This amazing six-CD set drops out of the proverbial heavens on us. In the spirit of Revenant & Folkways, Greil Marcus calls it the "best country-religious music collection I've ever heard." Features five CDs of guitar evangelists, holiness string bands, jubilee gospel quartets, sacred harp choirs, and sanctified jug music, plus one CD of shouting sisters and powerful preachers delivering the message. Including Louvin Brothers, Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Rosett...   [ read more ]

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Manu Chao's road to Clandestino and Proxima Estaci=n: Esperanza begins here with Mano Negra's swan song album. Conceptually, it marks the first use of radio and TV broadcast samples to create sound collages between tracks so the songs emerge like they would if you were station surfing on the car radio. Lyrically, it's the birth of the internationalist Manu Chao, as overt political messages largely replace the previous rebel rocker sentiments. Musically, Mano Negra returns to the manic rhy...   [ read more ]

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Even more similar to its predecessor, The Mirror Conspiracy, than that one was to the first Thievery Corporation LP, The Richest Man in Babylon provides some beat-heavy, languorous excursions into territory long-favored by Thievery Corporation -- namely, the music of Brazil, India, and Jamaica -- but doesn't have the hooks or the production finesse to compete with The Mirror Conspiracy. On the opener, "Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes," guest Emiliana Torrini treasures her vocals endearin...   [ read more ]

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