Bourbon & Rosewater

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The North Indian Bhatt stretches in a different direction for this collaboration with country/bluegrass dobro virtuoso Douglas and bassist Meyer, Douglas's frequent partner in Nashville. Both the dobro and the upright bass employ sliding tones, of course, and are quite compatible with Bhatt's mohan vina. All but one of the eight tunes on this all-instrumental album were written by one or more of the three musicians, and they come up with lovely, shimmering, legato lines. Instead of the earthy qualities elicited by Mahal's blues, Douglas and Meyer bring out the yearning and melodic qualities of Bhatt's playing with the result that this is Bhatt's most tuneful and accessible project yet. --Geoffrey Himes

Bourbon & Rosewater,Vishwa Mohan Bhatt,Jerry Douglas,Water Lily Acoustics,Asia,India,Indian Classical,Int'l & World Music,International,Pop,Progressive Bluegrass,Raga,United States of America,World Fusion,World Music,Worldbeat
Marching Down Bourbon Street
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great collection
  • Classic New Orleans
Marching Down Bourbon Street
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Manufacturer: Sony Special Product
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002Z3M
Release Date: 2001-01-01

Tracks:

  1. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
  2. Mood Indigo
  3. St. Louis Blues
  4. Hindustan
  5. Bill Bailey (Won't You Please Come Home)
  6. St. James Infirmary
  7. The Bucket's Got A Hole In It
  8. I Shall Not Be Moved
  9. When The Saints Go Marchin' In
  10. Amen

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great collection.......2007-07-08

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band's 1997 release "Marching Down Bourbon Street" is actually a compilation of tracks from their "New Orleans, Volume..." albums released between the 1970s and 1990s. As most of those albums are now out of print, this is a great buy, especially at such a good price. Anyone who's ever been to Preservation Hall knows what a great show they put on, and they sound just as tight on record. The compilation includes their best known standards like "St. James Infirmary" and "The Bucket's Got a Hole in It," and of course "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Amen," as well as technical masterpieces like "Hindustan" and "St. Louis Blues." A great purchase, highly recommended, this is fine New Orleans jazz!

5 out of 5 stars Classic New Orleans.......2001-06-25

Anyone who has visited Preservation Hall in New Orleans will truly appreciate this CD as it captures the feeling of that great joyful and music-filled room. To those who have not been blessed with that experience, this CD will certainly whet your appetite for Dixieland. I have been a fan of New Orleans Jazz for over 50 years and never tire of listening to the old standards featured here. St. James Infirmary is one of my all-time favorites and is particulary good here. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is one of the most important groups preserving and promoting this kind of music. This is also a super value and offers a good way to sample this music.
The Bourbon Legend
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Joe D. Webb
  • Not so good
  • Country Music On A Bender!!
  • Real Country Still Lives !
  • Whoops Jason
The Bourbon Legend
Jason Boland & the Stragglers
Manufacturer: Sustain Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000IONLJ0
Release Date: 2006-10-31

Tracks:

  1. Last Country Song
  2. Bourbon Legend
  3. No One Left to Blame
  4. Jesus and Ruger
  5. Up and Gone
  6. Baby That's Just Me
  7. Can't Tell If I Drink
  8. Lonely by Choice
  9. Rattlesnakes
  10. Time in Hell
  11. Everyday Life

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Joe D. Webb.......2007-07-21

Jason and the boys do not disappoint on this CD.They take a step back to the roots of the original outlaw movement.Now this is not a party Cd,but if you like great songwriting skills combined with Jason"s excellent vocals this is must buy.Keep Spreading The Dirt Boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 out of 5 stars Not so good.......2007-03-01

I have all the Jason Boland albums, and I am a huge fan. He is by far one of my favorites. However the Bourbon Legend, isnt his best work. It doesnt have the feel the rest of the albums have. I was very disappointed and sold it back after a week of owning it. However I would recommend any of the other albums, he is wonderful live!!

5 out of 5 stars Country Music On A Bender!!.......2007-01-10

Jason Boland and the Stragglers are straight bourbon compared to the watered down country coming out of Nashville. They are outlaws and the sound is raw but pure. Reminiscient of the great one, Waylon, these guys consider fiddles and steels to be essential country instruments. Buy this album but then buy all of their albums. You'll love them all.

5 out of 5 stars Real Country Still Lives !.......2007-01-03

If you are a Waylon Jennings fan, then this CD is a must! If you aren't familiar with Jason, you're in for a treat. Jason has a voice made to sing country and it comes through with true emotion in these songs, all of which he wrote. No big rockers here, just real country music with great tunes and lyrics. You won't have to skip through any "filler" songs, they are all good! Get This!

