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Shadows in the Night

January 27, 2015 By

Bob Shadows

It's not a catalogue title, but it's one of the most intriguing of the year nonetheless - Bob Dylan's 36th studio album and first dedicated to the Great American Songbook.  Recorded at Capitol Studios, Shadows in the Night features ten Dylan interpretations of songs previously recorded by Frank Sinatra and written by Irving Berlin, Cy Coleman, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Harold Adamson and Jimmy McHugh, and others including the Chairman himself ("I'm a Fool to Want You").

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Dick's Picks Vol. 12 - Providence Civic Center 6/26/74 & Boston Garden 6/28/74

January 27, 2015 By

dicks picks 12

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Ray Kennedy (Expanded Edition)

January 27, 2015 By

ray kennedy

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Power (Expanded Edition)

January 27, 2015 By

john hall power

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Apollo Saturday Night/Saturday Night at the Uptown

January 27, 2015 By

apollo saturday night two fer1

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Gone

January 27, 2015 By

jerry williams gone2

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

First Peace/Rollin' Man

January 27, 2015 By

bobby lance3

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Songs of Inspiration

January 27, 2015 By

george and tammy inspiration3

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Gospel

The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings

January 27, 2015 By

tony joe white wb8

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country

What's a Matter Baby: RPM Rounds Up Timi Yuro Rarities

January 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Timi Yuro Rarities

The late Rosemary “Timi” Yuro, a.k.a. “the little girl with the big voice,” is still fondly remembered today by music aficionados for her full-throated rendition of “Hurt,” a No. 4 Pop/No. 2 Easy Listening hit in 1961. Signed at first to Liberty Records, Timi went on to record a number of other hits including Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “The Love of a Boy” (No. 44 Pop, 1962) and producer Clyde Otis and Joy Byers’ "What's a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You?)” (No. 12 Pop, 1962). Through two

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Timi Yuro

Release Round-Up: Week of January 27

January 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rainbow A Light

Johnny Mathis, You Light Up My Life/Mathis Magic and The Best Days of My Life (Funky Town Grooves) You Light Up My Life/Mathis Magic: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Best Days of My Life: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Funky Town Grooves has not one, but two, releases from the legendary Johnny Mathis!  You Light Up My Life (1978) joins the never-before-on-CD Mathis Magic (1979) on one disc, while FTG's The Best Days of My Life expands the 1979 album with five bonus tracks, two of which are

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Johnny Mathis, Johnny Winter, Paul Glass, Rainbow, Ron Nagle, Rush, T Rex, The Shadows of Knight, The Standells

Soul Spotlight: Linda Jones, Barbara Lynn Get Complete Treatment from Real Gone, SoulMusic

January 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Barbara Lynn Complete

Of all the great labels famous for soul and R&B, few could boast the pedigree of Atlantic Records. Atlantic’s commitment to quality soul music extended beyond just the famous names such as Aretha Franklin or Solomon Burke. An Atlantic label on an artist was a stamp of quality. SoulMusic Records and Real Gone Music have recently released collections from two underrated artists from the Atlantic family of labels. Linda Jones scored only one hit in her too-short 28 years: 1967’s

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Barbara Lynn, Linda Jones

Harmless Readies Massive 10-Disc "Northern Soul Time Capsule"

January 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Hot on the heels of the 2014 release of the film Northern Soul and its soundtrack, Demon Music Group’s Harmless Records imprint is celebrating the R&B subgenre with what’s likely its most exhaustive chronicle ever: the 8-CD/2-DVD box set The Odyssey: A Northern Soul Time Capsule. This massive set, due on February 16, has been co-compiled by Harmless’ chief and 1970s Northern Soul DJ Ian Dewhirst, and features diverse tracks from artists including The Spinners, Chuck Jackson, Gladys Knight

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Various Artists

Gangster of Love: The Essential Early Years

January 25, 2015 By

Johnny Winter Gangster

Airline Records/Fuel 2000 collects two discs and 36 tracks of late bluesman Johnny Winter in his pre-Columbia years, recorded for such labels as KRCO, Frolic, Jin and Todd.  Bill Dahl supplies seven pages of detailed liner notes, but the booklet lacks any discographical annotation.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, R&B/Soul

Live on Tour - 1966!

