Tracks 30 Years of Rock - The Greatest Hits
- If You Dont Start Drinkin (Im Gonna Leave)
- Who Do You Love (New Remix)
- Bad To The Bone
- Madison Blues
- Willie & The Hand Jive
- Reelin & Rockin (Live)
- The Sky Is Crying (Live)
- You Talk Too Much
- Rockin My Life Away
- Who Do You Love
- Get A Haircut
- Move It On Over
- I Drink Alone
- Gear Jammer
- Treat Her Right
- One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Release date: 2004-05-17
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.45
Review 30 Years of Rock - The Greatest Hits / George Thorogood & The Destroyers:
Tracks Stayin' Home With The Blues
- Sugar Sweet - Freddie King, George Terry, Jamie Oldaker, Dick Sims, Carl Radle, Eric Clapton
- Things I Used To Do
- You Can Run But You Can't Hide
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
- Gambling Woman Blues
- Texas Flyer - Freddie King, Steve Ferrone, Bobby Tench, Mike Vernon
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Woman Across The River
- Further On Up The Road
- She's A Burglar - Freddie King, Steve Ferrone, Brian Auger, Bobby Tench, Pete Wingfield
- T'Aint Nobody's Biz'ness If I Do
- Woke Up This Morning
- Tv Mama
- Meet Me In The Morning
- Pulp Wood - Freddie King, Steve Ferrone, Bobby Tench, Mike Vernon
Release date: 1997-07-21
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.97
Review Stayin' Home With The Blues / Freddie King:
Tracks The Best of Bonnie Raitt
- Thing Called Love
- I Believe I'm In Love With You
- You
- I Can't Make You Love Me
- Silver Lining
- I Can't Help You Now
- Not The Only One
- Love Sneakin' Up On You
- Time Of Our Lives
- Lover's Will
- Something To Talk About
- Hear Me Lord
- Spit Of Love
- Nick Of Time
- Dimming Of The Day
- Rock Steady
- Nobody's Girl
- Love Me Like Man
Release date: 2003-05-12
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.75
Review The Best of Bonnie Raitt / Bonnie Raitt:Guitar-slinging blues mama, erudite songwriter and social activist, Bonnie Raitt has become a veritable institution within American music over her three-decade plus career. This overdue Best of… features some of her greatest hits since she signed up with Capitol in 1989. The songs included date back to her seminal and profile-raising (not to mention multi-Grammy winning) album Nick of Time and through definitive moments from the other five albums she has released with the label. Given Raitt's prolific nature and consistently solid output, it must have been a difficult task narrowing this collection down to just 18 songs, but ultimately it seems to flow well, illustrating that despite her increasingly mainstream status and sound, she has still written some kick-ass blues and rock & roll alongside the sugary ballads and saccharine pop hits. From the doo-wop flavour of "Something to Talk About", through torch songs ("I Can't Make You Love Me", "You", "Lover's Will"), raw blues numbers ("Love Sneaking Up on You", "Love Me Like a Man") and some booty-shaking rock & roll ("Rock Steady", "I Believe I'm in Love with You") this is a passionate and sensitive album, and a must for all Raitt fans. -Paul Sullivan.
Tracks The Cream of Clapton
- Crossroads
- Layla
- White Room
- Strange Brew
- Sunshine Of Your Love
- I Can't Stand It
- Bell Bottom Blues
- Badge
- Knockin' On Heaven's Door
- Lay Down Sally
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot
- After Midnight
- I Feel Free
- Wonderful Tonight
Release date: 1994-03-29
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.86
Review The Cream of Clapton / Eric Clapton:The Cream of Eric Clapton still manages to raise its head as Slowhand's definitive greatest-hits package, despite umpteen albums and an armful of Grammys since its release in 1987. Opening with one of the most famous rock intros ever, "Layla" has been the envy of bedroom guitarists for the last three decades. Next up is a choice selection of Cream's finest with hits such as "Sunshine of Your Love" and "White Room" plus the breakneck blues of "Crossroads" as a reminder of what Clapton did before his period of substandard covers, such as Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" or JJ Cale's "Cocaine". The latter half of the album is not up to par with the incredible start but does redeem itself with the beautiful ode to love, "Wonderful Tonight" and the chicken-picking "Lay Down Sally", though with its vague chronological order, The Cream of Eric Clapton does slowly regress into the tired ground of a rock dinosaur. -Georgina Collins.
