#1 Steve Hunter
Steve “the Deacon” Hunter’s The Manhattan Blues Project (Deaconrecords (884501903240) is a superb and visionary exploration of the guitar that sets a mood and lends itself to repeated spins. Opening with “Prelude to the Blues” you can hear tender melodies from Alice Cooper’s “I Never Cry” slipping into the guitarlines while 222 W.23
rd has a panther-like feel setting the tone perfectly for any upcoming spy movie interested in picking this up. Hunter whispers the song title as well as the word “electrified” in the middle of the song; that – and some Abbey Road-styled backing vocals on “Gramercy Park” – are the only voices this critic hears on the otherwise all instrumental disc.
Track 5 is a cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill” and though Gabriel’s brilliance cannot be denied I tend to like the instrumental here better. The fact that Steve Hunter and his colleague, Dick Wagner, played on the former Genesis lead singer’s 1977 Car album, produced by Bob Ezrin, is notable as Hunter is probably the guitar player on the Peter Gabriel solo hit (or one of them as King Crimson’s Robert Fripp also appears on the Car lp). Read more here:
http://www.tmrzoo.com/2013/45306/music-review-steve-the-deacon-hunters-the-manhattan-blues-project
Steve Hunter will be on Visual Radio Live on June 27, 2013
8 PM Thursday evening http://www.wincam.org
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#2 The Rolling Stones
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE
Joe Viglione review
For long-time Rolling Stones fans who have seen the group perform during the Mick Taylor era and the early days of Ron Wood – and who are overwhelmed by the jungle of stuff – all the books, DVDs and online media covering/surrounding the Greatest Rock & Roll band in the world, Crossfire Hurricane is a wonderful succinct history perfectly told in a most satisfying way.
This Brett Morgen film is tightly presented with colorful psychedelia, a terrific “Midnight Rambler”, and lots of information told in the first person by the boys in the band.
It has the feel of Bob Smeaton’s work with The Beatles on their Anthology series and, truth be told, why the Stones didn’t put their own Anthology series together with an idea for a similar high-end project is a sign of the times. Read more here:
http://www.tmrzoo.com/2013/45554/review-the-rolling-stones-crossfire-hurricane
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3)Juke Box Heo Lou Gramm and Scott Pitoniak
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4) A Lowbudget Barrel of Monkees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUuvJylhPYQ
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5) Jann Klose
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6)GIRL ON TOP LIVE FOR IT
featuring the John Fannon production of Karen DeBiasse and band singing Ozzy Osborne's
10. I Don't Want to Stop
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/girlontop3
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7)THE ROLLING STONES UNDER REVIEW
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjIPm9I-RA
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Under Review 1962-1966 the first DVD
review
[+]by Joe Viglione
With the immediacy of
YouTube and other internet information streams it is tough to accept the tag-line "Ultimate review and critical analysis of the music and career of The Rolling
Stones" that adorns the back of this DVD package, The Rolling Stones Under Review 1962-1966. The big tease is the videoclips -- gorgeous video clips --
the Stones sitting on a stage while they present
Howlin' Wolf on the TV show Shindig,
Buddy Holly with a snippet of "Peggy Sue," and delicious
Rolling Stones tracks on film, all too short, and spliced alongside the commentary from Melody Maker magazine's
Chris Welch, R&B singer
Chris Farlowe (who was also under
Andrew Loog Oldham's umbrella and had hits with
Jagger/Richardsmaterial),
Pretty Things guitarist
Dick Taylor -- who had performed with
Mick Jagger in the band Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys -- and others. The
Dave Clark-leased video of "Paint It Black" live on Ready Steady Go and bits of "It's All Over Now" from The Red Skelton Hour are not as satisfying as finding full renditions of those songs on the internet. That none of the guests point out that
Mick clearly mouths the "f" word during "It's All Over Now" on TV in 1964 is as shocking as the fact that the singer got away with it, no pause and rewind available in the day allowing the moment to vanish for a few decades. The lip-synched rendition on
Skelton's program might have the record playing "I used to love her," but
Mick says into the camera "I used to (obscenity) her," and that's definitely worthy of discussion, if not by
Red Skelton well, perhaps by their former bodyguard, Tom Keylock, who is interviewed at length here. Also distressing for purists is that you can do a quick Google search and come up with Felix Aeppli's
Ultimate Guide 1962-2002 which has the actual dates of those TV moments along with images of 45 rpm covers, different from those displayed on this DVD. Now had this presentation included interactive components bringing the viewer to the internet sites which revealed the missing information it would be so much more significant. That doesn't render this 90-minute documentary useless, but it comes off less interesting than Chrome Dreams'
Kate Bush: Under Review, perhaps because there is just so much information available on
the Stones and less on
Kate Bush and her story. Narrator Mandy O'Neal has an appealing accent and editor Elliot Riddle does a fine job of mixing and matching the various elements, but when all is said and done it's the lack of information on the film clips being displayed that is as frustrating as the performances showing up in truncated form. Sure, it's a trip for those who appreciate the band to once again see how young they were at this point in time, the group's incessant touring in the new millennium imprinting on the collective consciousness the fact that they have not aged gracefully, but one can read the
AMG biographies and get pretty much the same information more efficiently, which makes this work somewhat for the casual fan and the hardcore completists only. The 13 chapters have 11 titled after
Stones' songs so there's the opportunity to skip and jump through the documentary if one chooses. It's not "the ultimate review," but it's intriguing enough.
