Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!
Jethro Tull, Broadsword and the Beast: 40th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone)
5CD/3DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
This 40th anniversary "Monster Edition"of the Jethro Tull classic will feature Steven Wilson's new mixes of the original album, a slew of rare and previously unreleased recordings, demos, early mixes, and a 1982 live set in Germany - all available in stereo across five CDs and in hi-resolution stereo and surround mixes on three DVDs. (A vinyl edition will include the remixed album, the associated recordings, and all the demos on four LPs.) The box set will also include a 164-page book offering new interviews with band members, cover artist Iain McCaig and engineer Leigh Mantle, track-by-track annotations from frontman Ian Anderson, a recreation of the original 1982 tour program and more. Read more here!
Peter Frampton, At Royal Albert Hall (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Nine highlights from Peter Frampton's November 2022 "homecoming" at London's Royal Albert Hall are featured on this new live album. Frampton is joined by longtime bandmates Rob Arthur, Adam Lester, Dan Wojciechowski, and Steve Mackey on a set including "Show Me the Way," "Baby I Love Your Way," and "Do You Feel Like We Do." Available on CD and digitally.
Gordon Lightfoot, At Royal Albert Hall (Linus (Canada)) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
And another Royal Albert Hall show: In the weeks before his passing, late Canadian troubadour Gordon Lightfoot approved the release of this May 24, 2016 concert at the famed venue. The previously available 2CD set features such beloved Lightfoot standards as "Beautiful," "Early Morning Rain," "Sundown," "Carefree Highway," "If You Could Read My Mind," and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." The 2LP vinyl edition arrives today, though Amazon appears to indicate it won't be in stock for another couple of weeks.
Belinda Carlisle, Decades Volume One: The Studio Albums, Part One (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Edsel repackages Belinda Carlisle's first four albums - Belinda, Heaven on Earth, Runaway Horses, and Live Your Life Be Free - in a hardcover book set with lyrics and credits but no additional audio material.
Deacon Blue, You Can Have It All: The Complete Albums Collection / All the Old 45s: The Very Best of Deacon Blue (Cooking Vinyl)
You Can Have It All: The Complete Albums Collection: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
All the Old 45s: The Very Best of Deacon Blue: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Cooking Vinyl celebrates the Scottish pop-rock group with two new packages. The 14-CD box set You Can Have It All: The Complete Albums Collection brings together all of the band's studio LPs plus two B-sides and rarities compilations (1988's Riches, 1990's Ooh Las Vegas) and the new, stripped-down compendium of hits, live tracks, and cover versions, Peace Will Come. It totals 160 tracks spanning 36 years of Deacon Blue's career and contains a 24-page booklet. A companion volume is All the Old 45s: The Very Best of Deacon Blue, with 41 tracks on 2 CDs and a 16-page booklet.
Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones / Rain Dogs / Franks Wild Years (Island/UMe)
Swordfishtrombones: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Rain Dogs: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Franks Wild Years: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Tom Waits' first three Island albums reinvented the singer-songwriter as he moved away from largely traditional piano-based songwriting to explore unusual instrumentation, unconventional song forms, and an even more rough-hewn voice. The 1983-1986 trilogy returns today from UMe on CD, with LP reissues to follow on September 22. Swordfishtrombones has been remastered from the original 1/2-inch EQ'ed production tape; and Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years from the original 1/2-inch flat masters.
Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Odeon/Budokan (Neil Young Archives/Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
This 140-gram black vinyl release is the standalone debut of Odeon/Budokan, first released on CD as part of Neil Young's second Archives box. Side One of the LP has Neil solo from London's Hammersmith Odeon and Side Two features Crazy Horse joining Neil at Tokyo's Budokan.
Harry N Cohen says
I am eagerly awaiting the Frampton cd. I was in London last November (to see Petula Clark in Mary Poppins on her 90th birthday!) I took the Royal Albert Hall tour which is not to be missed. Peter was appearing a few days after I was there...bad timing.
bob says
Odd that a "Comes Alive" era picture of Frampton is used for a concert performed in 2022.
Justin Cole says
Is the vinyl of the Waits reissues still happening? My local didn't get any and I can't find a listing on Amazon
Joe Marchese says
It appears that the vinyl reissues are now due on September 22, with Amazon links now reflecting that. Hope this helps!
Harry Cohen says
I am loving Peter Frampton at Royal Albert Hall. Peter's guitar work is unchanged and his voice has held up quite well! The rest of the band is up to the job.
The packaging is atrocious! The only photo is that late 70's I'm In You era photo on the cover. Not one current photo! When playing the prestigious (and stunningly beautiful )Albert Hall, one would expect at least one onstage photo and an audience shot.
The clip art looking London skyline is fine for an 8 year old's art project. Don't get me started on the daisy and the butterfly.
The artwork and cover are inexcusable.
Luckily, the music is superb.