Long Hard Road

Long Hard Road

ASIN: B00005A9AY

Track Listings

1. Tennessee Goodbye

2. Walkin

3. Hold On

4. These Days

5. Green Fields of Home

6. Long Hard Road

7. Cheap Talk

8. Denver

9. American Born, but Southern First

10. One More

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
My name is Terry Lynn Bell Lead singer. I started listen to gospel music at an early age. And I have always loved country music. My influence's are Hank Sr. & Hank Jr. also Travis Tritt. I also have influence's in rock. which are Buddy Holly & KISS. I also have influence's in blues. Which are B.B King. I have always admired the ones that have done there own thing. I really injoy writing my own music, but most of all I Love performing live. I have a wife who supports me in everything I do. Who is also my booking agent. I also realized on July 9, 2000 When I lost my father in a boating accident that life is truely short. I have a lot more music to be heard & I hope you injoy it.

Sincerely, Terry Lynn Bell

Tracks:

Eleanor Rigby
Yellow Submarine
Please Please Me/Hard Days Night
Got To Get You Into My Life
And I Love Her
Michelle
Yesterday
Here, There, And Everywhere
The Long And Winding Road
Hey Jude

Album Description

Revisit Abbey Road with THE BEATLES GREATEST HITS: CLASSICAL STYLE, an unbelievable collection of your favorite Fab Four songs performed in the distinctive style of revered classical composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach. With hits such as "Yellow Submarine", "Yesterday", and "Hey Jude", THE BEATLES GREATEST CLASSICAL STYLE will become a favorite of Beatles fans and classical music aficionados everywhere.

Dreamgirls in Concert (2001 Concert Cast)

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Dreamgirls 2001
Not the real "DREAM" experience
Absolutely brilliant!
Amazing!!!!!!
One Night Only

Dreamgirls in Concert (2001 Concert Cast)
Henry Krieger , Audra McDonald , Brian Stokes Mitchell , Emily Skinner , and Darius de Haas
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Dreamgirls (1982 Original Broadway Cast)
Dreamgirls: Music From The Motion Picture [2-CD Deluxe Edition]
Dreamgirls
Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast)
Grey Gardens - A New Musical (2006 Original Broadway Cast)

ASIN: B00005Y4P4
Release Date: 2002-02-26

Tracks:

I'm Looking for Something, Baby
Goin' Downtown
Takin' the Long Way Home
Move (You're Steppin on My Heart)
Scene: Fifty bucks says the Dreamettes don't win
Fake Your Way to the Top
Scene: It ain't working, Marty
Cadillac Car
Cadillac Car (On the Road)
Cadillac Car (Recording Studio)
Scene: I don't believe they can do that
Steppin' to the Bad Side
Scene: I'm working on a long shot
Party, Party
I Want You, Baby
Scene: I'm a woman now
Family
Scene: What are you doing to that girl?
Dreamgirls
Press Conference
Heavy
Walkin' Down the Strip/Scene: Las Vegas
It's All Over
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

Tracks:

Opening Act II: Dreams Medley
Scene: Effie White is the best singer you're gonna find
I Am Changing
Vogue Sequence
When I First Saw You
Ain't No Party
I Meant You No Harm
The Rap
I Miss You, Old Friend
One Night Only
One Night Only (Disco Version)
I'm Somebody
Hard to Say Good-bye
Dreamgirls (Reprise)

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A Chorus Line may be better known, but Dreamgirls was a towering achievement for director Michael Bennett. Loosely based on the Supremes' story, the 1982 musical told a typical show-biz tale of fame, backbiting, and survival. As is often the case for one-night only events, the cast in this concert version (recorded in New York on September 24, 2001) is led by an eye-popping assortment of Broadway powerhouses: Lillias White (The Life), Audra McDonald (Ragtime, Marie Christine), and Heather Headley (Ragtime). McDonald reveals a previously undisclosed comic streak, while Headley confirms her status as a rising star. Reprising the role of Effie Melody White (created by Jennifer Holliday), White belts the classic "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." But the beauty of Dreamgirls is that it's so packed with catchy, Motown-influenced R&B numbers that each lead can sink her teeth into some prime material and get a turn in the spotlight. This double-CD set really makes you wish you'd been there when the show was recorded: you can hear the crowd going berserk at times, and the temptation is strong to do the same thing in the comfort of your living room. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

Dreamgirls 2001.......2007-06-27

This was the worst reproduction of Dreamgirls that I ever heard. I was so disappointed the CD went into the garbage. This is one CD that I would not sell to the public because I expect so much and get so little.

