In 1989, Alan Jackson became the first artist signed to the fledgling Arista Nashville label. By the time of his departure from its roster in 2010, Jackson had recorded sixteen albums and accumulated such honors as a Grammy Award, two American Music Awards, fifteen trophies from the Country Music Association, and fourteen recognitions from the Academy of Country Music. Known for blending traditional honky-tonk songwriting with contemporary country production, the superstar is marking his 25
Buck Owens, Bobby Rush Highlight Omnivore's November Slate
Releases from two legends of country and blues highlight Omnivore Recordings' November slate. On November 13, the label will drop the second 2-CD retrospective dedicated to the music of Bakersfield's favorite son Buck Owens, while two weeks later on the 27th, it will unveil a 4-CD box set spotlighting the singular career of Bobby Rush. Buck 'Em! Volume 2: The Music of Buck Owens (1967-1975) picks up where the first volume of the series, issued in 2013, left off. Its 50 tracks trace the many
Destination Hawaii: New Box Set Takes Listeners To "Hulaland"
Though it didn't become the 50th United State of America until 1959, the Aloha State of Hawaii had long held an enchanting spell over mainland dwellers. Tiki culture rose to prominence in the 1930s; the decade saw the opening of the first Polynesian-themed tiki bar and restaurant, Don the Beachcomber, in 1934. By the end of the thirties, flights to Hawaii had begun, making the lush and beautiful land of sun and surf more widely accessible. The Polynesian craze hit full swing in the 1950s, and
Honey Hi: Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" Deluxe Box Set Due In December
Those aren't just rumo(u)rs! After one week of premature reporting all around the 'net, Rhino has confirmed the long-awaited news this morning: Fleetwood Mac's 1979 magnum opus Tusk is coming in a 5-CD/1-DVD/2-LP Deluxe Edition, a 3-CD Expanded Edition and a 1-CD remaster on December 4! Reportedly the most expensive rock album ever made, the sprawling, 20-track double album followed up the record-shattering success of Rumours and confounded observers expecting another collection of
Release Round-Up: Week of October 30
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Packed with over 30 titles including highly-anticipated reissues, a slew of box sets, collections and more, it just may be the mightiest of the year! The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Velvet Underground's 1970 album - and Lou Reed's swansong with the band - gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono
Dawn Of Creation: New Box Collects Early Years of Creation Label, with Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and More
"Our master plan was destroy manufactured bands," writes Alan McGee in the foreword to Cherry Red Records' recent box set, Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records '83-'85. "We lost," he adds. "But maybe we won for a while!" Surely the Creation label founded by McGee could be considered a winner, having given a platform in the 1980s and 1990s to bands including The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Oasis. Only the first two of those are represented on this impressive
The Orbison Way: Roy Orbison's "MGM Years" Collected On New Box Set, Lost Album Released
Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1965, Roy Orbison departed Fred Foster's Monument Records label for MGM Records, offshoot of the famed movie studio. In his eight-year tenure at MGM, Orbison released 11 studio albums, one film soundtrack and 27 singles. On December 4, all of The Big O's MGM recordings will be released for the first time in one package via Universal Music Enterprises in association with Roy's Boys, LLC, the company founded by Orbison's sons to administer their father's
Review: Faces, "1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything"
