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Van Halen took the music world by storm in 1978 with an 11-song manifesto that features some of rock radio s most played songs of all time and scorching concert staples like "Runnin With The Devil

close-miked arrangements (most of them by Waits) that sometimes were better described as "soundscapes

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and a record that should be prescribed to musical snobs and manic depressives

Harold Vick — Steppin' Out Jeff Tweedy in every sense of theBlue Note Tone Poet Series This soul jazz outing by tenor saxophonist Harold Vick (his recording debut as a leader) casts him in a role that was often occupied by Stanley Turrentine. Vick, with a quintet that also includes trumpeter Blue Mitchell, guitarist Grant Green, organist John Patton, and drummer Ben Dixon, performs four blues, a slightly trickier original (five of the six songs are his), plus the ballad "Laura" on this CD reissue. There are no