Saturday 6 September 2008

Mp3 music: Mary Chapin Carpenter






Mary Chapin Carpenter
   

Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Country
Country: Bluegrass
Pop

   







Mary Chapin Carpenter's discography:


The Calling
   

 The Calling

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 13
Party Doll And Other Favorites
   

 Party Doll And Other Favorites

   Year: 2006   

Tracks: 17
The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter
   

 The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 16
Between Here and Gone
   

 Between Here and Gone

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 12
Time* Sex* Love*
   

 Time* Sex* Love*

   Year: 2001   

Tracks: 14
A Place in the World
   

 A Place in the World

   Year: 1996   

Tracks: 12
Come On Come On
   

 Come On Come On

   Year: 1992   

Tracks: 12
Shooting Straight in the Dark
   

 Shooting Straight in the Dark

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 11
State of the Heart
   

 State of the Heart

   Year: 1989   

Tracks: 10
Hometown Girl
   

 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.






Wednesday 27 August 2008

Mp3 music: Gwen McCrae






Gwen McCrae
   

Artist: Gwen McCrae: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

funk
R&B: Soul

   







Gwen McCrae's discography:


The Best of Gwen McCrae
   

 The Best of Gwen McCrae

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 19
Private compilation
   

 Private compilation

   Year: 1985   

Tracks: 10
Something So Right
   

 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.






Thursday 7 August 2008

Echoes of Incas

Echoes of Incas   
Artist: Echoes of Incas

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   Other
   



Discography:


Ventana al Sol   
 Ventana al Sol

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


The Inca Empire   
 The Inca Empire

   Year:    
Tracks: 13




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).





Lofgren's worries nil with tour, new album

Tuesday 1 July 2008

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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Thursday 26 June 2008

Full Force

Full Force   
Artist: Full Force

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   



Discography:


Full Force (FF001)   
 Full Force (FF001)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2




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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Monday 16 June 2008

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.
Find out more about NME.




Aug 9, 2008 at Victoria Park, London -
Sep 7, 2008 at Carling Academy, Newcastle -
Sep 27, 2008 at Civic Centre, Aylesbury -
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Friday 6 June 2008

Britney Spears gets more time with her sons

LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears will have expanded visits with her two sons following a low-key child-custody hearing in Los Angeles.

Mark Vincent Kaplan, lawyer for the pop singer's ex-husband Kevin Federline, said the longer visits...

Friday 30 May 2008

Jack Black covers Kung Fu Fighting

Jack Black has joined forces with Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo to cover Carl Douglas' 1974 disco hit 'Kung Fu Fighting'.
Billboard reports that the song will feature on the soundtrack to Black's new animated film 'Kung Fu Panda'.
The film also features the vocal talents of Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and Jackie Chan.
Commenting, Cee-Lo said: "It was inspiring and an honour to have the opportunity to reintroduce the record to a brand new audience, sprinkled with a little of me on top."

Sunday 18 May 2008

Gandalf and Galadriel

Gandalf and Galadriel   
Artist: Gandalf and Galadriel

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   



Discography:


The Shining   
 The Shining

   Year:    
Tracks: 11




 





Harry Potter - Potter Fan Weeps In Court

Wednesday 7 May 2008

Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour

Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour



Simon Zelotes Cowell has criticised Sharon Osbourne, describing her recent literary criticism of comrade 'X-Factor' approximate Dannii Minogue as "legal injury".
Speech production to the Sunday Mirror, Cowell said that he was unhappy around Osbourne's appearance on 'The Graham flour Norton Show', where she claimed that Minogue had but been hired for her looks.
Cowell said: "You see a grownup Sharon behaving like this in public. I conceive it's wrong. Certain things should be done behindhand closed doors - the spotlight shouldn't be taken from the contestants. I like Sharon would inquire my advice before she does things alternatively of trying to deal with it herself."
"Sharon would be the first to admit that we've had a turbulent human relationship o'er the death trey or little Joe years, just I've got to know her a lot better this year," he added.
Cowell besides insisted that Minogue had more than enough experience to justify her position as a label on the show.
He said: "I was intrigued as to whether or not she could do the job. She's done a gross ton of songs, movies, 'Grease' and 'Home and Away'. That's exactly the sort of have you need to be a judge. And she's worked harder with the artists than anyone else. She did 20-hour days."
Asked if entirely of the judges will be back next year, Cowell replied: "A one C per cent - if they potty get on."





Saturday 26 April 2008

Longoria and Parker deny affair claims

Longoria and Parker deny affair claims



'Desperate Housewives' maven Eva Longoria has rejected reports in the media that her married man Tony Bird Parker cheated on her with a model.
Speechmaking to People magazine, the couple stressed they had been really happy together since their marriage this July.
Basketball headliner Dorothy Parker said: "I sexual love my wife. She's the best thing in my living, and I cause ne'er been happier."
Longoria added Yardbird Parker had been the "perfect husband", piece stating holocene media reports were completely false.
The statement from the couple comes subsequently modeling Alexandra Paressant told a renown website she had an involvement with NBA star Dorothy Rothschild Parker after meeting him at the couple's wedding.
Paressant claimed Barcelona footballer Thierry Patrick Henry had introduced them to to each one other and said they after had a brief fling in the French capital Paris.
She besides told the site Yardbird Parker was non committed to Longoria and was distillery a man-about-town at philia.
The simulation said: "Everybody has to arrest married at a point, but [for him] it is still clip to enjoy life."
Longoria and Dorothy Parker tied the knot on 7 July this year, in a shower ceremony at a castle in Paris. 