On September 5 of this year, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones reunited publicly for the first time in 22 years as Faces, paying tribute to their fallen comrades Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan with a seven-song set benefiting a prostate cancer charity. The performance came on the heels of the release by Rhino of 1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything... (Rhino R2 550009), a box set-in-miniature collecting all four of Faces' long players in expanded editions plus a bonus disc of
Hungry Heart: Bruce Springsteen Expands "The River" In New Box Set
Bruce Springsteen is going down to The River on December 4 when Columbia Records releases The Ties That Bind: The River Collection. This 4-CD/3-DVD or 4-CD/2-BD set promises a treasure trove of previously unreleased material across its 53 audio tracks plus four hours of never-before-seen video footage. Springsteen's fifth album, The River was released on October 17, 1980. The sprawling double album reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and No. 2 in the U.K., and yielded the hit single
Great Scott! "Back to the Future" Trilogy Reissued on CD and Vinyl
"Wait a minute, wait a minute. Doc, ah...are you telling me that you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean?" With those words, audiences were in for the ride of a lifetime with Back to the Future, 1985's hit sci-fi comedy about a teenager who accidentally ends up 30 years in the past and has to ensure his existence by setting up his parents before making it back to his present day. With a winning cast that included Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd as the dynamic duo of young Marty McFly
Release Round-Up: Week of October 9
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up highlighted by the first course of a Christmas feast, plus a trio of deluxe box sets, new albums from veteran artists, and more! The Three Suns, A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas / George Melachrino and His Orchestra, Christmas Joy / John Gary, The John Gary Christmas Album / The Soulful Strings, The Magic of Christmas (Real Gone Music) The Three Suns: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. George Melachrino: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. John Gary: Amazon U.S. /
Straighten Up and Fly Right: Universal Creates Nat King Cole's "Musical Autobiography" On New Box Set
Over 50 years ago, on February 15, 1965, the world lost Nat "King" Cole at the age of 45. But in a career sadly cut short by lung cancer, Cole left an indelible legacy in the worlds of jazz and popular vocals. That immense legacy is being celebrated this fall by Universal Music with the release tomorrow, October 9, of His Musical Autobiography, a 10-CD/2-DVD retrospective box set featuring 262 tracks spanning the period of 1939 to 1965. Cole's familiar classics, both solo and with his King
Jethro Tull Continues CD/DVD Reissue Series with "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll," Includes New Steven Wilson Mixes
On the heels of May's reissue of Jethro Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery, Rhino and Chrysalis have announced the next volume in the labels' ongoing deluxe series for the band. The roots of the concept album Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die can be found in Minstrel; now, Too Old... is scheduled for its own reissue on November 27 in advance of its own 40th anniversary next spring. It will be available as an expanded 2-CD/2-DVD set and as a standalone single-CD remaster of the original
Anthony Phillips' "Private Parts and Pieces" Revealed On New Box Set
The Genesis celebration at Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint continues with the release of Anthony Phillips' Private Parts and Pieces I - IV, a new 5-CD box set collecting and expanding his four albums of the same name released between 1978 and 1984. Private Parts follows Esoteric's recent deluxe expansion of Phillips' The Geese and the Ghost as well as a number of other projects from members of his famous band including a reissue of the 1986 album by Steve Hackett's band GTR and Tony
Paul McCartney Archive Collection "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace" ARRIVE TOMORROW!
