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Release Round-Up: Week of May 20

May 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

ChangesOneBowie

Welcome to this week's packed Release Round-Up! David Bowie, ChangesOneBowie (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ChangesOneBowie returns from Parlophone in a 40th anniversary edition available on vinyl, CD and digital formats.  Originally issued on RCA in May 20, 1976, ChangesOneBowie was the first key compilation album from superstar David Bowie.  Collecting songs dating back to 1969, the 11-track album introduced the single "John, I'm Only Dancing" on LP

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Adam & The Ants, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Marvin Hamlisch, Mudcrutch, The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson

The Very Best of The Highwaymen

May 16, 2016 By

Highwaymen Very Best

Legacy brings together 16 classic tracks from the collective of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings - a.k.a. The Highwaymen - including the Jimmy Webb composition that gave the group its name. Four previously unreleased tracks make their debut - a rendition of Bob Dylan's "One Too Many Mornings" as well as live versions of "City of New Orleans," "Big River," and "The King is Gone (So Are You)."  Mickey Raphael, Don Was and Chips Moman have produced these

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

Live: American Outlaws

May 16, 2016 By

Highwaymen Live

Joining Legacy's release this week of The Very Best of The Highwaymen is this new 3-CD/1-DVD box.  Live: American Outlaws features three discs of never-before-heard concert performances from Messrs. Cash, Nelson, Kristofferson and Jennings including a complete performance from Nassau Coliseum in 1990 and selections from Farm Aid 1992 and 1993.  (A studio outtake version "One Too Many Mornings" is included here as a bonus track; it's also on the Very Best compilation.)  The DVD has the Nassau

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Country

A Hard Act To Follow: Raven Collects George Jones' Epic Years

May 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

George Jones Tour De Force

George Jones (1931-2013) joined Epic Records in 1972, announcing his artistic rebirth with a self-titled album also sometimes known as We Can Make It after the top 10 hit song.  Make it he did, as Jones stayed with Epic and producer Billy Sherrill for nearly 20 years.  Raven Records has recently collected five of The Possum's prime Epic endeavors on one 2-CD set as The Tour de Force 1972-1980. This new collection features the following complete albums: A Picture of Me (Without You)

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: George Jones

The Complete Monument and Columbia Album Collection

May 12, 2016 By

Kris Kristofferson Complete Monument Box

This 16-CD box set features 11 studio albums and three concerts (two previously unreleased) plus two more discs of bonus tracks from the legendary, prolific singer/songwriter who heralded the "New Nashville" sound as he brought country music into a more contemporary vein.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country

The Best of All Possible Worlds: Legacy to Release Box Set of Kris Kristofferson's Complete Monument Albums

May 12, 2016 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Kris Kristofferson Complete Monument Box

Legacy Recordings has been releasing comprehensive album collections for some of their artists for the past several years with this year's Elvis Presley collection being the latest.  The label has just announced another of these box sets, this time devoted to a star of the country genre: Kris Kristofferson.  The Complete Monument and Columbia Album Collection is due to be released on June 10 and the 16-disc set features 11 studio albums and three concerts (two unreleased) plus two more discs of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge

Release Round-Up: Week of May 6

May 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

The Cars Moving in Stereo

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring Second Disc Records' very first title of 2016, plus more fantastic releases from our partners at Real Gone Music and titles from Brian Wilson, The Cars, and more! Bobby Darin, Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We know that you all know about this one...it's the ultimate celebration of Bobby Darin's time at Motown Records on 2 CDs, newly remastered from the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobby Darin, Brian Wilson, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, Ryan Adams, The Beau Brummels, The Cars, The Move, The Rides, The Staple Singers

The Electric Horseman: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack

May 2, 2016 By

The Electric Horseman OST

Varese is returning the soundtrack to Sydney Pollack's filmThe Electric Horseman to CD in a newly-remastered edition.  The Columbia Records album features five songs performed by the movie's co-star Willie Nelson (including the hit "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") as well as six tracks from Dave Grusin's instrumental score.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of April 29

April 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rock Hall Live Volume One

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson (Vinyl) (Ace) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Ace brings its acclaimed 2015 Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson compilation to 180-gram white vinyl in a slimmed-down form (12 tracks vs. 25 on the CD) with all of Ace's deluxe hallmarks of packaging and annotation!  The album features Darian Sahanaja of The Brian Wilson Band and The Wondermints along with Kirsty MacColl, Carmen

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Bad Company, Barbara Dickson, Brian Wilson, Cream, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Various Artists

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour: Country Special

April 12, 2016 By

Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour Country Special

This new DVD release from Shout! Factory features new-to-DVD performances from Glen Campbell as well as special guests Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Mel Tillis, Minnie Pearl and Jerry Reed on songs including "Folsom Prison Blues," "Act Naturally," "Born to Lose," and more!  It's a 50+-minute TV country celebration as only Glen could have delivered!

