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Musical
Profile Index
Welcome to our summary page of musical artists that
we profile. This is our high level snapshot. Many of the bands
mentioned on the page we have more detailed profiles, which include
topics ranging from reviews, commentary, discography, cd recommendations,
photos, and related subjects.
We're always adding new recommendations so stop
back frequently.
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[ Bob Seger ] [ Bruce Springsteen ]
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The
Essential Santana
Limited edition 3 discs |
The
Essential Santana |
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The Essential Santana has
different packaging. There's a version that has a third disc if you
can find that.
Product Description
Each Essential Limited Edition 3.0 expanded 3-CD set features the biggest hits and best-loved songs from superstar artists, including material not previously available in an Essential package
Definitive, career-spanning and comprehensive, The Essential 3.0 series features all of the must-have selections from the biggest names in music history--now with a 3rd disc!
Now available for the first time in eco-friendly cardboard packaging. The Essential Series has sold more than 18 million units worldwide across 60+ titles! |
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Our top three Santana releases include
two Legacy Edition reissues, the debut Santana and Santana 3,
Third, is the live 1977 release Moonflower, which has
two of my favorite Santana pieces, a cover of the
Zombies song "She's Not There" and "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's
Smile)."
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Moonflower |
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Boz
Scaggs |
Live-New York 3/13/09
Allman Brothers Band with Boz Scaggs |
Boz
Scaggs first album is well known Duane Allman contributing to most a
healthy dose of the material. A song from those session was
including on Anthology 1 by Duane Allman and another on Anthology
2 by Duane Allman.
1. I'm Easy
2. I'll Be Long Gone
3. Another Day (Another Letter)
4. Now You're Gone
5. Finding Her
6. Look What I Got
7. Waiting For A Train
8. Loan Me A Dime
9. Sweet Release
Duane plays on tracks 5, 6, 7, and
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Perhaps track 4 too. |
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Allman Brothers
Along that same chapter, during the Allman
Brothers Band 40th Anniversary Beacon Celebration that was in memory
of Duane Allman, Boz Scaggs came out for a healthy segment of the
show. Yes, "Loan Me a Dime" was played. I've heard most of the 2009 Beacon
run and rank this show pretty high. The Boz set is around 30 minutes
and most Boz fans would like the Asbury Jukes, whom perform during
some of the Boz set as well as with just the ABB. The Bruce Willis material
is pretty good too.
Editorial Reviews
Boz Scaggs was one of several guests at this year's Beacon run who played with Duane Allman, and this version of "Loan Me A Dime" rivals the legendary version that Boz cut with
Skydog. Scaggs also sings his heart out on "Sick and Tired" and "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City," as well as adding a lot to the Dylan classic "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry," a new addition to the ABB catalog. Add the raw power of the Asbury Jukes horns, and you have a mini-set of epic proportions, with the Allmans transformed into the world's greatest rhythm and blues revue. Bruce Willis is known to most as an actor, but he can blow a mean blues harp, as he shows on
"One Way Out" and "Smokestack Lightning." As always, some of the best moments featured just the core
ABB, like the awe-inspiring "Whipping Post" encore, which contains some of Derek's most blindingly brilliant guitar work. A can't miss show!
Mar 13, 2009 (Fri)
The Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre
New York, New York
1. Midnight Rider
2. Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
3. Done Somebody Wrong
4. New Instrumental
5. Into The Mystic
with The Asbury Jukes Horns
6. One Way Out
w/Bruce Willis, harmonica
7. Smokestack Lightnin'
w/Bruce Willis, harmonica
8. Southbound
with The Asbury Jukes Horns; James van de Bogert,
drums
Set II
9. It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry
with Boz Scaggs, guitar & vocals
10. Sick And Tired
with Boz Scaggs, guitar & vocals; The Asbury
Jukes Horns
11. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
with Boz Scaggs, guitar & vocals; The Asbury
Jukes Horns
12. Loan Me A Dime
with Boz Scaggs, guitar & vocals; The Asbury
Jukes Horns
13. The Same Thing
w/The Asbury Jukes Horns; Joe Bellia, drums
14. Wasted Words
15. No One To Run With
Encore
16. Whipping Post
The Asbury Jukes Horns are:
Richie Rosenberg “La Bamba”: Trombone
Eddie Manion: Baritone Sax
Mark Pender: Trumpet
Chris Anderson: Trumpet
Joey Stann: Tenor Sax |
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Anthology 2
by Duane Allman |
Duane Allman Anthology Vol. 1
Review
The Duane Allman Anthology Vol. 1 is a combination of Duane performing session work as well as a glimpse of
his work with the Allman Brothers Band. The material begins
with an early band he formed with his brother Gregg, The Hourglass, and concludes
with five Allman Brothers Band songs. In between those periods,
Duane played sessions for a variety of excellent musicians playing
blues, soul, R&B, acoustic material, and rock.
