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Review: Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, "The King of Soul" and "The Queen of Soul"

March 3, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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All hail The King and Queen. The careers of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin have been inextricably linked since Franklin entered New York’s Atlantic Studios on Valentine’s Day, 1967, with producer Jerry Wexler to record Redding’s “Respect.”  Even before that pivotal moment, however, the two artists shared a label in Atlantic Records (distributor of Redding’s Stax records) and an ability to invest any song with raw honesty and unvarnished emotion.  Atlantic and Rhino Records have recently

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets Tags: Otis Redding

Review: Johnny Winter, "True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story"

March 3, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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If there’s some truth to the importance of being in the right place at the right time, Johnny Winter might attest to it.  The slide guitar virtuoso came up in the ranks of show business when blues-rock was rising in popularity.  He embodied an American alternative to Clapton, Page or Mayall, and offered a grittier take than Hendrix, more of the earth than the cosmos.  Since debuting in 1969, Winter has rarely strayed from his signature style even as he’s stretched its boundaries, remaining True

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Deep Purple Revisit "Made in Japan" in a Big Way

February 27, 2014 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Deep Purple's monstrous power as a live act was solidified more than four decades ago with the release of their first live album, Made in Japan. This May, a tidal wave of Made in Japan reissues are surging your way, from remasters to expansions to box sets on CD, vinyl and Blu-Ray. (Whew!) In 1972, Deep Purple were flying higher than ever. The quintet - at the time, singer Ian Gillan, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, bassist Roger Glover, keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice - had just

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Vinyl

Rock 'N' Roll Stars Revisited: Oasis Announce Catalogue Expansion

February 26, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Britpop band Oasis may never be reuniting again thanks to the hilariously toxic relationship between brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, but the band's 20th anniversary will be celebrated with several deluxe reissues, the first of which was announced today. This year, all three of the band's albums released in the 1990s will be remastered and expanded, starting with 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, to be reissued in May. (The set's being referred to as the "Chasing the Sun Edition," to quote a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Oasis, Vinyl

Won't You Come: Soundgarden Announce "Superunknown" Box Set

February 25, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Grunge legends Soundgarden will honor their most successful album, 1994's Superunknown, with a sprawling five-disc box set. The first band of the Seattle explosion to sign with a major label, A&M Records, in 1988, Soundgarden broke through the commercial mainstream with the release of third album Badmotorfinger in 1991, arguably the holy trinity of the genre alongside fellow 1991 albums Nevermind by Nirvana and Ten by Pearl Jam. Superunknown saw the band experimenting with an expanded sonic

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 25

February 25, 2014 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Morrissey, Your Arsenal: Definitive Master (Parlophone) We don't hate it when Moz becomes successful, as was the case with his third non-compilation album from 1992, which now comes with an unreleased live show on DVD. CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Johnny Winter, True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story (Columbia/Legacy) A four-disc tribute to the influential blues guitarist, who turned 70 on Sunday. (Amazon U.S./ Amazon U.K.) Bob Mould, Workbook: 25th

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Morrissey, Patti Labelle, Silversun Pickups, The S.O.S. Band, Vinyl

Still Surfing: Joe Satriani's "Complete Studio Recordings" Collected on New Box Set

February 24, 2014 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Close your eyes and think about Joe Satriani.  Chances are if you’re not picturing the guitar hero himself, you’re picturing his sophomore album, 1987’s Surfing with the Alien.  The artwork adorning the album, majestically drawn by Marvel Comics legend John Byrne for a 1982 comic book, depicts Marvel Comics’ noble Silver Surfer astride his surfboard as he travels through the farthest reaches of space.  Though Satriani hasn’t explored any new galaxies (yet), he has traveled many sonic avenues. 

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Too Much Heaven: Bee Gees' "Warner Bros. Years" Box Set Premieres Unreleased Tracks, Complete Concert

February 18, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Following the release of 1981’s Living Eyes, The Bee Gees effectively called it a day.  The band reportedly clashed during the making of the album, and its lack of chart success convinced Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb to pursue non-band projects for a time.  Solo albums and soundtrack recordings arrived, and the Barry Gibb/Karl Richardson/Albhy Galuten team worked its magic on releases by Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers and Diana Ross (featuring numerous songs co-written by all three brothers, of

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He Wears It Well: Long-Delayed Rod Stewart Box Set Back On Track For March Release

