CD: Chocolate Lilly / Artist: Babe Gurr / 10 tracks: / Blues / Roots / Country
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Chocolate
Lilly, is the
fourth album from Babe Gurr, an artist whose name is as intriguing as the title
of her CD, begins with the original tune, “Hard To Get Over Me,” a song in
which Gurr’s vocals sound like they are channeling Bonnie Raitt.
High Notes
Album: Intuition / Artist: Betty Harris / 16 tracks / Evidence Music Inc.
*Betty
Harris proves without a doubt, that more than forty-five years after her first
hit song, she still has the passion and the vocal chops.
CD: Closer Than Far / Artist: Serena Jost / 12 tracks: 44:50 / Folk Rock / Alternative
Serena Jost adopts an alternative approach to folk rock melodies that tell
stories which are cut from the everyday fabric of life. One can debate whether
or not many of her lyrics are dark or blatantly realistic.
Album: Songs From The Heart / Artist: Sylvia Bennett / 12 tracks: 43:27 / May 1st, 2008 / Jazz Standards
Jazz
vocalist, Sylvia Bennett’s performance as she coos tunes from her new CD
Songs From The Heart, will bring back a flood of vintage memories, and
evoke from within you powerful emotional responses, to some of the best songs
ever penned.
CD: Dreams & Shadows / Artist: Judy Wexler / Jazz Vocals / 13 tracks
Jazz
vocalist Judy Wexler delivers a spooky performance on her new CD Dreams &
Shadows. On the fifth track, she adapts the Buddy Buie / James Cobb Jr. /
Harry Middlebrooks / Mike Shapiro, light rock song “Spooky,” which was made
popular by Dusty Springfield in the 1960’s.
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CD: Imagina, Songs Of Brasil / Artist: Karrin Allyson / 14 tracks: 1:00:25 / Jazz Vocals
The opening lines of
“Outono (Stay,) remind one of the hauntingly beautiful “Don’t Cry For Me
Argentina,” from Evita. Singing at first in Portuguese, and then
switching to English lyrics, Allyson sings of two lovers who are enjoying the
afterglow, and are looking ahead to their future.
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