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    FreddieB
     
    Finally
    A collection of songs written over the years that have finally been compiled and made available to the world. Each song was inspired by real life events and written from the heart. This album is incomparable with lyrics that will make you think.
    Spoken Word: Inspirational
     
     
    Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike
     
    The Old Stagecoach Line: Living Along the Turnpike
    Laugh a while with speakers in this first-hand account as they recollect driving the old road in the first clunky autos of the day.
    Spoken Word: Storytelling
     
     
    Voices of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike
     
    Took Off Running: Race and Culture Along the Turnpike
    Witness the drama of human courage as immigrants and slaves struggled to free themselves in the State of West Virginia.
    Spoken Word: With Music
     
     
    Brianna Bowie
     
    Dr. Doodlebat - A Storybook Adventure
    Dr. Doodlebat is every doctor’s dream. He delivers poetic medicine along with a mighty troop of special characters that assist him in making children everywhere feel better. Dr. Doodlebat was born when Brianna’s own mother suddenly one day “woke up’ from a coma. Brianna, an accomplished singer, dancer, writer and former Olympic gymnastic performer decided to create healing stories and sing to her mother throughout her courageous battle against pancreatic cancer. Her mother’s ever empowering spirit encouraged her to use the sound of her voice and the amazing cast of characters led by Dr. Doodlebat to reach any child who was not feeling well, having a bad day, hospitalized or even in a coma as she was. Brianna’s sincere wish is that parents can find hope in Dr. Doodlebat and allow him to comfort, entertain and encourage their child into a state of well being through beautiful music and educational stories. No one is ever alone or afraid when Dr. Doodlebat is on the job. Brianna’s own chi
    Spoken Word: Inspirational
     
     
    Rob Kaye
     
    YOU ARE THE HERO: Coaching and Affirmations
    Your portable coach for the mind, body and soul
    Spoken Word: Inspirational
     
     
    Holly Holmes-Meredith, D.Min, MFT
     
    Overcoming Insomnia
    Hypnotherapy for Insomnia
    Spoken Word: Educational
     
     
    Blis
     
    More Than What You Feel You Are
    More What You Feel You Are is and attempt to change the world through Poetry Music and Song.
    Spoken Word: Inspirational
     
     
    Jesse Gagnon
     
    Peaches
    It sounds like Peaches and Refreshments that are in the Blessing.
    Spoken Word
     
     
    Sound Experience Collective
     
    Create Loving Relationships: Deep Visualizations to Attract Your Soul Mate
    Let yourself float away on a river of vibrant imagery, heart-opening affirmations, and lush, relaxing music as you attract love into your life. CD includes two 20-minute visualizations with music. Start on the path to your loving reality now!
    Spoken Word: With Music
     
     
    Dialecte
     
    L'Élan
    Dialecte is mixing progressive/experimental rock with poetry.
    Spoken Word: Poetry
     
