Leon Russell may have been The Master of Time and Space, but he wasn't averse to being down to earth, either. Between 1979 and 1981, Russell teamed with the bluegrass band New Grass Revival for what he deemed "rhythm and bluegrass." 1981's The Live Album, recorded at Pasadena, California's Perkins Palace, preserved their collaboration. Some 19 years later, another live album emerged: Live at Gilley's. Recorded in Mickey Gilley's honky-tonk (as memorably immortalized in Urban Cowboy) in
Fresh and Sweet: Carole King Concert Unearthed On "Live At Montreux 1973"
UPDATE: The release date for Carole King's Live at Montreux 1973 has changed to June 14! Carole King's lasting legacy as a singer and songwriter has been revitalized in recent years by compilations, an autobiography, and - most recently - the still-ongoing, Tony Award-winning jukebox musical Beautiful. One thing that's been notably absent? Previously unreleased content. With the exception of the excellent 2012 vault dive The Legendary Demos, and a few odd bonus tracks on reissues, King's
The Whole Town's Talking: SoulMusic Anthologizes Best of Billy Paul On New 2-CD Set
The late Billy Paul was one of the first and brightest stars in the Philadelphia International Records firmament. His very first studio album - 1968's rather misleadingly titled Feelin' Good at the Cadillac Club - was the second ever release on the Gamble label, a precursor to PIR, while Going East was the very first ever LP released on PIR. The husky-voiced baritone remained with the label through the 1970s, and then recorded just a couple of albums for independent labels in the 1980s. Billy
Review: Nat "King" Cole, "Ultimate Nat King Cole" and "International Nat King Cole" [UPDATED]
March 17, 2019 would have been Nat "King" Cole's 100th birthday. While the man born Nathaniel Adams Coles only lived to the age of 45, he more than earned his royal moniker over his three decades of performing. He paved the way for African-American artists as the first black man to host a nationwide television variety show, and quietly but devotedly crusaded for civil rights. At the time of his death, at the height of Beatlemania, he was selling some seven million records a year. The Cole
Bridges to Bremen [Various Formats]
2-CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD: Links TBD Blu-ray: Links TBD Twenty years since it was originally aired, The Rolling Stones' 1998 concert film Bridges To Bremen is finally released as part of the band's ongoing archive series from Eagle Vision . It captures the complete September 2, 1998 show from Germany's Weserstadion show, recorded on the final leg
Sing Out, Sweet Land! / Down in the Valley
Sing Out, Sweet Land! opened on Broadway at the International Theatre in the final days of 1944 and resided there for 104 performances. Starring Drake, Burl Ives, Juanita Hall (South Pacific), Bibi Osterwald, and Alma Kaye, the musical by critic Walter Kerr featured a score of traditional folk tunes as well as original material by John Mundy, Edward Eager, and Elie Siegmiester. Decca recorded it for an album of 78s, later reissued on 10-inch vinyl LP. Stage Door has its CD premiere joined by
Lucky to Be Me: A Life in Music
The 51-track, 2-CD collection celebrates late Broadway leading man Alfred Drake. It features one disc entitled The Studio Recordings (including selections from Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate and Kismet, as well as tracks from West Side Story, Roberta, On the Town, and Carousel) and one disc of Demos, Live Performances, and Other Rarities sourced from Drake's personal archives. This disc features rare live appearances, rehearsals, practice recordings, and even auditions for musicals and operettas
Hallelujah: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
"I've never gotten over the pleasure of someone covering one of my songs," Leonard Cohen once said. "I don't have a sense of proprietorship, which probably stems from coming up as a folksinger where it was understood that songs develop a patina through interpretation. I feel that's the mark of excellence." Ace Records has just released a new collection of excellent Leonard Cohen covers with Hallelujah: The Songs of Leonard Cohen. It's the latest volume in the label's Songwriter series, and it
Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
To celebrate the fiftieth year of The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has announced the May 10 release of the new box set, Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The 5-disc set is presented as a large-format, 12"x12" book. Inside its 136 pages are numerous photos spanning the festival's history, plus many essays and discographical annotations. There's a forward from festival founder George Wein, as well as notes from Jeff Place and Huib
