Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town


The pain of a protracted legal battle with his former manager and the release of being allowed to record again after a three-year layoff are equally apparent from the piercing hard rock and harsh lyrical content of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Betrayal and hard work that comes to naught are the primary subjects on his mind here, evidenced by songs such as "Adam Raised a Cain," "Factory," and "Streets of Fire." Elsewhere, there are signs of hope or at least the possibility of outrunning your problems ("Racing in the Street," "The Promised Land," "Prove It All Night"). But mostly, these are songs about exorcising some serious demons, and from the sound of things, Springsteen's loud, lonesome howl and blistering guitar work went a long way toward making him whole again. This is angry art, made by someone pushed to his absolute limit and more than ready to push back.


1. Bruce Springsteen Badlands
2. Bruce Springsteen Adam Raised A Cain
3. Bruce Springsteen Something In The Night
4. Bruce Springsteen Candy's Room
5. Bruce Springsteen Racing In The Street
6. Bruce Springsteen The Promised Land
7. Bruce Springsteen Factory
8. Bruce Springsteen Streets Of Fire
9. Bruce Springsteen Prove It All Night
10. Bruce Springsteen Darkness At The Edge Of Town
Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA

Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA

1. Bruce Springsteen Born In The U.S.A.
2. Bruce Springsteen Cover Me
3. Bruce Springsteen Darlington County
4. Bruce Springsteen Working On The Highway
5. Bruce Springsteen Downbound Train
6. Bruce Springsteen I'm On Fire
7. Bruce Springsteen No Surrender
8. Bruce Springsteen Bobby Jean
9. Bruce Springsteen I'm Goin' Down
10. Bruce Springsteen Glory Days
11. Bruce Springsteen Dancing In The Dark
12. Bruce Springsteen My Hometown

Born in the U.S.A. is an album painted in big, broad strokes. But it was still too subtle for some--namely politicians who tried to tap the title track as a jingoistic anthem when it is in fact a bitter diatribe by a Vietnam War vet whose country forgot him. The rest of the album is a glorious grab bag of radio-ready populist anthems--his best display of pure pop songwriting ever--including "No Surrender," "Dancing in the Dark," "Bobby Jean," and "Glory Days" alongside more circumspect numbers such as "My Hometown" and "I'm On Fire." It's not true that there's no arguing with success, but in this case Springsteen's widespread acclaim was warranted. With Born in the U.S.A., all those predictions from a decade earlier--that Springsteen was the future of rock--had come true.


Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA

Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park NJ

Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park NJ

1. Bruce Springsteen Blinded By The Light
2. Bruce Springsteen Growin' Up
3. Bruce Springsteen Mary Queen Of Arkansas
4. Bruce Springsteen Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street
5. Bruce Springsteen Lost In The Flood
6. Bruce Springsteen The Angel
7. Bruce Springsteen For You
8. Bruce Springsteen Spirit In the Night
9. Bruce Springsteen It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City

