Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has continued its collection of artist-focused anthologies with another batch of releases drawn from the Sony Music family of labels. This group includes 2-CD sets for the smooth vocal group The Manhattans, jazz/R&B soul man Norman Connors, and funk band Mother's Finest. Though they were named The Manhattans, their story is actually a tri-state one. The group came together in Jersey City, New Jersey, took their name from the city across the Hudson
Coming Up Roses: Analog Spark Reissues Classic Musicals From Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, More
Analog Spark kicked off 2016 with a trio of cast recordings - Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story - on deluxe 180-gram vinyl LPs, and now, the label is welcoming this spring with another three landmark titles from the Sony vaults: Columbia Records' original Broadway cast recordings of South Pacific (1949), Gypsy (1959), and Company (1970) - each one representing a classic period of American musical theatre. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's South Pacific, the
Keep On Movin': Robinsongs Reissues Funky Jazz from Deodato and Fuse One
Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint has recently released a pair of two-fers sure to excite jazz fusion fans. Keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Eumir Deodato began his career as a major proponent of the bossa nova scene in his native Brazil, and soon became a sought-after arranger for the likes of Roberta Flack, George Benson, and even The Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra. Although he had been a solo recording artist since the early 1960s, Deodato's solo career took off at Creed
Ten Years Strong: The Second Disc's 2017 Record Store Day Must-Haves
Welcome to our annual rundown of Must-Haves for this year's Record Store Day event! Once you're through reading, let us know what you're most looking forward to picking up tomorrow at your favorite local independent retailer! Our list features just a sampling of our favorites from our friends at Legacy Recordings, Varese Sarabande, Rhino Records, Walt Disney Records, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, and many more! Mike's kicking things off... This year's Record Store Day offerings
Shell Shocked: The Turtles Come to Vinyl for Record Store Day U.K.
Demon Music Group is showing a display of Turtle Power for Record Store Day U.K. this Saturday! On that date, the label will unveil the 6-LP box set The Albums Collection, collecting all of The Turtles' original White Whale Records albums originally released between 1965 and 1970. Though The Turtles have long been recognized as top-flight purveyors of classic 45s, a journey through their compact yet potent six-album catalogue unearths numerous riches beyond the big hits. With a gleeful sense
Release Round-Up: Week of April 21
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Honeybeat: '60s Groovy Girl-Pop (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl Pop, curated by Sheila Burgel from the Sony archives and released on Real Gone Music, features 19 songs from nine different labels, nearly a third of which have never been released on CD. While some tracks come from known artists such as Little Eva, Skeeter
Step Back from That Ledge: Third Eye Blind Expand Debut for 20th Anniversary
Depending on how old you are, the mere mention of Third Eye Blind is enough to elicit wistful memories of their first three, relatively immortal hits, "Semi-Charmed Life," "How It's Going to Be" and "Jumper"--all Top 10s on the Billboard Hot 100. Or their inescapability, combined with stories of frontman Stephan Jenkins' offstage antics, are enough to make you reconsider all '90s nostalgia. In either case, we have news for you: their debut album is being reissued and expanded for its 20th
Reissue Theory: Miracle Legion
At the end of this month, alt-rock outfit Miracle Legion are playing their final dates together, including a date this Friday at New York's Bowery Ballroom and two closing dates on April 28-29 in California. It seemed right to shine a little light on a band that, without warning, has come to mean a great deal to me. Like most late twentysomethings, my exposure to Miracle Legion and its frontman Mark Mulcahy came in the form of another band: Polaris, three-fourths of Miracle Legion which came
Review: The Doors, "The Doors: 50th Anniversary Edition"