Flip The Switch: Complete Rolling Stones Show From 1998, "Bridges To Bremen," Due June 21
Twenty years since it was originally aired, The Rolling Stones' 1998 concert film Bridges To Bremen will finally be released as part of the band's ongoing archive series from Eagle Vision on June 21 . It captures the complete September 2, 1998 show from Germany's Weserstadion show, recorded on The Rolling Stones' final leg of their tour supporting the Bridges To Babylon album. The Bridges To Babylon tour was a landmark in live Rolling Stones history. For one, it was the first tour to
And I Never Knew: Ace Collects Rare, Unreleased Tommy Hunt on "The Complete Man"
One of the brightest stars in the uptown soul firmament, Tommy Hunt, has just been celebrated by Ace's Kent Records on a new collection filled with rare and previously unheard material. The Complete Man: 60s NYC Soul Songs follows up the label's The Biggest Man with a second dip into his recordings for New York indie Scepter Records as well as Capitol, Atlantic, and Dynamo. Born in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tommy Hunt's family settled in Chicago during his formative years. But
One Night Only: Smithsonian Folkways Celebrates 50 Years of "Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival," Box Set Due in May
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, or simply "Jazz Fest," as it's become known, is more than a gathering of musicians performing for a crowd. Since its founding, it's become a cultural event; an annual celebration of the unique music, art, food, and people of New Orleans and beyond, with acts ranging from jazz, rock, pop, country, blues, and more. To celebrate the festival's fiftieth year, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has announced the May 10 release of Jazz Fest: The New Orleans
Short Takes, Broadway Edition: Stage Door Celebrates Alfred Drake, Kritzerland Reissues "Streets of New York" and More
With his rich baritone and intense looks, Alfred Drake (1914-1992) defined the classic Broadway leading man. Originating roles in such landmark musicals as Oklahoma!, Kiss Me Kate, and Kismet, Drake won Tony and Drama Critics Awards, and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. But despite his many appearances on cast recordings, Drake has never headlined a solo CD...until now. The U.K.'s Stage Door label has announced the April 26 release (May 3 in North America) of Lucky to Be Me: A Life
New Sunrise: Simple Minds Celebrates 21st Century Albums with "Rejuvenation 2001-2014" CD/DVD Box
Simple Minds' Rejuvenation 2001-2014 - previously released on LP in 2018 - is now available as a 7CD/1-DVD box set, courtesy of Edsel. The set boasts expanded versions of five of the band's 21st century albums: Neon Lights (2001), Cry (2002), Black and White 050505 (2005), Graffiti Soul (2009) and Big Music (2014). Fans can expect 25 bonus tracks, as well, including the hard-to-find covers set Searching For the Lost Boys, which was previously a bonus disc housed with Graffiti Soul. There's
Release Round-Up: Week of April 5
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs is the new box set with four seven-inch vinyl singles of some of Bowie's earliest material. It will feature nine rare, monaural recordings, including mostly solo vocal-and-guitar versions of familiar songs ("Space Oddity" in its earliest known version, "London Bye Ta Ta,"
Beat The Clock: Sparks Celebrate 40 Years Of 'No. 1 In Heaven' With CD, Vinyl Reissue
Ron and Russell Mael have always open to musical influences. Over the course of their four-decade career as Sparks, the art-pop legends have traversed genres and influenced generations. The L.A.-based Mael brothers formed their first group, Halfnelson, in 1970 and eventually landed a deal with Bearsville Records. At Bearsville, Todd Rundgren produced their self-titled debut album. Three years later, the band had rechristened themselves Sparks and caught the attention of the music press and a
It's A Good Thing: Cherry Red Collects The Complete Plastic Penny with Future Elton John Drummer Nigel Olsson
Nowadays, drummer extraordinaire Nigel Olsson can be found behind the kit for Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, supporting the same superstar artist with whom he's been associated for nearly fifty years. Before his association with Elton, however, Nigel was plying his trade as one-fifth of Plastic Penny, a group which briefly straddled the worlds of pop, R&B, and underground psychedelia. The band also boasted future members of UFO, Cochise, and The Troggs. Cherry Red's
