Blackmore’s Night ,

is a Renaissance-inspired folk rock duo led by Ritchie Blackmore (acoustic and electric guitar) and Candice Night (lead vocals, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist).
“Autumn Sky” brings us 15 new BLACKMORE’S NIGHT songs, full of emotion with a touch of past times and magical atmospheres. From the glorious wanderlust-feelings of “….Highland….” all the way to the sweetness of “Strawberry Girl” and the upbeat “Journeyman”, the album is again a powerful proof of the versatility of Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night’s repertoire and the talents of BLACKMORE’S NIGHT band.
Recorded during Candice’s pregnancy, Candice and Ritchie have dedicated the “Autumn Sky” album to their newly born daughter Autumn Esmerelda Blackmore.

BLACKMORE’S NIGHT features in its ranks Blackmore, Night, Bard David of Larchmont (keyboards/vocals), Earl Grey of Chimay (bass/rhythm guitar/vocals), Squire Malcolm of Lumley (percussionist), and Gypsy Rose (violin/vocals). ….Read More

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David Gray ,

(born David Peter Gray, 13 June 1968, Sale, Cheshire), is an English singer-songwriter. He released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later. It was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray, the latter two of which also made the Top 20 in the US.
Foundling is his ninth studio album. The double album is released on 16 August 2010 in the United Kingdom, and on the following day in the United States by Mercer Street/Downtown Records. ….Read More

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Raymond Charles “Ray” LaMontagne ,

(born June 18, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter. Reportedly, after hearing a Stephen Stills song, LaMontagne decided to quit his job at a shoe factory and pursue a career in music. He has since released five albums, Acre of Land, Trouble, Till the Sun Turns Black, Gossip in the Grain and God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise. In the UK, Trouble was a top 5 hit, and the title track of the album was a top 25 hit. Till the Sun Turns Black was a top 40 hit in the U.S. A soft-spoken person who is known for his raspy voice, LaMontagne has won a number of awards for his music and has performed at several charity events.
LaMontagne’s fourth studio album, God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise, was released on August 17, 2010. ….Read More

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Mary Chapin Carpenter ,

(born February 21, 1958) is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter’s first album, 1987’s Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989’s State of the Heart and 1990’s Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts. ….Read More

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Chester & Lester ,

is a collaborative album by guitarists Chet Atkins and Les Paul released in 1976.

It was recorded in the mid-1970s when Chet was in his fifties and Les in his sixties. Chet coaxed Les out of his decade-long retirement for this recording. The liner notes state there is very little overdubbing and the majority of the album was live in the studio.

Chester & Lester peaked at No. 11 on Billboard’s Country album chart and No. 172 on the Pop album chart. It peaked at No. 27 on the Country chart again in 1978. At the Grammy Awards of 1976, Chester & Lester won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance. ….Read More

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The History Of Country & Western Music ,

German digitally remastered box-set featuring 400 legendary songs from 185 famous
artists including Roy Acuff, Merle Travis, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills, Chet Atkins, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family
One could argue with the inclusion or exclusion of certain songs or artists, but with this boxed set you get 20 CDS, 400 SONGS of mostly fantastic country & western (& a dash of bluegrass and “cowboy”,
and there’s western swing and honky tonk, etc.) music from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.

From Jimmie Rodgers to Hank Williams, from Bob Wills to Tennessee Ernie Ford, from Gene Autry to Flatt & Scruggs, and on and on, this set is a superb way to jump-start your classic country collection.

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Natalie Anne Merchant ,

(born October 26, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.
Leave Your Sleep is her fifth solo album. The album is “a project about childhood” and is a collection of music adapted from 19th and 20th century British and American poetry about childhood. ….Read More

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John Hiatt ,

(born August 20, 1952 in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.) is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for eleven Grammy Awards and has been awarded a variety of other distinctions in the music industry. ….Read More

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She And Him ,

is an American indie folk band consisting of Zooey Deschanel (vocals, piano, banjo) and M. Ward (guitar, production).
The band’s first album, Volume One, was released in March, 2008. The duo is augmented by session musicians Rachel Blumberg (drums), Mike Mogis (pedal steel guitar, mandolin) and Mike Coykendall (bass, guitar). ….Read More

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She & Him ,

is an American indie folk band consisting of Zooey Deschanel (vocals, piano, banjo) and M. Ward (guitar, production).
Volume Two is thier second album. It is released on March 17, 2010 in Japan, March 23, 2010 in US, and on April 5, 2010 in UK.