Suffice it to say that Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, and John Densmore set the night on fire with their debut album, the 1967 Elektra release of The Doors. That amalgamation of blues, rock, pop, jazz, and pure poetry has recently turned 50 years old, and so it's received its first-ever box set expansion from Rhino as a limited, numbered 3-CD/1-LP hardcover book-style box set including both the original mono and stereo mixes of the original LP (with the mono version appearing on CD
With A "Z": Cherry Red Reissues Two Columbia Albums From Liza Minnelli, Plans "Results" Box
When Columbia Records released Liza Minnelli's The Singer in March 1973, the album's understated title wasn't nearly enough to encapsulate her many facets. The singer-dancer-actress had, in fact, already received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress - the second one of which, for Cabaret, would result in a win that very same month. Just two months later, in May, her television variety special Liza with a Z would win multiple Emmy Awards. The Singer inaugurated the third major-label
Review: Fleetwood Mac, "Tango in the Night: Deluxe Edition"
The music of Fleetwood Mac could fairly be said to define the 1970s - in all its style, tumult, and excess. Where did that leave the union of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham once a new decade emerged? 1982's Mirage found Fleetwood Mac trying to recapture the magic of 1977's epochal Rumours, and succeeding in large part. Yet Mirage felt as if it firmly had one foot planted in the previous decade. With its belated follow-up, 1987's Tango in the
Higher and Higher: Real Gone's June Slate Features Rita Coolidge, Kris Kristofferson, Doris Day, Larry Coryell, Jesse Ed Davis and More
As we get further into the spring season, we've begun to hear about releases that will be coming out more towards summer. Among these are the new announcements of titles from Real Gone Music due on June 2. As always, they are an eclectic group featuring CDs and vinyl reissues. First up are two titles from Rita Coolidge featuring liner notes from our very own Joe Marchese. 1973's Full Moon was the first duet album Coolidge made with her then-husband Kris Kristofferson. It was the first of
Somewhere In The World: Playback Collects Sixties Pop, Jazz and Gospel From Judy Jacques
Playback Records' second recent jazz-oriented release comes from Melbourne's Judy Jacques. Whereas Sue Barker's brand of jazz was a soulful one with strains of pop and rock, Jacques' style was firmly in the "trad jazz" camp derived from New Orleans and Dixieland. The Sixties Sessions collects 24 tracks recorded between 1962 and 1966 from the solo artist (including some atypical pop sides) as well as The Yarra Yarra New Orleans Jazz Band, and Judy Jacques and Her Gospel Four. When she was
Adios, Adios: Glen Campbell To Release Final Studio Album in June
In 2011, Glen Campbell released Ghost On the Canvas and it was revealed that the legendary artist was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Campbell then embarked upon the yearlong Good Times - Final Farewell Tour which took him to cities in Europe and North America. After the conclusion of that tour, he went into the studio to finish the album See You There, which was released in August of 2013. It was billed at the time as his sixty-third and final studio album. However, it has now been
Big White Cloud: Ace Collects Folk Rock Sounds on "English Weather"
To many, the phrase "English weather" conjures images of fog, clouds, and rain. To Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, English weather means something "melodic, melancholy, with jazz and folk touches, and the same similar shrug of resignation..." So explains the compilers of the recent English Weather, an absorbing 18-track compendium from Ace Records collecting rare and unusual songs that might be, in their words, akin to "an unfamiliar album with a hint of Crosby, Stills and Nash, but an identifiably
Release Round-Up: Week of April 14
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Michael Nesmith, Infinite Tuesday: Autobiographical Riffs - The Music (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino Records offers a 14-track companion CD to Michael Nesmith's memoir Infinite Tuesday - An Autobiographical Riff (due on April 18). This collection has tracks from Nesmith solo as well as The Monkees and The First National Band, charting his singular and often-trailblazing work over the decades. Read more here! The
The Music Never Stopped: Rhino To Issue Grateful Dead's "Long Strange Trip" Soundtrack
A new documentary reflecting on the legacy of the Grateful Dead is on its way to theatres, and a companion soundtrack release promises to complement the long-awaited motion picture. Long Strange Trip: Motion Picture Soundtrack chronicles the band's history via a selection of career-spanning studio and live performances, including previously unreleased tracks. Two versions of the album - a 2-CD set and an expanded Amazon-exclusive 3-CD edition (both also available on digital download and
