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Various Artists : Can You Read This Boston?
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The cream of Boston's singer/songwriter crop on the CD that won the 2000 Boston Music Award for 'Outstanding Folk/Acoustic Album'.
Genre: Rock: Folk Rock
Release Date: 1999
Can You Read This Boston?
Various Artists
Record Label: Big Girl Records
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Say 'Em Strong (Adrianne) 4:05 Album Only
2. Two Steps (Gonzalo Silva) 2:45 Album Only
3. Forgiven (The Beloved Few) 4:20 Album Only
4. These Four Walls (Kyler) 3:18 Album Only
5. Along The Way (Kevin So) 3:51 Album Only
6. Beautiful Boy (Nate Borofsky) 4:33 Album Only
7. We Could Be Alone (Mercy James) 2:39 Album Only
8. Truth (Pamela Means) 3:05 Album Only
9. Hollow Man (Mark Erelli) 3:20 Album Only
10. All The Way Down (Kristin Cifelli) 5:06 Album Only
11. Out On The Porch (Jabe) 4:25 Album Only
12. Open Road (Kris Delmhorst) 4:23 Album Only
13. Mother To Son (Young Charles Cox) 0:52 Album Only
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Album Notes

Winner of the 2000 Boston Music Award for 'Outstanding Folk/Acoustic Album'.

Winner of Crossroads Magazine's Gold Star for being the 'Best Contemporary Folk Compilation' of 1999 in the U.S.

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Fans of artists like Shawn Colvin, Peter Gabriel, Patty Griffin, Bruce Springsteen, and Lyle Lovett who are interested in discovering phenomenal new songwriters will find them on 'Can You Read This Boston?'.

'Can You Read This Boston?' is the debut release from Big Girl Records, a label whose mission is to build a bridge of support from outstanding songwriters to the cause of literacy.

The compilation features Adrianne and Jabe, also 2000 Boston Music Award winners, Nate Borofsky, a 2001 BMA winner, and eight additional BMA nominees: Kristin Cifelli, Kris Delmhorst, Mark Erelli, Jabe, Kyler, Pamela Means, Gonzalo Silva, and Kevin So.

$2.50 from the sale of each copy of the CD is contributed to the Boston Adult Literacy Fund (BALF). The project has raised over $3000 for BALF in its since its release in April 1999.

The disc has been featured on over 45 stations across the U.S. as well as two nationally syndicated programs, 'Acoustic Cafe' and 'Women In Music'. All thirteen tracks have received airplay.

'Can You Read This Boston?' has also garnered rave reviews from critics:

Richard Fox at WCUW 91.3 FM in Worcester, MA called the CD 'the finest compilation to come out of Boston in a number of years.'

Scott Alarik at The Boston Globe wrote, 'it's a crackingly contemporary street-level look at Boston's thriving songwriter scene...'

Finally, Tim McCarney at Campus Calendar declares, '[it's] a good cause, yes. And the music rocks, too...capturing the raw energy of budding talent set to burst...you'd do well to get to know all of the artists represented on this disc.'
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REVIEWS

Fantabulous!!!
author: Naomi
                            
Completely Impressed!!!  I was already a big fan of Kyler (she's on the CD - which is how I found my way to it) - but now I'm a huge fan of them all!! Especially impressed by Mark Erelli - I keep playing his track "hollow man" repeatedly!!  Definitely worth getting - Thinking I'll have to buy a CD of each artist so I can hear more!

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Absolutely Fabulous
author: Betsy Ludwig
                            
Excellent, innovative compilation of "up-and-coming" artists from the Boston area. A great CD for chilling in the evening or on Sunday afternoon. Well done!  

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Outstanding album with diverse talented group of singers
author: David Aserkoff
                            
I had seen a couple of the artists in performing live and was curious about the album even tho' I normally don't like compilations. Anyway I spent my hard-earned 15 bucks and WOW. Great album. Open Road and These 4 Walls are my forites. No bad songs on the whole thing (when was the last time sommebody said THAT about a compilation). Can't wait for the follow-up. 

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What are you waiting for? Buy this CD now!!!
author: Isabel
                            
I can't remember buying a compilation and loving every single song...until now. If you're the kind of person who likes to hear amazing music by amazing artists BEFORE the rest of the world discovers them, then "Can You Read This Boston?" is a CD you MUST have. I have listened to it at least a thousand times and every time I do I have a new favorite song. In ten years this compilation will be a collectors item, so get your copy for $12 now before you can only get it on EBay for $1200. Buy a copy for yourself, for your friends, for anyone you ever even remotely liked in anyway...they will thank you, I promise!

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