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Black Label Society – Guitar Solo / Stoned And Drunk
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Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society – Boozed Broozed & Broken-Boned $9.88 BOOZED BROOZED & BROKEN-BONED – DVD Movie… |
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Black Label Society: Legendary Licks Guitar $16.95 Learn the guitar styles and techniques of Zakk Wylde with this two-disc set. Each guitar part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. An in-depth analysis of eight songs, including: Suicide Messiah • The Blessed Hellride • Stillborn • and more…. |
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Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society – Boozed, Broozed & Broken Boned [UMD for PSP] $6.17 TRACK LISTING: 1. DEMISE OF SANITY 2. GRAVEYARD DISCIPLES 3. BLEED FOR ME 4. 13 YEARS OF GRIEF 5. STRONGER THAN DEATH 6. GENOCIDE JUNKIES 7. SPOKE IN THE WHEEL 8. BORN TO LOSE 9. WORLD OF TROUBLE 10. ALL FOR YOU 11. SUPER TERRORIZER 12. THE BERSERKERS… |
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ZAKK WYLDE & His Guitar COMPUTER MOUSE PAD Black Label Society $8.99 Cool Collectible or gift! Mouse pad is brand new in excellent condition. Mouse pad measures 9 inches by 8 inches and is 1/8th of an inch thick. Mousepad is made of a durable heat resistant polyester fabric top, and backed with a non slip rubber. Mousepad will not discolor or fade, and is machine washable…. |
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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Zakk & His Guitars COMPUTER MOUSE PAD $9.99 Mouse pad is brand new in excellent condition. Mouse pad measures 9 inches by 8 inches and is 1/8th of an inch thick. Mousepad is made of a durable heat resistant polyester fabric top, and backed with a non slip rubber. Mousepad will not discolor or fade, and is machine washable…. |
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ZAKK WYLDE & His Acoustic Guitars COMPUTER MOUSE PAD Black Label Society $8.99 Cool Collectible or gift! Mouse pad is brand new in excellent condition. Mouse pad measures 9 inches by 8 inches and is 1/8th of an inch thick. Mousepad is made of a durable heat resistant polyester fabric top, and backed with a non slip rubber. Mousepad will not discolor or fade, and is machine washable…. |
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Black Label Society Metal Guitar Pick Keyring $10.99 Stainless steel guitar pick keyring.Ideal gift for the music fan.Brand New… |
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Xbox 360 Wireless Microphone $21.41 Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Microphone N9D-00001 Microphones… |
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Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild $6.45 The chiming acoustic sound of ‘Hard Sun ‘ the lead-off single from this collection of solo Eddie Vedder material might lead fans to wonder where the roaring guitars and grunge-drenched energy of Pearl Jam has gone. Yet the large-scale anthemic quality of the song its forceful three-chord progression and Vedder’s familiar gruff and soaring vocals reveal that the singer hasn’t strayed far from home … |
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Order of the Black $6.49 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY ORDER OF THE BLACK… |
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Society $10.38 Dietzche V. and the Abominable Snowman’s French touch will take you on a dangerous and sexy journey of disco, funk, and soul with their bounce-heavy set of emotional and summer-y anthems. DVAS have quickly garnered the attention of electro dance devotees across the globe with internet mixtapes, remixes, and tastemaker compilation placements. They may share some attributes with the space sounds of Daft Punk and pop legacy of Hall And Oates, but DVAS bring intense originality and innovation to up the ante on dance floor pop jams. The album SOCIETY hits stores July 27 and will be the soundtrack of summer, with that chunky slice of emphatic energy-induced music we oh-so-crave; tracks like Ambient Room, Consenting Adults, Watching You, Questions, and Giving It All Away are sure to leave you hot under the collar and make you wish that this year’s summer fling never ends. Performers: Dan Carlyle – Slap Bass; Ali Motamed – Guitar; Darren Veres – Keyboards; Jered Stuffco – Vocals, Keyboards; Roger Leavens – Sound Effects, Bass, Keyboards, Clarinet; Vinko Pelicaric – Keyboards |
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Standing Wave: New Music For Guitar $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):110 |
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Black Venus: New Music For Guitar $18.99 British Guitar Society (Launch:113 |
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Society’s Parasites $11.39 “Preface” starts this set off in fairly normal punk fashion with an adamant rhythm and insistent guitar riff, then kicks it up a gear with a blazing guitar solo. However, Society’s Parasites then suddenly launch into “In the City” (no relation to the Jam |
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The Society for $17.16 The Society for |
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The Society $18.65 The Society |
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Black Label Society – Mafia Songbook $19.95 Full transcription of Black Label Society’s Mafia album for guitar, with notes and tablature. |
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Black Label Society $15.99 (Guitar Legendary Licks DVD). By Black Label Society and Zakk Wylde. Instructional/Guitar/DVD. DVD. Published by Cherry Lane Music |
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Secret Society Of Surf Guitar $15.98 Description not provided. |
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Black Label Society – Order of the Black $22.99 By Black Label Society. Play It Like It Is. Softcover. Guitar tablature. 80 pages. Published by Cherry Lane Music |
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Black Label Society – Shot to Hell $22.95 By Black Label Society. Play It Like It Is. Softcover. Guitar tablature. 66 pages. Published by Cherry Lane Music |
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Best of Black Label Society $22.95 “By Black Label Society. For guitar and voice. Play It Like It Is. Rock. Difficulty: medium-difficult. Guitar tablature songbook and performance CD. Guitar tablature, standard guitar notation, vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord diagrams (on some songs), guitar notation legend and introductory text. 84 pages. Published by Cherry Lane Music” |
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The Dream Society $16.79 The Dream Society continued Roy Harper’s winning streak with an impressively produced album of varied material. The opening “Songs of Love” is a striking duet with vocalist Musumi that also features some great acoustic guitar work from son Nick Harper. “Songs of Love, Pt. 2″ quickly follows with a hard rock sound as convincing as any Harper has produced since HQ in 1975. While there are many styles on the album — hard rock, folk-rock, and even country — perhaps the acoustic ballad “Broken Wing” is the record’s best cut. The album-closing epic “These Fifty Years” is one of Harper’s most ambitious tracks. With several movements and some very progressive sections, it sounds a bit like Jethro Tull, a notion no doubt aided by a familiar flute sound courtesy of Ian Anderson. Although the song isn’t as memorable as “The Same Old Rock” or “Me and My Woman,” Harper must be given credit for a mostly successful attempt at a longer piece. As usual, the lyrics throughout are almost purposefully ponderous, a matter not allayed by the rambling liner notes. While Death or Glory? displayed greater highs and Once showed a new musical maturity, The Dream Society is more consistent and completes Harper’s utterly successful trilogy of studio albums from the ’90s. ~ Brian Downing, Rovi Performers: John Fitzgerald – Concertina, Harp, Organ (Hammond), Trumpet, Piano, Organ, Keyboards; Bonnie Shaljean – Harp; Colm O’Sullivan – Keyboards; Ian Anderson – Flute; Jeff Ward – Mandolin, Hand Drums, Slide Guitar, Drums, Bass, Percussion; Misumi – Vocals; Nick Harper – Slide Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Acoustic); Noel Barrett – Bass; |
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Parasite of Society $16.78 2008 release from the German Thrash Metal trio, their first studio album in 14 years. Led by Destruction’s Schmier, one of the most popular figures in European Metal, Headhunter pick up where they left off in 1994. Schmier’s vocals are unmistakably him and unique, but are used in a more melodic way than in Destruction, and the guitar is powerful and yet melodic in its own way. The very special sound of the band is back! This is no fly-by-night cash in. Tracks like the powerful, speedy title track or the intense “Remission” will be classics in their own right in time. Cover versions of Judas Priest’s “Rapid Fire” and Skid Row’s “18 And Life” top off Parasite Of Society perfectly and the interest that has already been generated, even before this animal is released, will mean that you’ll be seeing a whole load of Headhunter this year. AFM. |
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Secret Society $6.38 Apparently the Sheila Divine’s final release — the band announced their breakup in early 2003 — the 25-minute, six-track EP is the culmination of the group’s conflation of an unabashed love of 120 Minutes-era alternative pop/rock and Weezer-circa-Pinkerton pop-emo. Even more than on previous albums like The New Parade, singer-guitarist Aaron Perrino wears his Echo and the Bunnymen/Smiths/Gene Loves Jezebel/Siouxsie and the Banshees/Cure influences proudly, stocking each song with the kind of reverb-heavy guitar riffs, doom-laden lyrics, and politely anguished vocals familiar to generations of black-clad high school students. (The song “Dramatica” in this context sounds like a sly bit of self-deprecation.) The production is more full-bodied than on earlier records, replacing the occasional scratchiness of before with a more complex instrumental blend that’s a much better foil for Perrino’s booming, melodramatic vocals. Although Secret Society is an impressive record, it’s difficult to see where the Sheila Divine could have gone from here, unless John Hughes started making teen-angst films again and needed somebody to write the soundtracks. ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi Performers: Aaron Perrino – Guitar, Vocals; Colin Decker – Vocals (Background), Guitar; Jim Gilbert – Guitar (Bass); Ryan Dolan – Drums |
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High Society $21.59 High Contrast’s 2002 debut was entirely unpretentious. Its giddy rookie drum’n'bass skitters went ballistic into vintage vocal sample atmospheres with nary a pander to the electronic music community’s savagely permutational itch. In ’04, after a year of stellar remix work, Contrast (aka Welshman Lincoln Barrett) returns with High Society, a remarkable statement-maker that drops its share of can’t-miss dancefloor moments, but also revels in posing hyperkinetic percussion against gently swelling, almost melancholic basslines. This dynamic in the emotions and music makes Society as much an album as Contrast’s first recording was, but also highlights where he’s grown. Grime-hopeful Nolay spits hollow-point bullets over the snare reports, snyth cues, and bass pulses of “Angels and Fly” — it sounds like Future Sound of London backing the boastful, malevolent transmissions of a pirate radio MC. But “Angels”‘ post-millennial tension is at sharp angles to “Just Say,” a collaboration crossing Contrast’s usual percussion slap with sunny guitar drop-ins, dubby horn samples, and the soulful patois of garage/dancehall vocalist Spoonface. As catchy as these tracks are, extended drum ‘n’ bass workouts like “Lovesick” and “Racing Green” keep the rhythms interesting by periodically suspending them in favor of chopped-up and filtered disco and soul samples. High Contrast then builds back up from these breaks, dropping in once again his insistent chattering snares. “Natural High” nods to both electronic music’s formative years as well as the artful chill of Air, while “Brief Encounter” and “Twilights Last Gleaming” offer a salve of bittersweet and blissful melodies floating underneath their furious drum tracks. Newbies like the Streets and Dizzee Rascal have been responsible for broadcasting the sound of the U.K. underground into clubs and headphones world-wide. With High Society, it might be High Contrast’s turn to push things forward. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi Performers: Tomahawk – Spoken Word; Dynamite MC – Vocals; Mike Shankleman – Guitar; Nolay – Vocals; Spoonface – Vocals; Terri Pace – Vocals |
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The Sleepwalking Society $10.38 Along with the ever-widening color palette of Nostalgia 77′s investigation of jazz, creator and leader Benedic Lamdin has established himself as a producer of merit. In recent years, he’s helmed two albums that have in turn directly influenced The Sleepwalking Society’s direction: Lizzy Parks’ excellent This and That, and British singer/songwriter Jeb Loy Nichols’ gentle masterpiece Strange Faith and Practice. Lamdin introduces listeners to yet another fine vocalist: German songstress Josa Peit; he also composes or co-writes all these tunes, plays guitar, organ, and produces. Frequent collaborators Riaan Vosloo (bass and string arrangements), Tim Giles (drums), Mark Hanslip (flute), Ross Stanley (piano & organ), James Allsopp (saxophones and clarinet), Fulvio Sigurta (trumpet and horn arrangements), Natalie Rosario (cello), and guests round out this edition of Nostalgia 77. As an album, The Sleepwalking Society is perfectly balanced in construction and articulation. Peit’s smoky, near vibrato-less alto walks an undulating line between Dinah Washington’s slippery restraint and Nina Simone’s ethereal middle-period contralto. Petit creates pure atmosphere with that voice; her phrasing underscores every line with poetic meaning. “Sleepwalker” is based on a minor-key blues shuffle. It features wonderful baritone saxophone and B-3 fills under Peit’s taut, emotionally charged delivery. On “Beautiful Lie,” she bridges the chasm in a jazz group that winds trippy Baroque folk and spine-slipping soul into the mix. “Golden Morning” is offered with a haunted, skeletal blues vibe; adorned only by an upright bass, a military snare beat, and a kick drum. “When Love Is Strange,” with its angular funky breaks, mournful New Orleans-style horns, and a swelling B-3, is possessed of by an eerie sense of nameless, forgotten chanteuses singing in long-emptied Berlin jazz clubs left to ruin, without sounding nostalgic. “Blue Shadow”’s lithe funky backbeat is adorned by cello, clarinet, B-3, nylon-string guitar, and understated bassline until the chorus, when the brass kicks in hard. Peit swings the lyric from the bellybone until its drips from her mouth. The Sleepwalking Society is a stunner; a jazz-pop record with brilliant R&B and folk undertones woven throughout. Lamdin’s pushed himself further than ever, melding disparate genres and arrangements effortlessly; and in the process, he’s brought to light yet another stellar song stylist in Peit. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi Performers: Natalie Rosario – Cello; Benedic Lamdin – Organ, Percussion, Guitar; Dave Smith – Percussion; Fulvio Sigurta – Help, Trumpet; |
