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Release Round-Up: Week of June 2

June 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paul Williams Windy Side

This week's Release Round-Up is headlined by a legendary singer-songwriter's first appearance on Second Disc Records, plus an array of box sets, reissues and beyond from across the musical spectrum! Paul Williams, A Little on the Windy Side: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The newest release from our very own Second Disc Records imprint of Real Gone Music is here!  The first-ever American reissue of Paul Williams' 1979 Portrait Records album has

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Black Oak Arkansas, Charley Pride, David Shire, George Jones, Heatwave, Iron Butterfly, Lesley Gore, Little Richard, Merle Haggard, Paul Williams, Robin Gibb, Silver Convention, Tammy Wynette, The Bee Gees, Willie Nelson

Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4

June 1, 2015 By

Miles at Newport

This latest volume of the jazz legend's Bootleg Series features 296 minutes of music, nearly four hours of which is previously unreleased, spanning the period between Davis' Newport Jazz Festival debut to his final public performance of the 1970s (at New York's Lincoln Center).  The Kind of Blue-era sextet and Second Great Quintet line-ups are both represented over the course of these four CDs.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz

Love Conquers All: Paul Williams' "A Little on the Windy Side" ARRIVES TOMORROW From Second Disc Records

June 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Paul Williams Windy Side

Tomorrow, June 2, sees the release of the newest title from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music: a remastered and expanded edition of Paul Williams' 1979 Portrait Records album A Little on the Windy Side!  We hope you enjoy this special preview! Paul Williams closed out a decade of remarkable productivity with 1979's A Little on the Windy Side, his one and only album for Epic Records' Portrait imprint.  Produced by his brother Mentor Williams in Nashville, Tennessee with the city's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Mentor Williams, Paul Williams

River Deep Mountain High: Ace Returns to the Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich Songbook

June 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sweet Things from Greenwich and Barry

With Sweet Things, Ace Records has picked a most apt title for its third volume of music from the Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry songbook (Ace CDCHD 1434).  Though Greenwich and Barry were united as husband and wife for just the short period of 1962-1965, and only worked together for a short time after that, a year hasn't gone by since when their enduring songs haven't been recorded and re-recorded.  The collection's 24 titles span 1963-1978 and blend hits and rarities from the duo with tracks

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Darlene Love, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector, The Crystals, The Shangri-Las, Various Artists

Invites You to Come to the Fair/Here Comes the Mississippi Showboat

May 29, 2015 By

Tennessee Ernie Ford Come to the Fair

Sepia brings together two albums by Tennessee Ernie Ford, from 1960 and 1962, on this new public domain-sourced release - both in stereo and complete on one CD.  Come to the Fair, billed as capturing Ford's performance at the Indiana State Fair in 1960, is considered one of the earliest live albums in the country genre!

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

A Date with Eydie Gorme

May 29, 2015 By

Date with Eydie

This U.K. public domain compilation brings together 26 tracks from the late, great Eydie Gorme recorded in the early 1960s, including the new-to-CD songs "Before Your Time" and "Sonny Boy."

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies January '69 - March '73

May 29, 2015 By

Hollies Changin Times

This 5-CD box set collects every commercially-released album track and non-album single from The Hollies recorded between January 1969 and March 1973, for a total of 92 songs (including some previously released rarities) over the course of six studio albums from Hollies Sings Dylan (1969) through the rare Out on the Road (1973).

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Full Circle/Other Voices

May 29, 2015 By

Doors Full Circle and Other Voices

The Doors' two post-Jim Morrison studio albums - 1971's Other Voices (which arrived just six months after L.A. Woman!) and 1972's Full Circle - are both presented on one CD and in individual, 180-gram vinyl replica editions.  The CD two-fer features one bonus track, the B-side "Treetrunk." Full Circle/Other Voices CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Other Voices LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Full Circle LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Break On Through: The Doors' "Other Voices" and "Full Circle" Come To CD, LP

May 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Doors Full Circle and Other Voices

A lost chapter of The Doors' story is finally coming to light this fall. On September 4, Rhino will reissue for the very first time on officially-sanctioned CD and 180-gram vinyl the two albums released by The Doors - John Densmore, guitarist Robby Krieger, and keyboardist Ray Manzarek - following the 1971 death of Jim Morrison: Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972). The albums will be made available as a two-CD set, newly remastered by The Doors' longtime associate and original Other

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

Gasoline Alley Bred: The Hollies' "Complete 1969-1973" Box Set Coming From Parlophone

May 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Hollies Changin Times

Parlophone is getting back on a carousel this July with the release of a new 5-CD box set from The Hollies.  Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies January '69 - March '73 follows up the label's 2011 collection The Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years: The Complete Hollies: April 1963 - October 1968.  The July 10 U.K. release collects every commercially-released album track and non-album single from the band recorded between January 1969 and March 1973, for a total of 92 songs (including some previously

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Hollies

Cherry Red's él Label Mines Jazz and Beyond with Django Reinhardt, Grant Green and More

May 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Grant Green Racing Green

Cherry Red's él label is in a jazz mood with three recent releases from two late legends of the guitar, Django Reinhardt and Grant Green, and one fondly-remembered group, The Temperance Seven! Though Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) lived to just 43 years of age, the Belgian-born French guitarist of Romani descent invented a wholly new vocabulary for jazz guitar, sometimes referred to as "gypsy jazz."  Able to use just two fingers on his left hand, he created a singular style of swing thanks to

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Jazz Tags: Django Reinhardt, Grant Green, The Temperance Seven

Going to the Country: "Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats" Chronicles Birth of Music City Country-Rock

May 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Dylan Cash and Nashville Cats

