Legendary producer and singer Smokey Robinson received the prize for excellence in songwriting.
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Phil Gammage delivers in ‘Used Man for Sale’ a safe sound that listeners looking for familiar sounds will most appreciate.
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Tim Houlihan’s ‘Another Orion’ brings together 10 mainstream ballads with broad potential appeal.
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Wright and his band demonstrate a kinetic rapport that treads the line between jazz-based freestyle and rock band vigor, alternating between solo performances and jam-session style congruency.
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The journey seemed to wind across oceans, through jungles – and into caves, perhaps akin to the cistern recordings that gave birth to the composer's concept of "deep listening" back in the 1980s.
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Float Like a Buffalo’s ‘Enjoy the Ride’ is a perfectly titled EP.
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Does Joel Selvin's 'Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hell's Angels and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day', maintain a proper perspective on the events that have made the concert notorious?
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'On Safari' is a great musical journey with The Kentucky Headhunters.
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Pink Martini casts its unique big-band lounge sound around the world on its crackling new album, with songs in Spanish, French, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Xhosa and more.
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One Way Ride penned nine songs about a diversity of relatable topics such as mistakes, lost love, and new opportunities.
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