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The Last Word on First Blues

April 12, 2016 By

Allen Ginsberg The Last Word on First Blues

Omnivore presents Beat legend Allen Ginsberg in singer/songwriter mode on this new 3-CD box!  In 1971, Ginsberg called on Bob Dylan for a recording session of tunes touching on politics, gay rights, and more. Joining Ginsberg and Dylan were Jack Kerouac's musical partner David Amram, Happy Traum, and cellist These 1971 recordings remained unreleased until 1983 when they were released as First Blues in a set pairing them with 1976 sessions produced by John Hammond, and further 1981 sessions.  

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else

Saturday On My Mind: Varese Has Easybeats, Moody Blues, "Dark Shadows" and More For Record Store Day

April 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Easybeats Good Friday

Vampires! Dragons! Keanu Reeves! Plus two revered pop-rock classics: Varese Sarabande has a little bit of everything on its five-title Record Store Day slate arriving this Saturday, April 16, in finer independent stores everywhere. Record Store Day may take place on a Saturday, but thanks to The Easybeats, it's a Good Friday. Varese has the first-ever U.S. release of the Australian band's debut U.K. album originally issued on United Artists Records.  Good Friday was issued in the U.S. as

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: John Powell, Record Store Day, Robert Cobert, The Easybeats, The Moody Blues

Él Reissues Vintage Bossa Nova from Silvia Telles, Vocal Harmony Sound of The Johnny Mann Singers

April 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Silvia Telles Amor

Today's spotlight is on two releases from él Records from bossa nova legend Silvia Telles and easy-listening vocal group The Johnny Mann Singers! In recent years, the él label has issued bossa nova -centric reissues and anthologies from some of the genre's leading lights including Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Joao Donato, Vinicius De Moraes, and Luis Bonfá.  The Cherry Red imprint has just added a new release from Silvia Telles to that list.  Telles, who tragically died in a car

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Silvia Telles, The Johnny Mann Singers

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

I Still Do

April 10, 2016 By

Clapton I Still Do

Eric Clapton has reunited with producer Glyn Johns for his 23rd studio album I Still Do.  Tracks include "I'll Be Seeing You" and "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine."  Available on CD, DD and LP.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Stranger to Stranger

April 10, 2016 By

Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger

Paul Simon returns with his 13th solo studio album and first since 2011's So Beautiful or So What.  Stranger has been co-produced by his longtime collaborator Roy Halee and features the first single "Wristband."  Simon says "sound is the theme of this album," and sessions featured dance and flamenco artists as well as inspiration from 20th century composer/theorist Harry Partch (maker of custom instruments in microtonal tunings).  Stranger to Stranger is available in standard and deluxe editions

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

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 April 8

April 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ronnie Spector English Heart

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ronnie Spector, English Heart (Savoy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The one and only Ronnie Spector returns with an all-new studio album saluting her British Invasion friends. Expect Ronnie-ized renditions of the Jagger/Richards-written "I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys" (as "I'd Much Rather Be with the Girls") as well as "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying," "Tell Her No," "Girl Don't Come" and more!  Amazon has an exclusive

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Deep Purple, Johnny Mandel, Nicolette Larson, Ronnie Spector, The Spinners, Tiny TIm

Worldwide Epiphany: Esoteric Reissues Todd Rundgren's "Live at The Forum"

April 7, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Todd Rundgren Forum 1994

On the heels of 2015's new studio album Global, there's been a flurry of reissue activity surrounding Todd Rundgren.  Edsel has reissued For Lack of Honest Work, a 3-CD, 43-song compendium originally released in 2010 spanning the years 1971-2006.  Purple Pyramid has offered Box O' Todd, another 3-disc affair drawn from 1971-1973 radio broadcasts.  Newly available from Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is a new entry in Esoteric's Todd Rundgren Archive Series: Live at the Forum - London

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Todd Rundgren

Eric Carmen

April 7, 2016 By

Eric Carmen Eric Carmen

Eric Carmen's second self-titled and fifth overall solo album, produced by The 4 Seasons' Bob Gaudio for the Geffen label, has been unavailable on CD for more than 20 years.  Varese's new reissue features one bonus track: the rare single mix of the Top 40 hit "I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips."

