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  Best Reissues of July 2012: Fat Boys, English Beat, and More

  July 20, 2012 – Fat Boys Fat Boys (8) Traffic Entertainment Yes, they were sort of a novelty act, but at the root of novelty is a desire to entertain, which takes as much skill and integrity as supposedly higher-minded goals. …
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• Van Dyke Parks, 'Arrangements, Vol. 1' (Bananastan)

  September 20, 2011 – The arranger is music's comic-book colorist, choosing and combining instruments, part artist, part technician. Parks has played the role for 40 years, creating dreamy scenery for whoever's paying. On this early-works collection, it's a hodgepodge: Bonnie Raitt sings calypso, Dean Martin's son sings a psychedelic reggae ballad, Arlo Guthrie sings an Appalachian hymn as glam-country. Parks takes stodgy grandpa forms and makes them zing! …
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  Available Today: August 12, 2008

  August 12, 2008 – Here's a rundown of what's available online and in record stores today. …
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