Two legendary artists headline a new anthology arriving on June 16, 2015 from Legacy Recordings.  Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, a 2-CD, 36-track compilation, serves as an audio companion and soundtrack to the exhibit of the same name currently on display at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame through December 31, 2016.  Like the exhibit, this new release explores the timeless sounds created at the intersection of country, folk and rock in Nashville between, roughly

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk Tags: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Simon and Garfunkel, Various Artists

Cajun Honey: Ace Collects Rare Tracks By New Orleans' Clarence "Frogman" Henry and Eddie Bo

May 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Clarence Frogman Henry Baby Aint That Love

Mardi Gras 2015 may have come and gone, but Ace Records is keeping the sound of New Orleans alive year-round, most recently with a pair of new releases from two venerable artists - Clarence "Frogman" Henry and Eddie Bo. Born in 1937, New Orleans native Clarence Henry was one of many musicians inspired by blues singer and pianist Henry Roeland "Roy" Byrd, a.k.a. Professor Longhair.  A pianist, trombonist and a vocalist with a croak that earned him the nickname "Frogman," the young Henry was

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Eddie Bo

You Can't Ever Come Down: Esoteric Revisits "The American Metaphysical Circus"

May 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

American Metaphysical Circus

"We were firmly in the American tradition of artistic and political radicalism intermixed with patriotism, and to thus establish a psychic 'distance' from The Beatles."  So stated Joseph Byrd in a 2004 interview excerpted in the liner notes to Esoteric Recordings' new reissue of 1969's The American Metaphysical Circus.  The album, credited to Joe Byrd and the Hippies, exemplified the adventuresome spirit of the era which led the venerable Columbia Records label to sign a number of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Joseph Byrd

Release Round-Up: Week of May 26

May 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Yes Progeny

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  We hope all of our U.S. readers enjoyed a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.  And now, without further ado, onto the music! Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Finally, after a brief delay, Progeny is here! This whopping 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 - the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs.  For those who don't need 14 discs, 2-CD and 3-LP

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Joel, Bruce Hornsby, Cy Coleman, Donna Summer, Labelle, Patti Labelle, The 5th Dimension, The Textones, Yes

The Lost Motown Album

May 25, 2015 By

Fantastic Four Lost Album

No, we're not talking about Reed and Sue Richards, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm; we're talking about one of Detroit's greatest vocal groups! The Fantastic Four's three-year stint at Motown resulted in just a couple of issued 45s but the quartet was scheduled for an album release...and, in true Motown fashion, recorded enough additional tracks to fill a second album! The Lost Motown Album presents the planned 1970 LP in its originally-intended sequence, and also adds more than a dozen bonus

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Hits, Singles and More

May 25, 2015 By

Donna Summer Hits Singles and More

Donna Summer's Geffen and Atlantic recordings, reissued last year in a series of deluxe reissues, have now been distilled for a 2-CD, 32-track budget-priced compilation featuring hits plus single edits, remixes and more.

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Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

Midnight Mission: Expanded Edition

May 22, 2015 By

Textones Midnight Mission

The Textones' 1984 debut album, featuring appearances by Gene Clark, Ry Cooder, Don Henley, and co-producer Barry Goldberg, is expanded by Omnivore in a new edition with 5 bonus tracks -  including 2 previously unissued live cuts!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock

Cedar Creek: Expanded Edition

May 22, 2015 By

Textones Cedar Creek

The second album by Carla Olson's band The Textones (featuring guest appearances by Ian McLagan, Howie Epstein and The Waters) gets expanded by Omnivore with an eight-song concert from Santa Cruz, CA recorded on November 20, 1987.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock

The Essential Bruce Hornsby

May 22, 2015 By

Essential Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby is the newest addition to Legacy's long-running Essential series with this 2-CD, 29-track volume touching on his work with The Range, The Noisemakers, solo and beyond.

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Up, Up and Away/Stoned Soul Picnic/The Magic Garden/The Age of Aquarius

May 22, 2015 By

Fifth Dimension Four Fer

Australia's Raven label reissues the first four albums by The 5th Dimension, originally released between 1967 and 1969, as a 2-CD set also including five previously issued bonus tracks.  Includes the group's legendary hits "Up, Up and Away," "Stoned Soul Picnic," "The Age of Aquarius," "Wedding Bell Blues," "Workin' on a Groovy Thing" and more!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

California Nights (Expanded Edition)

May 22, 2015 By

Lesley Gore California Nights

Ace expands Lesley Gore's classic 1967 album featuring the title track by Marvin Hamlisch and productions by both Bob Crewe and Jack Nitzsche.  Ace's reissue adds an additional dozen highlights from Lesley's 1965 albums My Town, My Guy And Me and All About Love plus three mid-'60s recordings that first surfaced from the Mercury vaults in the 1990s.

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Formats: CD

Country Charley Pride/The Country Way/Pride of Country Music/Make Mine Country

May 22, 2015 By

Charley Pride Four Fer

BGO combines four albums from country legend Charley Pride - originally issued between 1966 and 1968 - on a new, slipcased 2-CD set.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

Me and the First Lady/We're Gonna Hold On/Golden Ring

May 22, 2015 By

George and Tammy Three Fer

BGO brings together three albums from George Jones and Tammy Wynette on two CDs, from 1972, 1973 and 1976, respectively.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

I'm in Love Again: Expanded Edition

May 22, 2015 By

Patti Labelle Im in Love Again

Funky Town Grooves adds four single versions - "Love, Need and Want You," "I'm in Love Again," "If Only You Knew" and "I'll Never, Never Give Up" - to a newly-remastered edition of Patti LaBelle's sixth studio album (and second for Philadelphia International Records).

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

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