Francoise Hardy Greatest Recordings CD - Import

00, among Entertainment Weekly's all-time Top 10 Contemporary Jam Band Albums. Folktales effortlessly moves from the straight-ahead rock of "Angie O'Plasty," to the country stomp of "Minnesota Moon" and the modern classic-pop balladry of "Boxing Day," before surveying white-boy ska on "Two Person Chair" and simple funk and neo-heavy metal on the seemlessly paired "Oxygen" and "Elani." Thanks to the vintage mini Moog synthesizers that were once in the arsenals of Rush and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, "Kensington Manor," about a legendary Wu Family residence, has an easy, progressive rock sensibility. "House of Wu" is a "bitchgrass" ode to a mystical Chinese restaurant in Minneapolis, and "S.O.S." has a broad middle where the music flows like the waves in a turbulent sea while the lyrics scream: "The New World may be Heaven in the End." Folktales appropriately ends with "Shantytown," a lilting Caribbean excursion that bounces to a close with the unified debut of the newly minted Shantytown Chorus -- some 500 BIG WU fans chanting in unison, under the baton of drummer Terry VanDeWalker, at a party the band threw in a warehouse studio during the ...

'The Music: Throughout the 1990's, Tim cut his teeth playing guitar in numerous bands. Growing tired of bouncing from band to band and the lack of success that each venture brought, Tim formed his own band, 'Black Hills Railroad' in 1998. What began as a simple demo recording session, quickly grew into a three piece band. Although the project had a short life of two years, the band recorded three albums worth of original music featuring Tim as the singer, guitarist, and principle songwriter. In 2002, he joined a locally based hard rock group named 'Cellblock One'. Hired as the band's lead guitarist, he began to focus on his songwriting. The group was active in the music scene of Vermont and New England from 2002 to 2008. In that time, the band played clubs throughout New England(including ...