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Reviews: Two From Real Gone - John Hall and Ray Kennedy

February 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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It’s telling that John Hall’s Wikipedia page identifies him as “John Hall (New York politician).” For despite a career that saw him found Orleans, pen such instantly identifiable pop hits as “Dance with Me” and “Still the One,” and organize the 1979 No Nukes concerts alongside such heavy hitters as Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and Bonnie Raitt, Hall may be best known today as a member of the House of Representatives for New York between 2007 and 2011 and as a longtime environmental activist. Real

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: John Hall, Ray Kennedy

Coming Back For You: Ronnie James Dio's "Elf" Returns

February 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Elf

Who’s that gleefully malevolent-looking elf? Why, it’s none other than the late Ronnie James Dio, legendary frontman of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell and of course, Dio. Between 1972 and 1975, Dio (under his real name of Ronald Padavona) led the band Elf for three albums. The first of those LPs, the eponymous Elf, has just been reissued by Cherry Red’s Hear No Evil imprint in a newly-remastered edition. Singer/bassist Dio founded Elf in 1967 as The Electric Elves, alongside

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Elf, Ronnie James Dio

Hey Joe! Rare Early Jimi Hendrix Recordings Collected By Legacy, Experience Hendrix

February 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Curtis Knight You Cant Use My Name

With Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings having previously reissued Jimi Hendrix’s core catalogue as well as more unexpected offerings like The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge, where to go next? The answer is back to the very beginning – which, as always, is a very good place to start. You Can’t Use My Name: Curtis Knight & The Squires (Featuring Jimi Hendrix) The RSVP/PPX Sessions is the first in a series of releases intended to place the legendary guitarist’s pre-fame recordings in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, R&B/Soul Tags: Curtis Knight and the Squires, Jimi Hendrix

Countdown To "Physical Graffiti" Begins: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Does Q&A, Expanded Album Streams Tomorrow

February 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Physical Graffiti

The wait for the latest volume of Led Zeppelin's remastered and expanded reissue series is almost over! Tomorrow - Thursday, February 19 - Yahoo Live will stream the 40th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition Premiere. The complete, previously unreleased companion audio from the upcoming deluxe edition will be unveiled, followed by a live Q&A with legendary axeman and album producer Jimmy Page in front of a live audience at Olympic Studios in London, the same studio

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Led Zeppelin

Real Gone Has "Rhapsodies" In April From Dusty Springfield, Rick Wakeman, Jesse Winchester and More

February 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Dusty Springfield Faithful

One surefire cure for the winter blues is to think ahead to the warmer climates awaiting us in spring.  And Real Gone Music is seeing to it that April 2015 will shower not only with rain but with a full slate of new releases! This batch includes a sprawling set from Yes’ Rick Wakeman produced the great Tony Visconti, two more visits down memory lane with Grateful Dead, plus some rare music from underrated singer/songwriters Craig Fuller and Eric Kaz, and Jesse Winchester.  And that’s not

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Cannonball Adderley, Craig Fuller, Dusty Springfield, Eric Kaz, Jesse Winchester, Rick Wakeman, The Crumbsuckers, The Grateful Dead, Yes

Review: Chicago, "XXXIV: Live in '75"

February 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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When they took the stage at Largo, Maryland's Capital Centre in June, 1975, nostalgia was foremost on the minds of the members of Chicago.  Early in the set preserved by Rhino on Chicago XXXIV: Live in '75, comments are made from the stage with a great deal of surprise: "[Here's] another blast from the past!"  "Nostalgia is in nowadays."  "We would like to be nostalgic."  Would the Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane and James Pankow of 1975 been able to conceive that they'd be playing

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago, The Beach Boys

Release Round-Up: Week of February 17

February 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

pretenders box

  The Pretenders, 1979-1999 (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This mega-box features all of Edsel's expanded Pretenders reissues, totaling the band's eight Sire/Warner Bros. albums across 14 CDs and 8 DVDs (with six of the titles as 2-CD/1-DVD sets and two as 1-CD/1-DVD sets).  Wow!  All of the box set's albums are also available individually (see below)!  All track listings and discography can be found here. The Pretenders, 1979-1999 individual CD/DVD reissues

