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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

The Complete Riverside Recordings

May 11, 2015 By

Monk Complete Riverside

The Grammy-winning 1986 box set for the pianist-composer is reissued and repackaged.  As before, it contains 153 tracks representing Monk's entire output at Riverside Records as recorded between 1955 and 1961.  The booklet offers liner notes, discographical annotation and more.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz

Zoom: Expanded Edition

May 11, 2015 By

The Knack Zoom

The Knack's 1998 "comeback" album, featuring Doug Fieger, Berton Averre, Prescott Niles and new drummer Terry Bozzio, gets the deluxe treatment by Omnivore!  This set, kicking off a campaign that will see reissue of The Knack's final three albums, adds five bonus tracks - four of which are previously unreleased!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

#1 To Infinity

May 11, 2015 By

Mariah Infinity

The pop diva returns with this collection of nineteen chart-toppers.  Read more here, including the full track listing.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Rare, Unreleased and Live 1965-2012

May 11, 2015 By

Jackie Lomax Rare Unreleased and Live

The late soul man, best known for his tenure as an Apple Records recording artist, is celebrated on this 2-CD anthology drawing on a period of nearly fifty years.  The set (released last month in the U.K.) includes an entire concert from San Francisco in 1976, live BBC recordings, and previously unissued studio material from the 1970s onward.

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul, Rock

Nightbirds (Quadraphonic)

May 8, 2015 By

Labelle Nightbirds SACD

With production from New Orleans' own piano man, Allen Toussaint, the No. 7 Pop/No. 4 R&B Nightbirds (1974) was the most successful LP ever by Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash.  It was bolstered by the success of Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan's "Lady Marmalade," which topped the Pop, R&B and Dance charts.  Crewe's "It Took a Long Time (For the First Time in My Life") is also featured on the album - you can hear Bob's own version on Bob Crewe: The Complete Elektra Recordings from

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Formats: SACD Genre: R&B/Soul

Real Gone's July Features Complete Ronny and the Daytonas Plus New Riders, Fanny, Grateful Dead, More

May 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Complete Ronny and the Daytonas

Summer is just around the corner, but Real Gone Music isn't taking a vacation!  The label has just announced its June 30 - July 10 slate of releases! If you just can't wait to roll down the windows and crank the car stereo up, you'd be hard-pressed to find more appropriate music than the complete recordings of Ronny and the Daytonas ("G.T.O.") ! And to coincide with the summer's most in-demand concert ticket, Real Gone has another volume of live rarities from Grateful Dead. The Dead has been

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Banana and the Bunch, Fanny, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Ronny and the Daytonas, The Grateful Dead, The Viscounts

What's Love Got to Do With It? Warner Celebrates 30 Years of Tina Turner's "Private Dancer"

May 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Private Dancer 30th

What's love got to do with it?  Plenty, in fact!  On June 30, Warner Music/Rhino will issue a new 2-CD deluxe edition celebrating the 30th anniversary of Tina Turner's landmark "comeback" album, Private Dancer.  The four-time Grammy-winning album yielded seven singles and catapulted Tina Turner straight back to the top. When Private Dancer was issued in May 1984, it was Turner's first album since 1979's Love Explosion.  Recorded in England with four different production teams, it marked a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Tina Turner

Ace Super Soul Round-Up Part Two: Unheard Music From Sam Dees, George Jackson and Dan Greer Sees Release

May 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sam Dees Its Over

Welcome to Part Two of our Ace Super Soul Round-Up!  You can read Part One here! Birmingham, Alabama native Sam Dees has worn many hats in a long and illustrious career - producer, singer, songwriter, among them.  He's gifted music to George Benson and Aretha Franklin ("Love All the Hurt Away"), Atlantic Starr ("Am I Dreaming"), Gladys Knight and the Pips ("Save the Overtime (For Me)" and Loleatta Holloway ("The Show Must Go On") - as well as Larry Graham, whose No. 1 R&B/No. 9 pop hit

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Dan Greer, George Jackson, Sam Dees

Motorpsycho Nightmares: Subversive French Pop of Stella Vander Arrives on CD From RPM

May 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Stella

Who is Stella? The single-named French pop queen was born Stella Zelcer, and is today known as Stella Vander, wife and collaborator of Christian Zander of the jazz-influenced progressive rock group Magma.   Cherry Red's RPM Records label has recently unearthed the 1967 debut album of the singer then known simply as Stella for an expanded edition which doubles as an anthology of her recordings for the French division of RCA Victor. Stella differentiated herself from the popular yé-yé girls

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Stella Vander

Django and Jimmie

May 6, 2015 By

Willie and Merle Django and Jimmie

Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard team up for an all-new set with a title paying tribute to legends Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers.  The 14 tracks include "Django and Jimmie," "It's All Going to Pot" (about one of Willie's favorite subjects), "Missing Ol' Johnny Cash" featuring Bobby Bare, Merle's "Somewhere Between" sung by Willie, and Willie's "Family Bible" sung by Merle!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Country

Rough and Ready

May 5, 2015 By

Jeff Beck Group Rough and Ready

Vic Anesini remasters this new edition of the 1971 Jeff Beck Group album featuring the guitar slinger alongside Cozy Powell (drums), Max Middleton (keyboards), Clive Chaman (bass) and Bobby Tench (vocals).