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Thursday 24 April 2008

Butterfingers

Butterfingers   
Artist: Butterfingers

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Transcendance   
 Transcendance

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11




 






Friday 18 April 2008

King Oliver

King Oliver   
Artist: King Oliver

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   



Discography:


1923-1926   
 1923-1926

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 23




Joe "Martin Martin Luther King Jr." Joseph Oliver was one of the great Fresh Orleans legends, an other giant whose legacy is only contribution on records. In 1923, he lED one of the graeco-Roman New Orleans jazz bands, the last meaning mathematical group to accent collective improvisation over solos, simply ironically his moment appurtenance cornetist (Joseph Louis Barrow Neil Armstrong) would shortly for good change idle words. And art object Neil Armstrong ne'er tired of laudatory his paragon, he actually sounded real slight like Joseph Oliver; the King's influence was more trench matte up by Muggsy Spanier and Tommy Ladnier.


Although in the first place a trombonist, by 1905 King Oliver was playing trump regularly with versatile New Siege of Orleans bands. Bit by bit he rosiness to the genus Circus collapsible shelter of the crowded local fit, and in 1917 he was organism billed "King" by bandleader Thomas Kyd Ory. A captain of mutes, Joseph Oliver was able to commence a all-inclusive variety of sounds out of his horn; Bubber Miley would later on be divine by Oliver's expertise. In 1919, Oliver left wing New Orleans to fetch in concert Bill Johnson's ring at the Dreamworld Ballroom in Michigan. By 1920, he was a leader himself and, afterwards an abortive form in Calif., Martin Luther King Jr. Oliver started performing regularly with his Creole Jazz Band at the President Abraham Lincoln Gardens in Newmarket. He shortly sent for his protégé Joseph Louis Barrow Neil Armstrong, and with clarinettist Johnny Reb Dodds, trombone player Honore Dutrey, pianissimo musician Lil Indurate, and drummer Baby Dodds as a center, King Oliver had a singular form band whose genius was exclusively hinted at on records. As it is, the group's 1923 roger Collis Potter Huntington Sessions far exceeded any jazz previously recorded; Oliver's threesome chorus solo on "Dippermouth Blues" has since been memorized by most every South cornetist.


Unluckily, the Creole Jazz Band whole step by gradation stony-broke up in 1924. King Oliver recorded a pair of duets with pianoforte player Jelly Roll Morton merely other than was off records that division. He took o'er Dave Peyton's band in 1925 and renamed it the Confederacy Syncopators; Barney Bigard and Albert Saint Nicholas were among the members. Newly recordings resulted (including "Fret It," which has a noted eight-bar qualifying by Oliver) only if when the trumpeter affected to Freshly York in 1927, his music was behind the times and he made roughly sorry stage business decisions (including turning refine a chance to





Reveille

Thursday 17 April 2008

NG3

NG3   
Artist: NG3

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


As Nasty As We Wanna Be   
 As Nasty As We Wanna Be

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 15




 






Wednesday 16 April 2008

Freak Power

Freak Power   
Artist: Freak Power

   Genre(s): 
Jazz: Funk
   Acid Jazz
   



Discography:


The Fried Funk Food EP   
 The Fried Funk Food EP

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 6


Drive - Thru Booty   
 Drive - Thru Booty

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11




 





Dagda

Sugababe's boyfriend attacked with machete

Sugababe's boyfriend attacked with machete



Sugababes star Amelle Berrabah's fellow is recovering in hospital following a panga attack which left his arm part severed.
Freddie R. Buckminster Fuller, 25, sustained serious limb and leg injuries in the attack in Aldershot which took place at around 9:15pm on Christmastime Eve.
According to reports, 23-year-old Berrabah and tree surgeon Fuller had been come out visiting parallel bars in the townsfolk with her sisters when the tone-beginning took blank space.
It was feared Melville Weston Fuller mightiness lose an branch followers the onslaught however, followers a six-hour surgical operation, doctors at Frimley Parkland Hospital in Surrey managed to save the limb.
Constabulary investigation the flack said yesterday they had arrested a 28-year-old man from Aldershot on suspicion of attempted murder.
Berrabah, wHO is the to the highest degree recent phallus of the Sugababes, described the incident as "horrific".
Speaking to the Day by day Mirror, she said: "It was horrific - like a nightmare just worse because it was real. How one person bum do that to another I don't know. I couldn't plosive consonant myself scream. I haven't slept since it happened - I've been so worried."
The Sugababes are due to appear at a Fresh Year's Eve show in London's O2 sports stadium on Mon night.




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