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Omnivore Recordings Round-Up: Big Star's "In Space" Reissue and A Pair of Mister Rogers Albums On the Way

August 27, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

BigStar InSpace

Omnivore Recordings has a reputation for being one of the most diverse reissue labels around. What other label could be home to Big Star and Mister Rogers? Well, omnivorous listeners have reason to delight, as Omnivore has announced new reissues from both legendary talents due for release in October! It's been more than fifty years since the celebrated children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood first aired, yet Fred Rogers' name remains in the public eye thanks in no small part to the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Jazz, Rock Tags: Big Star, Fred Rogers, Johnny Costa

Review: Expanded Reissues of Renaissance's "Live at Carnegie Hall" and "Novella"

August 26, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Esoteric Recordings, the progressive rock arm of Cherry Red, has built a reputation for excellent reissues of prog classics, some once-overlooked and others legendary favorites. Among those landmark recordings that have received the Esoteric treatment is Renaissance's Live at Carnegie Hall. The 1976 release became one of the defining live albums of the decade and has recently been newly remastered and expanded to a 3-CD set as part of the label's ongoing Renaissance reissue series. Live at

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Renaissance

Release Round-Up: Week of August 23

August 23, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Here's what arriving today, August 23. Elvis Presley, American Sound 1969 (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S.) The Elvis 1969 celebration continues! In January of that year, Presley and his band began sessions with producer Chips Moman at American Sound Studios in Memphis, which resulted in his acclaimed From Elvis In Memphis album and its lead single "In the Ghetto." He also laid down such iconic songs as "Suspicious Minds," "Kentucky Rain,"

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Arlo Guthrie, Bread, Elvis Presley, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Tanya Tucker, The Emotions, The Hollywood Stars

Turn Around, Look At Me: Real Gone Continues Keely Smith Reissue Series With "You're Breaking My Heart"

August 22, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Once upon a time, Keely Smith was one-half of Las Vegas' royal couple, alongside her then-husband Louis Prima.  But she soared in a career of her own, and following tenures at Capitol and Dot Records, she signed with Frank Sinatra's Reprise label with the promise of retaining rights to her master tapes.  In 2016, Real Gone Music began bringing her Reprise titles on CD to the first time ever. Following reissues of The Intimate Keely Smith, Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New, and Sings the John

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Keely Smith

Traneing In: Never-Before-Released John Coltrane Tapes Set To Arrive on "Blue World"

August 21, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Jazz aficionados worldwide have good reason to celebrate with the news of a new John Coltrane album that features lost performances from 1964! The album arrives on September 27 through Verve/Impulse! and is entitled Blue World. The 8-song collection features Coltrane's "Classic Quartet" as recorded in a newly unearthed session at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in June of that year. The sessions that make up Blue World were commissioned by Quebecois filmmaker Gille Groulx, a rabid Coltrane fan

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: John Coltrane

Glory Days: Springsteen's 1986 Bridge School Performance Featuring CSNY Arrives on Digital, CD

August 21, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen Bridge School

Bruce Springsteen has announced the latest volume in his long-running series of live concert downloads/CD-Rs available exclusively through Nugs.net.   Bridge School: October 13, 1986 captures The Boss' memorable performance at Neil Young's Bridge School Concert at Mountain View, California's Shoreline Amphitheatre. Backed by Danny Federici and Nils Lofgren, Springsteen's ten-song set was his first solo acoustic performance in over a decade.  The setlist included favorites from his then-recent

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Nils Lofgren

Make the Moment Count: a-ha Announces Expanded Reissues of "Minor Earth | Major Sky" and "Lifelines" Due in October

August 20, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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a-ha broke onto the scene in the '80s with a run of five successful albums, but went on a seven-year hiatus in 1993 following the release of Memorial Beach.  In the interim, the Norwegian trio - Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Pål Waaktaar-Savoy - explored different interests until they were invited to perform at the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo.   Their two-song set brought them international attention and they soon reconvened in New York to write what would become their 2000

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: a-ha

Twist My Wrist! Cherry Red Releases Career-Spanning Anthology from Early U.K. Rock and Roll Star Jess Conrad

August 20, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Brixton-born entertainer Jess Conrad has been involved in every facet of showbiz over a career spanning seven decades: theatre, film, television, commercials, cabaret, reality shows, and pop music.  The latter field is, naturally, the subject of Cherry Red and El's new 2-CD, 63-song anthology Jess for You: The Definitive Collection which packs hits, rarities, and seven never-before-released tracks. Conrad made a big splash in the first wave of rock-and-rollers to come from Great Britain.  He

