The Climax Chicago Blues Band didn't begin life in America's Windy City, but rather in Stafford, England. Colin Cooper, Peter Haycock, Arthur Wood, Derek Holt, Richard Jones, and George Newsome bonded over their love of Chicago-style blues, and in 1969, the group released its first album on the Parlophone label. The self-titled LP featured classic blues from Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Big Joe Turner but also made room for Lee Hazlewood country-folk (The Shacklefords' "A
Release Round-Up: Week of June 28
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Motown: The Complete No. 1s (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) For its 60th anniversary year, UMe has begun reminding fans that "Motown Did It First"; now, Motown is revisiting an essential box set that was originally released in celebration of its 50th anniversary a decade ago. Motown: The Complete No. 1s features more than 200 international chart-toppers, plus a handful of bonus masters that went to No.
Tiger Man: Elvis Presley Rarities Abound on 11-CD "Live 1969" Box Set and "American Sound 1969" Studio Collection
Legacy Recordings is celebrating Elvis Presley's 1969 run at The International Hotel in Las Vegas with a box set fit for a king. Live 1969 is an 11-CD set due out on August 9 that boasts newly mixed and mastered versions of the King of Rock and Roll's legendary return to the stage. Following his 1968 comeback on NBC, Presley had a hankering to perform live again. As he remembered, "I missed the closeness of a live audience. So just as soon as I got out of the movie contracts, I started to do
Wilde Thing: Marty Wilde's Career Celebrated on Hits and Rarities Anthology "A Lifetime in Music"
Marty Wilde, MBE can legitimately be described as a musical legend. One of the first musicians to bring rock-and-roll to the U.K., his career has spanned over 60 years. Cherry Red's RPM imprint has recently celebrated Wilde's legacy with a package that brings together his earliest hits and numerous rarities. A Lifetime in Music: 1957-2019 - Hits, Highlights, and Rarities collects 132 tracks on 4 CDs including 24 previously unreleased cuts. Wilde, born in Blackheath, South London, was
Review: Glen Campbell, "The Legacy [1961-2017]"
Glen Campbell's career-spanning box set is modestly titled The Legacy, fitting for the unlikely superstar from Delight, Arkansas. While The Legend might have been equally appropriate, Campbell's legacy is, truly, unlike any other. Throughout an extraordinary seven-decade career encompassing 21 Top 40 Pop hits, 27 Top 10 Country singles, six Top 20 Pop albums, and nine No. 1 Country albums in the United States alone, the artist regularly transcended genre with his honeyed vocals and virtuosic
See The Bright Lights: Real Gone Offers Classic Live Concerts From Richard Thompson, Jefferson Airplane in August
Real Gone Music has announced the release of two classic live performances -- one a gig by the multi-faceted guitarist Richard Thompson, and the other the vinyl debut of Jefferson Airplane's Woodstock set. Richard Thompson is one of the great guitarists of his generation and an accomplished singer-songwriter who has remained vital for over fifty years, starting with his genre-bending work as part of Fairport Convention. Over the course of his solo career, Thompson released several
Hot 'Lanta: Unreleased Allman Brothers Concerts Collected on "Fillmore West '71"
Few bands shaped the sound of what came to be known as southern rock quite like The Allman Brothers Band. As part of the celebrations surrounding their 50th anniversary, Allman Brothers Recording Company and The Orchard have announced a new four-CD collection of unreleased live material called Fillmore West '71, due for release on September 6. Recorded just two months before their legendary New York City live album At Fillmore East, the Fillmore West '71 set collects all the recordings from
Pull the String: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Collect James and Bobby Purify's "Complete Bell Recordings"
With "I'm Your Puppet," the duo of James and Bobby Purify gained soul immortality. The 1966 single written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham went top ten Pop and top five R&B on the Billboard charts (and No. 1 R&B on Cash Box!), sold an estimated million copies, and still gets airplay today. Now, Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has brought together all of the Purifys' recordings for the Bell Records label on the 2-CD collection entitled (naturally) I'm Your Puppet: The Complete
Release Round-Up: Week of June 21
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Originals (Warner/NPG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Originals brings together 15 demos of songs Prince gave away to other artists including The Time, Sheila E., Kenny Rogers, Martika, Vanity 6, and The Bangles. Tidal will exclusively offered the album for high-resolution streaming on June 7, with the CD and wide digital release out today, and vinyl configurations to follow in July. A Target exclusive CD edition adds one
Girl of My Dreams: Cherry Red, RPM Celebrate Twinkle with "The Complete Recordings"
Twinkle, a.k.a. Lynn Ripley, may be best-remembered today for "Golden Lights," covered by The Smiths. But Morrissey (who also included her self-written "death disc" entitled "Terry" among his list of "Singles to be Cremated With") was just one of her famous fans - a rank also including Elton John and Sir Tim Rice. The Surrey-born singer went to school with Camilla Parker-Bowles, shared bills with The Beatles, Cilla Black, and Dusty Springfield, and hung out with Keith Moon and Jimi Hendrix.
