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Dock of the Bay Sessions

March 21, 2018 By

Otis Dock of the Bay Sessions

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD Dock of the Bay Sessions is a new reconstruction of an album that never was, built around the song that became America's first posthumous chart-topper and Otis Redding's only No. 1 hit, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."  Although it will never be definitively known what Redding had planned for his new LP, Dock of the Bay Sessions collects the recordings Redding made during this final

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Standing Room Only

March 21, 2018 By

Frank Sinatra Standing Room Only

This new 3-CD, book-style box set features rare or previously unreleased live concerts from three decades of Frank Sinatra's storied career, including the January 28. 1966 second show with The Count Basie Orchestra and conductor Quincy Jones at The Sands in Las Vegas, making its CD debut; and two previously unreleased shows: October 7, 1974 at Philadelphia's Spectrum, and October 24, 1987 at Dallas' Reunion Arena.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Above the Clouds: The Collection

March 21, 2018 By

Glenn Frey Above the Clouds

The 3-CD/1-DVD Above the Clouds: The Collection celebrates the musical legacy of Eagles' Glenn Frey, presenting key tracks from Frey as a solo artist on 2 CDs as well as the long-awaited, official CD premiere of Longbranch/Pennywhistle, his early collaboration with friend J.D. Souther, and a live concert DVD, Strange Weather/Live in Dublin, previously available only on VHS.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Rapture and Redemption: Run Out Groove Announces Judee Sill For Next Release, Opens Voting for New Titles

March 21, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Judee Sill Songs of Rapture and Redemption

Run Out Groove has had one busy winter.  The label just announced two exciting projects for Record Store Day (Saturday, April 21) from The Beau Brummels and Baby Huey, as well as revealing its next limited edition deluxe vinyl release. Judee Sill's Songs of Rapture and Redemption: Rarities & Live is an all-new 2-LP collection celebrating the late artist whose two solo Asylum Records albums - Judee Sill and Heart Food - remain strikingly original works from a singular talent.  ROG's

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Judee Sill

Everybody Dance Now! Cherry Red's Soul Time Imprint Collects Northern Soul, Detroit Rarities

March 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Soul on Fire

Cherry Red's Soul Time imprint is on fire!  The crate-digging team there unearthed two box sets' worth of R&B rarities in the final months of 2017 that we're happy to spotlight now! Mr. M's Northern Soul 1974-1981 is a 3-CD set celebrating the "oldies room" at the Wigan Casino, the late, fondly-remembered club in Wigan, England famous for its northern soul all-nighters held each Saturday from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday morning.  Mr. M's was born out of necessity in 1974, a "club within a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bunny Sigler, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Marv Johnson, Ronnie Milsap, The Contours, The Falcons, Tony Joe White, Various Artists

Caught Up In The Action: Universal Plans Career-Spanning Glenn Frey Box

March 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Glenn Frey Above the Clouds

Though he passed away at far too young an age in 2016, the late Glenn Frey remains a looming presence as the Eagles embark on a new North American tour that will take the reconstituted band - now featuring Frey's son Deacon as well as country superstar Vince Gill - on the road through October.  Now, even as his music is being sung nightly by his bandmates, Geffen Records is celebrating his career with a new box set.  The 3-CD/1-DVD Above the Clouds: The Collection arrives on May 11, highlighting

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eagles, Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther

Return To 'Guyville': Liz Phair Packs Unreleased Demos Into New Box Set

March 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Liz Phair Girly Sound to Guyville

Singer-songwriter Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville is about to turn 25, and Matador Records is making sure that anniversary doesn't go unnoticed.  On May 4, the label will issue Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset, a 7-LP or 3-CD (or digital) collection tracing her artistic evolution from her three pre-Matador demo cassettes (originally released under the name of Girly-Sound) to her acclaimed debut album. Girly-Sound to Guyville kicks off with each of the three privately-pressed

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Liz Phair

Luck Be a Lady: Unreleased Sinatra Concerts Arrive on "Standing Room Only"

March 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Frank Sinatra Standing Room Only

Spring's about to get a lot more swingin', thanks to an upcoming release from the one and only Chairman of the Board.  On May 4, Capitol Records and UMe will drop Frank Sinatra: Standing Room Only, a new 3-CD collection of rare or previously unreleased live concerts from three decades of the great man's storied career. This set begins with the January 28. 1966 second show with The Count Basie Orchestra and conductor Quincy Jones at The Sands in Las Vegas.  This concert is making its CD debut,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Release Round-Up: Week of March 16

March 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Andrew Lloyd Webber Platinum Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Andrew Lloyd Webber: Unmasked - The Platinum Collection (Polydor/UMC) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Let the memory live again!  Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and provocative new memoir Unmasked with this 4-CD, 71-track box set of the same name.  The career-spanning anthology features many of the composer's most famed songs from Phantom of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Gospel, Pop Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Spirit, The Oak Ridge Boys

