Monday, December 10, 2007
Rascal Flatts
Still Feels Good
1. Rascal Flatts Take Me There
2. Rascal Flatts Here
3. Rascal Flatts Bob That Head
4. Rascal Flatts Help Me Remember
5. Rascal Flatts Still Feels Good
6. Rascal Flatts Winner at a Losing Game
7. Rascal Flatts No Reins
8. Rascal Flatts Every Day
9. Rascal Flatts Secret Smile
10. Rascal Flatts Better Now
11. Rascal Flatts She Goes All the Way
12. Rascal Flatts How Strong Are You Now
13. Rascal Flatts It's Not Supposed To Go Like That
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Rascal Flatts has always been an anomaly in country music. Signed to the Disney label Lyric Street, they arrived in 2000 as essentially a trio (winning lead vocalist Gary LeVox fronted pin-up boy Joe Don Rooney on electric guitar and Jay DeMarcus on bass) that traveled and recorded with additional musicians to make up a full band. Despite their workingman backgrounds, their repertoire was so pop-oriented that hardly anyone could really call them country, and the group bristled at being dubbed Nashville's Boy Band. Yet while they were primarily marketed to teens (the young set screams their lungs out in concert), a lot of adults found their bouncy, bubbly radio tunes irresistible. And in 2006, when they released their fourth album, the quadruple-platinum Me and My Gang, they sold more than 700,000 records the first week, ending up as the best-selling artists of the year across all genres. Now comes the follow-up, and with the group sharing production credit with hit-meister Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Faith Hill), they turned out an extremely well-built album of heavily layered, grown-up pop. (The one country-ish song, "Bob that Head," about the joys of Friday night cruising in a tricked-out truck, almost amounts to a rap.) DeMarcus has said that the band took its time making the record, and it shows--everything about it telegraphs a growing maturity. Not only do Rooney and DeMarcus play on every cut (which they didn't do until Me and My Gang), but the trio has a hand in writing much of the material that doesn't come from the pens of Nashville's most reliable songsmiths (Jeffrey Steele, Neil Thrasher, Steve Robson, Hillary Lindsey, and headliner Kenny Chesney on "Take Me There"). It all goes down quite smoothly, from the sexy title track to the pain ballad "Better Now," to the (too-obvious) social commentary of "It's Not Supposed to Go Like That." As a measure of that, even actor/singer Jamie Foxx's guest appearance on the silky "She Goes All the Way" blends seamlessly with the rest of the material, much of it crafted to manipulate the emotions with power choruses, stinging electric guitar solos, and throbbing drums. But unlike the Rascals' other albums, there aren't many story songs here. And though LeVox's hangdog tenor hammers home the devastating ache of failed relationships ("Help Me Remember"), there's no standout tune like "What Hurts the Most," and not a lot of this sticks in your head after it's gone. Yes, as the title promises, it "Still Feels Good," but only for a little while. -–Alanna Nash
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It all begins when the lights go down. For Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus, it has been that way since they were playing for a handful of people in a club in Nashville's Printers Alley. These days, of course, they play for thousands of screaming fans a night, drawn by state-of-the-art production and sound, and by spectacular vocal harmonies in service to an ever-expanding catalogue of hits. In between, it was the magic of those performances that catapulted Rascal Flatts into the front ranks of entertainers in all genres.
By any measure, Rascal Flatts is in elite territory. They are the reigning 2006 CMA, ACM and CMT Vocal Group of the Year. In 2005 they added Billboard and R&R Artist of the Year trophies as well. The trio also picked up its first three Grammy nominations in 2005, and their "Bless The Broken Road" received the Grammy for Country Song of the Year. Coming off the biggest selling artist album of 2006, Rascal Flatts is geared up for their brand new album coming on September 25.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere
The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere
1. Andrea BocelliLa Voce Del Silenzio 4:55
2. Andrea Bocelli Sogno 4:00
3. Andrea Bocelli Il mare calmo della sera 4:39
4. Andrea Bocelli Dare To Live (Vivere) 4:18
5. Andrea Bocelli Canto Della Terra 3:59
6. Andrea Bocelli A Te 4:09
7. Andrea Bocelli Besame Mucho 4:02
8. Andrea Bocelli Time to say goodbye (Con te partirè) 4:05
9. Andrea Bocelli Io Ci Saro 4:49
10. Andrea Bocelli Romanza 3:42
11. Andrea Bocelli Vivo Per Lei 4:25
12. Andrea Bocelli Melodramma 4:07
13. Andrea Bocelli Bellissime Stelle 4:14
14. Andrea Bocelli The Prayer 4:27
15. Andrea Bocelli Because We Believe 4:40
About the Artist
ANDREA BOCELLI CELEBRATES A DECADE OF BEST-SELLING RECORDINGS WITH HIS FIRST-EVER GREATEST HITS COLLECTION, THE BEST OF ANDREA BOCELLI - VIVERE CD IN-STORES OCTOBER 30TH ON SUGAR MUSIC/DECCA September 11, 2007 - (New York, NY) -- For the first time during his historic career the world's best selling tenor, Andrea Bocelli, will be releasing a collection of his greatest hits. The Best Of Andrea Bocelli - Vivere, will be released on Sugar Music/Decca on October 30th, marking a decade of chart-topping albums that have made him a household name and beloved cultural figure the world over.