With the session work
selections, the material varies in that the band and singers differ from track-to-track. Some
songs feature wailing guitars, while other tracks Duane plays a supplemental role. In an attempt to categorize, there are
four main types of tracks: extended jams, supplemental roles,
acoustic material, and the Allman Brothers Band. Full
review in our Duane Allman section.
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Boz Scaggs Multi Pack
albums
Original Album Classics - Five discs
Features the following albums in vinyl replica sleeves: 'Moments', 'Slow Dancer', 'Silk Degrees', 'Middle Man' &
'Down Two Then Left'.
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My Time (1972) and Slow Dancer" (1974) |
Original Album Classics |
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Silk Degrees (Exp)
Silk Degrees is Boz' most commercially
successful album. The remastered edition adds sonic
clarity and three additional songs, live material. The
first copy of this CD I have is a little flat sounding
so the remastering is welcome. While I tend to favor the
style of music of his debt album, this album does have
some excellent material. The ending song, "We're
All Alone" is an excellent vocal showcase,
highlighted with melodic piano. The other key tracks for
me are the well publicized ones, "Lido Shuffle,
"Lowdown," and "Georgia."
Greatest Hits Live DVD
Product Description
* His first ever live DVD * Filmed in high definition video * Mixed in stereo and surround sound * Bonus features
include extra track, 15 minute documentary, and photo gallery From his early days with the Steve Miller Band, to
his smash hits as a solo performer, Boz Scaggs has been a respected musician for decades. Greatest Hits Live
features Scaggs in concert at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, and as Scaggs himself says, "It's
not just any band that can pull off this song list." From the jazz-tinged "Harbor Lights," to the desperately
blue "Loan Me a Dime," to hit songs including "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle," Greatest Hits Live provides a
powerful overview of the artist's most recognized work.
1. Lowdown
2. Slow Dancer
3. Heart of Mine
4. It All Went Down the Drain
5. Harbor Lights
6. Jojo
7. Ask Me 'Bout Nothin' but the Blues
8. Breakdown Dead Ahead
9. Look What You've Done To Me
10. I Just Go
11. Georgia
12. Miss Sun
13. Lido Shuffle
14. Runnin' Blues
15. Loan Me a Dime
16. We're All Alone
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| My Time: Anthology (1969-97) |
Hits (Exp) |
Playlist: The Very Best of Boz Scaggs |
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Live
Bullet |
Nine
Tonight |
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Seger's live albums, Live Bullet and Nine Tonight
are being re-issued in Aug. 2011 in remastered editions. Live Bullet
summarizes his early period while Nine Tonight focuses the three
Seger classics that followed.
Live Bullet
Nutbush City Limits
Travelin' Man
Beautiful Loser
Jody Girl
I've Been Working
Turn the Page
U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class)
Bo Diddley
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
Heavy Music
Katmandu
Lookin' Back
Get Out of Denver
Let It Rock
Nine Tonight
Nine Tonight
Trying to Live My Life Without You
You'll Accomp'ny Me
Hollywood Nights
Old Time Rock & Roll
Main Street
Against the Wind
Fire Down Below
Her Strut
Feel Like a Number
Fire Lake
Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight
We've Got Tonight
Night Moves
Rock & Roll Never Forgets
Let It Rock [Edited for CD] |
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Bob Seger - Greatest Hits
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If you’re in the mood for that old time rock & roll, you
just might be in luck! Capitol and EMI have announced two
remastered editions of classic live albums from Bob Seger and the
Silver Bullet Band. 1976′s Live Bullet and
1981′s Nine Tonight are both due in stores on May 17.