Greetings From Asbury Park served notice that there was a new musical force on the scene. On his debut, Bruce showed he was the best songwriter to come along since Bob Dylan. The album kicks off with the musical tounge twister "Blinded By The Light" that showed Bruce wasn't a typical singer-songwriter. The song has a funky riff and is replete with horns. "Spirit In The Night" introduced the E Street sound and is a precursor to the character oriented songs that would appear later on Born To Run & Wild. "Does This Bus Stop at 82nd St?" is fun and "For You" is a rare rock song about suicide. "Growin' Up" & It's So Hard To Be A Saint In The City" show early signs of Bruce's "Tramp" persona. "Lost In The Flood" is the great forgotten Bruce song and is as good a song as he has ever recorded. While Greetings is uneven at points ("Mary, Queen of Arkansas' & "The Angel"), it shows an artist who had a very original sound and huge potential. It is great to throw it in the cd player and hear a young, raw and hungry Bruce Springsteen and listen to where it all started. Although Bruce Springsteen became known to the world as a singer/songwriter who wrote story songs embodying the spirit of the disheartened and the downtrodden, it is often forgotten that he started out as a wild, exuberant, and borderline naive artist. His debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. is a prime example of this youthful enthusiasm. Springsteen belts out lyrics in his raspy, intimitable voice the likes of which had not been seen in rock 'n' roll since Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde (fostering the inevitable Dylan comparisons that hound The Boss to this day.) Right from the kick-off of Blinded By The Light (later a big hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band, but far better in this, the oringal version), it was obvious that a new and very talented singer/songwriter was on the scene: replete with a funky/jazzy rock riff and numerous horns, the song starts out with the lyrics "madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat/in the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat" - and just goes on from there. The arrangements and playing are just as busy as the lyrics, and the playing, while not exactly what you would call tight, is huge-sounding, loose, and feels like it is just barely contained - in other words, the perfect backdrop for these wild lyrical flights of fancy. Despite somewhat hazy production, this remains one of the greatest debut albums of all-time. It has what still rank as some of Springsteen's best songs (Blinded By The Light, Lost In The Flood, Spirit In The Night) - not to mention the all-time classic lyric "nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant pleadin' Immaculate Conception." Although he would later come to be known and treasured as American's bard of the dispossessed, one can look back on this album and hear a Bruce who was just as good, infused instead with a brimming, admirable youthful enthusiasm. Essential Springsteen.


Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park NJ

Seal System

System




1. Seal If It's In My Mind, It's On My Face
2. Seal Amazing( Thin White Duke Edit)
3. Seal Just Like Before
4. Seal Loaded
5. Seal Wedding Day
6. Seal System
7. Seal Dumb
8. Seal The Right Life
9. Seal Rolling
10. Seal Immaculate
11. Seal Amazing

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Some artists mellow as they age; Seal enters never-surrender mode and hits the dance floor. System gets at a new way of thinking for the king of the sexy British croon--he's a little less committed to nailing the vocals here and a lot more into manufacturing a mood. Overall, it's one infused with high spirits and an almost dreamy sense of possibility: "Rolling," the only song outside of a weird duet with wife Heidi Klum ("Wedding Day") to avoid elaborate but likable synths, stands its romantic ground without settling into ho-hum balladry, while "Loaded," "Dumb," and "The Right Life" bust out of the speakers determined to raise the profile of house music and electro beats. If he cribs a vial or two of vibe from Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor,, also produced by retro whiz-kid Stuart Price, it doesn't make Seal any less appealing. Even without hits like the super-smooth "Amazing," some guys manage to be amazing just by showing up. And so it is with Seal. Even his supermodel wife says so. --Tammy La Gorce

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The first studio album in four years from Seal, System, with its shimmering melodies, layers of synths and acoustic guitar, and electronic beats, is a return to my roots says the singer-songwriter. To help him deliver a more dance oriented album, what he calls a quintessential Seal album, Seal turned to Stuart Price(Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor and Grammy-winning remixes for No Doubt and Coldplay).

Bruce Springsteen Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
1. Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road
2. Bruce Springsteen Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
3. Bruce Springsteen Night
4. Bruce Springsteen Backstreets
5. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
6. Bruce Springsteen She's The One
7. Bruce Springsteen Meeting Across The River
8. Bruce Springsteen Jungleland

Few albums are as fueled by hope, possibility, and the lure of the open road as Born to Run, a virtual concept album about small-town Jerseyites in search of a better life via hot-rodding out on the turnpike, scoring some small-time hustle, or blowing out of town altogether, either across the river to New York City or west for parts unknown. Songs like "Jungleland," "Thunder Road," "Backstreets," and the title track are epic productions, both sonically and lyrically, borrowing from Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and West Side Story. When Born to Run was released in 1975, it earned then-unknown Springsteen the rare honor of simultaneous covers on both Time and Newsweek. The attention was warranted then, and it still is now.

