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Still sounds great after all these years.
Silky Soul...
Silky Soul
silky soul indeed

Silky Soul
Maze w , and Frankie Beverly
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Back to Basics
We Are One
Can't Stop the Love
Inspiration
Maze

ASIN: B000002LG1
Release Date: 1989-08-29

Tracks:

Silky Soul
Can't Get Over You
Just Us
Somebody Else's Arms
Midnight
Love's On The Run
Change Our Ways
Songs Of Love
Mandela
Africa

Customer Reviews:

Still sounds great after all these years........2007-03-12

At a time when REAL Soul Music appeared to be going into decline, Frankie Beverly and Maze released this wonderful CD which was very well received. By itself, the gorgeous "Can't Get Over You" justifies buying the CD but there are other great songs here as well. Frankie Beverly is most certainly one of the greatest Soul singers of our time--but he is also criminally underrated. A classic CD to enjoy time and again (nearly 20 years after its original release it still sounds great!).

Silky Soul..........2007-02-03

Saw "Can't Get Over You" on cable, ordered the CD the next day. That's how much the song moved me. Fine work from Mr. Beverly! Five stars!!

Silky Soul.......2004-02-24

Silky Soul is a must have for any Maze lover. The songs and the music is so true to the silky style of Maze/Featuring Frankie Beverly. Some of the most soulful and sweetest lyrics I've ever been exposed to.

silky soul indeed.......2001-02-09

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly is unique soulful jazzy music that is not going to win over many Brittany Spears fans but should please anyone who likes well arranged funky 80's soul.Their somewhat Miles Davis like horn player really sounds superb on this release.The song "Mandela" is my favourite track being a harmonious call to release the then imprisoned South African leader with Beverlys' voice sounding passionate and emotive next to a beautiful chorus of backup singers.Joy and Pain is for me their finest hour, however this C.D.contains some fine moments also in spite of other reviews disparaging their mid 80's output.

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Savasana 2

Manufacturer: Wah! Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BTDM2S
Release Date: 2005-10-04

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2 Gether On 1 Duane Eddy Volume 3
Duane Eddy
Manufacturer: BMG Bertelsman Music Group
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000OH3YAC

Product Description

Two Complete Original Duane Eddy Albums Digitally Remastered On 1 Compact Disc. Twangy Guitar-Silky Strings (1962) & Lonely Guitar (1964)

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Exciting and heeling!
Another blockbuster by Mike
consmate guitar
review of Mike Dowling's "Blue Fandango"

Blue Fandango
Mike Dowling
Manufacturer: Wind River Guitar
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Guitar Blues

ASIN: B0009F8F3U
Release Date: 2005-04-15

Tracks:

Blue Fandango
Keep On Trying
I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
Street Corner Rag
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Midnight Hour Blues
Carinhoso
Maria Elena
I Hate Myself (For Being So Mean To You)
Things is 'Bout Comin' My Way
Steamboat Bill
Stompin' It Lightly
Hard Times

Product Description

A stunning collection of solo guitar instrumentals and vocals that captures the range of Mike Dowling's extraordinary talent, from his hauntingly beautiful rendition of "Maria Elena" to the Reverend Gary Davis' ragtimey "Trying To Get To Heaven".

Customer Reviews:

Exciting and heeling!.......2006-03-02

I've been to Mike Dowling's show only once in Tokyo. His music is always exciting and heeling. I prefer a real acoustic music and Mike's music is a real one. the sound of his guitars coming from his CDs is always natural. All the tunes in Blue Fandango are really my favorites. Good old American music I've been fond of since I was a small kid.

Another blockbuster by Mike.......2006-01-26

I have every recording Mike has ever done and Blue Fandango ranks up there as one of my favorites. Along the lines of his "Swamp Dog Blues" album, this one is a great mix of songs and instrumentals that never ceases to inspire and move me. Silky smooth vocals and top shelf guitar playing.

consmate guitar.......2005-06-18

This is a great album. I fully agree with the other review. If your taste is solo acoustic swing/blues guitar, this cd definitely a must have. This guy can play!

review of Mike Dowling's "Blue Fandango".......2005-05-26

This is an absolute "must-have" for anyone who appreciates tasteful acoustic songs and guitar instrumentals. Mike Dowling is an absolute master in the genres of swing, blues, and traditional american roots songs. This is the sweetest CD that I've bought this year, and I buy lots of albums!! The album is very diverse - from velvety bottleneck slide playing, to punchy rags, to latin rythym, with relaxed and soulful singing. Give yourself a gift of this album.

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Silky Soul Balladeer
Brook Benton
Manufacturer: American Legends
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Rainy Night In Georgia
Kiddio
It's Just A Matter Of Time
So Many Ways
Endlessly
The Boll Weevil Song
Hotel Happiness
Thank You Pretty Baby
Lie To Me
Think Twice

Album Description

In 1959, Brook Benton ushered in a new era of sophisticated soul music with his first Number One hit, "It's Just a Matter of Time". Lush string arrangements became his hallmark, a perfect complement to his creamy, warm baritone and silky smooth ballad style. He reigned supreme throughout the mid-sixties with twenty-five Top Forty hits, including six chart-topping smashes. A remarkably talented songwriter, Benton co-wrote the majority of his hits, largely with his producer Clyde Otis. In 1970, he crowned his illustrious career with the Number One Gold Record Rainy Night in Georgia.

