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Essential Album Guide, edited by Gary Graff, Joshua Freedom du
Lac and Jim McFarlin has boldly gone where no music guide has ever
gone before: it has catalogued and critiqued the massive rhythm &
blues CD market including its sub-genres of funk, disco, rap and hip-hop.
Offering album-buying suggestions for over 1,000 artists, MusicHound
R&B makes R&B buying decisions a whole lot easier. Following in
the pawsteps of the other MusicHound guides, MusicHound R&B
provides a brief biography of each artist and then rates every available
album by awarding them from zero to five "bones." Each entry suggests
what albums are considered essential purchases for any given act,
what's next on the list and, finally, what should be avoided. Also
included are suggestions on what hard-to-find releases are worth searching
for, as well as listings of crucial influences on an artist's music
and those that have, in turn, been influenced by the artist. Undertaking
the huge task of compiling this work required three editors. Gary
Graff and Jim McFarlin, once the Siskel and Ebert of the Detroit music
scene (working for The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit
News respectively), are now both freelance music journalists whose
work has appeared in scores of publications. The third editor, Josh
Freedom du Lac, the rap and hip-hop specialist of the group, is the
pop critic for the Sacramento Bee. Like all the MusicHound
guides, MusicHound R&B includes a CD sampler. You could win
your own copy of MusicHound™ R&B: The Essential Album Guide
by entering below! |
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