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The Dream Society (Import) $15.44 The Dream Society continued Roy Harper’s winning streak with an impressively produced album of varied material. The opening “Songs of Love” is a striking duet with vocalist Musumi that also features some great acoustic guitar work from son Nick Harper. “S |
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Rejects of Society $15.56 The first ever career round up of Dutch Hardcore heroes Discipline. Vocalist Joost has overseen the remastering and liner notes on this 15 track collection which shows just how far this band have come over the past few years. Includes a great version of The Business classic ”Saturdays Heroes”. Performers: Carlo Geerlings – Bass; Erik Wouters – Guitar; Joost DeGraaf – Vocals; Joost Strijbos – Drums |
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Guitar $18.4 Guitar |
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For Guitar $14.01 For Guitar |
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Saint James Society: Saint James Society EP $6.77 Austin, TX psychedelic garage rockers The Saint James Society play electric rock music that brilliantly connects the dots between the late ’60s British blues-based bands and the brooding atmospheres of early ’80s post punk resulting in a hypnotically powerful sound the fabulous five-piece has coined ”Pentecostal Desert Glam”. The band fuses a ”raw energy” sound with the pseudo-mysticism of The Doors and the guitar orchestrations of classic hard rock, skillfully synthesizing these musical touchstones to create their self titled debut EP. An energized recording bursting with a muscularity as fuzzy headed and adventurous as their off-stage exploits, the group’s darkly iridescent, kill-your-idols vibe is a fist-punching yelp of energy that demands to be heard at maximum volume. When the heavy swagger of vocalist/bassist Brandon Burkart aligns with the band’s heavy-footed rhythms, ticking time-bomb beat and stunning twin vocal tandem of rebel queens Elza Burkart and Candice Bertalan, the resulting musical statement mainlines the thrill of defiance straight to the listener’s heart. Placing their steps in the petrified footprints left by the Velvet Underground and the slightly fresher ones of Spacemen 3, The Saint James Society reduces the blues to one nasty lick pickled in distortion. Meet your new favorite band. |
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The Village Green Preservation Society $10.17 Ray Davies’ sentimental, nostalgic streak emerged on Something Else, but it developed into a manifesto on The Village Green Preservation Society, a concept album lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions. As the opening title song says, the Kinks — meaning Ray himself, in this case — were for preserving “draught beer and virginity,” and throughout the rest of the album, he creates a series of stories, sketches, and characters about a picturesque England that never really was. It’s a lovely, gentle album, evoking a small British country town, and drawing the listener into its lazy rhythms and sensibilities. Although there is an undercurrent of regret running throughout the album, Davies’ fondness for the past is warm, making the album feel like a sweet, hazy dream. And considering the subdued performances and the detailed instrumentations, it’s not surprising that the record feels more like a Ray Davies solo project than a Kinks album. The bluesy shuffle of “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains” is the closest the album comes to rock & roll, and Dave Davies’ cameo on the menacing “Wicked Annabella” comes as surprise, since the album is so calm. But calm doesn’t mean tame or bland — there are endless layers of musical and lyrical innovation on The Village Green Preservation Society, and its defiantly British sensibilities became the foundation of generations of British guitar pop. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi Performers: Alexander Greenlaw Quaife – Bass; Dave Davies – Harmonica, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar; John Dalton – Bass; Mick Avory – Drums; Peter Quaife – Guitar (Bass), Bass; Ray Davies – Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar |
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Black Label Society – Shot to Hell Songbook $22.95 Complete transcriptions for guitar with notes and tablature. |
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BLUNT SOCIETY: BLUNT SOCIETY $13.45 BLUNT SOCIETY: BLUNT SOCIETY |
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Serenade: Romantic Music For Romantic Guitars $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):102 |
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Zapateado!: Homage To Joaquin Rodrigo $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):107 |
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Per Suonare A Due $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):112 |
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Music For An Island $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):117 |
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Danza! / Tom Kerstens $16.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):114 |
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Triston $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):115 |
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Goya: The Music Of Enrique Granados $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):116 |
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Love, The Magician $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):118 |
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The Heart Trembles With Pleasure: Music For Lute By Sylvius Leopold Weiss $18.99 Bgs (British Guitar Society):119 |
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Black Label Society: Tour Edition $33.14 NTSC/Region 0. Limited three DVD set from Zakk Wylde and the Black Label boys. Released to coincide with their 2008 European tour, this strictly limited edition digipak set combines the two Black Label Society DVDs released to date: Boozed, Broozed & Broken-Boned from 2003 and the two disc set The European Invasion: Doom Troopin’ from 2006. Lead by legendary guitar hero Wylde, who also doubles up as Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist, Black Label Society have firmly established themselves as one of the finest live Rock bands on the planet and this superb triple disc set is a permanent reminder of just how good they are. Eagle Vision. |
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Monarchs of a Fallen Society $10.17 In the wake of blink-182, there was no escaping the onslaught of melodic pop-punk bands — it seemed like these singsongy types of outfits were constantly multiplying, like cockroaches. Upon first listen, it appears as though Baltimore’s Agents of the Sun could possibly fit in with the aforementioned style — especially their songwriting hooks on their sophomore effort, 2005′s Monarchs of a Fallen Society. But these folks can certainly play their instruments, resulting in tricky prog/emo passages on such tracks as “Portrait of a Serial Killer.” Elsewhere, “So Long” has a brief twin-guitar break, which lasts long enough to bring to mind such hard rockin’ guitar duos as the mighty Iron Maiden, while “Not Enough” contains some hardcore barking courtesy of singer Ray Dobson and “Time Line for a Butterfly” begins with a Santana-esque percussion intro. Mixed by 311 drummer Chad Sexton and produced by the band (with the aid of others), Agents of the Sun’s sophomore effort manages to improves on the quintet’s predecessor, 2003′s Aurora. ~ Greg Prato, Rovi |
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Product of Society [Remastered] $14.38 By the late ’80s, thrash metal had become quite the hot commodity, and even though only a select few bands had actually managed to sell a considerable number of records by mainstream standards (namely the big four of Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth), there were still countless bands across the U.S. and abroad being rushed through the production line, in the hopes of similar success. Naturally, nowhere was this production line more clogged up or accelerated than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where founding fathers Metallica and Exodus had quickly given way to second (Testament, Death Angel, etc.), third (Forbidden, Vio-Lence, etc.), and even fourth generation thrashers such as Oakland’s Defiance. But hey, who’s counting? What matters is that, like most other late arrivals to the scene, Defiance were working with what scraps had been left on the banquet table by their revolutionary predecessors — and finding it difficult to come up with anything remotely original because of it. Sure enough, the Oakland quintet’s 1989 debut, Product of Society, was awash in familiar sonic trappings also favored by the likes of Exodus (see “Death Machine,” “Forgotten,” and “Deadly Intentions,” in particular), Vio-Lence (largely due to the inexpressive, often atonal nature of Ken Elkinton’s voice), and Mordred (who shared the same crunchy guitar tones). What’s more, even though Defiance guitarists Doug Harrington and Jim Adams formed quite the dynamic duo (hear their melodies soar and solos shred on the title cut, “Insomnia,” and “Hypothermia,” among others), both the acoustic piece, “Aftermath,” and the clumsily arranged fret-board marathon, “Tribulation,” sound more like the work of producer Jeff Waters, of Annihilator fame. In other words: Defiance still seemed like a band too beholden to pre-established musical elements to stand out from other production line items with Product of Society. [Metal MIN2 issued a remastered version in 2008.] ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, Rovi Performers: Jim Adams – Guitar |
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Mutual Admiration Society $14.38 Mutual Admiration Society is a collaboration between Glen Phillips, Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins, & Chris Thile (Nickel Creek). Rehearsed, recorded, & mixed in just six days with producer Ethan Johns, the album features songs written & sung by Phillips, with accompaniment & other vocals from the Grammy-winning band. Also appearing on the album are Johns, Jen Consos, & Richard Causon. Performers: Chris Thile – Mandolin, Vocals; Richard Causon – Organ (Hammond), Accordion, Organ, Piano; Sara Watkins – Fiddle, Vocals; Ethan Johns – Vocals (Background), Mandolin, Percussion, Guitar (Electric); Glen Phillips – Guitar, Vocals; Jennifer Condos – Bass; Sean Watkins – Mandolin, Vocals, Guitar |
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Society Is a Carnivorous Flower $12.78 J Church’s Austin, TX lineup makes its official debut with this long-player for Gainesville, Florida’s No Idea imprint. They pick up where 2003′s split with Storm the Tower left off, with David DiDonato’s second guitar adding another dynamic layer to Church brain Lance Hahn’s already raucous SG and righteous, erudite, and awesomely cynical vocals. (Bassist Ben White and drummer Chris Pfeffer are no slouches, either.) Society Is a Carnivorous Flower begins with “Overconfident,” a tingling, rousing number straight outta the early- ’90s punk-pop zeitgeist (think: Poster Children). But J Church will likely hate this comparison if they read this, as the song itself is a typically correct Hahn evisceration of music geeks’ obsession with elitism and rock history. “You worship Nico/You spit on Yoko,” but “We are nothing more that all the things that came before.” “Styrofoam” is Hahn’s version of a love song, while the out of focus, melancholic indie of “210″ tracks Our Singer’s acceptance of inferiority to a tattooed cool guy. “Compared to your youthful wonder/I’m just four tracks and shitty rhymes.” Yikes dude! Other highlights of the album include the Pavement-ish dis “Austin’s Shitty Limits,” as well as the 15-minute title track, which is actually a clanging thematic opera in the tradition of the Who, a punk revivalist serial that seems to draw parallels between the narrator’s frustrated sexual desire and the failures of the class system. Catchy? Yes, as hell. But let it be said again — J Church’s pop-ish melodies and punk footing don’t make them devotees of the sugar-smack safety pin kids populating Warped Tour parking lots. Now go buy Lance Hahn a drink and make him feel better. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi Performers: Ben White – Bass, Vocals, Guitar (Bass); Chris Pfeffer – Vocals, Drums; David DiDonato – Vocals, Guitar; Lance Hahn – Guitar, Vocals |
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Challenge for a Civilized Society $11.98 Unwound’s sixth album ranks among their best. Challenge for a Civilized Society is a study in extremes, as the group’s noise assault reaches new pinnacles of raw abrasion. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi Performers: Steve Fisk – Ensoniq EPS, Harmonium, Organ (Hammond); Dave Carter – Trumpet; Justin Trosper – Univox, Vocals, Saxophone, Guitar, Synthesizer; Sarah Lund – Drums, Percussion; Vern Rumsey – Fender Rhodes, Vocals, Bass |
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Southern Arts Society $16.12 Southern Arts Society is the new solo project/record by Andy Jarman, former leader of Strange Fruit, Aquaplane, and, A Popular History of Signs. A rich but beautifully understated mixture of organic electronica, built up with layers of rhythmic samples and atmospheres as well as guitars and pianos. The mood is mellow, dusty, and melancholic, with songs about distance, space, places, time, moments found and moments lost. Includes guest vocalists: Glen Johnson from Piano Magic, Ang?le David Guillou from Klima & Piano Magic, Stasola from Oslo Telescopic and Marielle Martin from Playdoh. Green UFOS. 2005. Performers: Andrew Jarman – Vocals; Angele David-Guillou – Xylophone, Vocals (Background), Vocals; Glen Johnson – Vocals; Peter Scammell – Guitar |
