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Exorcist (Blues)
Award-winning young bluesman, delivers the most far-reaching, musically adventurous album of his career. 13 new Birchwood originals fuel an intoxicating mix of deep blues, blistering, psychedelic-tinged rock, booty-shaking funk and sweet Southern soul, played and sung with the fire-and-brimstone fervor of a revival tent preacher with a hellhound on his trail.
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Live In Concert: 1978-2018 (Celtic/British Isles)
Celtic Thunder: Live in Concert, 1978-2018 features 16 live concert recordings spanning 40 years of performance by this noted and popular group from the DC-Baltimore area (and with deep roots in NYC). The first new album by the original Celtic Thunder in a number of years, this recording has an immediacy that will make listeners feel as though they are right there in the hall as the music is playing.
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Ennanga (Chamber)
This album by harpist Ashley Jackson takes its title from a harp played by the Ganda or Baganda people of Uganda, coming to Jackson via a work for harp, string quintet, and piano by William Grant Still. This work qualifies as neglected, having been recorded just twice since its composition in 1956, and it forms the centerpiece of Jackson's program. It is quite an impressive piece, in three movements, written in Still's usual neo-Romantic style but carrying subtle overtones of the Ugandan instrument. It is an intriguing fusion, and Still reports that a Ugandan in attendance at an early performance told him that it reminded him of home. Still's piece is flanked by works arranged for the harp, two from the jazz realm by Alice Coltrane (a harpist herself) and Brandee Younger, and two from piano works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The latter, perhaps, are less idiomatic to the harp, not quite transcending the pianistic quality of the music, but these outer works have an attractive consistency of mood, broken definitively by the Still work. Jackson's playing is beautiful, and the album is absorbing in the way that it captures different strands in harp music. The pieces were recorded in three different venues, not always with ideal results. ~ James Manheim
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Little Bit Country (Childrens)
Beloved and legendary children's entertainers, Sharon, Lois & Bram showcase their love of country with this collection of sing-along favorites, including some never-before-released tracks.
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Butterfly Lovers (Classical)
Grammy-award winning violinist Joshua Bell presents a captivating performance of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto, one of the best-known classical works in China and inspired by the ancient legend of the same name. In addition, Bell performs new arrangements of well-known Western classical repertoire adapted for the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, an ensemble of traditional Chinese folk instruments. Hear the lush Hear the lush M editation from the opera Tha is, the passionate Zigeunerweisen, and the virtuosic Introduction et Rondo capriccioso with a unique orchestral sound.
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Brothers Osborne (Country)
Current CMA and ACM Duo Of The Year, Brothers Osborne will release their 4th studio album on September 15, 2023. This Grammy-winning duo's new album features 11 new tracks including the current Top 20 hit, "Nobody's Nobody." John Osborne of the band shared, "As musicians, we're constantly evolving and pushing ourselves to new heights. With our fourth album, we've teamed up with a new producer, Mike Elizondo, and embraced his approach to our sound and story.
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City Of Gold (Folk)
City of Gold follows Tuttle's acclaimed 2022 record, Crooked Tree, which won Best Bluegrass Album at the 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards and led NPR Music to call her, "a female flat picker extraordinaire with agility, speed and elegance who distinctively brings American roots music into the spotlight," adding that the album "marries the improvisatory solos of traditional bluegrass with singer-songwriter sophistication. "Produced by Tuttle and Jerry Douglas and recorded at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studios, City of Gold was inspired by Tuttle's constant touring with Golden Highway these past few years, during which they have grown together as musicians and performers, cohering as a band. These 13 tracks-mostly written by Tuttle and Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show)-capture the electric energy of band's live shows by highlighting each members' musical strengths. In addition to Tuttle and Secor, Mason Via also co-wrote "Down Home Dispensary," while Melody Walker and Shelby Means co-wrote "Next Rodeo."
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The Greatest Christmas Hits (Holiday)
Two CD set. 2023 holiday collection. Pentatonix presents The Greatest Christmas Hits. With 23 Christmas classics and eight new songs, this collection consists of Pentatonix's greatest hits and more.
