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CATHY ROCCO/You’re Gonna Hear From Me: Not just another reconstituted disco dolly that’s discovered the Great American songbook and she matured, Sirocco knows her way around the songs and the composers as well. She’s even covered Mel London here. On her first outing as a jazz vocalist, she doesn’t beat the familiar to death and makes some surprising choices powered by some surprising moves. Jazz vocal fans will be sure to welcome this new voice into the fold of singers well worth hearing. Certainly a well done and well-received debut.
(Resonance)
HEAVY HITTER
BLOODBATH/Wacken Carnage: A high, crazy serving of Swedish death metal served up by a crew that was feeling nostalgic for the good old days by the time 1998 got here, this CD/DVD collection gives the hard-core fan everything they could want, tearing it up live in 2005 at a German festival. This crew stands hot, hard and is giving no quarter. Basically made up of a super group of death metal pros, no missteps are made here.
JAMIE
BARBARA LYNN/The Jamie Singles Collection: This R&B pioneer came to Philly by way of Texas and made her mark fast and hard. Certainly worthy of her pioneer’s recognition, this fatly tracked collection of early sides takes you right back to the beginning, serving it up as hot and direct as you can handle. Loaded with classic grooves and classic cuts any serious R&B fan will want, this collection of nearly 50-year-old songs play like there’s no dust on them. A winning collection solidly tracked throughout.
SHOUT! FACTORY
MANHATTANS/ Sweet Talking Soul 1965-1990: The first all-encompassing retrospective of this longtime soul vocal crew, this three disc retrospective takes them all the way from their early doo-wop days to their late period soul symphonies. For some reason this long-running, chart topping act doesn’t seem to have the luster on their catalog these days that it should especially since they were so influential and well decorated but this collection does a fine job of bringing them back to the front. With a quarter of century of hits on board there’s plenty of good stuff to pick and choose from and fans of classic, sweet soul are sure to go away without being disappointed.
THREE DOG NIGHT/Greatest Hits Live: There was once a time when this band was more than seven separate fools and many of the young ladies across the nation took them quite to heart. Recorded when the three front men were at their prime rather than fodder for VH1 special looking back at what was, this is a new, remastered look at a snapshot of when they ruled the charts in the early 70s. If you were into this stuff then it’s sure to hit your nostalgia sweet tooth and have you glad it’s there to fill it. A lot of old fans will find this a happy reminder of when AM. radio ruled the earth.
Volume 31/Number 257
July 14, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
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