 Artist: Charlie Band Daniels: mp3 download Genre(s): Country Discography:  Ultimate Collection (cd2) Year: 2004 Tracks: 15  Ultimate Collection (cd1) Year: 2004 Tracks: 15 A talented and showy violinist, Charlie Daniels and his band flux hardcore country with a hard-edged Southern rock boogie and vapours. The group -- which has had a rotating be sick of musicians over the days -- has always been known for their subservient dexterity, simply they were as well notorious for their down-home, good ol' boy posture; in the early '80s, they became a virtual symbol of conservative domain values. Daniels and his band experienced the pinnacle of their popularity at the end of the '70s and early '80s, simply they remained a popular concert magnet well into the '90s. Daniels was innate and brocaded in North Carolina, playing diddle and guitar in several bands during his teen years. At the age of 21, he distinct become a professional musician, aggregation an instrumental rock & twine combo called the Jaguars. The grouping landed a recording session for Epic Records in 1959 with Bob Johnson, wHO would subsequently become Columbia Records' in the lead phratry and land producer. The record didn't pick up much attention, but the dance orchestra continued to play and Daniels continued to publish songs. One of his originals, "It Hurts Me," was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1963. By the late '60s, it had become clear that the Jaguars weren't leaving to impinge on the big time, so Johnson recommended to Daniels that he make a motion to Nashville to suit a session musician. Daniels followed the advice and became one of the most democratic fiddlers in Nashville. He played on several Bob Dylan albums -- Capital of Tennessee Skyline, Self Portrait, New Morning, and Dylan -- as well as Ringo Starr's 1970 record Beaucoups of Blues. He besides became theatrical role of Leonard Cohen's touring band in the late '60s and produced the Youngbloods' Elephant Mountain album about the same time. Daniels cut an record album for Capitol Records in the early '70s that was ignored. In 1972, he formed the Charlie Daniels Band, using the Southern rock of the Allman Brothers as a blueprint. The band comprised Daniels (tether guitar, vocals, tinker), lead guitar player Don Murray, bassist Charlie Hayward, drummer James W. Marshall, and keyboardist Joe DiGregorio. The chemical formula worked, and in 1973 they had a minor hit with "Uneasy Rider," which was released on Kama Sutra Records. In 1974, they released Fire on the Mountain, which became a gold record inside months of its release; the album would eventually go pt. Its replacement, 1975's Night rider, did even better, thanks to the Top 40 land trench on "Lone-Star State." Saddle Tramp, released in 1976, became his first state Top Ten album, going away au. Throughout the mid-'70s, the Charlie Daniels Band chased a Southern rock direction. They were moderately successful, simply they never had a breakthrough hit either on the pop or body politic charts. By the late '70s, Daniels perceived that the hearing for Southern rock was evaporating, so he refashioned the stria as a more aboveboard country dance orchestra. The change paid off in 1979 when the single "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" became a act one hit, crossing over into the pop charts, where it strike issue three. The song was named the Country Music Association's Single of the Year and helped its concomitant album, Jillion Mile Reflections, suit a multi-platinum success. Daniels wasn't able to accompany "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with some other blockbuster undivided on the country charts, ironically, merely he had several rock crosswalk successes in the years undermentioned the success of Trillion Mile Reflections: Wide-cut Moon (1980) went pt and Windows (1982) went gold. Although he continued to sell respectably throughout the '80s, he didn't have a big hit until 1989's Simple Man, which went au. In the '90s, his records failed to chart advantageously, although he remained a democratic concert disembowel, a drift that continued through the early long time of the 21st century. In 2007 Daniels released Live from Iraq, followed later in the twelvemonth by Deuces. |
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Monday, 18 August 2008
Bill Murray - Murrays Perfect Skydive Gets Festival Off To Great Start
Actor BILL MURRAY kicked off the festivities for Illinois' 50th Annual Chicago Air and Water Show 2008 on Friday (15Aug08) in spectacular fashion - by acting a sky dive in front of the packed crowd together.