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

The Love Album

April 7, 2016 By

Doris Day The Love Album

The Love Album, first released in 1994, brings together the songs recorded by the luminous Doris Day over three sessions in Hollywood, 1967, including "Are You Lonesome Tonight?," "For All We Know" and "Street of Dreams."  Varese's reissue of this romantic classic arranged by the great Sid Feller features new period photography and three (previously issued) bonus tracks of "Both Sides Now," "It's Magic" and "Sentimental Journey."

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Live in Concert 1977 & 1979

April 6, 2016 By

Bad Company Live

This 2-CD set from the original line-up of Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell includes more than two-and-half hours of unreleased music, all culled from 24-track tapes in the band's archives. Live in Concert 1977 & 1979 boasts two previously unreleased concerts, with one additional bonus track taken from the group's June 26, 1979 show in Washington, DC.   The first disc captures the band's May 23, 1977 show at the Summit House in Houston, Texas, recorded during the tour

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock

Pure McCartney

April 6, 2016 By

Pure McCartney

Paul tells his own musical story on this new personally-curated, non-chronologically-sequenced collection drawing on his solo and Wings work.  It's available in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats, and features material spanning between 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game.

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

Feel Like Makin' Love: Rhino Readies Live Bad Company For April

April 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bad Company Live

More Bad Company is on the way from Rhino! On April 29, the label will release the band's first-ever official live album: Live in Concert 1977 & 1979.  This 2-CD set from the original line-up of Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell includes more than two-and-half hours of unreleased music, all culled from 24-track tapes in the band's archives. The label notes that the "music heard on this live collection features absolutely no enhancements or overdubs, nothing but the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bad Company

Finder Of Lost "Love": Dionne Warwick Releases "Tropical Love" From The Vaults

April 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Dionne Warwick Tropical Love

Dionne Warwick joined Arista Records in 1978, inaugurating a sixteen-year tenure at the label which would see many of her greatest triumphs including the Grammy-winning hits "I'll Never Love This Way Again," "Déjà Vu" and "That's What Friends are For."  At Arista, Dionne teamed with Barry Manilow, Luther Vandross, and Barry Gibb; reunited with Burt Bacharach and Hal David; released one Platinum and two Gold albums; and earned her first No. 1 on the Hot 100 in over a decade.  Her final album for

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RPM Is "Looking Stateside" with Sons of Champlin, Knickerbockers, Joe Tex, Chuck Jackson, More

April 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Looking Stateside

Cherry Red's RPM Records label has been doing a lot of Looking with its series of themed mini-box sets dedicated to such pop subgenres as freakbeat, mod, and girl group soul.  The latest set in the Looking series, established in 2011, is Looking Stateside.  This volume is dedicated to U.S. R&B Mod, Soul and Garage Nuggets, and contains 80 such selections on its three packed CDs.  Though limited to American recordings, the focus is otherwise diverse.  As the compilers explain in the thick

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Chuck Jackson, Joe Tex, The Knickerbockers, The Sons of Champlin, Timi Yuro, Various Artists

A Surf and Monster Mash: "It's Monster Surfing Time" Returns!

April 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Its Monster Surfing Time

What happens when monsters meet rock-and-roll?  Vee-Jay Records answered that question in 1964 with the release of the fiendishly fun It's Monster Surfing Time.  The LP credited to The Deadly Ones (who else?) has, over the past decades, become a highly-collectable title in its original vinyl format.  On April 8, this slice of summery surf rock with a gleefully ghoulish slant will return to vinyl from Concord Records in a special translucent, slime-green pressing! It's Monster Surfing Time has

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Joe South, The Deadly Ones

Release Round-Up: Week of April 1

April 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Go Gos Vacation

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Go-Go's, Beauty and the Beat / Vacation / Talk Show: Deluxe Editions (Edsel) Beauty and the Beat: Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vacation: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Talk Show: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Edsel has expanded editions of the three classic albums by The Go-Go's originally released between 1982 and 1984.  While none of the bonus material here is unreleased, these reissues do serve

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bill Wyman, Earth Wind and Fire, Martha and the Vandellas, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, The Go-Go's, The Miracles, The Replacements, The Supremes, Todd Rundgren