Read more here:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/under-review-1962-1966-mw0001491468
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8) STARS & STRIPES AND MILESTONES
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9)CLIVE DAVIS
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10) Steve Chizmadia.
Produced by Peter Calo
http://stevechizmadia.com/
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http://www.sonicbids.com/2/EPK/?epk_id=71754
Artist Information
Biography
Steve is an award winning artist from the Hudson Valley with strong roots in the singer songwriter tradition, country and rock. His influences include The Beatles, Townes Van Zandt, Pete Seeger, Steve Earle, and a host of others too numerous to mention. He's a regular on the Hudson Valley scene with a steadily growing fan base nationwide. Steve is a winner of The 2011 Hudson Valley SongFest Emerging Artist Competition, 2011 Wildflower! Music and Art Festival songwriting competition, 2011 Woody Guthrie Songwriting Contest (Third Place) and a 2011 Kerrville New Folk finalist. He was the 2010 grand prize winner of the Music 2Life songwriting competition (created by Noel "Paul" Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary) for "The Wall Street Fat Cat Tax Payer Bail Out Blues",. His first C.D. "It Is What It Is" reached number 12 on the folk D.J. Charts in 2007.
He has been a Kerrville New Folk finalist (2003), a finalist in the Strum magazine songwriting competition (2010) twice received honorable mention from the Woody Guthrie songwriting competition (2005, 2010) and has had a tri-centric showcase at NERFA. He's currently working on his latest C.D. with producer Peter Calo. Steve plays Gibson and Gretsch guitars.
Instrumentation
Steve Chizmadia - six and twelve string guitars, mandolin
Discography
"Jack Of All Trades"
"It Is What It Is"
"Tribes Hill: We're All Here"
"Hudson Harding Holiday c.d. volume 2"
"The Wall Street Fat Cat Tax Payer Bail Out Blues"
Official Website
http://stevechizmadia.com
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11)‘After Earth’ Review – A Great Sci-Fi Movie by M. Night Shyamalan
OK, the reviews are already in and the critics (except for me) seem to really and truly hate
After Earth. In fact, one such individual was leaving the theater yelling that he hates M. Night Shyamalan and thinks he “hasn’t made a good movie since Signs.”
Signs was OK, and
The Sixth Sense was absolutely brilliant, but what confounds me is the onslaught of negative reviews on what I found to be a wonderfully exotic, big science fiction film that breaks new ground. We’re all entitled to our opinions, and my feeling is that Will Smith is a pivotal movie star in the sci-fi genre and that this could be his best performance in a science fiction film.
Shyamalan gives us big, big sets at the films onset. Big apartment buildings, a big spaceship, big caverns, taking what George Lucas took from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and making it larger, more in-depth, more like something to watch in awe. The spaceship is amazing and – voila – it actually gets stuck in an asteroid storm, something that devout
Star Trek fans like myself always wondered how and why Warp Speed was never bogged down by little minute details like a planet the size of Jupiter in your way.
