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Roger McGuinn and Pete Seeger, Tony Orlando, Doc Watson Join Bottom Line Archive Series

October 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Pete Seeger and Roger McGuinn Bottom Line

The Bottom Line Archive Series, preserving performances from the late, renowned New York club, will roll out a new trio of releases on October 30.  Joining previous entries from artists including The Brecker Brothers, Harry Chapin and Janis Ian are new titles from Tony Orlando, Doc Watson, and the duo of Pete Seeger and Roger McGuinn. One 1994 evening at The Bottom Line, famed disk jockey Vin Scelsa joined folk legend Pete Seeger and The Byrds' Roger McGuinn for one-of-a-kind exchange of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Roger McGuinn, Tony Orlando

No Secrets: Carly Simon Gets Personal On "Songs From The Trees: A Musical Memoir Collection"

October 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Songs from the Trees

Carly Simon is finally telling her own story.  On November 24, the singer-songwriter will release Boys in the Trees: A Memoir via Macmillan imprint Flatiron Books.  The eagerly-anticipated book promises to chronicle her life onstage and off.  Just days earlier, on November 20, Rhino Records will release a companion 2-CD set, Songs from the Trees: A Musical Memoir Collection.  Like Elvis Costello's Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink and its own companion audio release, the CDs' selections will

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Ben Taylor, Carly Simon, James Taylor

Step Inside Love: Varese Compiles Hits of Cilla Black and Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas

October 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Cilla The Hit Singles

The Varese Vintage label is heading back to the days of Merseybeat and the British Invasion for a pair of new releases due on Friday, October 30.  Cilla Black's The Hit Singles and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas' All-Time Greatest Hits both draw on the Parlophone Records catalogue, featuring the Fab songbook of Lennon and McCartney and the production of George Martin. Liverpool coat check girl-turned-pop superstar Cilla Black OBE had one of Britain's most enduring and diverse entertainment

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Cilla Black

Don't Fear the Reaper: "Now!" Series Releases a Halloween Volume

October 26, 2015 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Now Halloween

We've reported on several Christmas reissues being released in the lead-up the yuletide season.  And when it comes to holidays throughout the year, Christmas certainly reigns supreme in terms of the quantity of music devoted to it.  However, some other holidays and occasions throughout the year have music devoted to them.  One of the more popular ones is Halloween which is coming up this weekend.  To provide a soundtrack to your Halloween parties or trick-or-treating, Legacy Recordings, in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Donovan, Mike Oldfield, Various Artists, Warren Zevon

All Aboard! Ace Collects "London American Label: 1966" and "25 Train Tracks"

October 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

London American Label 1966

Ace is saying "All Aboard!" with a pair of recent releases spotlighting the label's pursuit of the diverse sounds of music.  The London American Label Year by Year: 1966 continues Ace's long-running survey of the American sides issued on London Records in the U.K. between the 1950s and the 1970s while All Aboard! 25 Train Tracks Calling at All Musical Stations spotlights (you guessed it!) "train songs." The eleventh volume of Ace's The London American Label series is here, with 28 selections

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Chuck Berry, Neil Sedaka, The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes, The Vogues, Various Artists

Oranges and Lemons (CD/Blu-ray Audio)

October 25, 2015 By

XTC Oranges and Lemons

Oranges & Lemons is the third in a series of remixed & expanded XTC Classics. The album has been mixed for 5.1 surround from the original multi-tracks by Steven Wilson with input from Andy Partridge & is fully approved by XTC.  The CD in this CD/BD set features a new stereo album mix by Wilson.  The Blu-ray premieres Wilson's 5.1 surround mix in 96/24 resolution available in LPCM and DTS HD-MA as well as the new stereo mix in 96/24 LPCM Stereo, a flat transfer of the original stereo

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, CD Genre: Pop, Rock

Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush

October 23, 2015 By

Bobby Rush Chicken Heads

Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush chronicles the career of the Louisiana-born, Arkansas-raised blues legend who has befriended and shared stages with the likes of Etta James, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.  The 4-CD box set takes its title from the 1971 Galaxy Records single that earned Rush a No. 34 berth on the Billboard R&B Singles chart, but Galaxy isn't the only label represented.  Chicken Heads, with nearly 100 tracks and almost 5 hours of music,  also draws on

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

Dick's Picks Vol. 3 - Pembroke Pines, Florida 5/22/77

October 23, 2015 By

Dicks Picks 3

Grateful Dead archivist Dick Latvala considered the show on Dick's Picks Vol. 3-Pembroke Pines, Florida 5/22/77 to be the finest outing on the entire Spring 1977 tour; Real Gone brings this 2-CD set (with all but eight songs from the epic concert) back into print with this release.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Stardust-The Rare Television Performances

October 23, 2015 By

Nat King Cole Stardust

Nat King Cole's Stardust-The Rare Television Performances includes more than two dozen of the rarest performances from television's The Nat King Cole Show, coupled with nearly 30 minutes of additional music from a 1963 appearance on Australian television being released for the very first time in America.  Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Gordon Jenkins are all among the arrangers on this set of "King" Cole's finest!