The Best Of Andrea Bocelli - Vivere will feature selections from Bocelli's wildly popular recordings including Romanza, certified 4 times platinum, Sogno certified 2 times platinum, and his most recent platinum disc, Amore. Highlights include "Time To Say Goodbye" his breakthrough smash with Sarah Brightman, "The Prayer," another duet made famous with Celine Dion, and the more recent Bocelli staples "Because We Believe" and "Besame Mucho" among others. Several new tracks are also exclusively available on Vivere, including new compositions by the renowned and accomplished David Foster, who also holds producing credits on the songs and was one of the creative forces behind Amore. Other notable guests on the disc include the acclaimed classical pianist Lang Lang and Latin singing sensation Laura Pausini.
2007 is already shaping up to be another banner year for Bocelli. In July, the superstar staged his first-ever, pop only, live concert set in the stunning hills of Tuscany, which will be broadcast on PBS this December. Andrea continues to be one of PBS' most visible artists, with this being the follow-up to the Emmy-nominated "Under The Desert Sky" special which aired in 2006. Bocelli also appears on the forthcoming new album from Chris Botti, Italia, to be released in September. This fall, Andrea returns to the U.S. for another round of high-profile promotional appearances, as well as several concerts in support of the greatest hits collection - dates to be announced soon. Vivere, meaning "to live," is certainly something Andrea Bocelli does to his fullest. Having sold over 55 million albums worldwide, he continues to display a singularly unique ability to straddle both pop and classical repertoire with sincerity, conviction, grace and his unmistakable soaring tenor. One of the most sought after performers in the world, he has recorded duets with the biggest names in music including Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonder, Katharine McPhee, Kenny G and the aforementioned Brightman, Botti and Dion. Andrea also recently sang at the funeral service for one of his true heroes, Luciano Pavarotti, where he paid tribute to the great tenor with Mozart's ``Ave Verum Corpus.'' A media darling who has appeared everywhere from American Idol to the Today Show multiple times, he has been called "one of opera's most successful crossover stars" by The Wall Street Journal.
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For the first time during his historic career the world's best selling tenor Andrea Bocelli will be releasing a collection of his greatest hits. The CD will feature selections from the Bocelli repertoire and include "Time To Say Goodbye" in duet with Sarah Brightman from the 4 time platinum selling Romanza CD, "The Prayer" in duet with Celine Dion from the 2 time platinum selling Sogno CD, plus Bocelli favorites "Because We Believe" from his most recent platinum recording Amore, "Melodramma" from Cieli Di Toscana and more. The release will also feature 4 new exclusive recordings: A duet with one of the world's most popular pianists Lang Lang and new David Foster compositions.
There will be a nationally televised concert special airing on PBS - Andrea's first full pop concert that was recorded in July with the Tuscan country side as a backdrop. The concert repertoire includes all the songs the will be on the forth coming Greatest Hits CD and features guests Chris Botti, Kenny G, Lang Lang and more. Look for PBS to broadcast this program multiple times during their upcoming December 2007 pledge period reaching over 10 million households.
"Vivere" translates from Italian to English as "To Live"
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Paul Potts One Chance [EXTRA TRACKS]
One Chance
1. Paul Potts Nessun Dorma
2. Paul Potts Time to Say Goodbye (Contepartirò)
3. Paul Potts Amapola
4. Paul Potts Everybody Hurts (Ognuno Soffre)
5. Paul Potts Caruso
6. Paul Potts Nella Fantasia
7. Paul Potts You Raise Me Up (Por Ti Seré)
8. Paul Potts My Way (A Mi Manera)
9. Paul Potts Cavatina
10. Paul Potts Music of the Night
11. Paul Potts O Holy Night (bonus track)
12. Paul Potts Silent Night(bonus track)
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Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts has spent most of his life feeling 'insignificant'. Bullied at school for being 'different', he realized growing up that he had one true friend and that was his voice. Singing was his escape. He was able to lose himself in his own little world - the vicious words of his tormentors replaced by hauntingly beautiful lyrics and melodies that lifted his heart and spirit. It was a love, a passion, a lifeline that would follow Paul into adulthood and help him through many more periods of adversity.