Bob Seger catapulted to national stardom in 1976
with the LP Night Moves, after a string of regional hits in
the Detroit area and throughout the Midwest. Just before that
commercial breakthrough, Seger and his Silver Bullet Band were
captured in their live prime at Detroit’s Cobo Arena for the 2-LP
set Live Bullet. Seger had already recorded six
albums for Capitol by this point without gaining a significant
national audience. Night Moves would change all that
just a few months after the release of Live Bullet.
The new, single-disc edition of the album adds one bonus track, a
live take on “I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home.”
Bizarrely, the track listing supplied to retailers leaves off the
album’s electric opening cut, a cover of Ike and Tina Turner’s
“Nutbush City Limits.” Seeing as how “Nutbush”
received considerable airplay and is an integral part of the LP,
it’s doubtful that the song has actually been excised from the
reissue, but we’ll report back as soon as more details are
confirmed. Both “Nutbush” and the bonus track should
handily fit on one disc.
1981′s Nine Tonight drew on 1980
concerts at both Cobo Arena and the Boston Garden, and
featured a U.S. Top 5 hit, “Tryin’ to Live My Life Without
You.” Nine Tonight features live renditions of many
of Seger’s most enduring classics including “Night Moves,”
“Hollywood Nights,” “Old Time Rock & Roll” and
“Against the Wind.” Previous CD incarnations of Nine
Tonight have included an edited version of album closer “Let
it Rock,” Seger’s cover of the Chuck Berry song, shortening it
from 10:36 to 6:18. It’s likely that this reissue may
contain the same edit, as it adds one bonus track, a live version of
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Stranger in Town |
Against the Wind |
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Rock and Roll Never Forgets
Night Moves
The Fire Down Below
Sunburst
Sunspot Baby
Mainstreet
Come to Poppa
Ship of Fools
Mary Lou
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Hollywood Nights
Still The Same
Old Time Rock & Roll
Till It Shines
Feel Like A Number
Ain't Got No Money
We've Got Tonite
Brave Strangers
The Famous Final Scene
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Horizontal Bop
You'll Accompny Me
Her Strut
No Man's Land
Long Twin Silver Line
Against the Wind
Good for Me
Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight
Fire Lake
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The Essential 3.0 Simon & Garfunkel |
The Essential
Simon & Garfunkel |
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There have been numerous issues
of the Simon and Garfunkel collection, especially box sets with the
whole studio collection or compilations. We've noted the most
relevant as of this writing, some have been around for decades while
others faded away. We've included live releases too.
The 3.0 edition includes a third
disc with six additional songs, compared to the initial release.
1. He Was My Brother
2. April Come She Will
3. 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
4. Punky's Dilemma
5. Why Don'T You Write Me
6. Citizen Of The Planet |
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3 discs |
Old Friends Box Set |
| The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel |
Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits |
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Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
1964 |
Sounds of Silence
1966 |
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
1966 |
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1. You Can Tell the World
2. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
3. Bleecker Street
4. Sparrow
5. Benedictus
6. The Sound of Silence
7. He Was My Brother
8. Peggy-O
9. Go Tell It on the Mountain
10. The Sun Is Burning
11. The Times They Are A-Changin'
12. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
13. Bleecker Street [#][*][Demo Version]
14. He Was My Brother [Alternate Take 1][#][*]
15. The Sun Is Burning [Alt. Take 12][Alternate Take][#]
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1. The Sound Of Silence
2. Leaves That Are Green
3. Blessed
4. Kathy's Song
5. Somewhere They Can't Find Me
6. Anji
7. Richard Cory
8. A Most Peculiar Man
9. April Come She Will
10. We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin'
11. I Am A Rock
12. Blues Run The Game
13. Barbriallen (Demo)
14. Rose Of Aberdeen (Demo)
15. Roving Gambler (Demo)
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1. Scarborough Fair/Canticle
2. Patterns
3. Cloudy
4. Homeward Bound
5. The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
6. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
7. The Dangling Conversation
8. Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
9. A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
10. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
11. A Poem On The Underground Wall
12. 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night
13. Patterns (Demo)
14. A Poem On The Underground Wall (Demo)
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1968 |
Bridge Over Troubled Water
1970 |
Bridge Over Troubled Water (40th Anniversary Edition) (1 CD/1 DVD)
1970 |
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1. Bookends Theme
2. Save The Life Of My Child
3. America
4. Overs
5. Voices Of Old People
6. Old Friends
7. Bookends Theme
8. Fakin' It
9. Punky's Dilemma
10. Mrs. Robinson
11. A Hazy Shade Of Winter
12. At The Zoo
13. You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
14. Old Friends (Demo) |
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water
