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Johnny Cash's final road to redemption and artistic fulfillment starts here...
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Like all her best work it will continue to unfold and grow with repetition.
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If you don't own it, buy it tomorrow. Life, literally, isn't complete without it.
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All in all this is a fine end piece to his trilogy, while it also seems to signal a...
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For lovers of quality pop with a brain this is no little achievement.
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While it was quite obviously a joy for the musicians involved, one feels that it...
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Any way you look at it, this is a massive album.
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It's a terrific ride from start to finish.
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It inhabits a world entirely of its own.
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In one fell swoop he's thrown off his dour image, ushering in a host of new fans by...
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No amount of subsequent weirdness could detract from this achievement.
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The only regret is that you know she's talented enough to rise above such ordinary fare.
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This girl was born to testify.
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No one is making such criminally underrated and startlingly original music, in any...
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Let critics bray, but one suspects that this album will, in ten years, be a treasured...
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Fans will go crazy, the rest of us may be a little less keen.
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Anyone who was there at the time will find themselves oddly warmed by much of this...
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They only had a few hits, but lived on for long in the minds of those in the know.
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Al Green will still be knocking 'em dead both in the chapel and the concert halls...
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The Zutons are, you'll be relieved to know, on fine form.
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He shows enough humorous self-effacement to make up for any past crimes of pride.
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Ultimately there's little here that the band haven't done before.
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...testament to the man's place at the very epicentre of modern American music.
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A warm and generous introduction to the man known as the Chairman of the Board
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About the frailty of love and mystery of individual existence.
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It can be recommended as a solid gold accompaniment to long summer evenings to come.
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Morrison's blitzed lounge singer act.
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Purveyors of the some of the silkiest, smoothest ballads ever to be committed to vinyl.
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If you've had enough of the girls crowding the field, and you need a feel-good piece...
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It opened up Mayfield's career to the extent that he shook off the chains of...
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The (arctic) circle, remains unbroken, then...
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An acknowledged classic, De La Soul's debut album now resides in something of a vacuum.
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This teenager may well become a force to reckon with.
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To paraphrase the song, Brandi, you're a fine girl...
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Turner and Kane shake off all those blatant copyists and stay at least three steps...
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A classic with not a note out of place.
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In ten years you'll still probably be hard pressed to find anything that sounds...
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It's a winning, warming blend
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The meeting of the album's title is Sco meeting country blues.
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Amazingly proves that after 45 years they've still got live, if you want it
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For a brief spell in the '70s, it was still possible to explore multiple genres...
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Together the trio make the last stand for roots culture.
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He remains a bafflingly word-of-mouth proposition.
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It's up to you, the horizontal listener, as to whether you can still really hear it.
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On this evidence his voice still has more than enough authority to carry it off.
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Pearl remains a jewel in the short, gaudy career of a true original.
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Attack & Release is a remarkably easy album to like.
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Strange Unison is, then, an accessible and finely executed piece of trio work.
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The message was that black music could be reclaimed and re-tooled as a semantic crowbar.
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It may look simple, but only a master like Van could pull this off.
