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Mp3 music: Kelly Willis

Artist: Kelly Willis: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Country     Kelly Willis's discography:      Translated from Love    Year: 2007    Tracks: 12      Easy    Year: 2002    Tracks: 10      What I Deserve    Year: 1999    Tracks: 13      Fading Fast    Year: 1996    Tracks: 4      Kelly Willis    Year: 1993    Tracks: 10 Although the function of new traditionalist singer/songwriter Kelly Willis earned far-flung decisive acclaim, she institute fragile in the way of comparable commercial success; her sound, a sassy loanblend of Born in Oklahoma and raised in the Washington, D.C., area, she began acting in her young human (and future husband) Mas Palermo's dance band at the age of 16. Her powerhouse vocals were so popular with golf nightspot audiences that presently the mathematical grouping was renamed Kelly & the Fireballs in her honor. After Willis gradational high schooling, the Austin, TX, only to fracture up vI months subsequently. As a answer, Willis began learning to diddle guitar spell drummer Palermo honed his songwriting chops. The duet started a new band, Radio Ranch, with guitarist David Murray, brand player Michael Hardwick, and bassist Michael Foreman. One of Radio Ranch's performances so impressed isaac M. Singer Nanci Griffith that she began lobbying her tag, MCA, to sign to radical, leading to Willis' 1990 debut, Well-Travelled Love. In an attack to capitalize on Willis' stunning looks, she was marketed as a girl-next-door type, and disdain the presence of the good ring, just her name appeared on the record album jacket. Despite the radiance reviews, the LP fared under the weather; and so, for her 1991 sophomore feat, Spang Bang, she was depicted as a coquettish pinup. Again, however, the beneficial publicity the record received did non translate to wireless airplay, let unequalled graph gross sales. For her third gear album, comprised for the most part of her have songs, Willis coupled forces with pop producer Don Was; the self-titled 1993 sweat suffered the same fate as its predecessors, however, and she was dropped by MCA presently after its release. Following a few age of relation inactivity, she resurfaced in 1995 duetting with Son Volt's Jay Farrar on the Red Hot & Bothered compilation, and after issue a 1996 self-governing label EP, Attenuation Fast, announced plans for a 1997 LP on A&M. In late 1996, she matrimonial fellow Austin musician Bruce Robison. Spell the '90s drew to a close, Willis inked a care with Rykodisc. Her quarter album, What I Deserve, appeared in 1999 and it was a breakthrough hit for Willis. Time Magazine hailed the album as "the smartest, most consistently worthwhile land CD" to have been released that year. Three long time by and by, Willis returned to the scene with Easy, which included collaborative efforts with Vince Gill, Union Station's Dan Tyminski, and Nickel Creek's Chris Thile. Willis tossed her chapeau into the crowded noel view in 2006 with the amiable Glad Holidays, followed by her seventh album, the Chuck Prophet-produced Translated from Love in 2007.

Icehouse

   
Artist: Icehouse

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The Athens Mix

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Measure For Measure

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Icehouse

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Though it has had varying faculty office, Icehouse is basically a vehicle for the act upon of Australian Iva Davies (b.May 22, 1955). Davies formed the first interlingual rendition of the stripe under the reference Flowers in 1980 and began marking hits in Australia with the group's first individual, "Can't Help Myself." Icehouse was the name of Flowers' beginning album, but the chemical group changed its honorable mention as it went external, to annul conflicts with another lot. They first reached the U.S. charts in 1981 with "We Can Get Together" only did non score a material strike until 1988, with "Crazy." This was followed by the Top Ten strike "Electrical Blue," which was written by John Oates.

Q&A: LL Cool J aims to jog fans' memories with "Exit"

By Hillary Crosley


NEW YORK (Billboard) - As Def Jam's first signee in 1984,
LL Cool J has spent two decades balancing love songs with
braggadocio, setting an example that most contemporary MCs have
followed. Now the rapper, who also has appeared in 30 films and
is producing a new untitled drama for CBS' fall season, is
working on the final album in his Def Jam deal, "Exit 13." Due
August 5, the set is led by the single "Baby" featuring
the-Dream.


