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June 10, 2008
New CD Album Releases, 6-10-2008: Emmylou Harris, Alanis Morissette, Walter Becker Emmylou Harris was just this year inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. It's about damned time. All I Intended to Be is the second Emmylou Harris album on Nonesuch, and the #2 seller currently at Amazon.
Bill Payne of Little Feat and Dolly Parton are among the associates playing on this album. Brian Ahern produced this. He's a veteran Emmylou producer, responsible for among others Blue Kentucky Girl. Along with her own compositions, she does the Billy Joe Shaver classic "Old Five and Dimers Like Me" and songs by Patty Griffin and Merle Haggard.
Circus Money is the first solo album from Walter Becker of Steely Dan in some 14 years, and his second ever. Hey, quality before quantity.
Personally, I tend to be a little skeptical of the cheesy girly psychodrama that Alanis Morissette is known for. Plus, she's apparently writing her diary entries/songs for a recent big breakup. I'm probably just not the target market.
Yet for all that, I've been listening to some of this album, and digging it pretty much. I've heard eight songs from this new Flavors of Entanglement, and they all seem to have at least a little of something to them. Some of the arrangements seem somewhat modern rock generic, but "Incomplete" is a nicely forceful wish and prayer. "Citizen of the Planet" is fairly catchy. I don't know if I'll remember this a month from now, but it's striking me as fairly listenable at the moment.
Here's the listing of this week's new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Walter Becker Circus Money 5 Over 12 Jazz-Rock, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock
Jakob Dylan Seeing Things Sony Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter
The Fratellis Here We Stand Cherry Tree/Interscope/Island Indie Rock
Emmylou Harris All I Intended to Be Nonesuch Alternative Country, Contemporary Country
Joan as Policewoman To Survive Reveal Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock
Lil Wayne Tha Carter III Universal Motown Southern Rap, Hardcore Rap
Alanis Morissette Flavors of Entanglement Maverick Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
My Morning Jacket Evil Urges ATO Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
Adele 19 [Bonus CD] Sony Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Afroman Greatest Hitz Live Siccness.net Underground Rap, Alternative Rap, Comedy Rap, West Coast Rap
Priscilla Ahn A Good Day Blue Note Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk
The Bangkok Five We Love What Kills Us Megaforce Alternative Pop/Rock, Hard Rock
The Beach Boys US Singles Collection Box: The Capitol Years 1962-1965 Capitol Surf, Pop, Sunshine Pop, Rock & Roll
Jiri Belohlavek Martinu: Violin Concerto No. 2; Toccata & due Canzoni Harmonia Mundi Modern Chamber Music
Haley Bonar Big Star Afternoon Indie Rock
The Boxmasters The Boxmasters Vanguard Psychedelic Pop, Truck Driving Country, Americana, Alternative Country-Rock, Bakersfield Sound, Honky Tonk, Roots Rock, Rockabilly, Country-Rock
The Bridges Limits of the Sky Verve Forecast Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Solomon Burke Like a Fire Shout! Factory Deep Soul, Southern Soul, Country-Soul
The Charlatans UK You Cross My Path [Deluxe Edition] Cooking Vinyl British Trad Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Britpop, Alternative Pop/Rock
Gene Clark Silverado '75: Live & Unreleased Collectors' Choice Music Folk-Rock, Baroque Pop, Country-Rock
Marcus Creed Bruckner: Mass in E minor; Motets [Hybrid SACD] Haenssler Classic Post-Romantic Choral Music
Crusaders Live in Japan 2003 Pra Crossover Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Jazz-Funk
Gas Nah und Fern Kompakt Ambient Techno, Techno, Experimental Techno, IDM
Jeff Gauthier House of Return Cryptogramophon Free Improvisation, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Free, Modern Creative
Guillemots Red Polydor Indie Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