Keep a Close Watch: Ace Salutes "The Orchestrations of Robert Kirby" with Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, Iain Matthews

March 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

When the Day Is Done

The subject of a new collection from Ace Records isn't exactly a household name.  But if you didn't know the name of Robert Kirby before, you certainly will after a listen to When the Day is Done: The Orchestrations of Robert Kirby.  The titular orchestrator is best known for his lush adornment of Nick Drake's records, conjuring up a pastoral England that couldn't be more removed from the swingin' era that preceded it.  A brief track from Drake opens this collection before it cedes to an

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Folk Tags: Iain Matthews, John Cale, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, Various Artists, Vashti Bunyan

Almost Like A Song: Morello Collects Four Ronnie Milsap Albums on 2-CD Set

March 14, 2018 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Ronnie Milsap Almost Like a Song Four Fer

As one of the biggest country music stars of the 1970s and 1980s, Ronnie Milsap has had many compilations devoted to his career.  Recently, Cherry Red imprint Morello records released a 2-CD set featuring four of Milsap's albums from 1977 to 1980: It Was Almost Like A Song, Only One Love In My Life, Images and Milsap Magic.  It was during this period when Milsap began to experience his greatest successes as a crossover artist. By the time of 1977's It Was Almost Like A Song, Ronnie Milsap had

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Ronnie Milsap

Nobody I'd Sooner Love: Cherry Red Collects The Paper Dolls' Girl Group Sounds

March 14, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paper Dolls Something Here in My Heart

Pauline Bennett, Sue Marshall, and Susie Mathis - a.k.a. The Paper Dolls - worked their way up the showbiz ranks, from taking second billing to strippers all the way to pop stardom.  But despite the success of their debut single "Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A-Tellin' Me No") in 1968, the U.K. girl group had largely faded from view as the 1970s dawned.  Happily, Cherry Red's RPM imprint has collected their complete Pye recordings, along with rare solo tracks from "Tiger Sue" (Mathis) on the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: The Paper Dolls

The Very Best of Andy Gibb

March 14, 2018 By

Andy Gibb Very Best Of

As part of its new agreement with The Bee Gees, Capitol has a 15-track sampler from the late Andy Gibb, including his hits and favorites like "Shadow Dancing," "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," "An Everlasting Love," "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," and "Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)."  (Alas, his lost duet with Victoria Principal, "All I Have to Do is Dream," is still absent.)

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Review: Isaac Hayes, "Hot Buttered Soul," "Shaft" and "Black Moses" Reissues

March 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Shaft OST

As a songwriter, producer, arranger, and session pianist, Isaac Hayes was a key architect in creating the sound of Memphis-based Stax Records.  But few could have foreseen his dramatic ascendance to superstardom - a rise that began with his 1969 solo album Hot Buttered Soul.  Now, that seminal record has returned to vinyl along with 1971's pair of Shaft and Black Moses from Craft Recordings.  All three of these landmark LPs have been given the deluxe treatment in both packaging and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Isaac Hayes

Watchin' the Tide Roll Away: Rhino Collects Otis Redding's Final Recordings on "Dock of the Bay Sessions"

March 13, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Otis Dock of the Bay Sessions

Rhino is revisiting the final recordings of Otis Redding on a new set due on May 18.  Dock of the Bay Sessions is the label's reconstruction of an album that never was, built around the song that became America's first posthumous chart-topper and Redding's only No. 1 hit, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."  That song, produced and co-written by Steve Cropper, reached the pop zenith 50 years ago this Friday, March 16, 1968. Following his blazing performance in June 1967 at the Monterey Pop

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Otis Redding

Record Store Day 2018: The Best of the Rest

March 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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We've already filled you in on the upcoming Record Store Day releases from Legacy Recordings, Rhino, and Real Gone Music, but there's still much more on offer from many of our other favorite labels!  Here's a selection of "the best of the rest" to be released in brick-and-mortar independent record stores on Saturday, April 21! ABBA, Summer Night City (Polydor) (2000 copies) (Record Store Day UK) (Quantity TBA) Clear/yellow-splatter 7-inch release of ABBA's 1978 non-LP single Baby Huey,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABBA, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Dr. Dre, Duran Duran, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Evanescence, Frank Zappa, Gloria Gaynor, John Williams, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, Sublime, Tangerine Dream, Taylor Swift, The Beau Brummels, The Police, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tom Waits

