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Buy Now	Dans les Airs (more) »rank: 3422 by: Le Vent Du Nord	Buy Now	Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection (more) »rank: 6141 by: Ralph Stanley : :Now that Ralph Stanley has established himself as America s foremost singer of traditional mountain music, it s easy to overlook the fact that he is regarded by many as one of the finest practitioners of old-time clawhammer banjo. Like his singing, Stanley s clawhammer banjo playing is a product of a particular place, the hills and hollows in an isolated corner of far southwest Virginia where he was born and still lives today. Ralph was eleven when he got his first banjo, and its bright ringing sound cheered the lonely, withdrawn boy. From the first touch the banjo felt ...
Buy Now	Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (more) »rank: 7626 by: Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris : :Emmylou Harris once said of her four-shows-a-night salad days that she refused to sing anything on the hit parade, opting only for 'bizarre, left-field songs' that 'made it hard to make a living.' Decades later, Harris still spends a lot of time in left field, and it's those offbeat, haunting gems--more than the classics here from Leonard Cohen or Jackson Browne--that make Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, her duet album with Linda Ronstadt, so memorable. That, and her exquisitely pained soprano--reminiscent of 'cracked crystal,' as Linda puts it--nestled up against Ronstadt's thicker, corduroy harmonies. With arrangements that meet somewhere between Harris's ...	Buy Now	Christmas in Scotland CD - Highland Christmas Music on Bagpipes (more) »rank: 2466 by: Michael Hamilton : :Traditional Christmas Music played on the Highland Bagpipes
Buy Now	The Lovers' Waltz (more) »rank: 40381 by: Jay Ungar, Molly Mason : :There are faster and flashier fiddlers than Jay Ungar, but he is almost without peer as a composer of fiddle tunes. Blessed with that rare knack for making his melodies move in ways that stir the listener's longings, he is best known for penning and performing 'Ashokan Farewell,' the evocative theme from 'The Civil War' TV series. Ungar's 1997 album with his wife Molly Mason, The Lover's Waltz, takes its name from another striking fiddle theme, a slow-moving melody that seems to trace the rise of romantic desire and its satisfaction in each 32-bar section. Mason accompanies her husband on piano, ...	Buy Now	Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited (30th Anniversary Edition) (more) »rank: 16490 by: Arlo Guthrie :Album Description:WHAT CAME AROUND - COMES AROUND AGAIN! TALK ABOUT TIMING!!! Though all the other songs on this album were rerecorded in the studo, in 1995 Arlo returned to the church near Stockbridge, Massachusetts where he originally wrote Alice's Restaurant. On the 30th anniversary of the massacree, on Thanksgiving, before a live audience, in the place where it all began, he does 'Alice' again with some historic footnotes added to the original, creating a return to the scene of the crime in ways that make this version of the famous record the one to stand for all time.
Buy Now	Wildflowers (more) »rank: 6749 by: Judy Collins : essential recording:She began her career as a folk formalist. Her clear, clean diction and perfect pitch wedded to both age-old folk songs and modern upstarts (Dylan, Eric Andersen) cast her as an immediate authority. With In My Life and Wildflowers she began to shift away from pure folk and into art song. Arranged and conducted by Joshua Rifkin, the disc's orchestration adds a suitable grace to Collins's high seriousness. Joni Mitchell's two compositions are further softened, while Leonard Cohen's three songs sound positively biblical. Toss in a Jacques Brel piece and a 14th-century Italian ballad, and you have the perfect ...	Buy Now	More Best of Leonard Cohen (more) »rank: 24336 by: Leonard Cohen : :Canadian poet Leonard Cohen sings with great weight and authority and his lyrics are among the most elegant and scripted of the rock era. This collection is culled from his past three albums (1988's I'm Your Man, 1992's The Future, and 1994's Cohen Live) and shows a man whose voice has deepened to the point of grim, foreboding death with lyrics sharpened to masterful precision. The arrangements are deliberately clunky--the cheese- whiz female back-ups lend unusual tension bordering on parody--but the sentiments are for real. Two previously unreleased cuts, 'Never Any Good' and the non-event, 'The Great Event' suggest his well ...
Buy Now	Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (more) »rank: 28909 by: Joan Baez : :Canadian poet Leonard Cohen sings with great weight and authority and his lyrics are among the most elegant and scripted of the rock era. This collection is culled from his past three albums (1988's I'm Your Man, 1992's The Future, and 1994's Cohen Live) and shows a man whose voice has deepened to the point of grim, foreboding death with lyrics sharpened to masterful precision. The arrangements are deliberately clunky--the cheese- whiz female back-ups lend unusual tension bordering on parody--but the sentiments are for real. Two previously unreleased cuts, 'Never Any Good' and the non-event, 'The Great Event' suggest his well ...	Buy Now	Ophelia (more) »rank: 25079 by: Natalie Merchant : :Miss Natalie needs to lighten up. Ophelia's a pretty heavy record, in terms of both the thick, string-heavy production and in terms of her protracted, pretentious songs. Merchant has a beautiful voice but she bogs it down with weighty themes that walk around in flashy clothes without going anywhere. She's even got, gulp, Tibetan lyric translations on 'Effigy.' It's telling that the best track here is the simplest--a lovely reading of an 1887 parlour hymn, 'When They Ring The Golden Bells.' Its genteel acoustic backdrop perfectly sets off Merchant's voice--and its the only time she sings with a passion that doesn't ...