Teenage Fanclub: Teenage Fan Club Turns 17
By Peter Vouras
Man-Made

First it’s difficult to believe that Teenage Fanclub has been around for 17 years and second it’s even harder to believe that they have been so consistently good for that long.

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Shelby Lynne: Suits Herself
By Dean Truitt
Suit Yourself

In her 16-year recording career, Shelby Lynne has explored virtually every conceivable road musically and professionally. In that time, she has released nine CDs on five different labels and worked with a wide variety of producers.

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Al Green: Everything's OK
By Dean Truitt
Everything's OK

After nearly 50 years of singing professionally, Al Green seems to have finally come home with his latest CD, Everything’s OK.

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Babatunde Lea: Suite Unseen: Summoner Of The Ghost
By Jason Sklar
Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost

Babatunde Lea’s latest African-inspired jazz journey encompasses more than technical polyrhythms and pentatonics.

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Johnathan Rice:
By Lynne Bronstein
trouble is real

Johnathan Rice is a phenomenon at age 21. Born to Scottish parents and raised in locations ranging from Scotland to Washington D.C., Rice began writing songs while in his teens. After living and playing in New York for a year, he was about to abandon his ambitions for college when he was offered a deal with Warner/Reprise Records. About to tour for the release of his first full-length album Trouble Is Real, Rice talked with ONE WAY about his life and beliefs.

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Dom Minasi & Carol Mennie: Quick Response
By Jason Sklar
Quick Response, I'm Not A Sometime Thing

At age 60, guitarist-composer-arranger Dom Minasi, continues to explore and expand the boundaries of guitar playing just as he has done for the greater part of the past four decades.

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Rolando Villazón: Gounod, Massenet: Arias
By Jason Sklar
Massenet/Gounod: Arias

his February, up-and-coming opera tenor Rolando Villazón will be performing opposite Anna Netrebko in Shakespeare’s Roméo and Juliet.

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Savina Yannatou: Channeling Spirits
By Ken Micallef
Sumiglia

An amazing singer with an extremely emotional and physical range who seems to draw in the sun, moon, and stars when she performs, Savina Yannatou’s latest album is Sumiglia, the story of lives lost and peoples past.

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Young Dubliners: Get Your Irish Up
By Peter Vouras
Real World

The Irish have produced some of the world’s greatest poets, writers, and musicians. From Yeats and Joyce to Bono and Morrison, the Emerald Isle has graced us with eloquent prose as clear as the ice-blue Irish sky and melodies as murky as a thick fog o’er the peat bogs. In that fine tradition come Young Dubliners headed by frontman Keith Roberts.

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Tom Waits: Not Gone Yet
By Dean Truitt
Real Gone

Since his unprecedented music career began in 1973 with the release of Closing Time, only one element has remained constant in Tom Waits’ brash artistry: change.

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Dianne Reeves: Christmas Time Is Here
By Jason Sklar
Christmas Time Is Here

Snowflakes falling, cookies baking, mistletoe overhead, and Christmas carols filling homes with spirited holiday cheer.

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Kasey Chambers: Coming Up From Down Under
By Dean Truitt
Wayward Angel

The casual fan of country music might be surprised to discover the next sensation in the industry is a woman who hails from Australia’s Outback, but Kasey Chambers is quickly making that scenario a reality. Chambers’ latest album, Wayward Angel, is already a mainstay on VH-1 Country and CMT; and, her first single, “Like A River,” appears to have struck a resonant nerve with many fans.

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Tears For Fears: Reinventing The Seeds Of Love
By Lynne Bronstein
Everybody Loves A Happy Ending

We rarely make records that we enjoy making,” says Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith. “The only criteria we normally enter a studio with is: ‘That’s the last record - let’s not do that again, because it will be boring.’

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Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette: The Out-Of-Towners
By Jason Sklar
The Out-Of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners, pianist Keith Jarrett’s latest release, showcases pristine piano playing, fluid runs, flowing chord progressions, and a clarion piano sound nurtured by the walking bass lines of Gary Peacock and relentless swing of drummer Jack DeJohnette.

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