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

It's Nice To Be Back: RPM Anthologizes The Hep Stars, With ABBA's Benny Andersson

May 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Hep Stars Anthology2

Before "Dancing Queen," "Fernando" and the rest, ABBA's Benny Andersson was the keyboardist and frequent songwriter for The Hep Stars.  The Stockholm-formed group became Sweden's most successful English-language pop group, paving the way for Andersson's subsequent triumphs with ABBA and on the musical theatre stage.  Following its 2013 reissue of The Hep Stars' 1968 album It's Been a Long, Long Time, Cherry Red's RPM label returns to the group's catalogue for Like We Used To: The Anthology

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: ABBA, The Hep Stars

Release Round-Up: Week of May 5

May 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Jackie

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  Oddly, releases were split between yesterday and today, but both days add up to a wealth of titles in nearly every genre!  Without a doubt, this is one of the most packed weeks yet this year! Jackie DeShannon, All the Love: The Lost Atlantic Recordings (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) All the Love--The Lost Atlantic Recordings brings together DeShannon's entire 1973 Atlantic Records material in one place for the first time,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Ward and His Dominoes, Herbie Hancock, Jackie DeShannon, Jethro Tull, John Coltrane, John Lodge, Jorge Ben, Julie Andrews, Miles Davis, Nils Lofgren, Perry Como, Todd Rundgren

Review: Frank Sinatra, "Ultimate Sinatra"

May 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Ultimate Sinatra

On August 31, 1939, Frank Sinatra stepped into a New York recording studio as vocalist of Harry James' orchestra for a two-song session.  The second song recorded, Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence's "All or Nothing at All," captured a philosophy that the 23-year old "boy singer" would hold closely.  "All or nothing at all/Half a love never appealed to me," he asserted.  "If it's love there is no in-between..."  Indeed, Frank Sinatra's life was one of triumphant highs and shattering lows - no

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Angel Dust: Deluxe Edition

May 4, 2015 By

Faith No More Angel Dust

Faith No More's 1992 album gains a bonus disc with seventeen rare tracks.

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

The Real Thing: Deluxe Edition

May 4, 2015 By

Faith No More The Real Thing

Rhino expands Faith No More's 1989 album with a second disc featuring 12 bonus tracks.

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition

May 4, 2015 By

Bitches Brew 40th UK

Sony U.K. shrinks down the 2010 box set by dropping the vinyl component.  This repackaging includes 3 CDs and 1 DVD:  two CDs with the original 94-plus minutes of music plus six bonus tracks, a third CD of Miles' previously unissued performance at Tanglewood in August 1970 with Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira and Gary Bartz, and a DVD of a previously unissued performance in Copenhagen, November 1969, with Wayne Shorter, Corea, Holland and DeJohnette.  The

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Jazz

"Boz Scaggs" Returns In Deluxe 2-CD Edition

May 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Boz Scaggs

After appearing on the first two albums by The Steve Miller Band, singer-songwriter-guitarist William Royce "Boz" Scaggs sensed that it was time to strike out on his own once more.  In 1968, he inked a deal with Atlantic Records to record his second solo album; his first, 1965's Boz, was a Swedish release that to this day hasn't seen a reissue.  So Scaggs and his co-producers Marlin Greene and Jann Wenner (yes, that Jann Wenner) headed down to Muscle Shoals' Alabama's most famous address, 3614

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Boz Scaggs

From Out of Nowhere: Two Faith No More Albums Go Deluxe

May 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Faith No More Angel Dust

This May, Faith No More, the hard-rocking San Francisco band, will unveil Sol Invictus, its first new album since 1997.   To mark the occasion, Rhino Records is revisiting the pair of albums that solidified the group's place in the rock pantheon: 1989's The Real Thing and 1992's Angel Dust.  On June 9, the label will reissue both albums as two-disc sets, with each containing a second disc of rarities.  In addition to the CD sets, Rhino will issue 2-LP. 180-gram black vinyl editions with the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Faith No More

Kritzerland Turns 10! Label Launches New Soundtrack Series, Begins Indiegogo Campaign

May 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Kritzerland 10th1

Happy Birthday, Kritzerland! Ten years ago this month, producer Bruce Kimmel, known for his work at labels including Bay Cities and Varese Sarabande, launched the Kritzerland label.  Since 2005, Kritzerland has released over 150 CDs: classic soundtracks from composers like Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, John Barry and John Williams, vintage cast recordings of musicals including stunning remixes of Follies and Promises, Promises, and solo albums by artists such as Sandy Bainum and the elusive

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Burt Bacharach, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, John Barry, John Williams, Marvin Hamlisch, The Sherman Brothers

But Beautiful: "Lady in Satin: The Centennial Edition" Expands Billie Holiday Classic To 3 CDs

April 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Billie in Holiday Satin Centennial

Billie Holiday was just a couple months away from her 43rd birthday when she entered Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio on February 18, 1958 to record Lady in Satin.  The album controversially promised a new, glamorous setting for the artist, who had recently been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver following a lifetime of troubles including alcohol and drug dependency, abusive relationships, stints in reform school and prison, and even a period as a teenaged prostitute.  The LP's original

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Billie Holiday

One Sweet Day: Epic Releases New Mariah Carey Compilation Celebrating Her Return to Sony

April 29, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Mariah Infinity

Monday marked the release of the new Mariah Carey single, "Infinity."  This latest single is the sole new recording from Carey's forthcoming greatest hits collection #1 to Infinity which is hitting stores in a couple of weeks on May 18.  The new compilation is the singer's first project since returning to her original label home of Sony after having spent most of the 2000s on Island Records and Def Jam Records. Since releasing her self-titled debut album on Columbia in 1990, Mariah Carey has

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Mariah Carey

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