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Purchase Santana CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Trans-Siberian Orchestra Night Castle CDs (2009)
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 $11.35   
NIGHT CASTLE appears just in time for the big 2009 holiday season but don't be fooled: this isn't a Christmas album, even if it's sonically indistinguishable from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's other seasonal releases, and the fact that it's been dubbed "Capra-esque" certainly brings it within the realm of the season. NIGHT CASTLE brims with all the drama, pomp, and circumstance of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's other records but channeling these traits through a newly created narrative does have the effect of hearing it in a somewhat new light, shifting the focus entirely to the band's attack, not melody. Still, there's not that much new here -- and the coda of seasonal covers, including the first sober version of "Nutrocker" ever cut, doesn't do much to break that spell. But for those already enchanted by the Orchestra, this will continue to enthrall.
Night Castle appears just in time for the big 2009 holiday season but don't be fooled: this isn't a Christmas album, even if it's sonically indistinguishable ...
| | W A S P Babylon CD (2009) (Import) United Kingdom
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$15.45 
| | Michael Buble Crazy Love CD (2009)
Santana
$14.49 
Buoyed by the popularity of the hit contemporary pop ballad "Home," singer Michael Bublé's 2005 album, IT'S TIME, clearly positioned the vocalist as the preeminent neo-crooner of his generation. Easily the singer's most stylistically wide-ranging album so far, 2009's CRAZY LOVE is also one of his brightest, poppiest, and most fun. Bublé kicks things off with the theatrical, epic ballad "Cry Me a River" and proceeds to milk the tune with burnished breath, eking out the drama line by line. It's over the top for sure, but Bublé takes you to the edge of the cliff, prepares to jump, and then gives you a knowing wink that says, not quite yet -- there's more fun to be had. And what fun it is with Bublé swinging through "All of Me," and killin' Van Morrison's classic "Crazy Love" with a light and yearning touch. And just as "Home" worked to showcase Bublé's own writing abilities, here we get the sunshine pop of "Haven't Met You Yet" -- a skippy, jaunty little song that brings to mind a mix of the Carpenters and Chicago. Throw in a rollicking and soulful duet with Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings on "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)," and a fabulously old-school close-harmony version of "Stardust" with Bublé backed by the vocal ensemble Naturally 7, and CRAZY LOVE really starts to come together. Then Bublé goes ...
| | Bob Dylan Christmas In The Heart CD (2009)
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$12.85 
After the initial shock fades, the existence of CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART seems perhaps inevitable. After all, the thing Bob Dylan loves most of all are songs that are handed down from generation to generation, songs that are part of the American fabric, songs so common they never seem to have been written. These are the songs Dylan chooses to sing on CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART, a cheerfully old-fashioned holiday album from its Norman Rockwell-esque cover to its joyous backing vocals. Apart from the breakneck "Must Be Santa," which barrelhouses like a barroom, Dylan doesn't really reinterpret these songs as much as simply play them with his crackerjack road band, dropping in a little flair -- restoring "we'll have to muddle through somehow" to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," singing the opening of "O Come All Ye Faithful" in its original Latin -- but never pushing tunes in unexpected directions. Many would argue having Dylan croon these carols is unexpected enough and, true, there are times his gravelly rumble is a bit pronounced, but nothing here feels forced, it all feels rather fun, provided you're on the same wavelength as latter-day Bob, where the sound and swing of the band is as important as the song, where there's ...
| | Pink Martini Splendor In The Grass CD (2009) Digipak
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$13.39
Pink Martini follow the around-the-world-in-a-dozen-songs thrills of HEY EUGENE! with SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, a mellower, simpler set of small pleasures. These are relative terms, however; the group's music is still well-traveled, with China Forbes singing in five languages (English, Spanish, Neapolitan, French, and Italian) instead of the six or so on EUGENE!. However, Pink Martini opt for a more unified sound here, one that draws on the more straightforward lounge-pop of their debut, SYMPATHIQUE, and the mellowness of '60s and '70s pop. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS' first half is especially smooth, opening with the beautifully soft Neapolitan ballad "Ninna Nanna" and the title track, on which Forbes sings "I think we should take it slow" over swooping strings, brass, and piano that resurrect the glory days of AM pop; that feeling is echoed by the cover of Joe Raposo's "Sing," the Sesame Street song that gained popularity when the Carpenters performed it (Emilio Delgado, aka Sesame Street's Luis, duets with Forbes here in Spanish and English). The album's first few tracks are among its most playful, including the slinky yet winking "Ohayoo Ohio" and the French confection "Ou Est Ma Tete?" While Pink Martini gets almost too cute for their own good with "And Then You're Gone" and "But Now I'm Back," a pair of songs about a quarreling couple inspired by Franz Schubert's "Fantasy Piano for Four Hands" and featuring NPR justice correspondent Ari Shapiro on the latter's vocals, SPLENDOR IN ...