The Lost In Translation star, 57, executed a tandem jump with The Golden Knights, the U.S. Army's parachute team, on Friday afternoon, much to the delight of the audience.
Before jumping, Murray said: "I'm as quick as I'm ever loss to be."
He then hurled himself off the plane and descended in a free fall for almost one hour before pulling off a number of spins with his technical guide.
The pair banked over a sea of water before coming in to make a perfect landing on North Avenue Beach.
But the star later admitted the experience was an stimulating one: "That was genuinely fun. That was real fun. Thank you."
He joked, "It's a quiet return to world life. It was long hundred miles (193 kilometres) per hour, and I was laughing as I was falling. But just before, I was tearing up a slight bit, mentation, 'Oh, not another stupid mistake.' But it was really fun, and it was quite a kick."
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Francis Lai and Pierre Bachelet
Artist: Francis Lai and Pierre Bachelet
Genre(s):
Instrumental
Discography:
Emmanuelle
Year: 1974
Tracks: 18
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Tony Tun Tun
Artist: Tony Tun Tun
Genre(s):
Latin: Dance
Discography:
Bachata
Year:
Tracks: 1
Puerto Rican Tony Tun Tun (born Juan Castro) got knotty in music while attention Carolina's Escuela Libre de Musica, having the chance to make for with a local philharmonic orchestra. He shortly joined Victor Roque and La Gran Manzana. After participating in Grupomania, Tony Tun Tun began composing for the merengue work Grupo Karis. He debuted as a solo artist with the release of Caminando, singing its title along with Elvis Crespo. In 2000, Juan Castro returned with Con la Musica Por Dentro.
Final Harry Potter film to be split in two
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Things get silly at salute to Partch
Harry Partch invented and built his own weird (and beautiful) instruments. He developed his own weird (and beautiful) micro-tonal musical scale, adding an extra 31 pitches to the normal 12. He created his own odd aesthetic that joined modern music with ancient Greece and China (with hints of Latin America) and that included his own peculiar notions of dance, theater and ritual.
A musical maverick among West Coast mavericks, Partch died in 1974 in San Diego, thumbing his nose at posterity. He left behind one set of fragile instruments (he once refused a commission from the Smithsonian Institution to build copies) and a handful of acolytes who knew how to play them and understood his ideas. The original instruments, the cloud-chamber bowls and marimbas tall as a percussionist, are now cared for in Montclair, N.J., and cost an arm and a leg to transport.
But posterity has proven impossible to deny. REDCAT was not large enough to hold all those hoping to hear the annual late-spring program by an ensemble called Partch on Friday night. And what made this program particularly heartening was that Partch, the ensemble, which is gradually building its own instruments, now has enough to begin offering some of the composer's major compositions. "Plectra and Percussion Dances" had its first complete performance Friday since its premiere in Berkeley 55 years ago.
The dances are the combination of three different works that Partch felt made a 50-minute whole and that he subtitled "Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater." He meant the result to be the other side of tragedy, his previous large-scale work having been a setting of Yeat's version of "King Oedipus."
In the first section, "Castor and Pollux," Partch describes the visit of Zeus to Leda, in the form of a swan. A series of duets are titled "Insemination," "Conception," "Incubation." The concluding "Chorus of Delivery" is for all six instruments. Castor and Pollux, each, get "musical fertilization."
For the middle part, Partch rewrote his "Sonata Dementia" as a kind of satyr satire called "Ring Around the Moon -- a Dance Fantasm for Here and Now." He mocks singers and singing, concerts and concertgoers. As marimbas large and small ding and dong, as cloud-chamber bowls tinkle and as plucked instruments wiggle in and out of standard harmonies, a singer becomes silly. One text begins "Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity, toity, hotsy totsy," and continues in that vein for longer than you might think advisable.
