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Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he died in 1959. His musical legacy rests on about an album and a half of completed studio material, a poorly recorded high-school concert, and a handful of demos and rehearsal tapes, all of which meant Bill Keane was facing a problem when it came time to release a second album of Valens material on Keane's Del-Fi label. The resulting LP, Ritchie, actually turned out better than perhaps it had a right to, and while it didn't yield any huge hits, and was essentially cobbled together, it has an internal coherence that is pretty remarkable given the circumstances. Tracks like "Cry, Cry, Cry" and the fiery "Fast Freight" sound polished and finished, while the obvious solo studio demos like "My Darling Is Gone" and "Now You're Gone" have a kind of poignant intimacy. A couple of cuts here are studio jams, and it is highly doubtful that "Big Baby Blues" or "Ritchie's Blues" would have appeared on the LP had Valens lived, while "Rockin' All Night," a studio run-through with Valens on guitar, is clearly a rehearsal for the harmony singers, who can be heard working out parts in the background. Still, given the paucity of Valens material (he had only been working in a recording studio for about seven months when he died, and that time was pieced in around tour dates and appearances), this second LP is a bit of a minor miracle. ~ Steve Leggett
Personnel: Ritchie Valens (vocals, guitar).
Liner Note Author: Bob Keene.
Ritchie Valens Ritchie Songs | 1. | Stay Beside Me  | |
| 2. | Cry, Cry, Cry | $0.99 | |
| 3. | Big Baby Blues | |
| 4. | Paddi-Wack Song | |
| 5. | My Darling Is Gone | |
| 6. | Hurry Up | |
| 7. | Little Girl | |
| 8. | Now You're Gone | |
| 9. | Fast Freight | |
| 10. | Ritchie's Blues | |
| 11. | Rockin' All Night | |
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Purchase Ritchie CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Chills Kaleidoscope World CD (1986) (Import) Import; Australia
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KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD contains 10 bonus tracks and represents everything the band recorded through early 1986, including all of the LOST EP, and the I LOVE MY LEATHER JACKET/THE GREAT ESCAPE 12"
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD, The Chills' 18-track compilation culled from The Chills early and mid-'80s EPs and singles, is highlighted by the song "Pink Frost."
The Chills' Martin Phillipps mixes up melodic pop with elements of garage rock and punk, creating songs with a sweet melancholy all their own. Phillipps has always been the focus of the Chills, writing and singing the band's songs. His group has also rivaled Menudo in its sheer number of personnel changes. In a just world, the Chills would have sold just as many records.
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD showcases the shifting line-ups and many moods of the early to mid-'80s Chills. "Rolling Moon" captures a mood of shambling joy, its simple, repeated keyboard riff sounding like a distant caravan crossing New Zealand's big-sky country. "Pink Frost" is undoubtedly one of the Chills' two or three finest songs, an eerie tale of finding one's lover dead and being stricken with waves of icy panic. Phillipps's ghostly voice floats over glacial, plucked chords, its elegance and restraint only adding to the menace. ...
| | Ritchie Valens CD (1959)
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Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he died in 1959 in the same plane crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, and he had only been working in a recording studio for about seven months when the tragedy occurred; thus, his musical legacy rests on about an album and a half of completed studio material, a poorly recorded high-school concert, and a handful of demos and rehearsal tapes. This set is a straight reissue of Valens' first album for Bob Keane's Del-Fi label, and it presents essentially the only truly finished work Valens recorded. It includes Valens' big hit, "La Bamba"; its flip side, "Donna" (which was actually the ...