February 18, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

2014’s gonna be alright for fans of Rod Stewart. Following 2012’s sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll memoir Rod: The Autobiography and the 2013 release of Rarities (largely culled from the box set The Rod Stewart Sessions: 1971-1998), the one-time Rod the Mod and all-time superstar is still in a reflective mood.  Stewart will look back on three decades of concert performances with the March 18 release from Warner Bros. Records of Live 1976-1998: Tonight’s the Night.  This long-rumored box set consists

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Bear Family Making Plans for Box Set of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton Recordings

February 17, 2014 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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Johnny and June. George and Tammy. Porter and Dolly. The world of country music had some of its greatest successes in pairs - duets whose songs projected all the joy and pain of love and loss, just like any good country song should. Whether the joy or pain was real or simply projected very well is another matter, as anyone who's seen Walk the Line can attest. In the case of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, their relationship was never romantic and often turbulent, but it did yield one of the

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Edsel is Still Mad About Belinda Carlisle with New Anthologies

February 14, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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After a series of great expanded CD/DVD reissues, Edsel will release not one but two career-spanning anthologies dedicated to former Go-Go's frontwoman/pop icon Belinda Carlisle. The Anthology collects three CDs and two DVDs worth of hits and rare content from the singer, whose late '80s run of singles included such impressive pop gems as "Mad About You," "Heaven is a Place on Earth," "I Get Weak," "Circle in the Sand" and "Leave a Light On." While Carlisle has been relatively quiet since

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go's

Just the Way You Like It: Hits, Videos Compiled on Tabu Box Set

February 11, 2014 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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After more than a year of reissues of the Tabu Records catalogue by Edsel - reissues that have been relatively lavish but particularly divisive for their occasional lapses in audio quality - the label has prepped a thorough career-spanning box set. The Tabu Records Box Set is a 6CD/1DVD affair collecting tracks from all of the label's major releases between 1977 and 1991. Each disc will be broken down by theme; the first focuses on early soul albums by the likes of The S.O.S. Band and

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WIN! WIN! WIN! New Box Sets from OTIS REDDING and ARETHA FRANKLIN!

February 6, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Review: Michael Bloomfield, "From His Head to His Heart to His Hands"

February 5, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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“I think we’ve exploited you enough.  I just want you to know I’m signing you!”  With those words, spoken by John Hammond Sr. and heard on the first disc of Legacy Recordings’ new 3-CD/1-DVD box set From His Head to His Heart to His Hands, Michael Bloomfield became a Columbia Records recording artist.  Though he died in 1981 at the age of 37, the blues guitarist extraordinaire left behind a substantial body of work in a variety of musical settings.  Perhaps he never fulfilled the entirety of his

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 4

February 4, 2014 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Burt Bacharach, Together? — Original Soundtrack Recording / Toomorrow: From the Harry Saltzman-Don Kirshner Film “Toomorrow” — Original Soundtrack Recording / The Mamas and the Papas, A Gathering of Flowers / Brotherhood, The Complete Recordings / Smith, A Group Called Smith/Minus-Plus / Troyka, Troyka / Jim Reeves, A Beautiful Life — Songs of Inspiration / The Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks Vol. 20 — Capital Centre, Landover, MD 9/25/76 — Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, NY 9/28/76 (Real

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, Michael Bloomfield, Otis Redding, Rainbow, Small Faces, The Dream Syndicate, The Grateful Dead, The Mamas and The Papas, Tina Turner, Vinyl

Good Morning, Captain: Slint's "Spiderland" Gets Super Deluxe Treatment

January 31, 2014 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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Spiderland, the second and final full-length album by Louisville, Kentucky post-rockers Slint, is getting expanded in a big way this spring with a multi-disc box set. Considered to be one of the best records of its subgenre, brimming with shifting dynamics and intense, narrative lyrics (rumors circulated that the brief, tense sessions that birthed the record sent at least one of the band's members into a psychiatric hospital for a stay), Spiderland was nonetheless ignored by many upon first

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I Can Read Your Mind: The Alan Parsons Project's "Complete Albums" Box Arrives In March

January 30, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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On March 31, The Alan Parsons Project’s many tales of mystery and imagination will come to life anew on Arista Records and Legacy Recordings’ 11-CD box set The Alan Parsons Project - The Complete Albums Collection.  This new set marks the first time that the Project’s complete discography has been assembled in one place, from 1976’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination to 1987's Gaudi.  Sweetening the pot will be the first-ever release of the APP’s fifth album The Sicilian Defence. The Complete

