Demon Music Group collects the studio recordings of Liverpool's The Farm over 7 CDs and 98 tracks, including the band's three studio albums, the Pastures Old and New compilation, and three bonus CDs of non-LP B-sides, BBC sessions, remixes, and more. The box features a 40-page booklet containing a new interview with Peter Hooton.
Cheek to Cheek Live!
Hot on the heels of their smash 2014 collaborative album, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga are taking their act on the road - and onto home screens with this 72-minute, 19-song concert filmed at New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center last summer. The 72-minute special features such standards as "Anything Goes," "I Won't Dance," "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" and Irving Berlin's title track as performed by Bennett, Gaga and a 39-piece orchestra.
Neon Art: Volume One
Omnivore presents rare music from the late, great alto saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-1982) - first issued on vinyl in 2012 - on CD and digital for the very first time!
Dreams and Images
Originally issued on musical iconoclast Lee Hazlewood's LHI label in 1968, Dreams and Images is the first of two albums from the Melbourne, Florida-born singer/songwriter. A friend and contemporary of Lindsey Buckingham and Beach Boys collaborator Stephen John Kalinich, Arthur (Lee Harper) entered the studio with Hazlewood, Donnie Owens, Tom Thacker, and arranger/Wrecking Crew vet Don Randi to create this delicate, baroque-pop LP.
Winelight (5.1 Surround)
The 5.1 surround mix of Grover Washington Jr.'s Grammy-winning "Winelight" - featuring "Just the Two of Us," sung by Bill Withers - comes to hybrid SACD. Audio Fidelity's new edition features the original stereo mixes on the standard CD layer and in SACD Stereo.
Best of Bread (Quadraphonic)
Audio Fidelity continues its quadraphonic series with a 4.0 reissue of Bread's greatest-hits collection Best of Bread, featuring surround-sound versions of "Make It with You," "Everything I Own," "If," "It Don't Matter to Me" and more on hybrid SACD! Original two-channel stereo mixes are present on the standard CD layer and in SACD stereo!
Child of the Seventies
Real Gone restores to print this deluxe Rhino Handmade release from soul queen Betty (now Bettye) LaVette, featuring her 1972 Atco album, six single sides and two mono single versions. Liner notes are provided by David Nathan.
Live on Tour
The late, great Perry Como's 1980 RCA live album, recorded before an adoring Chicago audience, comes to CD for the very first time in this newly remastered edition featuring liner notes from Matthew Long and never-before-seen photos from the tour.
Live
Foghat's best-selling, double-platinum live album from 1977 returns to vinyl in this 180-gram limited edition release reproducing the original die-cut jacket and cardboard, full-color inner “Eurosleeve.”
Bloodshot
The J. Geils Band's third album - and first to go Top Ten - gets a limited edition red vinyl reissue with replica labels and artwork!
At Last: The Lost Radio Recordings
Wow! The legendary Peggy Lee - subject of a hot new biography - is celebrated with a new 2-CD set featuring 44 previously unreleased radio performances of songs she never recorded commercially, including "Skylark," "I Got Rhythm," "Come On-A My House," and "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die." This release is fully licensed from the Peggy Lee Estate and features liner notes from Lee historian David Torrensen!
Shanti
From the psychedelic Bay Area scene comes the cult classic raga-rock album from Shanti, the band led by tabla master (and Mickey Hart associate) Zakir Hussain, sarod virtuoso Ashish Khan and former members of The Loading Zone, Cold Blood and the Travel Agency!
Lookin' for a Love: The Complete SAR Recordings
Joining similar releases for The Soul Stirrers and L.C. Cooke, ABKCO has compiled the complete recorded output of The Valentinos on the SAR record label, co-founded and co-owned by Sam Cooke, who also served as the group's producer. The Valentinos comprised the five Womack brothers: Bobby, Cecil, Curtis, Friendly Jr. and Harry. Included on this complete set are fourteen tracks originally released as singles, three originally unreleased recordings and more, for a total of 23 tracks spanning
Joy In My Soul: The Complete SAR Recordings
This new 2-CD collection from ABKCO offers the complete recorded output of the legendary gospel group on the SAR Records label, which was co-owned by former Soul Stirrer Sam Cooke and former Pilgrim Traveler J.W. Alexander. The recordings span the period of 1959 to 1964, and cover the period after the group's Specialty recordings and up until Sam Cooke's tragic death.
Universal Togetherness Band
The Numero Group has excavated eight tracks, recorded between 1979 and 1981, from a soulful Chicago collective that may be the best funk-dance-soul outfit you've never heard of!
The Odyssey: A Northern Soul Time Capsule 1968-2014
Demon Music Group's Harmless label offers the ultimate celebration of Northern Soul with this massive box set offering 222 tracks on 8 CDs, 2 DVDs and a 150+-page booklet! This set features an eclectic array of artists including Gladys Knight and the Pips, Paul Anka, The O'Jays, The Four Seasons, Johnny Maestro, Ben E. King and many more.
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Smithsonian Folkways has a definitive 5-CD chronicle of legendary folksinger Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, packaged in a deluxe hardbound book format.
Sings "The Good Old Bad Old Days"
Stage Door presents an entire disc of Anthony Newley's previously unreleased demo recordings for his 1973 musical The Good Old Bad Old Days, co-written with Leslie Bricusse!
Living Years (Deluxe Edition)
This Deluxe Edition of Mike + The Mechanics' 1988 album arrives in the U.S. with a second disc featuring "The Living Years 2014" and live tracks culled from the band's 1989 tour.
Live in '75 (Reissue)
Rhino gives a wide release to the 2011 limited-edition 2-CD set capturing Chicago's blazing concert from June 1975 at Maryland's Largo Centre, part of the Beachago Tour. There's not much of The Beach Boys here, but there is plenty of still-exciting horn rock from Robert Lamm, Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow and Walt Parazaider.
Blood, Sweat & Tears (Quadraphonic)
Following its 5.1 presentation of BS&T’s Al Kooper-helmed debut album, Audio Fidelity revisits the kickoff of the horn band’s David Clayton-Thomas era! This original 4.0 quad mix of the 1969 smash features “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die” and “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” all in vivid multichannel on hybrid SACD.
The Best of The Guess Who (Quadraphonic)
Audio Fidelity premieres the 4.0 quadraphonic surround mix of The Guess Who’s 1971 compilation album on hybrid SACD (meaning a stereo layer is playable on standard CD players) – featuring such songs as “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “No Time,” “Undun” and “American Woman.”
New Roman Times
Omnivore reissues Camper Van Beethoven's 2004 “sci-fi alternate-reality rock opera," adding four previously unissued bonus tracks. Available on CD, double LP (with download card) and digital.