Listen To What The Man Said: "Pure McCartney" Career-Spanning Box Arrives In June

March 31, 2016 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Pure McCartney

Paul McCartney has just announced a new, solo career-spanning anthology.  On June 10, Pure McCartney will arrive in 4-CD (67 tracks), 4-LP (41 tracks) and 2-CD (39 tracks) formats.  This non-chronologically sequenced compilation draws on solo and Wings material from 1970's homemade McCartney through 2014's "Hope for the Future," featured on the Destiny video game.  The collection, curated by the legendary artist, includes both familiar hits and lesser-known album tracks as well as material from

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney, Wings

Review: Brett Harris, "Up in the Air"

March 31, 2016 By Ted Frank Leave a Comment

Brett Harris Up in the Air 1

The Second Disc welcomes back Ted Frank as he takes a sonic journey with one of his favorite albums so far of 2016, Brett Harris' Up in the Air!  It may not be a reissue, but Harris' spin on vintage pop sounds make this release a must-listen. Listening to Brett Harris' newest album Up in the Air is an intimate experience.  The southern storyteller sings to the listener with a bit of a weathered whisper and appears seasoned beyond his years.    While the North Carolina-based singer-songwriter

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Brett Harris

Time to Get Down: Real Gone Returns The O'Jays' "Back Stabbers" To Vinyl

March 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

OJays Back Stabbers

The O'Jays quietly began their association with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff on 1970's Neptune album In Philadelphia, announcing the Ohio group's shift to the City of Brotherly Love and its burgeoning soul scene.  But there was nothing quiet about the opening track of Back Stabbers, the trio's first album for Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International Records.  "When the World's at Peace," by Gamble, Bunny Sigler and Phil Hurtt, imagined a time "when it's safe to walk the streets/when we learn

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Gamble and Huff, The O'Jays, Thom Bell

Paint It Black: RPM Collects The Tomcats' Raw Sixties Rock On "Running at Shadows"

March 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tomcats Running at Shadows

Collectors of rare psychedelia likely know the band July and its self-titled 1968 album on the Major Minor label featuring "My Clown," "Dandelion Seeds," and "The Way."  But few remember that the psych cult heroes of July began their career as members of The Tomcats.  Cherry Red's RPM label has recently collected the Ealing band's rare Spanish EPs, plus previously unreleased tracks, on Running at Shadows: The Spanish Recordings 1965-66. Tom Newman (lead vocals), Peter Cook (guitar), Alan

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Tomcats

Miles In The Sky: Davis' 90th Celebrated With New Film Soundtrack and Glasper Collaboration

March 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Miles Ahead Soundtrack

May 26, 2016 would have been Miles Davis' 90th birthday.  Though the legendary musician died in 1991 at just 65 years of age, his body of work has hardly left the spotlight.  Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have recently announced two upcoming projects to mark Davis' landmark birthday.  First, on Friday, April 1, the labels will issue the soundtrack to the biopic Miles Ahead, directed, co-written by and starring Don Cheadle.  Then on May 27, Everything's Beautiful arrives.  This release,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Miles Davis, Robert Glasper

But Never Ever On A Sunday: él Collects Greek Cinema Classics, Early Michel Legrand

March 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Michel Legrand Bonjour Paris

For the past seven decades, Michel Legrand has been composing rich melodies for film, stage, television and records.  The three-time Academy Award winner and co-writer of such songs as "The Windmills of Your Mind," "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" and "Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues)" has been a prolific recording artist since the 1950s, and now Cherry Red's él label has recently reissued some of his earliest work on Bonjour Paris/Le Joli Mai/Rendez-vous a Paris. The

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Manos Hadjidakis, Melina Mercouri, Michel Legrand, Mikis Theodorakis, Nana Mouskouri

This Path Tonight

March 28, 2016 By

Graham Nash This Path Tonight

This Path Tonight is Graham Nash's first solo record of new music in fourteen years. The album's ten songs produced by Shane Fontayne reflect the many well-publicized changes in the legendary singer-songwriter's life over recent months. Amazon U.S. has an exclusive edition with a live DVD containing recent performances of Nash's solo and band hits.  This Deluxe Edition is also available at Amazon U.K.!

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Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock

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