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June Carter-Cash is a star. Sadly not much of her early material is available. This album spans 1939-2003. The first cd starts with The original Family + Janette + The Carter Sisters (Helen, June & Anita) singing their show stopper "Keep on the sunnyside". This version is short only an intro. "Oh Susannah" sung by a 10 year old June is impressive.She is already showing promise as a first class vocalist & entertainer at such a tender age. She shows the confidence of a future star."Root,toot, or Die" is one of her earliest recordings recorded in 1949. She has already established that trademark growl, (a growl that one can hear in singer Patsy Cline & other contemporary country singers.) the… Read more
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Lady Killers is one of Tom Hanks best performances to date.He plays an Articulate if somewhat snobby, petty small time crook looking to get into the big leagues. He rents a room from the devout southern Baptist soul sister Marva Munson(played brilliantly by the talented Irma P.HAll ["Nothing to lose"]in the hopes of tunneling underground to the Mississippi River Boat Casino located a little ways away. He enlists the help of people who can help in this robbery, each with their own, very important purpose. A Chinese General, well versed in tunneling in his native Indo-China (played by Tzima) Garwayne McSam, the inside thug(played by Marlon Wayans) the dynamite expert Garth… Read more
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Ok, I get it, Aretha was expanding her artistic persona. This album is good, not great, good. It made theatrical sense that Aretha (only Soul musics greatest female singer) and Quincy Jones(one of Musics genius')be teamed up.The problem was Aretha's down home gospel driven vocals combined with the experimental Jazz that quincy was adding to the equasion, came off as odd to many people.In comparison to albums like "I never loved a man" and "Spirit in the dark" one almost asks, is this the same artist? The album's success could have gone either way, wildly successful or a complete flop, sadly the album took to the ladder.The songs were not overly catchy or could even be… Read more
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