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Acoustic Christmas [Favored Nations] by Various Artists (CD - 08/10/2004)
 

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Acoustic Christmas [Favored Nations] by Various Artists (CD - 08/10/2004)
"Acoustic Christmas [Favored Nations]" (08/10/2004) Instrumental Various Artists, Favored Nations Records (USA)Personnel: Rick Rossano (vocals, acoustic guitar, slide guitar); George Anderson (vocals, drums, sleigh bell); Charles Gonzalez (vocals); Andy Timmons, Pete Huttlinger (guitar); Mimi Fox (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Johnny Hiland, Peppino d'Agostino (acoustic guitar); Rick Krive (piano); Timothy Hayden (keyboards); Mark Fain (electric bass); Brian Fullen (drums, percussion); Tim Bulkley (drums); Joe Craven (percussion). Audio Mixers: Nick Sparks; Marty Friedman; John Herrera. Recording information: Great Divide Studios, Aspen, CO (??/??/2001-03/25/2004); House Of Drum (??/??/2001-03/25/2004); Jo's Room, Notting Dale, London, England (??/??/2001-03/25/2004); Mountain Side Studio, Nashville, TN (??/??/2001-03/25/2004); Palace Cleaners, Irving, TX (??/??/2001-03/25/2004); Remote Planet, Milwaukee, WI (??/??/2001-03/25/2004); San Francisco, CA (??/??/2001-03/25/2004); San Pablo Recorders, Berklee, CA (??/??/2001-03/25/2004); Saturn sound Studios, West Palm Beach, FL (??/??/2001-03/25/2004). Arrangers: Marty Friedman; Mimi Fox; Andy Timmons. Acoustic Christmas features a cross-section of guitarists from the Favored Nations stable (FN is the label started by Steve Vai) performing Christmas classics and a few holiday-themed originals. The style here is mostly some form of solo acoustic, like on Andy Timmons' tasteful opening reading of "Greensleeves," or the percussive, reedy blues guitar run through "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" by Greg Koch. Adrian Legg's "Jingle Bells" hums with electronic tweaking, Dillengers contribute a slightly surfy bar band version of "Run Rudolf Run" (with vocals), and Mimi Fox puts "Winter Wonderland" into comfortable jazz territory. Acoustic Christmas is a nice pickup for guitar enthusiasts, as well as listeners looking for holiday party music with some stature and adventurism. ~ Johnny Loftus

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It's a Team Mint Xmas, Vol. 2 by Various Artists (CD - 11/02/2004)
 

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It's a Team Mint Xmas, Vol. 2 by Various Artists (CD - 11/02/2004)
"It's a Team Mint Xmas, Vol. 2" (11/02/2004) Instrumental Various Artists, Mint RecordsJudging from the sound of it, Team Mint are a pretty cynical bunch. From John Guliak's tears-in-my-beer weeper, "Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas," to the cash register that chimes during the intro to Atomic 7's clattering instrumental "Se?or Santa ?l Es el Monstruo" to Young and Sexy's ironic "Santa Claus Likes Rich Kids Better" to David Carswell and Megan Barnes' sunny-on-the-outside, heartbroken-on-the-inside pop ode to unrequited love during the holidays, "I Wanna Kiss You This Christmas," there isn't a whole lot of holiday cheer to be found on It's a Team Mint Xmas, Vol. 2. Oh well, at least there is a sleigh load of wonderful songs by some of the best artists the pop mecca of Vancouver has to offer. Along with the exquisite Young and Sexy track, Carolyn Marks' introspective shuffle "Song for the Girl With Two of Everything," the Ramblin' Ambassadors' rollicking "Don't Fear the Reindeer," the Smugglers' "Lonely Christmas," and the Tennessee Twin's aching "X-Mas Is Past" lead the pack. Add to that the Vancouver all-star edition of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and you've got a melancholy lump of gold that true indie kids would be quite glad to find in their stockings come Christmas morn. ~ Tim Sendra

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Tigerbeat6 Inc. by Various Artists (CD - 08/07/2001)
 

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Tigerbeat6 Inc. by Various Artists (CD - 08/07/2001)
"Tigerbeat6 Inc." (08/07/2001) Instrumental Various Artists, Tigerbeat6

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Chicken Session by Various Artists (CD - 06/11/2002)
 

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Chicken Session by Various Artists (CD - 06/11/2002)
"Chicken Session" (06/11/2002) Instrumental Various Artists, NortonLiner Note Author: Billy Miller.

