, has just recently been released on iTunes, "SKYBOUND". Check it out... 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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Advantages: Great songs - vintage Quo
Disadvantages: Production too clean

...I don't think Status Quo could have foreseen that a chance cover of a song by John Fogerty, former Creedence Clearwater Revival front man, "Rockin' All Over The World", the title track of this album, would become the song for which they would always be remembered best. Apart from that, it was original songs all the way, the best to my mind being "Can't Give You More" (which has a lot more guts about it than the disappointing 1991 remake), the heavy "Rockers Rollin'", the more reflective "Who Am I", and the old stage favourites "Dirty Water" and "Hold You Back". The latter, based on a riff masquerading as an Irish jig, is one of Quo's best tracks ever, even though it was never released as a single. The only minor flaw to this album is that the production is too clean and well-scrubbed, with not nearly enough attention to the blistering... Read review

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