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Hear The Bang: Lost Country-Rock Classic By Late Singer-Songwriter Denny Lile Is Rediscovered

October 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Denny Lile Hear the Bang

Singer-songwriter Denny Lile was only 21 years old when a newspaper headline proclaimed "Maybe THIS time it's Denny Lile's turn," but he was already a veteran of the music business and its vagaries.  A couple of singles came and went with his band Elysian Field on Imperial Records; the same fate befell Soul, Inc. and its handful of singles on the Laurie label.  At the time of that headline, Lile was striking out with his own group Otis for the single release of "Hear the Bang."  A self-titled

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Country, Folk, Rock Tags: Denny Lile

When The Heart Rules The Mind: Esoteric Reissues, Expands Howe and Hackett's "GTR"

October 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

GTR

Esoteric Recordings has recently reissued landmark albums by Genesis' Anthony Phillips and Tony Banks; now, the Cherry Red imprint has turned its attention to GTR, the lone album from the group formed by Steve Hackett of Genesis and Steve Howe of Yes and Asia.  The 1986 Arista release of GTR has been expanded by Esoteric to two CDs with the addition of three bonus tracks and a full-length live concert previously released as part of the King Biscuit Flower Hour series. Yes and Asia manager

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: GTR, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe

Great Scott! "Back to the Future" Trilogy Reissued on CD and Vinyl

October 13, 2015 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Back to the Future

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. Doc, ah...are you telling me that you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean?" With those words, audiences were in for the ride of a lifetime with Back to the Future, 1985's hit sci-fi comedy about a teenager who accidentally ends up 30 years in the past and has to ensure his existence by setting up his parents before making it back to his present day. With a winning cast that included Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd as the dynamic duo of young Marty McFly

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri

Real Gone "Goes Crazy" With December Releases From The Dictators, Nat King Cole, King Curtis, More

October 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dictators Go Girl Crazy

Real Gone Music has just announced its December release slate, and the label is closing out 2015 with as dizzyingly eclectic a line-up as ever - from the proto-punk clamor of The Dictators to the velvet vocals of Nat "King" Cole.  Real Gone previews its December 4 offerings on Record Store Day - Black Friday, November 27, with a special 10" EP from The Dictators featuring previously unreleased tracks unavailable anywhere else!  Then, the following week comes an expanded edition of the band's The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead, Jeremy Spencer, King Curtis, Nat King Cole, The Dictators

This Note's For You: Neil Young Readies "Bluenote Café" For November Release

October 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Neil Young Bluenote Cafe

The ever-prolific Neil Young is following up his latest studio album The Monsanto Years with another dip into his fabled Archives.  Bluenote Café is the title of his Archives Performance Series Volume 11, due in 2-CD and 4-LP editions from Reprise Records on November 13. Bluenote Café takes its name from the horn-powered band which backed Neil on his 1987-1988 tour before and after the April '88 release of the studio album This Note's for You (originally credited to Neil Young and the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Neil Young

Release Round-Up: Week of October 9

October 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Small Faces Decca

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up highlighted by the first course of a Christmas feast, plus a trio of deluxe box sets, new albums from veteran artists, and more! The Three Suns, A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas / George Melachrino and His Orchestra, Christmas Joy / John Gary, The John Gary Christmas Album / The Soulful Strings, The Magic of Christmas (Real Gone Music) The Three Suns: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. George Melachrino: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. John Gary: Amazon U.S. /

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Rydell, Damita Jo, Donna Summer, George Melachrino, John Gary, Lee Hazlewood, Nat King Cole, Raging Fire, The Beckies, The Small Faces, The Soulful Strings, The Three Suns, The Zombies, Tom Jones

It Must Be Love: Edsel Reissues Five From Singer-Songwriter Labi Siffre

October 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Labi Siffre

Despite a relatively small catalogue of under ten albums in over forty years, British singer-songwriter Labi Siffre has long been recognized as one of the most original voices in pop.  Artists as diverse as Rod Stewart, Madness, Joss Stone and Kenny Rogers have all recorded his songs; hip-hop performers like Kanye West and Eminem have sampled him.  Edsel has recently celebrated Siffre's legacy with a program of five reissues - expanded editions of four of his studio albums plus a new edition of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Labi Siffre

Straighten Up and Fly Right: Universal Creates Nat King Cole's "Musical Autobiography" On New Box Set

October 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Nat King Cole Musical Autobiography

Over 50 years ago, on February 15, 1965, the world lost Nat "King" Cole at the age of 45.  But in a career sadly cut short by lung cancer, Cole left an indelible legacy in the worlds of jazz and popular vocals.  That immense legacy is being celebrated this fall by Universal Music with the  release tomorrow, October 9, of His Musical Autobiography, a 10-CD/2-DVD retrospective box set featuring 262 tracks spanning the period of 1939 to 1965. Cole's familiar classics, both solo and with his King

