As we roll into summer, Real Gone has another varied line-up for June.  It is anchored by an unreleased album by Dusty Springfield but also features a jazz rarity from Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw as well as metal, bluegrass, and even an adult film soundtrack.  All of these titles are being released tomorrow, June 6, and you can read on for more information.

By the beginning of the 1970s, Dusty Springfield was at a career crossroads.  Although she remained on her U.K. label home Phillips, she had left her American record company Atlantic.  Her final album for that label was 1970's A Brand New Me.  She recorded more tracks for Atlantic with Jeff Barry, but the subsequent album Faithful, was shelved and wouldn't see complete release until 2015 on Real Gone Music.  Phillips would release the U.K.-only album See All Her Faces in 1972 (compiled from various sessions over the years) but she would not release another wholly original studio album until 1973's Cameo on her new U.S. label, ABC/Dunhill.  By this point, Springfield had moved to the U.S. and Cameo was recorded in Los Angeles.  It did not perform well commercially and for her follow-up, Longing, she teamed with producer Brooks Arthur and went to New York to record.

Arthur, who had worked as an engineer with Phil Spector and Bert Berns, had moved into producing and chose a selection of singer-songwriter-oriented compositions for Dusty to perform.  These included such artists and songs such as Colin Blunstone ("Exclusively for Me"), Melissa Manchester and Carole Bayer Sager ("Home to Myself"), Janis Ian ("In the Winter"), Stephen Schwartz ("Corner of the Sky" from Pippin), Chi Coltrane ("Turn Me Around"), and Barry Manilow ("I Am Your Child"), among others.  Some of these artists even played on the recordings, and Janis Ian and Melissa Manchester were both reportedly very happy with the results.  But Springfield was having issues in her personal life including exhaustion and she chose to shelve the album and leave ABC/Dunhill.  Her next studio album would not appear until 1978, when she had moved labels to United Artists in the U.S. and Mercury in Britain.

The tracks from Longing would languish in the vault for years.  Springfield re-recorded a few of the songs for UA including "I Am Your Child," "Turn Me Around" and Holland-Dozier-Holland's "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)."  Three original tracks from the album, "In the Winter," "Home to Myself" and "Exclusively for Me" were first issued on the 4-CD UK boxset Simply Dusty in 2000.  The next year, nine of the ten Longing tracks were included on Beautiful Soul: The ABC/Dunhill Collection.   The only song not to appear was "Corner of the Sky."  A completed version could not be located at the time so its official release had to wait until 2007 when Dusty's vocal was reworked into a duet with Petula Clark for her Duets album.

Now, much as the label did with Springfield's Faithful, Real Gone is releasing Longing in its originally intended form on its own for the first time.  For this new version, eight tracks have been remixed and "Corner of the Sky" will debut Dusty's solo version of the song.  It has been mastered by Mike Milchner at SonicVision.  The package includes vintage artwork and rare images.  It also includes track-by-track annotations from Paul Howes and a tribute to the late Brooks Arthur from our very own Joe Marchese.  It will be released on both CD and LP.

After 2023's release of the Pool-Pah and Rupert Holmes soundtrack to the adult film The Flasher, Real Gone is returning to the genre with a reissue of the soundtrack to 1973's The Devil in Miss Jones.  Released at a time when pornographic films were receiving more mainstream acceptance, the movie was directed and produced by Gerard Damiano, who had found great success the year before with Deep Throat.  Re-teaming with a star from that film, Harry Reems (who also coincidentally starred in The Flasher), Damiano based The Devil upon a Jean-Paul Satre play, No Exit.  The ostensible plot revolves around Justine Jones (played by Georgina Spelvin) becoming the embodiment of lust after she commits suicide.  The film ends tragically but boasted high production values which also included the score.  Alden Shuman's score for the movie boasted a full orchestra and piano which was a departure from the usual musical language of the genre.  The score album was originally released on Janus Records.  Real Gone's new "Hellfire" vinyl reissue is limited to 900 copies.

In 1970, jazz tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson and his quintet (trumpeter Woody Shaw, keyboardist George Cables, bassist Ron McClure, tumbador Tony Waters, and drummer Lenny White) released the live album If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem.  The album was taken from a stand at The Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California and was released on Milestone Records.  What was not known at the time was that Milestone president Orrin Keepnews had some 2-track reference masters from the gigs which he subsequently sold to Everest Records owner Bernie Solomon.  After Woody Shaw signed to Columbia in the late 1970s and gained a higher profile, Solomon decided to release some of these masters as Jazz Patterns in 1982, credited not to the quintet but only to Henderson and Shaw.  A budget release, the LP even got some of the names of the tracks wrong and quickly came and went.  Real Gone's new reissue corrects the title errors and features new liner notes by Skip Heller; it has been remastered by Kevin Chubirka.  It comes on black vinyl and a peach vinyl variant, limited to 100 copies is available exclusively from Real Gone's website.

