Mp3 music: Mary Chapin Carpenter

Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Country Country: Bluegrass Pop     Mary Chapin Carpenter's discography:      The Calling    Year: 2007    Tracks: 13      Party Doll And Other Favorites    Year: 2006    Tracks: 17      The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter    Year: 2004    Tracks: 16      Between Here and Gone    Year: 2004    Tracks: 12      Time* Sex* Love*    Year: 2001    Tracks: 14      A Place in the World    Year: 1996    Tracks: 12      Come On Come On    Year: 1992    Tracks: 12      Shooting Straight in the Dark    Year: 1990    Tracks: 11      State of the Heart    Year: 1989    Tracks: 10      Hometown Girl    Year: 1989    Tracks: 10 Mary Chapin Carpenter was voice of a little movement of folk-influenced land singer/songwriters of the late '80s. Although many of these performers ne'er achieved commercial success, Carpenter was able to transmission groove her anti-Nashville approach into chart success and industry awards by the early '90s. Carpenter was natural and raised in Princeton, NJ, the girl of a Life powder store executive; she washed-out two days of her puerility in Japan, where her padre was launching the Asian edition of Life. During the kinsfolk explosion of the early '60s, her mother had begun to dally guitar. When Mary became interested in music as a child, her mother gave her a guitar. Carpenter played music during her senior high school eld, only she didn't actively engage it as a vocation. In 1974, her category affected to Washington, D.C., where she became convoluted in the city's folk medicine prospect. After graduating from high shoal in the mid-'70s, she washed-out a yr travel Europe; when she was finished, she enrolled at Brown University, where she was an American civilization major. Following her college graduation, she became deep involved in the Washington-area kinsfolk scene, performing a potpourri of originals, contemporaneous singer/songwriter real, and pop covers. Carpenter met guitar player John Jennings during the early '80s and the pair off began performing together. Eventually, they made a demo magnetic tape of their songs, which they sold at their concerts. The tape wound up at Columbia Records, which offered Carpenter an sense of hearing. By early 1987, the label had signed her as a recording creative person. Her number one album, Hometown Girl, was released that year. Hometown Girl and its followup, Country of the Heart (1989), earned her a consecrated cult following, as well as two Top Ten singles, "Never Had It So Good" and "Quittin' Time." Country radio was hesitant to play her soft, folky, women's rightist corporeal, merely she received good reviews and airplay on more progressive state stations, as well as college radio. Shot Straight in the Dark, released in 1990, managed to break down a lot of the barriers that stood in her manner. "Down at the Twist and Shout" became a identification number deuce single and the album sold well, scene the point for her breakthrough album, 1992's Come on Come On. Come in on Come On signaled a slight variety in charge for Carpenter -- although there were silent folks songs, she felt freer to loose up on whitey tonk and country-rock songs, which resulted in several hit singles. Two of the singles from the album -- "I Feel Lucky" and "Passionate Kisses" -- hit number quaternity, and "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" became her number one number one. Come on Come On would eventually deal o'er iI billion copies. Her fifth album, Stones in the Road, released in 1994, concentrated on the folkier material, but it was static a major success, marketing over a one thousand thousand copies inside its first sextet months of discharge. Position in the World was released in October 1996, and Time* Sex* Love* followed in springtime 2001. Carpenter's ten percent album, 2004's Betwixt Here and Gone was produced with piano player Matt Rollings. The Calling was issued in 2007 by Zoe Records.

