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The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live, 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall Concert"

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Bob Dylan

Release Date October 13, 1998
I'll just give it five stars. The fact it's also really well released with an amazing booklet just makes it vital. Dylan at full command of his craft. If you haven't got it... get it!

CD-Charts Position 132
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Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live In Dublin

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
starring: Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band

Release Date June 05, 2007
I saw this on PBS and it was amazing...so I ordered myself a copy of the DVD after enjoying the CD for a while. I'm not normally a fan of life recordings (even Springsteen's), but this is different. The band is having a great time, the music is amazing, sound quality is excellent. The "Sessions Band" is not the same as the E-Street Band, and though both are great, this is a unique treat.

CD-Charts Position 133
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Tea for the Tillerman

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
starring: Cat Stevens

Release Date September 02, 2008
I saw this on PBS and it was amazing...so I ordered myself a copy of the DVD after enjoying the CD for a while. I'm not normally a fan of life recordings (even Springsteen's), but this is different. The band is having a great time, the music is amazing, sound quality is excellent. The "Sessions Band" is not the same as the E-Street Band, and though both are great, this is a unique treat.

CD-Charts Position 134
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Classic Hits

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Jim Croce

Release Date January 27, 2004
Good sound quality. All the Croce classics are here. If you're a "B-side" fan this is not for you but if you're looking for the "best of" then you'll be happy with this.

CD-Charts Position 135
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Nebraska

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Bruce Springsteen

Release Date October 25, 1990
Twelve and a half years after the release of his debut, Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. and two years after The River was delivered, Bruce Springsteen gave us Nebraska. This 1982 record represented an abrupt change in direction for this most popular of American artists. Springsteen's new course was so surprising and dramatic that you would be hard-pressed to find adequate words to describe it to a fan who had not yet been exposed. Gone are the horns; gone are Springsteen's electric guitar solos; gone are the anthems. We are no longer cruising in Jersey. We have moved to the mid-west and we are running from murder. Rock music is replaced by folk music - not gentle folk music either, but, rather, sparse music that is roots-driven, edgy and minimalist. We ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 136
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Bridge Over Troubled Water

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Simon & Garfunkel

Release Date August 21, 2001
Nobody writes stuff this good anymore, except maybe Nick Worrall. Simply beautiful in every way possible.

CD-Charts Position 137
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Beautiful World

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Eliza Gilkyson

Release Date May 27, 2008
Having listened to EG for years and years and also seen her live more than once, I found this album to be her most poignant and conscious to date. With intelligence and passion, she is writing songs here which combine to decry the state of the world, not simplistically but with complex and thoughtful lyrics, yet also to endorse some small hope. The lyrics coupled with the very somber and gorgeous accompaniments really brought me to tears at times. She also really gets the difficulties of women in the world today, yet does not press. I was intrigued also by her echoes of old fifties tunes and lyrics which she has revised ironically for our times with very different and much more sobering takes. I was moved to tears at times and have never written a review ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 138
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Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: The Pierces

Release Date March 20, 2007
Heard "Secret" on some chickish CW show that was on in the background while I was studying, it was so amazing I had to write down the lyrics and look it up, finally bought it off Amazon, and I have to say I absolutely love this CD.

There is a style here that is so unique I just love it. My favourites are "Secret," "Sticks and Stones," and "Kill Kill Kill." I'll be studying and suddenly realize I'm swaying with the music, or chanting out a chorus and look up at the playlist, and it will be one of these three. "Secret" is this sort of waltzy haunting tune with a delightfully macabre quality. "Sticks and Stones" has a similar haunting quality to it, it's witchy little tune, I adore the lyrics, the vocals, the bass, the bell things. And I just can't help sing ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 139
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The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Van Morrison

Release Date June 19, 2007
This double album is representative of V.M.'s best recent stuff. The fact that the sublime "Shenandoah" and "Meet Me in the Indian Summer" (Orchestral version) are included is alone worth the price of purchase. I've probably listened to Shenandoah 30 times already; it's a soul-stirring beauty of a song.

CD-Charts Position 140
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The Future

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Leonard Cohen

Release Date February 01, 2008
For those of you who are concerned about the drift of America over the last several decades, this album is the soundtrack of our country's descent. When Cohen sings, "I have seen the future. It is murder," he is talking about the arc through which we are falling. The poet says what the rest of us somehow sense but can't quite verbalize. Imagine Cohen in 1930s Germany. Except he is talking about us here in America, now, where we are and where we are going. "I have seen the future. It is murder." The rest of the album is pretty good too. "Charlie Manson, the white man dancing." All the way to the White House.