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Fallen Angels

April 10, 2016 By

Bob Dylan Fallen Angels

Bob Dylan returns to the standards milieu of Shadows in the Night with this new album featuring his renditions of "All or Nothing at All," "All the Way," "Young at Heart," "That Old Black Magic," and other tunes from The Great American Songbook.  Available on CD, LP and DD.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

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

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

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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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Dionne Warwick

Review: Stealers Wheel on Vinyl: "Stealers Wheel" and "Ferguslie Park"

April 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Stealers Wheel LP

Intervention Records launched in 2015 with a simple mission statement: "To provide archive-quality LPs of music we love," with the goal that "each record we do must be the single definitive, final version of that album, the one real music lovers will seek out."  Happily, the label's early releases have all more than lived up to those lofty goals!  The first two albums from Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan's Stealers Wheel might not have been the most expected titles for vinyl reissue in 2016, but

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Gerry Rafferty, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Stealers Wheel

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

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

Sarah Vaughan's "Live at Rosy's" Premieres 1978 Concert On CD

March 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Sarah Vaughan Rosys

"Live from Rosy's...The Divine One, Sarah Vaughan!"  So begins Resonance Records and NPR Music's new release, Live at Rosy's.  It would take an extraordinary talent to live up to that sobriquet, but throughout her career, Sarah Vaughan certainly did.  Live at Rosy's is the first commercial release of Vaughan's May 31, 1978 performances at the New Orleans nightspot, recorded for NPR's Jazz Alive program and presented here as remastered from the original eight multitrack reels.  Vaughan was backed

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Sarah Vaughan

Release Round-Up: Week of March 25

March 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Dylan Live 1964 Bootleg SACD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall (Audio Fidelity)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall comes to hybrid 5.0 multichannel SACD for the first time. Audio Fidelity's release will boast a full booklet (as on the original standard CD release) and is playable in stereo on all CD players.  Read more here! Various

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Kleeer, Mark Murphy, Sarah Vaughan, Stargard, The Kinks, Various Artists, Winfield Parker

Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

March 24, 2016 By

Miles Ahead Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Don Cheadle's Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead features eleven original Davis performances culled from his recordings at both Prestige and Columbia spanning 1956-1981 as well as dialogue excerpts from the film and five original compositions by Robert Glasper.  His contributions include "What's Wrong with That?" (a jam that closes the movie imagining Cheadle as Davis playing in the present day with guest performers Glasper, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Gary Clark, Jr., Esperanza

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

With a Little Help From Their Friends: Esoteric Reissues "McGough and McGear" In Mono and Stereo

March 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

McGough and McGear

The original 1968 LP issue of McGough and McGear reprinted a handwritten list of "People on a Train." These famous people included Jimi Hendrix, Spencer Davis, Gary Leeds of the Walker Brothers, Dave Mason, John Mayall, Graham Nash, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jane Asher and a certain Paul McCartney.   The train, in fact, was the studio where Roger McGough and Mike McGear - real name, Mike McCartney - recorded their only album as a duo.  The unconventional yet accessible art-rock classic, produced in

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: McGough and McGear, Mike McCartney, Paul McCartney, Roger McGough, The Scaffold

Made For These Times: TRACK LISTING REVEALED For The Beach Boys ' "Pet Sounds 50"

March 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Pet Sounds 50

On June 10, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Beach Boys' 1966 masterwork Pet Sounds in a variety of formats to mark its 50th anniversary.  If you haven't read our previous story on the upcoming 4-CD/1-Blu-ray box set and more, do not pass go, do not collect $200...just go right here! Now, without further ado, here's the complete, newly-confirmed track listing and pre-order links for the various iterations of Pet Sounds 50! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

De-Luxe: Cherry Red Chronicles The Sound of Shoegaze On "Still in a Dream" Box Set

March 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Still in a Dream Story of Shoegaze

Noise-rock, dream-pop, post-punk, drone-rock, neo-psychedelia...all of these musical subgenres and more became components of the shoegaze sound.  The term itself was rather derisively coined by the press to describe a certain group of musicians' tendencies to stare down at their feet while performing - partly out of introspection, partly out of necessity to operate guitar effects pedals.  But the "shoegaze" term stuck, and so did the music.  Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze, a lavish,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Cocteau Twins, Lush, Ride, The Flaming Lips, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Various Artists

Still Driving: America Releases "Lost and Found" On Vinyl

March 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

America Lost and Found

Last year, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, a.k.a. America, released two significant archival collections bookending their still-thriving career.  Archives Vol. 1 presented 15 previously unreleased alternate versions, early mixes, demos, rehearsals and outtakes spanning the halcyon period between America's 1971 debut album America and 1975's Hearts.  These, of course, featured Beckley and Bunnell in addition to original member Dan Peek.  Lost and Found pressed fast-forward on the band's history

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: America

Slip Away: Ace Reissues, Expands Two Albums From Soul Legend Clarence Carter

March 22, 2016 By Ted Frank 1 Comment

Clarence Carter This Is and Dynamic

As 2000 ushered in a new millennium, it also reintroduced the soulful voice of Clarence Carter on Cameron Crowe's Grammy-winning soundtrack to Almost Famous.   Being the sole (pun intended) R&B gem on this compilation, Crowe embedded Carter's hit song, "Slip Away" into what is otherwise his definitive 1970s classic rock retrospective.  This is not to say that Carter is the only R&B artist found in the film proper.  On the contrary, Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour" was masterfully used

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Clarence Carter

Mr. Clean: Winfield Parker At Ru-Jac

March 21, 2016 By

Winfield Parker at Ru Jac

Winfield Parker began his singing career at Baltimore's Ru-Jac label, one of America's first African-American-owned record labels (active from the early 1960s through the early 1970s).  In 2015, Omnivore acquired the pioneering Ru-Jac label and its publishing assets, and on March 25, the first title from that acquisition will see release.  Mr. Clean: Winfield Parker at Ru-Jac features 23 tracks (including never-before-released material) of prime 1960s East Coast soul from Ru-Jac's premier

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