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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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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Kinks

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

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

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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

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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

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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

The Year In Reissues: The 2014 Gold Bonus Disc Awards

December 30, 2014 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

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Welcome to The Second Disc’s Fifth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As with every year’s awards, our goals are simple: to recognize as many of the year’s most essential reissues and catalogue titles as possible, and to celebrate as many of those labels, producers and artists who make these releases happen in an increasingly-challenging retail landscape.  The labels you’ll read about below have, by and large, bucked the trends to prove that there’s still a demand for physical catalogue music

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Kooper, Billy Joel, Blood Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Dimitri Tiomkin, Donna Loren, Frank Sinatra, Pugwash, Salsoul Orchestra, Tony Hatch

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Captain Beefheart, "SUN ZOOM SPARK 1970 to 1972"

December 24, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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“Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.” So the late Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, is quoted on the cover of the fourth disc of Rhino’s new box set SUN ZOOM SPARK: 1970 to 1972. It’s appropriate and ironic that the aphorism is featured on the sleeve of that disc, a collection of never-before-heard outtakes from the Captain and his Magic Band. But the tracks are far from mistakes; instead, they offer a window onto the process with which Van Vliet created his unmistakable brand of

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Captain Beefheart

Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 23 and December 30

December 23, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Well, these are incredibly light weeks for new releases! Thankfully, the Kritzerland and Audio Fidelity labels have stepped up with a quartet of titles to close out 2014 on a high note! Cy Coleman, John Kander, Harvey Schmidt and Charles Strouse, Classical Broadway (Kritzerland) (available for pre-order now) Kritzerland remasters this 1992 album (originally released on the Bay Cities label) featuring classical compositions from four of Broadway's most legendary composers including Cy

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Blood Sweat & Tears, Charles Strouse, Cy Coleman, Harvey Schmidt, John Kander, Patrick Williams, The Guess Who

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Suzi Quatro, "The Girl from Detroit City"

December 19, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Susan Kay Quatro, a.k.a. Suzi Quatro, has sold 55 million singles and LPs, scored five U.K. Top 10s  and twelve Top 50s including two chart-toppers, followed in the footsteps of Ethel Merman onstage, appeared on television’s Happy Days, and influenced a “Who’s Who” including Joan Jett and The Go-Go’s.  Quatro is billed as The Girl from Detroit City on her first-ever retrospective box set which has been recently released by Cherry Red Records.  This 4-CD, 82-song book-style box is packed with

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Suzi Quatro

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Simon and Garfunkel, "The Complete Albums Collection"

December 17, 2014 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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Queens Boys Make Good, a headline might have read of young Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel when “The Sound of Silence,” a bleakly beautiful, acoustic snapshot of disillusionment and isolation, sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 on New Year’s Day 1966. Simon and Garfunkel were unlikely candidates for pop stardom. Neither English major Simon nor fine arts (later architecture) major Garfunkel hid their cerebral, intellectual tendencies. As the era of the singer-songwriter blossomed in the wake of Bob

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Simon and Garfunkel

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Joni Mitchell, "Love Has Many Faces"

December 16, 2014 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

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Joni Mitchell wasn't yet 25 when she first gifted the world her song "Both Sides Now." Judy Collins made its first commercially-released recording; soon artists were lining up to record it, including Frank Sinatra. The 25-year old Mitchell herself released it in 1969. In what might be her most famous song, she asserted, "I really don't know love at all." Flash-forward to the present day, and the 71-year old singer-songwriter-artist seems well-acquainted with the vagaries of that most universal

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Joni Mitchell

To Everything There Is A Season: Raven Reissues "The Byrds"

December 16, 2014 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

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When the album simply entitled Byrds arrived on David Geffen’s Asylum label in 1973, it had been only about a year-and-a-half since the last record from the California folk-rock heroes. But the original line-up of Gene Clark, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke hadn’t recorded a complete album together since 1965. Byrds would be the group’s first long-player for a label other than Columbia Records – and the final Byrds album to date. Australia’s Raven Records label has

