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Genres & History
5/25/2010
Movie director Martin Scorsese reckons that the British blues heroes of the '60s were paying homage to U.S. blues legends in the same way that French New Wave filmmakers were saluting the kings of Holl …
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Artist Essentials
5/25/2010
Sleek, dusky, as sensual as the feel of velvet against bare skin, Toni Braxton's one-of-a-kind voice has the power to own a crushed-heart ballad like "Un-Break My Heart." The Maryland girl who grew up …
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Genres & History
5/25/2010
Known as "the barefoot diva," Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora has turned her love for the blues-like morna into a global phenomenon. A pioneering orchestra, Simentera strives to rescue the ric …
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Artist Essentials
5/25/2010
Pull up a stool and put that money away. We've got the first round covered and the perfect soundtrack for a long night of pints and pouring your heart out. Specifically, an hour or so of the National o …
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Artist Essentials
5/25/2010
If Coldplay knocked down the door for contemporary piano-rockers, Keane saw the gap and went for it with a vengeance, summoning up a powerful blend of emotion, sensitivity, and intensity that propelled …
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Genres & History
5/25/2010
In Deep Cuts, we're stepping away from our earlier solo stylings to strike up the band - make that bands - that set the airwaves ablaze. And when it comes to country bands, they just don't make …
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Genres & History
5/25/2010
As the decade (and millennium) drew to a close, the country world partied like it was 1999 . . . because it was 1999. Faith Hill's "Breathe" rocketed her to the top of not only the Country charts, but …
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Genres & History
5/25/2010
In Deep Cuts, we're rebel-rockin' our way into the Deep South for a little poke at Yankees (the above-the-Mason-Dixon-liners, not the baseball team), some much-needed R&R, and a hats-off to Old Glory. …
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Genres & History
5/25/2010
While everybody celebrated the new millennium at the dawn of Y2K, it really didn't happen until 2001, and, for so many reasons, it was a year none of us will ever forget. The Academy of Country Music a …
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