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Chamber Music Society $19.98 As evidenced by her self-titled 2008 debut, Esperanza Spalding is a quadruple threat as composer, bassist, singer, and producer. That album spent an astonishing 70 weeks on Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart, and was the best-selling album by a new artist internationally for that calendar year. Given its critical and commercial success, a follow-up can exert so much pressure internally and externally, that an artist loses her/his focus and the end result is less than stellar. Not so with Chamber Music Society. Spalding has assembled an intriguing collection of tunes, is accompanied by stellar backing musicians — drummer Terri Lynne Carrington, pianist Leonardo Genovese, and percussionist Quintino Cinalli with a pair of string players — and guests that reveal her exquisite taste in both compositions and arrangements (the latter with intermittent help from Gil Goldstein). The album opens with a Spalding composition to illustrate William Blake’s poem “Little Fly”; her vocal is understated yet fully articulate. She is backed only by her bass and a graceful, small, unintrusive string section. “Winter Sun” is a standout with its fingerpopping breaks and a melodic nu-soul vocal that touches on scat with astute syncopation, and features taut, imaginative bass and piano solos. It walks the line between modern jazz and adult contemporary R&B . On Esperanza, she covered Milton Nascimento’s “Ponta de Areia.” Here, she ups the ante by duetting with the Brazilian artist on her own “Apple Blossom,” backed by strings and Richard Vogt’s nylon-string guitar. Nascimento’s trademark baritone is allowed considerable improvisational freedom that features his otherworldly falsetto. Her reading of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Inutil Paisagem” almost forgoes samba entirely in favor of a more classically disciplined duet vocal arrangement, as Spalding’s voice and bass are accompanied only by Gretchen Parlato’s divine vocal. Parlato also appears with wordless singing on “Knowledge of Good and Evil,” in a breezy yet complex chart that underscores a deft harmonic interaction with the band. Spalding’s arrangement of Dimitri Tiomkin’s and Ned Washington’s classic “Wild Is the Wind” features David Eggar guesting on cello and Genovese playing melodica, and combines jazz, tango, and classic pop. “What a Friend” combines contemporary and Rhodes-driven soulful electric jazz. Chamber Music Society is a more sophisticated offering than Esperanza. That said, with its musical diversity, stylistic panache, humor, and soul, it’s also a more enjoyable listen. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi |
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High Flight Society $11.18 High Flight Society hit the CCM scene with high expectations and an intense, anthemic modern rock sound. The members of the four-piece group grew up together in small Cedartown, GA. Drummer Scotty Lockridge and guitarist Michael Packer eventually added Michael’s brother John on bass and vocalist/rhythm guitarist Jason Wilkes. After leading worship music for years, the band wrote and rehearsed the 11 tracks on its self-titled debut in the Cedartown Church of God. The sound was sure to get them noticed among fans of heavier modern rock, as their debut was a cross between Anberlin, Kutless, Hoobastank, and Foo Fighters. Producer Tony Palacios (Sixpence None the Richer, By the Tree, Audio Adrenaline) kept the record from sounding too close to the more raw, Southern rock-inspired debut from fellow Georgians Decemberadio. Yet Wilkes’ gritty vocals lent plenty of emotional flair and came across as borderline screaming at times. The opener, “Time Is Running Out,” set the standard for the remainder of the record, which neither deviated far from its formula nor offered too much in the way of new outlooks on Christian themes. But the band showed that it had plenty of room to rock. Fans of earnest, high-decibel alt-rock should enjoy this album. ~ Jared Johnson, Rovi Performers: Jason Wilkes – Vocals (Background); Tony Palacios – Loops, Noise, Guitar |
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The Ben Gunn Society $6.77 Performers: Glen Laughlin – Mandolin, Percussion; Zarina Silverman – Vocals (Background); Chris Shuur – Bass; Igor Koyfman – Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Percussion, Vocals; Taco Marx – Drums |
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Royal Society Six $12.78 This is the first album Don Neely’s San Francisco-based Royal Society Jazz Orchestra (founded in November 1975) cut for the Circle label. The play list is filled with gems that were heard during the halcyon days when radio was the major family entertainment. Part of that entertainment was the broadcast of the kinds of music heard on this album, either remotes from hotel ballrooms and restaurants or through regularly sponsored broadcasts. Using arrangements that are the same or similar to those used by the bands of the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s, Neely’s band has an air of authenticity about it that is unsurpassed by others playing nostalgia music. This album recreates the music of such popular figures of the times as Fletcher Henderson (“Radio Rhythm”), Benny Goodman and Helen Ward (“Throwin’ Stones at the Sun”), and Libby Holman (“Moanin’ Low”). To his credit, Neely has avoided the temptation to stick with those tunes that have survived and become entries in the Great American Songbook. There are novelty tunes here that have not seen the light of day for quite a while. Listen to Carla Normand do “Swing, Mister Charlie” (made popular by Judy Garland with Bob Crosby & His Orchestra). The band is well-versed in the syncopated rhythms that were popular during those days. Carla Normand does the bulk of the vocalizing with poise and assurance. Leader Neely, in addition to playing all the reeds, chips in with 1930s-style warbling on tunes like “Honolulu Baby.” This album is a lot of fun and is recommended. ~ Dave Nathan, Rovi Performers: Bing Nathan – String Bass; Bob Schultz – Cornet, Vocals; Carla Normand – Vocals; Don Neely – Saxophone, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Clarinet, Vocals; James Maihack – Piano, Vocals; John Hunt – Vocals, Trombone; Tony Marcus – Guitar, Vocals |
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Complete Live at Cafe Society $13.57 Charlie Parker’s engagement at the club took place during the last year of this famous club’s existence. During these months, he was playing with his quintet featuring Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Al Haig on piano, Tommy Potter on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. The repertoire is also not typical of Parker at this stage of his career. Maybe because of the style or the surroundings of the club, he doesn’t play his usual set of live tunes. Instead, he chooses medium tempos and ballads (with the exception of the short “52nd Street Theme” performances used to open and close the sets). The Caf? Society recordings also give us Bird’s only known renditions of “Bewitched” and “Gone with the Wind”, and the only existing version of Parker playing Gershwin’s perennial “Summertime” apart from the November 30, 1949 version with strings -and his improvisation here is clearly superior to the previous attempt. RLR. Performers: Al Haig – Piano; Brew Moore – Sax (Tenor); Chuck Wayne – Guitar; Dick Hyman – Piano; Ed Shaughnessy – Drums; Kenny Dorham – Trumpet; Leonard Gaskin – Bass; Roy Haynes – Drums; Tommy Porter – Bass; Tony Scott – Clarinet |
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Black Label Society – Mafia CD $14.99 Mafia, the seventh album from guitar god Zakk Wylde’s band Black Label Society, displays Wylde’s distinct brand of aggressive and rowdy metal rock, as well as a few soon to be classic power ballads. Zakk Wylde earned his stripes as lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, a job he began in 1987 and continues to work hard at today. Wylde has performed at several Ozzfests with Ozzy and with BLS.Tracklisting:1. Fire It Up2. What’s In You3. Suicide Messiah4. Forever Down5. In This River6. You Music Be Blind7. Death March8. Dr. Octavia9. Say What You Will10. Too Tough To Die11. Electric Hellfire12. Spread Your Wings13. Been A Long Time14. Dirt On The GraveReleased March 8, 2005 |
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Choral Society $12.49 Choral Society |
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Buildings and Society $53.95 Buildings and Society |
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Logic of Society $20 Logic of Society |
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Internet and Society $113 Internet and Society |
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Language And Society $59.93 Language And Society |
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Society in Focus $68.84 Society in Focus |
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Chemistry and Society $103.23 Chemistry and Society |
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A Society of Gentlemen $26.09 A Society of Gentlemen |
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Dress and Society $66.08 Dress and Society |
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Slaves to Society $14.57 Slaves to Society |
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A Greedy Society $11.93 A Greedy Society |
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Society Serenaders $13.61 Society Serenaders |
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Self and Society $67.95 Self and Society |
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Entertainment And Society $145.6 Entertainment And Society |
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Literature And Society $76.31 Literature And Society |
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Vietnamese Society $8.32 Vietnamese Society |
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Society 3.0 $26.09 Society 3.0 |
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Archaeology in Society $96.32 Archaeology in Society |
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Achieving Society $24.6 Achieving Society |
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Tourism & Society $31.6 Tourism & Society |
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Delinquency in Society $74.63 Delinquency in Society |
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Watchmaker Society $26.12 Watchmaker Society |
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Sleepwalking Society $17.13 Sleepwalking Society |
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Society of One $8.17 Society of One |
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Microbes And Society $88.81 Microbes And Society |
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The Good Society $56.15 The Good Society |
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Business & Society $177.67 Business & Society |
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Simulating Society $110.51 Simulating Society |
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Mauritian Society $5.59 Mauritian Society |
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Sports in Society $110.28 Sports in Society |
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Population And Society $56.75 Population And Society |
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Politicized Society $23.89 Politicized Society |
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Celebrity Society $119.47 Celebrity Society |
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A Society of States $11.61 A Society of States |
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Revenge on Society $12.59 Revenge on Society |
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Life in Society $30.01 Life in Society |
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Economy and Society $33.56 Economy and Society |
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Sports and Society $38.53 Sports and Society |
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Brand Society $74.67 Brand Society |
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Society’s Child $12.65 Society’s Child |
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Deschooling Society $11.16 Deschooling Society |
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Western Society $49.84 Western Society |
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Mennonite Society $28.8 Mennonite Society |
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Energy and Society $58.2 Energy and Society |
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The Technological Society $10.41 The Technological Society |
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Mystery Society $14.92 Mystery Society |
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Belizean Society $6.32 Belizean Society |
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The Hyperlinked Society $63.47 The Hyperlinked Society |
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Communication in Society $143.39 Communication in Society |
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Pain of Society $14.79 Pain of Society |
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Civil Society $56 Civil Society |
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The Dusk Society $8.95 The Dusk Society |
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Sufism and Society $93.33 Sufism and Society |
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Work and Society $115.73 Work and Society |
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Language in Society $29.87 Language in Society |
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Human Society $17.29 Human Society |
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Contemporary Society $103.04 Contemporary Society |
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Children and Society $37.29 Children and Society |
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Vice Society $19.79 Vice Society |
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Entertainment and Society $44.76 Entertainment and Society |
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Food in Society $62.69 Food in Society |
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Christianity and Society $119.47 Christianity and Society |
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Technology and Society $21.57 Technology and Society |
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Society and Nature $80.07 Society and Nature |
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American Society $50.09 American Society |
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The Body and Society $20.89 The Body and Society |
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Canadian Society $37.29 Canadian Society |
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Youth And Society $44.76 Youth And Society |
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The Society of Dread $5.21 The Society of Dread |
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Men And Society $67.16 Men And Society |
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Population and Society $44.76 Population and Society |
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Cyberculture And Society $44.76 Cyberculture And Society |
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A Society of Bees $15.67 A Society of Bees |
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Twisted Society $31.36 Twisted Society |
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The Chronoscopic Society $22.36 The Chronoscopic Society |
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Lawyers in Society $26.09 Lawyers in Society |