A Retro Cool Bossa Nova Christmas with Vinnie Zummo

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Christmas Music At Its Best !!
The VERY Best Christmas CD You Will Ever Own!
Is bossa nova really this monochromatic?
Awesome album!!!

A Retro Cool Bossa Nova Christmas with Vinnie Zummo
Vinnie Zummo
Manufacturer: Vaz Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005RSX4
Release Date: 2001-09-12

Tracks:

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (traditional)
O Tannenbaum (traditional)
JingleBells (traditional)
Good King Wenceslas (traditional)
Silent Night (traditional)
Hark The Herald Angels Sing (traditional
The First Noel (traditional)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (traditional)
Deck The Halls (traditional)
.Groovy Snow (V.Zummo)
Angels We Have Heard On High (traditional)
Christmas Groove ( V. Zummo)

Album Description

The CD consists of traditional Christmas songs played over a silky, smooth, retro bossa nova groove featuring Vinnie's uniquely phrased, guitar playing. This is not your average Christmas CD. Aside from being a unique Holiday CD, it also stands as a jazz/bossa nova album on it's own with plenty of solos for guitar fans. The zany lounge vibe is augmented by chromatic harmonica and accordion solos as well as the nylon and electric guitar solos. If you know of Vinnie's playing from his 7 year stint with Joe Jackson, you know his concept of jazz guitar soloing is a little skewered. If forced to describe it one might say that this is the kind of record Dean Martin would have thrown on the turntable while mixing martinis for Frank & the boys on a balmy December day in Hollywood circa 1963. I'd like to think that upon hearing it Frank would say; " Hey Klyde, that's a groovy sound! The guitar player sounds real kooky." A great alternative for the holidays and a unique way to have a 'Cool Yule'.

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Christmas Music At Its Best !!.......2006-11-28

I agree with all the positive reviews above. Bottom line is: if you love bossa nova music like I do, you have GOT to get this CD. Great arrangements, great jazzy guitar solos, and authentic bossa nova rhythm. Great "Christmas Lounge" music. Bossalover, Lompoc, CA

The VERY Best Christmas CD You Will Ever Own!.......2004-11-20

This CD is just so wonderful! I listened to it once, and realized I had to buy a copy for everyone on my shopping list! Vinnie Zummo is one of the greatest guitarists alive! His interpretations of the classics, as well as his two original scores, will send you for the "repeat" button as soon as it's done spinning! The arrangements are perfect for Holiday Dinners, Office Parties, quiet evenings in front of the fireplace with your sweetie, or any other Christmas scenario you can imagine. Contrary to some opinions, this is not monochromatic, it is vitally alive. Your children will love it, your in-laws will love it and everyone who hears it playing in your home will ask: "Who is THIS?!! Where can I get a copy?!" And when Janice Zummo lends her AWESOME voice to a few of the tracks, you will understand why this is the perfect Christmas CD to add to your collection. Don't hesitate, buy it and enjoy your Christmas!!!! (If you'd like to get your Christmas shopping done so you can enjoy the Holidays, just buy one for everyone on your list - they WILL thank you!)

Is bossa nova really this monochromatic?.......2003-12-20

There's no variety on this CD--every song sounds pretty much like every other song on it. It's audio wallpaper--practically elevator wallpaper. Learn from my mistake: don't buy a CD that's listed with no sample tracks and no independent reviews.

Awesome album!!!.......2002-11-22

This has instantly become my favorite Christmas album ever. It's one of those rare CDs that you love instantly from beginning to end; every song is truly a pleasure to hear. The whole album is beautiful, relaxing, and nostalgic (some songs really remind me of the Charlie Brown Christmas album). But it's even something that you'll listen to all year round since it's as much bossa nova as it is Christmas. Enjoy it in March and July and October and...

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Serene: Correct Track Listing
A Deceptive Rerelease of Sanctuary of Rejunvenation

Serene
Aeoliah
Manufacturer: Oreade Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000055YCQ
Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

Serene Splendour
Angel Father
The Healing Heart
Angel's Touch
The Gift
Phoenix Rising
Ecstacy

Customer Reviews:

Serene: Correct Track Listing.......2007-05-31

Beautiful Relaxing Music....

2005 review is not acurate for this title.

Amazon track titles for this CD also not correct....

Here is the REAL TRACK LISTING for the Aeoliah CD SERENE

Angel Love
Radiance
Eternal Spring
The Embrace
Sanctuary
Sea of Bliss
WindSong------->simular to the Love in the Wind CD version
Oasis----------->3:06 edit from Love in the Wind CD
The Treasure--->7:08 edit from Angels of Healing II CD

See Sanctuary of Rejuvenation CD for other corrected detail.

