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Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Ab's favorite bumps. Features five new releases and many impossible-to-find tracks released on obscure collections.

Tracks:

Letdown
Airport Breakfast
Long Way
Pretty Eyes
Hold Me Now
Somewhere Inbetween
Think I'd Best Forget You (One Last Time)
Coming Down
Stay
The Space Between Us

Album Description

The General Store is one Tam Johnstone, who will certainly become more familiar in the years to come as he's a song-crafter that fills each note and space inside his songs with amazing nuance and character that fans of great songwriters will not be able to ignore. The music is multi-varied and movingly soulful. The gorgeous strains and influences of World Party, 'Harvest'-era Neil Young, CSN&Y, Quiver and The Travelling Wilburys are present but filtered purely through Johnstone's immense talents. Not Lame Recordings. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

If you're reading this, you probably already own it. If not.......2002-07-31

If you happen to be reading this before buying read on...... Yes there have been some references to Neil Young, most obvious on the first song, "Letdown". And the Byrds, ( I don't get that one)and considered a form of powerpop as you normally would find on the excellent NotLame label. This is just a fine collection of tunes by a fella named Tam Johnstone under the band name of The General Store. It does have a SoCal/countryfied whatever feel, but this is just one great album. The only bummer being a slow countryish version of the Thompson Twins, Hold Me Now. Never was a good song and even though it's a valiant effort, it pales greatly in comparison with Tam's own material. Airport Breakfast is vaguely built around a somewhat Stonesy "The Last Time" riff but takes off on it's own from there. The standouts are "Pretty Eyes", "Coming Down" and the awesome "Stay". If you don't already have it you need to check it out. As music like this goes it will probably be one of the best albums never heard.

Average customer rating:

Inspiring
Amazing Album!

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Code Name: Scorpion

ASIN: B00008IMB7
Release Date: 2002-10-10

Tracks:

Ain't Nothing To It
Screwed On Tight
Mystic Music
Rolling Along
Musically Inclined
Keep It True
Still Rappin
213 To 619 Adjacent
Fragrance
Blood Dick & Pussy feat. Grouch and Aceyalone
Put Me In The Mix
Hell Yeah
Hilo Degrees
Inner Eye
Eye Am
Come On
Gonna Wanna Spin It
Kaya (Extended 12" Version)
Wowowo Yehyehyeh
The Baykery
It's Ab Dawlin

Album Description

Ab's favorite bumps. Features five new releases and many impossible-to-find tracks released on obscure collections.

Customer Reviews:

Inspiring.......2005-06-13

This is the first album I have ever heard from Abstract Rude and I am very impressed. Not only are the lyrics well thought out, but the beats are too, and they seem to compliment Abstract's explicit subject matter perfectly.
If you are looking for a good HipHop album that will touch you, expose you to some fresh ideas, and never leave you hanging. Then this is the album for you.

Amazing Album!.......2004-08-18

This is a great collection of Abstract Rude's unreleased gems and collabos. Highly recommended for any fan of great music!

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A Journey Indeed!

The Second Half of the Journey
JD Warrick
Manufacturer: Kingmaker Productions/Montanesque Ent
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00004TCLH
Release Date: 1996-02-26

Tracks:

The Fields of Bannockburn
The Next Choice
Not So Very Far to Go
The Second Half of the Journey
Sorrow Breaks Season
"Dear Katie,"
Great Spirits
The Last Dance, with Love
The First Time
On My Way
With Thoughts of You
Issaquah

Album Description

"The Second Half of the Journey" is the lastest release by instrumental/new age keyboardist J.D. Warrick. This collection of twelve thematically connected works, building from sometimes symplistic themes and dramatically orchestrated rhythms, will touch your heart, mind and soul. Created during highly emotional periods of his life, JD shares both joy and pain through music that grows more interesting with each listen.

Customer Reviews:

A Journey Indeed!.......2001-11-06

This CD is both challenging and rewarding. On *Second Half of the Journey*, multi-instrumentalist J.D. Warrick serves up 12 smooth, soothing aural excursions. Many of these tracks evoke images of the great outdoors-perhaps of the expanses of the American Far West. Warrick's music can't be described as ambient, though, as that term is used by, say, Brian Eno, who ought to know. It is too "busy," and too diverse both musically and instrumentally, making use of the full range of instrumentation (acoustic guitar taking the lead on "Sorrow Breaks Season," for example). While I've never been wild about the term *New Age*, it fits. While several of these tracks begin by exploring realms of melancholia, as they develop they seem to break free and soar up into the sky (e.g., "The Next Choice," "The Last Dance, With Love."). Certain tracks ("Not So Very Far To Go," for example, or "Dear Katie" or the CD's best track "On My Way") recall a more restrained Yanni, but obviously without Yanni's distinct Mediterranean sensibilities. German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius also occasionally comes to mind, but Warrick's compositions avoid his repetitiveness. "Great Spirits" conjures up images of benevolent sprites moving slowly about over a campfire at night. "The First Time," finally, approaches a somewhat jazzy rock. The bouncy and playful "Issaquah" closes out the CD on an upbeat note.

Every track on this CD is something like a sound painting, full of shimmering, multifaceted gems. Each conveys a different mood. Each is short; the entire CD clocks in at only 45 minutes and 11 seconds. At first glance, that might seem a drawback, but *Second Half of the Journey* is sufficiently demanding listening that what would have been the length of a vinyl record comes out about right.

J.D. Warrick the next Yanni? If enough people get to hear him, who knows? There is more instrumental diversity here than on a Yanni recording, though. Don't expect to appreciate *Second Half of the Journey* on just one, two or even three or four listenings. I've played this CD over a dozen times now, and I am still hearing things I missed the last go around.

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Manufacturer: Basement
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002OJRAS
Release Date: 2004-09-21