George Barnes and Bucky Pizzarelli recorded this guitar session after performing as a duo at the Upstairs at the Downstairs for several months prior to making this album, so they were very familiar with each others' playing, which is firmly rooted in swing. With Pizzarelli on a seven-string instrument, and Barnes on the usual six-string, they tackle a wide-ranging program, which includes swing classics, a bit of boogie, standards, originals, and even lame pop songs of the day. Obviously, gems like "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Blue Skies" turn out better than Paul Williams' nauseating "We've Only Just Begun" (which at least omits its banal, repetitious lyrics), and another hit for the Carpenters, Burt Bacharach's sickeningly sweet "(They Long to Be) Close to You." But the duo actually make something out of Blood, Sweat and Tears' biggest hit,…

British singer/songwriter Judith Owen's eclecticism has seen her records shelved in the rock, folk, and jazz sections of record stores. She was born the daughter of an opera singer and began writing songs as a teenager. Becoming a professional musician, she met and married actor/musician Harry Shearer and contributed vocals and keyboards to his 1994 album, It Must Have Been Something I Said. Her debut solo album, Emotions on a Postcard, was released on her own Dog on the Bed label in 1996. Among its songs was "Hand on My Heart," which was featured in the 1997 film As Good as It Gets and appeared on the soundtrack album. Owen befriended singer/songwriter Julia Fordham and appeared on Fordham's albums East West and That's Live. Another musical association was struck up with Richard Thompson, which led to Owen's appearances on the Thompson albums Mock Tudor, 1000 Years of Popular Music, and Old Kit Bag…

Following the success of Other Voices (1990), Paul Young embarked on this very ambitious project. Using several big-name artists as backup (including Mark Isham, Jeff Porcaro, Billy Preston, Don Was, Kathleen Turner, and Benmont Tench, to name a few), Young put together a very consistent, smooth, well-produced album of soft rock/soul songs. Young also contributes a great many original titles to the mix, and the songs are wonderful. This is a beautifully produced CD, with strong horn and string arrangements with Young's awesome voice over it all.

Ar Braz' followup to "Douar Nevez" which translates to "Go tell the city", is more song oriented, but still a logical extension of his progressive celtic explorations. His gravelly voice, normally matched with mellower acoustic backing in subsequent releases, is instead accompanied by harder guitars, bass and percussion. In fact, it comes across as having been schooled in the more dramatic Ange style, which, like Ange, sometimes works, sometimes not…

Best known for his hit "Duke of Earl," Gene Chandler was one of the giants of Chicago soul. This set collects the singles, all three albums, and assorted 45 B-sides that Chandler recorded late in his career for Carl Davis' Chicago-based Chi-Sound Records label between 1978 and 1982, all featuring a sweet, smooth modern urban soul sound that was more refined than his early work, and every bit as memorable.

Czech gore grind brownies present the new album "Shit Happens", they played until now on a lot of important european festivals like Party San, Summer Breeze, Neurotic DeathFest, Brutal Assault or many times on Obscene Extreme, they played 2 tours in europe as headliner and shows in the US…. and the shit goes on!!! A very active band of brown love and shits. Here we got the 2nd album, nothing new, just the same shit, that still a black metal fan theese days also would buy!!Abso-fucking-lutely recommended for fans of: GUTALAX!!!!

John Lee Curtis "Sonny Boy" Williamson (March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He is often regarded as the pioneer of the blues harp as a solo instrument and played on hundreds of blues recordings for many pre-World War II blues artist…