January 24, 2015 By

The Standells Live on Tour

The "Dirty Water" boys are back with this 10-track set recorded in 1966 at the University of Michigan featuring "Sunny Afternoon," "Gloria," "Good Lovin'," "Please Please Please," and of course, Boston's favorite song!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Live 1966

January 24, 2015 By

Shadows of Knight Live

Sundazed has 16 tracks of raw garage rock from The Shadows of Knight ("Gloria") recorded at Chicago-area venue The Cellar in 1966, including three previously unreleased tracks!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Invitation to Openness

January 23, 2015 By

Invitation

Omnivore revisits a soul-jazz classic with this expanded reissue of pianist Les McCann's 1972 Atlantic album.  Invitation features one continuous 26-minute improvisation featuring Yusuf Lateef, Cornell Dupree, Bernard Purdie, and Alphonse Mouzon.  This reissue adds new liner notes by Peter Relic based on interviews with the album's key personnel including producer Joel Dorn before his death, and boasts one bonus track - a live version of McCann favorite "Compared to What?" with Buddy Guy on

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz

RPM Round-Up: Label Collects Mick Fleetwood's Early Days with Bo Street Runners Plus Mark Wirtz, Pelican

January 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bo Street Runners

As three recent titles prove, Cherry Red’s RPM label leaves no stone unturned in its pursuit of rare pop music to issue on CD, living up to its credo “By Collectors – For Collectors.” Much like The Artwoods (also recently the subject of a compilation from RPM), The Bo Street Runners were among the exciting mod R&B revivalist bands that London had to offer in the mid-sixties. However, The Runners – like The Artwoods, The Action and so many others – never attained the top tier of commercial

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bo Street Runners, Mark Wirtz, Mick Fleetwood, Pelican, The Matchmakers

Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay

January 22, 2015 By

Fotheringay

This 3 CD/1 DVD box set promises to be "the most comprehensive compilation yet of the group's recordings," including original album tracks, demos, alternate takes, previously unreleased live recordings and, for the first time, the official release of the seven existing tracks which Fotheringay recorded in session for BBC radio. The final disc, a DVD, has the four songs recorded by the group for German TV show Beat Club, effectively doubling the existing footage of Sandy Denny in performance. Two

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

The Legacy Collection: Pinocchio

January 22, 2015 By

Pinocchio

The classic 1940 animated film Pinocchio celebrates its 75th anniversary in style with this Legacy Collection volume featuring the complete original soundtrack on Disc One, plus three newly-recorded "Lost Chords" and five bonus tracks performed by Cliff Edwards, a.k.a. Jiminy Cricket.

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Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks

Review: The Kinks, "Muswell Hillbillies: Legacy Edition"

January 22, 2015 By Ted Frank 11 Comments

muswell

Ted’s checking in today with a look at one of the finest reissues of the last quarter of 2014: the CD/DVD Legacy Edition of The Kinks’ Muswell Hillbillies! - JM For God’s sake…Wanna have a cuppa tea with The Kinks…?! It’s the dead of winter and what better way to warm up these days then to spend some quality time with Ray Davies and company’s take on Americana, glam rock, and a touch of vaudeville on their 1971 classic album, Muswell Hillbillies? Taking its name from The Kinks’ cosmopolitan

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Something Good: Legacy Expands "The Sound of Music," Classic Soundtrack Also Comes to SACD and Vinyl

January 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sound of Music

The hills are alive again! On March 10, Legacy Recordings will reissue RCA Victor’s chart-topping 1965 soundtrack to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s five-time Academy Award-winning The Sound of Music in a new 50th anniversary edition to coincide with the golden anniversary release on Blu-ray.  Collectors will note that expanded CD reissues of the classic musical soundtrack starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are as inevitable as raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens; editions have

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Julie Andrews, Rodgers and Hammerstein

Unicorn

January 21, 2015 By

T Rex Unicorn

Tyrannosaurus Rex's third album Unicorn, from 1969, continued the duo's association with producer Tony Visconti, and introduced such favorites as "Iscariot," "Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat)" and "The Misty Coast Of Albany." This new 2-CD gatefold Deluxe Edition contains the mono 2014 remaster of the original album on CD 1, plus copious bonus material including non-album single A and B-sides; 5 songs recorded for John Peel's Top Gear; and 3 songs previously only available on the 20th Century

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk

The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Edition

January 21, 2015 By

Sound of Music

To mark its 50th anniversary, Legacy expands the classic 1965 film soundtrack to Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music with previously unissued material, bringing it up to 27 tracks on one CD.

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Unbroken Chain: Rhino Celebrates 50 Years of Grateful Dead with New 2-CD Anthology

January 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Best of Grateful Dead

“What a long, strange trip it’s been,” asserted the Grateful Dead on 1970’s American Beauty. It’s doubtful that the band members could have imagined that the long, strange trip would still be continuing in 2015 – 45 years after “Truckin’” and 50 years after Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann first came together. 50th anniversary plans have recently been revealed including a documentary from director Amir Bar-Lev and executive producer Martin Scorsese and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Grateful Dead

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