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Pepper, Bob Marley, Chicago, Glen Campbell, Kiki Dee, Pretenders, The Alan Parsons Project, The Box Tops

Jethro Tull Returns to "The Gallery" with New "Minstrel" 2-CD/2-DVD Box Set

February 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

JT Minstrel

Parlophone’s deluxe series of Jethro Tull reissues continues on May 5 with a book-style 2-CD/2-DVD set of the band’s eighth studio album, Minstrel in the Gallery.  This deluxe Minstrel, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the gold-certified album, follows last November’s reissue of Tull’s album No. 7, WarChild as well as expansions of Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, Benefit and Aqualung.  (The latter received a super deluxe box treatment.)  Both Steven Wilson and Jakko Jakszyk are involved in

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

Spirit in the Night: Closing Night of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" Tour Comes To Archive Series

February 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

Bruce Tower Theater 1975

Bruce Springsteen is continuing his live Archive Series of CDs which began last year with the release of the Apollo Theater, New York City concert of March 12, 2012 and the Agora Theatre, Cleveland show of August 9, 1978 (from The Darkness on the Edge of Town tour).  The newest release, for which pre-orders began Tuesday, takes fans back to the Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, on December 31, 1975 when Springsteen and the E Street Band held the stage for an electrifying night. The last night of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Make Me Smile: Mobile Fidelity Brings "Chicago Transit Authority," "Chicago II" To SACD

February 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Chicago II

Does anybody really know what time it is?  Happily, it’s time for Mobile Fidelity to continue its series of limited edition hybrid stereo SACDs for the Chicago catalogue.  MoFi has previously issued 1973’s Chicago VI on SACD and 1984’s Chicago 17 on 24k Gold CD, but now the label has turned back the clock to the very beginning.  And when the very beginning is the one-two punch of 1969’s Chicago Transit Authority and 1970’s Chicago II on SACD, it’s a very good place to start, indeed. Long

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Categories: News Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago

Release Round-Up: Week of February 3

February 3, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Tony Joe White: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Songs of Inspiration (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Bobby Lance: First Peace/Rollin’ Man (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) / Jerry Williams: Gone (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Various Artists: Apollo Saturday Night/Saturday Night at the Uptown (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / John Hall: Power (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Ray Kennedy: Ray Kennedy (Expanded

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, George Jones, Grateful Dead, Tammy Wynette, Tony Joe White

They're Gonna Step On You Again: Esoteric Reissues Bakerloo, Gasoline Band, John Kongos

January 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bakerloo

Esoteric Recordings closed out 2014 with a trio of typically eclectic, and yes, esoteric rock releases deserving of a spotlight – including a pair of albums produced by Gus Dudgeon and a lost horn-rock LP in the tradition of Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears! Before joining Colosseum and replacing Peter Frampton in Humble Pie, Dave “Clem” Clempson was a member of the blues-rock trio Bakerloo.  Though Bakerloo only released one album, its members – Clempson, Terry Poole and Keith Baker – went

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bakerloo, John Kongos, The Gasoline Band

Children Of The (Vinyl) Revolution: The Who, T Rex Turn To Vinyl For Upcoming Box Sets, Reissues

January 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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The 50th anniversary celebration of The Who is rolling on.  The band kicked off its golden festivities with the Fall 2014 release of The Who Hits 50, a compilation available in various formats, and with the announcement of a tour of the same name.  Now, the band has confirmed a number of vinyl releases to arrive this spring. On March 24, all eleven of The Who's albums will be reissued in remastered editions pressed on 180-gram vinyl, joined by a 2-LP edition of The Who Hits 50 collection

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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

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

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

January 22, 2015 By Ted Frank 11 Comments

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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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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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Magnificent! Esoteric Revisits The Moody Blues' Debut With Lavish 2-CD Expanded Edition

January 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Magnificent Moodies

Fifty years ago this coming July, Decca released the modestly-titled The Magnificent Moodies, the first long-player from Birmingham band The Moody Blues.  It would prove to be the only album release for the original quintet, but the Moodies – including founding member Graeme Edge – are still going strong today.  The group’s landmark 50th has recently been marked by Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint with the reissue of The Magnificent Moodies in a deluxe, 2-CD mini-box set format. The

