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Live Vocal Performances Worth Hearing as Recordings
Live Vocal Performances Worth Hearing as Recordings
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These live tracks let you hear what a singer does with a room. Sam Cooke puts a plea to a club crowd, Mercedes Sosa gives each line time to land, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan trades phrases with his...
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Songs for Missing Someone Who Lives Far Away
Songs for Missing Someone Who Lives Far Away
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A letter from someone far away can change the shape of a day. A call can make a room feel emptier when it ends. These recordings give distance a physical shape, from a highway and an ocean to a...
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Albums Where the Production Feels Like Part of the Songwriting
Albums Where the Production Feels Like Part of the Songwriting
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A tape edit can hold a band inside one long groove. A keyboard loop can give a rapper a melody to answer. These records let you hear the moment when a studio choice gives the music its shape...
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Songs That Tell Their Story Without a Conventional Chorus
Songs That Tell Their Story Without a Conventional Chorus
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A song can carry you for several minutes on a guitar figure, a single voice, or a line that keeps changing meaning. Some of these recordings work through one verse after another. Others save a...
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Songs That Do More by Leaving Space between the Notes
Songs That Do More by Leaving Space between the Notes
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Listen to what happens just after a guitar stops, a voice trails away, or a beat leaves you waiting. These tracks give those gaps a job. Sometimes the space sets up the next hit, gives a voice...
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Storytelling Karaoke Songs That Don't Need a Big Voice
Storytelling Karaoke Songs That Don't Need a Big Voice
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For the person who wants the microphone but not the high note. Every song here wins the room through character, timing and a tale worth following: half-spoken verses, comic twists, duets with a...
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Quiet Albums That Reward Close Listening
Quiet Albums That Reward Close Listening
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Low volume can make a record feel bigger. These albums leave room around the playing, whether that means a voice close to the microphone, a few spare guitar notes, or a whole band holding back...
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Albums with No Obvious Place to Skip
Albums with No Obvious Place to Skip
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These records make a case for giving every track a turn, including the quiet songs, instrumentals and brief links. The selection looks for a clear purpose and consistent care across the original...
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Cover Albums with a Point of View across the Whole Record
Cover Albums with a Point of View across the Whole Record
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A country singer takes on pop standards. A reggae band rebuilds a Pink Floyd album. A singer gives twelve songs a woman’s point of view. These covers make the most sense together, and each entry...
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Albums with Closing Tracks That Change How You Hear the Record
Albums with Closing Tracks That Change How You Hear the Record
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Some album endings send you straight back to the first song. A melody returns with a different weight, the loudest record in the room falls quiet, or a voice you weren’t expecting gets the last...
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Songs That Turn a Familiar Standard into a Personal Statement
Songs That Turn a Familiar Standard into a Personal Statement
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A jazz standard gives different musicians something in common to start with. Listen for what they do next. Ahmad Jamal lets a drum pattern set the terms for his piano, Ella Fitzgerald makes an...
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Jazz Albums Where You Can Follow the Melody
Jazz Albums Where You Can Follow the Melody
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One of the biggest hurdles for jazz newcomers is losing the thread during long, abstract solos. But improvisation at its best is not random notes at speed. It is the art of taking a clear...
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Softly Sung Songs for Turning the Volume of the Day Down
Softly Sung Songs for Turning the Volume of the Day Down
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These songs keep a voice close without asking it to fill the room. Some have only a guitar behind them. Others have a steady bass line, a small jazz group, or layers that blur around the singer...
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