"Born To Run" is one of the greatest albums of all time, and that fact is inarguable. The only question is how many albums you'll put on the list. Any list with more than ten, without this one, is clearly in error.
It is an album where a single listen will convince you.
The cinematic sweep, from "Thunder Road" to "Jungleland", makes you feel like you're watching a movie while listening. The epic nature and true storylines makes you feel like you're reading a classic novel.
I ask you, what album have you ever listened to, that elicits a sensation of music, film and literature simultaneously? It's breathtaking.
And ageless as well. You know how old black & white movies seem crisp and eternal, while, say, certain 70's movies have a dated feel...even though they may be GREAT 70's movies?
"Born To Run" hasn't aged one iota. It's as impressive now as it must have been in 1975.
It's an album that sounds just as good in your car as it does on your headphones.
From Roy Bittan's piano opening "Thunder Road" to Springsteen's anguished howl ending "Jungleland", you will have gone somewhere. Bruce and the band takes you on a journey...GOD I'm jealous that some of you haven't heard this yet! I'd like to watch someone listen to it for the first time...


Bruce Springsteen Born to Run

Garth Brooks Ultimate Hits

The Ultimate Hits ( Garth Brooks )





Disc: 1
1. Garth Brooks Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)
2. Garth Brooks Friends In Low Places
3. Garth Brooks Shameless
4. Garth Brooks Two Of a Kind, Workin' On a Full House
5. Garth Brooks The Beaches Of Cheyenne
6. Garth Brooks If Tomorrow Never Comes
7. Garth Brooks Papa Loved Mama
8. Garth Brooks More Than a Memory
9. Garth Brooks Good Ride Cowboy
10. Garth Brooks In Another's Eyes
11. Garth Brooks The Fever
12. Garth Brooks Midnight Sun
13. Garth Brooks Learning To Live Again
14. Garth Brooks Longneck Bottle
15. Garth Brooks To Make You Feel My Love
16. Garth Brooks We Shall Be Free
17. Garth Brooks The Dance
Disc: 2
1. Garth Brooks Callin' Baton Rouge
2. Garth Brooks Two Pina Coladas
3. Garth Brooks The Thunder Rolls
4. Garth Brooks That Summer
5. Garth Brooks The River
6. Garth Brooks Beer Run
7. Garth Brooks Unanswered Prayers
8. Garth Brooks Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)
9. Garth Brooks Workin' For a Livin'
10. Garth Brooks What She's Doing Now
11. Garth Brooks When You Come Back To Me Again
12. Garth Brooks Standing Outside the Fire
13. Garth Brooks American Honky-Tonk Bar Association
14. Garth Brooks The Change
15. Garth Brooks Rodeo
16. Garth Brooks Wrapped Up In You
17. Garth Brooks Leave a Light On
18. Garth Brooks Bonus Track 1
19. Garth Brooks Bonus Track 2

2007 three disc set (two CDs + DVD). One artist...one decade...one hundred million albums sold! Garth Brooks remains the biggest Country artist of all-time. He harnessed the Country and Pop influences of has past and created a new kind of Country that appealed to different generations of fans and crossed over into the Pop market like no other artist before him. Garth Brooks changed the rules based on his talent alone. He became a worldwide superstar while remaining true to his humble roots, which added to his appeal. This three disc set features two CDs scheduled to contain 34 tracks including four new songs plus a bonus DVD containing videos for all the CD's tracks.

Rascal Flatts Still Feels Good

Still Feels Good




1. Rascal Flatts Take Me There
2. Rascal Flatts Here
3. Rascal Flatts Bob That Head
4. Rascal Flatts Help Me Remember
5. Rascal Flatts Still Feels Good
6. Rascal Flatts Winner at a Losing Game
7. Rascal Flatts No Reins
8. Rascal Flatts Every Day
9. Rascal Flatts Secret Smile
10. Rascal Flatts Better Now
11. Rascal Flatts She Goes All the Way
12. Rascal Flatts How Strong Are You Now
13. Rascal Flatts It's Not Supposed To Go Like That