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Jess Conrad

Still Magic: Mint Audio Collects Peter Skellern's "Complete Decca Recordings" on New 3-CD Set

August 19, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Peter Skellern Complete

Peter Skellern's 1972 hit "You're a Lady" introduced a new, original voice onto the pop scene. A No. 3 hit in his native England, the gentle ballad was covered by artists ranging from Davy Jones to Johnny Mathis. A second major hit came three years later with "Hold On to Love," and Skellern continued to make music on records, television, stages, and even churches for the rest of his life. The singer-songwriter sadly passed away in 2017 at the age of 69, but the U.K.'s Mint Audio label has

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Peter Skellern

Because It's Christmastime: Chicago Releases New Christmas Album in October

August 16, 2019 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Chicago Christmas

Chicago is back on October 4 with the band's 37th studio album and fourth Christmas release. The simply-titled Chicago Christmas will arrive from Rhino Records on CD, LP, and digital platforms with eight original songs, two classic holiday standards, and one pop favorite. Produced by founding member Lee Loughnane, Chicago Christmas is the group's first holiday album to focus primarily on original compositions. For this project, the band members wrote new songs such as "All Over The World,"

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop Tags: Chicago

Review: Bobby Rush Proves He's At the Top of His Game With "Sitting On Top of the Blues"

August 16, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Legendary bluesman Bobby Rush is back with a new album, Sitting on Top of the Blues, which is released today on CD and LP through Rush's own Deep Rush label. At 86 years old, the Louisiana-born guitar slinger and singer has traveled from the Chitlin' circuit to the world's stages since 1951. He's released music on indie labels across the nation, recorded for Gamble & Huff, and has performed alongside a who's-who of funk, soul, and blues luminaries. You've probably heard some of his classics

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues Tags: Bobby Rush

Release Round-Up: Week of August 16

August 16, 2019 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Earwig Music has one of the year's most intriguing box sets and most significant historical excavations - a beautiful 124-page, 4-CD hardcover tome chronicling in words and music the story of Narvel Eatmon, a.k.a. Cadillac Baby, and his Chicago label Bea & Baby Records. From 1959-1989, the label and its various

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Yazbek, Lionel Richie, Peter Paul and Mary, Rodney Crowell, The Ides of March, ZZ Top

The Times They Are A-Changin': Shout! Factory Brings Peter, Paul and Mary's "Newport 1963-65" to CD, DVD

August 15, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Peter Paul and Mary Live at Newport

The Newport Folk Festival was created in 1959 in Newport, Rhode Island as a response to the rising prominence of folk music in America.  In 1961, one of the great groups of the genre was formed when Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers lifted their voices in song as Peter, Paul and Mary.  The trio frequently took the stage at Newport with many of their classic songs, and now, Shout! Factory is collecting eighteen such performances on a new set coming to CD, DVD, and digital formats

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Folk Tags: Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary

Run Back to Mama: Ace's "Horn Rock" Anthology Features Chase, Blood Sweat and Tears, Delaney and Bonnie, More

August 15, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Horn Rock

The new collection on Ace Records' BGP imprint packs a mighty punch. That's because it's dedicated to Horn Rock (with the equally-important subtitle And Funky Guitar Grooves), that boldest and brassiest of rock subgenres. The phrase "horn rock" immediately brings to mind the sound popularized by Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears (only one of which is represented here) but the added colors afforded by horns were applied to recordings in the baroque-rock, art-rock, psych-rock, and jazz-rock

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Al Kooper, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chase, Delaney and Bonnie, The Electric Flag, The Flock, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Sons of Champlin, Tower of Power, Various Artists

Beyond and Before: Cherry Red's Avant-Pop and Art-Rock Collection Features Yes, Bowie, Zombies, Procol Harum, Mick Ronson

August 14, 2019 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Lullabies for Catatonics

Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint has continued its series of clamshell box sets exploring a particular period or genre in rock history with a new set dedicated to one of the U.K.'s most fertile periods.  The 3-CD Lullabies for Catatonics: A Journey Through the British Avant-Pop/Art Rock Scene 1967-74 offers 49 nuggets at the intersection of pop and rock, psychedelia and pastoral folk, prog and glam, famous and unknown.  Following up previous volumes like I'm a Freak Baby, Dust on the Nettles, and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: 10cc, David Bowie, Genesis, Mick Ronson, Procol Harum, Renaissance, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Various Artists, Yes

One Singular Sensation: Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Reissue, Expand Three Johnny Mathis Classics

August 13, 2019 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Johnny Mathis Different Kinda Different