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Blowout (Jazz)
John Carroll Kirby is a producer, composer and keyboardist from Los Angeles. His new album Blowout was inspired by the local people, music and nature of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica where he spent time filming a new episode of his travelogue series Kirby's Gold. Blowout follows some of Kirby's iconic works such as My Garden, Septet and most recently Sundown - in collaboration with Eddie Chacon.
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Rockstar (Pop/Rock)
Global icon and recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Dolly Parton, has joined forces with some of rock music's most legendary artists along with today's biggest stars for her first-ever rock album, Rockstar. The ever-evolving Parton teamed up with an all-star roster of musicians for the 30-song collection which includes 9 original tracks and 21 covers of iconic rock anthems.
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To The Faithful Departed (Pop/Rock)
Super deluxe edition of To The Faithful Departed - The Cranberries' monumental third album. Originally released in 1996, the album has sold over six million copies worldwide and became the band's highest-charting album on the U.S. Billboard Top 200. The 3CD set contains unreleased outtakes and early mixes of the studio album, 12 rare live tracks recorded on the "Free to Decide" tour, an extensive album booklet, and the original 1LP album remastered.
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Chronicles of a Diamond (R&B)
As they set to work on their highly awaited sophomore album, Black Pumas broadened their palette to include a dazzling expanse of musical forms: heavenly hybrids of soul and symphonic pop, mind-bending excursions into jazz-funk and psychedelia, and starry-eyed love songs that feel dropped from the cosmos. The debut was nominated for seven Grammys and reached one million album equivalents. Chronicles Of A Diamond arrives as the fullest expression yet of their frenetic creativity and limitless vision.
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Diamond Collection (Rap/Hip-Hop)
Global superstar Post Malone holds the record for most RIAA Diamond certified singles in history. The Diamond Collection is a compilation of his top hits to date, including "Congratulations (feat. Quavo)," "Sunflower" with Swae Lee, "White Iverson," and more. The physical release includes the Diamond certified hits as well as additional tracks.
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Africa Unite (Reggae)
Africa Unite, portrays two worlds colliding from a whole new generation of Afro-fused musicians reinterpreting Bob Marley's classic songs. As the name suggests, unity is at the heart of the album, and that is without a doubt the focus. Featuring Nutty O, Winky D, Rema, Skip Marley, Ami Faku, Tiwa Savage, Afro B, Teni, Oxlade, Stonebwoy, Sarkodie, Arya Starr and Patoranking. Available on CD.
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Symphonic Celebration (Soundtrack)
A Symphonic Celebration - Music From The Studio Ghibli Films Of Hayao - Hitchock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams, Zemeckis and Silvestri, Burton and Elfman, Fellini and Rota. There's a certain kind of magic that happens when a director and composer work together for an extended period; their imaginations are fueled by an artistic sensibility which becomes, inevitably, entwined. Such deep understanding between two artists has proffered memorable, even legendary, cinemusical experiences. But there's another of these partnerships we must honor and mention in the same breath, that of director Hayao Miyazaki and composer Joe Hisaishi.
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Temptation (World)
Some of the most unique Italian jungle exotica mambo music you'll hear! You won't usually find those words together but because this record, released in the late 50s only on reel to reel tape, was twice produced layering cultural madness! This gem was originally designed to be a Francis Bay album of Italian music and Cuban Mambo, until the masters were sold to producer Kirby Allen who with the help of faux African tribesman, Chaino, added African style percussion and animal sounds up the wazoo! If the much-bandied-about word exotica stands for anything, it stands for disparate cultures playing well together with others, and Temptation: The Exotic Sounds of Chaino is a case study in international relations that could serve as a teacher's guide in how to set up a Model UN. If there's a more quintessential example of the African-Cuban-Italian-Spanish-Polynesian-American Songbook as recorded by a Belgian combo, this author is unaware of such an artifact. - Gaylord Fields (WFMU)
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