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Directly From My Heart: The Best of the Specialty and Vee-Jay Years

May 22, 2015 By

Little Richard Directly

Little Richard's Specialty and Vee-Jay years are the subject of this new 3-CD, 64-track anthology, including all of the piano pounder's greatest hits as well as B-sides and rarities!

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

Ace Collects Good Vibrations On "Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson"

May 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Here Today The Songs of Brian Wilson

2015 has been a banner year for Brian Wilson.  The Beach Boys legend has already released a new album, is currently preparing for a tour with Searching for Sugar Man cult hero Rodriguez, and will next month see the full release in theatres of his biopic Love and Mercy.  Ace Records is joining the celebration with the June 29 U.K. release (July 10 in the U.S.) of Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson. One of Ace's first releases in its Songwriters and Producers Series was 2003's Pet Projects:

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Vee, Brian Wilson, Bruce and Terry, Carmen McRae, Gary Usher, Hugo Montenegro, Jay and the Americans, Nick DeCaro, The Beach Boys, The Tokens

Jeanne: The Musical

May 22, 2015 By

Jeanne The Musical

Stage Door Records rescues the score of another lost British musical with the previously unreleased original studio cast recording of the 1985/86 Joan of Arc musical Jeanne .  Olivier Award-nominated singer-songwriter Shirlie Roden's rock opera premiered at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in September 1985, starring Siobhan McCarthy in the title role alongside Peter Straker and Malcolm Roberts. The production subsequently transferred to London's Sadler's Wells for a limited season in March 1986

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters

May 21, 2015 By

Isley Brothers T Neck and RCA Masters

Legacy has boxed up 23 discs of The Isley Brothers - featuring every one of the group's RCA and T-Neck albums released between 1959 and 1983, including one previously unreleased album and a total of 84 previously unissued or new-to-CD bonus tracks!  Every track has been newly-remastered for this collection!

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

Endless Highway: The Band's "Capitol Rarities 1968-1977" Compiled On New Release

May 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Band Capitol Rarities

With last year's complete release of Bob Dylan and The Band's The Basement Tapes, and the recent Record Store Day "official bootleg"-style vinyl LPs of music from those seminal sessions, the music of The Band is once again, happily, enjoying a high profile. Fans of The Band might have noticed a new compilation quietly released last week by Capitol Records.  Capitol Rarities 1968-1977 features 33 tracks and over two hours of music from the legendary group of Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Band

Live at Shea Stadium 1982

May 20, 2015 By

Who Live at Shea

The Who's October 13, 1982 show at New York's Shea Stadium - featuring Kenney Jones on drums for a 25-track set (including Who favorites as well as covers of "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Twist and Shout") - arrives on Standard Definition Blu-ray with DTS-HD Master Audio and LPCM stereo soundtracks.  Also available on DVD.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Classic Quadrophenia

May 20, 2015 By

Classic Quadrophenia

Pete Townshend and Billy Idol join opera and Les Miserables star Alfie Boe in a new symphonic version of The Who's seminal rock opera Quadrophenia, with orchestrations by Townshend's partner Rachel Fuller.  The deluxe CD/DVD edition includes the complete CD and a 44- minute DVD featuring an exclusive on-camera interview with Pete Townshend, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album, and the new music video for "Love Reign O'er Me" shot on location at Brighton Beach Pier in England,

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Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classical/Opera, Rock

Truancy: The Very Best of Pete Townshend

May 20, 2015 By

Pete Townshend Truancy

The Who's legendary leader premieres two new songs on this 17-track remastered solo career overview.  Truancy kicks off a new campaign from UMe dedicated to Townshend's solo catalogue.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock

Let's See Action: Pete Townshend Collects Solo Work, Introduces New Songs on "Truancy"

May 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Pete Townshend Truancy

Pete Townshend recently confessed to Rolling Stone, "I just hope that on my deathbed I don't embarrass myself by asking someone, 'Can you pass me my guitar?  And will you run the backing tape of 'Baba O'Riley'?  I just want to do it one more time."  Yet Townshend still finds himself looking to the past even as he embraces the present and future.  While on the road celebrating (for the final time?) the legacy of The Who with creative partner Roger Daltrey, Townshend will issue a new solo

