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Pratt Songs: November 2008
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. That's not to say that no great artists existed outside these periods of greatness. Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker certainly pre-dated the peak of jazz by several decades, and Jane's Addiction and Metallica arrived long after rock's brightest lights had either burned out or faded away. As a breath of fresh air. The problem is,. Is only fresh when compared to the worst the genre has to offer. If you hold it up to TI and Nelly, the re...
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Pratt Songs: August 2008
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. Richard Ashcroft: Keys to the World. I tried and tried to like Richard Ashcroft's old band, The Verve, but I never got into them. I don't really recall what they sounded like (other than the song "Bittersweet Symphony"), but if they were anything like. Keys to the World. It's easy to understand why I didn't like them. There's a picture of Richard Ashcroft looking like a cross between Tom Verlaine and Andrew Eldritch! Listen if you like:.
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Pratt Songs: Bettye LaVette: I've Got My Own Hell to Raise
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. Bettye LaVette: I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. I've been away from the blog for awhile, but I'm hopefully back to the regular Tuesday/Friday updates. Bettye LaVette is proof that, in some people's careers, everything can go wrong. Bettye LaVette is also proof that sometimes, after everything's gone wrong for a decade or four, the fates finally smile down upon you. I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. Then LaVette starts singing. If you're wonder...
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Pratt Songs: My Teenage Stride: Ears Like Golden Bats
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. My Teenage Stride: Ears Like Golden Bats. It's been awhile since I've praised Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library for their music collection. I haven't been to any other libraries where I can walk in and find dozens of CDs by bands I've never heard (or even heard of), and nearly all of them will at least be decent. I wish the music on MySpace or iTunes had that kind of track record! Listen if you like:. Upbeat indie pop or downcast 80's M...
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Pratt Songs: Daniel Lanois: Acadie
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. It must be bizarre to have countless platinum records -. Platinum records, nonetheless - under your belt, yet be unknown to all but the most die-hard rock fans. As a producer, Daniel Lanois is at least partially responsible for seminal albums by U2, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, The Neville Brothers, and Dashboard Confessional. Not often that you see Dashboard Confessional and Dylan on a list together.) But how about on his own? And for nearly...
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Pratt Songs: March 2009
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. Bettye LaVette: The Scene of the Crime. As a rule, I don't like singers who only perform other people's songs. We don't celebrate authors who simply re-tell other writer's stories, and we don't go to galleries to see paintings by artists who blatantly copy other artists, so why should we praise singers who only sing other people's songs? On the surface, this album is similar to LaVette's first release on Anti Records. The Scene of the Crime.
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Pratt Songs: Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. Everybody from Elton John to Tom Jones has released a remix album, making them as ubiquitous (and unnecessary) as blogs and tattoos. But what happened back in the days when the innovators of remixing. Were still crawling around with diapers full of poop? Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. You might ask, "Chuck, why would you say that Mingus - a man who didn't much care for rock music -.
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Pratt Songs: Can: Ege Bamyasi
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. Hadn't completely blown me away, I wouldn't have given. A second listen. That's how much I hated it the first time I heard it. But I did listen again, and then I gave it a third listen, and a fourth. and I still hated it. Eventually, I listened on some great headphones. I heard some nice production tricks and experimental ideas buried in the background. Nice production tricks do not make a great album. Sounds like its dumb little brother.
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Pratt Songs: July 2008
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. Various Artists: Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures (Taken from the Vaults) Vol. 3. I recently had to take a day-long road trip. I was certain that Dave Godin's collection of deep soul would be a musical highlight of the drive, so I saved it for last. My plan would've worked perfectly if I hadn't listened to the new Eli "Paperboy" Reed CD first. Is also unoriginal. Unfortunately, there's very little fantastic to balance it out. The liner not...
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Pratt Songs: September 2008
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Music reviews from the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. Like any well-behaved music fan in the '90s, I bought into the. Hype I basked in the proggy arrangements, I praised Radiohead as the future of rock, and I listened to the album with all the open-mindedness of a newly minted cult member. For some reason, though, I haven't once missed my copy of the record since I sold it in 2000. Why aren't I fondly reminiscing about it? But I can hear something now that I couldn't hear back when. First cam...
