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Dreams and Images

January 14, 2015 By

Arthur Dreams and Images

Originally issued on musical iconoclast Lee Hazlewood's LHI label in 1968, Dreams and Images is the first of two albums from the Melbourne, Florida-born singer/songwriter. A friend and contemporary of Lindsey Buckingham and Beach Boys collaborator Stephen John Kalinich, Arthur (Lee Harper) entered the studio with Hazlewood, Donnie Owens, Tom Thacker, and arranger/Wrecking Crew vet Don Randi to create this delicate, baroque-pop LP.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Best of Bread (Quadraphonic)

January 14, 2015 By

Best of Bread

Audio Fidelity continues its quadraphonic series with a 4.0 reissue of Bread's greatest-hits collection Best of Bread, featuring surround-sound versions of "Make It with You," "Everything I Own," "If," "It Don't Matter to Me" and more on hybrid SACD!  Original two-channel stereo mixes are present on the standard CD layer and in SACD stereo!

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Formats: SACD Genre: Pop

Child of the Seventies

January 14, 2015 By

Betty LaVette Child

Real Gone restores to print this deluxe Rhino Handmade release from soul queen Betty (now Bettye) LaVette, featuring her 1972 Atco album, six single sides and two mono single versions.  Liner notes are provided by David Nathan.

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Live on Tour

January 14, 2015 By

Perry Como Live on Tour

The late, great Perry Como's 1980 RCA live album, recorded before an adoring Chicago audience, comes to CD for the very first time in this newly remastered edition featuring liner notes from Matthew Long and never-before-seen photos from the tour.

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Live

January 14, 2015 By

Foghat Live

Foghat's best-selling, double-platinum live album from 1977 returns to vinyl in this 180-gram limited edition release reproducing the original die-cut jacket and cardboard, full-color inner "Eurosleeve."

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Bloodshot

January 14, 2015 By

J Geils Band Bloodshot

The J. Geils Band's third album - and first to go Top Ten - gets a limited edition red vinyl reissue with replica labels and artwork!

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

At Last: The Lost Radio Recordings

January 14, 2015 By

Peggy Lee At Last

Wow!  The legendary Peggy Lee - subject of a hot new biography - is celebrated with a new 2-CD set featuring 44 previously unreleased radio performances of songs she never recorded commercially, including "Skylark," "I Got Rhythm," "Come On-A My House," and "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die."  This release is fully licensed from the Peggy Lee Estate and features liner notes from Lee historian David Torrensen!

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Shanti

January 14, 2015 By

Shanti

From the psychedelic Bay Area scene comes the cult classic raga-rock album from Shanti, the band led by tabla master (and Mickey Hart associate) Zakir Hussain, sarod virtuoso Ashish Khan and former members of The Loading Zone, Cold Blood and the Travel Agency!  

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Lookin' for a Love: The Complete SAR Recordings

January 13, 2015 By

Valentinos Lookin for a Love

Joining similar releases for The Soul Stirrers and L.C. Cooke, ABKCO has compiled the complete recorded output of The Valentinos on the SAR record label, co-founded and co-owned by  Sam Cooke, who also served as the group's producer. The Valentinos comprised the five Womack brothers: Bobby, Cecil, Curtis, Friendly Jr. and Harry. Included on this complete set are fourteen tracks originally released as singles, three originally unreleased recordings and more, for a total of 23 tracks spanning

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: R&B/Soul

Joy In My Soul: The Complete SAR Recordings

January 13, 2015 By

Soul Stirrers Joy

This new 2-CD collection from ABKCO offers the complete recorded output of the legendary gospel group on the SAR Records label, which was co-owned by former Soul Stirrer Sam Cooke and former Pilgrim Traveler J.W. Alexander. The recordings span the period of 1959 to 1964, and cover the period after the group's Specialty recordings and up until Sam Cooke's tragic death.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Gospel, R&B/Soul

The Odyssey: A Northern Soul Time Capsule 1968-2014

January 13, 2015 By

Odyssey Northern Soul

Demon Music Group's Harmless label offers the ultimate celebration of Northern Soul with this massive box set offering 222 tracks on 8 CDs, 2 DVDs and a 150+-page booklet!  This set features an eclectic array of artists including Gladys Knight and the Pips, Paul Anka, The O'Jays, The Four Seasons, Johnny Maestro, Ben E. King and many more.

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

Sings "The Good Old Bad Old Days"

January 13, 2015 By

Newley Good Old Bad Demos

Stage Door presents an entire disc of Anthony Newley's previously unreleased demo recordings for his 1973 musical The Good Old Bad Old Days, co-written with Leslie Bricusse!