Tracks King of the Blues Guitar
- Cold Feet
- Overall Junction
- Funk Shun
- Born Under A Bad Sign
- Personal Manager
- Oh Pretty Woman
- I Love Luzy
- Crosscut Saw
- You Sure Drive A Hard Bargain
- You're Gonna Need Me
- Laundromat Blues
Release date: 1993-03-21
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.88
Review King of the Blues Guitar / Albert King:These 17 tunes come from King's most fertile period, his 1966-68 tenure at Memphis's Stax Records. Stax chief Jim Stewart had been reluctant to sign blues artists because he felt straight blues wouldn't mesh with Stax's patented Memphis soul. Ironically, the fusion of King's sharp guitar wails with the dynamic rhythms of Booker T. & the MGs-the Stax house band-was what set King apart from other bluesmen. The unique blend produced classic after classic: Booker T. Jones' rolling piano propels "Laundromat Blues". Al Jackson's drum shuffle supports "Crosscut Saw". The driving horns of Andrew Love, Wayne Jackson and Joe Arnold accentuate "Born Under a Bad Sign". King's ripe and mellow vocals are a perfect match for the soul-drenched music while his dramatic string bends leap out. -Marc Greilsamer.
Tracks Slowhand
- Mean Old Frisco
- We're All The Way
- Cocaine
- Wonderful Tonight
- Peaches And Diesel
- Lay Down Sally
- May You Never
- Next Time You See Her
- The Core
Release date: 1997-03-17
Run time: 39 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.93
Review Slowhand / Eric Clapton:Clapton had already established himself as a guitar legend by the time he released Slowhand. His heroin habit long behind him, Clapton's songwriting mastery was fully evident on the album, particularly in the stunning ballad "Wonderful Tonight". It fully actualised all of the potential hinted at in his earlier "Promises", and Clapton trusted himself enough to slow things down. Some of his most expressive guitar work can be found throughout this album, not just within "Wonderful". Ironically enough, Slowhand is probably best known for the hit "Cocaine"-built upon a simple repeated riff, the song had Clapton's trademark smooth voice with its wear around the edges, and yet another stellar guitar solo. Flashy runs and licks were never the most integral part of Clapton's catalogue, his blues background being the primary source for his sound. Slowhand, with its phrasings, both guitar and vocal, established Clapton as the possessor of one of the most extensive vocabularies in rock. -Steve Gdula.
Tracks From the Cradle
- Blues Before Sunrise
- Sinner's Prayer
- Motherless Child
- Third Degree
- Blues Leave Me Alone
- Someday After A While
- Standin' Round Crying
- How Long Blues
- Hoochie Coochie Man
- Groaning The Blues
- I'm Tore Down
- Driftin'
- It Hurts Me Too
- Five Long Years
- Goin' Away Baby
- Reconsider Baby
Release date: 1994-09-12
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.04
Review From the Cradle / Eric Clapton:The full-tilt blues album that Clapton had been promising for years, From the Cradle proves the guitarist's enduring devotion to a form he had long relegated to merely a flavour in his music rather than the main ingredient. Clapton's singing on the album is somewhat mannered; he tries to compete with original versions of these songs by Muddy Waters, Charles Brown, and others, and there's no way he's going to win that battle. Still, you can feel the emotional connection Clapton has with these songs, and guitar aficionados will swoon over his fretwork on songs such as "Third Degree", "Someday After a While", and the incendiary "Groanin' the Blues". -Daniel Durchholz.