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Gambian Society $5.72 Gambian Society |
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The Confessing Society $97.07 The Confessing Society |
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A Prospering Society $59.69 A Prospering Society |
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The Mobile Society $55.96 The Mobile Society |
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The Ark Society $16.41 The Ark Society |
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The Society of Individuals $82.09 The Society of Individuals |
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Drugs and Society $86.57 Drugs and Society |
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Sex and Society $15.44 Sex and Society |
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An Ordered Society $23.89 An Ordered Society |
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Highest Society $27.85 Highest Society |
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Uncivil Society $63.08 Uncivil Society |
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Society Prints $8.84 Society Prints |
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Power and Society $126.89 Power and Society |
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The Donner Society $6.68 The Donner Society |
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Engineering And Society $41.07 Engineering And Society |
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Critics of Society $70.93 Critics of Society |
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The New Society $11.97 The New Society |
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Society Of The Spectacle $12.65 Society Of The Spectacle |
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Feudal Society $28.33 Feudal Society |
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Policing & Society $83.59 Policing & Society |
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The Royal Society $11.89 The Royal Society |
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Black Label Society – Order of the Black Songbook $22.99 Songbook contains note-for-note guitar transcriptions and tablature for the Order Of The Black album. |
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GUNNBEN SOCIETY: BEN GUNN SOCIETY $8.41 GUNNBEN SOCIETY: BEN GUNN SOCIETY |
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High Society [Original Broadway Cast] $11.18 This 1999 original cast recording of High Society features the talents of Melissa Errico, Daniel McDonald, Randy Graff, Stephen Bogardus, and John McMartin, under the musical direction of Paul Gemignani. Along with Cole Porter’s classic score, which features “Well, Did You Evah!” and “I Love Paris,” this version of High Society includes additional lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and debuts some of Porter’s songs — “Let’s Misbehave,” “You’re Sensational” and “True Love” — in a Broadway setting. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi Performers: Peter Donovan – String Bass; Clay Ruede – Cello; Dennis Anderson – Woodwind; Richard Brice – Viola; Ron Sell – French Horn; Scott Shacter – Woodwind; Andrew Schwartz – Banjo, Guitar; Bob Milikan – Trumpet; James Pugh – Trombone; Martin Agee – Violin; Nicholas Archer – Keyboards; Paul Ford – Keyboards; Rick Dolan – Violin; Suzanne Ornstein – Violin; Thad Wheeler – Percussion |
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Black Label Society : Order Of The Black $13.17 2010 release from former Ozzy guitarist Zakk Wylde and BLS. Order of the Black will feature Black Label at its best with frontman/lead axeman Wylde’s signature guitar virtuosity and howling vocals, as well as a propulsive rhythm section, courtesy of bass |
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Pure Energy: The Very Best of Information Society $8.78 A collection of re-recordings, remixes of re-recordings, and a couple original tracks from the lackluster Don’t Be Afraid, Pure Energy: The Very Best Of is at best an easy way to collect all the compilation appearances Information Society did for the Cleopatra label. Those looking for the original recordings should seek out the band’s recordings for the Tommy Boy label. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi Performers: Steven Seibold – Drums, Guitar |
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Outside Society: Looking Back 1975-2007 $10.17 Patti Smith won the National Book Award in the nonfiction category for Just Kids, her best-selling memoir about her years in the New York of the 1960s and ’70s, and her long intimate and collaborative relationship with her best friend, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The book was released in paperback earlier in 2011, and is currently being developed for a feature film with Smith working on the screenplay. Sony Legacy, in its turn, is focusing anew on her musical career: Outside Society is the first single-disc collection of her work to span both her Arista and Columbia years from 1975 through 2007. While Smith fans no doubt have everything contained here — of the 18 tracks collected , each album is represented — this disc serves as an excellent introduction to Smith’s ever evolving, non-compromising art which combines high-stakes poetry with rock & roll. While her two most familiar songs — “Because the Night” (written in collaboration with Bruce Springsteen) and her version of the Byrds’ So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star,” are here; so are other singles: “People Have the Power,” “Up There Down There,” “Dancing Barefoot,” and “Frederick.” In addition, her own signature version of Van Morrison’s “Gloria” is included, as are more unlikely selections like “Ain’t It Strange” and “Pissing in a River” from the highly controversial and enduringly visionary Radio Ethiopia album. Smith, however, is not an artist who can merely be relegated to the dustbin of rock’s gloried past, as more recent additions, such as “1959,” “Summer Cannibals,” the radio edit of “Lo and Beholden,” and the title track from Trampin’ attest. A nice addition to the set is the radio edit of her version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” recorded as a tribute to Kurt Cobain, which appeared on the album Twelve. The liner notes offer Smith’s own reflection on her songs. ~Thom Jurek, Rovi Performers: Rick Kiernan – Saw; Micahel Stipe – Vocals (Background); Wade Raley – Vocals (Background); Bruce Brody – Piano; Jeff Buckley – Vocals; John Cale – Organ; Tom Verlaine – Guitar, Guitar (Electric) |
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Static Society $10 Static Society – King Kooba |
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…And Justice for All $40.99 The most immediately noticeable aspect of …And Justice for All isn’t Metallica’s still-growing compositional sophistication or the apocalyptic lyrical portrait of a society in decay. It’s the weird, bone-dry production. The guitars buzz thinly, the drums click more than pound, and Jason Newsted’s bass is nearly inaudible. It’s a shame that the cold, flat sound obscures some of the sonic details, because …And Justice for All is Metallica’s most complex, ambitious work; every song is an expanded suite, with only two of the nine tracks clocking in at under six minutes. It takes a while to sink in, but given time, …And Justice for All reveals some of Metallica’s best material. It also reveals the band’s determination to pull out all the compositional stops, throwing in extra sections, odd-numbered time signatures, and dense webs of guitar arpeggios and harmonized leads. At times, it seems like they’re doing it simply because they can; parts of the album lack direction and probably should have been trimmed for momentum’s sake. Pacing-wise, the album again loosely follows the blueprint of Ride the Lightning, though not as closely as Master of Puppets. This time around, the fourth song — once again a ballad with a thrashy chorus and outro — gave the band one of the unlikeliest Top 40 singles in history; “One” was an instant metal classic, based on Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun and climaxing with a pulverizing machine-gun imitation. As a whole, opinions on …And Justice for All remain somewhat divided: some think it’s a slightly flawed masterpiece and the pinnacle of Metallica’s progressive years; others see it as bloated and overambitious. Either interpretation can be readily supported, but the band had clearly taken this direction as far as it could. The difficulty of reproducing these songs in concert eventually convinced Metallica that it was time for an overhaul. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi |
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1919 * Eternal $12.62 Prepare yourself for the ultimate statement from the premiere rock guitarist of our generation. Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society return with a spectacular new studio album, 1919 Eternal. An uncompromisingly heavy set of songs from Ozzy Osbourne’s favorite guitar-singer, this is the trio’s third album. 1919 Eternal was produced by Zakk himself, in conjunction with Black Label Society’s live sound engineer Eddie Mapp. Tracking took six weeks at Rumbo Recorders and Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Not only is the result the most pleasing Black Label set to date, it also sees the band fine-tuning their sound. Hardcore fans will be thrilled by enormous bone-crunchers like Demise Of Sanity and Battering Ram along with the album’s first single Bleed For Me , but Wylde adds new tones to his riffing on the likes of Lords Of Destruction. The ballad Bridge To Cross only serves to highlight the diversity on display. Though he is indisputably one of the world’s last remaining rock star personalities, Zakk Wylde eschews self-promotion and indeed self-examination as much as possible. To him, 1919 Eternal is just the latest Black Label Society record. Take it or leave it. |
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A Fingerstyle Summit with Adrian Legg, Martin Simpson & Ed Gerhard $29.65 New – Performance instructions from guitar ledgends Adrian Legg, Martin Simpson and Ed Gerhard are as informative as they are entertaining. These fingerstyle masters discuss arranging, composing, technique, tone and even the guitar’s place in American society. Running time: 1 hour 12 minutes. |
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Aardvark $10.98 Used – In the Beginning Was the Word. And the Word was . AARDVARK is a novel about a Cambridge University-based rock band, ANDY CHRIST and THE AARDVARKS, who wage war against themselves and society, and collectively self-destruct in the lead-up to 9/11. The band consist of a self-loathing punk, a crash-and-burn, amphetamine-laden Irish Republican, a cocaine-snorting aristocrat, his gang-banging dealer, and the geek on lead guitar – the only one who can actually play anything. What they lack in t |
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Abdel Wright $1 With an acoustic guitar and a song-based approach, Wright flies in the face of reggae’s current dancehall fascination and hip-hop obsession with sex, drugs and materialism. In politically-charged songs like Quicksand, Human Behavior, Loose We Now and Dust Under Carpet, Wright sings about relevant global issues: government oppression, the high cost of healthcare, the lack of suitable housing and education, poverty and the hypocrisy of the political and religious establishments. The themes are worldwide, even though it all starts with Jamaican culture, explains Wright. But it applies everywhere there are police forces using violence to keep society in shackles. There are people with an inability to pay the rent, living in the gutter, everywhere even in America, one of the richest countries in the world. In addition to its political charge, Wright’s debut is also autobiographical. In Issues, he sings about his troubled upbringing, noting his decision to spend the few dollars he had left at one point on strings for his guitar even though he was practically starving. My Decision is a playful tune about searching the whole, wide world for a good girl. I want to play my music for people everywhere, he says. Send me to Greenland with the Eskimos in their igloos, and I’ll play for them. I want to keep spreading the word until I drop dead. |
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Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live!! $17.98 Former Ozzy Osbourne axe-slinger Zakk Wylde rose to international guitar acclaim for the better part of the 1990s after helping co-author Ozzy’s No Rest for the Wicked, No More Tears, and Ozzmosis. From there, Wylde formed Pride and Glory, a Southern-fried combo that released a disc and then yielded the hammer and thunder of Black Label Society, whose incorrigible, heavyweight riffs and rhythms are showcased here on the band’s completely live, un-overdubbed Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live!! Most of the material resides somewhere between the chugging, lugubrious redneck metal of Pantera and labelmates Crowbar, and the more Southern approach of latter-day Corrosion of Conformity — in other words, super-heavy, down-tuned riffage. What obviously sets this apart is Wylde’s lightning-fast leads and sheer six-string ability. The songs may be little more than basic collections of riffs, and Wylde far too often entreats the crowd to “make some f*cking noise!” but this is a testosterone-fueled sound often rejected by the mainstream press and heartily embraced by an aggressive listenership. Black Label Society does this as well as anyone out there, and it’s heartening to see four guys on a stage hammering it out, riff by riff, beat by beat. Add Wylde’s raw, bluesy baritone — at times reminiscent of Jerry Cantrell or Layne Staley — on top of that, and you’ve got a hearty meal. The second disc treats the listener to five slightly quieter, somewhat acoustic tunes, including a cover of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.” ~ Patrick Kennedy, Rovi |
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All That Remains Reloaded [CD/DVD] $13.98 Now that wrestler Chris Jericho’s metal band, Fozzy, has issued its third release in five years, All That Remains, the detractors who initially viewed the group as merely a “bit of fun” will be silenced. There’s no denying that the group has grown into a powerful metal band in the style of Black Label Society, with extra added elements of ’80s-era heavy metal. Once more, in addition to all the brawn, Jericho proves to be a very capable (and powerful) metal singer, as evidenced by the Pantera-esque album opener, “Nameless Faceless.” But probably most impressive of all is the guitar work. For the most part, unashamedly shredding guitar solos fell by the wayside for many metal bands in the early ’90s, but Fozzy guitarist Rich Ward proves to be an exception throughout All That Remains, as he lets his fingers fly like it was 1989. And while Ward has no problem supplying guitar pyrotechnics himself, Fozzy call on two of metal’s most respected guitarists to lend a hand — Ozzy Osbourne/Black Label Society’s Zakk Wylde on “Wanderlust” and ex-Megadeth/Cacophony’s Marty Friedman on “Born of Anger.” With All That Remains, Fozzy should now finally be taken seriously by headbangers worldwide. [Ash's 2008 edition included a bonus DVD.] ~ Greg Prato, Rovi |