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Pete Townshend, The Who

Storytellers: Raven Anthologizes Jerry Jeff Walker, Bobby Bare

May 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bobby Bare Storyteller

Two American country legends have recently been celebrated by Australia's Raven Records label with new 2-CD, multi-label anthologies - Jerry Jeff Walker ("Mr. Bojangles") and Bobby Bare ("Detroit City"). No Leavin' Texas 1968-82: The Classic Jerry Jeff follows Raven's recent reissue of three of the New York-born troubadour's albums in one package.  This 2-CD anthology collects 39 tracks sourced from 15 albums on five different labels (Atco, Vanguard, Decca, MCA and Elektra) originally

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Folk, Pop Tags: Bobby Bare, Jerry Jeff Walker

Release Round-Up: Week of May 19

May 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Yes Progeny

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a number of rock legends! Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This whopping 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 - the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs.  For those who don't need 14 discs, 2-CD and 3-LP Highlights distillations are also available (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) ! Jeff Beck, Live+ (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Jeff Beck, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis, Rare Earth, The Knack, Thelonious Monk, Yes

What a Day for a Daydream: The Lovin' Spoonful Goes Mono From Sundazed

May 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

lovin spoonful magic

Do you believe in magic?  Well, Sundazed clearly does, as the label is set to offer the first three albums by The Lovin' Spoonful in mono editions on both CD and 180-gram vinyl. New York native John Sebastian fused pop and folk when he joined with Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone and Joe Butler as The Lovin' Spoonful.  The band quickly established a knack for "good time music" with its very first album, November 1965's Do You Believe in Magic.   The Kama Sutra album yielded the hit title track (U.S.

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: John Sebastian, The Lovin' Spoonful

Review: Peggy Lee, "At Last: The Lost Radio Recordings"

May 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Peggy Lee At Last

When Mad Men returned to television on April 5 for the first of its final seven episodes, viewers saw a different Don Draper - perhaps ready, at last, to realize what he'd become.  To underscore his possible epiphany of disillusionment, the strains of Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" recurred numerous times throughout the episode.  The song's placement underscored just how resonant Lee's music - mysterious, elegant, startling, bluesy, sensual, sly, hip, alternately hot and cool - continues to

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Peggy Lee

Review: Wes Montgomery, "In the Beginning"

May 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Wes In the Beginning

Never-before-heard music by Wes Montgomery isn't easy to come by.  Montgomery - an influence to George Benson, Jimi Hendrix, Pat Metheny and every great guitar man in between - didn't enter a recording studio until 25 years of age, didn't record as a leader until another ten years had elapsed, and was dead ten years after that, felled by a heart attack at age 45. His body of work can neatly be divided into three distinct periods at different labels: Riverside (1959-1964), Verve (1964-1966) and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Monk Montgomery, Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery

The Ides of March Celebrate 50 Years with "Last Band Standing" Box Set

May 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Ides of March Last Band Standing

"Beware the ides of March," goes the famous admonition.  Thankfully, Jim Peterik, Larry Millas, Bob Bergland and Mike Borch didn't heed the warning.  Formed in Berwyn, Illinois in 1965 as the Shon-Dels, The Ides of March are still going strong 50 years later with their brassy blend of good-time rock and roll, R&B, pop and soul epitomized on the 1970 hit single "Vehicle."  These rock and roll survivors and local legends around the Chicago scene have recently assembled a definitive box set

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Jim Peterik, The Ides of March

In The Air Tonight: Phil Collins Signs with Warner Music, Deluxe Editions Coming Soon

May 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Phil Collins Both Sides

Phil Collins is getting ready to open the vaults. Warner Music Group has just announced its partnership with Collins to make the superstar artist's solo albums available worldwide through WMG.  Though Collins' American fans have long been used to seeing his solo releases on WMG's Atlantic Records label, fans in the U.K. and Ireland were used to seeing the Virgin Records logo on Collins' classic solo records such as Face Value, Hello, I Must Be Going and No Jacket Required.  This deal marks

