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Willie Nelson......Borderline
Jai Uttal............Kirtan
Bruce Cockburn....Anything Anytime Anywhere
Steely Dan.......Gaucho
Dire Straits.......Brothers in Arms
The Eagles........Hotel California
Jennifer Warnes..The Well
Cassandra Wilson...New Moon Daughter
 
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jlb1705 said:
What, Bruce? Bruce is the gayest name in the history of gay.
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Would you have said that to this guys face?

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I doubt it. In fact, I doubt Chuck Norris would have said it to him. I think he would have kicked Chuck Norris' ass.

Please don't tell Chuck I said that...

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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by the Wu-Tang Clan
Liquid Swords by GZA
Demon Days by the Gorillaz
Illmatic by Nas
Both Sides of the Brain by Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Battle of L.A. by Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine
Alternately Deep by Roots Manuva
The 7 Day Theory by Tupac
Violent by Design by Jedi Mind Tricks
Visions of Ghandi by Jedi Mind Tricks
Revolutionary Volume 1 by Immortal Technique
 
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Social D-Live at the Roxy
Sublime-40oz to Freedom
G n' R-Appetite for Destruction
Sinead O'Connor-I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Pogues-Greatest Hits
Bob Marley-Legend
Grateful Dead-some kickass live show
 
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Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys

The only recording I have owned on LP, tape, CD and DVD, as well as the sheet music in paperback form.

I'd also add:

Bob Marley - Legend
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Matisyahu - Shake Off the Dust...Arise
Ben Harper - Live at Mars
 
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I'm just cutting and pasting what I wrote for my company newsletter (which a few comments added)....

Elton John – Live in Australia
My father listened to this CD all the time when I was little, so this disc brings up great childhood memories.

Deb Talan – A Bird Flies Out
A Boston native, Deb Talan has one of my favorite female singer-songwriters. The band (The Weepies) that she formed with her partner, Steve Tannen, is also fabulous.

Garden State Soundtrack
This disc rarely leaves my CD player.

The Wailin’ Jennys – 40 Days
I first heard these Canadian singer-songwriters on Prairie Home Companion and have been hooked ever since.

Bob Dylan – the entire collection
I probably couldn’t take it all on a desert island, but I can’t pick just one!

Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
I would probably name my desert island “Minor Key,” as a tribute to this album.

Calobo – Live at the Crystal Ballroom
I got hooked on his folk-jam-rock band from Oregon when I lived in Arizona. A song like “Funkytown Sea Journey” would be perfect to jam to on an island.

Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)
Another female singer-songwriter that I cannot live without. (Although her album Soul Journey is a very close second.)

Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts (self-titled)
This duo’s harmonies are haunting. Kate Rusby has one of the sweetest
voices I’ve ever heard.

Nickel Creek (self-titled)
A wonderful all-around collection of bluegrass tunes. I could listen to Chris Thile on the mandolin all day. (And I will marry him someday. :biggrin:)

Indigo Girls – Rites of Passage
It sounds like a greatest hits album, but it’s not. This has been one of my favorites for a long time. (AKAK, it's lesbian music, just for you!)

Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
I imagine a desert island would feel like a prison, so Johnny can give me a private concert.

Pink Floyd – The Wall
This CD cures my insomnia. I need it.
 
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A little info on Bruce Cockburn pronounced Cooburn, he's Canadian. Has won 7 Juno Awards.