Not the real "DREAM" experience.......2007-04-04

Forget about the film sountrack. Get this CD set. And it's far better than the original cast recording which goes lacking. More songs and more everything that makes a live performance just what it is. Live (compared to film where anything can be done to enhance a performance!) -- the energy, the excitement and the performances make this a rare treat for anyone wanting to share in the real DREAM experience.

Isn't a full Broadway revival long over due. But wait: I've heard rumors that a rvial may be "in the works. I certainly hope so. Maybe this time it will receive the Tony award it deserved in the first place.

Absolutely brilliant!.......2007-01-28

There is atleast 5 new songs on this album that were not in the movie! These girls kill it I mean they are just amazing singers, and this all live! This is needed for any Dreamgirls fanatic like me! You are gonna love it! Enjoy! love live laugh :)

Amazing!!!!!!.......2006-12-04

As a theatre lover, this recording is amazing. I actually prefer this recording to the OBC. Sheryl Lee Ralph is okay, but can't touch Audra's Deena. The first time I heard Ms. White's "And I Am Telling You..", goosbumps all over my body. The only weak cast member in my opinon is Heather Headly. Vocally, she just isn't there. Too much Aida, not enough Dreamgirls. But all in all, a great live recording of a great show.

One Night Only .......2006-07-19

I was lucky enough to attend this One Night Only concert performance of Dreamgirls and it was a night I will never forget!! The cast was brilliant and the cd is as good if not better than the Broadway cast recording because it is the entire show not just the songs. Bravo to everyone involved !!!

Manuel Barrueco Plays Lennon & McCartney

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Barrueco plays Lennon McCartney
Brilliant arrangements and performance
hmm...
Again ?

Manuel Barrueco Plays Lennon & McCartney

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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300 Years of Guitar Masterpieces

ASIN: B000002SL5
Release Date: 1995-08-08

Tracks:

Eleanor Rigby
Here, There And Everywhere
Ticket To Ride
Fool On The Hill
She's Leaving Home
Penny Lane
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
A Hard Day's Night
Michelle
Hey Jude
Yesterday
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
The Long And Winding Road

Customer Reviews:

Barrueco plays Lennon McCartney.......2007-03-20

A first-class CD. Excellent arrangements, especially with London Symphony on "Winding Road."

Brilliant arrangements and performance.......2007-03-06

Aside from the folks who would otherwise waste an opportunity to discuss the worthiness of this album, I fully endorse it as an example of a beautiful combination of excellent playing and superb composing. A good arranger finds the perfect balance between keeping honest to the original music and exploring/exploiting the inherent qualities within it through different means. That's precisely what occurs with this album. You're hard pressed to find better arrangements than the Takemitsu. Leo Brower shows a deft touch for string writing in his arrangements and again his writing for the guitar is spot on. The final two arrangements by Mr. Lubbock are interesting, yet straying further from their original inspiration than the other arrangements, still manage to capture that lovely balance.

There aren't enough accolades to give Maestro Barrueco whose precision and musicianship are nearly unmatched (still a close second to Pepe Romero in my book). An excellent and interesting purchase for guitar, strings, and Beatles lovers alike.

hmm..........2002-02-05

Um... for the record: All the Beatle songs other than those composed by George Harrison or Ringo Starr were credited to "Lennon-McCartney" or "John Lennon and Paul McCartney" by prior agreement of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, whether they actually collaborated (as they did in many cases) or one of them worked by himself.

John Lennon wrote Ticket To Ride, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, A Hard Day's Night, and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away.

Paul McCartney wrote Yesterday, Here, There, And Everywhere, Fool On The Hill, Penny Lane, Hey Jude, and The Long And Winding Road.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney collaborated on Eleanor Rigby, She's Leaving Home, and Michelle.

Again ?.......1999-12-05

This is not the first CD on this site where you try to convince us that John wrote The fool on the hill and other songs written by Paul.I really can't believe you're so uninformed.