Real Gone then jumps to the 1990s for two metal releases on vinyl.  First up is the 1990 self-titled debut from Deicide.  The death metal band from Florida's first album is one of the classics of the genre and features very dark lyrical material.  It is also one of the best-selling death metal albums of all time (debates are ongoing on whether is it the best-selling or not).  Real Gone's reissue comes on red and white "centurion vinyl" and the package includes an insert with lyrics.  It has been remastered by Mike Milchner at SonicVision.

Former Whitesnake member John Sykes formed Blue Murder in 1987 and released their first album in 1989.  The album did not perform all that well and their next album would not hit shelves until 1993 with a new line-up.  However, grunge was peaking in popularity at that time and heavy metal was out so their second album, Nothin' But Trouble, also did not meet commercial expectations.  The group released a live album only in Japan in 1994 and broke up shortly thereafter.  Real Gone's 2-LP gatefold set comes on blue with black cat swirl vinyl and has also been remastered by Milchner.

Lastly, Real Gone is bringing another of its past projects to general retail.  Last year's vinyl reissue of the seminal 1975 bluegrass album The New South by J.D. Crowe and The New South was a retailer exclusive but now it will be available everywhere.  Two bonus tracks have been appended to the album and it features notes from guitarist Skip Heller and mandolinist Jarrod Walker.  It comes on Root Beer vinyl and is limited to 1,000 copies.

If you would like to give any of these titles a try, we've got the full tracklistings and ordering links below.  They are all being released tomorrow, June 6.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Dusty Springfield, Longing (CD Edition) (Real Gone Music, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. Turn Me Around
2. In the Winter
3. Exclusively for Me
4. A Love Like Yours
5. I Am Your Child
6. Home to Myself
7. Make the Man Love Me
8. Beautiful Soul
9. Angels
10. Corner of the Sky

Dusty Springfield, Longing (LP Edition) (Real Gone Music, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1

1. Turn Me Around
2. In the Winter
3. Exclusively for Me
4. A Love Like Yours
5. I Am Your Child

Side 2

1. Home to Myself
2. Make the Man Love Me
3. Beautiful Soul
4. Angels
5. Corner of the Sky

Alden Shuman, The Devil in Miss Jones (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Originally released on Janus Records LP JLS 3059, 1973 - reissued Real Gone Music, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1

1. In the Beginning
2. Hellcat
3. I'm Comin' Home (Theme from "The Devil In Miss Jones")
4. The Teacher
5. Ladies in Love

Side 2

1. Love Lesson
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Walk with the Devil
4. Trio in the Round
5. Miss Jones Comes Home
6. At the End

Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw, Jazz Patterns (Originally released on Everest Records Archive of Folk & Jazz Music LP FS 363, 1982 - reissued Real Gone Music, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1

1. Invitation
2. Punjab

Side 2

1. Power to the People

Deicide, Deicide (Originally released on R/C Records CD RCD 9381, 1990 - reissued Real Gone Music, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1

1. Lunatic of God's Creation
2. Sacrificial Suicide
3. Oblivious to Evil
4. Dead by Dawn
5. Blaspherereion

Side 2

1. Deicide
2. Carnage in the Temple of the Damned
3. Mephistopheles
4. Day of Darkness
5. Crucifixation

Blue Murder, Nothin' But Trouble (Originally released on Geffen Records CD GEFD-24419, 1993 - reissued Real Gone Music, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

LP 1

Side 1

1. We All Fall Down
2. Itchycoo Park
3. Cry for Love

Side 2

1. Runaway
2. Dance
3. I'm on Fire

LP 2

Side 1

1. Save My Love
2. Love Child
3. Shouldn't Have Let You Go

Side 2

1. I Need an Angel
2. She Knows

J.D. Crowe and the New South, The New South (Root Beer Vinyl Edition) (Originally released on Rounder Records LP 0044, 1975 - reissued Real Gone Music, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Side 1

1. Old Home Place
2. Some Old Day
3. Why Don't You Tell Me So
4. Summer Wages
5. Sally Goodin
6. Cryin' Holy

Side 2

1. You Are What I Am
2. Rock Salt & Nails
3. I'm Walkin'
4. Home Sweet Home
5. Nashville Blues
6. Ten Degrees
7. Cryin' Holy (with Emmylou Harris)​