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Moody Blues

Release Round-Up: Week of January 20

January 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Jellyfish, Bellybutton and Spilt Milk (Omnivore) Bellybutton: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Spilt Milk: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Here are the deluxe editions that fans of the cult '90s pop revivalists have been waiting for!  A total of 51 bonus tracks are spread across these freshly-remastered reissues of Jellyfish's two studio albums.  Look for Joe's review later today! Universal Togetherness Band, Universal Togetherness Band (Numero Group) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Numero

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Jellyfish, King Crimson, Red Garland, Tony Bennett, Universal Togetherness Band

Souvenirs: Raven Compiles Best of Foghat, Four Albums from John Prine

January 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Foghat Drivin Wheels

The Raven Records label closed out its 2014 with a pair of double-CD sets reliving the seventies – one, a retrospective of Foghat’s first decade, and another, a complete collection of John Prine’s first four albums. Foghat’s Drivin’ Wheels: Best of 1972-1982 brings together 32 tracks from the FM radio titans, spanning the period of 1972-1982 and culled from ten studio and live albums.  The blues-rock band was founded in Manchester, England in 1971 by three Savoy Brown expatriates –

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: Foghat, John Prine

Varese Vintage Round-Up: Label Reissues Seals and Crofts, Danny Elfman, Bill Medley, More

January 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Seals and Crofts One on One

Today, we’re spotlighting a number of reissues you might have missed from the Varese Sarabande label which arrived in the final weeks of 2014! The 1977 coming-of-age drama One on One starred young Robby Benson as high school basketball star Henry, who must overcome obstacles – both romantic and academic – to get through his freshman year of college.  The score was provided by Charles Fox (“Happy Days,” “Ready to Take a Chance Again”) who also collaborated on a number of songs for the movie

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Medley, Brian Wilson, Danny Elfman, Malo, Mark-Almond, Paul Williams, Riot, Seals and Crofts, Shawn Phillips, Trevor Rabin

Real Gone's March Slate Boasts Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Foghat, J. Geils Band - and Second Disc Records, Too!

January 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Peggy Lee At Last

We hope that nobody missed yesterday’s big news of The Second Disc’s partnership with Real Gone Music to create Second Disc Records, launching March 10 with a pair of releases from Johnny Mathis and Bob Crewe!  But that’s not all that Real Gone has on tap for March release.   With a total of eight titles ranging from psychedelia to standards, this may be one of the label’s most eclectic release batches yet! Real Gone is kicking off the month on March 3 with two iconic classic rock albums on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bettye LaVette, Bob Crewe, Foghat, Johnny Mathis, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Shanti, The J. Geils Band

Release Round-Up: Week of January 13

January 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

fantasia legacy collection

The Legacy Collection - Fantasia Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 4-CD presentation of Walt Disney's animated masterwork features both the Leopold Stokowski and Irwin Kostal recordings of the complete score, plus bonus material, in a deluxe hardbound format. Johnny Winter, Remembrance - Volume One (Friday Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) Friday Music celebrates the late, great Johnny Winter with this new set licensed from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Elvis Costello, Johnny Winter, Neal Hefti, Woody Allen

The Cryan' Shames' "Sugar and Spice" Goes Mono In Now Sounds' Expanded Reissue

January 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

cryan shames sugar

When the venerable Goddard Lieberson, President of Columbia Records, announced the ascendancy of Clive Davis to a veep position at the label in 1965, the promotion of the younger man heralded for a new sound at Columbia. Lieberson had made Columbia the leader in the fields of classical and Broadway cast recordings, and was looking to position the label at the vanguard of rock, too. A number of new signings followed. Among those acts signed to the industry leader was The Cryan’ Shames, favorites

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Cryan' Shames

Reviews: Two From Omnivore - Big Star, "Live in Memphis" and Roger Taylor, "The Best"

January 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

big star live

Welcome to Part One of our two-part review round-up featuring some of Omnivore Recordings’ releases from late 2014! Just when one thinks the Big Star well has run dry, Omnivore Recordings surprises with a treat of the magnitude of Live in Memphis (OVCD-107). On October 29, 1994 at Memphis’ New Daisy Theatre, Big Star founding members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens, were joined by Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies for an overflowing set of Big Star classics and covers in front of an

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, Queen, Roger Taylor

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