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Grandpa Elliott, of the Playing for Change project has just released a new album, Sugar Sweet

From Buzzflash Review
"Grandpa Elliott, one of the standout performers on the Playing for Change album Songs Around the World, has released his own album, Sugar Sweet. Full of charm and warmth, this is a great companion to the Playing for Change phenomenon."

For the remarkable and moving "Playing for Change" project and CDs:

"Bill Moyers called it a remarkable example of "the simple yet transformative power of music... to touch something in each of us." Variety acknowledged it as "a great showcase for just what incredible, thoroughly accessible popular music is being made worldwide. Utilizing innovative mobile audio/video techniques, Playing for Change (PFC) records musicians outdoors in cities and townships worldwide. They've travelled from post-Katrina New Orleans to post-apartheid South Africa, from the remote beauty of the Himalayas to the religious diversity of Jerusalem. Their talents are captured in myriad environments: under the sun and beneath the streetlights... in public parks, plazas and promenades... in doorways, on cobblestone streets, amid hilly pueblos. Their performances are subsequently combined in allowing them to collaborate - albeit separated by hundreds, or even thousands, of miles.

BuzzFlash:

What is remarkable about the "Playing for Change" project is how it turns the modern model of "celebrity music in a cookie cutter" on its head and simply records the remarkable street musicians from around the world to whom the like of Britney Spears and other assembly line packaged "singers" sound like cats in heat.

BuzzFlash recommends buyng the original "Playing for Change" anthology along with the sweet music of "Grandpa George."

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