Mark your calendars for September 13: that's when Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music will continue celebrating Johnny Mathis' remarkable discography with another pair of expanded releases encompassing three classic albums from The Voice of Romance. 1976's I Only Have Eyes for You and 1977's Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me both reunited Mathis with a pair of his favorite collaborators, producer Jack Gold and arranger Gene Page, for silky renditions of the day's pop smashes as only Mathis

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Johnny Mathis, Paulette McWilliams

Hitsville - The Making of Motown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

August 13, 2019 By

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1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Showtime's long-awaited documentary on Motown Records makes its debut on August 24.  But before that, Universal Music will issue a companion soundtrack on CD (in both standard 1CD and deluxe 2CD editions) and vinyl, featuring many of the label's all-time classic songs.  The vinyl edition arrives on September 27.  Also available on digital/streaming.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Chaos and Disorder

August 13, 2019 By

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LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Originally released in July 1996 as a surprise from Prince, Chaos and Disorder nonetheless reached the top 30 in the U.S. and the top 20 in the U.K. with no promotion.  For this new reissue, it will be released in a 1-LP configuration on limited-edition purple vinyl and a 1-CD package. This reissue campaign not only brings the CD back on shelves after decades out-of-print, but also marks its debut on

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Emancipation

August 13, 2019 By

Prince Emancipation

6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Prince's epic 1996 album Emancipation returns to print as a 3CD set and makes its vinyl debut as a 6LP package.  The album is packed with original songs reflecting on many of the themes most important to the artist (romance, family, sex, technology) as well as four choice covers (Bonnie Raitt's 'I Can't Make You Love Me,' the Thom Bell-composed Philly soul classics 'Betcha By Golly Wow' and 'La, La,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Rock

The VERSACE Experience (PRELUDE 2 GOLD)

August 13, 2019 By

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LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fans of obscure Prince mixes and alternate versions are sure to delight in The VERSACE Experience (PRELUDE 2 GOLD). The collection of rare material was originally pressed up as a limited-edition cassette for Paris Fashion Week attendees in 1995 and featured remixes of then-unreleased tracks from The Gold Experience, alongside special edits and unheard music by The New Power Generation, The NPG

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Review: Davy Jones, "Live in Japan"

August 13, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Davy Jones Live in Japan

Everyone's familiar with the initial wave of Monkeemania that swept America in the 1960s, not to mention the second wave spurred on by MTV's reruns of The Monkees' classic sitcom in the 1980s. But 7a Records - that tireless label dedicated to all things Monkee - has trained a well-deserved spotlight upon a lesser-known chapter of the Monkees phenomenon. The time was 1981 and the place was Japan. The late Davy Jones seized upon the popularity of a Kodak commercial there featuring "Daydream

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones, The Monkees

Abbey Road: Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]

August 12, 2019 By

Super Deluxe 3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Abbey Road is celebrating 50 with a variety of expanded editions built around a new 2019 stereo mix by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell.  The centerpiece of the campaign, a 3CD/1BD box set, boasts 23 alternate takes,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Jethro Tull, "Stormwatch: 40th Anniversary Force 10 Edition"

August 12, 2019 By

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Jethro Tull continues its long-running box set series with a new 4CD/2DVD expansion of 1979's Stormwatch, the final Tull album to feature the "classic" line-up of Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, David (now Dee) Palmer, and Barriemore Barlow.  The new edition features: The original album and associated recordings newly remixed by Steven Wilson; A complete concert from the Netherlands recorded in March 1980; The original album and 13 associated recordings mixed in

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Something's on the Move: Jethro Tull Preps "Stormwatch" Box Set

August 12, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Jethro Tull Stormwatch 40

Chrysalis' long-running series of deluxe, hardcover book-style box sets from Jethro Tull is set to continue on October 18 with the 40th anniversary edition of the band's 1979 album Stormwatch.  Completing the folk-rock trilogy begun with 1977's Songs from the Wood and 1978's Heavy Horses, Stormwatch earned a Gold certification and was the final Tull album to feature the "classic" line-up of Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, David (now Dee) Palmer, and Barriemore

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jethro Tull

Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection

August 9, 2019 By

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Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Earwig Music has one of the year's most intriguing box sets and most significant historical excavations - a beautiful 124-page, 4-CD hardcover tome chronicling in words and music the story of Narvel Eatmon, a.k.a. Cadillac Baby, and his Chicago label Bea & Baby Records. From 1959-1989, the label and its various imprints (among them Key, Keyhole, Miss, and Ronald) championed the Windy City music scene with an impressive array of blues, gospel,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Gospel, R&B/Soul

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