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Rascal Flatts has always been an anomaly in country music. Signed to the Disney label Lyric Street, they arrived in 2000 as essentially a trio (winning lead vocalist Gary LeVox fronted pin-up boy Joe Don Rooney on electric guitar and Jay DeMarcus on bass) that traveled and recorded with additional musicians to make up a full band. Despite their workingman backgrounds, their repertoire was so pop-oriented that hardly anyone could really call them country, and the group bristled at being dubbed Nashville's Boy Band. Yet while they were primarily marketed to teens (the young set screams their lungs out in concert), a lot of adults found their bouncy, bubbly radio tunes irresistible. And in 2006, when they released their fourth album, the quadruple-platinum Me and My Gang, they sold more than 700,000 records the first week, ending up as the best-selling artists of the year across all genres. Now comes the follow-up, and with the group sharing production credit with hit-meister Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Faith Hill), they turned out an extremely well-built album of heavily layered, grown-up pop. (The one country-ish song, "Bob that Head," about the joys of Friday night cruising in a tricked-out truck, almost amounts to a rap.) DeMarcus has said that the band took its time making the record, and it shows--everything about it telegraphs a growing maturity. Not only do Rooney and DeMarcus play on every cut (which they didn't do until Me and My Gang), but the trio has a hand in writing much of the material that doesn't come from the pens of Nashville's most reliable songsmiths (Jeffrey Steele, Neil Thrasher, Steve Robson, Hillary Lindsey, and headliner Kenny Chesney on "Take Me There"). It all goes down quite smoothly, from the sexy title track to the pain ballad "Better Now," to the (too-obvious) social commentary of "It's Not Supposed to Go Like That." As a measure of that, even actor/singer Jamie Foxx's guest appearance on the silky "She Goes All the Way" blends seamlessly with the rest of the material, much of it crafted to manipulate the emotions with power choruses, stinging electric guitar solos, and throbbing drums. But unlike the Rascals' other albums, there aren't many story songs here. And though LeVox's hangdog tenor hammers home the devastating ache of failed relationships ("Help Me Remember"), there's no standout tune like "What Hurts the Most," and not a lot of this sticks in your head after it's gone. Yes, as the title promises, it "Still Feels Good," but only for a little while. -–Alanna Nash

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It all begins when the lights go down. For Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus, it has been that way since they were playing for a handful of people in a club in Nashville's Printers Alley. These days, of course, they play for thousands of screaming fans a night, drawn by state-of-the-art production and sound, and by spectacular vocal harmonies in service to an ever-expanding catalogue of hits. In between, it was the magic of those performances that catapulted Rascal Flatts into the front ranks of entertainers in all genres.

By any measure, Rascal Flatts is in elite territory. They are the reigning 2006 CMA, ACM and CMT Vocal Group of the Year. In 2005 they added Billboard and R&R Artist of the Year trophies as well. The trio also picked up its first three Grammy nominations in 2005, and their "Bless The Broken Road" received the Grammy for Country Song of the Year. Coming off the biggest selling artist album of 2006, Rascal Flatts is geared up for their brand new album coming on September 25.

Reba McEntire Duets

Reba Duets



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As McEntire sees it, amazing songs have little to do with genre, and everything to do with emotion and nuance. "I've been a fan of different kinds of music all my life," she says. "I really don't like to categorize music. To me, there's only two categories: good and bad. And I try to sing the good songs, and listen to good music. When it touches my heart, and I can deliver it with all my heart and soul, then it's a good Reba McEntire song. In the end, I want all the songs to touch my listener's hearts." It's that devotion to making quality music that brings her audience back to Reba again and again. "The great thing about it is, my fans have always continued to go along with me on these journeys I take, whether it's television, music, Broadway or movies. They really hang in there with me, and I sure do appreciate that. It's been a good journey." The next chapter on that journey is about to begin, with Duets - and the amazing music created when Reba's signature voice finds new harmony with a few stellar friends. "I hope people are going to be caught up in the moment of listening to this music," says McEntire. "There's a lot of love in this record, because I love these people that I get to sing with. And I think people are going to love it, too. I honestly do."