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American Pearl $56.05 With sweat glistening off his tattooed chest under the hot lights of the Viper Room, Kevin Roentgen wails the lyrics to California with a distinctive, ultra-powerful voice and presence that rivals the fervor of the late Bon Scott. The packed club sings along with aggressive American Pearl favorites such as Automatic and sways to the quieter, but no less intense, strains of Bleed as guitarist Kevin Quinn adds his distinctive tones to the band’s driving, precise rhythms. You don’t have to be afraid to say you’re in a rock band anymore, says Roentgen (pronounced rent-gen ), a Los Angeles native who paid his dues and then some on the city’s fickle rock scene. Me and everybody I know have always played rock, though some steered off to the side. I was always stubborn and kept on rocking and now it’s come around to us, the singer notes of American Pearl’s recent signing to Wind-up Records, home to multi-platinum act Creed as well as finger eleven. From forming in late ’97, to playing with the Cult and Buckcherry, to signing with Wind-up and playing Woodstock ’99, American Pearl’s story may seem to an outsider like an overnight success, but the L.A.-bred quartet have earned their stripes, often the hard way. Kevin Quinn and I have known each other for like six years relates Roentgen, whose thoughtful and honest lyrics reflect hard living and lessons learned in the underbelly of Hollywood. He tattooed me a bunch of times and he’d come to see my old band; we had a mutual admiration society. When I was looking for a band, he’d decided to pick up the guitar again. The inception of American Pearl was here, Roentgen explains, gesturing around Quinn’s well-known and respected Sunset Boulevard tattoo shop, a spitting distance from where Divine Brown and Hugh Grant rendezvoused, the famed Sunset Grill and Guns ‘n’ Roses’ former rehearsal room. The new band took their name from their songs Savior (formerly American Savior ) and the tune Automatic Pearl . |
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Authentic Dixieland: Guitar/Banjo $19.94 Used – Contents: Basin Street Blues * Copenhagen * The Darktown Strutters’ Ball * Fidgety Feet * High Society * Muskrat Ramble * National Emblem * Panama * Sensation * South Rampart Street Parade * Wabash Blues. |
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Authentic Dixieland: Guitar/Banjo $19.94 Used – Contents: Basin Street Blues * Copenhagen * The Darktown Strutters’ Ball * Fidgety Feet * High Society * Muskrat Ramble * National Emblem * Panama * Sensation * South Rampart Street Parade * Wabash Blues. |
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Bachata Roja: Amor Y Amargue $16.98 Upon its original issue in 2007, the compilation Bachata Roja: Amor y Amargue on iASO Records touched off an international sensation, resulting in a North American tour of musicians Edilio Paredes, Augusto Santos, Ramon Cordero, Ramon Cabrera (aka El Chivo Sin Ley), and Leonardo Paniagua with a backing band from the Dominican Republic. These five names were the performance collective known as Lunes de Amargue, who moved bachata music from the margins of Dominican society to its mainstream. Renowned musicologist and author Ned Sublette defines “the essential quality of bachata to be ‘amargue,’ literally, bitterness.” Sublette continues: “But it can be a nostalgic, melancholic pain that makes you feel better, like the blues, or what in Portuguese is called ‘saudade.’ Thus the literal translation here is Red Bachata: Love and Bitterness.” This selection of 16 tracks recorded between the early ’60s and the early ’80s — often recorded live in a room with a single microphone on very primitive gear — captures that essence perfectly. Everything here is almost unbearably romantic, and the poetry of the lyrics is illustrated beautifully by astonishing guitar playing, guira and bongo accompaniment, and entrancing basslines. At the heart of almost every song here is either Paredes’ or Santos’ guitar playing, underscoring, punctuating, accenting, and challenging the lyrics and drums. The singing is emotionally expressive — particularly from Paniagua, Ram? n Torres, Marino P? rez, and Juan Batista. Album standouts are many, and “Con el Amor No Se Jegua,” Santos’ excellent first single as a vocalist and bandleader, is an entry point. The dancelike intensity of songs such as “Yo Soy Puro Amor” by Cordero and Santos is infectious, despite melancholic subject matter. Daniel Morillo’s big dance hit “La Puerta Romper? ” is here, as is the gloriously sad “La Cruz de Olvidado” by Paniagua and the achingly beautiful ballad “A Donde Andar? ” by Antonio Gomez Salcedo. C… |
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Best of Black Label Society $15.15 New – This collection of 12 songs from Zakk Wylde’s band includes 12 note-for-note transcriptions with guitar tab: All for You * Bleed for Me * The Blessed Hellride * Counterfeit God * Lords of Destruction * Lost My Better Half * Speedball * Stillborn * Stoned and Drunk * Stronger Than Death * Suffering Overdue * Superterrorizer. Also includes 7 bonus tracks on CD: Low Down * All for You * Superterrorizer * Bleed for Me * Lords of Destruction * The Blessed Hellride * Stoned and Drunk. Includes 7 |
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Best of Black Label Society $6 Used – This collection of 12 songs from Zakk Wylde’s band includes 12 note-for-note transcriptions with guitar tab: All for You * Bleed for Me * The Blessed Hellride * Counterfeit God * Lords of Destruction * Lost My Better Half * Speedball * Stillborn * Stoned and Drunk * Stronger Than Death * Suffering Overdue * Superterrorizer. Also includes 7 bonus tracks on CD: Low Down * All for You * Superterrorizer * Bleed for Me * Lords of Destruction * The Blessed Hellride * Stoned and Drunk. Includes |
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Black Label Society ( Wylde, Zakk ) – Black Label Society ( Wylde, Zakk ) – Blac $15.09 DTS Sound – Black Label Society is the brain child of guitar great Zakk Wylde; bastard child of Black Sabbath, pumped up on steroids. THis DVD captures BLS live on their sold out European tour last… |
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Black Label Society – 1919 Eternal $13.49 Personnel includes: Zakk Wylde (vocals, guitar, bass); Robert Trujillo (bass); Christian Werr, Craig Nunenmacher (drums). Recorded at… |
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Black Label Society – Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live!! CD $16.59 Former Ozzy Osbourne axe-slinger Zakk Wylde rose to international guitar acclaim for the better part of the 1990s after helping co-author Ozzy’s No Rest for the Wicked, No More Tears, and Ozzmosis…. |
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Black Label Society – Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live!! [PA] $14.99 Black Label Society: Zakk Wylde (vocals, guitar); Nick Catanese (guitar); SOB (bass); Craig Nunenmacher (drums). Personnel: Zakk Wylde… |
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Black Label Society – Best of Black Label Society – Book/CD set $22.95 Performed by: Black Label Society: Best of Black Label Society Book/CD set, scoring: Guitar Tab;Guitar/Vocal, instruments: Guitar;Voice; 86 pages |
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Black Label Society – Black Label Society – Black Label Society Guitar Technique $22.09 Learn the guitar styles and techniques of Zakk Wylde with this 2 DVD set. Each guitar part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. An in-depth analysis of 8 songs is included. Starrin… |
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Black Label Society – Crazy Horse – Guitar Guru File $7.25 Performed by: Black Label Society: Crazy Horse Guitar Guru File – instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Guitar Tab;Guitar/Vocal, instruments: Voice;Guitar 1;Guitar 2; 7 pages |
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Black Label Society – Darkest Days – Guitar Guru File $7.25 Performed by: Black Label Society: Darkest Days Guitar Guru File – instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Guitar Tab;Guitar/Vocal, instruments: Voice;Guitar 1;Guitar 2;Guitar 3;Backup Vocals;Strum; 5 pages |
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Black Label Society – Guitar Legendary Licks DVD $29.95 Series: DVD Publisher: Cherry Lane Music Medium: DVD Artist: Black Label Society Author: Danny Gill Artist: Zakk Wylde Learn the guitar styles and techniques of Zakk Wylde with this two-disc set. Each guitar part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. An in-depth analysis of eight songs. |
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Black Label Society – Guitar Legendary Licks DVD $29.95 Learn the guitar styles and techniques of Zakk Wylde with this two-disc set. Each guitar part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. An in-depth analysis of eight songs, including: Suicide Messiah • The Blessed Hellride • Stillborn • and more. 2-DVD set. |
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Black Label Society – Kings of Damnation: Era 1998-2004 [PA] $14.99 Personnel: Zakk Wylde (vocals, guitar, piano, bass guitar); Nick “ET” Catanese (guitar); James LoMenzo (bass guitar); Craig Nunemacher… |
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Black Label Society – Parade of the Dead – Sheet Music (Digital Download) $5.25 Performed by: Black Label Society: Parade of the Dead Digital Sheetmusic – instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Guitar/Vocal;Guitar Tab, instruments: Voice;Guitar 1;Guitar 2; 7 pages |
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Black Label Society – Shot to Hell $14.99 Black Label Society: Zakk Wylde (vocals, guitar, piano, bass guitar); Nick “ET” Catanese (guitar); John “J.D.” DeServio (bass guitar);… |
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Black Label Society – Skullage [Clean] $13.49 Personnel: Zakk Wylde (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); James LoMenzo (vocals, bass guitar, background vocals); Nick “ET” Catanese… |
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Black Label Society – The Blessed Hellride $13.49 Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society: Zakk Wylde (vocals, guitar, piano, bass); Craig Nunenmacher (drums). Additional personnel: Ozzy… |
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Black Label Society – The Song Remains Not the Same $9.99 Personnel: Zakk Wylde (vocals, guitar, piano); Will Hunt (drums); John DeServio (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Adam Klumpp; John… |
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Blood for Blood – Revenge on Society $13.49 Personnel: White Rob (vocals, guitar); Erick Medina (vocals); Mike Mahoney (drums). Audio Mixer: Jim Siegel. Recording information:… |
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Blues in the Wind $115.49 First-time novelist LeBlanc has created a saga of the birth of the blues. In 1930s Louisiana, Phillip Fergerson’s plans to become a doctor end when he falls for the beautiful light-skinned Martha. After marriage, they struggle to raise their children in a prejudiced world, forming different ideas of where they belong in society.Enter Martha’s brother, Lightfoot. As he plays his harmonica in the juke joints, he witnesses the birth of the blues and joins in its creation. Living legends, from Leadbelly to Robert Johnson, appear in the narrative, which is as spellbinding as a soulful song on an old guitar. To Martha’s shame, Lightfoot tempts Phillip and the children with musical expressions of their emotions. All the characters must choose between society’s rules or their need to follow their hearts. |
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BluesCaravan – Pilgrimage: Mississippi to Memphis [Digipak] $9.99 Personnel: Aynsley Lister (vocals, guitar, bass instrument); Will Dawson (rap vocals); James Mathus & His Knockdown Society (trombone);… |
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Boulder Acoustic Society – Punchline $15.99 Personnel: Aaron & Nicole Keim, Aaron Keim (vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, ukulele, cornet, alto horn, upright bass); Kailin… |
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Brand New Sin [Enhanced] $11.99 Brand New Sin’s self-titled debut is an example of everything that is right about hard rock in 2002. Brutal guitar riffs injected with lethal doses of blues, gritty vocal hooks, and thunderous drum beats abound on this album, as Brand New Sin goes to great lengths to prove that rock is not dead and is in store for a solid kick in the caboose. Mixing equal parts Guns N’ Roses, Pantera, and Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society, these six men churn out thick blasts of molten heaviness that tread the thine line between intense hard rock and the dirtiest Southern metal imaginable. It is surprising how refreshing Brand New Sin’s music is, considering hard rock is not a new trend. Yet while the 12 songs presented aren’t the most innovative, they bridge the gap between rockers of yesteryear such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and Black Sabbath with the more modern swamp rock of Down and C.O.C., scoring with a collection of songs that should appeal to any fan of hard rock, young and old alike. Frontman Joe Altier’s prominent vocals are infectious yet grimy all at once, swerving past the pitfalls of hitting melodic notes and delivering in-your-face mosh pit-inducing rock at its finest. The triple guitar onslaught is an amazing feat, yet never does Brand New Sin sound cluttered or overbearing with the surging riffs. The group features former members of Godbelow, who also managed to make quite a buzz during their time together, yet these six men have found themselves a new haven of heaviness in Brand New Sin, and have accomplished what some may think impossible, offering an album of crunchy guitar rock that is capable of remaining relevant amidst the hip-hop/metal and self-loathing of the nu-metal scene. [The Enhanced Edition includes bonus video material on CD-ROM.] ~ Jason D. Taylor, Rovi |
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Bringing Metal To The Children $24.99 In this ultimate guide to Heavy Metal, the wild prankster and guitar god of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society fame invites all who dare onto the tour bus for tales of glory, debauchery, and general mayhem. |
