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Buy Now	On a Starry Night (more) »rank: 1829 by: Various Artists : :The party line on most Windham Hill products seems to be that it's either the greatest stuff since wave machines, or that it all sounds alike. On a Starry Night, with its collection of world songs and reputable artists such as Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, the Turtle Island String Quartet, and others, does lean toward a seamlessly understated, homogeneous quality that is broken only occasionally by Bobby McFerrin's piece and a couple of others. That said, there can hardly be a more mellow or sonorous album of kid's music anywhere. Starry Night could calm a nursery with no nurses; why, it could even ...	Buy Now	Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 (more) »rank: 1341 by: Various Artists : :Motown did so many things well in the '60s and early '70s that this overview of the label's smashes (and some lesser-known classics) practically demands four CDs. It gets them, too, filling them with single mixes of more than 100 tracks. That the running order begins with Barrett Strong's statement of purpose 'Money (That's What I Want)' and ends with Marvin Gaye's statement of concern 'Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)' says a lot about how far the company moved in its golden decade--but no more so than what the same two cuts' differences in sound get across. The company was able to blend ...
Buy Now	Celtic Christmas: A Windham Hill Sampler (more) »rank: 1520 by: Various Artists : :Another satisfying collection of Celtic music, traditional and contemporary, that includes such modern-day folkies as Luka Bloom and, for the lack of a better term, New Age composer Loreena McKennitt. Fans who remember Planxty, the Bothy Band, Silly Wizard, and Capercaillie will embrace the performances here by individual members of those critically acclaimed and popular groups. Nightnoise singer Triona Ní Dhomhnaill, who was once described as one of the greatest voices of the century, sings a haunting piece called 'Solus,' while her brother and former Bothy Band fiddler Kevin Burke create an enchanting place on 'On a Cold Winter's Day/Christmas Eve.' In the ...	Buy Now	Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits: 1935-1954 (more) »rank: 1913 by: Various Artists : :Another satisfying collection of Celtic music, traditional and contemporary, that includes such modern-day folkies as Luka Bloom and, for the lack of a better term, New Age composer Loreena McKennitt. Fans who remember Planxty, the Bothy Band, Silly Wizard, and Capercaillie will embrace the performances here by individual members of those critically acclaimed and popular groups. Nightnoise singer Triona Ní Dhomhnaill, who was once described as one of the greatest voices of the century, sings a haunting piece called 'Solus,' while her brother and former Bothy Band fiddler Kevin Burke create an enchanting place on 'On a Cold Winter's Day/Christmas Eve.' In the ...
Buy Now	A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (more) »rank: 4485 by: Phil Spector, Various Artists :Album Description:Out-of-print in the US! This album has grown in stature over the years and has been reissued countless times. If you have to own a record to play half a dozen times during the festive season, then this is the one and only. Featuring the amazing Spector production together with Darlene Love, The Crystals, The Ronettes, BobB. Soxx And The Blue Jeans, even Leon Russell on piano and Sonny Bono on percussion, this is another timeless record that is unlikely ever to be surpassed as the greatest Christmas compilation of all time. :This lavish holiday set has been called the greatest rock ...	Buy Now	A Winter's Solstice, Vol. 4 (more) »rank: 2660 by: Steve Erquiaga, Oystein Sevag, Paul McCandless, Michael Manring, Nightnoise, Will Ackerman, Barbra Higbie, Mike Marshall, Modern Mandolin Quartet, Various Windham Hill Artists : :In 1993, Windham Hill Records released its fourth album of seasonal music recorded by the label's artists and unavailable in any other collection. Only a few of the tracks on A Winter's Solstice IV lend credence to the label's unfair stereotype as the home for new age background music. Many of the musicians come from such respected jazz bands as Oregon and the Freddie Hubbard Quartet, and from such respected folk bands as the David Grisman Quartet. Several tackle such classical pieces as Bach's 'Sheep May Safely Graze' (the Modern Mandolin Quartet), Purcell's 'Trumpet Tune' (solo guitarist Alex de Grassi) and Vivaldi's 'Four ...
Buy Now	Pure Disco, Vol. 2 (more) »rank: 5745 by: Various Artists : :In 1993, Windham Hill Records released its fourth album of seasonal music recorded by the label's artists and unavailable in any other collection. Only a few of the tracks on A Winter's Solstice IV lend credence to the label's unfair stereotype as the home for new age background music. Many of the musicians come from such respected jazz bands as Oregon and the Freddie Hubbard Quartet, and from such respected folk bands as the David Grisman Quartet. Several tackle such classical pieces as Bach's 'Sheep May Safely Graze' (the Modern Mandolin Quartet), Purcell's 'Trumpet Tune' (solo guitarist Alex de Grassi) and Vivaldi's 'Four ...	Buy Now	Soul Christmas (more) »rank: 2978 by: Various Artists : :In 1993, Windham Hill Records released its fourth album of seasonal music recorded by the label's artists and unavailable in any other collection. Only a few of the tracks on A Winter's Solstice IV lend credence to the label's unfair stereotype as the home for new age background music. Many of the musicians come from such respected jazz bands as Oregon and the Freddie Hubbard Quartet, and from such respected folk bands as the David Grisman Quartet. Several tackle such classical pieces as Bach's 'Sheep May Safely Graze' (the Modern Mandolin Quartet), Purcell's 'Trumpet Tune' (solo guitarist Alex de Grassi) and Vivaldi's 'Four ...
Buy Now	Will the Circle Be Unbroken (30th Anniversary Edition) (more) »rank: 2920 by: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band : :In an age when the old-timey soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? sells 5 million copies, it's hard to imagine how revolutionary Will the Circle Be Unbroken seemed upon its release 30 years ago. The triple album (now rereleased as a two-CD set) paired many of Nashville's venerable country and bluegrass performers (Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Jimmy Martin, Vassar Clements) with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, or as Acuff called them, 'a bunch of long-haired West Coast boys.' The idea seemed nearly as foreign as Martians setting down in Tennessee, but the Dirt Band were ...	Buy Now	Greatest Hits (more) »rank: 4140 by: The Association : :In an age when the old-timey soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? sells 5 million copies, it's hard to imagine how revolutionary Will the Circle Be Unbroken seemed upon its release 30 years ago. The triple album (now rereleased as a two-CD set) paired many of Nashville's venerable country and bluegrass performers (Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Jimmy Martin, Vassar Clements) with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, or as Acuff called them, 'a bunch of long-haired West Coast boys.' The idea seemed nearly as foreign as Martians setting down in Tennessee, but the Dirt Band were ...