2. El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
3. Cecilia
4. Keep The Customer Satisfied
5. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
6. The Boxer
7. Baby Driver
8. The Only Living Boy In New York
9. Why Don'T You Write Me
10. Bye Bye Love
11. Song For The Asking
12. Feuilles-O (Demo)
13. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Demo Take 6) |
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Bookends/Sounds of Silence |
Bridge Over Troubled
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Live From New York City, 1967 |
Simon and Garfunkel - The Concert in Central Park |
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Old Friends Live on Stage
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Old Friends Live on Stage (Deluxe Edition) (2 CD/1 DVD) |
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The Essential Bruce Springsteen |
The Essential Bruce Springsteen
Eco |
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Springteen's compilation The Essential is quite well done selecting
tracks from throughout his career. Personally, we like the early
material quite a bit
There are three discs included, though it is
priced as a double disc. Two discs make up the compilation and a
bonus disc of previously unreleased cuts, B-sides, contributions to
soundtracks and benefit albums, covers, etc. A very good marketing
move adding the third disc, as it will entice fans that already have
the albums to pick up this compilation for the extra disc.
In addition to a strong selection of material, the
music has been re-mastered, the liner notes include lyrics and
credits, as well as a note from the boss.
Additional Bruce Springsteen content
Music
videos | Bruce Springsteen
overview |
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select one Bruce Springsteen favorite release it would be Hammersmith Odeon, London '75.
This captures the boss performing his best from his
first three albums. You can either get a two disc audio,
or a DVD of the show that is within the Born To Run: 30th Anniversary 3-Disc Set.
They're both spectacular.
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Born to Run |
Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 |
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Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
1973 |
The Wild, the Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle
1973 |
X2:Greetings from Asbury Park/The Wild,Innocent & The E Street Shuffle |
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Showbiz
Kids: The Steely Dan Story |
Very Best of Steely Dan |
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Steely Dan's two disc
compilation Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story is an
excellent overview of their first seven albums; more recently,
taking the name Very Best of Steely Dan. They select an
excellent sampling from each album and even include two unreleased
songs.
If you would like a single disc
look there are a few, but frankly that isn't enough to cover enough
key tracks. More to our taste, is their box
set Citizen:
Steely Dan, their first seven albums on four discs. We offer
reviews
of these albums.
I was surprised to see Donald
Fagen was a guest with the Allman Brothers Band during their
2011 Beacon appearances, March 17. They performed two covers,
Dylan's "Down Along The Cove," and the Grateful Dead's
"Shakedown Street."
Additional Steely Dan content
Steely
Dan profile
Rock:
guitar and piano |
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includes their first seven album, through Gaucho.
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Can't Buy a Thrill
1972 |
Countdown To Ecstasy
1973 |
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Pretzel Logic
1974 |
Katy Lied
1975 |
The Royal Scam
1976 |
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Aja
1977 |
Gaucho
1980 |
Alive in America
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2000 |
Everything Must Go
2000 |
Nightfly by Donald
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Styx/Gold: Come Sail Away: The Stxy Anthology
CD
MP3 |
Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings |
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Styx Anthology is a solid compilation of remastered Styx material.
Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings contains the first four Styx
albums, remastered in 2005.
Disc 1
Styx
1. Best Thing
Styx II
2. You Need Love
3. Lady
The Serpent is Rising
4. Winner Take All
Man of Miracles
5. Rock & Roll Feeling
Equinox
6. Light Up
7. Lorelei
8. Prelude 12
9. Suite Madame Blue
Crystal Ball
10. Shooz
11. Mademoiselle
12. Crystal Ball
The Grand Illusion
13. The Grand Illusion
14. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
15. Come Sail Away
16. Miss America
17. Man In The Wilderness
Disc 2
Pieces of Eight
1. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
2. Sing For The Day
3. Renegade
4. Pieces Of Eight
Cornerstone
5. Lights
6. Babe
7. Borrowed Time
8. Boat On The River
Paradise Theater
9. A.D. 1928
10. Rockin' The Paradise
11. Too Much Time On My Hands
12. The Best Of Times
13. Snowblind
Kilroy Was Here
14. Mr. Roboto
Edge of the Century
15. Love Is The Ritual
16. Show Me The Way
Return to Paradise
17. Dear John
Cyclorama
18. One With Everything |
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Retrospectacle: The Supertramp Anthology |
The Very Best Of Supertramp |
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Supertramp's two
disc compilation Retrospectacle: The Supertramp Anthology is
an excellent career overview.
