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No Better Place: Real Gone Music Serves Up Prog-Metal, Soul-Jazz, and Power-Pop Reissues This Spring

April 1, 2021 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

Real Gone Music continues its excavation of overlooked and classic albums with more vinyl reissues from the vaults and a new addition to the Black Jazz Records series.  It all starts with a color reissue of Voïvod's The Outer Limits on April 30.  Jazz fans will want to check the stacks (or online shops) that same day for Chester Thompson's Powerhouse, a Black Jazz Records gem set for reissue on vinyl and CD.  Then on May 28, Real Gone will reissue Fountains of Wayne's turn-of-the-millennium

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Chester Thompson, Fountains of Wayne, Voivod

A Song for You: Recent Ace Collections Spotlight Songs of Leon Russell, Kris Kristofferson

April 1, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Songs of Leon Russell

Ace Records' two most recent entries in its Songwriter Series of collections both spotlight artists who bucked tradition to forge their own paths at the end of the 1960s and the dawn of the 1970s: Leon Russell and Kris Kristofferson. As we wrote upon his passing in 2016 at the age of 74, Leon Russell was an extraordinary talent unlike any other:  A true renaissance man and an extraordinary talent as composer, musician, arranger, producer, and artist, The Master of Space and Time led many

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Dean Martin, Elton John, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, George Jones, Isaac Hayes, Kris Kristofferson, Leon Russell, Roger Miller, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers, Willie Nelson

Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977

March 30, 2021 By

Steve Miller Band Live Breaking Ground

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, a previously unreleased seventeen-song set, arrives on CD, double vinyl, and digital formats.  The accompanying video of the full performance will stream on Amazon Prime Video's The Coda Collection, a channel dedicated to music documentaries and concert films.  The show was recorded at Landover, Maryland's Capital Centre (built in 1973,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop [Various Formats]

March 30, 2021 By

Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music

3CD/1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino reissues Stone Temple Pilots' 3rd album to mark its 25th anniversary.  Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop arrives as a 3-CD/1-LP set with the remastered album on CD and vinyl plus early versions, instrumentals, alternate mixes, and a 1997 Florida live show; a 2-CD set with the remastered album and the studio session disc only; and

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Big Bang Baby: Rhino Reissues, Expands Stone Temple Pilots' "Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop"

March 30, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music

Stone Temple Pilots' Tiny Music is about to get a lot bigger.  On July 23, Rhino will reissue Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop: Super Deluxe Edition as a 3-CD/1-LP set, expanding the band's third album to mark its 25th anniversary.  This box follows the label's previous expansions of Core and Purple. Tiny Music was recorded during a particularly fraught time in Stone Temple Pilots' career.  In early 1995, lead singer Scott Weiland was arrested for drug possession.  Sentenced to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Stone Temple Pilots

Let My Spirit Carry Me: Steve Miller Band Is "Breaking Ground" On Previously Unreleased 1977 Concert Release

March 29, 2021 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Steve Miller Band Live Breaking Ground

Following the 2019 box set Welcome to the Vault, Steve Miller has dipped into his archives once again for a new release.  On Friday, May 14, Sailor/Capitol/UMe will release Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, a seventeen-song set, on CD, double vinyl, and digital formats.  The accompanying video of the full performance will stream on Amazon Prime Video's The Coda Collection, a channel dedicated to music documentaries and concert films. Breaking Ground chronicles The Steve

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Steve Miller Band

Don't Blame Me: Craft Recordings Announces Small Batch Reissue of Yusef Lateef's "Eastern Sounds"

March 25, 2021 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds

Earlier this year, Craft Recordings launched its Small Batch series of audiophile vinyl releases with John Coltrane's 1961 classic Lush Life.  The limited and numbered, all-analog release sold out immediately.  Now, Craft has announced the second Small Batch title: pioneering jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef's Eastern Sounds, also from 1961.  The pressing will be strictly limited to 1,000 units and released only on Craft Recordings' website, with the pre-sale beginning tomorrow, March 26,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Yusef Lateef

Way Out West: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947 - Volume Two

March 18, 2021 By

Bob Wills Way Out West

Real Gone unveils another 50 previously unreleased radio transcriptions from "King of Western Swing" Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys on this deluxe 2-CD set.  The oversized booklet features liner notes from James Austin (Rhino, Rockbeat Records) encompassing testimonials from folks like ZZ Top's Billy F Gibbons, Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson, and singer-songwriter Chris Isaak.  All 50 recordings have been restored and remastered by Bob Fisher.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

A Cowboy's Dream: Real Gone Music Issues Volume Two of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys' "Tiffany Transcriptions"

March 15, 2021 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Bob Wills Way Out West

