8/24/2010
Gospel has always been the blood pumping into the heart of soul music, and today there's so much crossover between the two, they sometimes seem inseparable. Sister act Mary Mary might have a doubly bib …
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8/24/2010
Halfway between the mini-mall's Starbucks and the roadhouse at the edge of town, a big chunk of country zigged wildly out of Hollywood's - and Nashville's - orbit just as the mainstream was zagging. Fa …
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8/24/2010
Alt enough for you yet? How about recording an album with someone old enough to be your grandma? White Stripes leader Jack White snatches country legend Loretta Lynn out of Butcher Holler and drops her …
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8/17/2010
Hank Williams towers over the '40s and '50s, as a songwriter, performer, and all 'round country icon, so we had to start with him, and where better than "Lovesick Blues," complete with his trademark yo …
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8/17/2010
Let's say you decide to be KISS for the week, rockin'/rollin' all night and partying every day like the Army's founding fathers: Ace, Gene, Peter, and Paul. You can plaster your face with paint and squ …
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8/17/2010
You know, we thought about changing the whole Deep Cuts name for this playlist at first. After all, most of these songs have reduced arenas to rubble before. In other words, they're hardly cult hits. A …
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8/10/2010
While Titanic figuratively crowned Leonardo DiCaprio the King of the World for a minute, the success of the heart-string-yanking duet "My Heart Will Go On" surely made Celine Dion the Queen. Don …
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8/10/2010
Welcome to 1971, a vintage year for singer-songwriters like Carole King ("It's Too Late") and James Taylor ("You've Got a Friend"), as well as lounge-y popsters (Tony Orlando & Dawn's "Knock Three Time …
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8/3/2010
Not every rock star spent the '80s on the Sunset Strip, bringing the ready-willing-and-able down to their sha-na-na-na knees while dancing with the devil, like Guns N' Roses and M÷tley Crne. Some squee …
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