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LONG HARD ROAD
BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND
Manufacturer: GROOVEYARD RECORDS
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000E1OIRQ
Release Date: 2006-01-01

Tracks:

Electric Woman
Mercury Man
Outside Woman Blues
I Should've Loved You
The Power
Time Before The Sun
Pack It Up And Go
Sacred Son
Gypsy Blood
Wall Of Illusion
Hot Shot

Product Description

"Long Hard Road, the awesome fifth studio disc by the BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND, features 11 trax (69 minutes) of killer, bad-ass, straight-ahead, in-your-face, solid bluesy heavy guitar riffage with powerful rippin lead guitars that are guaranteed to rock your world. Long Hard Road is a classic modern-day heavy guitar riff monster with a way-kool retro-70s Les Paul through a Marshall vibe. The BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND: Long Hard Road disc is HIGHLY recommended to fans of CREAM, MOUNTAIN, LESLIE WEST, ROBIN TROWER, PAT TRAVERS, MONTROSE, U.F.O. w/ SCHENKER and all other classic heavy guitar rockers. Fans of the previous BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND discs (in particular, the first two B.B.B. c.d.s) will heavily dig the bad-ass killer heavy-duty hi-powered bluesy riffage that kicks serious ass all over the place on the awesome Long Hard Road disc. If you dig outstanding bluesy heavy guitar riffage, do yourself a favor and take a musical ride down the LONG HARD ROAD with the BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND who definitely KEEP THE ROCK ALIVE with their awesome brand of classic bluesy riff heaviness.

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Highly pleasing reissue of latter-day Kendalls LP

Love Is a Long Hard Road
The Kendalls
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Kendalls: 16 Greatest Hits
Jeannie Kendall
Best of Country Gospel
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Heaven's Just a Sin Away

ASIN: B00008QSBM
Release Date: 2003-04-01

Tracks:

Love Is a Long Hard Road
I'm Already Blue
If You Let Him Drive You Crazy, He Will
Bye Bye Love
Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
Thank God for the Radio
I'd Rather Dance With You
Blue Blue Day
Heartaches By the Number
Curtain in the Window
Crying Time
Once More
Temporarily Out of Order
Just Like Real People

Customer Reviews:

Highly pleasing reissue of latter-day Kendalls LP.......2003-04-17

By the time of this late-80s recording, this father-daughter duo had already hit their peak popularity on the charts (documented nicely on Varese's 1999 collection "16 Greatest Hits") with breakouts like 1977's "Heaven's Just a Sin Away" and 1984's "Thank God for the Radio." Jeannie's lead vocals rendered in a fetching, high-lonesome voice, blended magically with her father's baritone.

While producer Buddy Killan (who worked with Doug Kershaw, Joe Tex, and many others) moved Jeannie more to the foreground for the sessions that resulted in this album, the familial harmonies are still the music's selling point. The mix of classics (including Buck Owens' "Crying Time," Harlan Howard's "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down," and Felice & Boudleaux Bryant's "Bye Bye Love") and then-contemporary songs from the likes of Max D. Barnes (including the fine title track, and a reworking of the Kendalls' earlier hit "Thank God for the Radio") and Kevin Welch ("I'd Rather Dance With You") show how broadly the duo's hard-country harmonies could succeed.

Though the album's chart success was minor (a cover of Don Gibson's "Blue Blue Day" reached #69), this is a perfect example of how artists can remain vital even as the spotlight of popularity fades. It's especially impressive that the Kendalls' and their producer didn't chase after commercial success by changing their sound. Instead, they retained the integrity of their vocals, loaded up the tracks with fiddle, pedal steel and twangy guitars, and produced one of the best albums of their career. Hats off to Varese for rescuing this one from the vault!

Lest We Forget the best of "special collector's edition" Contains Bonus DVD of unedited video collection never before released in its entirety... PLUS Colored picture booklet.
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Lest We Forget the best of "special collector's edition" Contains Bonus DVD of unedited video collection never before released in its entirety... PLUS Colored picture booklet.
Marilyn Manson , ********TRACK LISTINGS******** , Personal Jesus, Mobscene, The Fight Song, Tainted Love, The Dope Show, This Is The New Shit, Disposable Teens The Love Song , Lunch Box, Tourniquet, Rock Is Dead, Get Your Gunn, The Nobodies, Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, The Beautiful People, Reflecting God Sweet Dreams , ********UNEDITED VIDEOS IN THEIR ENTIRETY******** , and Sweet Dreams, The Dope Show, Beautiful people, Mob scene Personal Jesus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000RDOEMU

Long Yellow Road
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Long Yellow Road
Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin Big Band
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008OJSY
Release Date: 2003-05-19

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Long Yellow Road
First Night
Opus No. Zero
Quadrille, Anyone?
Children in the Temple Ground
Since Perry/Yet Another Tear

Album Details

24bit digitally remastered.

