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A vinyl-only compilation of tracks from the Raincoats' original three albums (1979's The Raincoats, 1981's Odyshape, and 1984's Moving), the 1995 release Fairytales is...
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Bobby Rush scored just one hit single -- "Chicken Heads," which went to 34 on the R&B charts in 1971 -- but, then again, his career coincided with the slow sunset of...
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was a versatile and crowd-pleasing entertainer throughout his long career, but it's easy to overlook just how explosive a guitarist he was in...
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Etta James was fighting serious substance abuse problems when this album was recorded, commuting to the sessions from a rehab center. It was a triumph simply to complete...
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Sound-sourced from an assortment of deep-acoustic spots including sewers and subterranean caves, Heresy is a suitably dark hour-long trip through ambient-noise....
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French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau left behind an extraordinary wealth of orchestral music, but little to none of it is of the stand-alone variety, scattered as...
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American Visions is the kind of programming that Arthur Fiedler used to do so well with the Boston Pops -- American classical music with a populist flair -- and it shows...
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Even though the revival of Carl Nielsen's music in the late '60s proved to be nearly as revelatory as the slightly earlier promotion of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, the...
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In the program notes for this CD pianist Paul Badura-Skoda writes of Schubert's Quintet in C as "one of the great masterpieces of western music. The perfection of its...