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Wolf Call by Various Artists (CD - 11/09/1999)
 

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Wolf Call by Various Artists (CD - 11/09/1999)
"Wolf Call" (11/09/1999) Instrumental Various Artists, NortonAs always, the Norton label delivers 24 rare, raw and wild tracks, many appearing on CD for the first time, retrieved from the vaults of Golden Crest. The East Coast label embraced R&B, soul, and rock & roll, all of which are represented with songs by Wade Curtiss & the Rhythm Rockers, Hitch Hikers, the Japanese Beetles, the Wailers and Lord Dent & the Invaders who provide the title of the compilation Wolf Call. The package also contains extensive liner notes and lots of rare photos. ~ Al Campbell

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Strictly Instrumental by Various Artists (CD - 12/09/1997)
 

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Strictly Instrumental by Various Artists (CD - 12/09/1997)
"Strictly Instrumental" (12/09/1997) Instrumental Various Artists, Buffalo BopBuffalo Bop may occasionally slip some uneven rock & roll songs into its other collections, but when it comes to Strictly Instrumental, they've come up with 30 solid tracks, running the gamut of influences from country/rockabilly (the Big Four) and blues (Rex Qual) to Chuck Berry licks (Howie & the Crystals, the Sensations) and surf (the Ree-Gents). Not all of the bands present have distinctive characters, although a few are more accomplished than the others -- "Ce'NY" by Jerry and the Silvertones, "Rockin' Hall" by Howie & the Crystals, "Workout" by the Journeymen (whose drummer sounds like Keith Moon on speed), and "Devil's Run" by Herb Kliebe's Nervous Kats show off players who obviously put in time and effort, and had the talent to make it show on record, and Rex Qual's "Tranquilizer Boogie" is distinctive as a blues-based instrumental in the midst of these surf and rock & roll sounds. The Eltro-Tones ("Ghost Train"), despite their name, are a country outfit with a heavy reliance on steel guitar, and are also among the truth virtuoso groups in this collection. Some of the bands rely on sax as much as guitar, but the axe is the main instrument on 85% of this collection. Strictly speaking, a few aren't really instrumentals -- "Bandstand Rocket" by the Twisters and "Chicken Rock" by Scott Wood certainly have voices, even if all they're doing is providing non-descript choruses. Most of these bands probably never to play much beyond the counties in which they went to school and got together, and these singles are as close to immortality as most of them ever got. Still, they rose to the occasion, turning out two minutes each of generally exciting, often bracing instrumental flash. ~ Bruce Eder

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Strictly Instrumental by Various Artists (CD - 06/26/2000)
 

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Strictly Instrumental by Various Artists (CD - 06/26/2000)
"Strictly Instrumental" (06/26/2000) Instrumental Various Artists, Buffalo BopBuffalo Bop may occasionally slip some uneven rock & roll songs into its other collections, but when it comes to Strictly Instrumental, they've come up with 30 solid tracks, running the gamut of influences from country/rockabilly (the Big Four) and blues (Rex Qual) to Chuck Berry licks (Howie & the Crystals, the Sensations) and surf (the Ree-Gents). Not all of the bands present have distinctive characters, although a few are more accomplished than the others -- "Ce'NY" by Jerry and the Silvertones, "Rockin' Hall" by Howie & the Crystals, "Workout" by the Journeymen (whose drummer sounds like Keith Moon on speed), and "Devil's Run" by Herb Kliebe's Nervous Kats show off players who obviously put in time and effort, and had the talent to make it show on record, and Rex Qual's "Tranquilizer Boogie" is distinctive as a blues-based instrumental in the midst of these surf and rock & roll sounds. The Eltro-Tones ("Ghost Train"), despite their name, are a country outfit with a heavy reliance on steel guitar, and are also among the truth virtuoso groups in this collection. Some of the bands rely on sax as much as guitar, but the axe is the main instrument on 85% of this collection. Strictly speaking, a few aren't really instrumentals -- "Bandstand Rocket" by the Twisters and "Chicken Rock" by Scott Wood certainly have voices, even if all they're doing is providing non-descript choruses. Most of these bands probably never to play much beyond the counties in which they went to school and got together, and these singles are as close to immortality as most of them ever got. Still, they rose to the occasion, turning out two minutes each of generally exciting, often bracing instrumental flash. ~ Bruce Eder

