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Touch My Heart: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Expands "From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music" Box Set

August 27, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

From Where I Stand

Back in 1998, The Country Music Foundation teamed with Warner Bros. Records to release From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music.  The 3-CD box set was divided into three thematic discs - The Stringband Era, The Soul Country Years, and Forward with Pride - which reflected on the immense contributions of African-Americans to country music in 60 songs.  Today, the spotlight shines even more brightly on the black experience in the genre, in no small part due to the release earlier

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Bobby Hebb, Charley Pride, Dobie Gray, Esther Phillips, Lead Belly, Linda Martell, Ray Charles, Rhiannon Giddens, Solomon Burke, The Pointer Sisters, The Supremes, Various Artists

The Best Gift: Barbra Streisand's Two Christmas Albums Arrive on Vinyl in October

August 26, 2024 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Barbra Streisand A Christmas Album

Barbra Streisand entered London's Olympic Sound Studios in June 1966 while reprising her role of Fanny Brice in the West End premiere of Funny Girl to begin work on what would become her very first Christmas album.  Four songs arranged by Ray Ellis and produced by Ettore Strata were cut at the session including "Silent Night" and the Gounod setting of "Ave Maria."  A mere two weeks following her July 14 final performance, she was onstage back in the U.S. for the first of four summer concert

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Barbra Streisand

Blues At Sunrise: Stax Expands Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'In Session'

August 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

SRV Albert King In Session

An intergenerational meeting between two late blues guitar gods - Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - will be revived on CD and vinyl in a new expanded package. Originally recorded in 1983 and first released in 1999, In Session features the six-stringers trading licks on a Canadian television program of the same name, when King was a 60-year-old living legend and Vaughan a young upstart who'd turned heads with his licks on David Bowie's Let's Dance before releasing his own powerful

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Rock Tags: Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Like the Very First Time: Foreigner Celebrate Rock Hall Induction with New Compilation and Single

August 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Foreigner Turning Back the Time

To celebrate their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Foreigner will release a new greatest hits collection, including a new track that reunites the group's two most notable members. Turning Back the Time, in stores October 4 from Rhino, brings together 18 of the group's most notable radio staples, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold As Ice," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Juke Box Hero," "I Want to Know What Love Is," "Say You

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Foreigner

Miles Davis' 1954 Sessions Collected on New Craft Recordings Compilation

August 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Miles 54

Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together. Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and vibraphonist Milt Jackson offering their talents in Davis' ensembles. The package includes a new

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Detects 'Foul Play,' La-La Land's Big Sale

August 20, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Foul Play Intrada expanded

If you're a catalogue soundtrack enthusiast, you're usually always ready to take a chance again on a new pressing of an old favorite. Intrada's latest reissue is about to make that idea as literal as possible: a new remix and expansion of Charles Fox's score to the 1978 comedy Foul Play. Written and directed by Colin Higgins (who penned the script to Harold and Maude and later directed the comedy 9 to 5), Foul Play is a screwy Hitchcock homage about a librarian (Goldie Hawn) who gets mixed up

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Alexander Courage, Barry Manilow, Charles Fox, George Duning, Jerry Fielding

Two Sides of Cornbread: New Compilation Plays Tribute to Unsung Minneapolis Legend

August 19, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Cornbread Harris Anthology

The name Cornbread Harris might only resonate with the most devoted acolytes of Minneapolis, Minnesota's rich history of R&B music. A new compilation, produced by Harris' biographer, aims to change that. Anthology is an eight-track look into the musical career of James Harris, Jr., better known as Cornbread - a key figure and forefather in the Twin Cities' contribution to America's musical landscape. Featuring a mix of rare and unreleased material spanning from the first single Harris

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Cornbread Harris, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Prince

In Memoriam: Peter Marshall (1926-2024)

August 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Peter Marshall Boy Singer

Peter Marshall celebrated the new millennium with the release of his album Boy Singer.  The album was the first full-length recording in over thirty years from the longtime Master of The Hollywood Squares, but not the last.  Over the course of an extraordinary career spanning nine decades, Marshall made his mark in every arena of show business.  Peter passed away yesterday at the age of 98, epitomizing a long life, well-lived. TV buffs, of course, remember Peter's multiple Emmy Award-winning

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Whitesnake, Recoiled: David Coverdale Preps Box of Remixed, Remastered Solo Albums

August 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Whitesnake Into the Light

