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Artist Essentials
4/21/2009
Fact is, we don't know of many musicians who embody the artist's journey better than Marvin Gaye, who, over the course of a Technicolor career, morphed from refined Motown soul singer to politically/se …
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Artist Essentials
4/21/2009
Cheap Trick delivered crunchy-chord pop with a molten metal center and scored with hard rock power ballads. Through lineup changes and a late-career return to their original sound, what's constant are …
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Artist Essentials
4/21/2009
Brian Setzer's Deep Cuts are where the man unleashes a six-string spectacular on personal favorites like the Ventures' "Hawaii Five-O" and the classic "James Bond Theme," which he manages to make even …
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Artist Essentials
4/21/2009
In the early '80s, when punks were being overhauled by goths and the rest of the new wave nation was turning to synthesizers in search of the sound of the future, a pompadoured, tattooed hell-raiser fr …
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Artist Essentials
4/21/2009
Smallwood's recording career began in 1982 with the Richard Smallwood Singers, who became the first black gospel group to tour the Soviet Union. Testimony was cut ten years after that debut, and …
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Artist Essentials
4/21/2009
Richard Smallwood delivers a rare combination of utter conviction and natural talent that has taken him to the highest levels of contemporary and traditional gospel. His artistry is clear in every temp …
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Artist Essentials
4/21/2009
For more than 30 years, you just couldn't count ol' J.T. out. No matter what the times, no matter what the style, he could step up and deliver an anthem for the ages. He gave Stax one of its biggest so …
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Genres & History
4/21/2009
It took America a while to get in the classical game (hey, Bach had already been dead 25 years before the Declaration of Independence was even written), but our composers are world-class …
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My Groove
4/21/2009
Much like the crypts and caverns that scary movie scores conjure up out of the ether, the deeper we delve into our playlist the more frightening and revealing the spooky soundscapes become. We now know …
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