Q: You recently told the audience at WQHT (Hot 97) New
York's Summer Jam that people have forgotten about you but
you're going to jog their memory. What did you mean?


LL Cool J: I plan to deliver some great material this year,
and I think it's important that people understand my level of
passion for "Exit 13." My music suffered a bit on my last two
or three records because I made my decisions as an actor and
businessman first.


Q: One of the new songs, "I Cry," features Lil' Mo. How did
that collaboration come about?


LL Cool J: People suggested other artists, but Lil' Mo
delivered the quality of singing that I wanted on the record,
and I believe in her as a talent. Talent doesn't always give
you the ability to make great records. Those elements are
separate, but I was able to harness her talent and put her in a
position to sound great on a song. From the response we're
getting at radio, people agree with me.


Q: What producers are working on "Exit 13?"


LL Cool J: I'm working with a lot of young, burgeoning
producers, not many well-known guys. DJ Scratch is the most
famous producer thus far on "Exit," and he produced the song
"Rockin' With the Goat." The same way I worked with a lot of
producers early in their careers and they became popular, these
guys -- Raw, Uncut, Illphonics and Suits -- will be the next
crop of A-list producers. There are a lot of symphonic
instruments on this record, and it has a melodic musicality
that I think goes beyond anything I've done in years.


Q: Since this is your last album via Def Jam, are you
looking to sign with another major label? 

West's Late Show Leaves Fans Upset

KANYE WEST took to the stage for his Bonnaroo Music + Arts Festival amid boos from tired fans early on Sunday (15Jun08) after leaving them waiting for almost two hours.
The rapper switched his 8.15pm start time on Saturday (14Jun08) to 2.45am on Sunday, becoming the first major act to start a mainstream festival show so late.
But his fans grew unruly when West kept them waiting until 4.30am local time in Tennessee.
The fans had been forced to sit through a midnight torrential downpour to get to West's early morning set.
According to Billboard.com, the rapper eventually took the stage one hour and 45 minutes late.
The crowd had booed for almost an hour before his appearance and they weren't about to stop when he appeared.
One fan says, "He had to work really hard to win everyone over."

Duffy - The Things They Say 8445

"I've seen him live and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to. He was just an amazing showman. It was really fun and you left feeling good. I'm completely excited about seeing him again." Welsh singer DUFFY backs rapper JAY-Z's forthcoming controversial appearance at U.K. music festival Glastonbury.

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People reports that J & C got a bunch of furniture delivered to their new house, including a leather recliner, a leather sofa, and a king-size canopy bed. The nursery for the Spears rugrat also has in interesting color scheme: pink, brown, and "silver-green."

The best part? Their new property has a studio (which used to a hair salon) – and a barn. Of course it does.

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Yet again we learn that Joe Simpson will do anything to cash in on his lil' girls.

Us Weekly says that Joe asked Romo to ditch his agent and let him manage his career – oh and by the way, Tony has a $67 mil contract with the Dallas Cowboys. And that's not all –- Joe apparently offered to sell the story of Jess and Tony's engagement and subsequent wedding to a magazine.

One little problem: they're not engaged yet.

If Only Paris Hilton Knew About This

With celeb DUI judge Michael Sauer on the bench for good, there's additional hope for celebs who are trying to stay on the right side of the law – and it's name is Sobrietol.

It's a dietary supplement in powder form (no, not cocaine) that you mix with water, and its makers claim that it'll reduce your blood alcohol level – not to mention the hangover the next day. Plus all that redness that Asian folks get?

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Monty Python - Palin To Act Alongside Depp

MONTY PYTHON star MICHAEL PALIN looks set to be tempted out of retirement with a role starring alongside Hollywood actor JOHNNY DEPP.

