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Dan Fogelberg, Johnny Paycheck, Beau Brummels, More Join Bobby Darin On Real Gone's May Slate

March 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Dan Fogelberg - Definitive AnthologyReal Gone Music has just announced its May release slate, and with rock, jazz, gospel, country, pop and beyond, it's one of the label's most diverse months yet!

Naturally, we're partial to the May 6 release of Bobby Darin's Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years from Real Gone and our own Second Disc Records (get all of the details right here!), but there's plenty more on offer, too!  Bobby Darin was a remarkable singer-songwriter; another beloved titan of popular song is the late Dan Fogelberg.  He's celebrated on the 2-CD, 28-song Definitive Anthology, drawn from eleven of his classic albums. On the outlaw country side, the 2-CD Take This Job and Shove It: The Definitive Collection chronicles the career of Johnny Paycheck including 28 chart hits.  Real Gone returns to the catalogue of jazz great Julian "Cannonball" Adderley with two more rare titles, and pairs two new-to-CD albums by The Staple Singers as well as two out-of-print titles by California's Beau Brummels.

Real Gone also has a selection of vinyl releases including the debut of Cactus, the supergroup featuring Vanilla Fudge's Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert, The Detroit Wheels' Jim McCarty, and Amboy Dukes vocalist Rusty Day, and, on translucent green vinyl, the soundtrack to cult classic The Return of the Living Dead with songs by The Cramps, The Damned, The Flesh Eaters and more.  Last but not least, the label's CD reissue series of Grateful Dead's Dick's Picks is winding down with the first and last volumes:  Vol. 1 Vol. 36.

You'll find all of the details on these May 6 titles, plus pre-order links, just below in the label's press release!

Cannonball Adderley - The Price You PayLOS ANGELES - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley first gained notice as the bluesier saxophone voice on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (John Coltrane being the other), and in the late '60s and early '70s, he was engaged in an ongoing artistic conversation with Miles, often trading musicians (e.g. Joe Zawinul) with him and taking the electric innovations of Bitches Brew and filtering them with through his own earthy sensibility. The height of Cannonball's fusion phase arguably came in 1970, a year that yielded no less than three live albums--all produced by David Axelrod--that have since ascended to cult favorite status. We at Real Gone have already issued one of them, the double-album Black Messiah; now, we're back with a double-barreled blast of Cannonball, as we reissue for the first time on CD two albums released by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free and Music, You All. Both releases feature liner notes by Bill Kopp that include quotes from Cannonball's drummer at the time, Roy McCurdy, and remastering by Mike Milchner at SonicVision. Drawn from a performance at the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival and "live in the studio" tracks cut at Capitol, the double-album The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free was a testament to Cannonball Adderley's sprawling artistic vision, embracing abstract improvisation, funky soul-jazz, hard bop, and world music. It also offered the lone lead vocal of the saxman's entire career (on Milton Nascimento's "Bridges"), and was the last Cannonball Adderley album to feature keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who contributes the key compositions "Directions," "Painted Desert," and "Rumplestiltskin." The record went to #5 on the Billboard Jazz chart and #169 on the Top 200, quite a remarkable showing given the avant-garde stylings of such numbers as "Out and In" and "Alto Sex," although the album also did include such trademark populist Cannonball fare as "Down in Black Bottom" and "Get Up off Your Knees."

Cannonball Adderley - Music You AllMusic, You All, meanwhile, was put together by Axelrod from the same 1970 Troubadour performances that yielded the album Black Messiah; featuring the same line-up (the two Adderley brothers, Cannon and Nat; keyboardist George Duke; bassist Walter Booker; drummer Roy McCurdy, and special guests guitarist Mike Deasy, percussionist Airto Moreira and saxman Ernie Watts), the album displayed the same uncompromisingly eclectic rock/soul/jazz fusion as did its companion release. But on Music, You All, Cannonball's warmly iconoclastic stage personality really comes to the fore...witness the two tracks simply entitled "Cannon Raps!" And George Duke fans will flip over this album; check his solo on "Capricorn" for starters. One of those live albums that REALLY makes you wish you were there.

Staple Singers - Amen and WhyOne could make the argument that no gospel group before or since has so successfully straddled the sacred and secular worlds as has The Staple Singers. The enormously influential blues guitar stylings of Roebuck "Pops" Staples, the astonishing, wise-beyond-their-years lead vocals of Mavis Staples, and the exalted harmonies of Cleotha, Pervis, and (later) Yvonne Staples packed a punch whether singing about salvation or civil rights. Now, Real Gone Music welcomes "God's greatest hitmakers" into the fold with its release of two classic albums by The Staple Singers on a single CD, their second and third releases and first two studio records for the Epic label, both produced by Billy Sherrill. 1965's Amen! features the infectious title track along with Pervis' doleful recitation on the powerful "Be Careful of the Stones You Throw," while 1966's Why actually scored a minor hit with the timely "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)," and highlights Mavis at her deep, moaning best on "Move Along Train." CD debuts for both records, with annotation by Gene Sculatti and remastering by Mike Piacentini at Battery Studios in New York. Two fantastic records...get ready to move and be moved.