The album’s track listing was announced on December 8, 2009.”In the Sun” was published online by Pitchfork Media on January 22, 2010 and was released as a single with “I Can Hear Music” on February 23, 2010. A video of “In the Sun” was released on March 9, 2010.

On 9 February 2010, She & Him were interviewed on BBC 6 Music and performed “Thieves” and “Gonna Get Along without You Now”. Two versions of the song “Thieves” were made available on-line. One was that played for the BBC interview and two weeks later Stereogum premiered the studio version from the album. On 14 March 2010, the entire album became available for streaming on NPR’s website. ….Read More

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Arlo Davy Guthrie ,

(born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice. One of Guthrie’s works is “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” a satirical talking blues song of about 18 minutes in length. ….Read More

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Neil Young – Dreamin’ Man Live ‘92 ,

           Track Listing :

01. Dreamin’ Man
02. Such A Woman
03. One Of These Days
04. Harvest Moon
05. You And Me
06. Hank To Hendrix
07. Unknown Legend
08. Old King
09. Natural Beauty
10. War Of Man

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Emma Cook ,

Folk singer/songwriter Emma Cook was born and primarily raised in Toronto, Canada, where she began formal voice training at an early age and took a year of guitar lessons in her early teens. After initially heading toward a degree in voice at Dalhousie University, she decided she did not want to pursue a classical music career and instead began writing and singing her own songs. Forming her own label, Emmazing Records, she self-released her debut album, Manifesto, in 2003. A grant from the Ontario Arts Council helped her finish and issue her second album, Hit & Run, in the summer of 2008, and she toured Canada and played dates in the U.S. to promote it.
She added three bonus tracks from Manifesto to Hit & Run for an American release on March 31, 2009, by which time she had embarked on her first proper U.S. tour, which included a stop at the South by Southwest Music Conference, where she unveiled the Emma Cook Trio, including bass player Gord Mowat and drummer Tim Shia.

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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ,

is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group’s membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded as The Dirt Band. Constant members since the early times are singer-guitarist Jeff Hanna and drummer Jimmie Fadden. Multi-instrumentalist John McEuen was with the band from 1966 to 1986 and returned during 2001. Keyboardist Bob Carpenter joined the band in 1977. ….Read More

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Speed Of Life

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Nic Dawson Kelly ,

A Sheffield-born musician, Nic Dawson Kelly has one of the most extraordinary voices to grace pop in years. Containing traces of Bryan Ferry’s quavering shimmy, Antony Hegarty’s tremulous keen and Bob Dylan’s phrasing, it should come stamped with the words “acquired taste”, yet it conveys such passion, anguish and commitment that it ensnares far more than it deters. On Thursday, the opening track on Dawson Kelly’s beautiful debut album, Old Valentine, he conjures up the hitherto unimaginable sound of Roxy Music as a skiffle band; elsewhere, raw blues, country-rock and whimsical pastoral pop position Dawson Kelly as the British Jose Gonzales, a visceral, compelling new presence on the UK music scene.

Nic Dawson Kelly – Old Valentine

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Joan Chandos Baez ,

(born January 9, 1941, in Staten Island, New York) is a folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are topical songs and deal with social issues.

She is perhaps best known for her hit “Diamonds & Rust” and her covers of Phil Ochs’s “There but for Fortune” and The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (a top-five single on the United States charts in 1971), and to a lesser extent, “Farewell, Angelina” and “Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word” — along with “Joe Hill”, “Sweet Sir Galahad” and “We Shall Overcome” (three of the songs she performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival). ….Read More

Joan Baez – Gracias A La Vida (Here’s To Life)

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Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) ,

(born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician of Greek Cypriot and Swedish ancestry. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam.

As Cat Stevens, he has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s. His albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified as Triple Platinum in the United States; his album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release alone, and was Billboard’s number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. He has also earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in consecutive years, for “The First Cut Is the Deepest”, which has been a hit single for four different artists.

Stevens converted to Islam at the height of his fame in December, 1977, and adopted his Muslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year. In 1979 he auctioned all his guitars away for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including 2003’s World Award, the 2004 Man for Peace Award and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In 2006, he returned to pop music, with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup. He now goes by the single name Yusuf.

He currently lives with his wife and children in London, and spends part of each year in Dubai.

