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It was Crosby who best captured the tenor of the times in recordings like "It's Been a Long, Long Time," a definitive home-from-war anthem, which never mentions the war.
"We kept finding artists that either did Hanukkah recordings and Christmas recordings, or Jewish artists that never did Hanukkah recordings at all, but left us Christmas recordings, like Barbra Streisand," said David Katznelson, a San Francisco record producer who is one of the society's members.
"Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey" is a double-disc set that gathers Lifetime's compilation of tracks, demos and live recordings like "Theme Song for a New Brunswick Basement Show" and "Starsixtynine".
More specifically, 'Independence' refers to Artists who own the rights to their imminent Master Recordings (as it would not be technically accurate to call an Artist who is signed to say an XL Recordings — like Adele, for example — Independent, even though XL is an Independent Label).
But on Thursday she pushed further — as she has on recordings like "Après un Rêve" ("After a Dream," 2011), from which this recital derived — with a program that kept returning to the theme of night, starting with Mendelssohn and stretching to the work of the contemporary French composer Vincent Bouchot, by way of Fauré, Chausson, Strauss, Poulenc and, memorably, Britten.
Adrien Begrand's review in PopMatters found that Rounds is "a remarkable record" and that "sublime, computer-crafted recordings like Rounds provides in spades are making the most exciting sounds right now in 2003".
On occasion, the recordings sound like an early variety of punk rock – vivid, muscular music, made by a quartet who are simply on fire: four laughing freemen, as Leary would have it, on their way to something incredible.
For Mr. John the primary motivation for "The Union" — which returns him to the acoustic-based, country-flavored sound of early recordings like "Tumbleweed Connection" — was to bring a renewed recognition to one of his idols.