Mp3 music: Gwen McCrae

Artist: Gwen McCrae: mp3 download    Genre(s):  funk R&B: Soul     Gwen McCrae's discography:      The Best of Gwen McCrae    Year: 2004    Tracks: 19      Private compilation    Year: 1985    Tracks: 10      Something So Right    Year: 1976    Tracks: 8 Best remembered for her number unmatchable R&B score "Rockin' Chair" from 1975, Gwen McCrae was a gutsy Southern soul prima donna with a particular affinity for dance tracks. Along with her married man George ("Rock Your Baby"), Gwen was office of the Miami-based T.K. Records stable, which laid a great make do of base for the disco explosion. Born Gwen Mosley in Pensacola, FL, in 1943, she grew up singing in her Pentecostal church building and afterwards discovered lay singers like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. She began playing in local clubs as a adolescent, as well singing with local groups like the Lafayettes and the Independents. In 1963, she met a young person Navy skimmer named George McCrae, whom she married inside a workweek. When George was fired, he re-formed an sooner grouping he'd sung dynasty dynasty with called the Jivin' Jets, and invited Gwen to conjoin as well. Soon, however, George and Gwen split turned to form a duette -- ably dubbed George & Gwen -- and affected to West Palm Beach to perform in clubs all over South Florida. George IV & Gwen were discovered in 1967 by singer Betty Wright, wHO helped get them signed to Henry Stone's Alston label. Their debut single, "Three Hearts in a Tangle," was released in 1969; the follow-up, "Like Yesterday Our Love Is Gone," marked the number one time they worked with the composition team of Clarence Reid (world Health Organization would by and by morph into the bawdry comic Blowfly) and Willie Clarke. Both were regional hits, as was third base exclusive, "No One Left to Come Home," although none of those records stony-broke across the country; in the meantime, the McCraes and Wright were conjointly earning a reputation as astral academic session vocalists. In 1970, one of Gwen's solo recordings, the Bobby "Blueish" Bland cover "Track Me On," was picked up by Columbia and became her first Top 40 attain on the R&B charts. In the wake of that breakthrough, George temporarily retired from telling to become her manager, and Alston leased her shrink to Columbia; she recorded several more singles over the side by side few years, just without corresponding chart success. Columbia declined to reincarnate McCrae's get in 1973, and she was signed to a different Henry Stone label, the T.K. underling Cat. She had a regional hit with "He Keeps Something Groovy Goin' On" that yr, and then her arcsecond national hit with the R&B Top 20 "For Your Love" (originally recorded by Ed Townsend). However, her minor 1974 hit "It's Worth the Hurt" was overshadowed by George's encompassing smash "Tilt Your Baby," a song originally intended for Gwen that heralded disco's arrival on the pop charts. It was Gwen's turn in the spotlight the following year, when she took the aphrodisiacal Reid/Clarke opus "Rockin' Chair" all the agency to the top of the R&B charts, not to citation the pop Top Ten. In the wake of its success, McCrae released her first-ever album (as well called Rockin' Chair) and scored further R&B hits with "Love Insurance" and "Cradle of Love." By this time, the separate successes were taking their toll on the McCraes' matrimony (Gwen has since so-called that her married man beat her frequently). A 1976 pair single, "Winners Together, Losers Apart," hide short of the R&B Top 40, and a full album of duets failed to assuage matters. The duo rip later that year, and Gwen scored what turned out to be her lowest chart hit for Cat, "Damn Right It's Good." Despite a o.k. sweat with the 1978 LP Let's Straighten It Out, McCrae's commercial momentum was stalled, and although 1979's "All This Love That I'm Giving" afterwards became a darling on Britain's Northern soul scene, it didn't attract much tending upon its firing. With the T.K. label family in serious fiscal hassle, McCrae stirred to New Jersey and signed with Atlantic in 1980, a stretch that produced deuce albums (Gwen McCrae and On My Way) and several chart singles still prized by collectors: "Low-down Sensation," "Poyson," and "Observe the Fire Burning." Feeling underpromoted, McCrae stirred back to Florida, hack a one-off exclusive for the small Black Jack label in 1984 called "Do You Know What I Mean," and retired from the music byplay. McCrae was rediscovered by the British Northern soul and rare vallecula scenes during the '80s, and she traveled to England to criminal record a duo of singles for Rhythm King in 1987. Pleased with her enduring popularity in the U.K., McCrae finally recorded an entire album for the British Homegrown judge in 1996, titled Girlfriend's Boyfriend. Upon returning to America, she gestural with the revived Goldwax judge, distributed by Ichiban, and recorded some other record album after that year, Psychical Hot Line. In 1998, Ichiban reissued Girlfriend's Boyfriend in the U.S. McCrae returned in 1999 with Still Rockin', which received well-disposed reviews in blues and authoritative individual circles.

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Echoes of Incas

   
Artist: Echoes of Incas

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
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 Ventana al Sol

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Inca Empire

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Tracks: 13

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Echoes of Incas was formed partly from the same members as the grouping Ah-Kin. The mathematical group uses traditional Andean instruments, such as the pan pipes, drums, rattles, and guitars; electric guitar and bass ar added for a vibrant pan-cultural sound. Members of Echoes of Incas, which take issue on each album, hail from many countries: Arturo Garcia Orozco (the paint composer, from Mexico), Konrad Rhee (U.S.A.), Roberto E. Duenas (El Salvador), Gilberto Reyes (Republic of Peru), Luis Felipe Gonzales (Republic of Venezuela), Cesar Regino (United Mexican States), Sergio A. Villegas (Chili capsicum), Michael O'Day (Puerto Rico), Pathik Desai (U.S.A.), Gino Gambao (Republic of Peru), and Kambiz Pakandam (Persia).





