Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earthy music with mesa-moving beats. The set list consisted of songs from all three albums, but those from Rusted Root got prime play time. Glabicki's open-hearted voice on the surprisingly sincere "Rising Sun" stood out as a pleasant change from the rest of the folk-rock repertoire. "Magenta Radio" was good clean funky fun, and "Kill You Dead" brought to mind a good old-fashioned hoe-down with a Southwestern flavor. The multitalented bassist Patrick Norman and percussionists Jim Donovan, John Buynak and Jim DiSpirito collaborated on "Agbadza," a piece of intense drumbeats backed up by Berlin...
...Complete Wailers 1967-1972, Part 1 contains 28 previously-unreleased songs from Bob Marley. "Selassie Is the Chapel," "Black Progress" and "Give Me a Ticket" are songs previously unreleased outside Jamaica. The complete set of 47 tracks is divided into three parts, traveling from Rock to Rock to Best of the Wailers. Although it may be quite expensive, ask your floor to buy you one big gift, because this is a compilation of the greatest of Marley...
...Earlier on, there seemed to be more of a rock or ska tone to your albums. What changed...
...think it's the Seattle Explosion of the early '90s, this whole alternative rock thing that's come to dominate radio. It dictated what record labels were paying attention to such a degree that you had this one kind of sound on the radio for several years. And then in the last couple of years it kind of died out and it really opened up a lot of space for other types of music to come through. Ska was something that was happening and that kind of blew up there, for a while...and then swing was kind...
...song," or "I'm going to try to write a country song." So the band billed itself as this whole spectrum of music, which always threw off records labels who would come to see us. They'd say, "You guys are great, but what are you? Are you a rock band? Are you a swing band?" So I think over time, partly out of necessity and partly out of taste, we got tired of some the other stuff and started to focus more on ska and swing...