Tracks The Definitive Ray Charles
- Eleanor Rigby
- I'm movin' on
- I've got a woman
- Busted
- I'll be good to you
- Jealous kind
- Imagine
- Yesterday
- Lonely avenue
- Ruby
- In the heat of the night
- I can't stop loving you
- Leave my woman alone you
- Let's go get stoned
- Sticks and stones
- Hallelujah I love her so
- Fool for
- Seven Spanish girls
- At the club
- One mint julep
- Your cheatin' heart
- Don't let the sun catch you crying
- Mess around
- Hit the road Jack
- You don't know me
- Born to lose
- Night time is the right time
- I don't need no doctor
- I can make it thru' the days
- Cincinnati kid
- Crying time
- Georgia on my mind
- I believe to my soul
- Shake your tailfeather - Charles, Ray & The Blues Brothers
- Unchain my heart
- This little girl of mine
- Rainy night in Georgia
- Baby it's cold outside
- That lucky old sun
- Drown in my own tears
- You are my sunshine
- Take these chains from my heart
- What I say (parts 1 & 2)
- It should've been me
- Come rain or come shine
- I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town
Release date: 2005-09-26
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.48
Review The Definitive Ray Charles / Ray Charles:All Ray Charles fans will want to check out The Definitive Ray Charles, because it's the first time a compiler has been able to combine the chart-topping hits from his Atlantic and ABC-Paramount years into one package. This means that we get the Genius's hits from 1953's "Mess Around" right through his golden R&B Atlantic era ("I've Got a Woman", "Drown in My Own Tears", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "I Believe To My Soul", "What'd I Say" and so on) alongside tracks that were not only massive worldwide hits but helped redefine popular music. "Georgia on My Mind", "Hit The Road Jack", "Unchain My Heart", "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me" not only combined superior standards and country songs with Charles's patented soul-gospel vocal style, but they were couched in an orchestral or big band setting that had simply never been utilised in this way prior to Charles's arrival. Those who know of his thorough musical background will not be surprised by this development, one that kept him high in the charts until the mid-60s. This compilation thins out after the classic "In The Heat of the Night", as well it should, his latter-day duets with the Blues Brothers and Willie Nelson tidying thing up nicely. Genius plus compilation good taste: an unbeatable combination. -Keith Shadwick.
Tracks King Of The Delta Blues Singers
- Cross Road Blues
- Milkcow's Calf Blues
- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
- Terraplane Blues
- Last Fair Deal Gone Dow
- 32-20 Blues
- Come On In My Kitchen
- Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
- Traveling Riverside Blues
- Kind Hearted Woman Blues
- Hell Hound On My Trail
- Walkin' Blues
- Me And The Devil Blues
- Traveling Riverside Blues
- When You Got A Good Friend
- Ramblin' On My Mind
- Stones In My Passway
Release date: 1999-01-18
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.48
Review King Of The Delta Blues Singers / Robert Johnson:When this collection was first released, back in 1961, it soon became the bible of that decade's folk-blues revival, a set of songs which had scorched deep lines in the blues psyche, subsequently modified, electrified and boogie-fied. This reissue also includes a freshly exhumed alternative take of "Travelling Riverside Blues", as good an excuse as any to upgrade from old vinyl. The original album pulled together all of Johnson's classic songs, his ghost suddenly made corporeal for a generation that had only heard of the rare 78s via whispered rumour. "Cross Road Blues", "Terraplane Blues", "Hell Hound On My Trail": they're all tortured cries for help, Johnson most likely at the end of his teens when he recorded his only two sessions, first in 1936, then 37. He was a complete individual: these songs may well be fodder for countless cover versions, but few modern artists can hope to reproduce the originator's stylistic mannerisms. Johnson favoured uneven lines, unpredictable emphasis, strumming and plucking around an implied central melody. For the experienced listener, it's probably wise to invest in Complete Recordings, but as an introduction to Johnson's unique art, this disc has certainly stood the test of time. -Martin Longley.
