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Lovewhip
Bouncehall
Juicy Juju Records
http://www.lovewhip.net
Erin Harpe (vocals/guitar) leads this world-pop group with a bright,
bouncing sound drawing heavily on dub. Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
(Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club) produced this post-dancehall Boston
quartet sophomore release. This lets you know the attention this
ensemble of jubilant sunshine sounds is getting. Lovewhip's formula
is to blend Africa highlife, soukous and juju with Jamaican reggae
and ska in dance-pop delivery that takes these tropical rhythms
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Third Grade Teacher
Pinch Hit Records
Are you hot for teacher? Sabrina Stevenson really is a third grade
teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, but is also
hot to take over the world fronting her dramatic post-punk rock
band. (Check out the audio interview I did with her at http://musicsojourn.com)
This is not your normal schoolmarm. This singer with Blondie-inspired
stage moves instructs the faithful on the joys of herbal intake
in "Roll it Up" with a message for legalization. The music is powerful
stuff and this is a great album worthy of much attention for this
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Shout, Sister, Shout!
A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
M.C. Records
http://www.mc-records.com
Mark Carpentieri has done the world a heap of good by creating such
a compelling and shining tribute to criminally forgotten gospel
guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Featuring Maria Muldaur and through
much of her effort, this compilation is a who's who of female artists
covering the Sister's songs. This includes Joan Osborne, Odetta,
Michelle Shocked, Victoria Williams and more. Many of the tracks
feature the gospel-tinged blues of vocal group The Holmes Brothers.
This is an excellent collection of material dynamically delivered
and running the spectrum from the spiritual ("Two Little Fishes
and Five Loaves of Bread") to secular ("I Want a Tall Skinny Papa").
It was that breadth of her art that caused such controversy in Tharpe's
career and overcoming that adversity through her talents made her
an inspiration to the talented artists on this CD, like Bernice
Johnson Reagon of Sweet Honey In The Rock who performs "Precious
Memories". (4.5) |
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Outsight
brings to light non-mainstream music, film, books, art, ideas and
opinions.
Published, somewhere, monthly since July 1991. Feel free to re-print
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Ratings are (1) = :(, (5) = :)
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