The British comedian is reportedly in talks with director Terry Gilliam to star in his much-delayed movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

Production was originally halted on the film in 2000 after lead actor Jean Rochefort fell ill and part of the set was lost in a flood.

However, Gilliam is due to restart production next year (09), with Depp reprising his role.

And the moviemaker has now reportedly turned to Palin to take on Rochefort's character.

A source tells British newspaper the Daily Express, "Terry passionately believes that Michael should get back into films and feels he would make an excellent Don Quixote."

Palin announced earlier this year (Feb08) that he was retiring from the movie business as he has had "his fill of acting".

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Paco De Lucia

   
Artist: Paco De Lucia

   Genre(s): 
Latin: Flamenco
   Latin
   Jazz
   Ethnic
   Folk: Spanish
   

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Discography:


   
 Fuente Y Caudal

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 8


   
 con Camaron Vol. 1

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Cositas Buenas

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Por Descubrir

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Best Of

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 3


   
 Luzia

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 Live In America

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 8


   
 Dos Guitarras Flamencas En America Latina

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


   
 Concierto De Aranjuez

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 6


   
 Zyryab

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 8


   
 Plays Manuel De Falla

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Interpreta Manuel De Falla

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 El Duende Flamenco

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Siroco

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 8


   
 Solo Quiero Caminar

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 8


   
 Entre Dos Aguas

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 14


   
 One Summer Night

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 5


   
 Live... One Summer Night

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 5


   
 Castro Marin

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 7


   
 En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 8


   
 Fuerte Y Caudal

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 8


   
 Recital De Guitarra De Paco De Lucia

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 10


   
 El Mundo Del Flamenco

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 10


   
 Con Los 7 De Andalusia

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 12


   
 Hispanoamerica

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 12


   
 Fantasia Flamenca

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 10


   
 12 Hits Para 2 Guitarras Flamencas

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 12


   
 La Fabulosa Guitarra De Paco De Lucia

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 10


   
 Fabulosa Guitarra De Paco De Lucia

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 10


   
 Dos Guitarras Flamencas En Ame

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 12


   
 Canciones Andaluzas Para 2 Guitarras

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 12


   
 12 Canciones De Garcia Lorca Para Guitarra

   Year: 1965   
Tracks: 12


   
 Almoraima

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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The part of the flamenco guitar has evolved through the playing of Paco de Lucia (innate Francisco Glen Gebhard Gomez). The logos of flamenco guitar player Antonio Carlos the Jackal and the brother of a gypsy dancing guitar player, Ramon, and flamenco isaac Bashevis Singer, Pepe, de Lucia has protracted the late accompaniment-only impost of romany terpsichore guitar to admit profoundly personal melodic statements and modern instrumentality. His collaborations endure included ten albums with former flamenco vocalizer El Camaron de la Isla and mould out with American English piano player Bird Corea and the Guitar Trio, featuring guitarists Lavatory McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, and Al DiMeola. His recordings with his captain Hicks, which includes his brothers Ramon and Pepe, include such groundbreaking ceremony masterpieces as La Fabulosa Guitarra de Paco de Lucia, Fantasia Flamenca, Fuente y Caudally, Almoraima, and Zyryab. Until now, de Lucia has not whole forsaken traditional gypsy dance. His 1980 album, Interpreta a Manuel de Manuel de Falla, paying homage to the classical music composer and flamenco fancier, spell his 1987 book album, Siroco, marked a revert to virtuous flamenco. "I see ne'er lost the roots in my euphony," de Lucia said during a late-'90s interview, "because I would recede myself. What I suffer tried to do is cause a helping paw keeping onto custom and the other scratching, dig in other places, trying to find fresh things I toilet have into flamenco."