1 out of 5 stars Whoops Jason.......2006-12-19

This album is not worth your time. Every song has the same theme as far as the "music" goes. Bourbon Legend is a great song but this CD does not compare to Live at Billy Bob's Texas. I was very dissapointed after listening to this album once and immediately sold it back to Amazon. He should stay away from the studio and do what he does best. BE IN THE BAR!!!!!!!
Live at Bourbon Street [2-CD Set]
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Unbelievable
  • Two of the Best at Their Best
  • Definitive Jazz Guitar
  • It doesn't get any better than this...
Live at Bourbon Street [2-CD Set]
Lenny Breau
Manufacturer: Guitarchives Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000PDG
Release Date: 1996-01-30

Tracks:

  1. There Is No Greater Love
  2. If You Could See Me Now
  3. On Green Dolphin Street
  4. Summertime
  5. Quiet And Blue
  6. All Blues
  7. I Fall In Love To Easily
  8. All The Things You Are
  9. My Foolish Heart

Tracks:

  1. Vision
  2. Blues In My Case
  3. My Funny Valentine
  4. What Is This Thing Called Love?
  5. Beautiful Love
  6. Two Lonely People
  7. There Will Never Be Another You
  8. Riot-Chorus

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Unbelievable.......2006-12-27

Acording to the book "one long tune" very fev of lennys albums vere Lenny in good form. Often he had not the nervs to play in studio, or he was on drugs.This was the case on Five O'Clock Bells/Mo' Breau and Cabin Fever, although these albums are greate. But on this album, Lenny is at his very best.
Lennys goal was to play the guitar like the piano, and Bill Evans was his favorit piano player. He worked on this for 20 years. He sure made it.'
Dave Young knew and respethed Lenny and his music, and the result is marvelus.
On this album Lenny plays just the way he feels like, totally free.
The thing with his playing that make me call it unbelivable, is his harmonich, the way he plays like a piano player, and he does it totally spontanius. If You Could See Me Now, My Foolish Heart, I Fall In Love To Easily, Two Lonely People, are just increddible.
This is the best electric guitarwork I have ever heard, and the more you lissen, the more you hear.
The sound is greate and the interplay vith Dave Young is unncanny.

5 out of 5 stars Two of the Best at Their Best.......2005-01-27

What a beautiful set of immaculate improvisations! God, the sound is so good! Usually upright bass is recorded live so that it brings out all the finger noise. Not so here. So clean, so sweet.

If you are not familiar with Lenny Breau, what a treat these 2 CD's can be for you. Here using a great sounding custom 7 string guitar with a high 'A' string! Considered by the best of the jazz and country worlds to be the best living guitarist in his lifetime, he lives up to his reputation here. I have everything I can get that Lenny did, and this is my favorite alongside "The Complete Livingroom Tapes." He had incredible technique and prowess, truly killer chops. On this recording he has deepened and grown beyond anything purely physical or technical about music on a guitar. He comunicates with heartfelt passion and soul, so fully, so clearly, so cleanly, and so...transcendently. It's hard to believe how beautiful this music is. God, I love it! Please invite Lenny to live on in your life and ears, too.

5 out of 5 stars Definitive Jazz Guitar.......2002-06-10

If you are looking for incredibley smooth and innovative jazz guitar this is the one. Lenny's fingerstyle technic gave him the ability to take jazz and pop standards way beyond the 'flat picking' style of playing, very much like listening to a jazz pianist. Along with long time associate Dave Young on acoustic bass this music presents an interplay between guitar and bass that is rarley heard. A 'must have' for Lenny Breau fans and jazz fans in general.

5 out of 5 stars It doesn't get any better than this..........2001-10-23

To any fan of jazz and anyone who plays guitar in general, this album is a must have. Breau's playing on great standards is just unbelievable and there is much to be learned from his style. A highly under rated player who deserves more credit. Regardless, he burns on this cd and it should be owned by all.
Little Animals
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    Little Animals
    Beasts of Bourbon
    Manufacturer: Albert Productions
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000OYC1JA
    Release Date: 2007-05-14

    Tracks:

    1. I Don't Care About Nothing Anymore
    2. I'm Gone
    3. I Told You So
    4. Master and Slave
    5. Little Animals
    6. Beast I Came to Be
    7. Sleepwalker
    8. Too Much Too Late
    9. New Day of the Dead
    10. Thanks

