Hard day on Campaign Trail...came home..Top 4 CD's that Sooth Soul are:

[KoKo]

Culture Club/VHI Storytellers/Greatist Moments: 2 CD Album with old renditions and new re-packaged and a great retrospective...with words that sound new in the 2004's.

Nana Mouskouri: "Ode to Joy" and a great album indeed for folks of the Celtic/Irish/Scottish pursuasion on DU. This has "roots" back to many DU'ers heritage of "folk" and poetic derivation music...with Mouskouri fans loving her for going back with her beautiful, poetic voice into the past for those of us who aren't even Greek!

Ray Charles: "Genius Loves Company" (last album before his death. and with recording artists: Natalie Cole, Elton John, Norah Jones, bb.king, Glady Knight, Van Morrison and so many others like Willie Nelson.

Annie Lennox: Medusa(2 CD Album) ...who does the BEST ALBUM of 2004, IMHO! She re-works old tunes from her "Eurythmics Era" and makes them sound all new for a NEW GENERATION....Great Album...you won't be disappointed if you like "retro-music" where everything from 50's Soul and Platters is re-worked by her.

Norah Jones: "Feels Like Love." Well..given that "Country is BIG" this album does go back to "retro" so I had to love it...because it reminded me of Ray and his "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" Album..which was a "crossover." Norah to this DU'er is a "crossover."

[faithnotgreed]

1. thanks koko for your hard work! do you listen to loreena mckennit

your description of nana mouskouri made me think of that

im sure you listen to loreena but just wanted to ask how you like her

[KoKo]

3. I don't know loreena mckennit, but I will check her out...I 've never

been steered wrong on music or movies by DU'ers...even down here in the "Lounge" where I don't often visit...but is a great place for recommendations...THANKS! :-)'s

[faithnotgreed]

4. really? you will absolutely love her music though you may have

heard it and just didnt know...

highly recommended. beautiful and sometimes stunning really. check out the clips on amazon from her album "the visit"

[KoKo]

5. Thanks...I will check out Amazon for the clip...I've not heard her, but

have been a fan of Mouskouri...well...forever... Her voice, to me, is beautiful.

[KoKo]

9. I just checked her out on Amazon for clip...and YESSS...very like

Mouskouri, vocally. Plus, I've always like ME Music...so I love her background on this CD..from my "clip listen." Many THANKS! :-)'s


. Mystic's Dream Listen Listen
2. Bonny Swans Listen Listen
3. Dark Night of the Soul Listen Listen
4. Marrakesh Night Market Listen Listen
5. Full Circle Listen Listen
6. Santiago Listen
7. Ce He Mise le Ulaingt? (The Two Trees) Listen
8. Prospero's Speech Listen

-SNIP- from AMAZON Clp of her music:

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
McKennitt's travels through Spain and Morocco flavor this album with a distinctly Mediterranean tinge, from the opening "The Mystic's Dream," with its dancing percussion arrangements, to "Marrakesh Night Market," to "Full Circle" and the instrumental "Santiago." "Marrakesh Night Market" is an especially strong performance, with an interesting musical texture; the balalaika, udu drum, and dumbek are played alongside a synthesizer. As usual, McKennitt has set a poem to music, this time Yeats's "The Two Trees," with a lovely introduction on the Uillean pipes. There's also "The Bonny Swans," a traditional lyric, and the CD closes with Shakespeare, as McKennitt sets some of Prospero's words from The Tempest to her own music. Excerpts from McKennitt's journals, included in the CD booklet, make for interesting reading as they shed some light on her source material and inspiration for writing each song. --Genevieve Williams

Amazon.com
Loreena McKennitt drew her inspiration for this album from 15th century Spain, where the cultures of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam coexisted uneasily, tied together by a common tradition of religious mysticism. McKennitt reflects the multi-culturalism in arrangements that mix the half-tone intervals and familiar instruments of the Aryan north with the quarter-tone intervals and dumbeg, oud, and tamboura of the Semitic south. The results are often intoxicating, even if the composer... read more

[KoKo]

2. Kick...In case anyone else's "soul needs soothing"...just for kick's..

??? :shrug: Sheesh...my spelling has gone to hell...can't even blame it on anything, anymore...sorry..edited "Subject Line." southing instead of soothing...over three years on DU should have improved it all...instead...I'm brain dead..:-(.

[Doctor_J]

6. David Lynn Jones,

"Mixed Emotions". It's extrmely spiritual without being religious. Love songs, rock and roll, a couple of anti-Gulf War I songs. Dunno if it's still available, but the world is a more empty place since DLJ hung up his songwriting pen.

Also anything by Loreena McKennitt, but I esp like Dark Night Of The Soul, and the album it's on, The Mask & Mirror". It's a musical version of a poem by 16th century mystic St. John Of The Cross, and the vocal and instrumentation are amzingly uplifting.

Finally, I find Van Morrison's Too Long In Exile pretty soothing. SOme say it's too religious but it's a nice collection from an aging Irish gentleman.

[KoKo]

8. Thanks for both posts on David Lynn Jones and Loreena McKennet...

just now checking on Amazon for clips and am checking it out...Many thanks...always looking for new folks to add to my fav's.

I'm on "dial up" so it's slow for me...gotta go with Bell South soon so I can get everything fast without waiting! :D

[KoKo]

10. Okay...off to check him out...thanks! (n/t)

[KoKo]

11. I will have to check him out at Best Buy, Borders or Books-a-Million...

because Google search didn't turn up with clips I could download...but he sounds interesting: Blues/Rock/Country...

Here's what I got when I searched, plus a great Wordsworth quote on one of the sites, that I'd like to steal for a "sig line:"

"The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more."
- William Wordsworth


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* Tracks
* The Sailor
* Louise
* Talk To Me
* Every Road Is An Open Door
* Her Love Don't Lie
* Even One
* Heart Like A Roadsign, Head Like A Wheel
* The Land Of Ala
* Judgement Day
* What Are We Livin' Fo

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=related:www.sihope.com/~terryb/dlj.txt

ONES David Lynn : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
JONES David Lynn (b 15 Jan. '50, Bexar AR) Country-rock singer, songwriter,
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[Doctor_J]

12. it's so good

bu he's been retired for 10 years, making my world a little less happy. He is/was very hard to niche - not really rock, not really country. Think of Steve Earle with Springsteen's voice and a (slightly) cheerier outlook on life than Earle.

[KoKo]

14. I'll find him...and I like that he said what he had to...and moved along.

so, he sounds very interesting. Again...I find new things here, that I like, if I give you guys what I'm looking for...Thanks..I'll find him.
:-)'s

[mconvente]

7. Norah Jones

Her music is spectacular. Thanks to MTV2 for getting her name out to me 3 years ago with "Don't Know Why". I like most of her songs, but my absolute favs are:

"Feelin' the Same Way"
"Shoot the Moon"
"Nightingale"
"Seven Years Song"
"Above Ground"
"Toes"
"Those Sweet Words"
"Sunrise"

ha thats most of them!

[KoKo]

13. yes...I have both of her CD's and love to listen to her and she's on Ray's

last CD...She has a good feel for Ray Charles Music.

I was shopping in a store, when I first heard her. It was a little private owned shop and this wonderful music was on the whole time I was in there...and I noticed there was a "CD player" hidden in a cabinet, so I asked the person who seemed to be running the store: "Who is that you have playing on CD?" She said it's "Norah Jones, and do you want me to write it down for you?" I said "yes" and she gave me the titles of Norah's two CD's.

Weird things you find in "off the way" places...but I do like her music.