A Deceptive Rerelease of Sanctuary of Rejunvenation.......2005-05-28

I've purchased many of Aeoliah's CD. I am incensed to find that Serene is identical in every way to "Sanctuary of Rejuvenation" except the cover art! Buyers be warned if you already own "Sanctuary of Rejuvenation." That said, if you like a restful slow bath of warm sound, this will provide it.

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not for people with weak hearts
raving mad and depraved brilliance
Another badly produced album spoils a great artist
Raw, raunchy and excellent
Good Lord, what he gets away with

Silky
Andre Williams
Manufacturer: In the Red Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Movin On: Greasy and Explicit Soul Movers 1956-1970
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ASIN: B0000061Z1
Release Date: 1998-02-10

Tracks:

Agile, Mobile & Hostile
I Wanna Be Your Favorite Pair Of Pajamas
Bonin'
Through It All
Looking Down At You-Looking Up At Me
Bring Me Back My Car Unstripped
Car With The Star
Pussy Stank
Only Black Man In South Dakota
Let Me Put It In
Country & Western Song
Everybody Knew

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Williams made his nickname of "Mr. Rhythm" by talking his way through a series of fun, creepy, sleazy-sounding R&B records back in the '50s. The 1998 Silky is a lot more, uh, explicit (there's a big difference between "Bacon Fat" and "Let Me Put It In"), and Williams sometimes sounds unconvinced by the words he's drawling, though his torn-up purr slyly makes the point of "Only Black Man In South Dakota." The band behind him--a group of garage rock all-stars including members of the Gories and Demolition Doll-Rods--is terrific, backing him up with an echoey multi-guitar roar that's nothing like what he used in his R&B days, but suits his rasp nicely. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews:

not for people with weak hearts.......2005-08-17

if you do not like to hear "raw" music, then don't buy this CD. But if you want to hear something different, then buy it. I like it, it kind of grows on you (but not like a fungus, but almost). This is about as uncommercial as it gets, I'm surprised anybody besides me actually wants to hear this, but it's good. i particularly like the cut 'Bring Me Back My Car Unstripped (Mother******)" and "Car With The Star".

raving mad and depraved brilliance.......2004-01-02

Andre Williams has survived more than most of us ever will. In the 50s and 60s he worked on the fringes of the rock/R&B field, issuing sleazy records like "Bacon Fat" and "Greasy Chicken," and working as a producer. A stint in Ike Turner's post-Tina band helped him acquire a severe drinking and crack habit that landed him on the street. He struggled back from addiction and began making records again in the 90s.

Far from being 50s R&B records, Williams' current CD's are skull-cracking exercises in the kind of depravity that the late Screamin' Jay Hawkins used to indulge in. "Silky" is a triumphant, raging comeback of filthy-minded (and filthy-mouthed) garage rock that sounds like the musical equivalent of the wildest night you ever had, multiplied by 10. He drawls and growls his way through songs like "P*ssy Stank," "Bring Me Back My Car Unstripped," and the frankly frightening "Agile, Mobile and Hostile," with impressive panache, especially considering he's 65 years old. This is music to get drunk and pick up strippers and steal a firetruck and rob a bank to.

Back in the day, there used to be preachers who would refer to rock and roll as the Devil's music. Andre Williams' "Silky" is exactly what they had in mind. Listen now, repent later.

Another badly produced album spoils a great artist.......2000-07-23

Like Williams' other recent CD, RED DIRT, this is so badly produced, you have a hard time hearing some of the lyrics--which are the whole point of the exercise. Massively loud, bad guitar work hammers the rest of the mix. (Surprise: The guitarist did dual duty as the "producer" of this mess.) Andre Williams needs to dump these clowns and get the kind of professional production he enjoyed in the 1950s.

Raw, raunchy and excellent.......2000-07-14

This is one of the greatest garage rock n' roll albums EVER! For fans of Andre's early work as well as fans of the Cramps, Blues Explosion, Gories, ect. Mr. Rhythm is king!

Good Lord, what he gets away with.......2000-05-03

"Silky" is actually a garage-rock effort, pretty far removed from Andre's R&B roots. But it's also the greatest garage-rock album of the '90s, and would have fit right alongside the Gories on the Crypt Records roster of the decade. For a 60+-year-old man, Andre's mind is strictly in the juvenile gutter, but at least he's a talented exhibitionist. References to sex (all types) abound, albeit with comparitively little obscenity. Two cuts especially, the obvious "Let Me Put It In" and the jealously apocalyptic "Everybody Knew," make him sound like he's in physical pain. He growls, huffs, and doesn't give a damn what you think. What more could you ask?

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Restless Soul

Manufacturer: Stardom
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAFHTM
Release Date: 2004-08-10

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Black + Blue Pearl
Clara Lofaro
Manufacturer: cometrue records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAKM4M
Release Date: 2005-08-09

Tracks:

Happy Together
Dizzy Spell
Untied
Last Night
One True Thing
Start
Black + Blue Pearl
Answer
Star-Candy
Treading Water
War Song
Sail Away

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