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| | Rolling Stone : Ben Harper Sees Both Sides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | While Harper released a collaboration with the Blind Boys of Alabama in 2004, this eighteen-track collection, divided into nine songs per disc, is the follow-up to his last solo effort, 2003's world music-inspired Diamonds on the Inside. |
 | | Among the tracks on Both Sides' harder-edged half is the title track, which melds funk with a Seventies soul vibe, and the blues and funk-driven "Black Rain," a song in response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. |
 | | With tour plans in support of Both Sides in the works for either February or March -- and a co-headlining slot for the Langerado Music Festival in Sunrise, Florida, on March 11th -- Harper finds himself itching to get out on the road. |
| www.rollingstone.com /news/story/9051879/ben_harper_sees_both_sides (325 words) |
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