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]
1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 4CD/DVD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. The Beatles' seminal 1967 album gets the deluxe treatment in a variety of formats: 1CD: Even if you know the album forwards and backwards-whether from its original release, its 1987 CD debut or its place in The Fab Four's 2009 remastering campaign-this new disc presents Pepper in a whole
Love Byrd: Big Break Collects Funky Jazz-Soul of Donald Byrd's Complete Elektra Years
Trumpeter/bandleader Donald Byrd began his career as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers while still pursuing his master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music. Upon graduating from both institutions, Byrd played with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and a host of jazz's finest leaders. By 1958, he was leading his own quintet. Twenty years later, however, much had changed for Byrd and the sound of jazz. After a nearly twenty-year association with the venerable Blue Note
I Just Want to Make Love to You: El Reissues Two From Ann-Margret
"Baby, come and swing with me!" When that invitation was extended by the flame-haired siren known as Ann-Margret, who could resist? Cherry Red's El label has recently reissued two of the sultry entertainer's classic RCA Victor albums on one CD: Songs from The Swinger and Other Swingin' Songs, and the soundtrack to her starring vehicle, The Pleasure Seekers, to create one happily nostalgic musical time capsule for fans of music and movies alike. Ann-Margret Olsson of Valsjobyn, Sweden
Time Fades Away: Neil Young's 'Official Release Series Discs 5-8' Finally Due on CD
Neil Young is heading back to his archive for a new box set--one that puts an in-demand album on CD for the first time after a near 45-year wait. Official Release Series Discs 5-8 continues the packaging of Young's classic Reprise albums as part of his own personal archival series. (These four albums were collected on vinyl in 2014; Official Release Series Discs 1-4, covering 1968's self-titled album through 1972's Harvest, bowed in 2009 while Official Release Series 8.5-12, spanning The
Ring Out, Solstice Bells: Steven Wilson Remixes Jethro Tull's "Songs From the Wood" for New Reissue
The very successful and long-running Jethro Tull reissue series--complete with new mixes from master mixer Steven Wilson--continues apace with the 40th anniversary of 1977's Songs From the Wood, celebrated in a new 3CD/2DVD edition due out this May. The group's ninth album was the first in a loose trilogy of progressive folk albums that found the group trading in its hard rock sound for a more lush and experimental arrangement, in turn celebrating its medieval roots and heritage ("a
The Sound of Old T. Rex: Edsel Loads "Bolan's Zip Gun" In New Deluxe Edition with "Futuristic Dragon"
This fall will mark 40 years since Marc Bolan's untimely death in a car crash in September 1977 at the age of 29, yet in that time, the music he left behind with T. Rex has only grown in stature. Hardly a year has gone by without posthumous compilations, deluxe reissues, and box sets, and 2017 is shaping up similarly. Edsel has recently followed its book-style box sets dedicated to Born to Boogie and the pairing of Tanx and Zinc Alloy with a new 3-CD Deluxe Edition bringing together Bolan's
Release Round-Up: Week of April 7
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! B.J. Thomas, New Looks from an Old Lover-The Complete Columbia Singles (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) New Looks from an Old Lover - The Complete Columbia Singles from B.J. Thomas gathers up all of the A and B sides the singer recorded for that label during his tenure there in the 1980s including the No. 3 Country hit "Two Car Garage" and two No. 1s: "Whatever Happened To Old-Fashioned Love" and "New Looks from an
Burn Down The Mission! Elton John to Expand Classic Live Album for Record Store Day
Sir Elton John has just been named the first-ever Record Store Day Legend in honor of the vinyl collector's 10th annual event--and he's celebrating with an expansion of one of his beloved early live records. It's no secret that Elton is an enthusiastic vinyl listener, making appearances in local record stores all over the world and an interviewee in the 2015 documentary All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records. So the inaugural position of Record Store Day Legend couldn't fit
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