{"id":679,"date":"2009-09-08T21:10:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T02:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-07-28T21:55:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T02:55:52","slug":"new-free-albums-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/679","title":{"rendered":"New free albums from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has once again released free sampler albums to download.  As always, it is difficult to pass up free music and I am always looking for artists that I have not been previously exposed to.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/dp\/ref=pe_63060_12730440_pe_13\/B002KFAJTA\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tuff Gong Worldwide World Music Sampler<\/em><\/a>, contains Reggae tracks by Ziggy Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Cedella Marley, and Josey Wales.  As samplers go, this one feels more cohesive than many but that may be because 4 of the 7 tracks are from the same artist.<\/p>\n<p>The second album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/dp\/ref=pe_63060_12730440_pe_18\/B002JJEIDA\" target=\"_blank\"><em>ESL World Music Sampler<\/em><\/a>, contains 8 tracks from a variety of genres including Latin, Eastern, and Electronic.  This album is less cohesive than the former, but each track is performed by a different artist so it provides exposure to more artists.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to have a review written for one or both of these albums soon.  As I have finally posted the review for <a href=\"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/album\/Best%20of%20Bootie%202007.php\"><em>Best of Bootie 2007<\/em><\/a> that I had been finalizing for the last two weeks, this should not take too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has once again released free sampler albums to download. As always, it is difficult to pass up free music and I am always looking for artists that I have not been previously exposed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[101,363,362,361,38,360,359],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online","category-music-services","tag-amazon","tag-download","tag-eastern","tag-electronic","tag-free","tag-latin","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}