Articles by Claire Marie Blaustein

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  Peggy Seeger

  Three Score and Ten

  PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

  Singing "happy birthday” rarely sounds as sweet as when you get a group of musicians together to do it. It becomes even more so when you ha...

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  Dobet Gnahoré

  Na Afriki

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2007

  Dobet Gnahoré is a young singer from the Ivory Coast but her songs are anything but immature. The many experiences of her young life — love...

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  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  The Calling

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

  Mary Chapin Carpenter’s 11th release takes a tack that only a seasoned artist with total confidence and control can — saying what she actua...

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  Alison Krauss

  A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

  A "greatest hits” album of sorts, A Hundred Miles Or More collects Alison Krauss’s work outside of Union Station, combining a few unrelease...

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  The Wilders

  Throw Down

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

  With their first release on Free Dirt (an ironic move away from a label called Rural Grit), the Wilders bring their brand of hillbilly stri...

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  Lura

  M'bem di fora

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2007

  As opposed to her 2005 release, Di Korpu Ku Alma (Of Body and Soul), the new disc by Cape Verde native Lura, M’bem di fora (I’ve come from...

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  Mísia

  Drama Box

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2007

  Drama Box is all its name implies: pain, pleasure, heartache, love, loss, everything an album of mostly fado, with a little bolero and tang...

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  Quadro Nuevo

  Tango Bitter Sweet

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2007

  The image of tango is often as regimented as the steps of the dance, but tango is a form that exists in many guises. Tango Bitter Sweet, th...