Tracks Chavez Ravine
- Poor Man's Shangri La
- Barrio Viejo
- Los Chucos Suaves
- 3rd Base Dodger Stadium
- In My Town
- Chinito Chinito
- Muy Fifi
- It's Just Work For Me
- Corrido De Boxeo
- Onda Callejera
- Soy Luz Y Sombra
- 3 Cool Cats
- Ejercito Militar
- Don't Call Me Red
- El UFO Cayo
Release date: 2005-06-13
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.36
Review Chavez Ravine / Ry Cooder:A rare solo outing from Ry Cooder, but don't expect the conventional `twelve unrelated songs' schtick that constitutes an album these days. For "Chavez Ravine" is a concept album about the eponymous area near Los Angeles that was torn down in the 1950's by developers to make way for the Dodgers Stadium. The attraction of this neighbourhood for Cooder is obviously its largely Hispanic population, which is explicitly echoed in the music that tells the story. Linking his past solo work with his famed Buena Vista Social Club projects, Cooder delivers his story amidst lazy Cuban percussion, rolling piano, mariachi horns and of course, his understated guitar playing. Of course there are still surprises; the schizophrenia of "Don't Call Me Red"; half ballad, half frenetic percussion and television narration being the biggest and best. With a large cast of vocal talents, including the legendary Little Willie G of The Midniters, and Cooder's own contributions (which end up sounding not unlike Steely Dan fronted by John Sebastian), the album as a whole is extremely effective and succeeds in every department, evoking the kind of atmosphere aimed for. -Thom Allott.
Tracks The Collection
- Killing Floor
- Built For Comfort
- Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
- I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
- Little Red Rooster
- Wang Dang Doodle
- Down In The Bottom
- Tail Dragger
- The Natchez Burnin'
- Evil (Is Going On)
- Back Door Man
- How Many More Years
- Spoonful
- Do The Do
- I Ain't Superstitious
- Sitting On Top Of The World
- Smokestack Lightnin'
- Goin' Down Slow
Release date: 2000-09-25
Run time: 49 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.94
Review The Collection / Howlin' Wolf:
Tracks Crossroads: Original Soundtrack
- Viola Lee Blues
- Down In Mississippi
- Feeling Bad Blues
- Nitty Gritty Mississippi
- Willie Brown Blues
- Crossroads
- Walkin' Away Blues
- He Made A Woman Out Of Me
- Cotton Needs Pickin'
- Somebody's Calling My Name
- See You In Hell Blind Boy
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.75
Review Crossroads: Original Soundtrack / Ry Cooder:
Tracks 461 Ocean Boulevard
- Willie And The Hand Jive
- Get Ready
- Let It Grow
- I Shot The Sheriff
- Steady Rollin' Man
- Give Me Strength
- I Can't Hold Out
- Please Be With Me
- Mainline Florida
- Motherless Children
Release date: 1997-03-17
Run time: 39 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.64
Review 461 Ocean Boulevard / Eric Clapton:Predictably, given the drug problems which preceded its release, Clapton's second solo album proper seems to come and go in an opium haze of its own making. Oddly though, it suits him. As the history of rock attests, if you're going to get into one hard drug then you may as well make it heroin. Whereas cocaine feeds the ego and destroys judgement, heroin sublimates it and allows the artist to regress into his music. Which pretty much describes where 461 Ocean Boulevard is at. Because tracks like "Steady Rollin' Man" and US chart topper "I Shot The Sheriff" sound like they have all the time in the world, they make light work of putting the listener in a similar frame of mind. Best of all though is "Let It Grow", for many the kind of tender, foetal balladry which finds Clapton at his most quintessential. Inevitably, he cleaned up his act and sporadically attained similar heights. But for sheer mood and sense of moment, 461 Ocean Boulevard remains his masterpiece. -Peter Paphides.
