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Allison Crowe Official Website For the latest news swing by Allison's web page. There is additional music to download as well tour news.
Pain Unspoken Website A fan-site which has music downloads and lyrics. The music downloads section contains many of the songs here in MP3 format.
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Tara MacLean Tara is one of my favourite recording artists. She has two full albums and now is 1/3 of the super-group Shaye. Her solo albums are really worth investigating. I have never heard any artist be so revealing about her innermost thoughts and experiences. Whilst at times this can be unsettling it is also magical when you hear her second album and how Tara grew as a person. It is almost like you were riding next to her on the journey.
Kate Rusby When Kate Rusby was first introduced to me she was described as a folk singer for people who don't like folk. The reason for this is that she recreates and writes old English folk tunes in a way that it feels modern. Her voice is also simply amazing, soft and full of character. Her album "Underneath The Stars" is really nice to listen to, it's so laid back that I can say Kate Rusby is to folk as Norah Jones is to Jazz.
Beth Orton Quite simply Britain's pride and joy! Beth comes from Norfolk about 100 miles from my home town. She creates lush electronic folk or trip-hop. If you are a Portishead fan you'll probably love her unique sound. Her lyrical prowess is amazing and emotional.
Sarah McLachlan Sarah and Tara are both pretty much responsible for my current music tastes. I now find myself unable to take many music artists seriously any more as they lack honesty. I can whole heartedly recommend any of Sarah's albums and especially the VH-1 Storytellers DVD.
Jewel Jewel was how I discovered Allison. Ally appeared in Jewel's guest artist section on her old website. Jewel has a unique and quite charming voice which can go from shy child to sassy jazz singer. I can recommend her album "Pieces Of You" as a must buy album.
Joss Stone A white woman that sings like a black woman. The Soul Sessions is one of 2003's classic albums. It's top class soul and you find your body starts moving all by itself when you this CD on. Mind, Body and Soul Joss's second is out now and is just as good. This time Joss also shows off her song writing skills. Another exciting UK artist.
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Winamp Winamp is a media player which supports a wide range of digital music formats and supports many streaming formats. It's the player of choice for listening to my audio streams on this page. If you don't have it download to today!
CDex CDex or CD Extract is an excellent program for extracting or "ripping" the audio from your music CDs to digital audio files like MP3's and Ogg Vorbis.
Audacity Audio Editor A free and open source audio editor with support for LADSPA, Nyquist and VST audio plugins. It allows for multi-track recording and the filters are really good almost up to the filters I used in SoundProbe to clean-up and beef-up the Live @ Luck CD.
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CSS Zen Garden This site is about coding in CSS and what can be achieved. The site has one main page which has been customised by graphic designers purely in CSS. This is a really inspirational site for would be web designers.
CSS Layout techniques When you can't work out why something is not working, or you have problems getting something to work as well in Internet Explorer as in FireFox and Opera, this is the site you probably want!
CSS Edge Cutting edge CSS techniques. An interesting read and good links. Not always 100% useful as many techniques need CSS2 or CSS3 which are not fully supported in any browser as yet.
Official CSS1 Specification Heavy reading but on the other hand it has all the detail you'll need about the fundamentals. I used this spec combined with a few other helpful websites to create this one.