Before burning up the charts with the likes of "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man." "Night Moves," and "Still the same," Bob Seger honed his craft in a number of Detroit's finest rock-and-roll bands. That early period of his life culminated in the formation of Bob Seger & The Last Heard. On September 7, all of the group's long-unavailable recordings for the Cameo label will be reissued in one CD, vinyl, or digital package from ABKCO. Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967 reissues all
Lay the Music Down: Cilla Black's Expanded Reissue Series Begins Today From Cherry Red
Surprise, surprise...it's Cilla here! Today's the day on which Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment has launched a new series dedicated to remastering and expanding Cilla Black's discography. These deluxe, lavishly expanded reissues go a long way in upgrading the late superstar's catalogue on CD. The first 2-CD set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers). The
Release Round-Up: Week of July 20
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cilla Black, Surround Yourself with Cilla/It Makes Me Feel Good [Expanded Edition] (Cherry Red/SFE) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Red celebrates the late, great Cilla Black with a new reissue campaign. The first 2-CD set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers). 22 bonus tracks (13 new to CD) are
Review: Keely Smith, "Sings the John Lennon-Paul McCartney Songbook"
Oh yeah, I'll tell you something I think you'll understand... At the height of Beatlemania in 1964, some members of the so-called "older generation" still hadn't caught on to what made the Fab Four more than the latest passing teenybopper fad. But Keely Smith was ready to make them understand. For her third album at Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records, the smoky-voiced chanteuse set out to have the adults in the room "meet the Beatles" in a new way. Keely Smith Sings the John Lennon-Paul
A Red Letter Day: Pet Shop Boys' 'Further Listening' Series Completes With Remastering of Three Titles
Pet Shop Boys' remastered Catalogue: 1985-2012 series is drawing to a close on August 31 with the fourth and final round of albums. This batch includes Behaviour (1990); Very (1993); and Bilingual (1996). All three albums from Messrs. Tennant and Lowe have been newly remastered and will be accompanied by Further Listening discs of bonus tracks such as demos, extended mixes, and remixes. (Note that these three albums were released with the Further Listening discs in 2001, and those track
Fourth of July Special: Craft Recordings Reissues Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford Solo LPs
Today, as we celebrate the fourth of July, we're spinning new reissues from two members of the quintessentially American band, Creedence Clearwater Revival! Before Creedence Clearwater Revival split in 1972 amid acrimony, Tom Fogerty had already departed the band which he had co-founded with his younger brother John, Stu Cook, and Doug Clifford. Fogerty launched his solo career early that same year on the Fantasy label with a self-titled debut, and in October released his sophomore set.
Review: Dennis Coffey, "One Night at Morey's: 1968"
For guitarist Dennis Coffey, music was no mere day job. While plying his trade each day as a member of the Funk Brothers, laying down funky licks on some of Detroit's finest records, Coffey was spending his evenings at Morey Baker's Showplace Lounge as one-third of organist Lyman Woodard's instrumental trio. With Woodard and drummer Melvin Davis, Coffey treated patrons to sizzling renditions of the day's hits as well as original songs. One of the trio's 1968 sets was issued last year on
Piece of His Heart: "Bang: The Bert Berns Story" Arrives On DVD
During his all-too-short lifetime, Bert Berns never received the kind of fame afforded many of his contemporaries on the New York music scene such as Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, or Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. Yet, across the pond, young men like Paul McCartney and Keith Richards were taking notice whenever they saw the Berns imprimatur on one of their favorite 45s. McCartney and Richards are just two of the luminaries who lined up to salute the
Back to Big Pink: The Band's "Music from Big Pink" Turns 50, Goes Super Deluxe
The Band is returning to Big Pink for its 50th anniversary. On August 31, Capitol/UMe will reissue the seminal Music from Big Pink on CD, 2-LP vinyl, digital, and in a CD/BD/2-LP/1-7 inch single Super Deluxe Edition. Though few groups would have had the audacity to name themselves The Band, that's exactly what Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel did. Big Pink was the album where the former Hawks (and former Bob Dylan backing band) crystallized the
