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    Dori Freeman – Ten Thousand Roses

    Ten Thousand Roses by Dori Freeman Dori Freeman continues a prolific streak of album releases with Ten Thousand Roses, out tomorrow on her own boutique label Blue Hens Music. Her past albums have proved her abilities as a songwriter and singer to convey raw emotion and conjure evocative and lush imagery in perfectly polished, succinct songs that never overstay their welcome and sound somehow classic yet completely fresh. Ten Thousand Roses exemplifies this blend perhaps more than any other, involving more mainstream tones yet firmly rooted in tradition. Dori’s latest is sweeping and cinematic, with larger-sounding production, reverberating drums, and…