The final series of dances, "Eleven Wild Horses," is the most substantial. The text comes from Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell," and Partch, who called this section "Dance Music for an Absent Drama," interpreted the poet's African exile through vague evocations of Afro-Latin dances. One has to strain to hear samba, rumba and conga through all the curious sounds, but Partch insisted they were there. He also found room to micro-tone "Happy Birthday to You," which he turned into an "Afro-Chinese Minuet."
The ensemble, led by guitarist John Schneider, is now 11 strong and made up of several local players, many associated with the California Institute of the Arts. Slowly, they build more instruments, but quickly master them.
This music, the way it sounds, the way it functions, cannot be described in relation to music otherwise known. The handsome, unusual craftsman-like instruments have the wacky, visceral tonal qualities they look like they should have. Rhythms are complicated but designed to encourage dance. The harmonies are out of this world. The music appears primitive and knowable but remains just out of reach of the ear's expectations.
Partch managed to be ahead of his time and behind it at the same time. Schneider and his wonderful ensemble are the latest announcement that whatever time that is, Partch's has come.
mark.swed@latimes.com
A musical maverick among West Coast mavericks, Partch died in 1974 in San Diego, thumbing his nose at posterity. He left behind one set of fragile instruments (he once refused a commission from the Smithsonian Institution to build copies) and a handful of acolytes who knew how to play them and understood his ideas. The original instruments, the cloud-chamber bowls and marimbas tall as a percussionist, are now cared for in Montclair, N.J., and cost an arm and a leg to transport.
But posterity has proven impossible to deny. REDCAT was not large enough to hold all those hoping to hear the annual late-spring program by an ensemble called Partch on Friday night. And what made this program particularly heartening was that Partch, the ensemble, which is gradually building its own instruments, now has enough to begin offering some of the composer's major compositions. "Plectra and Percussion Dances" had its first complete performance Friday since its premiere in Berkeley 55 years ago.
The dances are the combination of three different works that Partch felt made a 50-minute whole and that he subtitled "Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater." He meant the result to be the other side of tragedy, his previous large-scale work having been a setting of Yeat's version of "King Oedipus."
In the first section, "Castor and Pollux," Partch describes the visit of Zeus to Leda, in the form of a swan. A series of duets are titled "Insemination," "Conception," "Incubation." The concluding "Chorus of Delivery" is for all six instruments. Castor and Pollux, each, get "musical fertilization."
For the middle part, Partch rewrote his "Sonata Dementia" as a kind of satyr satire called "Ring Around the Moon -- a Dance Fantasm for Here and Now." He mocks singers and singing, concerts and concertgoers. As marimbas large and small ding and dong, as cloud-chamber bowls tinkle and as plucked instruments wiggle in and out of standard harmonies, a singer becomes silly. One text begins "Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity, toity, hotsy totsy," and continues in that vein for longer than you might think advisable.
The final series of dances, "Eleven Wild Horses," is the most substantial. The text comes from Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell," and Partch, who called this section "Dance Music for an Absent Drama," interpreted the poet's African exile through vague evocations of Afro-Latin dances. One has to strain to hear samba, rumba and conga through all the curious sounds, but Partch insisted they were there. He also found room to micro-tone "Happy Birthday to You," which he turned into an "Afro-Chinese Minuet."
The ensemble, led by guitarist John Schneider, is now 11 strong and made up of several local players, many associated with the California Institute of the Arts. Slowly, they build more instruments, but quickly master them.
This music, the way it sounds, the way it functions, cannot be described in relation to music otherwise known. The handsome, unusual craftsman-like instruments have the wacky, visceral tonal qualities they look like they should have. Rhythms are complicated but designed to encourage dance. The harmonies are out of this world. The music appears primitive and knowable but remains just out of reach of the ear's expectations.