His newest album, Roadsinger, was released on May 5, 2009. ….Read More

Yusuf Islam – Roadsinger

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Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt ,

(born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist and pianist most famous for writing, recording and performing world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is well known for her soprano vocals. ….Read More

Loreena McKennitt – A Mummers’ Dance Through Ireland

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Cocoon ,

est un groupe de pop / folk français chantant en anglais, créé en 2006 et composé de Mark Daumail (né le 6 décembre 1984) (chant et cordes) et Morgane Imbeaud (née le 14 avril 1987) (chant et clavier), originaires tous les deux de Clermont-Ferrand.
Dès sa création en 2006, le groupe fut soutenu par la Coopérative de Mai puis repéré par Les Inrockuptibles dans l’édition 2007 de leur concours Ceux qu’il faut découvrir.

Leur deuxième EP, From Panda Mountains sort en avril 2007, bientôt suivi de leur premier album My Friends All Died In A Plane Crash qui voit le jour le 22 octobre 2007. Celui-ci est nommé à l’édition 2008 du prix Constantin.

Leur MySpace propose des morceaux inédits, comme Hey Ya!, une reprise du titre d’OutKast ou encore Kung Fu Fighting, tube disco de 1974 interprété à l’origine par Carl Douglas. En concert, les deux jeunes artistes reprennent le titre d’Amy Winehouse, Rehab et plus surprenant encore Monsoon (en version anglaise) le premier single de Tokio Hotel.

Cocoon s’est produit notamment le 25 octobre 2008 à La Cigale ainsi qu’à l’Olympia, le 12 janvier 2009 à Paris. Leur prochain passage sur une scène parisienne se fera les 19 et 20 mai 2009 à La Cigale.

Le groupe est proche du gagnant de la saison 2007 de la Nouvelle Star, Julien Doré, avec qui ils se sont produits dans l’émission de télévision Taratata. Morgane Imbeaud apparait également sur deux chansons (Acacia, Figures Imposées) de son album Ersatz.

Plusieurs de leurs chansons ont illustré des spots de publicité à la télévision : Chupee pour Taillefine de Danone ou la gamme Tepee de Peugeot, On my way pour l’Eos de Volkswagen, Owls pour Lancel. ….Read More

Cocoon – My Friends All Died In A Plane Crash

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Domenico Modugno ,

(January 9, 1928 – August 6, 1994) was a twice Grammy Award-winning Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. ….More

Domenico Modugno – The Golden Collection – CD1

Domenico Modugno – The Golden Collection – CD2

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Melissa McClelland ,

(born 1979 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lived in Burlington, Ontario, Canada in her youth and now bases her career from Toronto.

McClelland’s music is influenced by blues and americana.

McClelland married Luke Doucet on June 24, 2006; the two have played together on numerous stages, including at the 2006 Calgary Folk Music Festival. He has produced three of her records, “Stranded in Suburbia”, “Thumbelina’s One Night Stand” and “Victoria Day”. ….More

Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day

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Leonard Norman Cohen ,

Order Of Canada And National Order Of Quebec (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, sexuality and complex interpersonal relationships.

Cohen’s earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1967 album, Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music. In the 1970s, his music encompassed pop, cabaret and world music. Since the 1980s his high baritone voice has evolved into lower registers (bass baritone and bass), with accompaniment from electronic synthesizers and female backing singers.

Over one thousand renditions of Cohen’s songs have been recorded. He has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation’s highest civilian honour. While giving the speech at his induction into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as in the “highest and most influential echelon of songwriters”. ….More

Live in London is a live album released March 31, 2009, it is Leonard Cohen’s eighteenth album – and his first live release since Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 in 2001. The album was recorded July 17, 2008 at London’s O2 Arena, and was released in both DVD and as a two-CD set. ….More

Leonard Cohen – Live In London – p1

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Leonard Cohen – Live In London – p3

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Spirit Of The West ,

are a Canadian folk rock band, who were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which made them one of Canada’s most successful alternative rock acts in the 1990s. ….More

Spirit Of The West – Save This House

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L’Ame De L’afrique ,

           Track Listing :

1. “1. Ye Ke Ye Ke”
2. “2. Yo Le Le”
3. “3. Em’Ma”
4. “4. Sweet Fanta Diallo”
5. “5. Chantou”
6. “6. Homeless”
7. “7. Doley”
8. “8. Soul Makossa”
9. “9. Tadieu Bone”
10. “10. Asimbonanga”
11. “11. Ye Ye Ye”
12. “12. Siku Ya Mangu”
13. “13. Nga Tara”
14. “14. Pata Pata”
15. “15. Koteja”
16. “16. Dom”
17. “17. Maayo Wadi Dyam”
18. “18. Have Faith”

L’Ame De L’afrique

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James Vernon Taylor ,

(born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. ….More

James Taylor – Covers

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