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Spurred in large part by Katharine McPhee's energetic renditions of KT Tunstall's infectious debut single "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on the 2006 season of AMERICAN IDOL, the Scottish singer-songwriter became a somewhat unlikely mainstream pop star. Second album DRASTIC FANTASTIC refines the mix of alternative rock, Delta blues, and singer-songwriter folk that defined her debut album, EYE TO THE TELESCOPE, putting straight pop songs like "Hold On" and "I Don't Want You Now" comfortably next to jazzier tunes like "Someday Soon" and bluesy rockers like "White Bird." Tunstall has grown as both a lyricist and a melodicist in the span between her first and second album, and DRASTIC FANTASTIC also features a more assertive sound as evinced by the tongue-in-cheek glam-rock cover photo.
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Note: DRASTIC FANTASTIC is also available in a two-disc deluxe edition with a bonus DVD.
Personnel: KT Tunstall (vocals, guitar, ukulele, cello, Fender Rhodes piano, glockenspiel); Paul Stacey (guitar); Jimmy Hogarth (acoustic guitar); John Petrocelli (Spanish guitar); Sam Lewis (dobro); David Angel, David Davidson (violin); Kristin Wilkinson (viola); John Catchings (cello); Kenny Dickenson (Fender Rhodes piano); Steve Osborne, Arnulf Linder (bass guitar); Luke Bullen (drums); Willy Mason (background vocals).
Recording information: Eastcote Studios, London, England.
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Rolling Stone (p.89) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's high-gloss folk pop, confessional in form if not in content, crafted with intelligent attention to every detail."
Spin (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Her effortless melodies drive jaunty power pop and fingerpicked coffeehouse folk."
Q (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'White Bird' has a slinky campfire-jazz ambience....Better yet is 'Beauty Of Uncertainty', which builds from sparsely plucked acoustic guitar and hushed whispers to a cascading climax..."
Uncut (p.109) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "On DRASTIC FANTASTIC, you'll find haunting world-folk, scratchy blues...[and] stark, moody etudes." K T Tunstall Drastic Fantastic Songs Drastic Fantastic Music Review Purchase Drastic Fantastic CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Lyle Lovett My Baby Don't Tolerate CD (2003)
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MY BABY DON'T TOLERATE was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "My Baby Don't Tolerate" was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
For someone who made his name on his unique songwriting acumen, Lyle Lovett didn't exactly inundate his fans with new material in the 1990s. He offered only two albums of newly written material, not counting I LOVE EVERYBODY's selection of old, previously unrecorded compositions. After a seven-year wait, Lovett defied expectations ...
| | K T Tunstall Eye To The Telescope CD (2006)
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A runaway success ...
| | K T Tunstall Acoustic Extravaganza CD (2006) With DVD
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Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall's debut, EYE TO THE TELESCOPE, proved the artist's mettle as a soulful pop chanteuse falling somewhere between Dido and Fiona Apple, yet it also underscored her unique sense of songcraft and powerfully earnest sensibility. The album's ...
| | Norah Jones Not Too Late CD (2007) Digipak
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$12.49
For a young and commercially successful artist, Norah Jones has admirably avoided playing it too safe. After scoring an unlikely sales sensation and multiple Grammy award winner with 2002's torchy COME AWAY WITH ME, Jones shifted gears slightly to accent that album's country and folk elements on the 1970s-styled follow-up, FEELS LIKE HOME. Following that, Jones deliberately played with expectations, first becoming a low-key sideman in a quirky alt-country band called the Little Willies, then playing the lead role in a new movie by Hong Kong arthouse director Wong Kar-Wai.
Jones's third album, NOT TOO LATE, is perhaps not as extreme as any of those other moves away from her initial comfort zone, ...
| | Amy Winehouse Back To Black CD (2006)
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BACK TO BLACK's production is an artful blend of sophisticated '60s R&B and 21st-century stylistic poaching, with "Tears Dry on Their Own" incorporating elements of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and Winehouse sounding like Billie Holiday fronting a reggae band on the old-fashioned cheating song "Just Friends." Densely packed with musical history and often conjuring a dark, Portishead-esque atmosphere, BACK TO BLACK is a sumptuous-sounding collection freighted with blunt confessionals of a lush life.
It doesn't take much listening to Amy Winehouse's 1960s pop period piece to realize that this is a tribute with an edge--nice girls back then didn't sing about boozing and rehab. Since her 2003 debut album, FRANK, Winehouse has been a frequent presence on the gossip pages of the U.K. ...
| | Robert Plant Raising Sand CD (2007)
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$14.69
Those who find the pairing of '70s rock god Robert Plant with contemporary bluegrass queen Alison Krauss unlikely have probably not been paying attention to Plant's latter-day work, which is full of intimate, acoustic-flavored balladry. While ...
| | Leila Shance CD (2008)
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As a maturing artist, on the brink of becoming the next big name in producing Rap/ Hip Hop in the Bay Area, Scrilla C delivers his best album to date: "Get Rich or Keep Lying". With a resume of over 500 hit tracks produced to his name, this young ...
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| | Manifested Sons Of God Lord Of Rhyme CD (2006)
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$7.45
In 1998, God handpicked a group of Holy Ghost filled young men who would one day change the face of the entire music industry. They were chosen to lead a reformation that would manifest the life of Jesus Christ. This group was called MSOG, the Manifested Sons of God. A name given to them based upon a Scripture in the Bible, Romans 8:19, that states that the world is waiting on the manifestation of the Sons of God. Never before in the history of Gospel rap has the need been greater for a group of young men to step up to the plate and fight the good fight against sin and its effects in the Church and in the world. Never before has the need been greater for the power of “That Life” to be manifested in rhyme, beat, and plain simple living. The group originated out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, but relocated to Leesburg, Florida in the fall of 2001.The group consists of Michael “the God Child” Thomas, the leader of ...
| | Donny Todd Find Myself CD (2007)
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$11.39
Donny Todd, a native Californian, grew up in Minnesota. At age 15, Donny found ...
| | Eight Minutes To Twilight Fairlanes Avenue CD (2007)
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$13.15
Fairlanes Avenue is Eight Minutes to Twilight's first self-produced, self-recorded album. They are Josh Wright, Josh Howard, and Jason Janofsky, who joined the band shortly after Fairlanes Avenue was recorded. Reviewer Magazine said..."The horn that interpolates in and out of the music on “Fairlanes Avenue” adds such a beautiful melancholia to it. I was in a real lethargic, empty mood when I listened to this CD for the first time and it was the perfect soundtrack to my disposition at the moment, it didn’t grate or bore or annoy, it just was the perfect atmosphere and flowed smoothly through my brain.Eight Minutes to Twilight is the brainchild of two Joshes: Messrs. Wright & Howard, a couple of San Diegans who have ditched the typical power-pop vacuity that is associated with Southern California and instead have focused on introverted, emotive compositions that are pleasing musically as well as lyrically apt. “Fairlanes Avenue” is their greeting to the world; it says “Here I am; I hope you’ll like me, but please don’t get too close and smother me…” The sad English horn noodles throughout the opener, “Collision” and really complements the ...
| | Privates International Band Privates CD (2007) (Import)
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