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Cosita Buena $25.98 Orishas, a trio of Cuban expatriates living in Europe, continue to refine their Latin fusion style on Cosita Buena, their fourth album of all-new material. The group began as a Latin rap quartet, releasing its groundbreaking album debut, A Lo Cubano, in 2000, a couple years before reggaeton would begin charting a more or less similar course, fusing tropical rhythms with urban beats and raps. What made A Lo Cubano so groundbreaking at the time of its release was not only its socially conscious world-view, giving voice to a group of thoughtful Afro-Cubans who had left the confines of Cuban society behind in favor of Europe and its cultural openness, but also its fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms and melodies with hip-hop. The problem for some fans of A Lo Cubano, of which there are legion, is that Orishas departed ever further from the Latin rap style of that debut album with each subsequent full-length effort. The socially conscious world-view remained firmly in place, thankfully, as did the group’s Afro-Cuban roots. However, as Orishas refined their musical fusion with each subsequent album — drawing from a wider range of musical styles, and adding more instrumentation and singing to their songs — their propensity for fusion began to supplant their identity as a Latin rap group. That’s certainly the case on Cosita Buena, an album on which the raps of Ruzzo and Yotuel, once front and center, seem increasingly secondary. Front and center on Cosita Buena are Rold? n, whose melodic singing and choruses are the driving force behind most of the songs, as well as the musical productions, which are wonderfully dynamic, featuring everything from hip-hop beats, turntable scratching, horn blasts, fat basslines, and tight rhythms to additional layers of strings and guitar. Moreover, the productions vary from song to song, giving each a different feel; take for instance the standout songs “Cosita Buena,” “Bruja,” “Camina,” “Machete,” and “Hip Hop Conga,” each markedly … |
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Dean Markley 8831 Evil Twin Shotgun Electric Guitar Strings $6.99 Black Label Society guitarist and Evil Twin Nick Catanese has recently joined the ranks of Dean Markley Strings’ Endorsing Artists. Catanese shares Black Label Society’s stage with the guitarist Zakk Wylde. The guitarist and Markley have developed a strong working relationship, resulting in the collaborative development of a package and guitar string set utilizing Catanese’s specific gauges (.010 .013 .017 .036 .052 .060). These Dean Markley Nick Catanese strings, the Evil Twin Shotgun Set, are now available. Dean Markley has the best tone and quality of any string I have played; and I have tried a lot of brands, comments Catanese. Dean Markley is superior to them all and without having a locking tremolo, the strings on my guitar stay in tune without a flaw. |
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EMG EMG-ZW Zakk Wylde 81/85 Humbucker Set Black $199 With scorching riffs and remarkable stage presence, Zakk Wylde has earned his reputation as heavy metal’s premier lead guitarist. From Ozzy Osbourne, Pride and Glory, and now Black Label Society, Zakk has always used EMG active pickups. The Zakk Wylde model features the EMG-85 and EMG-81, as used on his signature bull’s-eye Les Paul guitar. Installation is literally a snap it’s solderless, just use the included Quck-connect cables.EMG-85Although the EMG-85 pickup has more measurable output than the 81, its frequency response and string interface are different. The 85 uses two Alnico magnet-loaded coils with a wide aperture to maintain a beefy low end and a fatter top end. Because of a more natural tone, it works great as a rhythm and blues pickup because it has loads of output but isn’t muddy. It’s a perfect choice as a rhythm pickup in combination with an 81 in the bridge.The midrange has great definition and doesn’t get foggy or muddy in the rhythm position. The EMG-85 works best if you like the natural distortion that comes from overdriving the front end of your amp. Under any condition, the humbucker responds accurately to your technique.EMG-81The EMG-81 pickup is a high-output pickup designed especially for the lead guitarist. The 81 is at its best for high volume overdrive and amps with a master volume. Whether you’re playing power rock ‘n’ roll, or overdriving your amp, there’s a razor sharp attack, and incredible sustain for brilliant soloing. If you’re looking for exceptional qualities in a rock pickup, the EMG-81 is the one.Distortion during lead passages is consistent, sustain is long and the breakup fades smoothly. The ceramic magnet in combination with wide aperture steel poles lend a quick attack but the tone stays nice and fat at the same time. Perfect if you’re the only guitarist in the band, and need to switch from rhythm to lead and still keep the band moving. Another great thing about the EMG-81 humbucker is it’s quiet. If you’re playing at |
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Electro-Voice EVM-12L Black Label 12 Speaker 8 Ohm $229 The original EVM12L 12 loudspeaker was introduced in 1983. Known for its huge tone, gorgeous low-end and incredible stability at extreme volumes, it quickly achieved legendary status. Top guitarists and bassists loved it not only for its sound, but also for its reliability. Tour after tour, the EVM 12L held up to the demands of the most punishing players.Enter the EVM-12L Black Label, the official guitar loudspeaker of Zakk Wylde and Black Label Society. Take the EVM-12L, add Zakk’s personal specs (improved power handling, improved magnet design, better venting, and the Black Label colors), and now you have the greatest guitar loudspeaker in the world. Wanna argue with Zakk on that? I didn’t think so. 300W power handlingRedesigned magnet sructure100dB Sensitivity8 ohms80-7000Hz frequency responseMassive low end |
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Enon – High Society $11.99 Enon: John Schmersal (vocals, guitar, compasphere); Toko Yasuda (vocals, piano, synthesizer, bass); Rick Lee (guitar, keyboards, bass);… |
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Enon – High Society $14.49 Enon: John Schmersal (vocals, guitar, compasphere); Toko Yasuda (vocals, piano, synthesizer, bass); Rick Lee (guitar, keyboards, bass);… |
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Fallen Angels (Washington, D.C.) – The Great Society Sucks: Halloween 1968 $15.99 Personnel: Jack Bryant (vocals); Wally Cook (guitar); Howard Danchik (keyboards); John Malloy (drums). |
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Flat Earth Society (’60s Psychedelia) – Waleeco $14.99 Flat Earth Society (’60s Psychedelia): Phil Dubuque (vocals, guitar, recorder); Kyle Garrahan, Ted Myers (vocals, guitar); Walter Powers… |
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Flat Earth Society (Belgian Big Band) – Cheer Me, Perverts! [Slimline] $13.49 Personnel: Pierre Vervloesem (guitar); Bruno Vansina (flute, baritone saxophone); Wim Willaert (accordion, keyboards); Tom Wouters… |
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For Lovers, Dreamers & Me $9.96 Alice Smith has the voice of a soul singer: a four-octave range and remarkable control, versatility, and emotion. And yet, or maybe because of this, her songs hardly fall into the soul, or even neo-soul, category. Instead, they circle from rock to blues to pop to R&B to jazz, never settling fully into one before a new chord, a new phrase, or a new verse will change the feel completely. “Woodstock,” for example, starts off with a soft organ and an India.Arie-esque guitar, then switches a funk groove for the chorus, then segues to the verse with the band quoting “Blister in the Sun,” and yet somehow still works really, really well. In fact, the music and the production on all of For Lovers, Dreamers & Me are fantastic, intricate, and layered while still retaining individual instrumental subtleties (the plucked strings on “Fake Is the New Real,” the forlorn trumpet in the chorus of “Desert Song”), adding the right amount of whimsy, ingenuity, passion, and technique to accent Smith’s voice perfectly. Because it is her voice that makes her debut so compelling and fantastic. It’s commanding, almost explosive in “New Religion”; it moves around in its lower register with grace and agility on “Love Endeavor”; it’s sultry and sad in “Do I,” suspended over high notes and sunk calmly around the bass as if it doesn’t even notice where it is, what it’s been doing. Yet clearly it’s focused, and its movements are anything but arbitrary. Smith is more than aware of the power she houses in her chest and throat, and when long smooth tones don’t do quite enough to convey the sadness or anger or passion or regret in her lyrics, she isn’t afraid to spit or growl or slur if that’s what it takes to get her point across. And so while overall For Lovers, Dreamers & Me may be positive and confident and even sentimental at times, there’s the everyday human struggle, the pain of love, the falsity in contemporary society, within it as well. That added introspection makes it more… |
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From a Distance: (Piano/ Vocal/ Guitar) $12.37 Used – Taking as its base the well-known song by Ju lie Gold, this gift book contains an underlying message abou t the importance of peace in today”s war-ridden society. ‘ |
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From a Distance: (Piano/ Vocal/ Guitar) $12.37 Used – Taking as its base the well-known song by Ju lie Gold, this gift book contains an underlying message abou t the importance of peace in today”s war-ridden society. ‘ |
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Great American Marches, Polkas & Grand Concert Waltzes for Acoustic Guitar $14.95 American fingerstyle guitar had its true beginnings with parlor room guitarists in the 19th century who cultivated a written musical tradition modeled after that of European guitarists. Polite society of the time enjoyed stylized society ballroom dances including marches, polkas, and waltzes. The works selected for this anthology represent the best of American parlor-salon guitar music. Several of the composers presented here, such as William Foden, Charles DeJanon, and William O. Bateman, are gradually becoming familiar to a new generation of fingerstyle guitarists interested in the classic guitar”s American past. Written in notation and tablature. Audio available online. |
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Hangover Music, Vol. VI $13.98 Alice in Chains’ shadow has grown longer as post-grunge settles into homogeny. Every outfit from Godsmack to Soil claims them as an influence; Staind’s Aaron Lewis even wrote “Layne” in tribute to the band’s departed frontman. Zakk Wylde throws his own goatee into that ring with Black Label Society’s Hangover Music, Vol. 6, a largely acoustic album that recalls both Jar of Flies and Wylde’s own Book of Shadows. He handles vocals, piano, and acoustic duties himself, also contributing the occasional display of electric guitar wizardry just to remind listeners of where he came from. Ozzy’s influence looms at least as large as Alice in Chains — he and his family are thanked prominently in the liner notes, and material like the ballad “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” sounds like it could have been written for him. (Wylde also offers his own tribute to Staley, also called “Layne.”) Hangover Music’s restraint is admirable, considering Wylde’s fretboard prowess; in fact, the album’s pretty damn mellow. “Won’t Find It Here” cops the melody from U2′s “One,” while standouts “Crazy or High” and “Queen of Sorrow” feature wails from Wylde’s electric over Southern rock-influenced acoustic licks and a rhythm section that includes Crowbar drummer Craig Nunenmacher. “Takillya (Estyabon)” is a brief burst of acoustic fretboard magic, and the piano-led “Woman Don’t Cry” finds Wylde shelving his normally tortured moan in favor of a heartfelt croon comparable to Axl Rose on G N’ R Lies. It makes the track one of the album’s highlights, since Wylde’s vocals on the majority of Hangover Music suggest he’s a much better guitar player than he is a singer. Still, fans eager for fiery guitar work will enjoy “House of Doom,” which joins the lighter “No Other” as the most obvious Alice in Chains tributes (barring “Layne,” of course). Hangover Music, Vol. 6 also includes an earnest, solo piano version of the Procol Harum classic rock radio fave “Whiter Shade of Pale.” ~ J… |
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Hayes Carll $67 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joshua Hayes Carll (born January 9, 1976), known as Hayes Carll, is a Texas Country from The Woodlands, Texas (a Houston suburb). He is currently signed to Lost Highway Records. Carll got his first guitar at age 15. He began writing songs influenced by Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Jack Kerouac and Dead Poets Society. After graduating last in his cla |
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High Contrast – High Society $14.49 Personnel: Terri Pace, Nolay (vocals); Mike Shankleman (guitar); Dynamite MC, Spoonface (vocals); Tomahawk (spoken vocals). DJ: High… |
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High Flight Society – High Flight Society $13.49 High Flight Society: MICHAEL PACKER (guitar); John Packer (bass guitar); Scotty Lockridge (drums); Jason Wilkes (background… |
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High Society – I Never Go Out in the Rain $17.99 Personnel: Simon Bishop (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Richard Hudson (vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums); John… |
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Inferno Friendship So / World – Addicted To Bad Ideas CD $10.99 The World/Inferno Friendship Society: Lucky Strano (guitar); Hubert ‘Iron Man’ Chen (violin); Pat Muchmore (cello); Raja Najib Azar (accordion); Maura Corrigan (alto saxophone); Ken Thomson (barito… |
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Information Society – Don’t Be Afraid [Remastered] [Bonus Tracks] $11.99 Personnel: Steven Seibold (guitar, drums, programming); Fred Maher (guitar); Kurt Harland (programming). Audio Mixers: Fred Maher; Kurt… |
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Information Society – Pure Energy: The Very Best of Information Society $10.99 Personnel: Steven Seibold (guitar, drums). Audio Mixers: Kurt Harland; Steven Seibold. Audio Remixers: Claus Larsen; Effcee; Larry… |
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Jackson, Ronald Shannon – When Colors Play CD $16.59 Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society: Ronald Shannon Jackson (drums); Eric Person (soprano & alto saxophones); Zane Massey (soprano & tenor saxophones); Cary Denigris, Masujaa (guitar); Jo… |
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Janis Ian Songbook: Guitar Songbook Edition $134.69 Used – Janis Ian endures as one of the most important composer-performers of our time. She stands as a unique talent who has received Grammy Award Nominations in the ’60s, the ’70s, the ’80s, and the ’90s. Titles in this 26-song folio include: Society’s Child * At Seventeen * Jesse * Honor Them All * All Roads to the River * Amsterdam * Fly Too High * From Me to You * Getting Over You * Ride Me Like a Wave * Searching for America * Silly Habits * Stars * Take No Prisoner * Tattoo * The Other Sid |
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Johnny Society – Clairvoyance $13.49 Johnny Society: Kenny Siegal (vocals, guitar, piano, harpsichord); Brian Geltner (guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, background… |