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Byrds

Omnivore Boils Ron Nagle's "Bad Rice" In Deluxe Edition of 1970 Cult Classic

December 15, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Today, Ron Nagle may be best known for his groundbreaking work as a ceramic sculptor.  The "baron of sculptural intelligence" has been pushing the boundaries of art for decades now with his award-winning variations on the basic form of a cup.  The San Francisco Gate recently praised the "master ceramic sculptor and painter whose original sense of color is equally informed by Mark Rothko and the hot rod aesthetic."  But for music fans, Nagle is known for his double life as a singer, songwriter

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Ron Nagle

Release Round-Up: Week of December 15

December 15, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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The Kinks, Anthology 1964-1971 (BMG/InGrooves, 2014) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Producer Andrew Sandoval (the recent The Monkees: Super Deluxe Edition) helms this kink-sized 5-CD kollection of hits, demos, interviews, alternate mixes, session outtakes, 25 previously unavailable tracks, an exclusive 7-inch single and copious, new liner notes! Dionne Warwick, Finder of Lost Loves: Expanded Edition (Arista/Funky Town Grooves) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 2-CD edition of Warwick's

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Stephen Sondheim, Sting, The Kinks, The Manhattans, Trip Shakespeare

Tony Joe White, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Ray Kennedy Highlight Real Gone's February

December 10, 2014 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

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From The Apollo to the swamps of Louisiana, Real Gone Music has a whirlwind musical tour planned for its February 3, 2015 slate! The centerpiece of the February batch just might be the first-ever complete collection of Louisiana man Tony Joe White's Warner Bros. recordings!  Singer-songwriter White ("Willie and Laura Mae Jones," "Polk Salad Annie") has one of the most distinctive voices in southern soul, and Real Gone's new collection celebrates a major period his career with a new 2-CD set

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, R&B/Soul Tags: George Jones, John Hall, Ray Kennedy, Tammy Wynette, The Grateful Dead, Tony Joe White

Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Monkees, "The Monkees: Super Deluxe Edition"

December 9, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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For The Monkees, the third time's the charm. The 1966 debut album from Davy, Micky, Peter and Mike has been expanded twice before on CD - first in 1994 on one CD and then in 2006 as a two-CD set. Rhino Handmade has recently unveiled the third and most comprehensive release of this album yet, and with 45 previously unreleased bonus cuts among its 100 songs, The Monkees: Super Deluxe Edition (R2-543027) is not just Monkee mania, but Monkee manna. The story of this American fab four has been told

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of December 9

December 9, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Frank Sinatra, London (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 3-CD/1-DVD swingin’ affair spans 1953-1984 and features over 50 previously unreleased tracks on CD and DVD - all dedicated to Sinatra's performances in the great city.  At its centerpiece is an expanded and remastered edition of Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain, the Chairman's only studio album recorded outside of the United States!  Watch for Joe's full review soon! The Beatles, 1962-1966 / 1967-1970 / 1 /

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Supertramp, The Beatles, The Jam

Holiday Gift Guide Review: "The Classic Christmas Album" Series

December 5, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Johnny Mathis. Frank Sinatra. Perry Como. Steve Vai? Menudo? When it comes to Christmas music, Legacy Recordings doesn’t pull its punches. The label’s series of Classic Christmas Album releases has become a bit of an annual tradition, and this year’s batch of single- and various-artist anthologies once again draws on names both expected and unexpected. While the packages are bare-bones, with no liner notes (but happily with full credits and discographical annotation), the music most certainly is

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Il Divo, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Various Artists

Let Them Show You: RPM Highlights 1960s' International Acts with Four New Releases

December 4, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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RPM Records has recently released four CDs charting the history of three acts that might not have gained much international attention outside of their home countries, but are still worthy of attention.  From Sweden, RPM has an anthology for The Shanes and two expanded editions of The Mascots’ only two LPs; from France comes the complete recordings of the chanteuse known as Pussy Cat.  Each of these releases is designed to bring greater attention to these little-known artists. The Shanes

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Mascots, Pussy Cat, The Shanes

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