Don't Wait Till Tomorrow: Blixa Sounds Collects Robin Lane and the Chartbusters' Complete Recordings on "Many Years Ago"
Since its founding last year, Blixa Sounds has championed the rare and hard-to-find, with reissues of material by the likes of Robbie Dupree, Stephen Bishop, Linda Clifford, and Chris Darrow & Max Buda (see our coverage of the latter here!) Now, the label has compiled a one-stop-shop collection of tracks by Robin Lane & The Chartbusters with Many Years Ago: The Complete Robin Lane & The Chartbusters Collection. The 3-CD set brings together a whopping 52 tracks, spanning all of the
In The Tower of Song: Leonard Cohen Covers Collected on "Hallelujah," New Ace Records Compilation
With his acumen for gripping poetry, inimitable baritone, and trademark Spanish-influenced fingerpicking, Leonard Cohen married his talents for poetry and song-craft to create some of the most enduring music of the singer-songwriter era and beyond. Like every great songwriter, Cohen's work continues to inspire an array of cover versions. Sure, there's the million-and-one covers of "Hallelujah," but even before the 1967 release of his debut Songs of Leonard Cohen, early supporters like Judy
Dead Man [Various Formats]
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Neil Young Online Store LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Neil Young Online Store Jim Jarmusch's 1995 film Dead Man was dubbed by the director as a "psychedelic western." With a cast including Johnny Depp, Billy Bob Thornton, Crispin Glover, and Iggy Pop, the surreal period piece is set in the bleak 19th-century Old West and follows an accountant named William Blake who's on the run after a murder. Blake encounters Nobody, a guide
Many Years Ago: The Complete Robin Lane & The Chartbusters Collection
Blixa Sounds has compiled a one-stop-shop collection of tracks by Robin Lane & The Chartbusters with Many Years Ago: The Complete Robin Lane & The Chartbusters Collection. The 3-CD set is released on March 1 and brings together a whopping 52 tracks, spanning all of the group's official albums, as well as demos, rare singles and EP tracks, and unreleased session takes. The result is the most comprehensive compilation of classic Robin Lane tracks thus far! Robin Lane got her start as a
No. 1 In Heaven: 40th Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]
2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP color vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Sparks Online Store By 1979, the L.A.- based band Sparks was ready to shift directions. They teamed up with Italian disco producer extraordinaire Giorgio Moroder and began recording. The result was No. 1 in Heaven, Sparks' first full-fledged foray into electronica. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its original release, Sparks' own Lil Beethoven Records released a newly
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Music from Season Two [CD]
Music from Season Two of the acclaimed Amazon Prime television series boasts not one but two Barbra Streisand tunes ("Just Leave Everything to Me" from the film soundtrack of 1969's Hello, Dolly! and the evergreen "Happy Days Are Here Again") plus appearances by Frank Sinatra ("How Are Ya Fixed for Love" with Keely Smith), Blossom Dearie ("Some Other Time") and Ella Fitzgerald ("Old Mother Hubbard'). Further tracks come from Dean Martin ("I'd Cry Like a Baby"), Louis Prima and the Witnesses
Just a Gigolo: The Original Soundtrack
David Bowie followed up his otherworldly performance in 1976's The Man Who Fell to Earth with a decidedly more grounded role, that of Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski, a Prussian officer-turned-gigolo, in the 1978 film Just a Gigolo. Its soundtrack supervised by Jack Fishman featured period-style vocal and instrumental tracks including hard-to-find tracks by The Manhattan Transfer, Marlene Dietrich, and The Village People. Bowie also contributed pieces for the film, including "Revolutionary
The Classic Years 1978-1990 [9-CD]
Last October, Cherry Red/Hear No Evil released the 8-CD The Early Years 1971-1977, chronicling REO Speedwagon's beginning on Epic Records. And now they're back with the follow-up set: The Classic Years 1978-1990, containing the group's seven remaining Epic albums and a bonus live disc across 9 CDs, highlighting the period when REO Speedwagon became a household name. Cherry Red/Hear No Evil's new box offers a lot of bonus material, with every album except Good Trouble being expanded. You Can
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