Bob Wills, The King of Western Swing, is back.  Almost seven years ago, Real Gone Music issued Riding Your Way: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947.  "Real Gone has given the royal treatment to the King of Western Swing," we wrote in assessing the landmark set.  Now, the label is returning to Wills' discography for a second volume.  Way Out West: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947 Volume Two is due on April 30, the same date as Real Gone and Second Disc Records'

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Bob Wills

Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Premiere Michael Nesmith's "Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings" on CD in April

March 9, 2021 By The Second Disc 28 Comments

Michael Nesmith Different Drum The Lost RCA Victor Recordings

The Second Disc is proud to announce the first Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music release of 2021 - and it's one that's been years in the making! Michael Nesmith has always travelled to the beat of a "Different Drum"-whether as the writer of that classic hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys, the wool hat-clad member of The Monkees, or one of the earliest progenitors of the country-rock genre.  In recent years, Nesmith has penned the critically acclaimed autobiography Infinite Tuesday,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, The Monkees

The United States vs. Billie Holiday: Music from the Motion Picture

March 6, 2021 By

The United States vs Billie Holiday OST

Andra Day stars in Lee Daniels' biopic about the late, great Billie Holiday, streaming on Hulu.  The soundtrack features Day's renditions of such Holiday signature songs as "Strange Fruit," "God Bless the Child," "Lover Man," and "T'Aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do," as well as the Golden Globe-nominated original song "Tigress and Tweed."  Available on CD as well as download/streaming.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

"It's What's Happening, Baby!" Historic, All-Star Music Special Returns To TV After 55 Years

March 3, 2021 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Its Whats Happening Baby DVD

It's What's Happening, Baby!  That's the name of the 1965 television special hosted by influential New York disk jockey Murray Kaufman, a.k.a. Murray The K.  Over the course of 90 minutes, the jocular, hep-talking Murray (who christened himself The Fifth Beatle as an early friend and supporter of the Fab Four) shared musical performances by the day's biggest pop and soul acts including The Supremes, Dionne Warwick, Ray Charles, The Righteous Brothers, The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Johnny Rivers,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Chuck Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Four Tops, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Herman's Hermits, Johnny Rivers, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Murray the K, Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles, Ray Charles, The Drifters, The Ronettes, The Supremes, The Temptations

Listen to Your Song: Easy Eye Sound Releases Posthumous Album from Tony Joe White

March 3, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Tony Joe White Smoke from the Chimney

Singer-songwriter Tony Joe White, a.k.a. "The Swamp Fox," was beloved for his evocative southern soul tunes including "Rainy Night in Georgia," "Polk Salad Annie," and "Willie and Laura Mae Jones."  The Louisiana-born artist released sixteen studio albums in his lifetime between 1968's Black and White on Monument and 2018's Bad Mouthin' on Yep Roc.  On May 7, that esteemed group will grow by one title when Easy Eye Sound releases Smoke from the Chimney, a nine-song LP of previously unreleased

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Dan Auerbach, Tony Joe White

California Music Presents Add Some Music

March 2, 2021 By

California Music Add Some Music

The new collection California Music Presents Add Some Music is anchored by an all-new recording of The Beach Boys' gentle Sunflower anthem "Add Some Music to Your Day" featuring the participation of Beach Boys Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks as well as members of the extended Beach Boys family: Brian Wilson's daughters Carnie and Wendy; Carl Wilson's son Justyn; Mike Love's children Christian, Hayleigh, and Ambha; and Al Jardine's son Matt.  Spearheaded by David Beard, the

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop

Good with the Soul: "California Music Presents Add Some Music" Features Beach Boys, Friends, Family

March 1, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

California Music Add Some Music

"Add Some Music to Your Day," The Beach Boys' paean to the power of music, anchored the group's 1970 album Sunflower.   The song's imagery conjures music from the seemingly mundane to the undeniably transcendent, expressing the belief that "the world could come together as one/If everybody under the sun" would add some music to their day.  Now, the gentle, uplifting Brian Wilson-Mike Love-Joe Knott anthem is anchoring a new album for a very worthy cause. On April 23, Omnivore Recordings will

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, California Music, David Marks, Mike Love

The Who Sell Out [Various Formats]

February 26, 2021 By

The Who Sell Out

5-CD/2x7" box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP (stereo): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP (mono): The Who Online Shop​ The Who revisit 1967's Sell Out in a variety of editions including a massive 5-CD/2x7" box set featuring the original mono and stereo album mixes, bonus tracks in mono and stereo, demos, alternates and outtakes, and a

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

March Is Bustin' Out All Over: Stage Door Collects First Volume of RCA's "Show Time" Series of Classic Musicals

February 22, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Show Time Series Volume One