Tracks Hoodoo Man Blues
- Hoodoo Man Blues
- Good Morning Schoolgirl
- Early In The Morning
- Hoodoo Man Blues
- Snatch It Back And Hold It
- You Don't Love Me Baby
- We're Ready
- In The Wee Hours
- Ships On The Ocean
- Hound Dog
- Chitlin Con Carne
- Chitlin Cin Carne
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- Yonder Wall
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.19
Review Hoodoo Man Blues / Junior Wells:This 1965 album is where vocalist and harmonica player Junior Wells comes into his own. An early collaboration with Buddy Guy, the two of them sum up the 1960s funk-rock-blues that lay ahead. Hoodoo Man Blues inspired Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton and a host of other musician-fans. Wells and Guy don't shy from creating James Brown-funkified blues, or from putting a rock edge to their blues; but neither do they shy from traditional blues. Their version of "Good Morning Little School Girl" is a proper update-still menacing, with less of a country blues feel. Also not to be missed is the instrumental workout "Chitlin Con Carne". -Robert Gordon.
Tracks Blues Breakers
- Steppin' Out
- Another Man
- Little Girl - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
- Have You Heard
- What'd I Say
- Key To Love
- Ramblin' On My Mind
- All Your Love
- Ramblin' On My Mind
- What'd I Say
- It Ain't Right
- Double Crossing Time
- It Ain't Right
- Steppin' Out
- Have You Heard
- Parchman Farm
- Hideaway
- Hideaway
- Another Man
- Little Girl
- Parchman Farm
- Double Crossing Time
- All Your Love - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
- Key To Love
Release date: 2000-12-15
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.98
Review Blues Breakers / John Mayall:
Tracks Eric Clapton Unplugged
- Hey Hey (Baby)
- Malted Milk
- Lonely Stranger
- Running On Faith
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
- Walkin' Blues
- Signe
- Alberta Alberta
- Before You Accuse Me
- Layla
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Old Love
- Tears In Heaven
Release date: 1992-08-31
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.46
Review Eric Clapton Unplugged / Eric Clapton:Clapton caught the "unplugged" trend just at the right time, when the public was hungry to hear how well rock stars and their material could hold up when stripped of elaborate production values. Clapton himself seemed baffled by the phenomenon, especially when picking up the armload of Grammys Unplugged earned him, including Record and Song of the Year for "Tears in Heaven", the heart-rending elegy to his young son, Conor. That song and a reworked version of "Layla" got most of the attention, but the rest of the album has fine versions of acoustic blues numbers such as "Malted Milk", "Rollin' & Tumblin' and "Before You Accuse Me" that make it worth investigating further. -Daniel Durchholz.
Tracks A Meeting By the River
- Ganges Delta Blues
- Isa Lei
- Meeting By The River
- Longing
Release date: 2004-11-22
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.05
Review A Meeting By the River / Ry Cooder:Ry Cooder has long had an interest in other people's music, from the blues and gospel of black America through classic jazz and the music of Cuba. Even by this standard, his meeting with Mohan Vishwa Bhatt is certainly a departure. He is neither a serious student of Indian music nor in any way a master of its intricacies. Yet on his improvised session (this album was recorded without rehearsal in one evening), he and Bhatt truly collided musically and created moments worthy of the world-music Grammy they received for it. Bhatt is an iconoclastic character himself. He plays a modified box he calls the mohan vina that is a hybrid of a classical Indian instrument and slide guitar. He is long trained in the arduous classical style, yet his work has always demanded a lot of freedom. His duets here with Cooder are completely unique, liberating both artists from the usual constraints and creating a new musical style that is unlikely to be repeated or imitated. -Louis Gibson.
