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PABLO ZIEGLER/Buenos Aires Report: The Latin Grammy winning new tango ace continues to roll on with great energy as he brings his piano and trio to Amsterdam to spread the word about what he’s doing to sounds from south of the Equator. Taking tango into the future, and doing so much with ostensibly so little, Ziegler has a fresh, hot sound that turns the inherent passion in the music up a notch. International ears have a welcome treat on board here.
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ANDERS OSBORNE/Coming Down: A guitar slinger with a few thoughts of his own on the Nola situation, Anders gives voice to his local concerns in fine fashion getting the message across without preaching. That and he does some pretty nice singing and playing as well doing a contemporary bluesy turn on his original material that goes down so well. A familiar name that works his groove well, this is a dandy find for anyone with ears along this axis. Not at all bad for a kid from Sweden relocated to Nashville.
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PRETENDERS/Learning to Crawl: With half the band dead and so much invested in the name, it was hard for Chrissie Hynde to put a solo career out front as the record biz was coming out of the post disco sales doldrums and she had to find a way to carry on and deflect snot noses waiting in the wings ready to call this band The Stand Ins, so the Pretender name was kept out front, a move was made into soundtracks and the vibe was kept alive. Still punky and with a hard core edge, the band was always all about Hynde anyway and this kept the ball rolling in fine form without roiling the fan waters. Rounded out here with bonus tracks of demos and live cuts that uber geeks will love, the remastering alone is enough to grab the ear of any Pretender fan to come to the well again.
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PRETENDERS/Get Close: As Sire was moving from new wave and moving toward Madonna, Chrissie Hynde was entering the middle class herself as well, glammed it up ala “Court & Spark” period Joni Mitchell and made shiny pop with Jimmy Iovine as the pop wheel was changing and she was changing with it. Not the same Hynde that once popped off about having brass in pocket, but a smart rocker maturing nonetheless. A shiny remastered addition to any good 80’s rock collection.
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Volume 30/Number 316
September 12, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
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Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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