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Connie Hawkins and the BluesWreckers have been a Kansas City staple for the last seventeen years… the current lineup may be the best yet.. all very experienced "old school" musicians of a unique blend and energy… a fiery Red-Head on vocals with some of the very top Kansas City players… we're not just Blues we're hi-energy Red-Headed Rhythm and Blues with table dancing original music along with great Blues covers…

Cinderella's Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits is intended to replace the 1997 compilation Once Upon A … as a full-length, single-disc retrospective on the group. Like Once Upon A …, it contains all eight of Cinderella's Billboard Hot 100 hits and 11 of its 12 entries in Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. (In both cases, the exception is "Bad Attitude Shuffle.") But the newer collection adds the album tracks "Night Songs" from the debut album of the same name; "Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams," "Long Cold Winter," and "If You Don't Like It," from the second album, Long Cold Winter, and "Winds of Change" from the third album, Heartbreak Station.

With the success of the band Incantation and ethnic South American music in 1982-1983, Chris Rea introduced his sixth album, Wired to the Moon, with the track "Bombollini," which was over six minutes of jungle-sounding drums and the haunting sound of pan pipes. The ethnic flavor continued on the second track, "Touché d'Amour," which was reggae in the unashamed style of lovers rock. However, Rea wasn't going to disappoint his fans altogether, small in number though they were in the U.K., having built a career over several albums of soft rock tracks and midtempo ballads with Dire Straits-style guitar breaks, and the rest of the tracks on Wired to the Moon fell easily into this category, especially "Shine, Shine, Shine" and "Holding Out," which were lovely emotive ballads.

"Wired For Sound" is the latest release from Detroit Blues performer Howard Glazer, and his band the EL 34s. This new release retains the same searing electric blues style that Glazer is known for, mixing traditional Blues elements with more modern elements, including a full horn section at times. Glazer's guitar is as hot as an EL 34 vacuum tube throughout, blazing and scorching on both slow and upbeat blues. Special guests include Delta Blues legend David "Honeyboy" Edwards and famed poet/musician/activist John Sinclair. There is no doubt that with it's intense guitar, tight rhythm section, and Detroit styled power, "Wired For Sound" is sure to leave you feeling fully charged!