Eternal Transcendence: Real Gone Collects Alice Coltrane's Compete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings
Real Gone Music has just announced its first release for this September and it should be of substantial interest to jazz aficionados: a collection of Alice Coltrane's studio recordings for Warner Bros. from the mid to late 1970s. The 2-CD set, Spiritual Eternal - The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings, is scheduled to be released on September 7. Coltrane was born Alice McLeod in Alabama in 1937, but grew up in Detroit. She studied music and played a number of instruments, including the
You Dreamer: Big Country's 'Long Face' Gets Longer with Cherry Red Box Set
A beloved album from Big Country is about to get a lot bigger. Tomorrow, Cherry Red Records will expand the Scottish band's 1996 album Why the Long Face into a 4-CD edition also including their live album from the same year, Eclectic, and two discs of bonus material. Last year, TSD described Big Country: "The story of Big Country goes like this: the quartet, featuring ex-Skids guitarist Stuart Adamson on vocals and guitar, guitarist Bruce Watson, bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark
Review: "Fab Gear: The British Beat Explosion and Its Aftershocks 1963-1967"
"Yesterday's Gone": the song by folk-pop duo Chad and Jeremy opens the first of the six discs comprising Cherry Red and RPM's new box set Fab Gear: The British Beat Explosion and Its Aftershocks 1963-1967. It's a most appropriate opener, as yesterday really was gone for an entire generation of artists swiftly rendered obsolete by the emergence of The Beatles. As the box eloquently explains, the Fab Four "in name, song, band structure, image, defined this new Beat music...Until 1967, when The
Another World, Another Day: Omnivore to Expand Debut Albums by Soul Asylum
Before breaking through to the big leagues with major label albums on A&M and most crucially, Columbia, Minneapolis-based alternative rock band Soul Asylum recorded four albums for the local Twin/Tone Records label. On July 20, Omnivore Recordings will reissue the first two of those Twin/Tone LPs as deluxe, expanded CDs loaded with rarities and previously unreleased tracks. Say What You Will...Everything Can Happen arrived in 1984 on Twin/Tone, produced by Bob Mould of Husker Du. Core
Do You Wanna Dance? Pop and Prog Meet on Cherry Red's Expanded "Deep Feeling"
Last year, Cherry Red's RPM imprint chronicled the early career of British pop singer Guy Darrell on I've Been Hurt: The Complete 1960s Recordings. Now, Cherry Red's Grapefruit Records has picked up the next, fascinating chapter of the Guy Darrell story with Deep Feeling, an anthology of Darrell's next step - as leader of a progressive rock band. The original, cult classic 1971 Deep Feeling album has been supplemented with a generous helping of thirteen bonus tracks. Darrell recorded his
Release Round-Up: Week of June 15
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This massive, limited edition vinyl box set collects the legendary band's 15 studio albums from Sticky Fingers (1971) to Blue and Lonesome (2016) on 20 meticulously-recreated LPs with original art elements, inserts, and more. Each album, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, has been remastered and cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios from
Review: Bear Family's "Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War"
If there was any doubt that history could be engaging as well as informative, such doubt would be dispelled by a listen to Bear Family's new release, the 4-CD box set Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War. Make no mistake, the handsomely slipcased collection is as imposing and heavy as a textbook, as its four discs are housed within a lavish, 160-page hardcover tome. But this immersive journey can't help but thrill in its scope and execution. It follows previous Bear
Endless Party: Cherry Red Collects New York Dolls' Demos and Live Shows on "Personality Crisis"
Call them hard rock, call them proto-punk, call them glam-punk or a combination of the three, but when The New York Dolls burst onto the downtown Manhattan scene in 1971, they were unlike any other band in town - or perhaps on the planet. The Dolls - lead vocalist David Johansen, rhythm guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane, lead guitarist Johnny Thunders and drummer Jerry Nolan (who replaced the late Billy Murcia) - might have emerged as a response to the studied musicianship
Need a Little Summer: Jeff Larson, Jeffrey Foskett Team for "'Elua Aloha"
