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Alan Brown
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[10.Jul.08] :. This Vancouver-based musician sings with heart-on-sleeve intensity about suffering and loss. It's her skill with words and the uplifting production which make this album so much better than a misery memoir.
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[3.Jul.08] :. Countrified folk-pop blending contemplative B-3 organ, spectral lap-steel and the thrashing strum of an acoustic guitar -- brings to mind the young Cat Stevens.
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[1.Jul.08] :. Calgary's surf-rock instrumentalists add a contemporary edge to the grinding-guitar, tassell-teasing strip-club sound of the '50s and the reverbed fun in the sun of the '60s.
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[30.Jun.08] :. All skittering drums and scything guitar lines, this powerful slice of melodious psych-pop provides a great entry point to a magical body of work.
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[19.May.08] :. Not for the faint-hearted, nor the recently heartbroken -- but if you're neither, this dynamite disc is one slice of maximum R&B you cannot afford to miss out on.
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[16.Jan.08] :. The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll. Jimmy Reed was one of the few visionaries to make it happen, as this outstanding 23-song compilation proves.
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[28.Nov.07] :. Sterling Harrison is one performer who really does live up to the cliché -- one of the greatest soul singers you never heard of -- on this, his posthumous album.
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[1.Sep.06] :. 'Cruel Words' is an eerie treat of musical inventiveness from the dark hinterland of Americana. Exceptional!
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