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Formats: DVD Genre: Country

Not Ready to Make Nice: Dixie Chicks Revisit Four Classics On Vinyl

April 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces

This Friday, April 15, The Dixie Chicks will be flying high with Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings' vinyl reissues of their 1998 breakthrough Wide Open Spaces and next three albums Fly (1999), Home (2002) and Taking The Long Way (2006).  All four albums have been newly remastered and pressed on 150-gram 12-inch vinyl. These four remastered LPs arrive one day before the band launches its fifth world tour.  DCX MMXVI World Tour kicks off in Antwerp, Belgium and concludes October 10, 2016

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Dixie Chicks

Some Velvet Morning: Ace Salutes Lee Hazlewood on "Shazam!"

April 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Lee Hazlewood Shazam

The title of Ace's new entry in its Songwriter Series - Shazam! - doesn't refer to Captain Marvel's magic word or Gomer Pyle's favorite expression.  Rather, the new compilation CD is titled after Duane Eddy's (naturally) twangy western gallop "Shazam!" penned by Eddy and maverick producer Lee Hazlewood and released in 1960.  (Okay, Duane and Lee likely did take its name from C.C. Beck and Bill Parker's popular comic book superhero!)  Shazam! and Other Instrumentals Written by Lee Hazlewood is

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Billy Strange, Desi and Billy, Dino, Duane Eddy, Jack Nitzsche, Lee Hazlewood, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of March 25

March 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Dylan Live 1964 Bootleg SACD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall (Audio Fidelity)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall comes to hybrid 5.0 multichannel SACD for the first time. Audio Fidelity's release will boast a full booklet (as on the original standard CD release) and is playable in stereo on all CD players.  Read more here! Various

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Kleeer, Mark Murphy, Sarah Vaughan, Stargard, The Kinks, Various Artists, Winfield Parker

I Saw The Light: Music from the Motion Picture

March 20, 2016 By

I Saw the Light Soundtrack

Legacy has a digital download of the soundtrack to the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light.  The album, co-produced by Rodney Crowell, features Tom Hiddleston as Williams performing six songs including "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It," "Hey Good Lookin'," "Jambalaya" and "Why Don't You Love Me."  It also features vintage recordings by Eddy Arnold, Eartha Kitt, Jo Stafford, The Delmore Brothers and other artists.

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Formats: Digital Download Genre: Country, Soundtracks

Dan Fogelberg, Johnny Paycheck, Beau Brummels, More Join Bobby Darin On Real Gone's May Slate

March 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Dan Fogelberg Definitive Anthology

Real Gone Music has just announced its May release slate, and with rock, jazz, gospel, country, pop and beyond, it's one of the label's most diverse months yet! Naturally, we're partial to the May 6 release of Bobby Darin's Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years from Real Gone and our own Second Disc Records (get all of the details right here!), but there's plenty more on offer, too!  Bobby Darin was a remarkable singer-songwriter; another beloved titan of popular song is the late Dan

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, The Beau Brummels, The Staple Singers

Find Out What's Happening: Ace Explores "Where Soul Meets Country" On New Collection

March 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Where Soul Meets Country

Between 2012 and 2014, Ace issued three volumes of Where Country Meets Soul.  All three volumes featured many of the greatest soul singers of all time tackling country-and-western repertoire. Now, the label has revisited the country-soul territory - in reverse! Out of Left Field: Where Soul Meets Country presents 24 sizzling R&B songs as sung by country's greatest performers, and most are surprisingly comfortable fits. Stax thought it was onto something when it ushered Daaron Lee into the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, R&B/Soul Tags: David Allan Coe, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Milsap, Skeeter Davis, Tanya Tucker, Various Artists, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson

To Know Them Is To Love Them: Dolly, Emmylou and Linda Release "The Complete Trio Collection"

March 14, 2016 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Complete Trio

Individually, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris have created some of the most beautiful records of all time, blurring the lines between country, pop, folk, and rock-and-roll.  Collectively, the threesome released two transcendent and heartfelt albums, Trio (1987) and Trio II (1999).  The two landmark LPs garnered sales of over five million copies and three Grammy Awards and became beloved additions to all three artists' discographies.  Today, Rhino Records announced the September 9

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Folk, Pop Tags: Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt

Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Peter and Micky

This week's Release Round-Up is filled with reissues and anthologies from favorite artists on both CD and vinyl! Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz (7a Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today sees the U.S. release of one of the coolest titles so far of 2016!  An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz captures the candid, intimate conversations between the rock legends recorded earlier this year.  The first CD in this

