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Norah Jones The Fall •••½ Blue Note In 2002 you couldn’t draw breath while watching commercial TV without exposure to an advert for Norah Jones’s debut album Come Away With Me. With an interesting back story (she’s the daughter of the world’s most famous sitar player, Ravi Shankar), a mellow pop-jazz sound that offended no one, and a [...]
Blissfully Domestic (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Synopsis Mr. Schuester splits the Glee Club into pairs to sing their favorite ballad, but when one kid gets sick, he's forced to step in and winds up in a sticky situation. Meanwhile, Finn and Quinn have to face the music when they have dinner with her parents. (Fox.com) The Soundtrack Lean on Me (Bill Withers) Endless Love [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Parts of Norah Jones's 2007 album Not Too Late sounded rather like a scrubbed-up, housetrained Tom Waits, so it's no surprise that for this follow-up, she enlisted the services of producer Jacquire King in an attempt to obtain the "balance between beautiful and rough" that he secured for Waits's Mule Variations.
Video and Lyrics (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Lean On Me Lyrics : Glee "Lean On Me" is a features track performed by Glee from episode 10th titled "Ballad" of the television series Glee that premiered on the Fox network on November 18, 2009. The song originally performed by Bill Withers on the 1972 album Still Bill.Enjoy the music video and please report on the comment post if you found Glee - Lean On Me video is broken. Lean...
thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Up to now, Glee has sort of tip-toed around being a musical, keeping the songs primarily performance-based, with lyrical ties not overtly specific to the moment. "Ballads" is the first episode that really can't be called anything but a musical, with every song having overt literal meaning to the scene at hand. And if there was any question, Rachel set us straight at the end. "Just listen...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Just been watching the OGWT 1971-1987 DVD (which is bloody marvellous! Is there only one?) and would just like to say that Bill Withers group has to be the most laid back coolest group of musicians ever!! The bass player's tartan trews! the drummers grin! Fantastic! plus they play ace! Oh and Bonnie Raitt singing 'Been too long at the fair". That has to be the purest voice I've ever heard.Magnificent....
Spare Room (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Spare Room has three copies of the newly released documentary Soul Power to give away, courtesy of Madman Entertainment NZ. Soul Power centres on the legendary soul music festival held in Zaire in 1974, featuring oustanding footage of James Brown and the JBs, Bill Withers, Miriam Makeba, The Spinners, BB King, The Crusaders...
Losanjealous (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Following up on covering The Velvet Underground & Nico and Songs of Leonard Cohen, Beck’s Record Club takes on Skip Spence’s classic Oar along with Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell. The first fruit from the sessions, album opener “Little Hands,” is up on Vimeo now: Beck shares some notes on the session: This one took place [...]
IGN (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A DVD and Blu-ray with a little bit of soul.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
News: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the US DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Soul Power on 26th January 2010. Featuring musical legends James Brown, B.B. King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz and a host of others, Soul Power documents three-night ...
Bounded Rationality (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
When I was growing up in Tulsa in the early 1970's, I remember the competition between the perennial AM radio enemies (at least to me) KAKC and KELI. I always liked KAKC, until the sixth grade, when I had a crush on a girl at church named Kelly, and then my favorite became KELI for a while. My older brother and I couldn't wait to hear Casey Kasem's American Top Forty show. We would listen to the entire...
The English Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
There wasn't much on at the cinema this weekend, so I was tempted to go and see the apocalyptic disaster movie 2012, even though it's dubbed into French. However, having read the 2012 reviews, I decided to go and see...
mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Record Club: Skip Spence “Little Hands” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo . I seriously think Beck lives in my mind and/or my record collection and says to himself, “who would Colin like me to work with? Oh I know, Feist , Wilco and Jamie Lidell .” And why is this motley crew of musicians banding together? It’s because Beck has finished with his Leonard Cohen album and has moved...
Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A friend just emailed me a YouTube of “Lovely Day”; I was going go to with that and write “may the headwinds be always at your back”. But this is by far the finest Bill Withers video on the internets.
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
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