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My Groove
8/2/2011
Welcome to a who's who of rock, soul, and the blues. Included for starters are what many point to as the first rock 'n' roll song ever ("Rocket 88"), one of the all-time rockabilly classics ("Blue Sued …
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Artist Essentials
8/2/2011
Thoroughly engaging and supremely gifted, Nancy Wilson has jumped nimbly from genre to genre, initially taking flight in jazz in the late '50s with luminous talents like Cannonball Adderley, Gerald Wil …
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Artist Essentials
8/2/2011
When Rodney Crowell released his '88 breakthrough, Diamonds & Dirt - spawning five #1 singles in the process - he'd already lived a musical lifetime, from his stint as a pre-teen drummer in his …
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Artist Essentials
8/2/2011
"Little" Jimmy Scott - so known due to a genetic malfunction that kept him a pre-pubescent, both in stature and in vocal timbre - may be the most distinctive stylist in his genre since Billie Holiday. …
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Genres & History
8/2/2011
Leaving behind her years as a conflicted alterna-chick in favor of sunny hooks and sweet balladry, Julieta Venegas is one of the most promising voices in contemporary Mexican pop. The Mexican Institute …
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Artist Essentials
8/2/2011
Una de las grandes virtudes de Ricardo Arjona es su habilidad para desafiar las rfgidas convenciones morales de la sociedad latinoamericana a travTs de canciones progresivas como "Desnuda" y "Se±ora de …
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Artist Essentials
8/2/2011
A true U.K. vet (U2/the Cure producer Tim Palmer) stepped behind the boards for Switchfoot's sixth effort, a leap-forward of an album called Oh! Gravity.. Unafraid to take risks from beginning t …
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Artist Essentials
8/2/2011
OK, so the story's a little familiar: two brothers form a band, bouncing the natural pop tendencies of one member (Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman in this case) off a bed of tightly wound bass lines, v …
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Artist Essentials
8/2/2011
Una balada exquisita que ilustra el lado mßs sentimental de Joan Sebastian, la exitosa "Eso y Mßs" proviene del disco de 2006 Mßs Allß del Sol. "25 Rosas" tiene el ritmo tfpico de la quebradi …
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