Holiday Gift Guide Review: Legacy Looks Back at 1970 With Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix Archival Offerings

By Sam Stone | December 24, 2020 | 0 Comments

50 years ago, two of American music's greatest talents proved they were still venturing into new territories. Elvis Presley, some decade and a half after he first took the world by storm, was setting up shop in Nashville for a marathon session that saw him pulling from the new popular songbook and many songs written […]

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Holiday Gift Guide Review: Shania Twain, 'The Woman in Me (Diamond Edition)'

By Mike Duquette | December 23, 2020 | 3 Comments

If there's one good thing we can pull from 2020's reissue slate, it's diversity. The end of the year's biggest box sets focused less on the typical classic-rock heavy-hitters and more on genres, eras and artists that typically don't get the red carpet treatment. It's a trend that would surely be nice to continue. The […]

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Holiday Gift Guide Stax Spotlight: The Staple Singers' "Come Go with Me" and "The Gospel Truth: Complete Singles Collection"

By Joe Marchese | December 23, 2020 | 0 Comments

UPDATED DECEMBER 2020: Earlier this year, Craft Recordings released The Staple Singers' Come Go with Me: The Stax Collection in vinyl and digital editions. The set compiled all of the famed gospel group's 1968-1974 albums for the Stax label plus a volume of rarities, non-LP single sides, and live recordings. Now, that box has come […]

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Holiday Gift Guide Review: Peter Tork, "Stranger Things Have Happened"

By Joe Marchese | December 23, 2020 | 1 Comment

UPDATED DECEMBER 2020:  7a Records' announcement earlier this year of a deluxe remastered and expanded edition of Peter Tork's only solo album, 1994's Stranger Things Have Happened, marked a major milestone for the label.  Over the years, 7a has already delivered a treasure trove of releases from Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Michael Nesmith on […]

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Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Replacements, "Pleased to Meet Me: Deluxe Edition"

By Joe Marchese | December 22, 2020 | 5 Comments

The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me marked the moment when Minneapolis met Memphis.  For their second major label album, fifth overall, first without founding member Bob Stinson, and lone offering as a trio, the 'Mats called upon Jim Dickinson.  The producer and Memphis mainstay entered the picture after abortive demo sessions in the band's hometown […]

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