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 ALIX OLSON: built like that - a feminist spoken word folky hip-hop extravaganza, backed by such musical talents as Catie Curtis and Pamela Means. |   JAKE JOHANNSEN: live at cobb's comedy club - Over 34 appearances on the David Letterman Show plus 2HBO specials. This is a comedy album. |  ALIX OLSON: independence meal - Edgy and intimate spoken word with raw musical accompaniment by Pamela Means, Lyndell Montgomery, and Ubaka Hill |  DOM IRRERA: greatest hits - volume one - Originally from Philadelphia, Dom has one of the most natural styles in all of stand-up comedy. |  DAVE MCBRIDE: a nail in the head - Called "Chicago's wittiest radio essayist" by the Chicago Sun-Times, these 32 most-requested classics from the treasury of Dave's Raves provide cerebal excursions down meandering tributaries of his stream of consciousness. |  THE REGULAR GUYS: american beauties / ugly - two cds - TWO CDs combined for $16.96. 96 Rock. Atlanta's Number One Radio Morning Show, The Regular Guys. |  ELLEN JOHNSON: the vocal warm up cd - female - Important for all singers (soloists, bands, choirs, professionals and beginners) to get their voices ready to perform, increase musicianship skills, and develop strengh, better vocal production, and a great singing voice. |  STEVEN GURGEVICH, PHD AND JOY GURGEVICH: lose weight with hypnosis: nourishing mind and body for healthy weight 6-cd album - The perfect marriage of clinical hypnosis and behavioral nutrition for healthy weight loss |  DR. ROBERT R. PERKINSON: a communication from god - God speaks to everyone who genuinely listens to this CASSETTE tape. |  DONALD CURRIE: sex and mayhem part one - A wildly inventive movie made of sound about a gay kid growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s and early 60s. Winner of the Stonewall Society Literary Performer Award for 2002 and hailed by East Bay Express as one of the ten best CDs of 2002. | | |||||||||||
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CD Baby Editor's Picks - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||||||||||
 NORMAN BALL: return to one: a sonnet odyssey - A sequence of sonnets read by DC Shakespeare theatre's Ed Gero and enriched with the gripping, passionate, contextual music of Academy Award-winning composer, Gabriel Yared. Taking poetry into a deeper, imaginative realm, carefully landscaped with conviction and sentiment by both the strong, crafted thoughts and tugging music, this album is, from beginning to end, a dramatic, programmatic gem for contemplation and enjoyment. |  LAYNE LONGFELLOW: longfellow reads longfellow: dreams that cannot die (illustrated) - One of the best Spoken Word album to pass across the desks of discriminating ears at CD Baby in years. This is not your usual poetry album but none less than the classic, timeless gems of master poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, superbly performed with utmost sensitivity and nuance. The evocative, plaintive musical backdrop sets an emotional context of beauty, longing and mystery, appropriately and colorfully enhancing these moving, heartrending poems. You will be hanging on every word as these masterpieces are not just read but relived and performed with the heart and soul of a genius. An incredibly beautiful listening experience. |  TAMARA MADISON SHAW: naked voice - Grand Prize Winner of the 2002 First Literary Recording Contest for Manzanita Quarterly and AUTHENTIC VOICEwork Records, Ms. Shaw is a master wordsmith, working in the vivid colors of cultural introspection, social reflection and profound insight. Addressing issues and undercurrents that specifically apply to women, from their challenges to their gifts and universal abundance of life force, Shaw spins sparkling webs of thought and emotion into poems so full of life and sensory richness that you can taste, smell and touch them. An exquisite spoken word album, tastefully punctuated by music. |  BAMUTHI, SEEKING, MARCUS RENE VAN, CHARLES ELLIK, SONIA WHITTLE,: the best of the berkeley slam, volume one - "Think you hate poetry? Then you havem't been to a Slam!" Met with equally powerful spoken word performances, and ranging in personality from punk rock to theatre arts to hip hop and comedy, this all-out album of dynamic and diverse poetry goes in for the kill from the first to the last track with vivid, evocative and dramatic readings. Giving you an inside ear on one of the best attended Poetry Slams in the country, this sampling of 10 of the finest poets from the 2000 season celebrates the art of wordsmithing. |  HENRY ROLLINS: eric the pilot - With over 100 shows a year, 17 years and counting, and a loyal fan base, dedicated, die-hard and notable spoken word artist, writer, musician and actor, Henry Rollins, steps into your living room with a dynamic CD from a live comedy show. Take the opportunity to enjoy these musings over and over again and let Rollins guide you through this mad, crazy world with "Eric the Pilot." | | ||||||||||||||||
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