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Release Round-Up: Week of November 10

November 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Elton Diamonds

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elton John, Diamonds [Various Formats] (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John looks back on his extraordinary career with a new retrospective collection, available in 1-CD, 2-CD, 3-CD, and 2-LP formats.  Get all of the details right here! R.E.M., Automatic for the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Aretha Franklin, Carmaig de Forest, David Heneker, Elton John, Eric Johnson, Guided by Voices, Metallica, Petula Clark, R.E.M., Ranny Sinclair, Rare Earth, Smokey Robinson, Tears for Fears, The Foundations, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

A Fine Romance: Verve To Release Unheard Ella Fitzgerald Live Gig

November 9, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Ella At Zardis

A previously unreleased pair of Ella Fitzgerald live sets are coming to CD next month, as part of a celebration of the iconic singer's centennial year! 1956 was a pivotal year for Ella Fitzgerald. She had recently become the first artist on her manager Norman Granz's brand-new label Verve Records. That year, she'd record and release Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book, her first of eight albums over the next decade that would spotlight and celebrate various composers of what we

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Ella Fitzgerald

A Capitol Christmas: Volume Two

November 9, 2017 By

Capitol Christmas 2

Capitol Records follows up last year's A Capitol Christmas with a second volume collecting 24 more of the venerable label's most buoyant holiday offerings.  Glen Campbell, The Beach Boys, Nancy Wilson, The Lettermen, The Four Freshmen, Lena Horne, and more are represented on this eclectic yuletide compendium.  Available on CD on November 17, and vinyl on December 1.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

Real Gone Unveils Blue Oyster Cult, Utopia Releases For Black Friday RSD; Soundtracks Coming from Mancini and More

November 9, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Utopia Different POV

Real Gone Music just released its full slate of Christmas music, including our very special trio of The Supremes, The Ames Brothers, and Connie Smith.  But the label still has more releases coming for the holiday season, which you can get for yourself or a lucky someone else!  We've told you about most of them before, including the 40th anniversary edition of Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life and the deluxe reissue of Jimmy Webb's Angel Heart, but let's take a look at some more of the label's

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Harry Connick Jr., Henry Mancini, Record Store Day, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Bound for Glory: Dylan, Baez, Paxton, Havens, Collins Celebrate Woody Guthrie on New Bear Family Box

November 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Woody Guthrie The Tribute Concerts

Bob Dylan once said that, upon hearing Woody Guthrie's songs, "it was like I had been in the dark and someone had turned on the main switch of a lightning conductor."  Steve Earle opined that "Woody is my hero of heroes and the only person on earth that I will go to my grave regretting that I never met."  No less a literary eminence than John Steinbeck noted, "Woody is just Woody," before explaining, "Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk Tags: Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, The Band, Tom Paxton, Woody Guthrie

Happy Ending: Cherry Red Collects Albums from Yvonne Elliman and More on "Purple People Vol. 1"

November 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Purple People Volume 1

Cherry Red Records has recently been cherry-picking a number of rare treasures from the archives of Purple Records, the label formed by Deep Purple.  Between 1971 and 1979, Purple Records issued music not just from its namesake band, but by other artists both inside (Elf, Hard Stuff) and outside of the hard rock sphere.  Highlights from these albums have been compiled before on a compilation entitled Purple People.  Now, four of the label's most unexpected offerings have been collected on CD by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Buddy Bohn, Carol Hunter, Rupert Hine, Yvonne Elliman

Life Is Right: Omnivore Plans Standalone Release For Classic Big Star Concert

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Big Star Live At Lafayettes

Omnivore Recordings has long been the destination for all things Big Star--and next year, the label will release one of the band's few official live concerts outside of the box set it debuted in. Live At Lafayette's Music Room, to be released January 12, showcases the legendary power pop band kicking off 1973 at the acclaimed Memphis venue. Co-founder Chris Bell had recently departed the group, leaving singer/guitarist Alex Chilton, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens to continue as

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Big Star

If You Just Believe: Josh Groban Expands Hit Holiday Album for 10th Anniversary

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Groban Noel 10

The Christmas season is almost upon us, and classical crooner Josh Groban is celebrating with an expanded edition of Noël, his best-selling holiday album. Released in the fall of 2007, a holiday record was something of an inevitability for the lyric baritone, who at the time had spent the better part of the previous decade becoming an adult contemporary sensation. At 19, he stepped in for opera singer Andrea Bocelli during a rehearsal for the Grammy Awards in 1999, where he sang "The Prayer"

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Josh Groban, Tony Bennett

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Vinyl Editions]