Having thoroughly revisited his work with Whitesnake at Rhino Records with remixes, reissues and compilations aplenty, the band's singer David Coverdale will now partner with the label to do the same for his three solo albums. Into the Light: The Solo Albums, due October 25, will collect six CDs' worth of Coverdale's solo material, including new remixes alongside remastered versions of the albums WhiteSnake (1977), NorthWinds (1978) and Into the Light (2000) as well as unissued demos and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Coverdale, Whitesnake

The Right to Sing: Cherry Red's Lemon Imprint Collects John Miles' "The Albums 1983-93"

August 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

John Miles The Albums 1983 93

Singer-songwriter John Miles' 1976 hit "Music," the opening track of his Decca debut album Rebel, immediately became the artist's calling card.  The Alan Parsons-produced single went to the top five on the U.K. Singles Chart, also reaching the top ten in various European countries, and cracking the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.  The epic prog ballad won Miles an Ivor Novello Award, and launched Miles into the stratosphere.  Two well-received albums with producer Rupert Holmes followed,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: John Miles

Maestro Around the World: John Williams' Late-Period Concert Albums Set for Vinyl Box

August 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

John Williams in Concert

Last Sunday, August 11, John Williams added another honorific to his already incredible career: Disney Legend. The iconic film composer, whose nine Star Wars film scores and five for the Indiana Jones series are now part of the Mouse House's company portfolio thanks to its 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm, was honored at the latest D23 Expo by Dr. Jones himself, actor Harrison Ford, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who's produced many of the films that Williams has done scores for. (The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams

The More I See You: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Nancy in London"

August 13, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Nancy Sinatra Nancy in London

Nancy Sinatra's third album brought the hitmaking singer to the Swingin' center of the world.  Nancy in London, originally released in 1966, was produced and arranged by her usual team of Lee Hazlewood and Billy Strange, respectively, but the setting was very different than the typical Hollywood environs.  Nancy was booked into Pye Studios on Great Cumberland Place near Marble Arch in London, the same studios in which Petula Clark had cut "Downtown" and Nancy's Reprise labelmates The Kinks

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Mickie Most, Nancy Sinatra

The Boys Are Back: Thin Lizzy Gets New Remixes for Box Set Commemorating 1976, Their Breakthrough Year

August 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Thin Lizzy 1976 packshot

Guess who just got back today? Well, September 27 is the date, but Thin Lizzy are releasing a box set chronicling one of their most pivotal years. 1976 will, across five CDs and a Blu-ray Disc, retell the story of the two albums the Irish rockers issued that year: Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox. Both albums have been newly remixed in stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos by Richard Whittaker, under the supervision of guitarist Scott Gorham. The box also includes selections of unreleased material

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Thin Lizzy

St. Jimmy, Re-Canonized: Green Day Prep 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of 'American Idiot'

August 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

American Idiot 20 box

With 20 years' hindsight, Green Day probably meant for their seventh studio album to be big. But nobody could have predicted just how big American Idiot got - and this year's latest addition to the year-end music box set line-up will showcase just how big with a package to match. American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Green Day

Love of A Lifetime: Real Gone's August Slate Includes Grateful Dead and Firehouse Plus Jazz and Heavy Metal Releases

August 8, 2024 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Grateful dead Dick's Picks 12

As usual, Real Gone's August lineup is made up of an eclectic bunch of titles. You will find everything here from rock to jazz to heavy metal, spanning the 1960s to the 2000s.  All these titles hit store shelves tomorrow, August 9. First up a is a continuation of Real Gone's series of Grateful Dead Dick's Picks vinyl sets with Dick's Picks Volume 12 --Providence Civic Center 6/26/74 & Boston Garden 6/28/74.  These concerts occur just before and after the release of their studio album From

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Rock Tags: 3 Inches of Blood, Azar Lawrence, Charlie Nothing, Firehouse, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane

Tonight You're Mine: Legacy Releases Digital Trove of Eric Carmen Rarities

August 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

And Now, Eric Carmen

The power pop world lost a legend in March when it was announced that Eric Carmen - the Raspberries frontman turned soft-rock hitmaker of the '70s and '80s - passed away at the age of 74. Now - on the eve of what would have been his 75th birthday and a special tribute to his life and career from the city that raised him - Legacy Recordings today issues a trove of rare and unreleased recordings from his beloved solo career. And Now, Eric Carmen: The Arista Archive collects 25 demos, single

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eric Carmen

Refugee of the Roads: Joni Mitchell's Latest Archives Box Takes Listeners to the End of the '70s