By 1953, RCA Victor already boasted a considerable number of Broadway classics in its catalogue - from original cast recordings of Brigadoon and Paint Your Wagon to studio cast renditions of South Pacific and Finian's Rainbow.  But the label was eager to build up its musical theatre repertoire and compete with the likes of Columbia and Decca.  To that end, the Show Time series was launched - a collection of 16 EPs, each dedicated to four songs from a beloved musical or operetta.  The EPs were

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Jack Cassidy, Jerome Kern, John Raitt, Lisa Kirk, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers

Impulse! Records: Music, Message, and The Moment

February 15, 2021 By

Impulse Music Message and The Moment

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Impulse! Records celebrates its 60th anniversary with this new collection (available on 2 CDs or 4 LPs) charting the label's history from 1961-1976 with a selection of tracks that explore the sounds of Impulse! during the societal and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.  Its 25 often-lengthy tracks reflect on politics, social upheaval, spirituality, and the African-American experience.  The label's

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Way Down in the Rust Bucket [Various Formats]

February 12, 2021 By

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4-LP/2-CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand Online Store / Neil Young Archives 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand Online Store / Neil Young Archives 4-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand Online Store / Neil Young Archives Way Down in the Rust Bucket is Volume 11.5 in Neil Young's ongoing Archives Performance series and features Crazy Horse

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Young Shakespeare [Various Formats]

February 12, 2021 By

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CD/DVD/LP box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop / Greedy Hand DVD: Greedy Hand Digital: Neil Young Archives (Streaming) / XStream (Digital Download) / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Young Shakespeare documents the earliest known filmed live concert footage of Neil Young, in an array of

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Add Some Music: Universal Japan Reissues Beach Boys Collections on CD

February 5, 2021 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Beach Boys Best of Vol 2

Beach Boys collectors' alert: late in December 2020, Universal Japan quietly released a series of six collections from the group in the MQA-CD format on UHQ (Ultimate High Quality) CDs and housed in mini-LP paper sleeves with OBIs.  While these discs are playable on all CD players, those listeners equipped with MQA decoders are promised a higher-fidelity listening experience.  All titles have been 24-bit remastered. The six titles from Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al, and Bruce (plus Ricky and

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

Get Down: Real Gone Continues Black Jazz Series with Henry Franklin and Gene Russell, Goes Brazilian with Sivuca

January 28, 2021 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Gene Russell Talk to My Lady

Real Gone Music has announced a trio of new releases for February 26 including two more additions to its growing Black Jazz library and one from an unsung hero of Brazilian music. Bassist Henry Franklin has an enviable musical resume, from playing with Hugh Masekela at Monterey Pop and on the chart-topping "Grazing in the Grass" to recording and performing with such luminaries as Stevie Wonder, The Three Sounds, Woody Shaw, O.C. Smith, and Al Jarreau.  Franklin made his debut as a leader with

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Gene Russell, Henry Franklin, Sivuca

Puttin' on the Ritz: Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" London Cast Comes to CD from NoteforNote Music

January 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Young Frankenstein OLC

Young Frankenstein, billed as The New Mel Brooks Musical, came to Broadway in fall 2007 as one of the Great White Way's most hotly-anticipated tickets.  A musical adaptation of Brooks' beloved 1974 film, the production reunited the creative team behind The Producers, the record-breaking, multiple Tony Award-winning show that had closed in spring '07 after six years and 2,502 performances: composer, lyricist, and librettist Brooks; co-librettist Thomas Meehan (Annie, Hairspray);

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Mel Brooks

Heavy: Cherry Red, Esoteric Collect Iron Butterfly's "Unconscious Power" on New Box Set

January 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Iron Butterfly Unconscious Power

Truth in advertising: Iron Butterfly's first album was titled Heavy.  The 1968 Atco Records release introduced the band's dense sound fusing hard rock and psychedelia with a set of original songs plus a reimagining of Allen Toussaint's "Get Out of My Life Woman."  While three-fifths of the band left after that debut, Heavy nonetheless began Iron Butterfly on a journey encompassing four studio LPs, one-off tracks, and live sets through 1971.  Now, that journey has been lavishly chronicled on a

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Iron Butterfly

Wake Up Everybody: 50 Years of Philadelphia International Celebrated by Legacy Recordings, VMP, Snapper Music

January 25, 2021 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

PIR50 1 logo

Fifty years ago, the release of Billy Paul's Going East on LP and The Ebonys' "You're the Reason Why" on a 45 RPM single marked the birth of Philadelphia International Records.  By 1971, co-founders Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff had already garnered significant chart success with their songs and productions for such artists as The Soul Survivors ("Expressway to Your Heart"), The Intruders ("Cowboys to Girls"), Archie Bell and the Drells ("(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown"), Lesley Gore, Dusty

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Thom Bell

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