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Royal Dan - A Tribute To The Genius Of... [5/9]
 

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Royal Dan - A Tribute To The Genius Of... [5/9]
"The Royal Dan: A Tribute" (05/09/2006) Jazz Instrument Various Artists, Tone CenterTributee: Steely Dan. Personnel: Elliott Randall, Frank Gambale, Jeff Richman, Jimmy Herring, Al di Meola, Mike Stern, Robben Ford, Steve Lukather, Steve Morse (guitar); Ernie Watts (saxophone); Peter Wolf (horns, keyboards); Vinnie Colaiuta (drums). Liner Note Author: Jeff Richman. Photographers: Kerstin Olofsson; Richard Aaron; Jeff Richman. Arranger: Jeff Richman. Guitarist Jeff Richman came up with this idea: get a house band together made up of A-list session guys (bassist Jimmy Haslip, saxophonist Ernie Watts, etc.) and then invite an all-star cast of guitar gods to come in and take turns interpreting the songs of Steely Dan as jazz-rock fusion. It works either as well or as dreadfully as you'd expect, depending on your perspective. What you need to understand going in is that Royal Dan: A Tribute is largely about tone: this is a guitar record for guitarists, and will appeal greatly to the kinds of guys who can sit around for hours discussing the relative merits of vintage and modern distortion pedals. But it's not all guitar-geek wankery. On "Hey Nineteen," Elliott Randall uses sneaky phrasing and delicate volume variations to turn his bluesy solos into something really special (though Peter Wolf's keyboards are a bit intrusive), and Frank Gambale eschews grandstanding technical fireworks in favor of tasteful harmonic experimentation on "FM." Al di Meola goes insane on his classical guitar on "Aja," and Robben Ford blows the doors off with a thrilling rendition of "Peg," but Mike Stern's take on "Dirty Work" isn't as exciting as it should have been, and Steve Lukather's version of "Pretzel Logic" has just a little bit too much Foreigner to it. Again: keep in mind that this is a guitarist's album -- guitar geeks will find something to argue about on every track, and that's really what it's all about. ~ Rick Anderson

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Dancehall Stringbusters! Vol. 2 [11/22]
 

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Dancehall Stringbusters! Vol. 2 [11/22]
"Dancehall Stringbusters Vol. 2: Crunchy Guitar Instros from the '60s" (11/22/2005) Oldies Various Artists, Sundazed Music Inc.Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl. Recording information: 1960-1964. Photographers: Don Dalton; Gerald Sanders; Jimmy Holvay; Mike Jann; Wayne Young; Bobby Arlin. Like the first volume of this series, this assembles 20 tough guitar instrumentals from the first half of the 1960s, throwing in a few recognizable names and unreleased cuts among numbers that are largely taken from some pretty dang obscure singles. And as with the first volume, the frenetic, oft-creative playing is usually more impressive than the songs, which are often fairly typical rock & roll melodies. Nonetheless, the mixture of nuances is commendable, and there are some hot performances worthy of special citation. Roy Buchanan, easily the most noted artist on the disc, plays pretty smoking blues-rock guitar with an ahead-of-its-time searing tone on both sides of his rare shades-of-Link Wray 1961 single "Mule Train Stomp"/"Pretty Please"; he also does well as the guitarist on Bob Moore & the Temps' 1963 45 "Braggin'"/"Trophy Run." Joe Maphis and Phil Baugh are accomplished lightning-fast country pickers willing to draw from rock & roll and jazz in both their styles and arrangements. Serious guitar fans will have heard of all those guys, but not Bobby Wayne, who plays excellent twangy riffs on three tracks from a rare 1964 LP. The influence of R&B, surf, rockabilly, and country boogie crisscrosses throughout most of the material, genres being heedlessly blended and traversed as instrumental rock entered its last few years as a popular style. Fans of a slightly later era of rock will be interested to hear the two-part "Mushroom Machine" 1964 single by Bobby Arlin, who went on to play guitar with the Leaves. ~ Richie Unterberger