August 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Joni Archives 4 packshot

Rhino's Joni Mitchell Archives series has been dependably running since 2020, offering alternating box sets featuring troves of unreleased material from the folk legend and remastered versions of the album eras they cover. With the most recent box collecting her last four albums for the Asylum label - Hejira (1976), Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and the live Shadows and Light (1980) - today's new announcement closes that same chapter, offering hours of unreleased live and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Jazz, Pop Tags: Charles Mingus, Graham Nash, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Jan Hammer, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Pat Metheny, T Bone Burnett

When You're Smiling: Impex Returns to "Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra" with Lavish 1STEP Box

August 7, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Sing and Dance 33 1200x1200 1

Roughly four years ago, the Impex label revisited Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra in both hybrid mono SACD and deluxe LP formats.  The 1950 album was a landmark in the legendary vocalist's career.  After he released the very first pop long-playing record with Columbia's 1948 reissue of The Voice of Frank Sinatra, he took advantage of the format with Sing and Dance.  Initially available as a set of four 10-inch 78s or a single 33-1/3 RPM record, the album saw Sinatra at the dawn of his

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971)

August 6, 2024 By

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band's show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center.  Every track on this set is previously unreleased (including the first-ever performance of "Saturday in the Park" and an embryonic "Dialogue" without Part Two; neither song had yet been recorded) with the exception of "Goodbye,"

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop

Colour My World: Chicago's 1971 Set at the Kennedy Center to Be Released

August 6, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

Does anybody really know what time it is?  On September 27, it's time for Rhino to excavate a vintage Chicago concert from the vaults.  Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band's show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center.  Every track on this set is previously unreleased with the exception of "Goodbye," which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago

Run for Home: Lindisfarne's "Mercury Years" Collected on Box from Cherry Red, Lemon

August 5, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lindisfarne The Mercury Years

With a sound melding harmony vocals to soaring folk-rock, Newcastle upon Tyne band Lindisfarne released three studio albums - including the 1972 breakthrough Fog on the Tyne, which spent 56 weeks on the U.K. Albums Chart - before splintering.  Two-fifths of the band carried on with new members for a pair of albums in 1973-74, but by '75, the group had called it a day.  Then, in 1978, they were back.  The album was cheekily entitled Back and Fourth, referring to the fact that the originals had

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: Lindisfarne

Mirage Tour '82

August 3, 2024 By

Fleetwood Mac Mirage Tour 82

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Recorded over two nights at The Forum just outside Los Angeles - the same venue where Rumours Live was taped - Mirage Tour '82 now presents a fuller picture of those shows over two CDs or three LPs (with an Amazon-exclusive clear vinyl variant also available). Singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, singer Stevie Nicks, singer/keyboardist Christine McVie, bassist John McVie, and drummer Mick Fleetwood

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

Review: Rhino's Sounds of the Summer Series - Randy Newman, Chicago, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Al Stewart, Utopia

August 2, 2024 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Randy Newman Best of

Over the past month, Rhino has been releasing numerous titles as part of its Sounds of the Summer initiative, for a total of over two dozen vinyl releases hitting brick-and-mortar stores.  These titles encompass various reissues as well as new entries in the label's ongoing Now Playing series of compilations.  As of now, these LPs are all exclusive to independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations.  We've given a spin to a few of these titles! How to distill the discography of one

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Al Stewart, Chicago, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Randy Newman, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Turn Back Time: Cher Collects Hits on "Forever," Adds Rarities to Digital Edition

August 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Cher Forever

On October 19, Cher will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  One month later, on November 19, Cher releases the first volume of her long-awaited autobiography.  The Memoir: Part One will be preceded on September 20 by the superstar's latest hits anthology - her first in nearly two decades.  Forever, featuring 21 newly remastered songs curated by the artist, arrives from Warner Records on 1 CD or 2 LPs (pressed on crystal-clear vinyl).  On the same date, the Forever: Fan Edition

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Cher, Sonny and Cher

Roxy and Elsewhere: Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera Plan Career-Spanning Box Sets

August 1, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Ferry Manzanera boxes

What are the odds? Two career-spanning box sets featuring solo material by members of Roxy Music - lead singer Bryan Ferry and guitarist Phil Manzanera - will be available this fall. Ferry's Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 will be a 5CD overview divided into thematic collections of his work outside of Roxy Music. The first is a new 20-track collection of his best-loved singles, including the U.K. Top 10s "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Let's Stick Together" and "Slave to Love."

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Roxy Music

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