Though it's fair to say that when Paul strolled awkwardly - almost apologetically - onto the Cardiff stage for his first Britain’s Got Talent audition a week before that final, in his now infamous £35 Tesco suit, and announced to Simon and fellow judges Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan that he was going to sing opera, they never thought for one minute they were looking at their winner. Until he opened his mouth and started to sing.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Reba McEntire Duets
Reba Duets
From the Artist
As McEntire sees it, amazing songs have little to do with genre, and everything to do with emotion and nuance. "I've been a fan of different kinds of music all my life," she says. "I really don't like to categorize music. To me, there's only two categories: good and bad. And I try to sing the good songs, and listen to good music. When it touches my heart, and I can deliver it with all my heart and soul, then it's a good Reba McEntire song. In the end, I want all the songs to touch my listener's hearts." It's that devotion to making quality music that brings her audience back to Reba again and again. "The great thing about it is, my fans have always continued to go along with me on these journeys I take, whether it's television, music, Broadway or movies. They really hang in there with me, and I sure do appreciate that. It's been a good journey." The next chapter on that journey is about to begin, with Duets - and the amazing music created when Reba's signature voice finds new harmony with a few stellar friends. "I hope people are going to be caught up in the moment of listening to this music," says McEntire. "There's a lot of love in this record, because I love these people that I get to sing with. And I think people are going to love it, too. I honestly do."
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From the moment you hear the voice, you know it: fierce and powerful, clear and passionate, a voice that has sold 49 million records, a voice that could belong to no one else but the woman millions of fans the world over know only as Reba. So what do you do when you're the owner of that iconic voice -- and the embodiment of a genre-bending artistic presence that spans the worlds of music, screen and stage? If you're Reba McEntire, you find creative soul mates in 11 other amazing voices and produce a groundbreaking collection of music simply titled Reba Duets. Or, as McEntire herself might describe it, you gather up some friends old and new, and have a party - oh, and make an amazing new album at the same time. "It was like a family reunion. It was just so much fun!" says the easygoing superstar. And the results? "Well, I'm just so tickled!" she says with her trademark Southern charm. "I can't wait for everyone to hear it." Duets was a long time coming, says McEntire. "You have to keep creating things, thinking about what's next and how to keep it fresh for your fans," she says. "I've always thought a duets album would be a great thing to get to do, and the timing was finally right to make it happen."
1. Reba McEntire When You Love Someone Like That 4:39
2. Reba McEntire Does The Wind Still Blow In Oklahoma 4:37
3. Reba McEntire Because Of You 3:43
4. Reba McEntire Faith In Love 3:47
5. Reba McEntire She Can't Save Him 3:02
6. Reba McEntire Everyday People 3:34
7. Reba McEntire Every Other Weekend 4:03
8. Reba McEntire These Broken Hearts 4:25
9. Reba McEntire Sleeping With The Telephone 3:33
10. Reba McEntire The Only Promise That Remains 5:06
11. Reba McEntire Break Each Other's Hearts Again 3:38
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Alicia Keys As I Am
As I Am
1. Alicia Keys As I Am (Intro)
2. Alicia Keys Go Ahead
3. Alicia Keys Superwoman
4. Alicia Keys No One
5. Alicia Keys Like You'll Never See Me Again
6. Alicia Keys Lesson Learned (featuring John Mayer)
7. Alicia Keys Wreckless Love
8. Alicia Keys The Thing About Love
9. Alicia Keys Teenage Love Affair
10. Alicia Keys I Need You
11. Alicia Keys Where Do We Go From Here
12. Alicia Keys Prelude To A Kiss
13. Alicia Keys Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)
14. Alicia Keys Sure Looks Good To Me
