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Lani Hall
Seasons of Love
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The former Brasil 66 vocalist plays with her husband Herb Alpert for her first solo album in 20 years.
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Elvis Costello
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Elvis Costello & …
The Boy Named If
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Costello and his longtime band use familiar building blocks -- pumped-up riffs, fleet wordplay, an omnivorous musical appetite -- yet reassemble them in unexpected ways.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Neil Young
Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at …
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A remarkably loose and light live reading of the doomy songs from Neil Young's On the Beach era.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Dexter Gordon
Soul Sister
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Two earthy, hard-swinging sets captured in the early '60s during the tenor saxophonist's time in Europe.
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