Disc
1
Supertramp
Surely (edited)
Indelibly Stamped
Your Poppa Don't Mind
Land Ho (non-album single)
Summer Romance (non-album single, B-side to Land Ho)
Crime of the Century
School
Bloody Well Right
Dreamer
Rudy
Crime of the Century
Crisis? What Crisis?
Sister Moonshine
Ain't Nobody But Me
Lady
Two of Us
Even
in the Quietest Moments
Give a little Bit
Downstream
Even in the Quietest Moments
From Now On [edit]
Disc 2
Breakfast in America
Gone Hollywood
The Logical Song
Goodbye Stranger
Breakfast in America
Oh Darling
Take the Long Way Home
(Live)
Paris
You Started Laughing
...Famous
Last Words...
It's Raining Again
My Kind of Lady
Don't Leave Me Now
Brother
Where You Bound
Cannonball
Free
As a Bird
Free As a Bird
Some
Things Never Change
You Win I Lose
(Live)
It Was the Best of Times
Another Man's Woman
Slow
Motion
Over You |
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Expanded Edition |
Supertramp - The Story So Far
DVD |
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Breakfast in America Expanded
Amazon Editorial Reviews
Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition including a bonus CD containing 12 unreleased live
tracks. Their sixth album, Supertramp's most popular and successful work, Breakfast in America was released in
March 1979, and reached #3 in the UK and #1 in the United States where it stayed on top for six weeks. It yielded
the hit singles 'The Logical Song', 'Take The Long Way Home', 'Breakfast In America' and 'Goodbye Stranger'. The
second disc, Breakfast Around The World, contains 12 previously unreleased live recordings from Miami, London and
Paris between October and December 1979. Mostly drawn from Breakfast In America, it also includes earlier stage
favorites 'Rudy', 'Give A Little Bit' and 'Even In The Quietest Moments'.
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The Best of James Taylor |
Sweet Baby James |
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The best single disc overview of
James Taylor is his 20 track release The
Best of James Taylor . This is a
huge upgrade over his long standing album James Taylor's Greatest
Hits; that only includes 12 tracks.
His album Sweet Baby James
is one of the greatest records of the genre, in our opinion. It
includes Carole King on piano and
back up vocals on the record. No short of a
masterpiece.
Additional James Taylor content
Music
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Live From Austin Texas |
Live From Austin Texas
DVD |
Recorded live June 17, 2003
1. You Can Make It If You Try
2. The Feeling Music Brings
3. Alone
4. Wait For Me
5. Hampmotized
6. Love's In Need of Love Today
7. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
8. Voodoo Woman
9. In The Garden
10. Gonna Move
11. Wrapped in the Arms of Another
12. It Hurt So Bad
13. Lost Lover Blues
14. I Fell In Love
15. Angel From Montgomery
Susan Tedeschi Guitar, Vocals
Jason Crosby Keyboards, Violin, Vocals
Ron Perry Bass, Vocals
William Green Hammond B3, Organ, Organ (Hammond), Vocals
Jeff Sipe Drums, Vocals
Grateful Dead fans, during "Angel From
Montgomery" Susan sings a few verses of "Sugaree"
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Just Won't Burn
1998 |
Better Days
1998 |
Wait for Me
2002 |
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Hope and Desire
Doyle Bramhall II, pianist David Palmer, organist Jebin Bruni, bassist Paul Bryan, drummer Jay Bellerose,
Guests including husband Derek Trucks (Guitar tracks 1, 4; Dobro 3) and the Blind Boys of Alabama (10)
Liner notes include lyrics. "The album is dedicated to my hope,
Charlie and Sophie; and my desire, Derek Trucks." |
Hope and Desire
2005 |
Back to the River
2008 |
Revelator by Tedeschi Trucks Band
2011 |
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