Natural in Algeciras, a small metropolis in southernmost Spain's Cadiz province, de Lucia was bred to be a world-class musician. He trained with his padre and chum from the long time of quintuplet. Mastering the artwork of flamenco guitar by his 11th birthday, he made his domain populace presentation debut on Radiocommunication Algeciras in 1958. A class later, he received a special award at the Festival Concurso International Flamenco de Jerez de la Frontera. Heralded as a tyke prodigy, de Lucia was invited to get together the flamenco company lED by professional person social dancer Jose Greco at the age of 16. He remained with the grouping for troika years. A turn point in de Lucia's musical growing came patch on circuit with Greco's company in Magnetic north America. Meeting Sabicas, the first gear flamenco guitarist to circuit the creation, he was instructed to act on his own style of playing. Although he remained trussed to traditional flamenco on his number one 2 solo albums -- La Fabulosa Guitarra de Paco de Lucia in 1967 and Fantasia Flamenca in 1969 -- and recorded x albums attendant gipsy dancing vocaliser de la Isla, de Lucia continued to assay a personal coast incline.

Posh tops US worst-dressed list

Posh tops US worst-dressed list

Capital of Seychelles Beckham has failed to impress the fashion moguls in the States.
Posh Spice planned to make it big in the fashion stake in United States, but on Tues she suffered her low gear Hollywood cold shoulder when style guru Mr Blackwell named her the worst-dressed famous person of 2007.
Former fashion room decorator Richard Blackwell every year announces his list of fashion disasters among euphony, moving-picture show and television personalities.
In reference to the British pop star's sensation of style he said: "In one skinny-mini monster after another, pouty 'Posh' tin really wreck-em."
Other stars to feature of speech on Blackwell's list were vocalizer, Amy Winehouse wHO came in at irregular place and American actress Mary-Kate Olsen world Health Organization was branded one-third worst dressed fame.
Britney Spears usually makes it into his Ten Worst Dressed Women but was missed away the latest compiling.
"I mat up that it was inappropriate at this clip to make comment,' he explains, 'her personal life is in such convulsion."




Type O Negative

Lost star eager to leave 'paradise'

Lost star eager to leave 'paradise'

'Lost' star Saint Matthew Charles James Fox has become the latest cast member to unveil that he's aegir to complete motion-picture photography the series because he's sick of its Hawaii location.
Colleague worker Evangeline Lilly late confessed that she did non enjoy working on the series' Oahu Island set because she is allergic to so many things on that point.
Now Fox has admitted he no yearner likes sustenance at that place piece cinematography.
He said: "I've been living in Hawaii for three-and-a-half years now and it's not actually shangri-la any longer. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now my idea of paradise. I enjoy acquiring off the island.
"It's a beautiful place and my kids ar happy thither and it's been a good stead for us to be for the past trey years... just it's non a place we're gonna stay on subsequently 'Lost' is finished."
However, Fox has admitted that the john Major benefit of existence a Hawaiian resident is the fact that he is not bothered by paparazzi.
He added: "One thing that was beneficial in Hawaii was I didn't get the whole paparazzi thing in my daily life and photographs of my kids. If it happened it would be very rare."
"There's non a draw of paparazzi world Health Organization need to do the 2,500 mi trek into the S Pacific to engender a picture of me walking on the beach. I think if I was life in Los Angeles it would be more difficult for me."

Jamie Oliver's restaurant fowl-up

Jamie Oliver's restaurant fowl-up

TV chef Jamie Oliver reportedly vowed yesterday that "heads would roll" after determination out one of his restaurants has been service of process egg from battery chickens.
It is a major overplus for the chef, exactly years after his electioneering TV read 'Jamie's Fowl Dinners' revealed the grim realness of battery hen testis production.
The blunder was ostensibly spotted by staff at his eating house in Cornwall after a worker changed  provider simply failed to order free-range eggs.
Oliver told the Mirror yesterday: "I am speechless. We have frame iron rules on what any chef can and cannot buy in completely Fifteens.
"I've never been so disappointed. Heads volition roll."