Tracks Music By Ry Cooder
- Johnny Handsome
- Greenhouse
- Goyakla Is Coming
- King Of The Streets
- Long Riders
- I Can't Walk This Time
- Canoes Upstream
- Archie's Funeral (Hold To God's Unchanging Hand)
- I Like Your Eyes
- Maria
- Bomber Bash
- Swamp Walk
- Bound For Canaan (The 6th Cavalry)
- No Quiero
- Theme From Alamo Bay
- Angola
- Goose And Lucky
- Bound For Canaan
- Southern Comfort
- Across The Borderline
- Train To Florida
- Nice Bike
- See You In Hell Blind Boy
- Cruising With Rafe
- Highway 23
- Viola Lee Blues
- Jesse James
- Paris Texas
- Feelin' Bad Blues
- Cancion Mixteca
- Sunny's Tune
- Houston In Two Seconds
- Klan Meeting
- East St Louis
Release date: 1995-06-19
RRP: £18.99
Price: £5.98
Review Music By Ry Cooder / Ry Cooder:Ostensibly a collection of Cooder's film music, the two-CD Music by Ry Cooder delivers the cinematic quality of a good soundtrack album but packs the kind of ferocious jams-featuring crack players such as John Hiatt, Jim Keltner, David Lindley, and Jim Dickinson-that you'll never hear on a John Williams score. Cooder's melancholy acoustic and electric-slide moans are a constant, though the material shifts from the plaintive piano tune "I Like Your Eyes" (from Johnny Handsome) to the border-town ballad "Across the Borderline" (featuring Freddy Fender) to the grit-and-spit stomp of "Bomber Bash" (from Streets of Fire). From cowboy serenades to contemporary exotica, from Paris, Texas to Alamo Bay, Cooder's soundtrack legacy is a strangely unified cross section of an American master's finest and most varied work. -James Rotondi.
Tracks Talking Timbuktu
- Diarabi
- Banga
- Blonde
- Keito
- Gomni
- Amandrai
- Ai Du
- Soukora
- Lasidan
- Sega
Release date: 1994-03-28
RRP: £11.99
Price: £9.91
Review Talking Timbuktu / Ali Farka Toure:Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, one of Mali's leading singer-guitarists, has a trance-like, bluesy style that, although deeply rooted in Malian tradition, bears astonishing similarity to that of John Lee Hooker or even Canned Heat. It's a mono-chordal vamp, with repetitive song lines cut with shards of blistering solo runs that shimmer like a desert mirage. Toure may be conversant with some blues artists, but it is unlikely that artists like Hooker or Robert Pete Williams ever heard these Malian roots, which makes the connection so uncanny. Ry Cooder, well versed in domestic and world guitar styles, is the perfect counterpoint in these extended songs/jams, his sinewy slide guitar intertwining with his partner's in a super world summit without barriers or borders. -Derek Rath.
Tracks Ray Sings, Basie Swings
- Every Saturday Night
- Look What They've Done To My Song
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Busted
- The Long and Winding Road
- Crying Time
- Georgia On My Mind
- Feel So Bad
- Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
- Come Live with Me
- Let the Good Times Roll
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
Release date: 2006-10-16
Run time: 48 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.68
Review Ray Sings, Basie Swings / Ray Charles:To fake or not to fake: That is the question consumers must answer for themselves in assessing this feat of aural Photoshopping: an "imaginary concert" created by combining recently discovered soundboard tapes of Ray Charles's vocals from a mid-'70s European show and newly recorded backing by the Count Basie Orchestra-the "ghost band," still on the road 22 years after Count's passing. Charles is in exceptional voice, singing the heck out of standards like "How Long Has This Been Going On?," Genius classics like "Busted," and pop covers like Melanie's "Look What They've Done to My Song. " His performance is a thrilling corrective to forgettable posthumous albums like Genius Loves Company, designed to cash in on the new audience created for him by the movie Ray. But as competently as the Basie band fill in the blanks under the direction of Bill Hughes, with Joey DeFrancesco guesting on organ, most of the new arrangements are rather pallid, and the ensemble lacks the personality of both the Basie orchestra and Charles's best groups. And as attractive as Ray Sings, Basie Swings may be for the casual listener, the gimmickry will appall serious fans, particularly since neither Charles nor Basie-who never collaborated in life-was around to lend his approval. Is The Doors Sing, Woody Herman Swings next? -Lloyd Sachs.