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Wild In The Country Organisers Respond To Bjork Cancellation

Organisers of Wild in the Country says they are “disappointed” that Bjork, who was scheduled to headline the festival, has pulled out.



The Icelandic singer withdrew from the festival at the end of last week, calling the event “volatile” and accusing organisers of failing to provide production equipment.



In a statement, the festival said they had only become aware of Bjork's decision “outside normal business hours on the evening of Friday June 27th.”



The event, which takes place on Saturday (July 5th), was to be Bjork's only UK festival appearance of 2008.



The statement continued: “There have been what we believed to be still ongoing discussions regarding Bjork's production requirements.



“We are obviously disappointed, having the utmost respect for Bjork as an artiste, and extend our best wishes to her.



“Contrary to what has been suggested, we have diligently provided all production requirements for all of the other acts appearing on this years line-up.”



The festival will still go ahead on Saturday with performances from Soulwax, Sasha and Hercules and Love Affair.

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Full Force

   
Artist: Full Force

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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 Full Force (FF001)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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Full Force rose to jut in the mid-'80s, committal to writing and producing popular R&B hits for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam earlier embarking on a pretty successful solo vocation that in the end light-emitting diode them back to production run in the previous '90s. The six-man collective -- featuring Paul Anthony, Bowlegged Lou, B-Fine, Baby Gerry, Shy Shy, and Curt-t-t -- originated in Brooklyn, NY, where they in the beginning met up with Steve Salem in the late '70s, a business-savvy case-by-case wHO functioned as their manager. With a coach in place and plenteousness of talent between the assorted group members, Full Force struggled throughout the early '80s to chance a label willing to sign them. Eventually they got a break when they wrote and produced fellow Brooklyn mathematical group U.T.F.O.'s "Roxanne Roxanne," a whack song that would accomplish a certain degree of fame thanks to a serial of answer records. In early 1985, the single unwell at number ten on Billboard's R&B charts, proving a solid hit for both the blame chemical group and the output team. From thither, Full Force touched onto their next major success with Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, a dance-pop mathematical group lED by a 16-year-old isaac Merrit Singer named Lisa Velez. Originally Velez had auditioned for the production team, wHO and so went ahead and recorded "I Wonder if I Take You Home" with her, releasing the single under the soubriquet Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam With Full Force on an indie New York label, Personal. The song dynasty scored success ab initio abroad earlier finally organism released by Columbia in the U.S. after getting immense bring in New York clubs as an consequence single. Almost overnight, the song topped Billboard's dance chart and went on to meridian at number sixer on the R&B chart by summer 1985. Thanks to the momentum surrounding the off single, Full Force sign-language a deal with Columbia to departure solo material. Though they scored some minor R&B hits on their own ("Temporary Love Thing," "Unfaithful So Much," "All in My Mind"), their biggest success continued to be as a production team for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam ("All Cried Out," "Head to Toe," "Missed in Emotion"). In 1988, Full Force produced James Brown's I'm Real, marking a real off for the struggling legend with the album's title path, and worked with a number of late-'80s dance-pop stars: Jasmine Guy, Cheryl Pepsii Riley, and Samantha Fox, among others. Throughout the early and mid-'90s, the production squad remained relatively still earlier once more turbulent out a number of late-'90s R&B-flavored pop hits with Selena, Backstreet Boys, and LFO, among others.





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Foals play first-ever LA gig

Foals played their first-ever Los Angeles gig last night (May 24), which culminated with frontman Yannis Philippakis stage-diving into the crowd.

The Oxford quintet drew a sold-out crowd to the Troubadour, even on a holiday weekend when many people typically leave town.

The band kicked off the night with the first two tracks from their debut album 'Antidotes'. The packed house thrived on the band's tremendous energy, pogoing and dancing throughout their hour-long set.

Philippakis led the charge, and threw himself into the crowd before returning to the stage to bang on the drums for the final tracks, which included an extended jam of 'Mathletics' during the two-song encore.

"We were really looking forward to our first gig in LA," Philippakis told NME.COM after their set. "The people were really warm. I enjoyed jumping into the crowd, I'm just glad I didn't take anyone's face off."

The band will continue their tour of the US with shows up and down the west coast until the end of the week.

Foals played:

'The French Open'
'Cassius'
'Olympic Airways'
'Balloons'
'Heavy Water'
'Two Steps Twice'
'Hummer'
'Red Socks Pugie'
'Electric Bloom'
'Mathletics'

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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