Beau Brummels - Triangle and Bradley'sWhile San Francisco's Beau Brummels are best known to casual fans for the British Invasion-style hits "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little," the two albums they cut for Warner Bros. with producer Lenny Waronker, Triangle and Bradley's Barn, remain their most artistically ambitious and critically acclaimed records, and continue to exert an influence on modern-day rockers well beyond their modest commercial success. The group was at a low point when they recorded Triangle; they were fresh off the debacle of Beau Brummels '66, the album of covers that was their ill-conceived Warner debut, and the original quintet had shrunk down to a trio of vocalist Sal Valentino, guitarist and principal songwriter Ron Elliott, and bassist Ron Meagher.  But with Waronker as producer, the band was for the first time given the freedom to craft a coherent project from beginning to end, with help from some creative sidemen like Van Dyke Parks; the result was a moody, mysterious masterpiece that spoke to the psychedelic spirit of 1967 yet stood apart from it with such ethereal songs as "Magic Hollow" and "Painter of Women." Triangle also had hints of the newly emerging country rock style, and for 1968's Bradley's Barn, the Beau Brummels (now just consisting of Valentino and Elliott with Meagher off to the military) went to Nashville to record with such crack Music City session men as Jerry Reed, David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and Kenneth Buttrey. Unfortunately, Bradley's Barn met the same fate as Triangle, scoring big with critics but not with audiences; today, however, highlighted by such twangy tunes as "Loneliest Man in Town" and "Long Walking Down to Misery," it's reckoned as a country rock landmark and a true alt-country precursor. Real Gone Music is proud to present these two classic albums together on one CD for the first time, complete with Richie Unterberger's liner notes featuring quotes from songwriter Ron Elliott.   Essential listening from perhaps the most underrated band of the '60s.

Cactus - CactusFinally back on vinyl where it belongs comes the 1970 self-titled debut record from the supercharged supergroup that melted minds and loudspeakers (not necessarily in that order)! We're talking Cactus, people, with the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, Amboy Dukes vocalist Rusty Day, and, oh yes, the AMAZING guitarist Jim McCarty, late of the Detroit Wheels but somehow reincarnated here as the speed freak spawn of Alvin Lee, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. McCarty's frenetic soloing with an impossibly overdriven tone that Jack White only dreams of matching powers (and we do mean POWERS) incredible versions of "Parchman Farm" and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" as well as bloozy, boogie-in' originals like "Let Me Swim" and "Oleo." Our Real Gone reissue of Cactus comes in a limited edition (of 700) 180-gram edition that captures every bit of the glorious sonic excess with the original cover art intact (hey, is that cactus giving you the finger?). TURN IT UP!

Return of the Living DeadThere are zombies...and then there are brain-eating zombies! And Return of the Living Dead was the film where brain-eating zombies got their first lease on, er, life. Co-written by John Russo, who was George Romero's writing partner on Night of the Living Dead, this 1985 quasi-sequel introduced more "splatstick" humor to the horror formula as well as the indelible image of ghouls groaning "Braainsss" as they shuffle along. All set to a KILLER score featuring the greatest punk and death rock bands of the era, including The Cramps, 45 Grave, The Flesh Eaters, The Damned, Roky Erickson, The Jet Black Berries, T.S.O.L. and SSQ. This marks the first-ever vinyl reissue of this classic soundtrack, and it is just so Real Gone: 750 copies in limited edition translucent green vinyl! Braainsss!

He's commonly thought of as the quintessential West Coast singer songwriter, but, as his celebrated collaborations with jazz flautist Tim Weisberg and soundtrack composer Domenic Frontiere demonstrate, the Peoria-born Dan Fogelberg had a restless artistic spirit that took him beyond the typical country-influenced, folk-rock sound of his contemporaries. And it is that constant thirst for experimentation and change that make this new 2-CD career-spanning retrospective such a great listen. From rockers like "Phoenix," "As the Raven Flies," and "The Power of Gold," to chart-topping, radio-friendly fare like "Longer," "Same Old Lang Syne," "Hard to Say," and "Leader of the Band," to more idiosyncratic offerings like  "Tucson, Arizona (Gazette)" and "Heart Hotels," The Definitive Anthology cherry picks 28 tracks from ten of Fogelberg's studio releases plus two tracks ("Missing You" and "Make Love Stay") that first were released on his Greatest Hits album to form a full portrait of a multi-faceted, complex songwriter and musician. Bill Kopp's liner notes guide the listener through each album and track. Remastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios in New York.