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Nat King Cole

Stax of Wax: Ace Mines Stax Records For New Anthology, Isaac Hayes and David Porter Reissues

October 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Solid Stax Sensations

Ace Records has recently celebrated the enduring legacy of Stax Records with a trio of exciting releases from some of the label's leading lights.  The Isaac Hayes Movement's 1975 Disco Connection makes its first ever CD appearance, joined by Hayes' songwriting partner David Porter's equally rare 1970 ...Into a Real Thing in a newly-expanded edition.  Ace tops it all off with Ian Levine's Solid Stax Sensations, a revelatory collection showcasing the varied sides of the Stax label family. It's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: David Porter, Isaac Hayes, Various Artists

Jethro Tull Continues CD/DVD Reissue Series with "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll," Includes New Steven Wilson Mixes

October 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Jethro Tull Too Old

On the heels of May's reissue of Jethro Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery, Rhino and Chrysalis have announced the next volume in the labels' ongoing deluxe series for the band.  The roots of the concept album Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die can be found in Minstrel; now, Too Old... is scheduled for its own reissue on November 27 in advance of its own 40th anniversary next spring.  It will be available as an expanded 2-CD/2-DVD set and as a standalone single-CD remaster of the original

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jethro Tull

Singles...Driven By The Music

October 6, 2015 By

Donna Summer Driven

Complementing last year's albums box set, Driven by the Music releases a new 24-CD singles box set from the late, great Donna Summer featuring all of the singles originally released on Geffen Records and Atlantic Records from the albums 'The Wanderer', 'Donna Summer', 'Cats Without Claws', 'All Systems Go', 'Another Place and Time' and 'Mistaken Identity'.  Also included is a Bonus 4-track CD featuring remixes, which although were on the Club/DJ circuit, have not been previously available

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

Long Lost Suitcase

October 6, 2015 By

Tom Jones Long Lost Suitcase

To coincide with the release of long-awaited autobiography Over the Top and Back, Sir Tom Jones unpacks his Long Lost Suitcase on an all-new studio album.  Titles on the album reflect chapters in his book including "Elvis Presley Blues," "Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used to Do," "Bring It On Home" and "Factory Girl."  No U.S. release is currently on the schedule, though that may change.

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

Reel to Real: Expanded Edition

October 5, 2015 By

Love Reel to Real

High Moon Records has the premiere reissue of Arthur Lee and Love's 1974 album Reel to Real as a newly-expanded Deluxe Edition in the following formats: Expanded CD packaged in a deluxe custom digipak with a full-color, 32-page booklet; LP pressed on high-quality RTI vinyl with full-color, 28-page LP-sized booklet; LP includes download card for high-quality album plus bonus tracks; and Digital Download includes full-color, 26-page PDF booklet.  

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

The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966

October 5, 2015 By

Dylan Best of Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 looks at one of the most halcyon periods in Bob Dylan's long career: the creatively fertile time in the studio that yielded the trilogy of masterworks Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. This new collection, transferred from the original tapes, will be available from Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings in four formats designed to suit the appetite and budget of every Dylanophile: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series

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

Right Here Now: Marshall Crenshaw Unveils "# 392: The EP Collection"

October 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Marshall Crenshaw EP Collection

When Marshall Crenshaw launched a vinyl EP subscription service in early 2013 as a vehicle for his new music, the veteran singer/songwriter/producer set out to not make a new album.  Yet, as these things happen, he ended up with enough music to make one after all.  # 392: The EP Collection is a new 14-track album with twelve songs drawn from the six EPs released between 2013 and 2015, plus two exclusive bonus tracks.  All songs here make their CD debuts on this release. Each vinyl EP,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Marshall Crenshaw

Anthony Phillips' "Private Parts and Pieces" Revealed On New Box Set

October 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anthony Phillips Private

The Genesis celebration at Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint continues with the release of Anthony Phillips' Private Parts and Pieces I - IV, a new 5-CD box set collecting and expanding his four albums of the same name released between 1978 and 1984.  Private Parts follows Esoteric's recent deluxe expansion of Phillips' The Geese and the Ghost as well as a number of other projects from members of his famous band including a reissue of the 1986 album by Steve Hackett's band GTR and Tony

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else Tags: Anthony Phillips, Genesis, Mike Rutherford

Release Round-Up: Week of October 2

October 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paul McCartney Tug of War

Welcome to our new Release Round-Up! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Tug of War (MPL/Concord) The Paul McCartney Archive Collection continues with 1982's Tug of War, featuring "Ebony and Ivory" and "Here Today."  The release is available in various formats: 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Special Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Check out our full feature for information on what

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bad Company, Carl Wilson, Carole King, Celtic Thunder, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Earth Wind and Fire, Garbage, Grateful Dead, Janet Jackson, Joe Jackson, Judy Garland, Paul McCartney, Sarah McLachlan

Paul McCartney Archive Collection "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace" ARRIVE TOMORROW!

