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It does appear that most everyone did a good job of spacing out their downloads over last week. Papa Claus is watching, y’know. In the comments of last week’s post I noticed that Document has finally put up their catalog on emusic.com if someone could give me the lowdown on emusic - price -file format and quality - and all that jazz i’d be ever so thankful. One bit of old news, Mr. Rob Hutton, a frequent Honey supporter, has started a wonderful new mp3 blog called Long Sought Home that focuses on gospel traditions from both black and white singers. It has a really fantastic Ola Mae Terrell song up now.
The linear notes of this album say that Eliza Christmas Lee’s (in a bizarre twist her real name is Amelia Christmas, which makes me think they could have done a better job of changing her name to something reasonable) singing voice is too exaggerated, but i think it’s quite wonderful and maybe a little theatrical - but that just adds to the mood of the song. The jazz band that’s backing her is really solid throughout.
Eliza Christmas Lee - I Ain’t Givin’ Nothing Away
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R: emusic.com, here’s the lowdown:
Much cheaper than iTunes et al. You prepay for a certain number of downloads per month, but it works out to a fraction of the 99 cents iTunes charges. (You can also add additional tracks if you use those use.)
Downloads are in MP3 format. The exact quality of the encoding (including the metadata) is more a function of the label than emusic itself, but typically they are VBR and, worst case, at least 128k CBR.
They don’t have the same major label participation that iTunes has, but they do have an excellent selection of smaller labels with the kinds of music Honey’s readers might want. Shanachie and Document alone could keep you busy listening to blues and folk by themselves, never mind the jazz and R&B they have. They also have a lot of great spoken word stuff on there, from Jello Biafra’s political screeds to readings by Kerouc to comedy from Lenny Bruce. They even have some albums that weren’t released on CD but have been ripped from LP!
The first 50 downloads are free, so try it out. http://www.emusic.com/search.html?mode=l&QT=yazoo&x=0&y=0 and http://www.emusic.com/search.html?mode=l&QT=document&x=27&y=5 should keep yoy busy for a while…
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