Johnny Paycheck - Take This JobNever less than authentic, and irascible to the very end, Johnny Paycheck was one of country music's all-time great honky-tonkers and most incorrigible outlaws, one of the truly larger than life figures in a genre that's full of 'em. Paycheck got his break in the early '60s backing up George Jones (who appears on a couple of hit duets on this collection), then changed his name from Donald Lytle to Johnny Paycheck and recorded some cult classic hard country sides with maverick producer Aubrey Mayhew on the Little Darlin' label. Nashville producer Billy Sherrill brought him to Epic, where he scored a series of pop-flavored smashes, but not even Sherrill could tame him, and by the mid-'70s Paycheck joined the outlaw country movement, which suited his renegade temperament just fine. "Take This Job and Shove It," "Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets," and "I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)" (all included here) were among his biggest outlaw sides. In the end, Paycheck succumbed to some of the self-destructive tendencies he celebrated in song and wound up in jail, but he left behind some of the greatest country of the '70s. Now, Real Gone Music has put together the ultimate collection of his seminal Epic recordings; Take This Job and Shove It--The Definitive Collection offers 40 songs including a full 32 of his chart hits for the label featuring such classic tunes as "She's All I Got," "Someone to Give My Love To," and "Mr. Lovemaker." Chris Morris' liner notes explore the life, music, and times of one of country music's most colorful characters, while remastering is by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios. Essential, real country.

Dick's Picks 1With the release of Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Vol. 1--Tampa, Florida 12/1/73, we at Real Gone Music conclude our reissue campaign of all 36 volumes of the Dick's Picks series; we went in reverse order, so we're ending with the first volume in the series, which you know had to have a special place in compiler Dick Latvala's heart! And right off the bat you'll hear why; the version of "Here Comes Sunshine" that leads off disc one is pretty much universally considered the best ever. Throw in a great rendition of the rarely-performed "Nobody's Fault but Mine" that leads into a stellar 16-minute jam that flirts with a full-fledged "The Other One" but dances spacily away, and a moving "Stella Blue" before the "Around and Around" finale and you have another great night--in fact, the LAST night--from a great year (1973) of touring....and, as such, the perfect way to begin and end the long strange trip that is the Dick's Picks series (in a perfectly symmetrical move, Real Gone is also re-releasing Dick's Picks Vol. 36--The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 9/21/72, the volume that started its whole reissue campaign). Out of print for years!

REAL GONE MUSIC - MAY 6, 2016 RELEASES

Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin, Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years (2-CD Set, Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Music, You All (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The Staple Singers, Amen!/Why (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The Beau Brummels, Triangle/Bradley's Barn (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Cactus, Cactus (Limited 180-Gram Vinyl Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD)

The Return of the Living Dead: Original Soundtrack (Limited Translucent Green Vinyl Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Dan Fogelberg, The Definitive Anthology (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Johnny Paycheck, Take This Job and Shove It--The Definitive Collection (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Grateful Dead, Dick's Picks Vol. 1--Tampa, Florida 12/1/73 (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Grateful Dead, Dick's Picks Vol. 36--The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 9/12/72 (4-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD)

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, The Beau Brummels, The Staple Singers

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Jeff says

    March 17, 2016 at 12:54 pm

    Excellent releases!

    (The BB's Bradley's Barn has the never-recorded-by-Randy Newman original "Bless You California" too!)

    And spot on about Darin - many don't know he's a singer/songwriter - we usually think of them as singers at the piano (Newman) or singer with guitar (Dylan). But Darin definitely falls into that category - he was a multi-instrumentalist when composing, though that voice seemed to overshadow his massive songwriting talent in the general public's view IMO. Wrote over 150 songs - and in the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.

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  2. Kevin says

    March 17, 2016 at 2:49 pm

    While it's great to see both Triangle and Bradley's Barn be reissued I have to say I really hate two-fers. Would have much preferred another run of the separate expanded reissues from a few years ago.

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  3. Andrea says

    March 18, 2016 at 6:26 am

    Beau Brummels's Bradley’s Barn was reissued a few years ago, as a 2 CDs edition, in a wonderful book-format with a whole CD of unissued material. It was remastered by Hersch and Sandoval from the original tapes and the great, lenghty booklet had new interviews with Valentino, Elliott and producer Waronker, specifically made for the occasion. Actually, I consider it one of the best reissues I own.
    It will be hard to top that.
    I just wish Rhino Handmade had reserved the same tratement to "Treacle" before virtually going belly up and all but ceasing functioning...
    I don't trust Real Gone, mainly.

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    • Mac says

      March 18, 2016 at 10:23 am

      What don't you trust about Real Gone, specifically? I've found that they've released a lot of quality music on a lot of quality releases.

      This release doesn't seem to be designed to supplant the Rhino Handmade version at all considering it drops all of the bonus tracks. It looks to just get these albums back in print on CD for people who don't own the music already. And it does appear that these two are technically out of print if Amazon is to be believed. If someone owns these albums on CD, I wouldn't expect them to necessarily need to pick this up. And that's okay. Not every release has to be designed for everyone.

      This looks fine for what it is. I certainly don't agree that the fact that Real Gone is putting it out is a problem. I don't see anything in their track record to make me think there is going to be an issue with this release.

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  4. AC says

    March 18, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    I suspect that the Real Gone issue will be a quality release, like the rest of their output. I have the Handmade edition of BB, but don't have "Triangle," so will likely get the RG twofer for that album.

    BTW, I haven't seen or heard anything in the Real Gone pressings I own that leads me to think this will be anything but a worthy release.

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