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When people talk about living music legends, they often refer to artists that have established themselves through the course of several decades, managing somehow to stay in people's minds, in many cases, because of a couple of more inspired, highly selling records that made their fortune throughout their careers.
Somebody that was destined to be one of said living music legends, since the very beginning of her glorious career to date, is the prodigious American singer Shemekia Copeland, unanimously considered already, at the age of 45 and by some of the most illustrious names in the music business, as one of the greatest Americana singers of the last half a century.
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Carrying a legendary family name, sometimes, may feel like a double-edged sword, especially when an artist needs to deal with pressure and expectations coming from said family name.
In that respect, the story of Jazz giant John Coltrane's second wife, Alice, has been often and unjustifiably underrated by the press, especially after her musical conversion to Hindu music on the second half of the '70s.
Read more: Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971)
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There is no wonder why music can be considered as the sole art form able to translate human feelings and natural phenomenon happening around us truthfully, no matters whether said feelings or phenomenon are related to dramatic or more romantic and gentle moments.
The Italian Saxophonist and Composer Extraordinaire Gianni Savelli knows very well how to represent, through music and his own talent and creativity, the aforementioned sensations, thanks also to the experience accumulated by the Italian artist through the many bodies of work that Savelli has been able to generate in various art-forms, throughout the last 40 years of his illustrious career.
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It is a common belief, within the music industry, that those collectives called "Supergroups", which would include a cast of stellar musicians gathered together for special projects, very rarely work well together, often because of each musicians' ego and strong personality, where each of the Supergroup's members would expect to be the dominant feature on said projects in their own right, overshadowing, in this way, the quality of the finished products that get printed and released on the market.
Rather fortunately, though, this is not the case of Black Country Communion, a very special project born in 2010 which includes "The Voice Of Rock" Glenn Hughes on bass guitar and vocals, Blues/Rock Guitar Titan Joe Bonamassa on guitars and vocals, Rock Drummer Extraordinaire Jason Bonham and Prog/Rock Keyboards Maestro Derek Sherinian, which, after 4 studio albums and a live one, all overlooked by Kevin Shirley on the production room, have now released a brand new album simply called V, a record that epitomizes the idea of 4 highly skilled artists working together with the sole goal of delivering a record of remarkable depth, as V has clearly demonstrated to be.
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For several years, now, Bluebird Reviews has been following carefully the fulgid career of the American singer/songwriter Eliza Neals with increasing interest, attention and admiration for the many remarkable bodies of work released by the Detroit-based Soul, Blues and Funk Powerhouse throughout her career to date.
Armed with many artistic talents, Eliza Neals has convincingly impressed the worldwide music press, record after record, thanks to a cocktail of inspired lyricism, catchy melodies, impressive piano and keyboard playing skills and, above all, a very distinctive singing voice able to distill powerful emotions both in studio and while performing live too.
