Advantages: A great mix of tracks Disadvantages: None
Eva Cassidy is a woman who had an amazing voice but it would not be until after her sad death from cancer that she would become world known. She spent years singing in pubs and recording backing vocals for more established singers and finally one of the producers at a studio she had sang at recognised what an amazing voice she had and would record heart every available opportunity. Eva made her first album in 1996, title The Other Side' but it would not become known publicly and outside of her community until after her death. Due to the amount of song she had recorder in the studio further albums have been made using these recordings and this one I am reviewing is called Songbird.
This album has been made up using song which have already been released on albums including, The Other Side, Live at the Blues Alley and Eva by Heart ...
Advantages: Samuel L Jackson Disadvantages: Cliche
era. Before Barak Obama they would get their inspiration from sport, music and the movies, the basketball feel good flick atop of that particular pile at the multiplexes, and I think its fair to say there's been quite a few of those B-Ball movies over the decades, Americas foremost black acting talent only too willing to be in them, an essential part of any 'right on' brothers acting CV.
The world's coolest dude, Samuel L Jackson, is one of those brothers in question here; Coach Carter earning MTV films its biggest ever opening weekend at $25 million dollars. Black Americans love basketball because it's nearly always the classic rags to riches trip and one of the very few styles of film you can have an all black cast and soundtrack to, let alone the inspiration of the sport that offers one of the few ways out of the ghetto coming over ...
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Advantages: Excellent vocals, some really catchy songs, great instruments Disadvantages: Occasional hints of Shania Twain which scare me
The Carter-Cash family must surely be the royalty of country music. By the time June Carter married Johnny Cash she had been performing in her family band - the aptly named Carter Family - for decades. In true country style, June had a dramatic personal life, marrying three times; Johnny was her third husband. Each marriage produced a child, and Carlene Carter, whose album "Stronger" I'm reviewing here, was from her first marriage to a honky-tonk singer, Carl Smith.
Carlene started out as more of a rock singer than a country singer. Like her mother she's had a quite an eventful private life with much documented problems with addiction and failed marriages (she has been married four times and her third husband was the British musician Nick Lowe). The death of three members of her family in a short space of time also profoundly ...
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Product details
Title
Songbird
Performer
Anita Carter
Genre
Country
Release Date
27/07/2009
Original Release Year
2009
Label / Distributor
Omni / Forte; F-Minor
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
9322082000022
Catalogue Number
OMNI 123
Additional notes
Album Notes
Audio Remasterer: Simon Polinski. The youngest daughter of Mother Maybelle Carter, Anita Carter made her debut with the family band as a child, and grew up to be an accomplished country harmony singer and a fine, underrated bassist. The 25-track SONGBIRD gathers the singles Anita Carter recorded for the RCA and Columbia labels between 1964 and 1972, along with a handful of unreleased tracks. Because Anita never had any solo hits, she did not have a successful formula to repeat, so SONGBIRD ranges from lush Nashville Sound tunes with orchestra to stripped-down bluegrass.
Titles on disc 1
1.
2001 (Ballad To The Future)
2.
Travelin' Minstrel Band
3.
Set The World On Fire
4.
I Won't Change For You
5.
It's My Life (And I'll Live It)
6.
I'm Gonna Leave You
7.
I've Heard The Wind Blow Before
8.
Poison Red Berries
9.
I Don't Need You Anymore
10.
Hang A Little Sign
11.
Love Me Now (While I Am Living)
12.
Trains Don't Go There Anymore
13.
No One's Gonna Miss Me
14.
Rings Of Gold
15.
I Got You
16.
All Of You Belongs To Me
17.
Promised To John
18.
Song To Mama
19.
Twelve O'Clock High
20.
I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
21.
Carmel By The Sea
22.
Is It For Me
23.
I'm Counting On You
24.
You Weren't Ashamed To Kiss Me (Last Night)
25.
You Couldn't Get My Love Back (If You Tried)
26.
Come Back Home
27.
Jubal
28.
Sweet Memories
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