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By the time this long-awaited album saw its release date, most fans had probably read at least a couple of interviews with Alicia Keys in which she explained that first single, "No One"--a firestorm of a song clearly born of a sore heart and steeped in serious soul-searching, was about her decision to retreat from the obligations of stardom when she found out a loved one was in need of her care. The anecdote sticks not just because it explained the song so well--you can actually hear the pain, commitment, and determination in her sultry voice--but because it gets at what makes the woman behind the music so appealing. There's only one way R&B artists grow to become legends, and it's by drenching the words they sing with feeling (think Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack). The skeptical listener might have had her doubts before As I Am, but there's no mistaking it now: Alicia Keys is well on her way to sharing a category with them. This record radiates not just old-soul maturity, the kind Alicia fans say makes her modern rarity, but real soul. Vintage-leaning hooks and horns grab hold on "Where Do We Go from Here" and an assortment of other songs, but Keys can also get by just fine without them, as she proves on more pop-flavored numbers like "Lesson Learned," with John Mayer, and "Superwoman." The genres may be smearing, she seems to say, but bring them on: she won't shrink back. Her commitment is not to a single style but to what's stirring her soul. Because of it, she's moving R&B, or something like it, from the hips back to the heart. --Tammy La Gorce
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Garth Brooks
The Ultimate Hits ( Garth Brooks )
Disc: 1
1. Garth Brooks Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)
2. Garth Brooks Friends In Low Places
3. Garth Brooks Shameless
4. Garth Brooks Two Of a Kind, Workin' On a Full House
5. Garth Brooks The Beaches Of Cheyenne
6. Garth Brooks If Tomorrow Never Comes
7. Garth Brooks Papa Loved Mama
8. Garth Brooks More Than a Memory
9. Garth Brooks Good Ride Cowboy
10. Garth Brooks In Another's Eyes
11. Garth Brooks The Fever
12. Garth Brooks Midnight Sun
13. Garth Brooks Learning To Live Again
14. Garth Brooks Longneck Bottle
15. Garth Brooks To Make You Feel My Love
16. Garth Brooks We Shall Be Free
17. Garth Brooks The Dance
Disc: 2
1. Garth Brooks Callin' Baton Rouge
2. Garth Brooks Two Pina Coladas
3. Garth Brooks The Thunder Rolls
4. Garth Brooks That Summer
5. Garth Brooks The River
6. Garth Brooks Beer Run
7. Garth Brooks Unanswered Prayers
8. Garth Brooks Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)
9. Garth Brooks Workin' For a Livin'
10. Garth Brooks What She's Doing Now
11. Garth Brooks When You Come Back To Me Again
12. Garth Brooks Standing Outside the Fire
13. Garth Brooks American Honky-Tonk Bar Association
14. Garth Brooks The Change
15. Garth Brooks Rodeo
16. Garth Brooks Wrapped Up In You
17. Garth Brooks Leave a Light On
18. Garth Brooks Bonus Track 1
19. Garth Brooks Bonus Track 2
2007 three disc set (two CDs + DVD). One artist...one decade...one hundred million albums sold! Garth Brooks remains the biggest Country artist of all-time. He harnessed the Country and Pop influences of has past and created a new kind of Country that appealed to different generations of fans and crossed over into the Pop market like no other artist before him. Garth Brooks changed the rules based on his talent alone. He became a worldwide superstar while remaining true to his humble roots, which added to his appeal. This three disc set features two CDs scheduled to contain 34 tracks including four new songs plus a bonus DVD containing videos for all the CD's tracks.
Seal
System
1. Seal If It's In My Mind, It's On My Face
2. Seal Amazing( Thin White Duke Edit)
3. Seal Just Like Before
4. Seal Loaded
5. Seal Wedding Day
6. Seal System
7. Seal Dumb
8. Seal The Right Life
9. Seal Rolling
10. Seal Immaculate
11. Seal Amazing
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Some artists mellow as they age; Seal enters never-surrender mode and hits the dance floor. System gets at a new way of thinking for the king of the sexy British croon--he's a little less committed to nailing the vocals here and a lot more into manufacturing a mood. Overall, it's one infused with high spirits and an almost dreamy sense of possibility: "Rolling," the only song outside of a weird duet with wife Heidi Klum ("Wedding Day") to avoid elaborate but likable synths, stands its romantic ground without settling into ho-hum balladry, while "Loaded," "Dumb," and "The Right Life" bust out of the speakers determined to raise the profile of house music and electro beats. If he cribs a vial or two of vibe from Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor,, also produced by retro whiz-kid Stuart Price, it doesn't make Seal any less appealing. Even without hits like the super-smooth "Amazing," some guys manage to be amazing just by showing up. And so it is with Seal. Even his supermodel wife says so. --Tammy La Gorce
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The first studio album in four years from Seal, System, with its shimmering melodies, layers of synths and acoustic guitar, and electronic beats, is a return to my roots says the singer-songwriter. To help him deliver a more dance oriented album, what he calls a quintessential Seal album, Seal turned to Stuart Price(Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor and Grammy-winning remixes for No Doubt and Coldplay).
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