Partch managed to be ahead of his time and behind it at the same time. Schneider and his wonderful ensemble are the latest announcement that whatever time that is, Partch's has come.
mark.swed@latimes.com
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Stevie Wonder maps North American tour
Stevie Wonder has announced a short tour of the US and Canada, kicking off June 18 in Wantagh, NY.
Wonder, who has endorsed Barack Obama in the race for the US President, will play 13 shows which wind up July 12 in Vancouver.
Wonder�??s most recent album �??A Time To Love�?? was released in 2005 and earned him his 22nd Grammy award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
He will play:
Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater (June 18)
Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena (19)
Atlantic City, NJ Trump Taj Mahal (21)
Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts (22)
Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre (24)
Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheater/Summerfest (26)
Chicago, IL Grant Park (28)
Englewood, CO Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre (July 1)
Reno, NV Reno Events Center (4)
Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre (5)
Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion (8)
Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre (11)
Vancouver, British Columbia General Motors Place (12)
--By our New York staff.
Find out more about NME.
Wonder, who has endorsed Barack Obama in the race for the US President, will play 13 shows which wind up July 12 in Vancouver.
Wonder�??s most recent album �??A Time To Love�?? was released in 2005 and earned him his 22nd Grammy award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
He will play:
Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater (June 18)
Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena (19)
Atlantic City, NJ Trump Taj Mahal (21)
Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts (22)
Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre (24)
Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheater/Summerfest (26)
Chicago, IL Grant Park (28)
Englewood, CO Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre (July 1)
Reno, NV Reno Events Center (4)
Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre (5)
Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion (8)
Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre (11)
Vancouver, British Columbia General Motors Place (12)
--By our New York staff.
Find out more about NME.
Trina
Artist: Trina
Genre(s):
Hip-Hop
Discography:
Glamorest Life
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Miami-based knocker Trina first gained ill fame in 1998 with her appearance on Trick Daddy's world Wide Web.punk.com album. Her own debut album, Da Baddest Bitch, featured a cameo by Trick Daddy and was released in early 2000 on Atlantic Records. She fatigued the succeeding deuce geezerhood honing her bleak, dingy style. She paired up with Missy Elliott for the transcription of her second movement, 2002's Diamond Princess.
Dylan to perform in Spain
Bob Dylan will perform at the 2008 World Expo in Spain's northeastern city of Zaragoza on June 23. The singer, who turns 67 later this month, has recorded a new version of his 1963 classic A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall for the water-themed world fair. The song reportedly includes the singer's spoken comments on the importance of clean water across the world.Alanis Morissette, rock icon Iggy Pop and Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe are among the other acts scheduled to perform at the expo.Meanwhile, an exhibition of art by Bob Dylan will go on display in London's Halcyon Gallery next month. It features drawing and sketches made by Dylan while on the road from 1989-1992.
Jennifer Lopez welcomes twin babies
Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony are celebrating the birth of twin babies in New York.
According to People magazine, the babies, a girl weighing 5lbs 7oz and a boy weighing 6lbs, were born early this morning.
Lopez's manager Simon Fields confirmed the news to the magazine, saying: "Jennifer and Marc are delighted, thrilled and over the moon."
The twins are the first children for the couple, who married in June 2004. Anthony already has three children.
According to People magazine, the babies, a girl weighing 5lbs 7oz and a boy weighing 6lbs, were born early this morning.
Lopez's manager Simon Fields confirmed the news to the magazine, saying: "Jennifer and Marc are delighted, thrilled and over the moon."
The twins are the first children for the couple, who married in June 2004. Anthony already has three children.
Eric Clapton invited to play in North Korea
Eric Clapton has been invited to perform in the secretive state of North Korea, it emerged yesterday.
Rock and pop have been banned in the world's most isolated state because of fears over western influences.
But the legendary English singer and guitarist has been asked to perform in the capital Pyongyang next year, according to the Financial Times.
Diplomats believe the overture shows that the communist state wants to build cultural bridges with the West, even though discussions over its nuclear programmes have stalled.