Hil St. Soul Black Rose Shanachie Contemporary R&B, Urban
Hiromi Beyond Standard Telarc Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Fusion
Freddie Hubbard On the Real Side (70th Birthday Celebration) Four Quarters/Times Square Post-Bop
James Hunter The Hard Way Hear Music Retro-Soul, Blue-Eyed Soul
The Infamous Stringdusters The Infamous Stringdusters Sugar Hill Contemporary Bluegrass
Ahmad Jamal It's Magic Dreyfus Jazz Post-Bop
KRS-One Maximum Strength Koch Hip-Hop, East Coast Rap, Hardcore Rap
Patti LaBelle The Essential Patti LaBelle Philadelphia International/Le Soul, Urban
Patti LaBelle Live in Washington D.C. Philadelphia International/Le Quiet Storm, Urban, Soul
Love False Start Collectors' Choice Music Garage Rock, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic, Baroque Pop
Love Out There Big Beat Garage Rock, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic, Baroque Pop
Janiva Magness What Love Will Do Alligator Contemporary Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Soul-Blues
Manfred Mann The Hit Man: Essential Singles 1963-1969 Raven Pop/Rock, British Invasion, Pop, Rock & Roll
Sergio Mendes Encanto Concord Brazilian Jazz, Latin Jazz, Urban, Bossa Nova, Latin Pop
Montgomery Gentry Back When I Knew It All Sony Contemporary Country, Southern Rock, Country-Rock
N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds Interscope Alternative Pop/Rock, Rap-Rock, Urban
Carla Olson & the Textones Detroit 85: Live and Unreleased Collectors' Choice Music Country-Rock, Roots Rock, Americana
Carla Olson & Mick Taylor Too Hot for Snakes Collectors' Choice Music Roots Rock, Country-Rock, Americana
The Orb The Dream Six Degrees Ambient Dub, Club/Dance, Ambient House, Techno, Electronica
Svoboda, Mike Phonometrie Wergo Modern Piano Music and Contemporary Vocal Music
moderntimes_1800 Sinfonias from the Enlightenment Challenge Classics Baroque Chamber and Orchestral Music
Original TV Soundtrack iCarly: Music from and Inspired by the Hit TV Show Sony Teen Pop, TV Soundtracks
Pentemple 0))) Presents... Southern Lord Doom Metal, Noise, Post-Rock/Experimental
Plies Definition of Real Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide/Atlant Southern Rap, Gangsta Rap
Ponies in the Surf See You Happy Darla Indie Pop, Twee Pop
Rev Theory Light It Up Interscope Post-Grunge, Hard Rock
The Runaways The Runaways/Queens of Noise Raven Hard Rock
Sloan Parallel Play Yep Roc Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock
Sparks Exotic Creatures of the Deep Lil Beethoven Pop/Rock, Indie Pop
Mark Stewart Edit Crippled Dick/Hot Wax Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, Dub, Alternative Pop/Rock
Styrofoam A Thousand Words Nettwerk Indie Electronic
Supergrass Diamond Hoo Ha EMI Britpop, Alternative Pop/Rock
Chip Taylor New Songs of Freedom Megaforce Folk-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Country-Rock, Americana
Tyga No Introduction Decaydance Pop-Rap
Various Artists Cash Money Records: 10 Years of Bling, Vol. 2 Cash Money Southern Rap, Hardcore Rap, Gangsta Rap
Various Artists Soirees musicales: Songs & Duets by Rossini Hyperion Romantic Vocal Music
Martha Wainwright I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too Zoe Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Folk, Folk-Pop
Shannon Walker Shannon Walker DM Nashville Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Country
Tony Joe White Deep Cuts Swamp/Red/Thirty Tigers Pop-Soul, Pop/Rock, Country-Pop, Country-Rock, Rock & Roll
Cassandra Wilson Loverly Blue Note Vocal Jazz, Standards, Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative
Roy Wood Wizzard Brew [Bonus Tracks] EMI Pop/Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Glam Rock
Dan Zanes Nueva York! Festival Five Modern Son, Norteno, Merengue, Cumbia, Bachata, Latin Folk _____________________________________ ALANIS MORISSETTE IMAGES
Personally, I tend to be a little skeptical of the cheesy girly psychodrama that Alanis Morissette is known for. Plus, she's apparently writing her diary entries/songs for a recent big breakup. I'm probably just not the target market.
Walter Becker
