Tommy McClennan - Vol. 2-1940-42 Cross Cut Saw Blues - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Tommy McClennan's hoarse, shouted vocals, often with spoken asides, and rudimentary guitar style, worked from an intriguing palette. The diminutive singer managed to turn out a handful of country blues classics, including InchNew Shake Em On Down,Inch InchBottle It Up and Go,Inch and his signature tune, InchWhiskey Head Woman,Inch all of which are included here. Such is the excellence of the fidelity of the two volumes from Document that you can now enjoy Tommy McClennan almost as a living presence in your room or your car. They Chronicle his five sessions for Bluebird between November 1939 and February 1942. Born in Yazoo City in 1908 Tommy McClennan's story is stereotypical before he fell in with Honeyboy Edwards, Robert Petway and Tommy Johnson. Diminutive in stature but blessed with a loud hoarse voice, he came across as big, mean and ferocious - his guitar playing had a direct no-frills ability. The best of his compositions, 'Whiskey Headed Woman' provides best illustration of those gifts. He returned to the theme just over a year later and he was not afraid to mine other artist's seams ('Shake 'Em On Down', 'Bottle It Up'/ 'Shake It Up And Go', 'Sugar Mama'). Both takes of Hacksaw Harney's 'Cross Cut Saw' are included. On 'Deep Sea Blues', he offers up his reading of the blues standard 'Catfish', while 'Baby Don't You Want To Go' is, as you'd expect, his version of 'Sweet Home Chicago'; showing the range of his voice and featuring a brief hint of scat singing during the coda. More nonsense lyrics litter 'I'm Going Don't You Know', and his gravel throat is put to good use with 'Highway 51'. In contrast to his usual harsh delivery, 'My Little Girl' makes good use of atmospheric changes in volume - an approach to dynamics not often associated with McClennan. Though not regarded as one of the innovative originals of country blues, his interpretations are very enjoya

Limited vinyl LP pressing of this 2002 , the fourth album from the Australian Alt-Rock/Grunge band. Daniel Johns wrote most of the album at the piano instead of his usual guitar, while the band took a 12-month break following their previous studio album, Neon Ballroom. Silverchair worked with composer Van Dyke Parks on Diorama; the album contains numerous orchestral arrangements and power ballads, a change from the post-grunge music typical of their earlier work, but consistent with the band's previous orchestrations on Neon Ballroom.

Pianist Jacob Greenberg connects two post-Wagnerian compositional lineages that are usually seen as divergent on this beautiful curated - Debussy's intuitively driven harmonic world and the Second Viennese School's rigorously systematic approach to pitch. He asserts that the unifying element lies in the sensuality of this music and his solo performances of music by Debussy, Berg, and Webern, along with a deeply moving performance Schoenberg's hidden gem of a song cycle InchThe Book of Hanging GardensInch with soprano Tony Arnold testify to his sensitivity to the textural richness that connects these aesthetic schools, despite their philosophical differences. Pianist Jacob Greenberg's work as a soloist and chamber musician has earned worldwide acclaim. He is a longtime member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, with whom he has performed throughout the Americas and Europe. Hailed by the New York Ties as Incha bold, powerful interpreter,Inch soprano Tony Arnold is internationally acclaimed as a leading proponent of contemporary music in concert and recording, having premiered hundreds of works by established and emerging composers. As the soprano of the International Contemporary Ensemble, she is a catalyst for dozens of groundbreaking projects.