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Ladies of the Canyon

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Joni Mitchell

Release Date October 25, 1990
I recently viewed the American Masters documentary on Joni Mitchell during a time when I had been re-reading Norman Mailer's Marilyn- his take on the life of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe. And although there is no obvious connection between the lives or the talents of the two women there is a tale of two generations hidden here. Marilyn represented for my parent's generation, the generation that survived the Great Depression and fought World War II, the epitome of blond glamour, sex and talent. To my more `sedate' generation blond-haired Joni represented the introspective, searching, quiet beauty that we sought to represent our longings for understanding in a seemingly baffling world that we had not made. As this documentary and Mailer's ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 152
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New Skin for the Old Ceremony

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by: Leonard Cohen

Release Date March 01, 2008
I have grown into quite the Leonard Cohen fan, but this particular CD goes to the bottom of the growing pile of my Cohen collection. I can't even remember why, just that I wasn't interested in listening to it again, unlike all of his others, which I play over and over, seemingly never tiring of them.

CD-Charts Position 153
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The Times They Are A-Changin'

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by: Bob Dylan

Release Date June 21, 2005
In reviewing Bob Dylan's 1965 classic album Bringing All Back Home (you know, the one where he went electric) I noted that it seemed hard to believe now that both as to the performer as well as to what was being attempted that anyone would take umbrage at a performer using an electric guitar to tell a folk story (or any story for that matter). I further pointed out that it is not necessary to go into all the details of what or what did not happen with Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 to know that one should be glad, glad as hell, that Bob Dylan continued to listen to his own drummer and carry on a career based on electronic music.

Others have, endlessly, gone on about Bob Dylan's role as the voice of his generation (and mine), his ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 154
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Say I Am You

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: The Weepies, The Weepies

Release Date March 07, 2006
I believe I first heard The Weepies on TV late last year and eventually managed to track down more of their music. Every song on the track has become a favorite. Even ones I didn't appreciate at first ended up getting stuck in my head and after humming them for hours I'd remember where I'd heard it and run back to listen to them again and again.

My favorite off of the album is probably "Gotta Have You"...it's very catchy and has a unique beat and the lyrics are beautiful.

"World Spins Madly On" is another great track, albeit slightly depressing.

There really isn't a bad song on this album, I love each and every one of them and I think they are all of a similar quality and style. Some people may prefer more variation on an ... Read More:

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New Morning

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by: Bob Dylan

Release Date February 01, 2008
I truly believe had this album not come after Self-Portrait, it would have been much more highly regarded. In fact, I was still surprised, and very disappointed, that it did not get the SACD remaster treatment, and such albums as Street Legal did. This is a little gem of an album. True, it does not have the lyrical complexity that graces most of Dylan's albums, but neither did Nashville Skyline, and this is eons better than that album. It is the most overlooked album in Dylan's ouvre, and still impresses today. Though Bob Johnstone is listed as producer, Al Kooper actually was, and does a great job, giving the songs a muscality rare in Dylan's work. An overlooked jem.

CD-Charts Position 156
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9

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Damien Rice

Release Date November 14, 2006
Damien Rice set the bar ridiculously high with his 2004 release, O. On his debut, there was incredible production and amazing sounds coming out of every track. While the follow up to O, also a single character title, 9, is a solid album, fans expecting the artistic saturation found on O will be somewhat disappointed. While Damien Rice's song writing is solid, his voice is great and the lyrics provide good images, we don't get anything like the backwards singing on "Cold Water," or the clinking glasses on the drunken "Cheers, Darling," or the raw emotion so direly expressed in "The Blower's Daughter" or "I Remember" or the Sweedish opera singing on "Eskimo." Instead we hear Rice producing an album that is more straight-ahead and with fewer layers. There's more electric ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 157
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Encore: The Very Best of Rod Stewart, Vol. 2

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Rod Stewart

Release Date June 03, 2008
I do love a lot of his songs, not particularily himself so much, sorry for that fact, but!!: I do love" I don't want to talk about it" Great song, great feeling, arrangement, lyrics and melody...all goes so well...thats worth buying it...and for the other hits of course too. I mean, after all it is Rod Stewart and deserves a Greatest Hits...Part 2...not many Artiusts can say that about themselves!

CD-Charts Position 158
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James Taylor - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: James Taylor

Release Date November 07, 2000
Who doesn't like a little James now and then. Some of the best music on this CD.

CD-Charts Position 159
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It's a Beautiful Day

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: It's a Beautiful Day

Release Date November 13, 2001
Here's one of the lesser-known but absolutely essential albums of the 1960s, one that captures the innocence & optimism that touched the lives of so many during that sadly brief time. What jaded reviewers dismiss as empty & shallow was something very real & vibrant then -- and we could use more of it today, when times are so grim & bitter, and the human spirit has been crushed in all too many individuals. As the song says, "White bird must fly / Or she will die."

From the quintessential opening track, to the sprawling three-part suite of Side 2 (for those who remember LPs), this is a strong collection of songs imbued with the sense of endless possibilities abroad then. Naive? Yes, to some degree. But as another American original once put it so well, "Hope ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 160
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Fight for Your Mind

CD-Charts > Music > Folk Rock
by: Ben Harper

Release Date August 01, 1995
I am a fan of Ben Harpers. Have been since the '90's. I love his vision of music. His soulful vocals. The lyrics of this cd and the energy that went into it, make it my favorite all time of his albums. I even own his newer ones, they still do not compare. This is where it all started....