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DOCTOR 015CD
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"First ever CD issue of one of Trojan Records' best-selling albums. Features three major UK hits: 'You Can Get It If You Really Want', 'Pickney Gal' and 'Sing A Little Song'. Desmond Dekker tribute act regularly performing live at significant venues around the UK through-out the year."
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OR 015CD
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"The songs that make up this unprecedented album were gathered and compiled by Austin-based musician and record collector Jason Chronis. He visited countless small towns across Texas and beyond, in search of anything and everything that might be etched on vinyl. From mountains of material, he chose these fourteen forgotten odes and put them in an order that tells a story. Like Harry Smith's visionary anthology of folk music, this selection of private press country music captures the joys and the sorrows of people who sang for themselves. These songs speak directly to the concerns of real people, our experiences and dreams, and the gap between them. Of course, these musicians had also hoped to score on the charts, a desire that almost defines country music, but it didn't happen that way. Now, 30, 40, 50 years after these records were handed to friends and mailed to local radio stations, perhaps country music is in for some definition expansion. More than half of these raw and intimate songs came out of Texas, where there has always been a strong regional music tradition. As history recedes and country music shakes off the commercial dominance of the Nashville hit machine, Texas country music, with its straightforward, 'take it or leave it' sentiment and rugged, stripped down sound, will be known for its influence on all types of musicians and songwriters. And perhaps the unknown country musicians that made the music on this LP were right when they pooled resources, asked favors, and poured their hearts out onto 45s... thinking they had a hit on their hands!"
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ONITOR 015CD
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"This is what the artists say: 'You Dee`s most important influence is water next to silence. Water leaking into the basin and thus proposing the measure. Sound spreading as space offers the possibility. The 'United Amateurs' make music because music just does not mean anything. There are no symbols to listen to. The ear simply is able to relax.' Nice. And poetic. But generally, we the label have to contradict. It is a coquettish lie that this music shall not mean anything. On their first album, You Dee work on the same architectonic structures as Senking, Pole, Raster Noton or System. As well as the specific sound of every single of these references is incompatible, You Dee defined their very own signals to be sent into space. You Dee`s music indeed suits for relaxing, but it is not at all Ambient that makes you fall asleep. Their music exactly is the contrary: this Ambient wants to be precisely listened to. It wants to know well read it`s 'poppige Flaechen', it`s melancholic drifts and all these tiny particles of melodies. In the end you have heard a lot -- but you are relaxed nevertheless. For whoever needs the following: You Dee is Sven Rieger, Peter Hansen and Stefan Wust from Berlin and Stuttgart."
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