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Joe Dolce

Special Double Compilation CD

We are offering a special autographed limited edition double-CD compilation (only 500 copies available) including the ORIGINAL 80s version of 'Shaddap You Face', plus 'Vafanculo Polka', 'Pizza Pizza', and the '12 Days of Christmas - Italian Style', and the acoustic and previously out-of-print Joe Dolce solo blues CD, 'Steal Away Home,' all on one BONUS disc - PLUS a second choice of one of Joe's three great serious folk-blues albums, either 'Memoirs of a Mouth Organ', 'Freelovedays', or the most recent, 'The Wind Cries Mary'. This unusual double collection will only be available while the limited Bonus disc stock lasts. Please make sure to indicate which of the three folk-blues albums below you want for your main CD.

Bonus Disc

1. Shaddap You Face (original version) (dolce)
2. Pizza Pizza (dolce)
3. Vafanculo Polka (dolce-colossimo)
4. 12 Days of Christmas -Italian Style (dolce-trad.)
5. Feeling Weary (dolce-motherwell)
6. Lickity Split (dolce-motherwell)
7. Morning Star (dolce-motherwell)
8. Nothing Was Revealed (dolce-motherwell)
9. Give (dolce-motherwell)
10. Black Jack Blues (dolce-motherwell)
11. Jack of Diamonds (dolce-motherwell)
12. Dragon Lady (dolce-motherwell)
13. Who Goes There (dolce-motherwell)

Plus your choice of one of these three CDs:

Memoirs Of A Mouth Organ

Songs & Creative Blues Harmonica

"This CD documents twenty years of fascinating musical variety. . . Dolce's chromatic feedback approach to the harmonica (Hendrix meets Adler where the harmonica feeds back through an amplifier!) is used to wild effect in 'Armonika Fahnta-C in B-minor. . . Edge of a Miracle is a beautiful gospel track featuring Lin Van Hek . . . string quartets, 12-tone composition, poetry, oratorios, psychedelia and R&B are mixed into a heady brew . . ." Niche Guide to Music

'JOE DOLCE's musicianship and song writing are better than ever. One of his newest songs, (FATHER) about forgiving his father's violence, has lyrics that an eminent poet would be proud to have written. DOLCE's setting of another poet's work, called 'MILES' DELIGHT' is a show-stopping highlight!' Chris Boyd, THE HERALD-SUN

1. Pundulumura Dreaming (dolce - Waitairie)
2. Lickity Split (dolce-motherwell)
3. I Don't Live Today (dolce-hendrix)
4. 'Armonica Fahntah-C in B-minor (dolce)
5. Edge of a Miracle (dolce)
6. Ode to Diana (dolce)
7. Overture from the Black Telephone (dolce)
8. Stillborn (dolce-plath)
9. Vive L'Inspector Clouseau (dolce)
10. House is Burning (lowndes)
11. Un Homme Jaloux (Jealous Guy) (dolce-lennon-garland)
12. Nuclear Junkman (dolce)
13. Vafanculo Polka (blues harp instrumental version) (dolce)
14. Father (dolce)
15. Mile's Delight - 1997 (dolce-joans)
16. Remembering Headstone Circus - 1969 (dolce)
17. La Flamme Renaissante (dolce)

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2. FREELOVEDAYS

SUNDAY HERALD FOUR STAR ****

" . . .The effervescent Freelovedays bubbles over with glorious melodies and clever lyrics. While the eclectic collection of musical ideas resists categorisation, the evidence is that Dolce is born of that folk-blues tradition that flourished before John, Paul, George and Ringo changed the rules. Indeed, the title track feels a little like Dylan's My Back Pages, and Jack of Diamonds could easily have slipped off Blood on the Tracks. . . . .the highlight is the barely orchestrated tribute to the Greek poetess Sappho whose legendary work remains only in brief fragments. Dolce sings Fragment 64 accompanied by Miriam Morris's viola in a moment of unlikely beauty, not a million miles from William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style. " PETE BEST

1. Marchin' With Martin Luther King Jr. (dolce) 4:17
2. Freelovedays (dolce) 3:35
3. Jack of Diamonds (dolce-motherwell) 3:53
4. Flowers (dolce) 2:57
5. She's a Writer (dolce) 3:01
6. Simpler Life (dolce) 3:12
7. Sleep on the Ferryboat (dolce) 3:47
8. In the Garden With Monet (dolce) 5:43
9. A Girl is Born in Bethlehem (dolce) 2:57
10. Sappho: Fragment 64 (sappho-barnard-dolce) 5:42
11. Thriller (r.temperton-morrison-arr. dolce) 3:00
* Crop Circles in My Marijuana (dolce) 2:40 (enhanced CD-Rom videoclip)

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3. New Studio CD Release!

The Wind Cries Mary

"I once stayed in a hotel in France where on the back of the room door was a sign placed there by the management. The sign said 'Please refrain from cries of pleasure'.I thought of that hotel (way back down the road) as I played this CD. And figured that maybe Joe Dolce would have been wise to attach such a sticker to the jewel case of his CD. . ." Dai Woosnam, Kevin McCarthy's Celtic & Folk Music CD Reviews

NEW!! REVIEW PAGE

Song excerpts available on:

Joe Dolce Electronic Press Kit

TRACK LISTING

1. ST VALENTINE'S DAY (Dolce)
2. LYNETTA (Gentil-Dolce)
3. COCAINE LIL (trad.-Dolce)
4. ROCKS OF BAWN (trad. arranged: Dolce)
5. DRAGON LADY (Motherwell-Dolce)
6. IT WAS ONLY A DREAM (But No Reason to Awake) (Dolce)
7. SMOKIN' (Dolce)
8. HILL OF DEATH (Lawson-Dolce)
9. GIFT (from One Iraqi Child) (Dolce)
10. SEPTEMBER 11th (McKenry-Watson)
11. WIND CRIES MARY (Third Stone from the Sun) (Hendrix)
12. DEATH OF BACH (Dolce)
13. FOR NO ONE (Lennon-McCartney)

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