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Johnny Society – Coming to Get You $13.49 Johnny Society: Gwen Snyder (bass guitar); Kenny Siegal, Brian Geltner. Personnel: Kenny Siegal (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Brian… |
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Johnny Society – Life Behind the 21st Century Wall $11.99 Johnny Society: Kenny Siegal (vocals, guitar, banjo, keyboards, bass); Brian Geltner (guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, background… |
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Johnny Society – Wood $13.49 Personnel: Kenny Siegal (vocals, guitar, bass, organ, Mellotron, Optigan, piano); Chris Whitley (dobro, vocals); Bryce Goggin (piano,… |
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Josh White: Society Blues $14.41 Used – A gifted and charismatic entertainer, Josh White (1914-1969) was one of the best-known folk-blues artists of his day. In the early 1960s, one survey ranked him as America’s third most popular male folksinger, surpassed only by Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. He appeared on national television, performed at numerous college concerts and club dates, and released several dozen albums — all featuring his distinctive guitar style, supple voice, and unique showmanship.In this compelling biography, |
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Lizzy Borden – Menace to Society $11.99 Personnel: Lizzy Borden (vocals, background vocals); Alex Nelson (guitar, background vocals); Gene Allen (guitar); Joey Scott Harges… |
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Mutual Admiration Society – Mutual Admiration Society $14.99 Mutual Admiration Society: Glen Phillips (vocals, guitar); Chris Thile, Sean Watkins, Sara Watkins . Personnel: Sean Watkins (vocals,… |
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New Idea Society – Somehow Disappearing $12.99 Lyricist: Mike Law. Personnel: Mike Law (vocals, guitar, percussion); Chris DeAngelis (piano, organ, synthesizer); Alan Cage… |
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New Idea Society – The World Is Bright And Lonely $12.99 Personnel: Stephen Brodsky (guitar, banjo, percussion); Kurt Ballou (guitar); Chris DeAngelis (melodica, electric piano, organ,… |
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New Orleans Jazz for Fingerstyle Guitar $13.99 New – New Orleans Jazz is the American music that took the country by storm and spread from there. Titles include: Original Dixieland One-Step, Mabels Dream, High Society, Folies Du Carnaval, Easy Money: A Ragtime Sonata, Roberto Clemente, Goose Pimples, and Over in the Gloryland/Just a Little While to Stay Here. Written in standard notation and tablature with performance notes and suggested chords. |
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New Orleans Jazz for Fingerstyle Guitar [With CD] $22.95 New Orleans Jazz is the American music that took the country by storm and spread from there. Titles include: Original Dixieland One-Step, Mabels Dream, High Society, Folies Du Carnaval, Easy Money: A Ragtime Sonata, Roberto Clemente, Goose Pimples, and Over in the Gloryland/Just a Little While to Stay Here. Written in standard notation and tablature with performance notes and suggested chords. |
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New Society of Anarchists – Street Wise $11.99 Personnel: Zakk Z. (vocals); Arlo Z. (guitar); Auggie Z. (drums). Audio Mixer: Paul Karcz. Recording information: Triple Six Studios,… |
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Nick Vigarino – Temptation Road CD $17.55 Winner – 2007 Best Acoustic Blues Guitar, 2006 Best Slide Guitar – Washington Blues Society Best of the Blues “That slide is naaasty!!” – Bo Diddley “Vigarino radiates an unpredictable fervor w… |
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North Mississippi Allstars – Hernando $15.99 Personnel: Cody Dickinson (vocals, guitar, drums, washboard); Luther Dickinson (vocals, guitar); James Mathus & His Knockdown Society,… |
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Nostalgia 77 – The Sleepwalking Society $11.98 Personnel: Josa Peit (vocals); Benedic Lamdin (guitar, organ, percussion); Kaz Simmons (guitar); Natalie Rosario (cello); Mark Hanslip… |
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Order of the Black $27.98 Black Label Society have a new drummer for 2010? s Order of the Black, but the overall big picture hasn? t changed much for Zakk Wylde? s Southern-fried metalheads: they? re still an unholy cocktail of Skynyrd, Sabbath, and Metallica, all the sounds that fuel a white trash night out. Wylde does have a tendency to growl like Axl Rose when he slows thing down for a piano ballad, but that downshift doesn? t happen that often: Black Label Society are as close as you can get to unapologetic heavy guitar rock in the 21st century, holding true to the power of two guitars, bass, drums, and overwhelming amplification. Songs don? t necessarily stick but riffs do, as do Wylde? s dexterous solos, which pull off a tricky thing — they? re breakneck but have a bluesy, almost soulful, undertow. The only real affectation the band has is Wylde? s exaggerated growl, something that grows wearisome over the course of an album, but as pure music, Black Label Society remain as effective as they ever were on Order of the Black. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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Palm Beach Society Orchestra – When You’re Smiling $10.99 Personnel: Pat Doyle (leader, drums); Harold Johnson (vocals, trombone); Bob Leary (vocals, guitar); Michelle Amato (vocals); Alan… |
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Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan $35 Many American folk singers have striven to leave their world a better place by writing songs of social protest. Musicians like Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez sang with fierce moral voices as they tried to relieve human suffering and transform what they saw as an uncaring society. But the personal tales of these guitar-toting idealists were often more tangled than the comparatively pure vision their art would suggest. Many singers produced work in the midst of personal failure and deeply troubled relationships, and under the influence of radical ideas and organizations. This provocative work examines both the long tradition of folk music in its American political context, and the lives of those troubadours who wrote its most enduring songs. |
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Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan $29.98 New – Many American folk singers have striven to leave their world a better place by writing songs of social protest. Musicians like Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez sang with fierce moral voices as they tried to relieve human suffering and transform what they saw as an uncaring society. But the personal tales of these guitar-toting idealists were often more tangled than the comparatively pure vision their art would suggest. Many singers produced work in the midst |
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Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan $29.98 Used – Many American folk singers have striven to leave their world a better place by writing songs of social protest. Musicians like Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez sang with fierce moral voices as they tried to relieve human suffering and transform what they saw as an uncaring society. But the personal tales of these guitar-toting idealists were often more tangled than the comparatively pure vision their art would suggest. Many singers produced work in the mids |
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Pride & Glory/Black Label Society – Pride & Glory [PA] $14.99 PRIDE & GLORY [Remaster] includes a bonus disc with 6 tracks. Pride & Glory: Zakk Wylde (vocals, guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica,… |
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Remembering Woodstock $18.23 Beneath the gentle slopes of Overlook Mountain lies the town of Woodstock, a thriving community of painters, musicians and craftsmen. The town”s early history of wintry hardships, courageous settlers and rebellious farmers sets the stage for a saga of spirited and creative personalities. As this energetic individualism carried over into the twentieth century, the sounds of cow horns and tin pails gave way to the bacchanalian revelry of Maverick music festivals and the wailing guitar of Bob Dylan. The first hippie came to town in 1963, and within a few years this Colony of the Arts was swept up by the counterculture movement of the 60s. In this collection of essays from the Historical Society of Woodstock archives, Richard Heppner captures the unique spirit of Woodstock, where the individual is always welcome and new and creative beginnings are always possible. |
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Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture $26.9 Suddenly Robert Johnson is everywhere. Tough the Mississippi bluesman died young and recorded only twenty-nine songs, the legacy, legend, and lore surrounding him continue to grow. Focusing on these developments, Patricia R. Schroeder’s Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture breaks new ground in Johnson scholarship, going beyond simple or speculative biography to explore him in his larger role as a contemporary cultural icon. Part literary analysis, part cultural criticism, and part biographical study, Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture shows the Robert Johnson of today to be less a two-dimensional character fixed by the few known facts of his life than a dynamic and contested set of ideas. Represented in novels, in plays, and even on a postage stamp, he provides inspiration for high-brow cultural artifacts–such as poems–as well as Hollywood movies and T-shirts. Schroeder’s detailed and scholarly analysis directly engages key images and stories about Johnson (such as the Faustian crossroads exchange of his soul for guitar virtuosity), navigating the many competing interpretations that swirl around him to reveal the cultural purposes these stories and their tellers serve. Unprecedented in both range and depth, Schroeder’s work is a fascinating examination of the relationships among Johnson’s life, its subsequent portrayals, and the cultural forces that drove these representations. With penetrating insights into both Johnson and the society that perpetuates him, Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture is essential reading for cultural critics and blues fans alike. |
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Skullage(Explicit Version) $13.98 Black Label Society, is the brainchild of guitar great Zakk Wylde. Hard and heavy, big on riffs and even bigger on the solos, BLS is the bastard child of Black Sabbath only pumped up on steroids. Having graced the world s stages for the last 18 years, both as Ozzy Osbourne s right hand man as well as fronting BLS, Zakk Wylde has established himself as one of the few remaining guitar heroes. Skullage is the history of Black Label Society throughout the years. This compilation arrives in stores several weeks before the re-issue of nearly the entire Zakk Wylde / Black Label Society catalog. |
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Smoke Ring For My Halo $14.98 Philly-based singer/songwriter Kurt Vile lit up the indie rock radar in 2009 with his cynical, lo-fi, classic rock-meets-N.Y.C. proto-punk Matador debut. Fans of the visceral, D.I.Y. fuzz-folk that dominated Childish Prodigy may be taken aback by the production upgrade on Smoke Ring for My Halo, but the cleaner sound doesn? t mean that the floors aren? t still filthy. Channeling everyone from the Dead to Mellow Gold-era Beck to Lou Reed, Vile comes off as malcontent, but there? s an oddball warmth behind his laconic sneer that echoes the late slacker comedian Mitch Hedberg; for every ? I wanna write my whole life down/burn it there to the ground? (“On Tour”), there? s an ? If it ain? t workin? , take a whiz on the world? (“Runner Ups”). Sweeter and a little more soulful than Prodigy, Halo leans harder on the urban folk side of Vile’s disposition (the album opens with a straight-up love song), but tracks like the churning ? Puppet to the Man? and ? Society Is My Friend? pick up where Prodigy stompers like ? Freak Train? and ? Overnight Religion? left off. Vile’s guitar work remains predictably strong, especially on the fingerpicked ? Peeping Tomboy? and the shimmery title cut, but it? s his laconic, serpentine melodies and amiable, burnout wisdom that keep the listener so enthralled. In an age where angst is delivered with the subtlety of a laser light show, it? s nice to hear some good, old-fashioned, smokin? -and-drinkin? -cheap-beers-on-the-porch-with-your-friends-style pessimism. [The two-disc, deluxe edition of Smoke Ring for My Halo adds six bonus cuts to the set, including "The Creature", "It's Alright", "Life's a Beach", "Laughing Stock", "Downbound Train" and "(so outta reach)". ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi |
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Society's Parasites - Society's Parasites $13.49 Society's Parasites: Freddy Zepeda, Vince Gurubel (guitar); Jimmy Zepeda (background vocals); Andy "Coatimundi" Hernandez. Personnel:... |
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The Colored Section $9.95 What a marvelously audacious introduction The Colored Section is. Emerging from the same Jazz Caf? -centered alternative Atlanta soul scene that nourished and nurtured fellow hippie-soul singer/songwriters like Joi and India.Arie all the way into the public consciousness, Donnie's first LP is a topical, unapologetically conscientious, and even righteously stinging declaration that, yes, can only be likened to the classic sociopolitical masterworks of spiritual predecessors Donny Hathaway and especially Stevie Wonder. Songs like "Cloud 9" and "Wildlife," in fact, may be too indebted to genius-era Wonder -- the former with its wah-wah guitar and warm gusts of squelchy synth vibrato, the latter with its prominent clavinet and crisp harmonica ad-libs -- but are such stunning vintage impersonations that both easily could have slipped somewhere onto Innervisions. No matter from which angle you choose to approach such a statement, it couldn't really be taken as a criticism, nor should it be with The Colored Section. The music is consistently empowered and empowering: gracefully buttery, always deeply moving, and at its core profoundly idealistic. Generous melodies abound, rising from a gospel-derived groundwork, spun around street-tinged jazz rhythms, and enlivened by wonderful touches of humor like the Dixie frills of "Big Black Buck" that underscore an otherwise valuable criticism of consumerist society. And lest Donnie be dismissed as an imitator (a studied, well-versed disciple clearly, yes, but certainly not a clone), he explores a wealth of his own refreshingly original ideas, stretching out with genuine invention (the gorgeous cosmic explorations of "Heaven Sent," the jittery electronic backdrop of "Masterplan") as often as he reaches backwards into retro styles (invigorating bossa nova on "Do You Know?," the romantic, Baroque string arrangement of "Turn Around"). It is as bold and self-assured a debut as soul music has seen since D'Angelo's Brown S... |