November 7, 2017 By

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2017 Remix LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2017 Remix Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) Fans fell in love with Sgt. Pepper all over again this year with a stunning new stereo remix overseen by Beatle producer George Martin's son Giles. It was, of course, part of a deluxe 50th anniversary box set packed with unreleased session outtakes and video footage that will

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Versatile

November 7, 2017 By

Van Morrison Versatile

For his second studio album of the year, Van Morrison has turned to the classics.  Versatile features six Morrison compositions alongside jazz vocal standards written by The Gershwins ("A Foggy Day," "They Can't Take That Way from Me"), Cole Porter ("I Get a Kick Out of You"), the team of Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne ("The Party's Over"), Frank Loesser and Jimmy McHugh ("Let's Get Lost"), and other legends of the Great American Songbook.  Of the six Morrison-penned songs, three are

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Unchained Melodies: Van Morrison Blends Standards with Originals on New "Versatile"

November 6, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Van Morrison Versatile

Less than three months after the release of his 37th studio album, the rhythm-and-blues-based Roll with the Punches, the one and only Van Morrison is back with No. 38.  On December 1, Legacy Recordings will issue Versatile - certainly an apt title for the man since his earliest days fronting Them to his immersions in jazz, soul, rock, blues, pop, and beyond. Roll with the Punches featured five original compositions from the prolific singer-songwriter alongside blues classics by artists such

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Van Morrison

Release Round-Up: Week of November 3

November 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, The Ultimate Merry Christmas (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are joining Motown Records to unwrap a celebration of The Supremes' 1965 perennial Merry Christmas. The Ultimate Merry Christmas features the album in three distinctive versions: the original 1965 mono and stereo mixes, as well as a brand new, never-before-heard 2017 mix premiering

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Ann-Margret, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Cliff Martinez, Connie Smith, Debbie Gibson, Desmond Dekker, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Josh Groban, Lee Hazlewood, Little Richard, Percy Faith, Roy Orbison, Sepultura, The Ames Brothers, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Supremes

Happy Christmas, Beatle People! New Fab Four Holiday Vinyl Box, 'Sgt. Pepper' Remix Hi-Def Audio and Vinyl Announced

November 2, 2017 By Mike Duquette 14 Comments

Beatles Christmas Box 2

The Beatles are planning three special gifts for collectors, just in time for the Christmas season: a vinyl box set of the band's beloved Christmas messages to fans, plus new editions of this year's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band remix and reissue on vinyl and hi-def digital audio. All three titles hit stores December 15! If you were a Beatlemaniac during the band's original heyday, nothing could be better than getting a special present from The Beatles Fan Club. Seven original

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Rock Tags: The Beatles

Reservations for Two: SoulMusic Adds Kashif, Tom Browne to "Anthology" Series

November 1, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Kashif Help Yourself

Earlier this year, Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint continued its series of artist anthologies with another two titles in the series, this time spotlighting the late singer-songwriter-musician-producer Kashif, and jazz fusion artist-trumpeter Tom Browne. Help Yourself to My Love: The Arista Anthology collects 30 tracks on 2 CDs from Kashif, the artist born Michael Jones, whose smooth grooves helped define the sound of eighties R&B.  A native New Yorker, Kashif first rose to fame as

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Dave Grusin, Dionne Warwick, Kashif, Kenny G, Meli'sa Morgan, Tom Browne

Bananarama Bunch Up Remixes On Expanded 'Greatest Hits Collection'

November 1, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bananarama GH

Ahead of their upcoming tour--including their first trek to America!--Bananarama will reissue their Greatest Hits Collection (1988) with a bonus disc of original material. Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward were once named the female vocal group with the most chart entries ever by the Guinness Book of World Records, and it's not too outlandish a claim. If you've been near a radio on both sides of the Atlantic since the '80s, you've probably heard at least one of their hits:

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bananarama

You Turned My Head Around: LITA Expands Three Lee Hazlewood Classics, Including Ann-Margret LP

October 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lee Hazlewood The Cowboy and the Lady

Light in the Attic is continuing its long-running Lee Hazlewood Archive Series.  On November 3, the label will release newly remastered and expanded CD and LP editions of three classics from the maverick singer-songwriter/producer: Forty (1969), Requiem for an Almost Lady (1971), and the Ann-Margret collaboration The Cowboy and the Lady (1969). To mark his 40th birthday, Hazlewood recorded a different kind of album, appropriately entitled Forty.  It was recorded in England with producer Shel

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Ann-Margret, Lee Hazlewood, Shel Talmy