http://www.tmrzoo.com/2013/45363/after-earth-review-a-great-sci-fi-movie-by-m-night-shyamalan
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12) Randy Roos MISTRAL
http://www.unfretted.net/loader.php?LINK=history
Orchestra Luna's guitarist
Randy Roos released his first solo album on Boston legend
Bruce Patch's Spoonfed records, a label which would issue discs by Third Rail produced by
Ric Ocasek, Reddy Teddy, the Remains, J.T.S. Flying, and others. "Stew" is a song that has some great wailing guitar behind percussion and rhythms, the early playing of this virtuoso falling somewhere between
Pat Metheny and
Steve Vai. The plethora of instruments utilized by the guitarist expose the talents he brought to
Rick Berlin's quirky early work on Epic, the bold and highly experimental Orchestra Luna disc. All those avant-garde notions are stripped away for a smooth and precise coloring of original tunes and collaborations which range from three and a half minutes to nearly eight minutes in length. The instrumentalist notes the different tools he uses to get the sounds on each song, "Platypus" containing more jazz improvisation, while "Inward Stroke" is just a lovely, subdued combination of mellow guitar sounds. "The Hunt" is a bit more driving, allowing
Randy Roos the liberty to stretch. "Horizon Game" opens side two and has more exquisite playing, inspired ideas which are the furthest thing from redundant, sounds expanding on "Innisfree" and concluding with the seven-minute-plus "Marcel Marceau (Three Little Things)," the epic track on the
Mistral album as "Doris Dreams" was to the Orchestra Luna disc. Read more here:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/mistral-mw0001185891
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13)LIBERACE: THE ULTIMATE ENTERTAINER
Huffington Post review http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/china-beach-dvd_b_3343491.html
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14) Rolling Stones Under Review 1967-1969
review
[-]by Joe Viglione
Where
the Rolling Stones'
Under Review: 1962-1966 had its moments with eight commentators giving us the beginnings of
Stones history, this part two --
Under Review: 1967-1969 with a dozen critics and musicians interviewed -- is truly superior in its approach and in direction, a perfect segue to the unnamed part three of this trilogy from Chrome Dreams/Sexy Intellectual, the very excellent
Under Review for
Keith Richards. Critic
Keith Altham is on all three documentaries as is
Tom Keylock, and they add wonderful insight, notably
Altham's essential critiques and historical perspective. Thomas Arnold is the narrator, as he is on the
Richards disc, replacing Mandy O'Neal from the first volume, and the storyline is meatier as the "greatest rock & roll band in the world" moves into these new phases of psychedelia and what followed, the time labeled their "golden era" with guitarist
Mick Taylor and producer
Jimmy Millerenhancing the sounds the band would generate. The previous documentary ended with "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" while this edition opens with "Sympathy for the Devil," interesting bookends with so much territory to cover. Even die-hard
Stones fans who know much about the history will embrace the clips, the perspectives, and the chronology.
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15)JAMES STRAIGHT AND THE
WIDE STANCE
NO LOITERING
Starring the very right Reverend Joe Fagan
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16)Lady Antebellum
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17)Under Review 1962-1966 the first DVD
review
[+]by Joe Viglione
With the immediacy of
YouTube and other internet information streams it is tough to accept the tag-line "Ultimate review and critical analysis of the music and career of The Rolling
Stones" that adorns the back of this DVD package, The Rolling Stones Under Review 1962-1966. The big tease is the videoclips -- gorgeous video clips --
the Stones sitting on a stage while they present
Howlin' Wolf on the TV show Shindig,
Buddy Holly with a snippet of "Peggy Sue," and delicious
Rolling Stones tracks on film, all too short, and spliced alongside the commentary from Melody Maker magazine's
Chris Welch, R&B singer
Chris Farlowe (who was also under
Andrew Loog Oldham's umbrella and had hits with
Jagger/Richardsmaterial),
Pretty Things guitarist
Dick Taylor -- who had performed with
Mick Jagger in the band Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys -- and others. The
Dave Clark-leased video of "Paint It Black" live on Ready Steady Go and bits of "It's All Over Now" from The Red Skelton Hour are not as satisfying as finding full renditions of those songs on the internet. That none of the guests point out that
Mick clearly mouths the "f" word during "It's All Over Now" on TV in 1964 is as shocking as the fact that the singer got away with it, no pause and rewind available in the day allowing the moment to vanish for a few decades. The lip-synched rendition on
Skelton's program might have the record playing "I used to love her," but
Mick says into the camera "I used to (obscenity) her," and that's definitely worthy of discussion, if not by
Red Skelton well, perhaps by their former bodyguard, Tom Keylock, who is interviewed at length here. Also distressing for purists is that you can do a quick Google search and come up with Felix Aeppli's
Ultimate Guide 1962-2002 which has the actual dates of those TV moments along with images of 45 rpm covers, different from those displayed on this DVD. Now had this presentation included interactive components bringing the viewer to the internet sites which revealed the missing information it would be so much more significant. That doesn't render this 90-minute documentary useless, but it comes off less interesting than Chrome Dreams'
Kate Bush: Under Review, perhaps because there is just so much information available on
the Stones and less on
Kate Bush and her story. Narrator Mandy O'Neal has an appealing accent and editor Elliot Riddle does a fine job of mixing and matching the various elements, but when all is said and done it's the lack of information on the film clips being displayed that is as frustrating as the performances showing up in truncated form. Sure, it's a trip for those who appreciate the band to once again see how young they were at this point in time, the group's incessant touring in the new millennium imprinting on the collective consciousness the fact that they have not aged gracefully, but one can read the
AMG biographies and get pretty much the same information more efficiently, which makes this work somewhat for the casual fan and the hardcore completists only. The 13 chapters have 11 titled after
Stones' songs so there's the opportunity to skip and jump through the documentary if one chooses. It's not "the ultimate review," but it's intriguing enough.
