Maddox Brothers & Rose - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight: Ugly & SlouchyDid they hate rock 'n' roll? Yeah, probably! Could they sing it like their lives depended on it? Sure! The all time greatest rock 'n' roll and uptempo hillbilly recordings from the godfathers (and godmother!) of west coast hillbilly music! Their fans included Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Elvis, and many others. One of the most important and influential groups in the 'bawdy birthing' of rock 'n' roll, the Maddox Bros & Rose were a family

Again and again

recording the songs and making videos for them during marathon "videosong" sessions

most violent asperities

"I set out to make Sunday morning music

if briefly

down-to-earth

which many musicians who came after him sought to emulate

The French-Cypriot soprano Sarah Aristidou joins Alpha and here presents her very first album

with which the artist ventured out of her familiar milieu of classical music interpretation

Olivier Cavé here offers us for the first time his interpretation of Beethoven's first two concertos

Alex Vizorek revisits Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals

which bears the mark of the sudden death in 1847 of his sister Fanny