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Jammin' Oldies: Summer Songs by Various Artists/Jammin' Oldies (CD - 11/16/1999)
 

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Jammin' Oldies: Summer Songs by Various Artists/Jammin' Oldies (CD - 11/16/1999)
"Jammin' Oldies: Summer Songs" (11/16/1999) Instrumental Various Artists, Masters

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Guitar Heroes by Various Artists (CD)
 

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Guitar Heroes by Various Artists (CD)
"Guitar Heroes" (n/a) Instrumental Various Artists, Sony Music Distribution (USA)

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Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 2: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music by Various Artists (CD - 09/16
 

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Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 2: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music by Various Artists (CD - 09/16
"Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 2: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music" (09/16/2004) Instrumental Various Artists, Gammon RecordsIncludes liner notes by Irwin Chusid. Liner Note Author: Irwin Chusid. Photographer: Tinker Greene. If you've heard of this album, you undoubtedly know its predecessor, 2000s Songs in the Key of Z, is an astonishing compilation of the most notable and/or bizarre "outsider" recordings. 2002s companion volume picks up where the first left off, but does not follow the easy path of simply plucking additional songs from the same artists. Most prominently, cult heroes Wesley Willis and Daniel Johnston are absent this time, suggesting that producer Irwin Chusid sought to avoid the vaguely uncomfortable feeling of appearing to make fun of the mentally ill. Thus, most of the "outsiders" in this set are dubiously talented hacks who issued their recordings out of sheer nerve. The results are sometimes comically entertaining, as in the case of Shooby Taylor's psycho-scat rendition of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," and the sadly anonymous striptease warble "Curly Toes." Even better, though, is Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker's "Cousin Mosquito #2," nearly eight minutes of obsessing over mosquitos like Nina Simone on the brown acid within an interpolation of Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C sharp Minor." The remaining selections include a few solipsistic iconoclasts who just don't care how bizarre others think their work is -- Thoth Shmack's fascinatingly titled "The Herma, Scene 5: Recitation/An" being the most curious of the lot -- but a few too many are merely dim and untalented, poorly played, sung and recorded. A rating of sonic quality obviously does not apply to a curiosity collection such as this one, which is valuable to purveyors of pop culture but should not, and cannot, be listened to with any regularity. ~ Joseph McCombs

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My Malady by Various Artists (CD - 02/08/2005)
 

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My Malady by Various Artists (CD - 02/08/2005)
"My Malady" (02/08/2005) Instrumental Various Artists, Mental MonkeyPerformers include: Deerhoof, Burmese, Books On Tape, Illusion Of Safety, Evolution Control Committee, 7000 Dying Rats, Iran, Berkowitz Lake, Dahmer, Mixel Pixel, V/Vm.

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Sonic Obliteration, Vol. 2 by Various Artists (CD - 04/15/1997)
 

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Sonic Obliteration, Vol. 2 by Various Artists (CD - 04/15/1997)
"Sonic Obliteration, Vol. 2" (04/15/1997) Instrumental Various Artists, Black Mark (USA)

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Little Buddha Cafe by Various Artists (CD - 02/01/2007)
 

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Little Buddha Cafe by Various Artists (CD - 02/01/2007)
"Little Buddha Cafe" (02/01/2007) Instrumental Various Artists, George V RecordsPersonnel: Bill Laswell (guitar, keyboards); Chinmaya Dunster (celtic harp, sarod, keyboards, percussion); Don Lax (violin); John Zagando (flute); Toshinori Kondo (trumpet). Audio Mixer: G?rard Langella. Audio Remixer: Apacho. Unknown Contributor Role: Toshinori Kondo. Arranger: Richard Les Crees.

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