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

Living Years (Deluxe Edition)

January 13, 2015 By

Living Years

This Deluxe Edition of Mike + The Mechanics' 1988 album arrives in the U.S. with a second disc featuring "The Living Years 2014" and live tracks culled from the band's 1989 tour.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of January 13

January 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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The Legacy Collection - Fantasia Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 4-CD presentation of Walt Disney's animated masterwork features both the Leopold Stokowski and Irwin Kostal recordings of the complete score, plus bonus material, in a deluxe hardbound format. Johnny Winter, Remembrance - Volume One (Friday Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) Friday Music celebrates the late, great Johnny Winter with this new set licensed from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Elvis Costello, Johnny Winter, Neal Hefti, Woody Allen

Blood, Sweat & Tears (Quadraphonic)

January 10, 2015 By

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Following its 5.1 presentation of BS&T's Al Kooper-helmed debut album, Audio Fidelity revisits the kickoff of the horn band's David Clayton-Thomas era!  This original 4.0 quad mix of the 1969 smash features "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die" and "You've Made Me So Very Happy," all in vivid multichannel on hybrid SACD.

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

The Best of The Guess Who (Quadraphonic)

January 10, 2015 By

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Audio Fidelity premieres the 4.0 quadraphonic surround mix of The Guess Who's 1971 compilation album on hybrid SACD (meaning a stereo layer is playable on standard CD players) - featuring such songs as "These Eyes," "Laughing," "No Time," "Undun" and "American Woman."

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

New Roman Times

January 10, 2015 By

Camper New Roman Times

Omnivore reissues Camper Van Beethoven's 2004 "sci-fi alternate-reality rock opera," adding four previously unissued bonus tracks. Available on CD, double LP (with download card) and digital.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

The Neal Hefti Collection: 1944-1962

January 9, 2015 By

Hefti

As the title indicates, Neal Hefti wore many hats.  Perhaps best known today for his themes to the 1966 Batman television show and the film and TV versions of The Odd Couple, Hefti was so much more.  This 4-disc set (sourced from European public domain material) promises to take a deep look at his early years, with tracks from artists including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Doris Day, Mel Torme, Buddy Rich, and of course, Count Basie, with whom Hefti began a fruitful association in

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Driving Through Kashmir: Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti" Turns 40, Arrives In Deluxe Formats Next Month

January 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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The series of expanded and remastered reissues from Led Zeppelin is getting into the home stretch.  Following the 2014 deluxe releases of the band’s first five albums, 1975’s Physical Graffiti – the band’s sixth of nine studio albums - will arrive in a variety of formats on February 24, 2015 – exactly forty years after the original album was first unveiled. The hotly-anticipated Physical Graffiti was released almost two years after Led Zeppelin’s last album, Houses of the Holy, and was also the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin

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The Complete Elektra Recordings

January 7, 2015 By

Crewe

What do "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Jenny, Take a Ride" and "Lady Marmalade" all have in common? Each one of those songs came from the pen from Bob Crewe. A songwriter, producer, singer, entrepreneur, artist and candidate for the title of "Fifth Season," Crewe was one of music's true renaissance men. With Bob Gaudio, he co-wrote and produced most of the Four Seasons' greatest hits, and he also guided the careers of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Oliver, and many others. Yet one period of

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of January 6

January 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Jackie Moore, The Complete Atlantic Recordings (2-CD Release) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain: Original Soundtrack Gatefold Double-LP (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) or CD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) or CD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Real Gone Music kicks off the new year right with a slate filled with vintage R&B, classic rock and beyond

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Categories: News Tags: Aretha Franklin, Billy Ocean, Elvis Presley, Jackie Moore, Redd Foxx, Release Round-Up, The Grateful Dead, The Main Ingredient

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Captain Beefheart, "SUN ZOOM SPARK 1970 to 1972"

December 24, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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“Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.” So the late Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, is quoted on the cover of the fourth disc of Rhino’s new box set SUN ZOOM SPARK: 1970 to 1972. It’s appropriate and ironic that the aphorism is featured on the sleeve of that disc, a collection of never-before-heard outtakes from the Captain and his Magic Band. But the tracks are far from mistakes; instead, they offer a window onto the process with which Van Vliet created his unmistakable brand of

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Captain Beefheart

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Wilco, "What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014"

December 23, 2014 By Ted Frank Leave a Comment

wilco whats your 20

We’d like to welcome back Ted Frank for today’s Holiday Gift Guide review! Ted is taking a look at the new two-CD anthology What’s Your 20?  Essential Tracks 1994-2014 from alt-rock greats Wilco. (Since 2004, the line-up has consisted of vocalist/guitarist Jeff Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt, guitarist Nels Cline, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone, keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen and drummer Glenn Kotche.) This first-ever retrospective of the Grammy Award-winning band has been produced for the

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Wilco

Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 23 and December 30

December 23, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Well, these are incredibly light weeks for new releases! Thankfully, the Kritzerland and Audio Fidelity labels have stepped up with a quartet of titles to close out 2014 on a high note! Cy Coleman, John Kander, Harvey Schmidt and Charles Strouse, Classical Broadway (Kritzerland) (available for pre-order now) Kritzerland remasters this 1992 album (originally released on the Bay Cities label) featuring classical compositions from four of Broadway's most legendary composers including Cy

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Blood Sweat & Tears, Charles Strouse, Cy Coleman, Harvey Schmidt, John Kander, Patrick Williams, The Guess Who

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