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Essential Benny Goodman

This fantastic new 2CD has Benny Goodman’s voluminous output to two “essential” CDs and 40 songs including the previously un-issued master takes of “Sing, Sing, Sing” and “Don’t Be That Way”.. It represents his most vital and accessible recordings mostly from the 1930s and early 1940s, when Goodman did his most innovative swing jazz work and was working …

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The Promise

Il Divo are back refreshed, reinvigorated and ready to remind the world in 2008 just what they have been missing. Four of the greatest operatic voices in the world come together again to create their unique signature sound to re-interpret popular romantic songs. The Promise features 12 songs once again produced by Steve Mac (Il Divo, The …

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We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (American Land Edition) (CD/DVD)

Deluxe CD/DVD edition including five additional songs, an expanded documentary, exclusive live footage, and previously unseen photos. 2006 album from The Boss, a collection of Pete Seeger covers performed as only Bruce Springsteen can. The CD, DVD, and 28-page expanded booklet are housed in a beautiful and striking package. New fan favorites “How Can A Poor man Stand …

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Behind the Sun

For some, outfits like producer Nick Bracegirdle’s Chicane are not easy to swallow. Isolating the more jubilant properties of trance, the beat is a light bounce, levitating above club-dance brainlessness, sounding like a house music hybrid meant for sparkling sunshine instead of dark and sweaty warehouses. They exist in an idealized, pseudo-enlightened fairy tale filled with bright colors …

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Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

Another 21 masterpieces: Lay Lady Lay; All Along the Watchtower; All I Really Want to Do; I Shall Be Released; It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue; Watching the River Flow; Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right; Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again; I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight; My Back Pages; Maggie’s Farm; Tonight I’ll Be …

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Desire

Dylan’s 17th studio album-a well-received follow-up to Blood on the Tracks -spent 5 weeks at the top of the Billboard Pop Albums chart and marked a return to topical songwriting and folk tales. One of his more collaborative efforts, the album hosts a caravan of musicians from the Rolling Thunder Revue, plus backing vocals from a then-unknown Emmylou …

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Wow: Worship Orange

In recent years there have been an increasing number of Christian musicians who have forgone personal expression to be solely devoted to the worship arts. Some are saying that this is nothing short of a worship renaissance aimed toward Christian revival. In the midst of this worldwide awakening, WOW Worship is back with 30 more favorite songs to …

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Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection

The Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection CD features 14 outstanding tracks culled from Shawn’s critically-acclaimed albums–Steady On (1989), Fat City (1992), Cover Girl (1994), A Few Small Repairs (1996), & Whole New You (2001)–and a newly-recorded cover of the classic Beatles song, ‘I’ll Be Back.’ The album includes Shawn’s Grammy-winning songs from Steady On (which won in 1990 …

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Cadillac Records (Music From the Motion Picture)

Cadillac Records stars Beyonce, Mof Def, Jeffrey Wright and Adrien Brody with the soundtrack featuring Beyonce, Mof Def, Columbus Short, Mary Mary, Raphael Saadiq, Solange, Little Walter and Nas with Olu Dara. The movie is about Leonard Chess who co-founded Chess Records, the pre-eminent blues label of the Fifties and Sixties, with his brother Phil. They formed …

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