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"But someone 1,500 miles away probably can." This just might be the future of customer service. ›13:44, 18.07 What they play: Kids and video games: The superstar comic whose sci-fi comedy Meet Dave is the latest in a string of box office hits that have grossed $3 billion since 1982 said he will retire from films when he turns 50 in less than three years: Then I am going back to the stage. ›19:31, 7.07 Tropical storms become hurricanes: Tropical Storm Fausto became a hurricane Friday far off Mexico's Pacific coast, while Bertha strengthened back into a hurricane in the open Atlantic. ›01:30 Do dead people watch us? Yes, author says: Concetta Bertoldi, known for being a medium who communicates with the dead, answers some of the most common questions about what happens on the "other side" in her new book. An excerpt. ›21:36, 17.07 Jockey comes clean on horse racings dark side: In her book, "Practically Posh," author Robyn Moreno provides tips for living the good life from keeping a stylish living space to dressing like a star without going broke. ›15:42, 3.07 Game consoles used to control drone fighters: It looks like the ultimate new video game: the operator on the comfortable leather chair uses dextrous thumbs on a hand-held console to maneuver an aircraft, whose trajectory is shown on three large flat screens. ›18:25, 18.07 Man: Wife keeping me from my ideal woman: Kasey Edwards knew that when a 600-pound gator clamped his left arm , he was in a tug-of-war he couldnt win. I dont care who you are: If an 11-foot alligator tries to pull you under the water and you hang on, theres something else holding you, he said. Help your kids stop the summer brain drain: In honor of the 2008 Olympics, we're celebrating the athletes in your own life who inspire greatness. ›13:33, 1.07 Deep Background: McCain's gift gap: At political gift stores across America, Barack Obama schlock is outselling John McCain schlock at least five to one, according to interviews NBC News conducted with gift-shop retailers and t-shirt manufacturers. ›18:30, 18.07 Lobster ice cream? The scoop on new flavors: Beauty pageant-obsessed Venezuelans celebrated the nation's fifth world victory on Monday, but the mother of the new Miss Universe just hopes that success would not go to her daughter's head. ›03:26, 15.07 The fine print: 10 secrets your bank keeps: With the economy slowing, consumers and banks alike are doing what they can to stay afloat. SmartMoney reveals the top things that your bank may not be telling you about fees, interest rates, online banking and more. ›16:19, 18.07 Streep: No sell-by date on my forehead: Wondering which new frozen treats are worth tasting? TODAYs Phil Lempert shares his sweet guide to the best dessert brands and flavors on the market. ›14:33, 15.07 Do carbs really make you fat? 6 diet myths: Diet and nutrition myths have an odd way of sounding like the truth. Health magazine separates fact from fiction about popular diet myths that have had a lot of staying power. ›18:47, 18.07 Panel finds misconduct by fusion scientist: A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments. ›20:26, 18.07 Size Matters for more than just the bedroom: and body-friendly. ›17:51, 14.07 Miss Venezuela takes Miss Universe crown: Venezuelas Dayana Mendoza, 22, took the crown at this years global pageant that included 80 beauty queens. Here are the highlights from the competition. ›14:32, 15.07 Frustrated with gas prices? Ditch the ride!: Three years ago, Katelyn Wilbanks received a full scholarship to the University of Oklahoma. On Friday, Christmas in July arrived again for the plucky survivor of 56 surgeries when she got to meet her musical idols, Rascal Flatts. ›15:03, 11.07 China gets OK to buy elephant ivory: The U.N. agency that monitors endangered species decided Tuesday that China may import elephant ivory in a one-off sale from African government stockpiles. ›17:33, 15.07 |
