The Dutch smooth jazz saxophonist Candy Dulfer released her seventh studio album Right In My Soul in 2003. The album is characterized by Dulfers signature smooth jazz and funk style, but also incorporates many influences from contemporary dance styles, making it a diverse and fresh record. It features the singles “Finsbury Park, Café 67”, “Let […]
1. Wham! – Last Christmas 2. Mariah Carey – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 3. The Ronettes – Sleigh Ride 4. Jose Feliciano – Feliz Navidad 5. John Legend Fr. Stevie Wonder – What Christmas Means To Me 6. Gene Autry – Here Comes Santa Clause (Right Down Santa Claus 7. Hot Chelle Rae – […]
One of Acrobat’s most popular and successful series are the America’s Greatest Hits collections – 4-CD sets featuring the biggest hits from the Billboard charts from 1940, when the Billboard record sales chart was launched, through to 1962. However, before the Billboard chart was first published, the popular US weekly radio show Your Hit Parade, […]
Originally issued in 1959 to capitalize on the crossover success of “Try Me”, James Browns debut LP Please, Please, Please is a collection of 16 of his A- and B-sides recorded for the Federal label between 1956 and 1958. It was also the debut studio album for the Famous Flames, and was released as “James […]
There are perhaps few characters in the history of popular music who were as mysterious, as they were brazen than Aleck Ford, AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II.The true story of Sonny Boy Williamson II remains shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, and it seems this was Ford’s intention, but to what ends, nobody can say. One […]
Singer James Ambrose Johnson, born on February 1, 1948, in Buffalo, New York, fled to Toronto, Canada, to avoid the draft.There, he started The Mynah Birds, a rhythm & blues band and changed his name to Rick James.In 1966, Neil Young joined the band, but their journey ended when James was exposed as a draft […]
Thomas Newman became the ninth composer in the James Bond series history.His score for the 2012 movie Skyfall won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.In 2013, it became one of two Bond scores to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Skyfall (2012) is the twenty-third spy film in the James […]
Despite the fact that his career was curtailed in 1963 by a fatal heart attack when he was only 45, Elmore James was an extremely influential figure in the development of blues guitar, both by virtue of his highly distinctive sound, which he consciously developed by building his own combination of a modified hollow-bodied guitar […]
1994 second album by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns, unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. A concept album with accompanying text for each track by James Woodbourne, it also includes additional production by Portishead and Mr Scruff. Remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton, contains “Theme” for […]
Cuts Across The Land was the first full-length album from much-loved cult rock band Duke Spirit – Originally issued on Loog Records in May 2005, it was a huge, critically acclaimed adrenalin-rush of an album that consolidated the group’s word-of-mouth success – To commemorate the album’s 20th Anniversary, the original album is paired with a […]