| | Bad Lieutenant Never Cry Another Tear CD (2009)
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$8.79 
With Peter Hook's departure in 2007, prospects for new material from New Order were looking increasingly dim, so the surprisingly workmanlike Bernard Sumner formed Bad Lieutenant to record his new songs. Sumner looked for help to various sources: latter-day New Order keyboardist Phil Cunningham; bassist Tom Chapman; a young Manchester head named Jake Evans for guitar, vocals, and a little songwriting; plus, on a few tracks, bassist Alex James of Blur and New Order drummer Stephen Morris. Sumner can't help but recall New Order as soon as he puts pen to paper or opens his mouth, but there are slight differences between this material and what he's been known for. If anything, Never Cry Another Tear accentuates the melodic guitar pop and straightforward lyricism of New Order's work in the 2000s. Although Hook is missed, the low end sounds quite good indeed in the capable hands of Chapman and James. As good as Hook's bass work was, its ...
| | Christmas With Chet Atkins CD (1961)
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$10.39 
Chet Atkins' renditions of these beloved Christmas standards invoke the spirit of the season. He celebrates life, and Christmas, in styles by turns jazzy, (Western) swinging, and classical.
For many of the traditional Christmas ...
| | Marilyn Lerner In Cuba: Birds Are Returning CD (1997)
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$9.39
A creative post-bop pianist from Canada who is quite capable of swinging and interpreting standards but is also open to the exploratory innovations of the avant-garde, Marilyn Lerner has an original and fairly flexible style. ...
| | Hollywood Star Orchestra & Sing Music As Featured In The Movie Titanic CD (2001) (Import) Netherlands
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$9.39
| | Donny Osmond Somewhere In Time CD (2002) Import
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$16.29
A pop star since his teens, Donny Osmond reworks some of his solo material and hits from his time with the Osmonds on this 12-track retrospective.
Now in the third phase of his recording career, following an early-'70s stint as a teen idol and a late-'80s period as a dance-pop star, Donny Osmond returned to recording in 2001 with This Is the Moment, on which he performed contemporary show tunes in contemporary pop arrangements. It was the kind of album concept a pre-rock pop singer might have undertaken (and which many did in the '50s and '60s), and the follow-up is another one of those concepts: an album of covers of pop songs done in contemporary arrangements and in Osmond's familiar vocal style. The difference, of course, is that while Frank Sinatra, say, in the '50s might do an album of old Tin Pan Alley standards from the '30s, they were songs not so closely associated with a particular singer or a particular recording, and thus were easier to claim for his own. Osmond, on the other hand, must contend with the original hit recordings of 10cc's "I'm Not in Love," Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over," and the Turtles' "Happy Together," to name only three. And when it comes to "Without You" and "Puppy Love," there are two hit recordings to consider (in the latter case, of course, one of them his own). He doesn't really improve on any of the originals, but he does do a respectable job, and in so doing he does these songs a favor by demonstrating that they can have legitimate lives as songs beyond the familiar recordings of them; they really are standards. He has chosen material that works well with his elastic tenor, and he has thought about the lyrics, lending greater coherency to them than they had originally. [The album closes with an up-tempo hidden track, "Crazy Horses," that harks back to Osmond's dance-pop days.] ~ William Ruhlmann
Collection of love songs features tracks made popular by the likes of EarthWind & Fire, 10CC, & Charles & Eddie. Also includes an updated version of his classic 1972 hit 'Puppy Love' and an exclusive track 'I Wish'.
Recorded at True North Studios, ...
| | Percy Faith Lil' Abner/Broadway Bouquet CD (2003)
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$10.59
In 2003, Collectables released Lil Abner/Broadway Bouquet, which ...
| | Brunswick Rare Souls CD (2004) (Import) Import
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$42.05
| | Joan Baez Blessed Are... CDs (1971)
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$13.79
Perhaps Joan Baez's best-known album, 1971's BLESSED ARE is a double-album-length example of Baez at the point where she was moving away from pure folk into a more pop-oriented sound. Featuring her hit cover of the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," a version which outraged many Band fans because they felt Baez misinterpreted the lyrics, the record also includes several other country-tinged rock covers, including the Stones' "Salt of the Earth," the Beatles' "Let It Be" and Kris Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night," alongside an impressive set of Baez folk-rock originals. "Fifteen Months" and the seven-minute ballad "Three Horses" are particular highlights. This remastered CD reissue includes a bonus CD single, "Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)" and "Maria Dolores," two songs from a 7" which was included with early copies of the vinyl album.