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Great Single
Awesome song
"I wanna live, I wanna love..."--Mar1lyn Man5on
One of Manson's finest...
Could've Been Better

Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Marilyn Manson
Manufacturer: Sbme Import
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005RVD
Release Date: 1999-03-02

Tracks:

Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Long Hard Road Out of Hell [Critter Remix]
Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Long Hard Road Out of Hell [KICK THE P.A. INSTRUMENTAL]

Album Details

Plus Excl. Remixes for Germany.

Customer Reviews:

Great Single.......2005-07-30

Just the original version of this song is good enough reason to purchase this. The remixes & w/e are okay but nothing special. If u really like this song but dont wanna spend the money for just 1 song....Get "Lest we Forget" (mansons "best") which contains this track.

Awesome song.......2004-06-14

This is a very very cool song (although i wouldnt pay $10 for it!) One of the wierdest songs ive ever heard come out of Manson, as well. If you want the music video instead, buy God Is In the T.V. which includes all of his music videos.

"I wanna live, I wanna love..."--Mar1lyn Man5on.......2003-03-02

Good set o' songs on this lil' single. If you're a real fan o' Mar1lyn Man5on, go buy his book. It has the same title.
--214

One of Manson's finest..........2002-05-14

The song is "THE Long Hard Road Out Of Hell" not "It's" like it is enterend here on Amazon. But anyways, it is really a unique sounding song done for "The Spawn" soundtrack. The song really has catchy lyrics and the expression that is Marilyn Manson. Something you should own as a fan. The video clip ( it appears on the videotape "God is in the TV") also shows Manson's equally unique artistic side. He is trully a creative artist.

Could've Been Better.......2001-06-04

This song bridges the gap between AntiChrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals. Overall, one of Manson's best songs and videos. However, what the ...is Korn doing on here?! The remixes are alright.

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Disappointing..
Yes, Jazz but no much
More jazz than Bach
Papa Bach boogies! Oh, yeah!
interesting

Bach to the Beatles

Manufacturer: White Line
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000030XV
Release Date: 1993-12-21

Tracks:

All My Loving
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
A Hard Day's Night
Groovy Gavotte II
The Long And Winding Road
Air On A G String
Can't Buy Me Love
Minuet
Yesterday
Aria
Hey Jude
D Minor Double
Michelle
Jig
Norwegian Wood
Sleepers Awake
Eleanor Rigby
Sicilienne
Here, There And Everywhere
Brandenburg Boogie

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.........2006-06-29

Not worth the money or time and trouble ordering this product. I just did not like it!!!!

Yes, Jazz but no much.......2006-02-24

This CD is very smooth to ear. The player trio is fine. The flute (Elena Duran) is more present on Beatles music, Grapelli (violin) presents a splendid violin solo on Bach music (his Air On A G String violin solo is unforgettable). The jazzistic components are presented by bass, drums and piano, but they're not enough to give a genuine jazz touch to this disc, I think so. If you want mor jazzistic features for Bach and Beatles music, you must ear Swingle Singers and Jacques Loussier.

More jazz than Bach.......2004-05-20

Given the title of this album, I was expecting arrangements of a baroque nature; that's not what they've done, however. There are renditions of 19 Beatles tunes done in a style that is largely of the light, sprightly jazz variety, and a similar treatment of a theme from Bach's Brandenburg No. 2. If you like this kind of thing, the recording quality is excellent and the players are good at what they do; the performance is very fluid (to my ear) and the sound is crisp. It is not, however, a baroque adaptation of modern material; the style of performance is merely shifted from rock to acoustical jazz ensemble with embellishments to match. Unfortunately, the moods of the original pieces do not always match the moods of the versions here, and some of the arrangements venture off into other styles in places as well. If I hadn't been expecting something else, I'd probably have liked this CD more.

Papa Bach boogies! Oh, yeah!.......2004-04-06

You are welcome to the Beatles cuts on this CD. The Bach tracks are what make it worth the price.

Don't get me wrong. I love the Beatles, but honestly, the works of Lennon and McCartney do not easily adapt to the jazz trio style. It's more like being pummeled into submission. What's left is better heard in a vertically moving metal booth with a panel of numbered buttons next to its automatic sliding doors (OK, OK, I'll say it! It's ELEVATOR MUSIC!). ::whew::

The Bach selections, quite the opposite, are as at home with a cup of strong black coffee at a bistro table for two as they are on a picnic with an 8-piece spicy chicken dinner from Popeye's (red beans and rice, please). It's only right. Bach was, after all, such an improviser that some of his compositions consist of 2 or 3 chords. It was up to the performer to put SOMETHING between those chords.

