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There's a lot of pressure involved with being the rulers of the underworld, and nobody knows it better than Black Sabbath in 2013. Inarguable legends and at least partially responsible for creating heavy metal as we know it with their ...

There's a lot of pressure involved with being the rulers of the underworld, and nobody knows it better than Black Sabbath in 2013. Inarguable legends and at least partially responsible for creating heavy metal as we know it with their ...

Megadeth's 14th studio outing finds the venerable metal outfit parting ways with Roadrunner Records, but not with producer Johnny K (Disturbed, Staind), who brought some much needed sonic heft to 2011's Th1rt3en. Standout cuts include the blistering "Kingmaker," a thrashy, ...

2010 four CD set that contains four albums from the Jazz legend: The Jazzoul Of Oscar Peterson, Plays Duke Ellington Songbook, Plays The George Gershwin Songbook, Plays The Arnold Allen Songbook, Plays The Jerome Kern Songbook, Plays The Cole Porter ...

The big task for Alice in Chains on their 2009 comeback Black Gives Way to Blue was to prove they could carry on battered and bruised, missing Layne Staley but still in touch with their core. They had to demonstrate ...

On Wrote a Song for Everyone, John Fogerty walks through his back pages with a lot of help from his friends. He's enlisted all manner of musicians here, from classic rock peers like Bob Seger to new country superstars Brad ...

Hezekiah Walker's 14th album is dedicated to the multiracial group that kicked off the modern Pentecostal movement at a rundown horse stable on Azusa Street in the center of a Los Angeles ghetto in 1906, and features contributions from a ...

"If You Ever Have Forever In Mind" won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance and was nominated for Best Country Song. "My Kind Of Woman/My Kind Of Man" was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best ...

Walter Trout pays tribute to blues icon Luther Allison on his 23rd solo release Luther's Blues. 12 of the 13 tracks on the CD are associated with Allison except for the Trout original, "When Luther Played the Blues." Trout first ...

Gary Clark, Jr. has been hailed by a number of critics as "the New Hendrix," which seems to be the fate of any guitarist who combines blues and rock styles at a considerable volume (particularly if they cover "Third Stone ...

Summer Horns is the first studio album from Dave Koz since 2010's Hello Tomorrow. That said, it's not solely billed to him. The "and Friends" on the bill refers to three other contemporary jazz saxophonists: Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, and ...

Warner's 2013 box set The Complete Studio Albums 1970-1990 rounds up the ten albums ZZ Top recorded for Warner Bros over the course of 20 years: 1971's ZZ Top's First Album, 1972's Rio Grande Mud, 1973's Tres Hombres, 1975's Fandango!, ...

Neil Diamond's five-decade career as a singer, songwriter, and performer has certainly been a successful one by any standard. He's sold well over 115 million records worldwide to date and has had eight number one singles ("Cracklin Rosie," "Song Sung ...

Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York). The crucial subtitle missing is that this is the best of Tower of Power on Columbia, not a career-spanning anthology that takes in their material with other labels. ...

Although country icon George Jones had made gospel albums before this 2003 recording, both solo and with duet partner Tammy Wynette, this one bears a special significance. The two-disc set of spirituals marks the first time he'd tackled such material ...

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli (vocals); Tommy DeVito (vocals, guitar); Bob Gaudio (vocals, keyboards); Nick Massi (vocals, bass). Additional personnel includes: Joe Long (vocals, guitar, nass); Charlie Calello (bass). Recorded between 1962 & 1978. Includes liner notes by Pat ...

George Strait decided he'd retire from the road once he turned 60, so he launched a farewell tour in 2013 that is scheduled to run into 2014. Hanging up his concert hat doesn't necessarily indicate that he's taking a break ...

16 TRACKS ECO-DIGIPAK Audio Mixers: Howard Willing; Julian Raymond. Liner Note Author: Robert K. Oermann.

JUMP BACK pulls together the Rolling Stones' biggest hits from 1971's STICKY FINGERS right through to 1989's STEEL WHEELS. Although the non-chronological sequencing can be disorienting (the set kicks off with 1981's "Start Me Up," then immediately rewinds 10 years ...

It is almost superfluous to write about Keith Jarrett's three-decades-and-running standards trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. Given their recorded output, it's easy to discern why they are regarded by many as the greatest living piano trio. They have ...

Recording information: Kongresshaus Zurich (05/01/1960). Personnel: Nat King Cole (vocals, piano); Porter Kilbert, Jerome Richardson, Phil Woods, Sahib Shihab, Budd Johnson (saxophone); Lenny Johnson, Floyd Standifer, Roger Guerin , Benny Bailey (trumpet); Julius Watkins (French horn); Jimmy Cleveland, Ake Persson, Melba ...

Lyricist: Jorn Lande. Personnel: Jorn Lande (vocals); Jimmy Iversen, Trond Holter (guitar); Tommy Hansen (keyboards); Willy Bendiksen (drums). Audio Mixer: Tommy Hansen. Recording information: Jailhouse Studio, Denmark; Mediamaker, Norway. Photographer: Christine Lande.

2013 two CD collection. Kris Kristofferson is a consummate singer songwriter and an Academy Award-winning actor (he starred in such movies as 'Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid', 'A Star Is Born' and 'Heaven's Gate'). His songs, like the classic ...

According to Delbert McClinton, Blind, Crippled and Crazy has been discussed between him and singer/songwriter Glen Clark for a decade. The pair recorded two terrific records in the early '70s: Delbert and Glen in 1972 and Subject to Change in ...

Recorded in New York, New York in 1966 & 1967. Originally released on Columbia (9344). Includes liner notes by Domenic Priore. Digitally remastered by Bob Irwin (Sundazed Studios, Coxsackie, New York.) The Cyrkle's debut was a pleasant, if marginal, album, blending a ...