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width=580 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%"><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD noWrap width="100%"><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD noWrap>[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif,Helvetica]Cockburn, Bruce[/FONT] </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD width=10></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=580 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> Printer Friendly Version</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=580 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=5></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif,Helvetica]Cockburn, Bruce. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, b Ottawa 27 May 1945; honorary D LITT (York) 1989, honorary D MUS (Berklee) 1997, honorary D LITT (St. Thomas) 1999, honorary Fellow (RCMT) 2003. Raised on a farm near Pembroke, west of Ottawa, and in Ottawa itself, he began playing guitar and piano in his teens. After working as a street musician in Paris he studied theory, composition, and arranging ca 1964-6 at the Berklee College of Music, Boston. Though he was introduced in Boston to the urban folk music movement and also to jazz (which had an influence on his work from the mid-1970s), he played on his return to Ottawa in several rock bands, including the Esquires and The Children. In 1967 he sang alone in coffeehouses and made his first appearance at the Mariposa Folk Festival. His solo career continued, although he was a member of Three's A Crowd when it was revived 1968-9 for a CBC TV series.
With the critical and popular success of his music for the feature film Goin' Down the Road (1970) and of his early LPs, Cockburn rose to national prominence and in 1972 made his first cross-country tour. Cockburn's subsequent Canadian itinerary included appearances at such major venues as Massey Hall, (where Circles in the Stream was recorded in 1977), the Ontario Place Forum (where Bruce Cockburn Live was made in 1989), the NAC, St-Denis Theatre, the Orpheum and Queen Elizabeth theatres, and at the 1984 FIJM and many folk festivals. A concert in 1981 at the Music Hall in Toronto was documented by the film Rumours of Glory, directed by Martin Lavut.
Cockburn made his debut in the USA at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1974 and began to perform there on a consistent basis after the Rumours of Glory tour in 1981. He undertook a solo US tour in 1988. Cockburn shared the stage with Murray McLauchlan on a tour of Japan in 1977, and returned there on his own in 1979. He also made his European debut in Florence in 1977, followed by a second Italian tour in 1979. His international itinerary during the 1980s included concerts in Central America in 1983, in Australia and Japan in 1983, and throughout Europe in 1986 and 1987. A 'world tour' in 1989 comprised more than 90 concerts in Canada, the USA, England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and New Zealand. After a year's hiatus, Cockburn gave concerts in Japan for Amnesty International in 1991.
Cockburn, an accomplished acoustic guitarist who also had taken up the electric instrument by 1973, travelled with backing ensembles of varying size. The flutist and saxophonist Kathryn Moses and the violinist Hugh Marsh were among the musicians featured at various times in support roles. Over the years Cockburn's music underwent a marked evolution in both style and tone while remaining consistent to a strong Christian and liberal perspective. As Ian Pearson in 1981 described a younger Cockburn, 'To the generation of Canadians that came of age in the late '60s, [he] was a pure indigenous alternative to popular music: the bearded mystic who crafted fragile melodies on his acoustic guitar and sang with a voice as ephemeral as mist about spirituality and the wonders of going to the country.'
As one of the few English-Canadian singer-songwriters to enjoy success in Quebec, Cockburn sang several of his songs in French, and had the lyrics to his songs translated for publication on the covers or inserts of his albums, beginning with Sunwheel Dance. His 'Prenons la mer,' a bilingual song, was a hit in 1978 in Quebec.
Cockburn's best-known songs in this period included 'Goin' Down the Road,' 'Goin' to the Country,' 'Musical Friends,' and 'Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long'. Several of his later singles - 'Wondering Where the Lions Are' in 1979, 'Lovers in a Dangerous Time' in 1984, 'People See Through You' in 1986, 'If a Tree Falls' in 1989, and 'Last Night of the World' in 1999 - were modest radio hits as Cockburn introduced a variety of pop colours and textures into his music. Several songs from the mid-1980s, however - 'If I Had a Rocket Launcher,' 'Call it Democracy,' and 'Where the Death Squad Lives' - signalled a new activism, if not militancy, the product of his fact-finding visits to Central America, which led also to a series of lecture tours. Cockburn later made similar visits to Nepal, Mozambique, and Mali. The critic Craig MacInnis noted, 'Over an ambitious career that has variously explored the essence of folk music, modern jazz, Afrobeat and rock, Cockburn has never once been accused of having a major sense of humor. It seemed beneath him, somehow. Sainted and serene, he has often appeared to be the singular conscience of Canadian pop music; didactic, but in a soft-focus way that made it easy to accept even his thorniest declarations...' (Toronto Sunday Star, 22 Jan 1989).
Cockburn's activism kept him in the public eye through the 1990s. The honorary chairperson of Friends of the Earth and a supporter of the Unitarian Service Committee, the singer applied his energies to various causes. He performed at a UNICEF concert in Kosovo, and was a spokesperson for the movement to ban land mines. He narrated a television documentary on the Mali desert in 1998, the same year he toured Australia. As of 2003 Cockburn continued to tour Canada, the USA, and Europe in support of his causes and albums: Dart to the Heart (1994); The Charity of Night (1996); Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu (1999); the compilation album Anything Anytime Anywhere (2002); and You've Never Seen Everything (2003).
Cockburn's songs were published by Golden Mountain Music and/or High Romance Music and also were recorded by more than 20 other Canadian, US, and British artists including Chet Atkins, the Barra McNeils, John Allan Cameron, Mary Coughlan, Dan Fogelberg, Jerry Garcia, George Hamilton IV, Ron Kavan, Anne Murray, the Rankins, Tom Rush, Leo Sayer, Valdy, and David Wiffen. The Barenaked Ladies recording of 'Lovers in a Dangerous Time' was a considerable success. Several Canadian singers and bands (eg, Barenaked Ladies, B-Funn, Cottage Industry, Rebecca Jenkins) recorded Cockburn songs for the tribute album Kick at the Darkness (Intrepid N41V-0008), issued in 1991. Many of his best-known songs 1969-79 were published in the folio All the Diamonds (OFC [Ottawa Folklore Centre] Publications 1986). The jazz guitarist Michael Occhipinti recorded an instrumental album of Cockburn songs (Creation Dream) in 2000.
Ten of Cockburn's 18 Canadian albums to 1991 sold more than 50,000 copies domestically; sales of two, Dancing in the Dragon's Jaw and Stealing Fire, exceeded 100,000. The latter recording wa his most successful in the USA to 1990.
Cockburn had won seven Juno Awards to 2003: as folk singer (or artist) of the year 1971-3 and in 1980-82, as male vocalist in 1981 and 1982, and for best 'roots' album in 2000. In 2001 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. He was a Member and subsequently an Officer of the Order of Canada, and received PRO Canada's Wm Harold Moon Award for international achievement in 1986. The CBC featured him on the Life and Times series; he received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award in 1998, and was honoured also with music awards from Italy and Holland as well as various other recognitions in North America.
Author Betty Nygaard King [/FONT]

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