Champion Jack Dupree

   
Artist: Champion Jack Dupree

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 From New Orleans to Chicago/Champion Jack Dupree and His Blues Band CD 2

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 16


   
 From New Orleans to Chicago/Champion Jack Dupree and His Blues Band CD 1

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Junker's Blues

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 18


   
 Blues from the Gutter

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Back Home in New Orleans

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live with The Big Town Playboys

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Tricks

   Year: 1968   
Tracks: 11

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A formidable contender in the closed chain earlier he shifted his focussing to pounding the piano kinda, Champion Knave Dupree oft injected his lyrics with a yob mother wit of down-home sense of humor. Merely there was slide fastener blithe around his rock-solid way with a boogie; when he shouted "Shake off Baby Excite," the stallion room had no survival of the fittest but to acquiesce.


Dupree was notoriously obscure more or less his beginnings, claiming in approximately interviews that his parents died in a fire plant by the Ku Klux Klan, at other times saying that the glare was accidental. Whatever the destiny of the tragic inferno, Dupree grew up in Newly Orleans' Colored person Waifs' Home for Boys (Louis Armstrong also exhausted his formative days on that point). Learning his craft from honky-tonk 88s i Willie "Drive 'em Land" Hall, Dupree left hand the Crescent City in 1930 for Chicago and and so Detroit. By 1935, he was boxing professionally in Capital of Indiana, battling in an estimated 107 bouts.


In 1940, Dupree made his recording debut for Windy City A&R human organism extraordinaire Lester Melrose and O.K. Records. Dupree's 1940-1941 output for the Columbia foot soldier exhibited a strong New Siege of Orleans undertone disrespect the Chicago milieu; his drive "Junker's Vapors" was afterward cleaned up as Fats Domino's 1949 debut, "The Avoirdupois Man." After a stretch out in the Naval forces during Existence War II (he was a Nipponese P.O.W. for iI age), Dupree distinct tickling the 88s flap fistfight whatsoever old day. He exhausted most of his time in Fresh House of York and quickly became a fertile transcription artist, cut for Continental, Joe Dwight Filley Davis, Alarm, Phoebus, and Red River Robin (where he cut a blasting "Shim Faker Chemise" in 1953), oftentimes in the caller-out of Brownie McGhee. Contracts meant little; Dupree masqueraded as Sidekick Blues on Abbey, Lightnin' Jr. on Empire, and the genuinely imaginative Meat Head Lyndon Baines Johnson for Gotham and Apex of the sun's way.


Queen Records corralled Dupree in 1953 and held onto him through 1955 (the year he enjoyed his only R&B chart assume, the relaxed "Walk the Blues.") Dupree's King yield rates with his very best; the romping "Mail Order Woman," "Let the Buzzer Ring," and "Big Leg Emma's" contrasting with the rural "Me and My Scuff" (Dupree's vocal on the latter accentuation a harelip row impedimenta for politically wrong pseudo-comic essence).


By and by on a class on RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries, Dupree made a masterpiece LP for Atlantic Ocean. 1958's Vapours From the Trough is a magnificent testament to Dupree's barrelhouse background, boast improbable readings of "Stack-O-Lee," "Junker's Blue devils," and "Frankie & Johnny" beside the risqué "Filthy Boogie-woogie." Dupree was i of the first base bluesmen to resultant his indigene domain for a less racially polarized European universe in 1959. He lived in a diversity of countries abroad, continuing to record book prolifically for Storyville, Brits Decca (with Whoremaster Mayall and Eric Clapton lending a hand at a 1966 date), and many other firms.


Peradventure detection his possess mortality rate, Dupree returned to Newly Siege of Orleans in 1990 for his number one jaw in 36 historic period. Patch there, he played the Jazz & Heritage Fete and laid toss off a savory album for Bullseye Blues, Back Home in Freshly Siege of Orleans. Two more albums of fresh corporeal were captured by the ship's troupe the succeeding twelvemonth prior to the pianist's termination in Jan of 1992. Jack Dupree was a chomp to the very end.