Read more here:
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15)JAMES STRAIGHT AND THE WIDE STANCE
NO LOITERING
Starring the very right Reverend Joe Fagan
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16)Lady Antebellum
http://www.bullmoose.com/p/14182464/LADY-ANTEBELLUM-OWN-THE-NIGHT-WORLD-TOUR?gclid=CJ7BktWQ2LcCFaZlOgodMDkAWQ
17)Under Review 1962-1966 the first DVD
review
[+]by Joe Viglione
With the immediacy of
YouTube and other internet information streams it is tough to accept the tag-line "Ultimate review and critical analysis of the music and career of The Rolling
Stones" that adorns the back of this DVD package, The Rolling Stones Under Review 1962-1966. The big tease is the videoclips -- gorgeous video clips --
the Stones sitting on a stage while they present
Howlin' Wolf on the TV show Shindig,
Buddy Holly with a snippet of "Peggy Sue," and delicious
Rolling Stones tracks on film, all too short, and spliced alongside the commentary from Melody Maker magazine's
Chris Welch, R&B singer
Chris Farlowe (who was also under
Andrew Loog Oldham's umbrella and had hits with
Jagger/Richardsmaterial),
Pretty Things guitarist
Dick Taylor -- who had performed with
Mick Jagger in the band Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys -- and others. The
Dave Clark-leased video of "Paint It Black" live on Ready Steady Go and bits of "It's All Over Now" from The Red Skelton Hour are not as satisfying as finding full renditions of those songs on the internet. That none of the guests point out that
Mick clearly mouths the "f" word during "It's All Over Now" on TV in 1964 is as shocking as the fact that the singer got away with it, no pause and rewind available in the day allowing the moment to vanish for a few decades. The lip-synched rendition on
Skelton's program might have the record playing "I used to love her," but
Mick says into the camera "I used to (obscenity) her," and that's definitely worthy of discussion, if not by
Red Skelton well, perhaps by their former bodyguard, Tom Keylock, who is interviewed at length here. Also distressing for purists is that you can do a quick Google search and come up with Felix Aeppli's
Ultimate Guide 1962-2002 which has the actual dates of those TV moments along with images of 45 rpm covers, different from those displayed on this DVD. Now had this presentation included interactive components bringing the viewer to the internet sites which revealed the missing information it would be so much more significant. That doesn't render this 90-minute documentary useless, but it comes off less interesting than Chrome Dreams'
Kate Bush: Under Review, perhaps because there is just so much information available on
the Stones and less on
Kate Bush and her story. Narrator Mandy O'Neal has an appealing accent and editor Elliot Riddle does a fine job of mixing and matching the various elements, but when all is said and done it's the lack of information on the film clips being displayed that is as frustrating as the performances showing up in truncated form. Sure, it's a trip for those who appreciate the band to once again see how young they were at this point in time, the group's incessant touring in the new millennium imprinting on the collective consciousness the fact that they have not aged gracefully, but one can read the
AMG biographies and get pretty much the same information more efficiently, which makes this work somewhat for the casual fan and the hardcore completists only. The 13 chapters have 11 titled after
Stones' songs so there's the opportunity to skip and jump through the documentary if one chooses. It's not "the ultimate review," but it's intriguing enough.
Read more here:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/under-review-1962-1966-mw0001491468
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18)Charlie Farren TUESDAY
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30) BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
Review: HBO’s Behind The Candelabra is Reduced to a National Enquirer Romp
http://www.tmrzoo.com/2013/45415/review-hbos-behind-the-candelabra-is-reduced-to-a-national-enquirer-romp
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31)DONNY HATHAWAY
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36) ORCHESTRA LUNA
tracks
1.
Stop
Were You Dancin' on Paper – Orchestra Luna 03:37
2.
Stop
Miss Pamela – Orchestra Luna 03:19
3.
Stop
Little Sam – Orchestra Luna 03:13
4.
Stop
Heart – Orchestra Luna 05:57
5.