With summer just a little over a week away, two purveyors of musical sunshine have teamed up for their first collaborative album - and it delivers on its implied promise of sun, surf, and tropical breezes. Singer-songwriter Jeff Larson has joined with his longtime collaborator, Jeffrey Foskett of The Beach Boys, for 'Elua Aloha, an upbeat and inviting celebration of the California sound in all its many colors. Larson has written all but two of the songs on this New Surf release, and produced
In The Pink: Warner to Reissue Nick Mason's Three Solo Albums in New Box Set
Nick Mason, drummer and founding member of Pink Floyd, is the only member of that band to have performed on every one of their albums and all of their live concerts. But he's still found time over the years to release a handful of solo projects. On August 31, his three solo albums - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports, Profiles, and White of the Eye - will be reissued in both CD and vinyl boxed sets through Warner Music Group as Unattended Luggage. These limited edition boxes will arrive just
Give 'Em The Old Razzle-Dazzle: Real Gone To Reissue "Chicago" Soundtrack on Vinyl in July
We have told you about the nearly all of Real Gone's titles for this July, including Second Disc Records' compilation of Bobby Darin's unreleased Motown recordings. Now, Real Gone has just announced the final reissue on their July slate: the first-ever vinyl reissue of the original soundtrack to 2002's Academy Award-winning musical Chicago, due July 13. The musical Chicago originally opened on Broadway on June 3, 1975 and is based upon the 1926 play of the same name written by reporter
Under The Influence of Love: Two Barry White-Associated Groups Get New Compilations
This Friday, Mercury and UMe will unveil the second round of collections this year celebrating the late Barry White. The series kicked off earlier this year with The Complete 20th Century Singles (1973-1979) on CD, The 20th Century Singles (1973-1979) on vinyl, and Love's Theme: The Best of the 20th Century Singles on CD. Now, the labels are looking to Love Unlimited - the vocal trio and the orchestra - for another pair of releases. Love Unlimited, the vocal group, was formed in 1969 by
Daydream Believing: 7a Records Celebrates Davy Jones with New Single "Rainbows"
Though it's been over six years since his untimely passing at the age of 66, the music of Davy Jones still endures. 7a Records, the U.K.-based label devoted to all things Monkees-related, has just delivered another treat for longtime fans of the band and its charismatic, perennially boyish singer with the mop top. "Rainbows" b/w "You Don't Have to Be a Country Boy to Sing a Country Song" is a limited edition (500 units) 7-inch, 45 RPM single pressed on red vinyl. Both sides of the single
I Got a Line on You: Cherry Red Collects Albums of Spirit, Sailor, Bram Tchaikovsky In New Box Sets
Cherry Red's various imprints have become a go-to destination for compact, affordable complete album packages, and three recent releases are no exception. Esoteric Recordings has gone the extra mile with a new package dedicated to the early recordings of Spirit. The Los Angeles rock band evolved out of a band called The Red Roosters which included Randy California (real name: Randy Wolfe) on guitars and vocals, Mark Andes on bass, and Jay Ferguson on vocals and percussion. When California's
OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Continue Johnny Mathis Series with Two New Titles
Johnny Mathis kicked off the 1970s with a series of albums that found the Voice of Romance reinventing the day's chart hits in inimitably lush fashion. Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are continuing the journey through the legendary singer's 1970s catalogue with two remastered Expanded Editions due TOMORROW! First up is an expanded two-for-one compact disc release of the classic studio albums Close to You and Love Story. Johnny teamed with longtime producer Jack Gold and top
Fairytale: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Reissue, Expand The Pointer Sisters' First Two Albums
BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COMLong before they wanted a man with a "Slow Hand" or found that "He's So Shy," The Pointer Sisters were spellbinding listeners with an unusual blend of retro rhythm and blues, jazz, funk, soul and even country. Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has recently brought together their first two LPs for Blue Thumb Records on a 2-CD set. The Pointer Sisters and That's a Plenty established Anita, Ruth, June, and Bonnie Pointer as one of the first families of American music.
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