Acoustic Soul Live [Live]

Acoustic Soul Live [Live]

Track Listings

1. For What I Want

2. Guess What

3. Brink Of Things

4. Full Circle

5. Evolutionary

6. Mad Crazy Mad

7. It Will Always Be

8. Among The Spirit World

9. Caught A Window

10. What Tomorrow Brings

11. Change Happens

12. Give It A Try

13. Sunshine And Mr. Blue

14. Tell Me What You've Heard

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Classical and jazz trained, ASTRA KELLY began her professional singing career after taking note of the city's subway performers while in route to her job in Chicago. After working on her guitar technique, and with a few pointers from a veteran subway performer, Astra earned 50 dollars in 2 hours and quit her job. So began a career that has since seen two successful self produced albums, the acoustic "Stones, Bones and Boxes" in 1996, and the critically acclaimed "Subtown Rituals" in 1999 with her band FAR ROCKAWAY.

Product Description
Recorded at several clubs in Colorado while on tour of the western states during the turn of the century, ACOUSTIC SOUL LIVE features fourteen of Astra's best loved songs, as well as some new compositions. ASTRA KELLY-ACOUSTIC SOUL LIVE captures all the power and passion of Astra's live performances. ASTRA KELLY, the way she should be heard. ACOUSTIC SOUL LIVE, the album you should own.

Tracks:

Ocean Of Tears
Crossover
Another Rain Song
Real Love
God Bless The Child
Turn Me On
Death Came A Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes)
Get Out Of My Way
Lost In The City
Prayin' For Rain
Church
Walk On
Oh! Susannah
Full Circle

Customer Reviews:

Taking the long road.......2007-02-25

Ruthie Foster shows the full range of her musicianship on this remarkable recording, which captures not only her rich voice but her wonderful sense of humor and love for music that stretches over a broad range of genres. Whether playing on a tango theme or drawing from her wonderful dip bag of folk music, Ruthie never fails to please the listener, especially on this album.

If you can see her live, then: get! If not..........2006-12-04

...then you owe it to yourself to buy this album. You won't miss her on stage again: expect goose bumps, and maybe some damp eyes, just listening to the CD. This is one of the best live recordings -- of anyone -- that I have heard. Buy it now, as the first in your collection, and you can tell your friends later: "Ruthie Foster? Oh yeah, I know her music!"

The Best!!.......2005-06-15

Ruthie Foster is THE BEST pure singer I have ever heard. When she sings Walk On and/or Oh Susannah - chills...
I absolutely LOVE HER - not only her singing but her guitar playing also. Check out/download her video at Kerrville from the internet and see her perform. A genius who can sing anything: blues, folk, whatever. I LOVE her - she is my favorite singer. Both her Stages and Runaway Soul albums- whew!!
Wish she would perform on national TV...

Powerful, Transcendently Beautiful!.......2004-11-11

A couple of weeks ago on a stiflingly sultry afternoon at the Texas Book Festival I heard in the distance this incredible voice singing the old Curtis Mayfield song, "People Get Ready." I moved quickly toward it and caught the last two minutes of Ruthie Foster's one hour set at the Entertainment Tent. In those two minutes, the gritty spirituality of her bluesy gospel rendition of that classic gave me the chills, and, I confess, watery eyes. She shook me. I told my wife that she was the greatest singer I had ever heard, and I'm not sure that I would qualify that even now. I ordered two of her CD's as soon as I could get to the internet and Amazon.com. The studio produced "Runaway Soul" is truly great, and I highly recommend it, but "Stages" is as close to perfection as any human has a right to expect. I agree with the other reviewer. It's the best live CD I own, with the possible exception of "James Brown at the Apollo!" Her rendition of "Oh, Susana," is revelatory. Foster discovers beneath the hokey joy of the tradition tune a transcendently beautiful lament. It is a shockingly insightful performance. Haunting. I could go on and on about other great numbers on the CD, but won't. Just buy it and enjoy it.

Stages is Awesome.......2004-08-09

This is simply the best live album I have heard! Having seen Ruthie Foster live at the Canmore Folk Fest - Stages stays true to her performance and gives the listener insight in to the fabulous range and style of Ruthie Foster - highly recommended.

