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January 15, 2022 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week features early works by John Denver, TV works by Jan Hammer and Giorgio Moroder, live stuff from Tegan and Sara and a real throwback of a compilation album. Denver, Boise & Johnson / The Mitchell Trio, Leaving on a Jet Plane: John Denver (Warner Records) (Amazon / Spotify) John Denver's career

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Withers, Bing Crosby, Buddy Holly, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Eric Clapton, Fats Waller, Giorgio Moroder, Grover Washington Jr., Jan Hammer, John Denver, John Prine, Sublime, Tegan and Sara, Waylon Jennings

April 8, 2020 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

UtopiaParkway

It was on my 23rd (or 25th, depending on how you count it) day of lockdown when I once again had to do something we're all sick of doing these last few weeks: go on social media and see another wave of tributes to a favorite artist who's succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, it was John Prine, an artist I freely admit is one of my many musical blind spots; but reading the tributes - some from friends, some from great writers, some from both - really underscores the profound

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Categories: Features Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Adam Schlesinger, Bill Withers, Hal Willner, John Prine, Prince

April 3, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bill Withers Just As I Am LP

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there's always tomorrow... Those words from "Lean on Me" held tremendous meaning when Bill Withers first introduced them in 1972. Today, they arguably hold even greater resonance. It's been announced that Withers has passed away of heart complications at 81 years of age. While his recording career was a relatively short one, roughly spanning just a decade and a half, he leaves behind some of the

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Categories: News Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bill Withers

November 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Grover Washington Jr. Definitive

In a career spanning three decades, Grammy-winning saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. recorded roughly 25 albums, earned a No. 2 Pop single with Bill Withers, supported countless other vocalists, and recorded music of genres from funk to opera.  (Yes, opera!)  Washington passed away in 1999 at the age of 56, but not before having made his mark on the worlds of jazz and pop alike.  His legacy has recently been celebrated by Cherry Red's Robinsongs label on the new 2-CD Definitive Collection.  This

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bill Withers, Bob James, Eric Gale, Grover Washington Jr., Idris Muhammad, Patti Labelle

October 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Let It Be Black America Sings

If there was ever any doubt as to the versatility, adaptability and endurance of the songs of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, it would certainly be dispelled by Ace’s new release of Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison.  The latest volume in the label’s Black America Sings series (also encompassing volumes dedicated to Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, and the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David) and the second dedicated to the music of The Beatles,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Dionne Warwick, Mary Wells, Nina Simone, The Beatles, The Four Tops, The Supremes, The Temptations, Various Artists

June 26, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

brazil connection

Well, summer is officially upon us! Already there's talk about which songs will be anointed the perfect summer jams for 2014 - songs by artists like Ariana Grande, Iggy Azalea and the ubiquitous Pharrell Williams. If those names don't set your pulse racing, however, Legacy Recordings has an alternative that's bound to conjure up images of tropical sunsets, refreshing drinks and summer breeze. Studio Rio Presents The Brazil Connection makes over 12 pop classics from the Sony vaults by melding the

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: Andy Williams, Bill Withers, Marcos Valle, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Sly & The Family Stone

August 29, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

bill withers complete1

Bill Withers announced himself to the world in 1971 in typically understated fashion.  He stood beside a plain brick wall, holding a lunch pail on the front cover photograph of Just as I Am.  It offered no indication as to the fiery music contained within its grooves, from the plain-spoken, gut-wrenching "Ain't No Sunshine" to the tender and moving "Grandma's Hands."  Withers was clearly a singer/songwriter with whom to be reckoned.  But did stardom suit Bill Withers?  His follow-up album was

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bill Withers

May 16, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

bill withers just as i am1

Bill Withers titled his 1971 debut album Just As I Am, and the raw, simple and understated cover photo seemed to support that title.  Withers, with an ingratiating smile on his face and a lunch pail in his hand, is standing against a brick wall at California's Webber Aircraft facility.  The US Navy aircraft mechanic turned guitar-slinging singer/songwriter was somewhat of an anomaly on the music scene, and in his understated manner wrote on the album's jacket, "It matters not where I came from

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