Living Blues (p.54) - "Jenkins' supple voice and storytelling eloquence are undiminished....A living portrait of an accomplished artist and teacher at work; a rich compendium of folk material..."9.138655
$13.28
19.79079
$10.97
NAPRA Review (09-10/02, p.74) - "...Characteristic vocal harmonies, intricate string embellishments, and steady, cyclical arrangements. All tracks offer timeless examples of how song documents culture..."19.04915
$10.71
18.30467
$13.41
18.29136
$20.14
18.29136
$17.82
Living Blues (6/03, p.106) - "...On a song-by-song basis this is a rich journey through tradition....There's plenty here to goad even jaded veterans into either revisiting long-forgotten favorites or exploring yet-unblazed trails..."17.42579
$10.96
17.42579
$14.96
Dirty Linen (p.63) - "CLASSIC CANADIAN SONGS achieves the task of giving listeners the flavor of the expansive music of Canada..."17.42579
$13.10
17.42579
$11.16
Dirty Linen (p.53) - "[S]ome of the 20th century's most influential music....The album opens with 'Freedom Now Chant,' a 26-second field recording of participants at a Hattiesburg, Mississippi mass meeting in 1964."17.42579
$13.96
17.42579
$14.96
Dirty Linen (p.84) - "[T]he collection does a good job of representing the genre's history....[With] the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Sonny Terry, Lead Belly, and many more less well-known but still explosive and expressive performers."16.66801
$11.03
15.80244
$10.32
15.80244
$11.77
15.80244
$10.10
CMJ (3/6/00, pp.28-9) - "Nothing kicks the ol' mojo into overdrive like the sound of rolling, boogie-woogie piano, and the music of Memphis Slim....[this album] proffers the best of Slim's recordings for Folkway's and documents the period of his career in which he tailored his music for white audiences..."15.26792
$15.44
15.04465
$14.35
Dirty Linen (p.48) - "A wonderful mix of music and sociology, this collection captures just what the title advertises: old-time fiddle music as it was originally recorded and meant to be heard."14.28686
$13.96
Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.109) - "...a rather wonderful 37-year retrospective....Included is the late Ewan MacColl's classic 'First Time I Ever Saw Your Face, and her women's movement anthem 'Gonna Be An Engineer'."14.17908
$15.68
Dirty Linen (6-7/94, p.53) - "...two immensely enjoyable sets of classic music. Enthusiastically recommended..."10.71538
$13.84
10.16594
$19.51
10.16594
$13.86
10.16594
$11.58
10.16594
$27.14
10.16594
$18.73
JazzTimes (11/00, p.76) - "...Monk was incapable of making inferior records, which leaves the listener to choose between good, great, and overwhelming....Let's call this set about 15% good, 60% great and 25% overwhelming."10.16594
$22.60
Spin (6/96, p.117) - "...songs like `The Drunkard's Hell' may be haunted and traditionalist, but the tempos are often jumping and the screeched harmonies almost giddy with the possibilities postwar money had opened up..."10.16594
$6.33
Down Beat (6/97, p.64) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...the songs were very good and the performances often very moving....these records are so basic to Holiday's work, they remain indispensible..."JazzTimes (8/97, p.84) - "The release of this two-disc set will come as a welcome closure to Holiday collectors the world over....she instinctively knew when her interpretation of a particular song was `right.' Her alternates are like works in progress..."10.16594
$21.10
10.16594
$19.34
10.16594
$110.03
10.16594
$59.98
10.16594
$26.51
10.16594
$8.86
Entertainment Weekly (12/17/99, p.84) - "...will provide years of pleasure....conveys something we no longer possess; a cogent picture of America and its promise..." - Rating: A9.352087
$44.42
9.292864
$17.90
Down Beat (9/97, p.53) - 5 stars (out of 5) - "Guthrie...[is] one of the major figures in the story of American music....he had his finger on the pulse of working-class life....excellent sound reproduction."Village Voice (4/15/97, p.62) - "The godfather as protean wordslinger on a digitally-remastered-from-original-acetates recanonization, 27 tracks...that honor his verbal genius....an introduction perfect enough to accommodate obscurities and surprises..." - Rating: A9.292864
$14.28
Dirty Linen (6-7/94, p.53) - "...two immensely enjoyable sets of classic music. Enthusiastically recommended..."9.292864
$14.49
Q (7/99, p.140) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Exquisitely packaged and eternally enriching..."9.292864
$15.68
9.292864
$15.68
Mojo (Publisher) (5/03, p.115) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...For sheer exuberance, moments like 'I Belong To The Band' are not to be missed..."9.292864
$17.44
9.292864
$15.52
Rolling Stone (9/2/93, p.64) - "...[Waters] made his first recordings in Mississippi, [but] only a smattering of those sides ever made it onto an album, and that's why [THE COMPLETE PLANTATION RECORDINGS] seems such a revelation..."Entertainment Weekly (10/1/93, p.56) - Rating: A+Musician (10/93, p.93) - "...the interview segments [on THE COMPLETE PLANTATION RECORDINGS] are strange stuff, but the slide guitar could make angels cry....highly recommended..."8.344131
$10.27
8.279493
$19.46
8.219218
$19.57
8.132749
$22.33
8.132749
$15.25
8.132749
$24.17