    Album Description

    Some records should not be taken lightly. This one is the real deal, an unexpected gift from the gods. This is a brand new beasts of bourbon album, recorded and mixed in three days in the melbourne winter of 2006. 'Little animals' it's their first album of new songs in nine years. And it will kick your arse! The long awaited album arrives against considerable odds. Last time tex perkins, spencer p jones, charlie owen, brian hooper and tony pola made a record, it's title turned out to be succinctly prophetic. At the end of '97, 'gone' saw them off on the longest hiatus of the beasts' 23-year tenure, for reasons best unasked or forgotten. Over six albums of excoriating, low life rock'n'roll, the beasts of bourbon had carved their name large and indelibly in australian rock lore. In (evil) spirit they're kin to ac/dc, the stones and the birthday party; in real life their lineage encompasses the johnnys, the surrealists, the cruel sea, the new christs, tex, don and charlie and too many crash-and-burn blues/punk rock outfits that fell foul of the old death or glory equation some time over the last quarter-century.

    Album Details

    Their First Full Album of New Songs in Nine Years, this Album was Recorded and Mixed in Three Days in the Melbourne Winter of 2006. Last Time Tex Perkins, Spencer Jones, Charlie Owen, Brian Hooper and Tony Pola Made a Record, Its Title Turned Out to Be Succinctly Prophetic. At the End of '97, "Gone" Saw them off on the Longest Hiatus of the Beasts' 23-year Tenure, for Reasons Best Unasked Or Forgotten. Over Six Albums of Excoriating, Low Life Rock'n'roll, the Beast of Bourbon Had Carved their Name Large and Indelibly in Australian Rock Lore.
    Low Life
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      Low Life
      Beasts of Bourbon
      Manufacturer: Spooky
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000AL8ZGA
      Release Date: 2005-08-15

      Tracks:

      1. Low Road
      2. Chase the Dragon
      3. Make 'Em Cry
      4. Bad Revisited
      5. Fake
      6. Cocksucker Blues
      7. Just Right
      8. Straight, Hard and Long
      9. Ride On
      10. Saturated
      11. Drop Out
      12. Let's Get Funky

      Album Description

      This offering is from the Beasts of Bourbon, Low Life. Recorded Live at The Tote and mixed at Atlantis Studios. Spooky Records. 2005.

      Album Details

      The Latest Live Offering from the "Beasts of Bourbon", "Low Life", was Recorded Live at the Tote and Mixed at Atlantis Studios. One Time Kings of the Australian Rock Underbelly, the Beasts Feature Tex Perkins, Spencer P Jones and Kim Salmon.
      Danses de la Renaissance
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        Danses de la Renaissance

        Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
        ProductGroup: Music
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        ASIN: B000027NSF
        Release Date: 1992-02-12

        Tracks:

        1. Trois Branles De Bourgogne
        2. Branle Gay Nouveau
        3. 3.1 Pavane 'Mille Regrets'/3.2 Ronde/3.3 Pavane 'Si Pas Souffrir'/3.4 Ronde/3.5 Saltarelle...
        4. Branle
        5. L'Arboscello Ballo Furlano
        6. 6.1 Pavane/6.2 Gaillarde
        7. 7.1 Entree 1/7.2 Entree 2/7.3 Entree 3
        8. 8.1 Tourdion/8.2 Pavane/8.3 Gaillarde
        9. 9.1 Danse Polonaise/9.2 Gaillarde
        10. Danses Medievales: 10.1 Solo De Cornemuse/10.2 Ballade 'Ma Chiere Dame'
        11. Danses Medievales: 11.1 Saltarello/11.2 Trotto/11.3 Ballata 'Ben Chi'io'/11.4 Lonc Le Rieu De La...
        12. Danses Medievales: Organum Benedicamus Domino
        13. Danses Medievales: Roneau 'Franc Cuer Gentil'
        14. Danses Medievales: 14.1 L'esperance De Bourbon/14.2 Sans Faire/14.3 La Danse De Cleves...
        Bourbon & Rosewater
        Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
        • One of the best "East meets West" instrumental musics
        • balak
        Bourbon & Rosewater
        Vishwa Mohan Bhatt , and Jerry Douglas
        Manufacturer: Water Lily Acoustics
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000002VYM
        Release Date: 1995-10-31

        Tracks:

        1. Bourbon & Rosewater
        2. Gypsies from Rajasthan
        3. Overtones & Stained Glass
        4. Bent Notes of the Bauls
        5. Many Miles from Home
        6. Resurrection
        7. Desert Winds
        8. Mississippi Mud

        Amazon.com

        The North Indian Bhatt stretches in a different direction for this collaboration with country/bluegrass dobro virtuoso Douglas and bassist Meyer, Douglas's frequent partner in Nashville. Both the dobro and the upright bass employ sliding tones, of course, and are quite compatible with Bhatt's mohan vina. All but one of the eight tunes on this all-instrumental album were written by one or more of the three musicians, and they come up with lovely, shimmering, legato lines. Instead of the earthy qualities elicited by Mahal's blues, Douglas and Meyer bring out the yearning and melodic qualities of Bhatt's playing with the result that this is Bhatt's most tuneful and accessible project yet. --Geoffrey Himes

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars One of the best "East meets West" instrumental musics.......2002-07-19

        This is truly one of the best 'world' fusions I have ever heard!
        One can always wonder how such a mixture is possible: blue grass and hindustani music and it works!
        I highly recommend this wonderful work.

