Note Bleu (Best Of The Blue Note Years 1998-2005) - Medeski Martin & Wood

Advantages: May be the best contemporary white female blues singer and acoustic guitarist you'll ever hear.
Disadvantages: None

...roots via the traditional music record label Rounder Records, and from then until now Block has recorded more than a dozen blues albums. In 1995 her album When a Woman Gets the Blues won the W. C. Handy Award for Best Acoustic Blues Album of the Year, and she was selected by the Martin Guitar Co. to endorse their strings in a national ad campaign. In 1998 she won the W. C. Handy Award again, this time as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year. “HIGH HEELED BLUES,” THE ALBUM: To me, though, Block was at her best in her very first anthology of blues standards, long before the whole world would learn just how good she was, and maybe even before she would even realize herself just how far she would go. The album High Heeled Blues was released in 1981 on Rounder Records as an LP and re-released in 1989 as a CD (Rounder CD # 3061). I... Read review

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Advantages: It's Bowie
Disadvantages: Another version to buy!

...– fashioned but I prefer my music in stereo. Another detail to note is that the sleeve artwork of this 2005 version has the blue of David’s suit washed out that’s comparing it against the artwork of the 1990 re-issue a minor thing but annoying none the least another detail to note that the song credits on the back cover are wrong, the sleeve states that there 10 tracks per disc, but actually there 11 tracks on disc 1 and 9 tracks on disc 2, this nothing serious but you would like the art department at EMI to get it right. The biggest reason for Bowie devotees like my self to buy this recording yet again is after waiting over 30 years this show is finally available in the order of performance and as a complete show. The re-issue from 1990 had the bonus tracks of “Band intro”, “Here today gone Tomorrow” and “Time” just tacked on at the end of disc... Read review

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Advantages: Great laid back, mellow tunes, haunting vocals
Disadvantages: No lyrics sheet... yep.. pretty much about all really

...Youth Group are an indie band from Sydney, Australia who formed in 1998. They had gained a good reputation from there tours, tempating Ivy League Records to sign them. There first full album release 'Urban and Eastern' soon followed. In 2005 they released there second album under Epitaph Records, making a play to getting there music heard on a world wide basis. (Ivy League still had the Aussie release, while Epitaph distributed the record through the US and Europe). The result was an album full of beautiful laid back, hauntingly mellow sublime tunes. Youth Group are: Toby Martin - Vocals, Guitar Danny Allen - Drums, Keys, Vocals Cameron Emerson Elliot - Guitar Patrick Matthews - Bass, Vocals ---Track by Track--- The album is made up of eleven tracks, being 41 minutes and twenty six seconds in total. We open with... Read review

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