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From the moment you hear the voice, you know it: fierce and powerful, clear and passionate, a voice that has sold 49 million records, a voice that could belong to no one else but the woman millions of fans the world over know only as Reba. So what do you do when you're the owner of that iconic voice -- and the embodiment of a genre-bending artistic presence that spans the worlds of music, screen and stage? If you're Reba McEntire, you find creative soul mates in 11 other amazing voices and produce a groundbreaking collection of music simply titled Reba Duets. Or, as McEntire herself might describe it, you gather up some friends old and new, and have a party - oh, and make an amazing new album at the same time. "It was like a family reunion. It was just so much fun!" says the easygoing superstar. And the results? "Well, I'm just so tickled!" she says with her trademark Southern charm. "I can't wait for everyone to hear it." Duets was a long time coming, says McEntire. "You have to keep creating things, thinking about what's next and how to keep it fresh for your fans," she says. "I've always thought a duets album would be a great thing to get to do, and the timing was finally right to make it happen."

1. Reba McEntire When You Love Someone Like That 4:39
2. Reba McEntire Does The Wind Still Blow In Oklahoma 4:37
3. Reba McEntire Because Of You 3:43
4. Reba McEntire Faith In Love 3:47
5. Reba McEntire She Can't Save Him 3:02
6. Reba McEntire Everyday People 3:34
7. Reba McEntire Every Other Weekend 4:03
8. Reba McEntire These Broken Hearts 4:25
9. Reba McEntire Sleeping With The Telephone 3:33
10. Reba McEntire The Only Promise That Remains 5:06
11. Reba McEntire Break Each Other's Hearts Again 3:38

Nirvana Unplugged in New York

Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Video)

Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (CD)

TRACKS: 1. Nirvana ABOUT A GIRL 2. Nirvana COME AS YOU ARE 3. Nirvana JESUS DOESN'T WANT ME FOR A SUNBEAM 4. Nirvana THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD 5. Nirvana PENNYROYAL TEA 6. Nirvana DUMB 7. Nirvana POLLY 8. Nirvana ON A PLAIN 9. Nirvana SOMETHING IN THE WAY* 10. Nirvana PLATEAU 11. Nirvana OH, ME* 12. Nirvana LAKE OF FIRE 13. Nirvana ALL APOLOGIES 14. Nirvana WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?

*NOT ORIGINALLY BROADCAST

The last Nirvana collection recorded before the untimely death of Kurt Cobain, Unplugged caught many by surprise with its stripped down, neo-acoustic offerings with a bridled fury. When Cobain sings, "I swear I don't have a gun, I don't have a gun" with clenched teeth (instead of an open howl) and when the haunting strains of "About a Girl"--from their earliest LP--chills even with quieted guitars, you discover a new appreciation for the nuances of one of the greatest bands of recent times. Highlights include covers of three Meat Puppets tracks (featuring special guests Curt and Kris Kirkwood of that influential "college rock" band), the weepy cello on the Vaselines' "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam," and their cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World."

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While the album of the same name made its first appearance in 1994, and went on to become Nirvana's second best selling CD of all time, nearly 15 years have passed since that memorable initial broadcast. Now, fans will finally get the chance to see the release of the entire, unedited performance...with neverbefore- seen footage...on DVD...and in Dolby Stereo and 5.1 Surround sound. Mixed in surround sound by legendary surround mixing engineer Elliot Scheiner, this DVD allows fans to experience this performance like never before, completely unedited including the two songs not originally broadcasted ("Something In The Way" and "Oh Me" ), and with the best sound ever available (to anyone not in the studio for the original taping.) For the purists, also included on this DVD is the original 44 min broadcast version of the show, plus never-before-seen REHEARSAL performances. As an extra bonus to the DVD, a 14-minute interview segment called Bare Witness produced by MTV focuses on the recollections of those who experienced this magical moment in music history, those who produced it and interviews with the band from the day of the taping.