        4 out of 5 stars balak.......2000-11-17

        One of my favourites on long drives. This has the right mix of indian classical(hindustani) and the down south-blues styles. They complement each other with surprising fluidity. Perhaps, I expected too much from the acoustics. But, they are refreshingly clear and smooth notes of all the stringed instruments can be *felt* sliding down into your heart. By far, one of the best from guitar-based fusion stuff.
        Little Animals
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          Little Animals
          Beasts of Bourbon
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
          GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
          Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B000R9QF80
          Release Date: 2007-07-24

          Tracks:

          1. I Don't Care About Nothing Anymore
          2. I'm Gone
          3. I Told You So
          4. Master and Slave
          5. Little Animals
          6. Beast I Came to Be
          7. Sleepwalker
          8. Too Much Too Late
          9. New Day of the Dead
          10. Thanks

          Album Description

          Some records should not be taken lightly. This one is the real deal, an unexpected gift from the gods. This is a brand new beasts of bourbon album, recorded and mixed in three days in the melbourne winter of 2006. 'Little animals' it's their first album of new songs in nine years. And it will kick your arse! The long awaited album arrives against considerable odds. Last time tex perkins, spencer p jones, charlie owen, brian hooper and tony pola made a record, it's title turned out to be succinctly prophetic. At the end of '97, 'gone' saw them off on the longest hiatus of the beasts' 23-year tenure, for reasons best unasked or forgotten. Over six albums of excoriating, low life rock'n'roll, the beasts of bourbon had carved their name large and indelibly in australian rock lore. In (evil) spirit they're kin to ac/dc, the stones and the birthday party; in real life their lineage encompasses the johnnys, the surrealists, the cruel sea, the new christs, tex, don and charlie and too many crash-and-burn blues/punk rock outfits that fell foul of the old death or glory equation some time over the last quarter-century.
          Beyond Good & Evil: The Best of the Beasts of Bourbon
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • Messy punks play rock and blues. Ugliness prevails.
          • Beasts of Brilliance
          • it's about damn time!
          Beyond Good & Evil: The Best of the Beasts of Bourbon
          The Beasts of Bourbon
          Manufacturer: Polyg
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          Australia & New ZealandAustralia & New Zealand | International | Styles | Music
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          ASIN: B00002DDMG
          Release Date: 1999-09-27

          Tracks:

          1. Psycho
          2. Drop Out
          3. Hard for You
          4. Playground
          5. Door to Your Soul
          6. Let's Get Funky
          7. Black Milk
          8. Finger Lickin'
          9. Cool Fire
          10. Words from a Woman to Her Man
          11. Execution Day
          12. Chase the Dragon
          13. Just Right
          14. Low Road
          15. Can't Say No
          16. Saturated
          17. Fake
          18. Make 'Em Cry
          19. Is That Love
          20. Goodbye Friends

          Tracks:

          1. What a Way to Live
          2. Hard for You
          3. Straight, Hard & Long
          4. Fake
          5. Make 'Em Cry

          Album Details

          For a Strictly Limited Time, 'beyond Good and Evil'will Come with a Bonus Five Track CD.

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Messy punks play rock and blues. Ugliness prevails........2002-04-26

          This is a very sloppy compilation which somehow seems to work by default. The cheap, amateurish cover art is a pretty good indicator of what pub rock was like in Sydney in the late 80's to early 90's. Very authentic grunge like this is way too dangerous to be accepted now in the early naughties.

          The crude vocals an screaming guitars are applied to all songs here, however its not predictable formula. Its more like an attitude.

          This CD has limited appeal in these days of slick sounds. The "Beasts of Bourbon's" Black Milk is more up to date with the times.

          5 out of 5 stars Beasts of Brilliance.......2002-01-12

          do yourself a favour. discover beasts of bourbon. start with this collecion, then go nuts and get yourself the compleat collection of a band with balls, brilliance, f--k you attitude and more musical chops than the ealy (and late) Stones.

          steve.