Echo in the Canyon: Music From and Inspired by the Documentary Film
Jakob Dylan and a group of friends including Beck, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Norah Jones, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, and Regina Spektor revisit thirteen Laurel Canyon classics on this album inspired by director Andrew Slater's recent documentary film. Songs include "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" by Dylan with Young, "Expecting to Fly" with Spektor, "Goin' Back" with Beck, "You Showed Me" with Cat Power, and more.
Review: "Getz at the Gate: The Stan Getz Quartet Live at The Village Gate - Nov. 26, 1961"
1962 is rightfully viewed as a breakthrough year for tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, the year in which he successfully brought the Brazilian bossa nova sound to the mainstream with guitarist Charlie Byrd on Jazz Samba. 1961, on the other hand, has receded as a kind of footnote in his musical history despite two strong albums: the orchestral jazz fusion Focus, with arranger Eddie Sauter (late of The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra and later an in-demand orchestrator of such Broadway musicals as 1776),
Trying To Make A Living: Classics From Chicago's Independent Blues Scene Collected on "Cadillac Baby's Bea and Baby Records"
Blues fanatics rejoice! Earwig Music Company invites listeners to take a spin with a new 101-track, 4-CD collection of classic Chicago blues, R&B, and gospel recordings. Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection, due to arrive on July 19, chronicles one of Chicago's finest indie blues labels. Bea & Baby Records was founded by entrepreneur and music fanatic Narvel "Cadillac Baby" Eatmon. From 1959-1989, the label and its subsidiaries (among them Key, Keyhole,
Make Your Own Sweet Sunshine: Davy Jones' "Live in Japan" Arrives on CD/DVD and LP from 7a Records
7a Records is heading to Davy Jones' locker...or more accurately, his vault, as the label has announced its most extensive project yet. The late Monkee's Live in Japan is a remarkable and comprehensive collection of both of Jones' officially released (and long-unavailable) Japanese concert albums in their best sound yet, plus numerous singles and rarities from the early 1980s. The set, due on August 2 in two formats, paints a vivid portrait of Jones' solo work during the period prior to The
The Circle is Unbroken: Legacy To Release The Soundtrack to Ken Burns' "Country Music" in Box Set, Other Editions
Filmmaker Ken Burns has tackled many subjects over the years, from the Civil War to baseball. His documentaries have garnered numerous awards over the years. In 2001, he took an in-depth look at the genre of jazz. Now, he is aiming to explore a different genre with Country Music, an eight-part, 16-1/2-hour documentary premiering September 15 on PBS. And as with Jazz, there will be an accompanying soundtrack. The most expansive of these is a 5-disc box set debuting on August 30 from Legacy
Release Round-Up: Week of June 14
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Killing Me Softly with Her Song/When Will I See You Again (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue celebrating Johnny Mathis' discography with two albums on one CD. 1973's Killing Me Softly with Her Song and 1975's When Will I See You Again both spotlight Mathis' silky interpretations of the day's greatest hits. Killing Me Softly with Her
OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Bring Four Johnny Mathis Classics to CD
As Johnny Mathis plays to packed houses across the country on his acclaimed The Voice of Romance Tour and on the heels of the February CD release of his treasured CHIC collaboration I Love My Lady, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are excited to continue our series of deluxe reissues from the superstar artist. TOMORROW, a quartet of classic Mathis albums with a classic soul twist will be reissued on a pair of two-for-one releases. All four LPs are making their standalone CD
Keep On Rock'n Me: Steve Miller Band Unleashes Unreleased Goodies on "Welcome To The Vault" Box Set
