Pressure Points [Digipak] - John Brown's Body

Advantages: In a good cause
Disadvantages: Too long

...'Instant Karma: the campaign to save Darfur' The latest charity effort in a good cause is actually a good record, for the most part, though it’s way too long. It's a John Lennon tribute album featuring a veritable array of the music world's most prominent talents and will raise funds for Amnesty International's work to address the catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. Yoko Ono has granted rights to John Lennon's entire songbook to Amnesty International so that all the publishing revenue goes to the campaign. The album is a double CD release with classic John Lennon tracks reinterpreted by 27 artistes renowned artists. The Green Day cover of "Working class hero" is on here, and is about as good as you could want, their big guitars and simple approach suiting the song very well. On the whole, good bands do good covers while others walk... Read review

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Advantages: Too many to mention
Disadvantages: At 35 minutes, it's just too short. However, quality will prevail over quantity

...Nick Lowe's new, slowed-down, laid-back, lie-down direction continues with this fine album, At My Age. Backed by a band of crack musicians, he crafts carefully polished, three-minute gems from original material with, as usual, a few little-known country or blues covers tossed into the mix for good measure. Guest appearances from, among others, Chrissie Hynde and veteran jazzer and major influence on British popular music Chris Barber show the high esteem in which this master-songwriter and performer is held by his peers. Underrated? Not by those who know his matchless body of work. Sadly, with the public as a whole, it's more a case of him being unknown and, with a profile lower than Gordon Brown's popularity ratings, it's hard to see that changing. A word of advice, if the weather warms up again any time soon, this is the one to buy... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent all round preformance
Disadvantages: a few more older tracks from first 2 albums would have been nice to hear

...John Mayer returns with his third live album (Any Given Thursday and TRY! were previous live albums). John mayer has progressed from acoustic pop through to progressive blues and this cd is really a milestone of his work so far, and a very impressive one at that. The cd concentrates on a 3 part preformance with the Acoustic set, Blues set and the full band set. Each set is preformed amazingly by john mayer, and anyone who is a fan of his work has to buy this cd. Retreiving influences from Jimi Hendrix with his cover of "Bold as love" and "Wait Until Tommorow" and a cover of the much loved Tom Pettys "Free Fallin", this is a cd not to miss! Pure Class from John Mayer as always!... Read review

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