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Genesis, Phil Collins

Review: Drivin' N' Cryin', "Best of Songs"

May 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Drivin n Cryin Best of Songs

In a career spanning almost thirty years on both independent and major labels, Drivin' N' Cryin' has refused to be pigeonholed.  The band, formed by Kevin (or Kevn) Kinney in 1985 has happily leaped from genre to genre, drawing on hard rock, country, pop, punk and other influences.  Between June 2012 and January 2014, the band - now consisting of Kinney, founding member Tim Nielsen, Sadler Vaden and Dave V. Johnson - recorded a series of four EPs from which a tight, all-killer, no-filler

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Drivin' N' Cryin'

RPM Hitches a Ride with Vanity Fare On New 2-CD Complete Anthology

May 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Vanity Fare I Live for the Sun

With "Hitchin' a Ride" and "Early in the Morning," Vanity Fare assured its immortality to AM radio connoisseurs.  The two 1969 hits are still in rotation on oldies radio today, but they're just two of the nearly 50 songs cut by the British band over the ten year period of 1966 to 1976.  Cherry Red's RPM label has recently put those two famous tunes in context with Vanity Fare's I Live for the Sun: Complete Recordings 1966-76.  This 2-CD anthology collects the band's output for the Page One, DJM,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Vanity Fare

Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Leonard Cohen Cant Forget

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  We kick off with a quartet of releases drawing on never-before-released live material! Leonard Cohen, Can't Forget: A Souvenir of The Grand Tour (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Leonard Cohen offers ten selections - including two songs never previously recorded and a pair of covers - from his recent world tour. Andrew Gold, The Late Show - Live 1978 (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) You'll say "thank you for being a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andrew Gold, Buck Owens, David Shire, Dionne Warwick, Drivin' N' Cryin', Henry Mancini, J.D. Souther, Leonard Cohen, Michael Fennelly, Roxette, The Muscle Shoals Horns, Todd Rundgren, Wes Montgomery

Private Dancer: 30th Anniversary Edition

May 11, 2015 By

Private Dancer 30th

Tina Turner's smash 1984 comeback album featuring "What's Love Got to Do with It" and "Private Dancer" gets a belated anniversary reissue with a second disc of bonus tracks including remixes, live cuts and more.  The original album gets a straight vinyl reissue, as well.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Dick's Picks Vol. 5-Oakland Auditorium Arena 12/26/79

May 11, 2015 By

Dicks Picks 5

This early Dick's Picks volume features a complete show anchored by a second set that is in essence one big medley that begins with "Uncle John's Band" and ends with it two hours later, with a supercharged "The Other One" and the first appearance of "Brokedown Palace" in two years among many high points in between. Set One boasts a Jerry Garcia-led rendition of "Alabama Getaway" four months before it appeared on record and a vocal by Bob Weir on "Looks Like Rain" leading to a spirited,

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Fanny Hill: Expanded Edition

May 11, 2015 By

Fanny Hill

All-female band Fanny's 1972 Fanny Hill, recorded at Abbey Road with producer Richard Perry and famed Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, gains six bonus tracks in Real Gone's new reissue.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Mid-Mountain Ranch (Limited Edition)

May 11, 2015 By

Banana and the Bunch

Recorded right after the Youngbloods broke up, and released on their own Raccoon label, 1972's Mid-Mountain Ranch was the sole solo album from the band's multi-instrumentalist Banana a.k.a. Lowell Levinger. Real Gone's reissue of this folk rock/Americana gem, housed in a mini-LP replica sleeve, is limited to 1,000 units.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Harlem Nocturne (Limited Edition)

May 11, 2015 By

Viscounts Harlem

The Viscounts' 1965 Amy Records album Harlem Nocturne - featuring the hit title track - is reissued in a limited edition mini-LP sleeve.  Limited to 1,200 units.

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

The Complete Recordings

May 11, 2015 By

Complete Ronny and the Daytonas

The complete recordings of Ronny and the Daytonas ("GTO") are compiled on two CDs - and this 48-track set boasts four previously unreleased tracks plus solo sides from John "Bucky" Wilkin and the songs released by Buzz (Cason) and Bucky!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

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