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    Sam Baker
    mercy
    everyone is at the mercy of another one's dream
    "Mercy" by Sam Baker A Review by Tony Peyser I recently heard about somebody who was riding on a train in Peru when it exploded, the result of a bomb planted by radicals in the Shining Path movement. Many people died and this guy nearly did, too. Remarkably, he's gotten on with his life. Think about that kind of determination and courage the next time you find yourself whining about something that really isn't worth whining about. Anyway, Sam Baker is a singer-songwriter of the Austin variety. The title of his debut album, Mercy, is just one word and so are each of his song titles. Baker --- who's also penned short stories --- chooses his words very carefully. The album was so highly recommended that I didn't even listen to it right way; I just read the lyrics. Baker is a vivid storyteller both in terms of what he chooses to write about and the brevity with which he brings his stories to life. Among the people who populate his songs are a husband who's lost his wife of fifty years, a wayward daughter heading home, a single mom overwhelmed in a drive-through window and other folks with hard lives looking for soft places to land. When I finally played Baker's album, its power made me stop whatever else I was doing. With a country twang and folksy, folk persona, it took a bead on my emotions and hit a bull's-eye. At times, Baker's voice seems more ragged than you'd expect from his picture on the cover the CD booklet. Baker's lyrics sometimes are run roughshod by his vocals. I also noticed a photo of him playing guitar left-handed, which certainly is a novelty. Those quirks notwithstanding, this is a record with a wounded beauty and an aching spirit. And I absolutely love it. In a couple of songs, Baker manages gently to float ghosts in and out of them. In "Kitchen," the effect is stunning. Baker ends the song filled with fleeting images of small-town life and then has four short lines to remind all of us of the subtext of our lives. His heart breaks and his voice does, too: "Skinny boys with rifles/Flying off to war/Skinny boys with rifles/Fighting door to door." I recently saw a show on The History Channel about famous war photographs over the decades. Baker's description of those young kids in Iraq is as vibrant to me as that napalmed girl in Vietnam and the flag going up over Iwo Jima. Baker's compositions are melancholy but also upbeat. "Change" has a funky front porch shine to it as he describes another (or perhaps the same) town's main street. And those boys were still on Baker's mind: "Those same little girls/Went to work in those stores/Those same little boys went away to wars/But when they came home/All the jobs had gone away/Back to those places where they fought so far away." It's like watching Norman Rockwell's America being outsourced. The songs on Mercy hold on to those lost dreams and Baker's torn between moving on and squeezing so tight that maybe they'll come back. He gets terrific support throughout with a trio of winning female back-up singers: Britt Savage (who I reviewed on a strong album by Randy Wayne Sitzler,) Joy Lynn White (another favorite of mine) and Jessi Colter (an outlaw country legend and the longtime wife of the much-missed Waylon Jennings.) I'd be remiss if I didn't mention track 10 on Baker's album. "Steel" depicts a guy riding on a train in Machu Pichu that blows up. You see, that person I mentioned earlier was none other than Baker himself. He's had many surgeries since then. The reason some of Baker's vocals are raspy is because that blast affected his hearing, He plays guitar left-handed because of other injuries he sustained. A near-death event like this is clearly life-altering. It explains why Baker's songs have such depth and resonance. In "Angels," the chorus is especially haunting: "Call a truce/Call a war/Everyone is a bastard/Everyone is a whore/Everyone is a saint/Everyone is redeemed/Everyone is at the mercy of another one's dream." This is big, poetic stuff but Baker serves it up not on a gold platter but more like a cafeteria tray, which everyone can relate to. I don't think it's premature to think of Baker as being part of the hallowed singer-songwriter tradition blazed by the likes of Townes Van Zant, Guy Clark and John Prine. It's like there was a storm, a couple of huge oaks fell down at your local park and you suddenly saw another big tree behind them in full bloom. In a music world riddled with deadwood, Sam Baker is a redwood.
    Spoken Word: With Music
     
    Paula Poundstone
    I Heart Jokes: Paula Tells Them in Maine
    Spoken Word: Comedy
     
    Living Word Enterprises
    Self-Talk From the Scriptures - HEALTH & HEALING!
    Spoken Word: Inspirational
     
    Carol Krucoff, RYT
    Healing Moves Yoga
    Spoken Word: Instructional
     
    Patt Lind-Kyle
    Heal Your Mind, Rewire Your Brain
    Spoken Word: With Music
     

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    Spoken Word: Poetry
     
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    Spoken Word: With Music
     
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    1.
    Beta Mastery - Disk 1
    Anna Wise
    Spoken Word: With Music
     
     
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    Anna Wise
    Spoken Word: With Music
     
     
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    Spoken Word
    Hip-Hop/Rap: Underground Rap
     
     
    4.
    House of Doors - Disk 1
    Anna Wise
    Spoken Word: With Music
     
     
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    Anna Wise
    Spoken Word: With Music
     
     
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    A Guided Journey to Healing with the Harp
    Patricia M. Reilly RN, MSN narrator; Nancy Kleiman, Harpist
    New Age: Energy Healing
     
     
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    David Holt
    Spoken Word: With Music
     
     
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    Warm-ups, Piriformis Stretch, Bridge, Relaxation
    Rudy Peirce
    New Age: Yoga
     
     
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    Rudy Peirce
    New Age: Yoga
     
     
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    Nelson May
    New Age: Energy Healing