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The third album by R&B loverman Tank offers up more smooth urban contemporary grooves tailor-made for deep, soulful seduction. Tank's upbringing in the church is in ample evidence throughout in his impassioned, gospel-infused delivery, but most of the topics on ...

With Recovery, it becomes obvious that Eminem's richest albums aren't necessarily his most structurally sound, which isn't much of a surprise when considering the rapper's full-on embrace of flaws and contradictions. This lean, mean, bipolar machine began life as Relapse ...

Highlighted by the perennial "Christmas in Dixie," Alabama Christmas is a collection of holiday tunes counting among one of Alabama's strongest records, seasonal or otherwise; although at times the material is overly sappy. There's no mistaking the group's affection for ...

Previewed via the classy throwback ballad "When a Woman Loves," an instant R&B chart hit, Love Letter follows R. Kelly's Epic compilation by only a couple months. Like "Loves," much of Love Letter -- technically Kelly's 11th studio album -- ...

Track Listing: No One Mourns the Wicked; Dear Old Shiz; Wizard and I, The; What Is This Feeling?; Something Bad; Dancing Through Life; Popular; I'm Not That Girl; One Short Day; A Sentimental Man; Defying Gravity; Thank Goodness; Wonderful; I'm ...

Johnny Cash's final album, AMERICAN V: A HUNDRED HIGHWAYS, is a moving and fitting swan song for the legendary performer. Like Cash's other recordings with producer Rick Rubin, AMERICAN V is quiet, intense, and minimal; it creates a thrilling intimacy ...

Recording information: LOUD Recording. Photographers: Joe Giron; Christina SanMiguel. Personnel: Aaron Lewis (acoustic guitar); Biff Watson (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Scotty Saunders, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Ben Kitterman (dobro); Tony Harrell (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Eddie Bayers (drums). Audio Mixer: Rich ...

Discovered by post-grunge icon and fellow Canadian Chad Kroeger, My Darkest Days deliver a massive dose of slick, radio-ready hard rock on their self-titled debut. Straight out of the gate, the band shows its got rock star swagger with strip ...

All the subtle variations on Kem's sound -- his exceptionally smooth adult contemporary R&B, modern quiet storm that has earned the singer two gold-selling albums -- add up to a set that doesn't sound like a mere rehash of his ...

By the time of the release of Drake's first full-length album, the Canadian rapper was already a star thanks to his huge single "Best I Ever Had," his celebrated mixtape and then EP So Far Gone, and his spots on ...

As the electric guitar ace Joe Bonamassa was so strongly inspired by blues and blues-oriented six-stringers (i.e., Clapton, Johnny Winter), many of his fans would politely pester him about doing a disc of blues standards. Originally done as a lark, ...

The follow-up to Turn Me Loose, Ledisi's most successful album to date, was previewed with the release of its serene title track, a collaboration with Chuck Harmony (Ne-Yo, Chrisette Michele, Jennifer Hudson). Recording information: Entourage Studios, North Hollywood, CA; Glenwood Studios, ...

2007 digitally remastered UK reissue edition with five bonus tracks. The Finnish symphonic metal band's fourth full length album that originally appeared in 2002 comes with four pieces that didn't appear on the original issue: 'Lagoon', the former Japanese-only bonus ...

Left to their own devices on Here and Now, Nickelback have embraced who they are. Chad Kroeger's brow is no longer furrowed, treating rock & roll as an ordeal; he's stepped back a bit, allowing himself to have a good ...

One of the reasons why Aerosmith, after a number of creatively lean years, are still given legendary credence and an eager ear with each new release, Rocks encapsulated the very essence of rock 'n' roll. They may have been the ...

The making of Usher's sixth studio album was inevitably affected by the end of his marriage and its aftershocks. "Papers," the early buzz single for Raymond V Raymond, bears the closest relation to the turbulence he experienced. He pours himself ...

The third time around, Luke Bryan doubles down on his calling card: his inherent sweetness, the warmth he has as the country boy next door. Bryan is so genial that when he implores his country girl to "shake it for ...

This remastered version of LEGEND contains a 28 page booklet, and two bonus tracks. Recorded between 1972 and 1981. Originally released on Island (90169). Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (2001, Sterling Sound, New York). Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (2001, Sterling Sound, New ...

While the two-disc 35 BIGGEST HITS is far from the first Toby Keith hits collection, it's easily his most comprehensive to date, including the biggest songs from every stage of the country superstar's first 15 years. It moves from early ...

By the time Aerosmith released GET YOUR WINGS they were gaining serious momentum as edgy, sassy hard rock contenders. The band's sophomore effort, WINGS was the first time the five-piece band hooked up with eventual long-time producer Jack Douglas, and ...

Battle the depression and anxiety of the holidays with Bob Rivers' rip-snortin' Twisted Christmas -- highlights like "Wreck the Malls," "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear," "I Came Upon a Roadkill Deer," and "Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator" are all so hilarious ...

It should come as no surprise that a woman who counts Dionne Warwick as a cousin, Aretha Franklin as a family friend, and whose mother was a legendary session and gospel singer, became a phenomenally successful R&B act. Perhaps more ...

Composed by Dario Marianelli and performed by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the score for director Joe Wright's 2005 film version of Jane Austen's PRIDE & PREJUDICE is filled with appropriately lush arrangements. The nuanced playing of Thibaudet is augmented by the ...

Since the hip-hop community caught wind of them around 1999, Bad Meets Evil spent a decade in the more-a-legend-than-a-band category. Members Eminem and Royce da 5'9" spent those years not speaking thanks to beefs and feuds, but then the 2006 ...