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

You've Got the Touch: Legacy's 2015 Black Friday RSD Slate includes Presley, Cash, Hendrix, Isley Brothers and "Transformers" Soundtrack

October 23, 2015 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Sony RSD Black Friday 2015

Announcements about this year's Black Friday Record Store Day event have been trickling out.  A couple of days ago we brought you news of Omnivore's titles and before that, of Real Gone's Dictators release!   Now we can tell you about Legacy's slate for the day after Thanksgiving. The titles run the gamut in size from 7" singles to 12" 2-LP sets, and also range in genre from rock to country to hip-hop.  Several soundtracks are being released including a single from the 1960s Batman TV show,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Earth Wind and Fire, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Record Store Day, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Alan Parsons Project, The Isley Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink.  Featuring songs that "offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book," Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: a-ha, Charlie Rich, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jack Bruce, Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Sweet, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rod Stewart, Susanna Hoffs, The Kinks

Review: Faces, "1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything"

October 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Faces You Can Make Me Dance

On September 5 of this year, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones reunited publicly for the first time in 22 years as Faces, paying tribute to their fallen comrades Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan with a seven-song set benefiting a prostate cancer charity.  The performance came on the heels of the release by Rhino of 1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything... (Rhino R2 550009), a box set-in-miniature collecting all four of Faces' long players in expanded editions plus a bonus disc of

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Faces, Ian McLagan, Kenney Jones, Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane

Thank You Friends: Omnivore Offers Big Star, Neil Finn and Paul Kelly For Record Store Day Black Friday

October 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Big Star Jesus Christ

Omnivore Recordings is looking ahead to this year's annual Black Friday Record Store Day event on Friday, November 27, with the announcement of two special vinyl releases. The first continues in the tradition of Omnivore's Big Star releases.  The RSD 10-inch EP of Jesus Christ features the original album version of the song recorded for the band's Third plus the demo version (which first appeared on the acclaimed Keep an Eye on the Sky box set) and five previously unissued tracks, for a total

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, Neil Finn, Paul Kelly, Record Store Day

Casting Their Spell: Croydon Municipal Celebrates Halloween, Salutes Girl Groups

October 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Songs for Swinging Ghosts

With Halloween around the corner, the pre-Beatles pop specialists at Cherry Red's Croydon Municipal imprint have offered up a collection of spooky musical treats, Songs for Swinging Ghosts, along with a disc of more traditional fare, the girl group salute All About the Girls. The 22 tracks on Songs for Swinging Ghosts, comprising both vocals and instrumentals, are primarily drawn from U.K. releases though a handful of American artists are on hand, too.  Compiler Bob Stanley of St. Etienne

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: St. Etienne, Various Artists

From The Vault: Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990

October 19, 2015 By

RS Tokyo

The Rolling Stones are continuing their From The Vault series with this release of one of the ten shows from February 14-27, 1990 at The Tokyo Dome; these shows culminated the Steel Wheels World Tour.  The footage has been restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.  Available in DVD/2-CD, Standard Definition BD and DVD/4-LP editions. DVD/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/4-LP: Amazon U.S.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

At Long Last: Original Soundtrack To "At Long Last Love" Comes To CD - AND YOU CAN WIN!

October 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

At Long Last Love

Is it an earthquake or simply a shock?  Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock? Last Friday, Varese Vintage had an unexpected treat for fans of Peter Bogdanovich's cult classic musical comedy with the first-ever CD release of the original RCA Victor soundtrack to At Long Last Love. Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of films including The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon and What's Up, Doc intended At Long Last Love to pay homage to Hollywood's dazzling musical comedies of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Burt Reynolds, Cole Porter, Cybill Shepherd

Hungry Heart: Bruce Springsteen Expands "The River" In New Box Set

October 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Bruce The Ties That Bind

Bruce Springsteen is going down to The River on December 4 when Columbia Records releases The Ties That Bind: The River Collection.  This 4-CD/3-DVD or 4-CD/2-BD set promises a treasure trove of previously unreleased material across its 53 audio tracks plus four hours of never-before-seen video footage. Springsteen's fifth album, The River was released on October 17, 1980.  The sprawling double album reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and No. 2 in the U.K., and yielded the hit single

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Release Round-Up: Week of October 16

October 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Christmas Time Again

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The dB's and Friends, Christmas Time Again! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Omnivore revisits and revises the classic alt-rock Christmas compilation.  Producer Chris Stamey has added new performances by Yo La Tengo & Jeff Tweedy, Marshall Crenshaw, Robyn Hitchcock, and Big Star's Third (featuring Mike Mills of R.E.M. taking lead vocals on Big Star's "Jesus Christ") to selected tracks from past editions of the album for a total of 22

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, DVD-Audio, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cole Porter, Earth Wind and Fire, Glen Campbell, Judy Garland, King Crimson, Pat Boone, Ray Parker Jr., Raydio, The dB's

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

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

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