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The Human Value may be a female fronted three-piece, but there's no cliche's here. Yes-leading lady Turu is hot. Indeed she has dark hair. But there's not the faintest whiff of Yeah Yeah Yeah-isms in her voice or the band's music. Dark, deranged and belonging in a mildewed basement venue of a guerilla gig each and every track on this album is a dirtbag of a song with a flicker of eerie synths and those almost baritone she-vocals.
Stand out tracks 'I Don't Care' and 'No Sacrifice' are larynx-vibrating anthems laced with a venom that can't be missed. Whilst recent single, 'Hold Of Me', is a weave of feminine ballsy-balladry that's sensitive as well as spooky. So move over Beth Ditto - us gals have got a new spokeswoman in Turu. And boy does she have a lot to say. www.thehumanvalue.com
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Available now at record stores and digital music providers everywhere. www.myspace.com/jamesbloodulmer
“From The Cradle To The Grave”, Dale has crowned it his own style, “Ameripolitan”. "I've been trying to come up with a name the best describes this music that me and folks similar do. When folks ask, I hesitate, down right embarrassed really, to say country. I didn't used to be that way, but with the change in country, the term doesn't mean the same as it used to. If you say traditional, or old, or western swing most folks think 'retro' and dismiss it without hearing it. I wanted a name that didn't say country anything and didn't give anyone a preconceived idea. I came up with Ameripolitan. I even put it in Wikipedia defined as: Original music with 'prominent' roots influence." Also check out Dale’s video for “From the Cradle to the Grave” featuring Desperate Housewives hunk, James Denton. Available now at record stores and digital music providers everywhere. www.dalewatson.com
“…Turu’s thirilling wail charges the NYC band’s dark swathes of mood pop.” www.thehumanvalue.com
www.myspace.com/jamesbloodulmer  FEBRUARY 2004  February 2004 – Big Deal Records®' first release, Metallic Attack, The Ultimate Metallica Tribute album, won a Grammy! Motörhead's scorching version of "Whiplash" won for Best Metal Performance at the 2004 Grammy Awards. The collection also features other hugely influential artists such as Judas Priest, KISS, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, Whitesnake, Death Angel, Flotsam & Jetsam, members of Anthrax, Helmut, and more... You've gotta have it in your collection!
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Los Angeles, CA – December 2005 - Earlier this year, the legendary American music iconoclast, James Blood Ulmer, released his first ever solo recording, Birthright. The album, which features Ulmer alone on vocals and guitar, quickly drew critical acclaim, garnering praise from the likes of national publications such as DownBeat, Guitar Player, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Living Blues, No Depression and Rolling Stone, while newspapers including the Chicago Sun Times, Minneapolis City Pages, Seattle Post Intelligencer and The Washington Post declared it one of this year's most important blues records. Now, James Blood Ulmer's Birthright has been voted "Blues Album of the Year" in DownBeat Magazine's 70th Annual Readers Poll. The poll, based solely on votes by DownBeat's readers, validates the critical praise Birthright has received by reflecting the opinion of the fans. It's a well-deserved honor for an artist whose music has undergone a creative renaissance and commercial rediscovery in recent years. Long regarded as one of the most inventive guitarists of his generation, Ulmer's reputation has slowly morphed from avant-garde jazz visionary to an elder statesman of the blues. In fact, Ulmer covers all this ground and more.