Suede: 25th Anniversary Silver Edition

March 12, 2018 By

Suede 25 front

This 4-CD/1-DVD set is the ultimate presentation of the group's chart-topping, Mercury Prize-winning, best-selling 1993 debut. It features the original album, a disc of B-sides, an assortment of demos and outtakes (including material not included on Edsel's initial deluxe edition of the album from 2011), unreleased BBC sessions, a live show from Sheffield recorded a month before the album's release and a DVD of rare TV performances (including the band's first appearances on British airwaves) and

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Rock

Seeing The Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990

March 12, 2018 By

Flaming Lips Seeing the Unseeable

This six-CD box set contains all four of The Flaming Lips' Restless studio albums, originally issued between 1986 and 1990:  Hear It Is (1986), Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips (1987), Telepathic Surgery (1989) and In A Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares) (1990). Like the compilation, all of these have been remastered from the original master tapes.  Two discs of rarities collect up odds and ends from this period, including B-sides, flexidiscs, and one-offs from various

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

Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of The Flaming Lips

March 12, 2018 By

Flaming Lips Scratching the Door

This single-CD compilation features 19 tracks from the first iteration of the band.  It spotlights the music recorded by the band's original lineup including leader Wayne Coyne's brother Mark on vocals.  It includes the band's first and second cassette demos plus their 1984 debut EP, newly remastered from the original analog tapes.  This is the first time these seminal recordings have been collected in one place.  Showcasing the band's influences, the set is peppered with covers such as The

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

Love Has No Reason/Savin' It Up

March 12, 2018 By

Debby Boone Love Has No Reason Two Fer

Debby Boone's fourth and fifth Warner/Curb albums, both from 1980, are expanded with rare bonus tracks for their CD debuts from Real Gone Music.  These albums found the versatile artist teaming with superstar producer Larry Butler for Nashville sessions which yielded a Country chart-topper, "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again," and other hits.  TSD's Joe Marchese has penned the liner notes, drawing on a fresh interview with Debby!

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop

Midstream/Debby Boone

March 12, 2018 By

Debby Boone Midstream Two Fer

Real Gone Music reissues Debby Boone's second and third Warner Bros./Curb releases, from 1978 and 1979, on CD for the very first time.  Produced by Brooks Arthur, this two-fer features Boone's silky treatments of songs by the pop cream of the crop including Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager, Bruce Roberts, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, Jimmy Webb, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.  TSD's own Joe Marchese has written the liner notes based on a new interview with

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Genre: Pop

Don't Fear The Reaper: Real Gone's Record Store Day Lineup Includes Tim Buckley, Harry Nilsson, Blue Oyster Cult and The Rascals

March 12, 2018 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Nilsson Pussy Cats

As we continue our look through this year's upcoming Record Store Day releases, here is what Real Gone Music will be offering on April 21 at your local record store! Tim Buckley, Live at the Troubadour - 2-LP 12" Clear Vinyl First appearing on CD in 1994, this album is drawn from Tim Buckley's September 3  and September 4, 1969 shows at West Hollywood's famed Troubadour.  Buckley was joined by Lee Underwood on guitar, Carter C.C. Collins on congas, John Balkin on bass, and Art Trip on

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Record Store Day, The Rascals, Tim Buckley

RPM Round-Up, Part Two: Spotlight on The Dave Miller Set, The Deejays, and Elton's Friends Birds of a Feather

March 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Dave Miller Set Mr Guy Fawkes

Welcome to Part Two of our RPM Records Round-Up, exploring another three titles from the Cherry Red retro imprint!  If you missed Part One, just click here! The first release heads down under, collecting The Dave Miller Set's recordings for Australia's Spin label in the late 1960s.  Mr. Guy Fawkes: The Complete Spin Recordings and More (1967-1970) has 19 tracks, including one previously unreleased, from the New Zealand-born frontman and his musical collaborators.  The compilation takes its

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Birds of a Feather, Elton John, The Dave Miller Set, The Deejays

Release Round-Up: Week of March 9

March 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Both Sides of the Sky

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Jimi Hendrix, Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy/Experience Hendrix) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest collection of posthumously-released material from Jimi Hendrix arrives in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, featuring 13 songs recorded between January 1968 and February 1970 - ten of which are previously unreleased, including performances with Stephen Stills of Joni Mitchell's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: David Byrne, Eva Cassidy, Jimi Hendrix, John Cage, Justin Hinds, Leonard Bernstein, Marillion, Tania Chen, Uncle Walt's Band

Express Yourself: Varese Collects "Best of Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band"

March 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Charles Wright Best Of

The slyly insinuating groove of "Spreadin' Honey" opens Varese Vintage's new collection dedicated to Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, and it's a more than appropriate choice.  Beginning with that 1967 single for the small Keymen label, Wright has spread his brand of musical honey over tough funk grooves to create a small but still beloved, and frequently sampled, catalogue.  The Best of Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band is a vivid overview of the group's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Charles Wright

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