REMINDER! Tomorrow, October 2, will finally see the release of the next two installments in Paul McCartney's Archive Collection: Tug of War and Pipes of Peace! At last, we can say, say, say it's true: the next two volumes of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection are almost here in a variety of formats. Macca's second and third albums of the 1980s, the platinum sellers Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, will arrive from Concord Records and MPL with the expected array of bonus material,
Perfectly Frank: "A Voice On Air" Box Set Collects Rare, Unreleased Sinatra Recordings
The Sinatra centennial celebration is picking up steam this fall with the release of a new 4-CD box set from Legacy Recordings. On November 20, the label will release Frank Sinatra: A Voice on Air (1935-1955), the first comprehensive, fully authorized collection of Sinatra's historic radio performances. Over 100 tracks have been meticulously restored from the original recording masters for what's being billed as "unprecedented high fidelity sound." A Voice on Air captures Sinatra during the
Review: Johnny Mathis, "The Singles"
A new 4-CD box set from Legacy Recordings and Columbia Records can be best summed up by the title of its very first track: "Wonderful! Wonderful!" Johnny Mathis' simply-titled The Singles doesn't bring together every track released by the legendary artist on 45 RPM; such an endeavor would take far more than four discs. Instead, it features the tracks originally released by Mathis on Columbia in the singles format - in other words, non-LP sides - between the years of 1956 and 1981, in their
Review: Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Portrait of an American Singer"
With three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and inductions into the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame to his name, there were few heights that Ernest Jennings Ford - a.k.a. Tennessee Ernie Ford - didn't scale. A mainstay of radio and television, Ford's decades-long association with Capitol Records yielded a rich catalogue filled with country, proto rock-and-roll boogie-woogie, western swing, pop and folk ballads, gospel, novelty records, blues and
Release Round-Up: Week of September 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - maybe the biggest and most diverse yet of 2015! David Bowie, Five Years (Parlophone) 12 CD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 13 LP Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. New remasters of David Bowie (a.k.a. Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory and Pin Ups are collected in a new box set along with existing versions of Ziggy Stardust (in both the original and 2003 mixes), Aladdin Sane, Live Santa Monica '72, the Ziggy Stardust
Positively Bob Dylan: "The Bootleg Series Vol. 12" Box Sets Collect 1965-1966 Sessions
Bob's dropped the big one. News has just been confirmed of the next volume of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series - and it's the most comprehensive yet. The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 looks at one of the most halcyon periods in the troubadour's long career: the creatively fertile time in the studio that yielded the trilogy of masterworks Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. This new collection, transferred from the original tapes, will be available from Columbia
The Stuff Of Nightmares: Varese Boxes Complete "Nightmare on Elm Street" Scores
"One, two, Freddy's comin' for you..." Varese Sarabande is making horror fans' dreams come true with an eight-disc box set of the complete scores to the A Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise. The late Wes Craven's 1984 horror classic introduced fans to the sleepy suburb of Springwood, terrorized by the sadistic Freddy Krueger. With a hideously burned face, a glove boasting razor sharp blades and an iconic fedora and striped-sweater combo, Krueger, "the bastard son of a thousand
Acknowledgement: John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" Goes Super Deluxe With "Complete Masters"
John Coltrane's essential jazz masterpiece, A Love Supreme, is getting the red-carpet treatment for its 50th anniversary, expanded to three discs in A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters. A fusion of Coltrane's early hard bop and later free jazz styles, A Love Supreme is an arresting four-part suite inspired in part by Coltrane's increasing faith, after a near-overdose some years before. Coltrane's tenor saxophone conveys his gratitude to a higher power through a repeating four-note motif
Release Round-Up: Week of September 18
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up including a couple of spectacular new box sets, one acclaimed soundtrack, numerous reissues and anthologies, and the return of a few beloved artists! a-ha, Hunting High and Low: 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The 1985 debut from a-ha gets super-sized with Rhino's upcoming 4-CD/1-DVD edition. Disc One has the original, remastered album, while Disc Two boasts 25 demos, Disc Three has 15
Edsel Boxes Singer-Songwriter Eddi Reader's "Blanco y Negro Years"
In recent months, the ever-busy team at Demon Music Group's Edsel label has turned out a number of notable box sets. Today, we'll spotlight the set from Eddi Reader! Glasgow-born singer-songwriter Eddi Reader began her career as a background vocalist, singing with punk outfit Gang of Four as well as the likes of Alison Moyet, The Waterboys, and Eurythmics. In 1987, she was signed with her band Fairground Attraction to RCA, and the major label's gamble on the new act paid off when
All You Need Is Love: The Beatles Go "1+" In November With New Deluxe Set
The Beatles 1 is back. The 2000 record-breaking, chart-topping compilation returns in newly-expanded form from Apple Corps and UMe on November 6, adding a video component capturing the band's filmed work to accompany the album's 27 U.K. and U.S. No. 1 singles. The upcoming release will be available in a number of configurations: Beatles 1: 1 CD/1 DVD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 CD/1 BD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 CD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1:
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