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Brenda Russell, Dave Mason, Herbie Mann, Jeff Buckley, Judy Garland, Maynard Ferguson, Mickey Gilley, Micky Dolenz, Peter Noone, Teddy Pendergrass, The Cars, Whitney Houston

Rhino Unveils Record Store Day Line-Up with a-ha, Monkees, Madonna, Doors, Coltrane, More

March 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Sex Pistols RSD

We've already filled you in on Rhino's upcoming Record Store Day releases from the late David Bowie, but the label has now confirmed the rest of its vinyl offerings for the April 16 event!  This year's crop of 25+ titles is a diverse one, with a number of vinyl premieres, new entries in the label's longtime "Side by Side" series, and more!  You'll find all details just below. a-ha - Hits South America 12-inch 180-gram vinyl Limited edition of 3000 copies, $14.98 AIR - Casanova

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Madonna, Record Store Day, The Doors, The Monkees, The Sex Pistols

Smash Hits: Elvis, Miles, Jimi, Johnny Cash, Big Star Headline Legacy's Record Store Day Slate

March 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Elvis Presley Im Leaving

Record Store Day is coming up in a little more than a month, on Saturday, April 16, and the titles are starting to pour in for the annual celebration of brick-and-mortar record stores. Today, Legacy Recordings has just announced its slate!  It's a typically eclectic line-up of vinyl releases from some of the label's heaviest hitters from rock-and-roll, country, jazz, and beyond, including Elvis Presley, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Big Star and many more! Big Star - Complete

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, Cheap Trick, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Strummer, Johnny Cash, Manic Street Preachers, Matthew Sweet, Miles Davis, Outkast, Record Store Day

Rounder Bluegrass Initiative Features Béla Fleck, Doc Watson, John Hartford, Louvin Brothers, More

March 7, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Louvin Brothers Songs That Tell a Story

Rounder Records, the pioneering American roots music label, is in the midst of its 45th anniversary celebration.  Over the past months, the Cambridge-founded, Nashville-based Rounder has been making titles from its deep catalogue available as digital downloads.  Last month, the label threw a Mardi Gras party with digital reissues of R&B, blues, jazz and Cajun music of the Crescent City.  This month, the 51-time Grammy-winning Rounder - since 2010 under the umbrella of the Concord Music Group

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Blues, Country, Folk Tags: Béla Fleck, Doc Watson, John Hartford, Ralph Stanley, The Louvin Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of March 4

March 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Fleetwood Mac In Concert

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a host of titles on CD and vinyl! Fleetwood Mac, In Concert (Warner Bros./Rhino)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 3-LP concert album features 22 live recordings from Fleetwood Mac's 1979-1980 tour, originally presented in December on the Tusk Deluxe Edition box set, for the very first time on vinyl.  The music heard on In Concert was recorded at four stops (Wembley, Tucson, St. Louis, Omaha) during the band's 111-show

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bing Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, Lords of the New Church, Loretta Lynn, Margaret Whiting, Mario Lanza, The O'Jays, The Three Degrees, Vic Dana

Full Circle

March 1, 2016 By

Loretta Lynn Full Circle

The legendary Loretta Lynn returns with her first new studio album in over a decade.  Full Circle, produced by John Carter Cash at Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, TN, features 14 new tracks from the country queen including duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson.  Available on CD, DD and vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Country

Release Round-Up: Week of February 26

February 26, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bowie at the Beeb Vinyl Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up filled with deluxe reissues on vinyl and CD, box sets, new releases from veteran artists, and more! Michael Jackson, Off the Wall (Epic/Legacy) CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The King of Pop's 1979 Epic solo debut Off the Wall is revived for 2016 with an additional DVD or BD of Spike Lee's acclaimed new documentary about the making of the album, Michael Jackson's Journey from

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Cobham, Bonnie Raitt, Burt Bacharach, David Bowie, Emmit Rhodes, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Stephen Sondheim, Todd Rundgren, Willie Nelson

Bedtime Stories: Morello Reissues Albums by Tammy Wynette and Guy Clark

February 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tammy Wynette Bedtime Story and My Man

Morello Records, an imprint of Cherry Red Group, continues to salute the greats of country music with recent releases from Tammy Wynette and Guy Clark. Last year, the label reissued Tammy Wynette's The First Lady and We Can Sure Love Each Other, from 1970 and 1971, respectively, on one CD.  Now, a two-fer has emerged with The First Lady of Country Music's next two Epic albums, both from 1972: Bedtime Story and My Man. Both albums are very much of a piece.  They continued Wynette's long

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Guy Clark, Tammy Wynette

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