October 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paul McCartney Tug of War

REMINDER!  Tomorrow, October 2, will finally see the release of the next two installments in Paul McCartney's Archive Collection: Tug of War and Pipes of Peace! At last, we can say, say, say it's true: the next two volumes of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection are almost here in a variety of formats.  Macca's second and third albums of the 1980s, the platinum sellers Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, will arrive from Concord Records and MPL with the expected array of bonus material,

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

Man, We Had a Party: Ace Collects Sequel Songs On "Second Helpings"

September 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Second Helpings

Numerous collections have compiled famous "answer songs."  Ace Records' 2007 anthology The Answer to Everything had many of the best, like Jody Miller's "Queen of the House," Esther Phillips' "When a Woman Loves a Man" and Marilyn Michaels' "Tell Tommy I Miss Him."  Early in the summer, Ace took a look not at answer songs, per se, but at sequel songs, on the compilation of Second Helpings: Sequels to the Songs That Left 'Em Hungry for More! The 24 tracks on this collection all hail from the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Buddy Holly, George Jones, Jay and the Americans, Jimmy Dean, Marty Robbins, The Marvelettes, The Shirelles, Various Artists, Wanda Jackson

Perfectly Frank: "A Voice On Air" Box Set Collects Rare, Unreleased Sinatra Recordings

September 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Sinatra A Voice on Air

The Sinatra centennial celebration is picking up steam this fall with the release of a new 4-CD box set from Legacy Recordings.  On November 20, the label will release Frank Sinatra: A Voice on Air (1935-1955), the first comprehensive, fully authorized collection of Sinatra's historic radio performances.  Over 100 tracks have been meticulously restored from the original recording masters for what's being billed as "unprecedented high fidelity sound." A Voice on Air captures Sinatra during the

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

Long Time Comin': Next Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Release Highlights 2005 "Devils & Dust" Tour

September 29, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen Ohio 2005

The next installment in Bruce Springsteen's live archive series has been revealed:  Schottenstein Center, Columbus, Ohio 2005. The show for this release is from July 31, 2005 and falls in the middle of Springsteen's Devils & Dust Tour.  Devils & Dust was released in April of that year, debuting at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.  It was his first album following 2002's The Rising which had reunited Springsteen with the E Street Band for the first time on a new studio record in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Review: Dr. John, "The Atco/Atlantic Singles 1968-1974"

September 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Dr. John Singles

Dr. John's most famous single was titled "Right Place Wrong Time," but the one and only Mac Rebennack has certainly found himself in the right place at many a right time.  One particularly halcyon period of the funky New Orleans piano man's long career is captured on Omnivore Recordings' essential new collection of The Atco/Atlantic Singles 1968-1974 (OVCD-149). Though the 22 U.S. and U.K. singles included on this collection represent Dr. John's earliest years as a solo artist under that

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint, Dr. John

Review: Johnny Mathis, "The Singles"

September 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Johnny Mathis Singles

A new 4-CD box set from Legacy Recordings and Columbia Records can be best summed up by the title of its very first track: "Wonderful! Wonderful!"  Johnny Mathis' simply-titled The Singles doesn't bring together every track released by the legendary artist on 45 RPM; such an endeavor would take far more than four discs.  Instead, it features the tracks originally released by Mathis on Columbia in the singles format - in other words, non-LP sides - between the years of 1956 and 1981, in their

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Johnny Mathis

Review: Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Portrait of an American Singer"

September 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

With three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and inductions into the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame to his name, there were few heights that Ernest Jennings Ford - a.k.a. Tennessee Ernie Ford - didn't scale.  A mainstay of radio and television, Ford's decades-long association with Capitol Records yielded a rich catalogue filled with country, proto rock-and-roll boogie-woogie, western swing, pop and folk ballads, gospel, novelty records, blues and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Tennessee Ernie Ford

Release Round-Up: Week of September 25

September 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie Five Years Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - maybe the biggest and most diverse yet of 2015! David Bowie, Five Years (Parlophone) 12 CD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 13 LP Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. New remasters of David Bowie (a.k.a. Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory and Pin Ups are collected in a new box set along with existing versions of Ziggy Stardust (in both the original and 2003 mixes), Aladdin Sane, Live Santa Monica '72, the Ziggy Stardust

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Billy Cobham, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Diana Krall, Don Henley, Herb Alpert, Johnny Mathis, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Loggins and Messina, Micky Dolenz, Queen, Sneakers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Tony Bennett

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