Bad As Him: Tom Waits' Anti- Catalogue To Be Remastered, 'Real Gone' Remixed

October 31, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Iconoclastic singer Tom Waits is reissuing the latest part of his catalogue this winter. Waits' website recently announced remastered CD and vinyl editions of his entire Anti- catalogue, issued between 1999 and 2011. Waits and his longtime wife/musical collaborator Kathleen Brennan have personally remastered these six albums, with 2004's Real Gone receiving a new remix by Karl Derfler. The titles will release roughly in reverse chronological order: 2011's Bad As Me streets next Friday,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Tom Waits

Rocket To Russia: 40th Anniversary Editions

October 31, 2017 By

Rocket to Russia

Rhino continues its series of deluxe Ramones reissues following Ramones and Leave Home with this 40th anniversary look at Rocket to Russia.  This set features 3 CDs, an LP and a photo-filled book within its 12″ x 12″ box packaging. A total of 63 bonus tracks (only two of which have been made available before) will be included in this set. Alongside the original album, original engineer Ed Stasium has created a back-to-basics "tracking mix" of the original album, featuring some alternate takes

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

A Farewell to Kings: 40th Anniversary Edition

October 31, 2017 By

A Farewell To Kings packshot

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  3CD/Blu-ray/4LP super deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Rush's fifth studio album, originally released in 1977, is reissued in a multitude of formats, all including a full concert from 1978, a sound effects track, and four covers by prog groups of classics from the album.  All this audio material will be available as a 3CD or 4LP set; for the hardcore Rush fans, a super deluxe box

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Perfect Angel: Deluxe Edition

October 31, 2017 By

Perfect Angel

To celebrate what would have been her 70th birthday, Capitol Records salutes the late songstress Minnie Riperton with a deluxe edition of her 1974 album, co-produced by Stevie Wonder.  This 2-CD set boasts 11 bonus tracks. The original album is appended with the hit single version of "Lovin' You," edited and featuring a synth overdub as well as a previously unreleased studio count-off by Richard Rudolph. Disc Two's alternate construction of the album, A More Perfect Angel, includes extended and

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

Jeff Larson Reissues "Watercolor Sky" For 20th Anniversary

October 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Jeff Larson Watercolor Sky

Fans of singer-songwriter Jeff Larson have long known that he's carved out his own niche in the realm of "California music," whether as a solo artist or with collaborators including America's Gerry Beckley and The Beach Boys' Jeffrey Foskett.  Now, Larson is looking back with a 20th anniversary reissue of his proper debut album, Watercolor Sky, available on both vinyl and CD from Feral Cat Records and Vivid Sound Japan, respectively.  With summer in the rearview mirror, now is the perfect time

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Gerry Beckley, Jeff Larson, Jeffrey Foskett

One of a Kind: Bruford Brings Box Set

October 30, 2017 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bruford Box

As the founding drummer of Yes and a prominent member of King Crimson in the 1970s, Bill Bruford was a key figure in the developing prog rock scene. Now, he's preparing a box set devoted to the first band he ever created: the aptly-titled Bruford. Seems Like a Lifetime Ago 1977-1980 will include Bruford's complete output, with some exciting extras as well. The group's first two albums, Feels Good to Me (1978) and One of a Kind (1979), have been newly remixed in both stereo and 5.1 surround by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Bill Bruford, King Crimson, Yes

You Light Up My Life: 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition

October 28, 2017 By

Debby Boone You Light Up My Life

Finally, the platinum LP containing the biggest hit of the 1970s arrives on CD!  Real Gone's new edition expands Debby Boone's original You Light Up My Life album by a whopping thirteen tracks.  Here you will be able to trace The Boone Sisters'/Girls', etc. career from its beginning until 1977.  You will find there covers of songs by John Denver, The Marvelettes, The Supremes, Mary Wells and ABBA.  Six previously unreleased outtakes are also among the bonus tracks, including covers of songs by

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Genre: Pop

Angel Heart: 35th Anniversary Expanded Edition

October 28, 2017 By

Jimmy Webb Angel Heart Expanded

Jimmy Webb's 1982 Lorimar album Angel Heart gets the deluxe treatment from Real Gone Music, expanding the original album's 10 tracks to 16 with six previously unreleased bonus tracks, including three additional songs from the album sessions and three demos.  The original engineer of the album, Mark Linett, has done the remastering, co-producer Fred Mollin has written the liner notes (with photos from the album recording sessions), and Jimmy has penned a new introduction to this underrated

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock

Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities

October 28, 2017 By

Dionne Odds and Ends

From 1962 to 1971, Dionne Warwick, working primarily with songwriters/producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David, notched over twenty Top 40 hits on the Scepter label and garnered two Grammy Awards.  She became the artist most closely associated with Bacharach and David, and brought a new sound to the 1960s.  Yet while there have been numerous reissues of Warwick's work at Scepter, some material has been overlooked.  This new collection rectifies that!  All 27 tracks on this compilation are new to

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