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Top Album Of The Week

Lady Antebellum
Own The Night
Capitol / EMI
This is a stunning album--Lady Antebellum always tell the truth.  Lady Antebellum felt 
they had the right to sing about anything, and thet gives their voices a 
singular identity.  They go right to what they feel, what they have to sing.  One 
of the best albums of the year.
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Give These a High Five

  • The Slow Down Falling Water
    Outhouse
  • Philosophy La Resistance
    Superphonic
  • Complete Control Session Scream
    SideOneDummy
  • Wild Together Carter's Chord
    Show Dog-Universal
  • A Family Business Brandy & Ray J
    Saguaro Road Rhythm

 

 
AC/DC's Angus Young with Shelton
 
Shelton with Ozzy, seriously
 


Patti LaBelle and Shelton

  • self-titled Lucy Angel
    GForce
  • My Love Will Keep Jonathan Edwards
    Appleseed
  • self-titled Carlton Walker
    indie
  • Bees&Zombies! Rebecca Loebe
    indie
  • Audacious 3 Dave Aude
    Audacious
  • Third River Rangoon Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica
    Tiki
  • Pretentiously Awesome Empirates
    Indiephonic
  • Drawn In Chalk The Turnback
    indie
  • Forever and a Day The Kruger Brothers
    Double Time
  • City of Leaves Sussen Deyhim
    Venus Rising
DVD Review
Robin Gibb, In Concert with the Danish National Concert Orchestra

Eagle Rock

Filmed in summer 2010 in the stunning grounds of Ledreborg Castle in Denmark, this concert captures Robin Gibb performing classic tracks from both his solo career and the Bee Gees with the backing of the superb Danish National Concert Orchestra supporting his own touring band. The Bee Gees are one of the most successful acts of all time with worldwide sales well in excess of 100 million and Robin Gibb has also had time to enjoy a solo career with hits and album releases from the late sixties up to the present day.


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DVD Review
Sheryl Crow, Miles From Memphis: Live at the Pantages Theatre

Eagle Rock


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Book Review
If You Like The Beatles...

Bruce Pollock

Backbeat / Hal Leonard


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Makers, Takers and $2-a-dayers

Makers, Takers and $2-a-dayers

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Read more of this song's lyrics.
Is It Because I'm Black?
By: Syl Johnson

The dark brown shades of my skin
Only add color to my tears
That splash against my hollow bones
that rocks my soul, oohhhhh...
looking back over my false dreams that i once knew
When a why my dreams never came true
Is it beacuse i'm black, somebody tell me what can i do, oooooohhh, ohh lord
Something is holding me back
Is it beacuse i'm black, yeahh

 

A Scene from the Godfather Part II
Godfather Part II

 

VIEW ON THE SENATOR

Notices the tension in the room.  The Chairman commences:

				SENATOR KANE
		We have here a witness who will
		testify further on Michael
		Corleone's rule of the criminal
		empire that controls gambling in
		this country and perhaps in other
		countries.  This witness had no
		buffer between himself and Michael
		Corleone.  He can corroborate our
		charges on enough counts for this
		committee to consider a charge of
		perjury against Michael Corleone.
			(then he turns to Pentangeli)
		Your name please, for the record.

				PENTANGELI
		Frank Pentangeli.

				SENATOR KANE
		Were you a member of the Corleone
		Family?  Were you under the
		Caporegime Peter Clemenza, under
		Vito Corleone, known as the
		Godfather?

There is a long silence.

VIEW ON PENTANGELI

He seems unable to speak.

VIEW ON THE SICILIAN

gazing at him.

VIEW ON PENTANGELI

				PENTANGELI
		I never knew no Godfather.  I got
		my own family.

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