Stop
Love Is Not Enough – Orchestra Luna 06:27
6.
Stop
Boy Scouts – Orchestra Luna 02:25
7.
Stop
Fay Wray – Orchestra Luna 04:20
8.
Stop
But One – Orchestra Luna 03:01
9.
Stop
Doris Dreams – Orchestra Luna 12:04
The Orchestra Luna album began the musical legacy of Rick Berlin, the composer/singer who goes by his birth name, Richard Kinscherf, on this Epic Records debut in 1974. The seven-piece ensemble was truly groundbreaking in a world that doesn't take kindly to innovation. Where the Who were content to write rock operas, Kinscherf and his band put opera to rock. This adventurous mix of songs, written as if they were Broadway show tunes backed by a rock band with jazz and classical influences, might sound like a bit much, and 11 minutes and 53 seconds of "Doris Dreams" never had a chance of Top 40 success, or an edit that could get it there, but that idiosyncrasy is part of what makes this album so daring, and special. Co-produced by Rupert Holmes, the man who gave us "Escape (The Pina Colada Song," a monster smash in 1979, and the cannibal anthem "Timothy" in 1971, the choice might not seem appropriate on the surface. But Holmes' unheralded work for Barbara Streisand and the Broadway musical Drood actually makes him a perfect choice to oversee this project. "Miss Pamela" has wonderful Randy Roos guitars blending with Rick Kinscherf's pretty keyboards, keyboards that could have inspired Billy Joel, sounding very much like his 1978 hit "Just The Way You Are." It's when Kinscherf's expressive vocal kicks in that all comparisons to traditional pop go out the window. The cover of the Adler/Ross classic (you gotta have) "Heart" is a standout here, as it was in their live show. Seven of the nine tracks are penned by Rick Kinscherf, and themes that resound in "Fay Wray" (the heroine from the epic King Kong) travel throughout the artist's career. This album may be tough for some to take, but the Tom Werman liner notes put things in a nice perspective. They opened for Roxy Music in Boston when this album was released, and were even more avant-garde than the legendary headliner. The band dropped the "Orchestra" from their name and became the original Luna, releasing a 45, "Hollywood," while the rest of their album was held up in litigation. They re-emerged as Berlin Airlift, then Rick Berlin: The Movie. In 2001, the former Rick Kinscherf, known as Rick Berlin, fronted the Shelley Winters Project. That sound has little in common with the early pictures painted by the exquisite "Love Is Not Enough" or musically bizarre "Boy Scouts" off this album ("Back in the boy scout camp/the moon was very full"). These themes, like the references and inspiration from films, continued to flavor Berlin's music through the years, although the Peter Barrett narrations would fall away. Moody and impressive in its gamble, this is also noteworthy in that guitarist extraordinaire Randy Roos can be heard in his formative years. Joe Viglione, All Music Guide
http://www.target.com/PDPPrintView?catalogEntryID=200861135&quantity_print=xxxxxx&starcount=no&catEntType=ITEM
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37)THE BEST FILM YOU'VE NEVER SEEN
Robert E. Elder
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38)SUPERAUSPICIOUS Adam Rivera
http://www.adamriveramusic.com/music.html
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39)Butterscott
SNOWMAN ON THE MOON
1)Bubblegum Man
2)Hobbyhorse
3)Groggy Foggy
4)Wheelchair Woman
http://www.allmusic.com/album/throwing-meatloaf-at-the-sun-mw0000704983
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Butterscott/a/albums.htm
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40)Music Review: Adventerous – Money on My Mind
Adventerous released his eponymous mix tape CD in 2009, followed by ” Money Mi A Pree”, “Adventerous To Di World” and his most recent mix tape entitled “Tun Up” which has twenty two (22) tracks including the single “Heartbeat” with hopes of conquering the US, Jamaica and the UK.
“Money on My Mind” provides a haunting opening that sweeps into a hypnotic mix, with help from Meek Mill the song was produced by North Carolina-based hip-hop producer Krazy Figz. The melody gains momentum…”with a million dollars to count…”…and could be a modern-day “Hot Fun In the Summertime”, a musical backdrop to summer 2013 if things break right for the ambitious singer.
The timing is just perfect as the voices juxtapose against the thick sound…it is totally irresistible and is a great intro to the previous works Adventerous has to offer.
http://adventerous.net
http://www.tmrzoo.com/2013/45357/music-review-adventerous-money-on-my-mind
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BONUS:
JOE VIG REVIEWS ON SABOTAGE TIMES
http://www.sabotagetimes.com/author/joe-viglione/
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