Clapton, whose hits include 'Cocaine', 'Layla', and 'Tears in Heaven', has agreed in principle to the idea, according to the newspaper.
The request comes as the New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang following a request from the country's officials.
The Philharmonic is the first major US cultural group to perform in North Korea, which US President George Bush classed as part of the "axis of evil".
The North Korean State Symphony Orchestra plans to perform in London this summer as part of the orchestra's biggest ever tour, and Clapton has been invited to the country in return.
A North Korean official told the Financial Times: "We want our music to be understood by the western world and we want our people to understand western music."
62-year-old Clapton, nicknamed Slowhand, has been ranked fourth in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame an unprecedented three times as a band member in The Yardbirds and Cream and as a soloist.
Rock and pop have been banned in the world's most isolated state because of fears over western influences.
But the legendary English singer and guitarist has been asked to perform in the capital Pyongyang next year, according to the Financial Times.
Diplomats believe the overture shows that the communist state wants to build cultural bridges with the West, even though discussions over its nuclear programmes have stalled.
Clapton, whose hits include 'Cocaine', 'Layla', and 'Tears in Heaven', has agreed in principle to the idea, according to the newspaper.
The request comes as the New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang following a request from the country's officials.
The Philharmonic is the first major US cultural group to perform in North Korea, which US President George Bush classed as part of the "axis of evil".
The North Korean State Symphony Orchestra plans to perform in London this summer as part of the orchestra's biggest ever tour, and Clapton has been invited to the country in return.
A North Korean official told the Financial Times: "We want our music to be understood by the western world and we want our people to understand western music."
62-year-old Clapton, nicknamed Slowhand, has been ranked fourth in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame an unprecedented three times as a band member in The Yardbirds and Cream and as a soloist.
Watson completes tumour treatment
Opera singer Russell Watson has completed a five-week course of radiotherapy to eradicate a recurrent brain tumour.
The 41-year-old singer, known as The Voice, described his treatment as "no walk in the park".
Watson's manager Giles Baxendale said: "He's finished his treatment but he doesn't know whether he is in the clear yet."
"He's doing well, he's a little tired, a bit drained, but he's upbeat that it's finished."
Watson will now have to have regular scans to determine whether or not the treatment has been successful.
In a message on his website, Watson said: "I've had my moments under that machine where I just wanted to stop the bloody thing and walk away."
"I'm not out of the woods yet. I dearly wanted to keep the side-effects to a minimum and I've been keeping myself fit and healthy as I can, but I'm afraid they've caught up with me, and I don't mind admitting I've not been myself."
"I'm just so lucky I've had friends, family, and of course my fans to help me through; I really don't think I could do this without the support I've had," the singer wrote.
Watson underwent surgery to remove a brain tumour last October. It was his second operation on the tumour in 12 months.
The 41-year-old singer, known as The Voice, described his treatment as "no walk in the park".
Watson's manager Giles Baxendale said: "He's finished his treatment but he doesn't know whether he is in the clear yet."
"He's doing well, he's a little tired, a bit drained, but he's upbeat that it's finished."
Watson will now have to have regular scans to determine whether or not the treatment has been successful.
In a message on his website, Watson said: "I've had my moments under that machine where I just wanted to stop the bloody thing and walk away."
"I'm not out of the woods yet. I dearly wanted to keep the side-effects to a minimum and I've been keeping myself fit and healthy as I can, but I'm afraid they've caught up with me, and I don't mind admitting I've not been myself."
"I'm just so lucky I've had friends, family, and of course my fans to help me through; I really don't think I could do this without the support I've had," the singer wrote.
Watson underwent surgery to remove a brain tumour last October. It was his second operation on the tumour in 12 months.
George Morel and Romina Johnson
Artist: George Morel and Romina Johnson
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Cant Let Me Down MN2S046
Year: 2007
Tracks: 5
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