          5 out of 5 stars it's about damn time!.......1999-12-22

          Beasts Of Bourbon at their best is like choking on the best piece of steak you;ve ever had & shunning all attempts to save you, so that you can savor it. Given the difficulty, in the US anyway, obtaining their releases & the high prices, this cd is a must. From the moment they debuted with Axeman's Jazz in the early 80's, this band has rarely dissapointed. That's quite an accomplishment, given their incredible diversity. You will be sold from the first song, Psycho, on through to the end. The numerous line up changes over the years have done little to compromise the overall effect of The Beasts. No one would agree on twenty songs for a Beasts compilation, but this is a nice one. The only glaring omissions are Love & Death(Axeman's Jazz), The Hate Inside(Sour Mash), & Ride On(The Low Road). A decade and a half of brilliance is captured here. From punk to funk to blues to straight up rock to just plain bizarre, all of the elements that made Tex & co. so inimitable are running rampant throughout. If you have nothing on cd, this is the place to start. If you are fortunate enough to own all their discs, then this is still a must. Their are albums are so different from one another that this is the only collection that can satisfy any mood. Highlights include Psycho(The Axeman's Jazz), Hard For You/ Door To Your Soul(Sour Mash), Cool Fire/Words From A Woman To Her Man/Execution Day(Black Milk), Low Road/Can't Say No/Goodbye Friends(The Low Road),& Saturated(Gone). I don't know why Axeman's Jazz isn't properly represented, but the oversight is certainly forgivable. The live 5-song bonus disc isn't much more than a novelty. They didn't need to throw in any extras to satisfy me, but it's a cool addition to any Beasts collection. The liner notes and many photos complete an already wonderful package. After your Beasts collection is complete, go find Tex, Don & Charlie's MONDAY MORNING COMING DAY & The Cruel Sea's THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. Tex Perkins' solo album, FAR BE IT FROM ME, is also great. This band is incredible. How many underground punk bands had the guts to cover Merle Haggard? Get your fix ASAP, as their cds don't stay in circulation long. Beasts Of Bourbon are truly Australia's greatest export!
          Faure: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 (Ballade, Fantasie, Elegy, Berceuse, Les Djinns, Caligula, Prelude de Penelope)
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • I love this C.D. but don't own my own copy...I need one
          Faure: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 (Ballade, Fantasie, Elegy, Berceuse, Les Djinns, Caligula, Prelude de Penelope)
          Gabriel Faure , Jean-Philippe Collard , Paul Tortelier , Michel Plasson , and Alix Bourbon
          Manufacturer: Capitol
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B000007QQD
          Release Date: 1993-11-16

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars I love this C.D. but don't own my own copy...I need one.......2000-07-03

          This is an incredible recording of Faure's more famous works for orchestra. I was blown away the first time I heard this (as everyone will be). Collard's playing is superb - very suited to the technically demanding piano parts (even List couldn't sightread the ballade...). I find the Cello of Paul Tortelier (in the Elegie) to be so superbly expressive that it brings tears. And, the Berceuse (I think played by Paul's brother Yan-Pascal Tortelier) is beautiful. These are three incredible musicians whose playing defines playing. Those not familiar with "Les Djinns" are in for a treat - Faure's orchestration of Victor Hugo's scary poem, tastfully sung by the Alix Bourbon Vocal ensemble. All the tracks on the album are great (except for "Caligula" which is probably my fault because Faure could never go wrong).

          The only downside to purchasing this album is that no other interpretations of the same works will ever sound as good.

          Rock Music:

          1. Brasileirinho [Import]
          2. Brasilidade
          3. Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical
          4. Breath of the Heart
          5. Caravanserai
          6. Cesaria
          7. Christmas at St. Stanislaus (Beloved Polish and English Carols)
          8. Die Blaue Blume: German Folk Songs
          9. East to West
          10. Ethiopiques, Vol. 17: Tlahoun Gessesse

          Rock Music

          rock music

          Recommended Music:

          Tech House Session 02: Mixed by Tom Pooks [Import]

          Clarinet Concertos & Arias [Import]

          Dirt, Silver & Gold [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]

          Old Friends/Funny How Time Slips Away

          Carrie: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] [Soundtrack]

          Colonisation [Import]

          Collection: Cheap Trick / In Color / Heaven Tonight

          Bullish (Bullish, Bellyache & Belch) Volume 1

          Chipmunk Christmas [Import]

          Cello Concerto Op 104

          Bed

          Con Sabor Al Guaso

          Da Undaground Sound, Vol. 1: East Side [Explicit Lyrics]

          Peter Mennin: Syms 5 & 6 / Cello Cto

          Serpent's Egg