Blessed Are... was arguably Joan Baez's greatest artistic triumph, the commercial and aesthetic high point of her career and certainly of her decade at Vanguard Records. It marked the moment when her political and social concerns meshed most easily and effectively with her artistic goals and -- totally unexpectedly -- even yielded a pair of huge hit singles ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Let It Be") that helped propel the original double LP to gold record status. [In contrast to the 1994-issued CD release of Blessed Are..., which suffered from flat sound and a fair amount of hiss, the expanded and remastered edition of the album finally lives up to the memory of hearing that album for the first time in the fall of 1971. Her soprano, crystalline in its clarity, floats out on the opening title track; even on oft-heard tracks such as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," the playback here is startling in its closeness and richness; and on the more reflective and serene pieces such as "Lost, Lonely, and Wretched," the purity of the sound makes for a first listen that -- warm and rich as it is -- is almost chilling in its purity and beauty. The remastering has also brought out nuances in the playing -- by many of Nashville's finest musicians -- that was only suggested in prior releases of this album. It's now possible to appreciate just how well the stars all lined up for this body of music. Not only had every thread of her career and life in music, every motivating force behind her work, and the direction it had taken over the previous decade or more, even her own songwriting -- which yielded an astonishing nine originals here, every one a winner, even in the company of classics by Kris Kristofferson, Mick Jagger/Keith Richards, and John Lennon/Paul McCartney -- reached a level of mature expression at this moment, but her record label, which was losing her after this album, was willing to commit the resources to capture every song that she was prepared to cut, which amounted to more than even a double LP could hold (there was an accompanying 45 rpm single in the original package). The result was almost as monumental an achievement for Baez as Tapestry was for Carole ...
| | Richard Barone Cool Blue Halo CD (2005) (Import) Live
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$24.95
| | C Dot Calm Before The Storm CD (2008)
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$9.59
First A LITTLE ABOUT Chi-Sound history, Chi-Sound Records was originally established back in the early 70's by the legendary producer Carl Davis. Carl H. Davis legendary producer and record label owner has recently reactivated his Chi-Sound Record label in January 2007. Mr. Davis is former mainstay on the National and Chicago scene and was instumental in the careers of some of Chicago's most renowed artist which includes: Gene Chandler (aka The Duke of Earl), Walter Jackson, Major Lance, The Opals (Chicago”s own Dream Girls), Otis, Leaville, Jackie Wilson (aka Mr. Dynamite), Chi-lites, Lost Generation, Barbara Acklin, Tyrone Davis, Kenny Edmonds (aka Baby Face) and The Mighty Dells just to name a few. Mr. Davis has been responsible for a number of artists obtaining gold records through his unequaled quality in his production, hearing ability and his expertise relating to an artist on how a story should be told. Mr. Davis said a song is just a story and your audience must be able to believe the story before they buy your song. Artists of today has used the production work of Mr. Davis to make # 1 selling records across the world such as Mc Hammer (Have You Seen Her), Paul Davis (Oh Girl), Boy George (To Good To Be Forgotten), Beyonce (Crazy in Love), Jay Z(December 7), Common (Never Had It So Good), Fantasia (Baby Mama), Paul Walls, (Oh Girl), Sunshine Anderson (I Wanna Pay You Back), Tara (Crazy in Love), Jaheim (Sly Slick & The Wicked) and Richkiddz (Have You Seen Her, Peace and On My Way) and C-Dot one of Chi-Sound Records Recording Artists (Hott On A Thing). We made C.Dot's CD Case the new digipaks with a great design. enjoy the music and please buy some good music. In his new venture Mr. Davis has located some of the most exciting new Artist from Chicago and other parts of the country. A little word from C.Dot about his album: first and for most i would like to thank god for making this all possible and stay giving me my blessing i thank u and for all my fans thank u for suporting my album god bless u and to the peole that dont know cdot this album is well put together u will enjoy every song on this cd and for the ladiesu need to get this album he has some real stuff on this albumfellas u need to buy this for your ladies its niceC.Dots Bio-For Such a time as this" is how to describe the mind set that has put C.Dot on his rising road to success. Born in Lockport, NY to Karen Elias, C.Dot spent most of his summers in NYC on Jefferson Ave where he got his first taste of the rap life at age 12. Ever since then he's been running full force. " The Games an award and my hunger is serious" is what he has been known to say. At age 16 he started to get a glimpse of his ability when he was in the 64 Mc Free Style Battle in which he placed 3rd out of 64 contenders between the ages of 16-25. Also around this time he was being looked at by a LA based company but a thorough look at the contract he realized there had to be more. So forced to be a man and grow up at a young age he took to the streets to feed his family. C.Dot spent 7 years of his adolescence in and out of the incarceration in which he had time to reflect on his life style and bring it to life through his music. What's special about C.Dot is that he has a strong spiritual foundation. He attributes his soulful roots to his father Calvin Elias who befriended those of the likes of Shirley Caesar. His father was a singer and choir director who instilled in him a passion for music at a young age. Although C.Dot lived a life in the streets, his deep gospel roots combined with his wisdom and streets smarts allows him to create real music that touches the soul. " Being in the streets forced me to become a real dude, face real issues, and make real sacrifices. So the only thing I know how to do is make real music, anything else just wouldn't be real that's why so many people hated and doubted me along the way because a lot of these people were out here talking about what they.
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