When these recordings were originally released on the Angel Records digital LP "Brandenburg Boogie," the titular track was the opening salvo. Here, it's saved for last and very well indeed it serves as a finale to the works that precede it.

"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" sways in a hammock nudged by the breezes of Stephane Grappelli's violin and Elena Duran's flute while Laurie Holloway's piano work sparkles like sunlight filtering through the leaves.

"Groovy Gavotte," based on the Gavotte from French Suite for keyboard No. 5 in G major struts along like an iron-pumping peacock with attitude. Grappelli sits this one out while Duran plays straight lady to Holloway's key-pounding improvisation evocative of that peacock whomping the snot out of a hawk that tried to have him for lunch.

Everyone who records Bach records "Air on the G String." Maybe it's some kind of RIAA reguirement but here, the most mellow cut on the whole disc, is where the whole trio seems to be at their most adventurous. Even Duran nudges her flute outside the dots and lines more than on any other cut.

The Minuet from the Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach returns to the norm with Duran once again playing the melody as straight as an arrow while Holloway comes back with the kinds of electric piano riffs you only hear in those previously smoke-filled jazz clubs.

The aria from Cantata No. 30 starts off like a ride in a swing at the park but soon soars over town like a hot-air balloon. Duran's octave leap on the closing bars is a true high point of the disc.

What do you do when you have only one violin but you're playing a movement from the "Double" Violin Concerto? You have Elena play one violin part on her flute while Stephane rocks on his violin and Laurie rolls on his keyboards. Yes, it's been done on classical recordings before but never like this.

The Gigue in B flat major gives the listener and the performers a chance to cool down with a stretch. Once more, one notes Duran's careful note-for-note playing contrasted by Grappelli's sonic leaps and bounds.

The other must-record piece is "Wauchet Auf". Grappelli's improvisation dances around Duran's presentation of the melody. Then, Stephane takes center stage and challenges Laurie to a violin versus electric piano showdown at twenty paces. Who wins? Does it matter?

The Sicilienne from the Sonata for harpsichord and flute exudes an air of mystery and lulls the listener into a sort of calm before a musical storm of Bayou hurricane proportions.

That storm arrives when the trio gets down on "Brandenburg Boogie", modeled after the first movement of the second Brandenburg Concerto. In its original form, the piece was once described as "Dixieland Baroque," all the more fitting for this performance. Grappelli and Holloway provide the most raucous moments while Duran's flute keeps order. Everything culminates in a sort of musical "Oh, yeah!" that leaves the listener both invigorated and out of breath.

interesting.......2002-06-20

This mix of baroque touch and beatle melody results in true pleasure for the ear.

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HARD WEATHER MAKES GOOD WOOD

Manufacturer: INNOVA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008RGZR
Release Date: 2003-04-15

Tracks:

Hard Weather Makes Good Wood
The Heart Poems: Poem I
The Heart Poems: Poem II
The Heart Poems: Poem III
The Heart Poems: Poem IV
The Heart Poems: Poem V
The Heart Poems: Poem VI
The Heart Poems: Poem VII
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road: A Funky Pair
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road: My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road: Funky Pair II
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road: Darker Days
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road: Still The Funky Pair (Injured, Broken)
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road: Spring
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road: Together
Rising Blue: Rising Blue I
Rising Blue: Interlude
Rising Blue: Rising Blue II

Album Description

This record is complex and challenging, but equally rewarding to those who make the effort. The prize? A trip into a man's psyche and the quiet intensity therein.

This project is an amalgam of talents: the music of renegade Ohio composer John Howell Morrison, and performed by the universally acclaimed Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble (fresh from the world tour promoting "I Dig" Innova 548). Under the direction of the original madman in the rain, Duane Schulthess, they bring to life Morrision's compositions with a resilient brilliance.

One of the freshest voices in American music, John Howell Morrison is no stranger to struggle. His new release on innova, Hard Weather Makes Good Wood, is a fantastical synthesis of the American South,the ferocious chops of the performers, and a creamy blend of electronic and acoustic media.

Combine these elements into a seamless whole and you get a heady, hearty, challenging sound world that shows us a glimpse of the future of chamber music. Morrison has character in buckets and reminds us that surviving life's storms is what builds us up. Through it all, hard weather makes good wood. Music shouldn't be easy, and this isn't but the rewards are so worth it.

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