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Robin Leonard Trower ,

(born 9 March 1945, Catford, South East London, England) is an English rock guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the leader of his own power trio. ….Read More

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Sweet Suzi & The Blues Experience ,

Into the pantheon of Koko Taylor, Etta James, Irma Thomas and Janis Joplin steps Sweet Suzi. Sultry yet powerful vocals backed by soulful musicians playing original tunes as well as a cleverly chosen covers by legends of the genre. Together they produce the “perfect storm” of Blues.

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01. Bad Axe
02. Unbroken
03. Does Your Wife Know
04. Shadows
05. Mama
06. Your Mama’s Talkin’
07. I’d Rather Go Blind
08. Pretty Little Lies
09. God Bless The Child
10. Slippin’ Out, Slippin’ In
11. The Weight

Sweet Suzi & The Blues Experience – Unbroken

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Maximilian Herre ,

(born April 22, 1973 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg) is a German musician who rose to fame as a member of the group Freundeskreis. ….Read More

Max Herre – Ein Geschenkter Tag

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Randall Stuart “Randy” Newman ,

(born November 28, 1943) is an American singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.

Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman’s own biography, often using the literary device of an unreliable narrator. For example, the 1972 song “Sail Away” is written as a slave trader’s sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of “Political Science” is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution. One of his biggest hits, “Short People” was written from the perspective of “a lunatic” who hates short people. Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach, Meet the Parents and Seabiscuit. He has scored five Disney-Pixar films: Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and Cars, and is set to return for Toy Story 3 and Cars 2.

He has been singled out for a number of awards by his colleagues, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and the Governor’s Award from the Recording Academy. Randy Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. ….Read More

Randy Newman – Harps And Angels

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Ketevan “Katie” Melua ,

born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian/British singer, songwriter and musician. She was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she was the United Kingdom’s biggest-selling female artist and Europe’s highest selling European female artist. ….Read More

Katie Melua – Live At The O2 Arena

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Eunice Kathleen Waymon ,

better known by her stage name Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was a Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist.

Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classical basis, such as jazz, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop music. Her vocal style is characterized by intense passion, a loose vibrato, and a slightly androgynous timbre, in part due to her unusually low vocal range which veered between the alto and tenor ranges (occasionally even reaching baritone lows). Also known as The High Priestess of Soul, she paid great attention to the musical expression of emotions. Within one album or concert she could fluctuate between exuberant happiness or tragic melancholy. These fluctuations also characterized her own personality and personal life, worsened by bipolar disorder with which she was diagnosed in the mid-1960s, but was kept secret until 2004 after her death. ….Read More

Nina Simone – Blue For You

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Henry Saint Clair Fredericks ,

(born May 17, 1942), who goes by the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician who folds various forms of world music into his offerings. A self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, banjo and harmonica (among many other instruments), Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music during his 40+ year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa and the South Pacific. ….More

Taj Mahal – Senor Blues

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Vaya Con Dios,

is a Belgian musical group founded in 1986 by Dani Klein, Dirk Schoufs, and Willy Lambregt (the latter subsequently replaced by Jean-Michel Gielen). Their name is Spanish for “Go with God”. They had some international success with the songs “Just a Friend of Mine” (a hit in France), “What’s a Woman?” (a number 1 hit in the Netherlands in 1990), “Nah Neh Nah”, “Don’t Cry for Louie”, “Puerto Rico”, “Heading for a Fall”, “Johnny”, and “Don’t Break My Heart”. In total, Vaya Con Dios have sold more than 7 million albums and more than 3 million singles. … More

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Vaya Con Dios – Nah Neh Nah

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