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Music has the power to bring people together from parties to protests to prayer, music is a powerful catalyst for celebration, for change, and for a sense of community. Through making music together, we become bigger than ourselves. Whether singing with our families and friends or with thousands of strangers in an arena, music transforms lives, engages individuals, and connects local and global communities.

The 50 tracks showcased here each offer their own riches and rewards as representatives of Americana in its many forms. It's music that expresses hopes and fears in straight-talking lyrics with memorable tunes to match - a description of Pete Seeger's output that surely applies to all the artists featured here.

Jasmine Records Presents The Changing Times of the Folk Scene 1950 - 1962 album original hits and the original artists genre Pop, Rock, Folk.

Amnesty International commemorates its 50th anniversary with the release of an album featuring the cream of the world’s music talent covering Bob Dylan songs, with contributions from a huge variety of artists including Adele, Patti Smith, Pete Townshend, Ke$ha, The Gaslight Anthem, Sting, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O’Connor, Kris Kristofferson, Bad Religion, Marianne Faithfull, My Chemical Romance, Bryan Ferry, Pete Seeger and many more. Entitled Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan the album features 73 tracks on four CDs.

The AMERICA! collection provides a glimpse into 20th century American music. With Gospel, Blues and Jazz, black people gave the world the foundations on which most types of Western music - Rhythm & Blues, Soul Music, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Funk, Rap - were to be built. Each of this (2 CD) anthologies gets to the very heart of these genres and explains their origins, their rationale and their evolution. Now The focus of switches to the fields of Country, Folk and Rock 'n' Roll.

At nearly 90 tracks, this four-disc set is indeed pretty much the ultimate Byrds compilation, running through the group's entire history with Columbia Records, including all the obvious singles like "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Turn! Turn! Turn!," and "Eight Miles High" as well as key album tracks and B-sides, making this a wonderful portrait of a fascinating pop band evolving from folk-rock through psychedelia to country to a nascent template for today's country rock. It's particularly nice to hear two of Gene Clark's most gorgeous love songs, "She Don't Care About Time" and "The World Turns All Around Her," together in one package, along with what might be David Crosby's most gorgeous pop song, the ebullient "Lady Friend." Throw in songs like "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" and you have a great seat to the story of how a wonderfully quirky folk-rock band played it all out, emerging as one of the most influential bands in the whole history of rock & roll.

"Whales & Nightingales" is a 1970 album by Judy Collins. It peaked at #17 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. The album included material by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Jacques Brel and Joan Baez, as well as Collins' top-forty version of "Amazing Grace", and the traditional "Farewell To Tarwathie", on which Collins sang to the accompaniment of humpback whales. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1971, for sales of over 500,000 copies in the US.

Before the world knew Bob Dylan, songs were inevitably about a boy-girl relationship or about dancing. Due to his folk background, Bob Dylan songs had a poetic and existential lyric content which after him was incorporated into rock culture. That's how we can find among Dylan fans legendary artists such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jack White and even Guns N'Roses, who achieved great success with their own version of Knockin' On Heaven's Door. In the Many Faces of Bob Dylan we present: in the first two CDs, 28 new versions by the artist, a real treasure that now is available to his fans. In addition, CD 3 is dedicated to the Greenwich Village scene that gave birth to his career, with artists like Joan Baez and Dave Van Ronk. The Many Faces Of Bob Dylan is an essential album both for his countless fans and for anyone interested in the evolution of popular music for the last 50 years.