The story of The Steve Miller Band presents a group that was always willing to move forward - from their blues roots in the late-'60s, to their slew of smash rock hits in the '70s, to their explorations into pop and other forms in the decades since. Now, more than 50 years since the band's inception, The Steve Miller Band have announced an expansive 3-CD/DVD box set of rarities due October 11 entitled Welcome To The Vault. Welcome To The Vault is the first-ever Steve Miller Band rarities
Rave On: Cherry Red Collects Steeleye Span's Early Years on "All Things Are Quite Silent"
The British folk revival of the mid- to late-1960s yielded many memorable artists, but few as enduring as Steeleye Span. The group, still going strong today, notched a quartet of top 40 albums and a couple of bona fide hit singles while remaining true to their traditional roots. Cherry Red's Cherry Tree imprint has recently revisited the band with a 3-CD set containing all three of their albums with founding member Ashley Hutchings plus a small clutch of bonus tracks. All Things Are Quite
Review: James Taylor, "One Man Band"
The One Man Band tour took James Taylor on the road for three years of unusually intimate performances, even by the standards of the guitar-wielding troubadour. In 2007, the tour culminated in a series of shows at Pittsfield, Massachusetts' small, 775-seat Colonial Theatre, a true homecoming for the famous Massachusetts native. Joined only by keyboardist Larry Goldings, Taylor treated audiences to a tour through his songbook that amounted to a master class in musical storytelling. The live
Back In The Old School: Rhino Releases New Digital CHIC Rarities Compilation
Looking for something to make you dance this summer? Rhino's rolling out individual vinyl editions of three classic CHIC albums, and has also brought more than a dozen mixes and bonus tracks from the legendary disco band to digital channels for the first time. CHIC co-founder, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and legendary producer Nile Rodgers oversaw remasters of CHIC's early classic work on CD and vinyl last year for a handsome box set. On June 21, the three main albums in that box - 1977's
Arrest This Man: Following Leak, Radiohead Make 'OK Computer' Sessions Available For Charity
This is what you get when you mess with them: Radiohead are making a trove of recently leaked session audio officially available. Last week, 18 hours of takes and tracks from the sessions to the band's 1997 landmark OK Computer (expanded and reissued with bonus material in 2017) leaked. Among the contents were alternate takes, mixes and live material, including versions of beloved tracks "Karma Police," "No Surprises," "Airbag" and "Exit Music (For a Film)" as well as lesser-known fan
Back to the Swamp: Run Out Groove Announces Tony Joe White's "Monument Rarities" For Next Release
The Swamp Fox is back! Today, Run Out Groove announced that late singer-songwriter Tony Joe White is the winner of its latest fan vote. Swamp Music: Monument Rarities is confirmed to be the next official limited, numbered ROG release, and pre-orders are now open! This 180-gram, 3-LP collection had its genesis in Rhino Handmade's 2006 3-CD box set Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings. The new vinyl release culls all of the alternate takes, demos, and rarities from that long
Jingle Jangle Jungle: Demon Collects Bobby Darin's "The Direction Albums" in July
The opening song of Bobby Darin's 1967 album Sings Doctor Dolittle was entitled "At the Crossroads." The Leslie Bricusse song, introduced by Samantha Eggar (dubbed by Diana Lee) in the big-screen musical, expressed the viewpoint of a young woman constrained by the time in which she lived, wanting more. The tune was quickly adopted and refashioned by singers from Petula Clark in a slow-burning, stoic and determined version, to Sammy Davis, Jr. in exuberantly hyper-charged "Yes I Can!" mode.
Release Round-Up: Week of June 7
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese's documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from
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