SOUND CHECK.WYNONNA: ``What the World Needs Now Is Love'' (Curb) - three and one half stars You know this album's something special from the first banjo-twang of ``What the World Needs,'' the single that was instrumental in the early release of this follow-up to 2000's ``New Day Dawning.'' A little country, a little rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. - this 14-track set reflects back on the smooth, husky-voiced singer's journey as performer and mother, intermingled with regret (``Sometimes I Feel Like Elvis''), longing (``Who Am I Supposed to Love'') and perseverance (``(No One's Gonna) Break Me Down''). It includes a pair of truly stunning duets, including the homespun ballad ``Flies on the Butter (You Can't Go Home Again You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit.: Thomas Wolfe You Can’t Go Home Again] See : Homecoming )'' - truly, a thing of beauty - with mom Naomi and the inspirational ``I Want to Know What Love Is,'' featuring the scorching scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. licks of guitar great Jeff Beck. -Sandra Barrera DEL MCCOURY BAND The Del McCoury Band is a Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band. Originally Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals with Del on guitar and his brother Jerry on bass, the band went through a number of changes until the 1980s when the band solidified its line-up, adding McCoury's sons, Ronnie : ``It's Just the Night'' (Sugar Hill) - four stars For the finest bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. release so far this year (in stores Tuesday), the ever reliable McCoury clan - Del and his boys Rob and Ronnie - form the core of the band - travel every back road the genre knows and, with typical pioneering panache, some new ones as well. Del wraps his sinusy tenor around tightly twirling Twirling is any of several artforms, hobbies, or sport and recreational activities accomplished by spinning or rotating the twirled object either for exercise, or in a rhythmic, or otherwise artful manner. tales of lost love (``Dry My Tears and Move On,'' ``My Love Will Not Change''), fuel-injected passion (``Asheville Turnaround,'' ``Same Kind of Crazy''), work and money (``Mill Towns,'' ``Man Can't Live on Bread Alone'') and soaring gospel harmony (``I Can Hear the Angels Singing''). The scarifyin' title track adds interesting shades of noir, and the whole package feels cutting edge and virtuosically traditional with every flash-picked chord. - Bob Strauss ``Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note'' (Blue Note) - three stars Hip-hop artists have long had an ear for the grooves of the Blue Note catalog; Us3 even had a hit sampling Herbie Hancock's ``Cantaloupe cantaloupe: see gourd; melon. Island'' 10 years back. But just because it's been done before doesn't mean it has to be old hat. Renaissance record man Madlib is a good choice to continue the experimentations given that his one-man band, Yesterday's New Quintet, produced a fun album of soul-jazz noodling
Noodling is the practice and sport of fishing for catfish using only one's bare hands. a few years back. With ``Shades of Blue,'' Blue Note has opened the vaults to Madlib and the hip-hop producer has picked some choice cuts from Horace Silver, Donald Byrd and Wayne Shorter to create some of his strange, psychedelic soundscapes. The album alternates between remixes and outright reinventions that feature newly recorded music. Jazzbos might object, but then, these people don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how to dance, do they? - Glenn Whipp ``Star 69 Extended Mixes Vols. 1-3'' (Star 69) - three stars A dance music fan's dream come true - Star 69, the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City-based label owned by uber DJ-remixer Peter Rauhofer - opens its vaults on a load of its latest and greatest extended mixes. Many of these tracks have been available only on vinyl, and listeners will find a treasure trove TREASURE TROVE. Found treasure. 2. This name is given to such money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, which having been hidden or concealed in the earth or other private place, so long that its owner is unknown, has been discovered by accident. of underground house beats, including That Kid Chris'frenzied ``Satisfied,'' which features a vocal sample from the late drag queen drag queen Female impersonator, gynemimetic Sexology A ♂ with ♀ affect–often 'overplayed'; a ♂ homosexual and ♀ wannabe, with ♂ genitalia; DQs may take hormones to ↑ breasts, and thus are hormonally, but not surgically Divine; Rauhofer's dark but infectious remix of Jark Prongo's ``Shake It''; the galloping beats of Back 2 Back's ``Feel the Funk''; and the tribal intensity of Friburn & Urik's current club mega hit, ``Elefants.'' The three discs are sold separately. - Phillip Zonkel SMASH MOUTH: ``Get the Picture?'' (Interscope) - one and one half stars More songs about cars, girls and hanging at the mall from this generic San Jose frat-rock band whose cover of ``I'm a Believer'' was used in ``Shrek.'' While there's nothing as amusing as ``Walking on the Sun,'' the 1997 Zombies lift, the quartet's fourth album has some success capturing the summer spirit with a ska-punk reworking of ``You Are My Number One,'' co-written by Neil Diamond and driven by Farfisa organ and a cameo from ex-English Beat rapper Ranking Roger. But like Sugar Ray and other one-trick acts mining the same territory, Smash Mouth doesn't pack much punch. - Fred Shuster CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1) no caption (Wynonna) Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com (2 -- 6) no caption (CD covers) |
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