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Not to be outdone by former member Nina Gordon, the L.A.-based alternative-rock band Veruca Salt issued its fourth album in 2006 within months of Gordon's second solo outing. While the latter proved to be a poppy affair, Veruca Salt, fronted by Louise Post, opted for a much edgier, guitar-heavy approach (see the aggressive, angsty "So Weird") that fit hand-in-glove with the act's new relationship with the indie label, Sympathy for the Record Industry.
Veruca Salt: Louise Post (vocals, guitar); Kelli Scott (vocals, bass guitar); Stephen Fitzpatrick (guitar); Nicole Fiorentino (drums).
Additional personnel: Paul Wianco (cello); Jonny Polonsky (piano); Solomon Snyder (bass guitar).
Purchase IV CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Neil Young On The Beach CD (1974) Remastered
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$8.99 After working his way through loss and chaos on the brilliant TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (recorded in 1973, but not released until 1975), Neil Young deftly ...
| | Juliana Hatfield In Exile Deo CD (2004)
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| | Garbage Bleed Like Me CD (2005) Enhanced CD
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| | Porcupine Tree Deadwing CD (2005)
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| | Juliana Hatfield Made In China CD (2005)
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| | Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes CD (1972) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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| | Styx Cornerstone CD (1979)
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| | Santana Welcome CD (1973)
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$9.99 Recorded in 1973. Originally released on Columbia (32445). Includes liner notes by Hal Miller.
The mark that the recording of Caravanserai and Love Devotion Surrender had left on Carlos Santana was monumental. The issue of Welcome, the band's fifth album and its first with the new lineup, was a very ambitious affair and was regarded by traditional fans of Santana with even more strangeness than its two predecessors. However, issued as it was at the end of 1973, after Miles had won a Grammy for Bitches Brew and after Weather Report, Return to Forever, and Seventh House had begun to win audiences from the restless pool of rock fans, Santana began to attract the attention of critics as well as jazz fans seeking something outside of the soul-jazz and free jazz realms for sustenance. The vibe that carried over from the previously mentioned two albums plus the addition of vocalist Leon Thomas to the fold added a bluesy, tougher edge to the sound showcased on Caravanserai. The band's hard root was comprised of Carlos, drummer Michael Shrieve, bassist Doug Rauch, and keyboard king Tom Coster. Add to this the percussion section of Armando Peraza and Chepito Areas as well as a second keyboard by Richard Kermode, and space was the place. The John Coltrane influence that inspired the Santana/John McLaughlin pairing on Love Devotion Surrender echoes here on "Going Home," the album's opening track, arranged by Coltrane's widow, pianist and harpist Alice. The deeper jazz fusion/Latin funk edge is articulated on the track "Samba de Sausalito," and to a much more accessible degree on "Love, Devotion & Surrender," which features Thomas growling through the choruses and also features Wendy Haas, a keyboardist on Love Devotion Surrender who is enlisted here as a second vocalist. In fact, her pairing with Thomas on Shrieve's "When I Look Into Your Eyes" is nothing less than beatific. McLaughlin makes a return appearance here on the stunningly beautiful ...
| | Aerosmith Honkin' On Bobo CD (2004) Bonus Track; Japan
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$37.35 The Japanese import edition includes a bonus track ("Jaded").
With HONKIN' ON BOBO, Aerosmith takes a break from radio-ready fare to record an album that pays tribute to the blues influences that have always been close at hand for the group. Further enhancing the sound of this project is the presence of storied pianist Johnnie Johnson (on two tracks) and Jack Douglas, the producer for many of Aerosmith's classic 1970s albums.
The result is the typical 'Smith sass and shimmy, with a contemporary sensibility applied to nuggets plucked from the songbooks of Willie Dixon (the sleazy strut "I'm Ready"), Sonny Boy Williamson (a rollicking "Eyesight to the Blind"), and Little Walter (the Howlin' Wolf-flavored "Temperature"). Throughout the record, Joe Perry and fellow fret-bender Brad Whitford play with a dirty, fuzz-guitar tone, perfectly complemented by Steven Tyler's equally rough-and-rowdy forays on the harmonica. As a result, these Boston natives do a stellar job with fiery renditions of Big Joe Williams's "Baby, Please Don't Go" and Mississippi Fred McDowell's "You Gotta Move," proving that they can still rock hard while playing the blues.
Aerosmith prove that a band can be inspired by the blues and play the blues without ever feeling like a blues band. Then again, the nature of the blues is that every musician who plays it stamps his or her own identity on a set of familiar chord changes and songs. While it might not feel like the blues, Aerosmith do indeed stamp their identity on each track on their long-promised blues album, the atrociously named Honkin' on Bobo. Other rockers who have cut full-length blues albums have always played the music with a kind of scholarly reverence, taking care to pay tribute to their influences. Not Aerosmith. They turn up the amps and cut loose, playing slick and sleazy blooze-rock that feels indebted to second-generation blues-rock instead of blues forefathers. But that's the nature of the band. Surely, they loved Chess and country blues as much as they loved the Stones, but they are so thoroughly the children of Mick and Keith, they can't help but sound like a rock & roll band no matter what they do, no matter what they play. That might mean that Honkin' on Bobo is something that could be close to anathema to blues purists, since it's a rock album pure and simple, but chances are the bandmembers don't care, since they're just here to have a good time playing songs they love.
Besides, the song selection proves they're no purists. There are some warhorses with "Road Runner," "Baby, Please Don't Go," "I'm Ready," and "Eyesight to the Blind," but there's also a heavy ...
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| | Akira Takasaki CD (2006) (Import) Japan
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| | Borne Souls On Satellite CD (2006) (Import)
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| | Steffen Basho-Junghans Late Summer Morning CD (2006)
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| | Will Downing After Tonight CD (2007)
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