| | Killing Floor CD (1995) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
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The sheer toughness -- and overall derivative -- nature of Killing Floor's debut album, issued six months after Led Zeppelin's debut in 1969 on the Spark label, is a wondrous contrast to the overly slick treatment American blues were given by British artists. All of these tunes, with the exception of one, are revamped versions of songs from the blues canon with different words. The lone "cover" in the set was written by Willie Dixon titled "Woman You Need Love," the tune Zep ripped for "Whole Lotta Love." Despite the fact that this set was issued before by Repertoire, the Akarma version is definitive in that it features the original cover artwork in a heavy cardboard gatefold sleeve, and killer sound. This is a raw, immediate, overdriven, psychedelic blues record that offers an interesting historical counterpoint to the immediate impact of Page and Plant and Co., but it also offers a great contrast to the recent 1990s versions of American groups trying to rock up the blues in like style: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion immediately comes to mind. They also provide a heavier, less reverent, and altogether heavier update of the Yardbirds rave-up sound~ Thom Jurek
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| | Danny Kirwan Second Chapter CD (1975) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
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The first solo album from Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Daniel David Kirwan has the future producer for Human League and Buzzcocks, Martin Rushent, utilizing those skills here, as well as engineering. The sound is crystal clear, and a feather in the cap for Rushent as well as Kirwan. It starts off with an uncharacteristic "Ram Jam City," which has more Lindsey Buckingham sounds than one would expect, especially since the two guitarists come from two different musical worlds. "Odds and Ends" is more lighthearted, the kind of music Paul McCartney toyed with on The White Album's "Rocky Raccoon." What Second Chapter immediately sets forth is the importance of Kirwan as a pop artist, and how, despite Fleetwood Mac's success after he left, his sounds could still have been beneficial to that supergroup. "Hot Summers Day" is a fine example of that, a beautiful song that could offset Buckingham's gritty ramblings. It would have made a nice counterpoint as Stevie Nicks complemented Christine McVie's tunes with her adventures, bringing an important change of pace to that popular band's hits. The jacket looks like a dusty old family album-style book holding Kirwan's Second Chapter. And the music reflects that old-world feel in titles like "Skip a Dee Doo" and "Falling in Love with You." Three of the best songs on this ...
| | Legend CD (2007) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
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In some circles, Mickey Jupp is something of a minor legend, a roots rocker with excellent taste and a cutting wit, best heard on the songs "Switchboard Susan" and "You'll Never Get Me Up in One of Those," both covered by Nick Lowe. Basher's endorsement is a clear indication that Jupp is a pub rocker, a guy who specializes in laid-back good times, so it shouldn't come as a great surprise that his first band, Legend, was proto-pub, an unabashed celebration of old-time rock & roll, filled with three-chord Chuck Berry rockers and doo wop backing vocals. Nevertheless, listening to their 1970 LP is a bit of a shock, as it's completely disassociated with anything that was happening in 1970, even with Tony Visconti enlisted as their producer. Legend's sensibility is ahead of its time in its retro thinking, pointing the way to the rock & roll revival of the late '70s and not even that similar to the country-rock of Eggs Over Easy or Bees Make Honey, as this has little of the rustic feel of the Band: it's just straight-up oldies rock, a trait emphasized by those incessant doo wop harmonies that are on almost every cut on this LP (but do disappear on the bonus live cuts on the Repertoire reissue, possibly because they were too busy playing to harmonize). Those harmonies and the light, almost goofy, touch of Jupp's writing here distinguish Legend and also illustrate why they made no waves in 1970; it's hard to see the counterculture getting roused ...
| | Steamhammer Mountains CD (1970) (Import) With Book; Bonus Tracks; Digipak; Germany
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Starting out as an electric blues group in the '60s, Steamhammer transformed into a hard progressive rock group on this 1970 album. A highly collectable album in the British prog scene, the guitarist and vocalist of this group were both, in fact, hardworking session musicians who made their names working with Rod Stewart on ...
| | Tears For Fears Hurting (1st LP) CD (1983) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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Digitally remastered by Jon Astley and Chris Hughes (Close To The Edge).
