A Feast of Songs is a lively collection of familiar and unusual traditional songs and dances from the middle ages that celebrate the winter season and its associated festivals and holidays. Songs from the British Isles, Ireland, Germany, France, Poland and Sweden blend medieval and renaissance tonalities with a festive folk energy that awakens the spirits of past …
1992 collaboration between the Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown, and a then-unknown young vocalist named Eva Cassidy. While they traveled different musical paths, both vocalists sound vibrant and complement each other as if they had been working together for years. Though Brown may have been considered past his sell-by date (since Go-Go’s heyday had long since passed), these …
2011 collection from the late Folk/Pop superstar. This collection features all his great hits and ends with Denver’s biggest songwriting success, ‘Leaving On A Jet Plane’, which now seems inseparable from Peter, Paul & Mary. But to hear Denver sing it, it’s not a sunny, hopeful radio single. There’s a real weight in his voice, as if he …
James McMurtry spins stories with a poet’s pen (‘Long Island Shores’) and a painter’s precision (‘She Loves Me’). Proof: The acclaimed songwriter’s new ‘Complicated Game’. McMurtry’s first collection in six years spotlights a craftsman in absolutely peak form as he turns from political toward personal (‘These Things I’ve Come to Know, You Got to Me’). ‘The lyrical theme …
UK-born, adopted Australian son Passenger (Mike Rosenberg) releases his latest, already critically-lauded album, All The Little Lights. Recorded at Linear Studios in Sydney (Empire of the Sun and Josh Pyke), All The Little Lights is the most accomplished Passenger record to date. It s very different to (the last album) Flight Of The Crow, says Rosenberg. This one …
One of the most enduring musical partnerships of our time, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Crosby, Stills & Nash are revered for their peerless vocal harmonies, inspired songwriting and musical virtuosity. When the trio first sang together at a friend’s Laurel Canyon house in 1968, their uncanny harmonic convergence was immediately apparent, and CSN took shape. Each …
JT’s work for Apple, Warner Bros. and Columbia/Sony in one place! Includes Fire and Rain; You’ve Got a Friend; How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You); Handy Man; Shower the People; Your Smiling Face; Carolina in My Mind; Sweet Baby James; Long Ago and Far Away; Country Road; Something in the Way She Moves; Mexico; Don’t …
A 22-track anthematic tone poem to the Prairie State, emphatically answering the question, “Can a songwriter express the spirit of a state he’s never called home?” Sufjan weaves various musical styles (jazz, funk, pop) and instrumental textures into a tapestry of persons famous, infamous, and anonymous, and places iconic, obscure, and ghostly. Myths, memories, and incidental anecdotes are …
Ray LaMontagne is a singer/songwriter/guitarist whose breathtaking (there is no other word) voice & songs have catapulted him from a secluded family life in Maine into the spotlight. Ray’s music is not easy to categorize; his songs are intensely personal & original, but also reveal a diverse range of influences that includes giants like Bob Dylan, Joni …
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis (2CD)
A one-night-only concert was held at New York City s Town Hall last fall, to celebrate the music of the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis. The evening was filmed for a documentary that was broadcast by Showtime last winter, and now Nonesuch Records releases a live recording of the concert, Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music …