Average customer rating:

A unique voice
Soulful & Stunning

The Kershaw Sessions: Live at the BBC
Ted Hawkins
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Next Hundred Years
Happy Hour
Watch Your Step
The Unstoppable Ted Hawkins
The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster

ASIN: B00004SZV8
Release Date: 2000-05-09

Tracks:

Bring It On Home
Cold & Bitter Tears
Happy Hour
Ladder Of Success
Sorry You're Sick
Bad Dog
All I Have To Offer You Is Me
Watch Your Step
Daytime Friend
I Got What I Wanted
Just One Look
Bring It On Home Daddy
Happy Hour
I Started Loving You Again/All I Have To Offer You Is Me
Who Do You Love?
Dollar Tree
Ain't Got Nothing Yet
No Other Love For Me
Nowhere To Run

Amazon.com

BBC Radio One host Andy Kershaw was so enthralled by the gripping music of Ted Hawkins that he detoured from a Nashville trip to find Hawkins in Los Angeles. In fact, Kershaw recorded the first two cuts here in 1986 in Hawkins's Inglewood home and the next four were taped at LA's Sunset Marquis hotel two months later. The remainder of these 19 songs are culled from three Kershaw radio shows dating from October 1986 to August 1989. These are all solo-acoustic numbers, and this setting is the best way to appreciate Hawkins's matchless blend of soul, folk, country, and blues. On the whole, this doesn't quite match the intensity of the 1994 recordings collected on The Final Tour, but it offers a few of its own unique charms. Hawkins brings to life the cheatin' song "Daytime Friends," a 1977 No. 1 country hit for Kenny Rogers and revisits Doris Troy's 1963 soul classic "Just One Look." In addition, the final five songs are lesser-known Hawkins originals, including the childlike "Dollar Tree" and a couple of simple but passionately delivered love songs. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

A unique voice.......2002-04-23

This album is amazing; simply Ted Hawkins with his very rudimentary solo quitar accompaniment. I gather most cuts were recorded at a residence or in radio studios. Nonetheless, the sound quauty is good and the performances come across as heartfelt and "authentic." This music cannot be easily categorized... blues, pop, soul... who cares. The feeling is there. The enunciation of the lyrics is another real strength. Every word comes through and many will break your heart. I do not know which songs Hawkins wrote. Many of them are familiar to me, but even if they are you feel you've heard them for them first time. I bought some other Ted Hawkins albums, some with musician backup and studio recording, but this one comes closest to what is unique about this performer. A cross between Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Sam Cooke, a capella, if you can imagine that.

Soulful & Stunning.......2002-03-05

Where do I begin with the praise for this amazing singer? Should i tell you that it brings tears to my eyes? That I get choked up at the sheer beauty, soulfulness, and unparallelled musicality of Ted Hawkins?

If you love soulful singers, you need this album in your life. The comparisons with Sam Cooke are no b.s. Ted Hawkins was touched by God. There are only a small handful of singers in this category. Some of them: Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Hank Williams, and Patsy Cline.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

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These Are My Own

Manufacturer: Zebra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000B8PW9K
Release Date: 2001-05-15

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25 tracks

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Live & You Learn

Manufacturer: Sturdy Soul
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAG84A
Release Date: 2001-12-18

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Love and the Like
Scott Phillips
Manufacturer: Scott Phillips
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CADG40
Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

Enough to Deserve You
Three Wishes
Center of the Universe
Time to Come Home
Hide and Seek
Breath to Dust
I Can't Sleep
Together
Hymn (Because You Are)
Close as a Whisper
If I Promised You the Moon
Carol Jean

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That's Mine

Manufacturer: 225 Miles Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006FRL8
Release Date: 2002-08-14

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Easier Choice
Completely
Independence Day
Free
Sorry
Nobody Knows
.........
Baby Bird
Prodigal Daughter
That's Mine

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Designer Fetish

Manufacturer: Ftl Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA32DK
Release Date: 2001-09-04

{25 Tracks} Chicago Down Home Blues, Vol. 1 "featuring" Johnny Young, Johnny Williams, Sunnyland Slim, Floyd Jones, Man Young, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Little Walter, Blues Boy Willie, Delta Joe Sanders, John Brim,

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{25 Tracks} Chicago Down Home Blues, Vol. 1 "featuring" Johnny Young, Johnny Williams, Sunnyland Slim, Floyd Jones, Man Young, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Little Walter, Blues Boy Willie, Delta Joe Sanders, John Brim,
Boogie, Ora Nelle Blues, Money Taking Woman - Johnny Young Telephone Blues , Back to Korea Blues - Sunnyland Slim, School Days - Floyd Jones, Let Me Ride Your Mule - Man Young Worried Man Blues - Johnny Williams , I Just Keep Loving Her - Little Walter, Come on Babe - Blues Boy Willie One Doggone Reason - St. Louis Jimmy Oden , Going Down the Line - John Brim, Hard Times - Floyd Jones 4 O'Clock Blues - Delta Joe Sanders , It's All over Now - Sunnyland Slim, Stockyard Blues - Floyd Jones My Baby Walked Out - Man Young , Dark Clouds - John Brim, Blue Baby - Little Walter Coming up Fast - St. Louis Jimmy Oden , Roll Tumble and Slip - Delta Joe Sanders, I Want My Baby - Little Walter Leaving Daddy Blues - John Brim , and Keep What You Got - Floyd Jones Lonesome Man Blues - John Brim
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000ITTYGY