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The History of the American Guitar $174.4 The most widely played musical instrument in the world, the guitar is also the basis of American popular music. From the birth of a daring new musical style -- the blues -- to jazz, rock 'n' roll, and techno rock, from Muddy Waters to Elvis to Eddie Van Halen, it has transcended the boundaries of mere instrument to become a true work of art and a cultural icon, its revolutionary transformations paralleling those of American society. Hundreds of close-up color photographs and expert text trace the development of the many types of guitar along with its musical and social legacy since the early 1800s, when C. F Martin first experimented with a radical new design -- steel strings -- through Gibson's hand-carved flat-tops, Fender's electric Stratocaster model, and today's high-tech marvels, including the 42-string Pikasso II. A fascinating excursion into guitar history, this is also an invaluable reference for the musician, collector, and music fan. |
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The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society $10.99 Contains original 15-track mono album as well as 12-track stereo version. The Kinks: Ray Davies (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Dave... |
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The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society $104.99 Contains original 15-track mono album as well as 12-track stereo version. The Kinks: Ray Davies (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Dave... |
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Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray $2.83 Used – Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray met in the early 1940s and remained friends until Ellison died in 1994. For much of that time, they lived in separate cities, and so they became prolific letter-writers. This volume covers letters written between 1949 and 1960, the years during which Ellison’s INVISIBLE MAN was published and Murray began writing his first novel, WHISTLE TRAIN GUITAR. Their letters cover literary matters, but also jazz, American society, and their own personal lives. |
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Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray $9.24 New – Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray met in the early 1940s and remained friends until Ellison died in 1994. For much of that time, they lived in separate cities, and so they became prolific letter-writers. This volume covers letters written between 1949 and 1960, the years during which Ellison’s INVISIBLE MAN was published and Murray began writing his first novel, WHISTLE TRAIN GUITAR. Their letters cover literary matters, but also jazz, American society, and their own personal lives. |
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USED: 100% SYNTHETIC 501 $4.99 100% Synthetic is an excellent power pop/punk statement that will get caught up in the emo hype — for better or worse, and not unfairly so — though the Chicago troupe is far more into social issues that society faces than the individual social dramas that dominate that movement, a throwback to the old-school punk ethos (including political motivations on tracks such as “Replacement Parts”). “Finding Color in Grey People” in particular is a must for any mix tape, a catchy tune with guitar histrionics and several separate parts that all come together for three minutes of bliss. Ultimately, it is this excellent and open-ended songwriting that helps set the Honor System apart, and for all the right reasons. Wish it was longer than 20 minutes, though. ~ Brian O’Neill, All Music Guide |
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USED: 8 Million Stories $7.98 Although Columbus, Ohio’s Soul Position had released a five-song EP the previous year, 2003′s 8 Million Stories is the group’s first full-length record, and is definitely a strong debut. Blueprint’s songs all tell stories of people and the situations they might find themselves in. The events can be humorous (as in “The Jerry Springer Episode”), critical (“Look of Pain,” “F*ckajob”), or just explanatory (“Run,” “Right Place, Wrong Time”), but they’re always very detailed and good at capturing listeners’ attention. Yes, Blueprint can be overly dramatic (almost all of his serious tales end in death or destruction of some sort), but this can be excused by the fact that he is very sincerely trying to point out and comment on problems in American society. And anyway, he lightens the mood of the record by inserting more playful songs between the heavier ones, like the three-part “Candyland,” in which he reminisces on growing up in the ’80s, alphabetically listing toys and TV shows (how many hip-hop albums reference popples?) in “Part 1,” high school activities (that’s a loose definition, as both “Coca-Cola jackets” and “feeling girls’ booties” are included) in “Part 2,” and types of candy in “Part 3,” all over a lush beat. And it’s no mistaking that RJD2′s the one making the music for Soul Position. 8 Million Stories sounds like it was taken right from the Dead Ringer sessions, complete with descending, melancholic guitar and piano lines, and funk-inspired rhythms. This all goes well with Blueprint’s delivery, which incorporates a cadenced, almost spoken word style that RJD2 works to highlight with his use of both melodic instrumentation and silence. It’s a successful combination, with very few things that fall short (“Run” may be the sole example of a song that doesn’t quite make it, with an overuse of the title word that just becomes boring, even though the subject matter — escape, avoidance, and fear — is fairly provocative and interesting)…. |
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USED: Extreme II: Pornograffitti $2.99 Extreme came into its own on the concept album Pornograffitti, with the band’s strongest set of songs and an intellectual theme revolving around the struggle for genuine love and romance in a sleazy, decadent society full of greed and corruption. The band shows a strong desire to experiment and push the boundaries of the pop-metal format, adding a funky horn section on “Get the Funk Out” and displaying progressive compositional leanings throughout, and virtuoso Nuno Bettencourt puts down his guitar for the enjoyable pseudo-lounge piano ballad of “When I First Kissed You.” But of course, the album is best known for its two acoustic-guitar-only hits, the number one ballad “More Than Words” and the equally fine full-band rocker “Hole Hearted.” Other highlights include “Decadence Dance” and “Song for Love.” ~ Steve Huey, Rovi |
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USED: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Justice $7.99 The first solo project for Justin Sane is on the same continuum as the highly politically and socially charged material that the Anti-Flag and A-F Records leader became known for in those roles. At least half of the disc is either acoustic or just Sane singing along with a very clean electric guitar that he played himself, making Life, Love and the Pursuit of Justice seem just like a folk undertaking, taking activist lyrics back to their roots. The bleeding-heart liberal mindset can grow tiring after a while, especially if you either disagree with the politics or, more charitably, find fault with the cloying na? vet? he expresses in the utopian society he seems to expect. But if he’s preaching to the converted (and this probably won’t hit more than the core Anti-Flag fan base), he does a credible job in transferring their rage to songs that don’t seethe for a change of pace. Bob Dylan won’t be losing any sleep, however. ~ Brian O’Neill, Rovi |
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USED: Pretty Hate Machine $9.99 Virtually ignored upon its 1989 release, Pretty Hate Machine gradually became a word-of-mouth cult favorite; despite frequent critical bashings, its stature and historical importance only grew in hindsight. In addition to its stealthy rise to prominence, part of the album’s legend was that budding auteur Trent Reznor took advantage of his low-level job at a Cleveland studio to begin recording it. Reznor had a background in synth-pop, and the vast majority of Pretty Hate Machine was electronic. Synths voiced all the main riffs, driven by pounding drum machines; distorted guitars were an important textural element, but not the primary focus. Pretty Hate Machine was something unique in industrial music — certainly no one else was attempting the balladry of “Something I Can Never Have,” but the crucial difference was even simpler. Instead of numbing the listener with mechanical repetition, Pretty Hate Machine’s bleak electronics were subordinate to catchy riffs and verse-chorus song structures, which was why it built such a rabid following with so little publicity. That innovation was the most important step in bringing industrial music to a wide audience, as proven by the frequency with which late-’90s alternative metal bands copied NIN’s interwoven guitar/synth textures. It was a new soundtrack for adolescent angst — noisily aggressive and coldly detached, tied together by a dominant personality. Reznor’s tortured confusion and self-obsession gave industrial music a human voice, a point of connection. His lyrics were filled with betrayal, whether by lovers, society, or God; it was essentially the sound of childhood illusions shattering, and Reznor was not taking it lying down. Plus, the absolute dichotomies in his world — there was either purity and perfection, or depravity and worthlessness — made for smashing melodrama. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Pretty Hate Machine was that it brought emotional extravagance to a genre whose main theme had nearly a… |
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USED: Pretty Hate Machine $9.99 Virtually ignored upon its 1989 release, Pretty Hate Machine gradually became a word-of-mouth cult favorite; despite frequent critical bashings, its stature and historical importance only grew in hindsight. In addition to its stealthy rise to prominence, part of the album’s legend was that budding auteur Trent Reznor took advantage of his low-level job at a Cleveland studio to begin recording it. Reznor had a background in synth-pop, and the vast majority of Pretty Hate Machine was electronic. Synths voiced all the main riffs, driven by pounding drum machines; distorted guitars were an important textural element, but not the primary focus. Pretty Hate Machine was something unique in industrial music — certainly no one else was attempting the balladry of “Something I Can Never Have,” but the crucial difference was even simpler. Instead of numbing the listener with mechanical repetition, Pretty Hate Machine’s bleak electronics were subordinate to catchy riffs and verse-chorus song structures, which was why it built such a rabid following with so little publicity. That innovation was the most important step in bringing industrial music to a wide audience, as proven by the frequency with which late-’90s alternative metal bands copied NIN’s interwoven guitar/synth textures. It was a new soundtrack for adolescent angst — noisily aggressive and coldly detached, tied together by a dominant personality. Reznor’s tortured confusion and self-obsession gave industrial music a human voice, a point of connection. His lyrics were filled with betrayal, whether by lovers, society, or God; it was essentially the sound of childhood illusions shattering, and Reznor was not taking it lying down. Plus, the absolute dichotomies in his world — there was either purity and perfection, or depravity and worthlessness — made for smashing melodrama. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Pretty Hate Machine was that it brought emotional extravagance to a genre whose main theme had nearly a… |
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USED: Pure Brazil: Feijoada $4.99 The producers invoke feijoada, one of Brazil’s signature dishes, to convey the music of this compilation. As with the black beans and white rice that are part of the meal, the artists — given that Brazil has been an integrated multicultural society for generations — are a mix of black and white. So ignore any distinctions of color, accept them all as Brazilian, and then listen to the music (whether you want to follow the recipe for feijoada is up to you). Like others in this same series, this is a kind of Brazil 101, with several big names, and at least one familiar track, Tamba Trio’s “Mas, Que Nada.” Elsewhere you get a couple of cuts from the excellent Jorge Ben, with his percussive guitar providing the underpinning. Toquinho offers the lovely guitar solo “Turbilhao,” while Ivan Lins bridges the time between the ’60s and ’70s with “Me Deixa Em Paz.” Given the amount of great music that had come out of Brazil in the preceding five decades, finding excellent songs is like shooting fish in a barrel, and there’s nothing to criticize on the quality (the emphasis seems to be slightly on the ’70s here). It would have been nice to have had some sleeve notes to put the artists and the sounds into some kind of perspective, and at less than an hour, it’s quite parsimonious. But when your stars include Chico Buarque, Maria Beth? nia, Gal Costa, and Caetano Veloso, there’s certainly no shortage of talent who’ve always let the music speak for itself. So take it as offered, and enjoy the aural meal. ~ Chris Nickson, All Music Guide |
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USED: The Bottom Line Encore Collection $6.98 A showcase for her virtuoso guitar playing, with some interesting interview segments (though it would be debatable how many times one would need to play those back), this is a trip through Ian’s back pages and is her first ever live album available in the U.S. (recorded at New York’s Bottom Line in 1980). Accompanied by a crack, three piece who can alternate among bass, fiddle, guitar and keyboards, the highlights are when Ian approaches the piano (“In the Winter”) or takes on her most famous numbers, “At Seventeen” and “Society’s Child” with only her acoustic guitar. The disc makes a great case for what the world’s missed since Ian retreated from the performing spotlight. ~ Denise Sullivan, Rovi |
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Uncle Vanya $13.48 Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG – - A country house on a terrace. In front of it a garden. In an avenue of trees, under an old poplar, stands a table set for tea, with a samovar, etc. Some benches and chairs stand near the table. On one of them is lying a guitar. A hammock is swung near the table. It is three o’clock in the afternoon of a cloudy day. MARINA, a quiet, grey-haired, little old woman, is sitting at the table knitting a stocking. |