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Artist Essentials
7/20/2009
Once you get beyond its hits ("Elenore" and "You Showed Me") you realize The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands is a flat-out amazing album. Yes, it's a tongue-in-cheek collection, b …
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Artist Essentials
7/20/2009
When conversation turns to the greatest pop bands of the '60s (as it does with an alarming frequency around the iTunes offices), the usual suspects never fail to get called out: the Beatles, the Beach …
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Artist Essentials
7/20/2009
The fact that Ashanti named her third album (the critically-acclaimed Concrete Rose) after 2Pac's popular poetry collection says a lot about the two worlds she occupies on a regular basis - a gr …
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Artist Essentials
7/20/2009
Irv Gotti was definitely onto something when he discovered Ashanti in the early '00s. A success story well beyond the Murder Inc. don's wildest dreams, she broke record after record in her first year, …
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Genres & History
7/20/2009
Explore the far reaches of jazz guitar in Deep Cuts, where one cut can slide you to the beaches of Brazil (Baden Powell's bossa nova "Consolacao"), while another tracks a jazz seeker as he mines fresh …
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Genres & History
7/20/2009
Think of the guitar, and monster-rock shredders might come more easily to mind than true jazz greats. Thing is, it takes a master to make that six-string sing a tricky jazz tune, to leave off th …
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Other Mix
7/20/2009
As the 1960s wound down, one American band towered above all the others with a California-bred, Southern-flavored sound that remains as powerful and engaging today as it was three decades ago.
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Other Mix
7/20/2009
The blues was their life's work. Teeming with wit and wisdom, these gifted but under-recognized men and women kept the music alive through good times and bad.
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7/20/2009
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