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Yusuf Selections From An Other Cup mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Pop / Folk, World, & Country Album: Selections From An Other Cup Country: UK Released: 2006 MP3 version RAR size: 1503 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1555 mb WMA version RAR size: 1395 mb Rating: 4.6 Votes: 917 Other Formats: AUD AU MPC ADX AHX XM MOD Tracklist Hide Credits Heaven / Where True Love Goes 1 Written-By – Yusuf Islam Midday 2 Written-By – Yusuf Islam Maybe There's A World 3 Written-By – Yusuf Islam I Think I See The Light 4 Written-By – Yusuf Islam One Day At A Time 5 Written-By – Yusuf Islam Moonshadow 6 Written-By – Cat Stevens Morning Has Broken 7 Lyrics By – Eleanor FarjeonMusic By – Cat Stevens Wild World 8 Written-By – Cat Stevens Peace Train 9 Written-By – Cat Stevens The First Cut Is The Deepest 10 Written-By – Cat Stevens Notes 10-track promotional-only CDr featuring 5 new Yusuf tracks from the 2006 album An Other Cup, and five classic Cat Stevens tracks from the past. Housed in an over sized custom black & white gatefold card wallet sleeve and featuring a custom- printed disc. Related Music albums to Selections From An Other Cup by Yusuf Affie Yusuf - I'm Free Yusuf Islam - Yusuf's Café Session Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam - Tea For The Tillerman Cat Stevens - Cat Stevens - Wild World / Moonshadow Yusuf - Blondes Haar / Türkisch Mann Cat Stevens - Cat Stevens Affie Yusuf - The Analogue Donkey Cat Stevens - Wild World Voormann & Friends - A Sideman's Journey Sufjan Stevens - Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman.

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(Cat Stevens) Will Be Broadcast Exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio
Rare Performance and Interview With Yusuf (Cat Stevens) Will Be Broadcast Exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio SIRIUS Performance is His First in America in Decades Interview With Performance on SIRIUS' Spectrum Channel to Air on December 20 NEW YORK, Dec 14, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) will broadcast a rare, exclusive performance and interview with British singer-songwriter Yusuf, formerly known as Cat Stevens. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991118/NYTH125 ) Yusuf will visit SIRIUS for an in-studio performance, his first in America in decades, and to discuss his first album of modern pop songs in 28 years, An Other Cup (Ya/Atlantic). His SIRIUS interview and performance will be broadcast on The Spectrum, channel 18, on Wednesday, December 20 at 12 pm ET. It will be rebroadcast on Thursday, December 21 at 6 pm ET, and on Saturday, December 23 at 10 am ET. As Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam began recording in 1967, and made his US chart debut in 1971 with the acclaimed album Tea for the Tillerman. Over the next seven years he had seven top 10 albums and became one of the most important figures in the folk-rock movement. His albums as Cat Stevens currently sell more than 1.5 million copies a year, and his many worldwide hits include "Wild World," "Peace Train," "Oh Very Young" and "Morning Has Broken." His song "First Cut is the Deepest" has been covered by Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow (who earned a 2005 GRAMMY(R) award nomination for her version).
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Right Arm Resource 090408.Pmd
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Cat Stevens 2014.Pdf
By Jim Farber The singer-songwriter s classic compositions all center around seeking. USE THE FEWEST WORDS, SING IN THE QUIETEST VOICE, place fingers on strings with the lightest touch. Such are the apparent strategies of Cat Stevens. In his classic songs, there’s a hush at the core, a whisper willed by a singer in search of focus. ^ Take “The Wind.” The vocal that sits at the song’s center doesn’t seem so much performed as channeled, as if it’s emanating not from the singer, but from the inner mind of the listener. The only accompaniment: two acoustic guitars that stroke and trace the vocals, forming chords that curl into rounds. Listen closely and you’ll hear a third element - uncredited, but palpable. Around Stevens’ soft voice and the feathered guitars lies a specific kind of silence, an audible absence, creating an ambience unlike anything heard on any other recording. ^ The words and music of “The Wind” speak of eternity, yet they last just one minute and forty seconds. It’s an ideally ironic opening song for an album - Teaser and theFirecat - that both warms the listener and pushes the singer into a fervent search. Could anyone who heard such songs back in 1971 have been truly surprised when, six years later, Stevens had a religious conversion - one so compelling, it inspired him to turn his back on the pop world for the next thirty years? Stevens’ snub of the music business - one of the most bracing and misunderstood rebukes in pop history - has its roots in the very material that first made him a star.
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