Tears For Fears developed on the periphery of the early '80s electro-pop phenomenon; their Bath base isolating them from the confidence and cool of their Sheffield compatriots--the Human League, ABC and Heaven 17--and the urban sleaze of Soft Cell. THE HURTING is nevertheless an assured debut; Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith weaving contemporary technology with traditional arrangements in a fashion that would soon come to dominate '80s mainstream pop.
The result is an enduring and fascinating combination of pretension ("Ideas as Opiates" is as impenetrable as its title) and naivetT (the regression of the title track). Angst and catharsis are persistent forces, evident in Orzabal's howl, the crashes of "Memories Fade," and the claustrophobia of "The Prisoner" and "Start of the Breakdown." But THE HURTING also bursts with inspired pop melodies, not least with the schoolgirl la-las of "Suffer Little Children" and the busy percussive loops of "Change." 1998 remastered edition includes four bonus tracks.
Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's debut featured the morose ...
| | R E M In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003 CD (2003)
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Many of those who revere R.E.M. tend to fixate on the Athens band's earlier days, when the Byrds-gone-new-wave jangle of Peter Buck's guitar and the inscrutable murmurs of curly-headed frontman Michael Stipe ruled the college-rock roost and set the standard for what came to be known as "alternative rock." Thus, it's often overlooked that the band didn't simply fade away after breaking through to the mainstream in the late-'80s. True to its title, IN TIME: THE BEST OF R.E.M. (1988-2003) chronicles the journey ...
| | Purple Rainbows: The Very Best Of Deep Purple, Rainbow, Whitesnake And Gillan CDs (2004) Import
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| | Alan Jackson What I Do CD (2004)
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Ever since he first emerged in the late 1980s as a tradition-conscious alternative to the country-crossover "hat acts" overrunning Nashville, singer/songwriter Alan Jackson has turned out remarkably consistent records full of solid, often self-penned tunes that connect with both old-school country fans and those with more mainstream tastes. Accordingly, WHAT I DO contains no rock/pop trappings, "modern" production touches, or gimmicky songs. Rather, it's an album of direct, heartfelt sentiments expressed with equal amounts of emotional honesty and tasteful understatement.
"Strong Enough" and the aptly titled "Burnin' the Honky Tonks Down" have the classic honky-tonk flavor that makes Jackson's roots in Merle Haggard-style '60s country plain. The heartbreaking, expertly crafted "Monday Morning Church" and the quietly inspirational "There Ya Go" are prime examples of Jackson's easy, graceful balladic touch, while "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues" bears echoes of Shel Silverstein and shows the singer's well developed sense of humor. WHAT I DO is emblematic of Jackson's career--a case study in how to achieve large-scale success in contemporary country without resorting to crass commercialism.
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| | This Is Southern Rock CDs (2005) Box Set
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The three-disc This Is Southern Rock opens with a song that is probably everyone's definition of Southern rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd's epic "Free Bird," then follows it with a song that is probably no one's definition of Southern rock, .38 Special's "Hold on Loosely," illustrating that what seems obvious when looking at any musical genre is quite likely a red herring. Most folks could probably agree that classic Southern rock is geared to the electric guitar, and incorporates a ragged gumbo of blues, country, a touch of jazz, and maybe even a dash of gospel, all delivered with a rebel's bravado and a good dose of hard rock dynamics. Most folks could probably also agree that the Southern rock era began with the Allman Brothers Band in 1969 and for all practical purposes ended with the plane crash that took the life of Ronnie Van Zant and other members of Lynyrd Skynyrd on October 20, 1977. What this anthology shows, though, is just how much else is involved in the mix, from spooky Top 40 love ballads (Atlanta Rhythm Section's "Imaginary Lover"), the emergence of cartoon metal (Black Oak Arkansas' "Jim Dandy"), to laid-back ...
| | Liam Goodwin Life Outside Is Waiting CD (2007)
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| | Superstrings CD (2007) (Import)
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| | Smooth4lyfe Education Of Life CD (2008)
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