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Say Hello, Hello: UMe Pays Lavish Tribute to Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

January 30, 2014 By Mike Duquette 18 Comments

It's an odd irony that Elton John began his seventh and most ambitious studio album with a piece he imagined would play in the event of his death. The singer-songwriter-pianist was one of the most alive rockers on the planet at that point; with a dazzlingly theatrical stage presence, a cracking live band and an increasing string of successes (his most recent album at that point, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player, was released at the top of 1973 and was both his second No. 1 album in the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets Tags: Vinyl

It's About That Time: Complete Concerts On "Miles at the Fillmore" Box Set Chronicle Davis' Rock Revolution

January 29, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Between June 17 and 20, 1970, the fresh musical possibilities of a new decade were on vivid display in New York City’s East Village when the bill at the Fillmore East was shared by two titanic talents on the Columbia Records roster – Miles Davis and Laura Nyro.  Though the pairing might seem an incongruous one, both Davis and Nyro shared an affinity for pushing the envelope and synthesizing various genres into a singular style of music that was easily identifiable as their own.  Davis’ stand as

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New Box Set Explores The "Love, Poetry and Revolution" of '60s British Psychedelia

January 27, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

It's only appropriate that "a journey through the British psychedelic and underground scenes" would remain one of the best-kept secrets of late 2013.  Love, Poetry and Revolution is the name of the recent box set from Grapefruit, the Cherry Red Group's dedicated U.K. psych imprint.  (Grapefruit is also responsible for the new John's Children anthology featuring Marc Bolan.)  Over nearly four hours, this  3-CD set surveys the fertile, creative period in the U.K. musical underground between 1966

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Short Takes: Digital Updates on Billy Joel, Black Sabbath and More

January 23, 2014 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

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When not releasing intriguing physical products, sometimes labels like to do neat things to spice up their digital offerings, making complete discographies available or taking advantage of Apple's "Mastered for iTunes" initiative. Here's a few notable digital-oriented stories we've caught wind of in recent days! He's a living legend, a multiplatinum bestseller, a Kennedy Center honoree and - in 2014 - the first musical franchise at New York's Madison Square Garden. This week, Legacy

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Los Lobos, The Romantics

Silversun Pickups to Release "Singles Collection" on CD, Vinyl Box

January 22, 2014 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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If you'll pardon the lyrical callback, Silversun Pickups fans have been waiting for this moment all their lives: the release of the band's first greatest hits collection in February. Hailing from the Silverlake region of Los Angeles, the Silversun Pickups have one of the more unusual mainstream rock backgrounds of the past decade, thanks to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences nominating them for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2009 - even though their first album, Carnavas

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 21

January 21, 2014 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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The Beatles, The U.S. Albums (Apple/Capitol/UMe) The centerpiece product of The Fab Four's 50th anniversary celebration (thus far, anyway) is a 13-disc box featuring the original, unique American releases on Capitol/United Artists from 1964 to 1970 (including six titles from that first year alone). All but the spoken-word documentary album The Beatles' Story will be available individually, and all but that and 1970's stereo-only Hey Jude compilation will be available in mono and stereo on the

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Loleatta Holloway, Mike + The Mechanics, Paul McCartney, Ray Parker Jr., Ronnie Spector, Sarah McLachlan, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles

Feats Won't Fail You Now on New Rhino Box Set

January 16, 2014 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Rhino is giving the complete albums treatment to another classic rock artist on the Warner Bros. label: the eclectic combo Little Feat. Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990 will feature all 11 studio and live albums the band cut for the label, as well as two additional bonus discs of rare material. Formed by ex-Mothers of Invention guitarist Lowell George, Little Feat first rose to prominence for their killer rock-blues style, particularly both versions of the song "Willin'"

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Rhino Gives The Royal Treatment To The King and Queen of Soul with New Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin Box Sets

January 14, 2014 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

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Rhino is kicking off February’s Black History Month in a big way – with two new box sets dedicated to undisputed R&B royalty, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding.  On February 4, the label will release the 4-CD collections The King of Soul and The Queen of Soul, and despite the wealth of sublime soul music on these sets, both titles are priced with an eye to the budget-conscious.  As of this writing, the Otis set is available at Amazon U.S. for $33.62, and the Aretha set for $34.05...or less

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