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Common BE (EX) VinylAfter fusing hip hop, rock, and soul on 2002's THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS, Chicago rapper Common returned three years later with BE. Like its two letter title, BE is much leaner, consisting of 11 pure hip hop tracks marked by Common's enlightened, contemplative, easy flowing lyrics. Although the album is more streamlined, it's not predictable or unoriginal, as the beats unfold with the same combination of rawness and melodic energy that made Kanye West's

" Harrison's sparse but definite Gretsch chords

Waking Up Dead

Recorded at Westside Studios

emotionally tender music of the '60s and early '70s

and I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead

Alain Johannes (guitar

"You Shook Me All Night Long" is as catchy a hard rock song as you're likely to hear and perhaps the band's definitive moment

On his first solo album after leaving the popular roots-rock act Drive-By Truckers

But if the beats on the band's debut album achieve a kind of trance-like static

4 Revolution

Eli Fountain (alto saxophone)

Julia Waters (background vocals)