Alicia Keys As I Am

As I Am

1. Alicia Keys As I Am (Intro)
2. Alicia Keys Go Ahead
3. Alicia Keys Superwoman
4. Alicia Keys No One
5. Alicia Keys Like You'll Never See Me Again
6. Alicia Keys Lesson Learned (featuring John Mayer)
7. Alicia Keys Wreckless Love
8. Alicia Keys The Thing About Love
9. Alicia Keys Teenage Love Affair
10. Alicia Keys I Need You
11. Alicia Keys Where Do We Go From Here
12. Alicia Keys Prelude To A Kiss
13. Alicia Keys Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)
14. Alicia Keys Sure Looks Good To Me

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By the time this long-awaited album saw its release date, most fans had probably read at least a couple of interviews with Alicia Keys in which she explained that first single, "No One"--a firestorm of a song clearly born of a sore heart and steeped in serious soul-searching, was about her decision to retreat from the obligations of stardom when she found out a loved one was in need of her care. The anecdote sticks not just because it explained the song so well--you can actually hear the pain, commitment, and determination in her sultry voice--but because it gets at what makes the woman behind the music so appealing. There's only one way R&B artists grow to become legends, and it's by drenching the words they sing with feeling (think Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack). The skeptical listener might have had her doubts before As I Am, but there's no mistaking it now: Alicia Keys is well on her way to sharing a category with them. This record radiates not just old-soul maturity, the kind Alicia fans say makes her modern rarity, but real soul. Vintage-leaning hooks and horns grab hold on "Where Do We Go from Here" and an assortment of other songs, but Keys can also get by just fine without them, as she proves on more pop-flavored numbers like "Lesson Learned," with John Mayer, and "Superwoman." The genres may be smearing, she seems to say, but bring them on: she won't shrink back. Her commitment is not to a single style but to what's stirring her soul. Because of it, she's moving R&B, or something like it, from the hips back to the heart. --Tammy La Gorce

John Fogerty Revival

Revival

1. John Fogerty Don't You Wish It Was True 4:11
2. John Fogerty Gunslinger 3:31
3. John Fogerty Creedence Song 3:49
4. John Fogerty Broken Down Cowboy 3:51
5. John Fogerty River Is Waiting 3:22
6. John Fogerty Long Dark Night 3:07
7. John Fogerty Summer Of Love 3:19
8. John Fogerty Natural Thing 4:00
9. John Fogerty It Ain't Right 1:49
10. John Fogerty I Can't Take It No More 1:39
11. John Fogerty Somebody Help Me 4:27
12. John Fogerty Longshot 3:37

The self-referential title of Fogerty's first album in three years is no mere play on words; this is as close as he's gotten in a long while to duplicating the loose swamp blues, country, folk, soul and rock that he so memorably created a template for in Creedence Clearwater Revival. Thankfully the advertisement for downloaded ringtones in the disc's booklet is the only contemporary influence creeping into this stripped-down set of rootsy rockers and ballads. Fogerty's voice sounds great throughout; passionate, more committed and comfortable with these songs than he has seemed in years. His material has often leaned towards politics, especially as it concerns the working class, but seldom as directly as on the gutsy choogle of "Long Dark Night" and the rollicking "I Can’t Take it No More." He seems like a cranky dad on "It Ain't Right," railing about spoiled pop tarts in the spotlight, and "Summer of Love"'s look back at the titular time in the late '60s falls on the schlock side. But Fogerty charges into "Longshot" like the angry young man of "Fortunate Son," singing "I ain't got no 'ristocrats a-hangin' in my tree" with an assurance and intensity that reaches through the speakers and grabs the listener. Just like in the old days.

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John's new album is a triumph, with a sound that is at once timeless yet urgently rooted in this time and place. The lyrics recall a continuous conversation with America, a reminder of John's unmatched ability to resonate with people from all walks of life. With a voice that can cut glass and inspire generations, and a band that sounds like it came to tear the roadhouse down, 'Revival' is not just a great John Fogerty album -- and a great rock album -- it's an essential musical work by an artist without peer, that will certainly stand as one of the most compelling albums of 2007.