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A Musical Giveaway Dolly Parton, Friday Night Lights and Human Nature

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I love music, all kinds of music. I’m really not very picky, my only dislike might be a little heavy metal. I have recently received some different types of music and I want to share it all with everyone else.

Dolly Parton Letter to Heaven: Songs of Faith & Inspirationclip_image001

Dolly Parton’s 17 classic gospel recordings are moving and classic. You can really hear her heart in each song. These Christian songs are a little bit of country and a whole lot of soul. With 17 tracks you feel that you are getting a lot of music for such a great price. The entire CD can be purchased on Amazon for 10.99.

I think my favorite song would be Letter to Heaven.

Amazon Associate link Letter to Heaven: Songs of Faith & Inspiration

 

Friday Night Lights Vol. 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)Friday Night Lights Vol. 2: Original Television Soundtrack Vol 2.

Picking a favorite on this CD is a little bit more difficult for me. Each of these songs are up beat and hip and modern. Featuring artists like White Rabbits, Heartless Bastards, Jakob Dylan. Re-live the show through the soundtrack. It seems like forever since I watched this show last. This was one of the shows I recorded before we turned off our cable. One reason I related to this show so much was because I remember every Friday night. I was extremely involved in marching band and had to go to every football game. Love live Friday Night Football!

Amazon Associate Link Friday Night Lights Vol. 2 (Original Television Soundtrack) 

 

clip_image002Human Nature: Reach Out

I may not be picky about music but I do have favorites and Motown music is one of my favorites. It’s soul moving and makes me want to sway and this boy band from Australia is great. I really love music! These songs are all remakes but they are still fun to listen to and there are 15 total tracks with one bonus track.

Australia’s most popular & successful vocal group, Human Nature release their first album – Reach Out in the U.S. on September 1st.  Reach Out is being released exclusively via Barnes & Noble physically and will be available widely digitally.  The album will be released to all retailers physically on March 2, 2010. It is now available at Amazon.

For more information:

  1. Human Nature Las Vegas
  2. Human Natures website
  3. My Space page for Human Nature
  4. Human Nature on Facebook

Amazon Associate Link Reach Out: The Motown Record

 

 

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This is a sponsored product post, I received a copy of each CD above.

Motown meets Corneille

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Before I even put the cd in to listen to I read Corneille’s story. His story is a very tragic one where he lost his family and his music is where he hid until now.

Corneille was born in Germany, but both of his parents were from Rwanda. He lived in Germany for seven years before meeting his home. He then lived in Rwanda feeling like a stranger, because of his Western upbringing. 10 years after moving there, he was lucky to survive the genocide of 1994. This was when he lost his entire family.

Instead of hating the world he decided to embrace life and the fact that his family showed him nothing but love.

“Music has been the place where i could go to hid and forget about the world. I couldn’t make sense of a majority of the things that happened to me, so i used music as a shield. But over time, music has become a vehicle to channel out everything that I’ve been keeping from myself for all these years. And the new album is definitely the most honest, real assessment of everything that’s happened in my life, because I’m not trying to hide as much.”

So now I introduce Corneille – The Birth of Corneille

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Listening to his music, especially the first song Back to Life, I can hear his appreciate for the friends in Germany that took him in after he lost his family. I mean, he has lived his music. He has a soft sound and defiantly fits in with the R&B music style. I have a great appreciate for his lyrics and his music. I think that artists that are truly able to express themselves show true talent.