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Blue Part of Town: Steve Hackett Revisits, Expands "Blues With A Feeling"

September 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Steve Hackett Blues with a Feeling

Steve Hackett, the lead guitarist of Genesis between 1970 and 1977, has recently revisited his 1994 solo album Blues with a Feeling for an expanded reissue on Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint.  This release follows up other Genesis-related releases from Esoteric drawing on the catalogues of Hackett (including a reissue of his 1986 supergroup album GTR with Steve Howe), Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips. Hackett's first solo album, Voyage of the Acolyte, arrived in 1975 while he was

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Rock Tags: Genesis, Steve Hackett

Hey Now: Crowded House's Catalogue Expanded for 30th Anniversary

September 19, 2016 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

CH packshots

Ahead of their induction to the Australia Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame this fall--and 30 years after the release of their first of many stellar albums--Crowded House have unveiled a spectacular and thorough reissue campaign that sees the reissue of all of their albums as expanded CDs and heavyweight vinyl titles. The project, which covers every one of their studio albums release between 1986 and 2010 (plus 2000's rarities album Afterglow), sees each album digitally

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Crowded House, Neil Finn

Out of Time: 25th Anniversary Edition

September 18, 2016 By

REM Out of Time

3-CD/1-BD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-LP Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-LP Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. R.E.M.'s 1991 classic is revisited as a 3 CD/1 Blu-ray set, a 2-CD set, a 3-LP set, a single LP of the original album and as a digital download as part of the band's new deal with Concord Bicycle Music.  The box includes the original album on Disc 1 followed by nineteen demo tracks on Disc 2. 

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

World On A String

September 18, 2016 By

Frank Sinatra World on a String

Featuring performances spanning 1953 to 1982, this new live collection boasts more than four hours' worth of rare audio and video from the legendary Chairman of the Board - over 90 tracks on CD alone including such Sinatra favorites as "I Get a Kick Out of You," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Witchcraft" and "Bewitched" right up through "Strangers in the Night," ""My Way" and "(Theme From) New York, New York."  Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Don Costa, Gordon Jenkins and Quincy

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Listen Without Prejudice 25

September 18, 2016 By

George Michael Listen 25

2-CD (Disc 1 & 2 Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-CD/1-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy is delivering a deluxe edition of George Michael's classic 1990 album.  Listen Without Prejudice 25 sees release in several formats.  The biggest is a 3-CD/1 DVD box set.  The first CD contains a remastered version of the original album.  The second disc is the CD premiere of Michael's MTV Unplugged concert from

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Lazarus: Original Cast Recording

September 18, 2016 By

Lazarus OCR

David Bowie and Enda Walsh's 2015 musical Lazarus receives an original cast album!  This deluxe release showcasing an array of Bowie reinterpretations performed by Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti, Sophia Anne Caruso and others will feature a bonus disc with the late artist's own recordings of the musical's four new songs: the previously released "Lazarus" (from his final studio LP, Blackstar) as well as the never-before-released "No Plan," "Killing a Little Time" and "When I Met You" - Bowie's

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings

Review: Gerry Beckley, "Carousel"

September 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gerry Beckley Carousel

Gerry Beckley celebrated his 64th birthday earlier this week, on Monday, September 12.  We're marking the occasion with a look at his new studio album! One hardly expects the first verse of the first song on a new album from America's resident romantic troubadour, Gerry Beckley, to include the lines "Everything's turned to shit/No matter how I look at it/And I am running out of time..." But while Beckley is happily defying convention on "Tokyo" - the taut, rocking opening cut of his new album

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: America, Gerry Beckley

Release Round-Up: Week of September 16

September 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Sessions

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Led Zeppelin, The Complete BBC Sessions (Atlantic/Swan Song/Rhino) 3 CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5 LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3 CD/5 LP Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new collection expands the original double-disc set, from 1997, which was culled from the band's appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. This updated

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobby Rush, Jim Steinman, Led Zeppelin, Meat Loaf, Pete Townshend, Petula Clark, Shirley Horn, Various Artists, Willie Nelson

Don't Walk On By: Legacy To Release Single-Disc Roy Orbison Career Retrospective

September 14, 2016 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Roy Orbison Ultimate

This last April marks what would have been Roy Orbison's 80th birthday had he not sadly died in 1988 at the age of 52.  As one of the pioneers of rock 'n' roll, there have been numerous compilations and reissues devoted to Orbison's career.  Just this last year, Universal released a 13-CD box set chronicling his tenure at MGM Records.  But, despite all of the collections over the years, there hasn't been one that rounded up selections from most stages of his career from his time at Sun Records 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Roy Orbison, The Traveling Wilburys

Sound and Vision: "Lazarus" Cast Recording Premieres David Bowie's Final Recordings

September 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lazarus OCR

Thanks to Columbia and ISO Records, there will be a next day for David Bowie's Lazarus.  On October 20, the labels will release the original cast album of the off-Broadway musical, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Cabaret) and Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother, Once).  The deluxe release, showcasing an array of Bowie reinterpretations, will feature a bonus disc with Bowie's own recordings of the musical's four new songs including the previously released "Lazarus" (from his final studio LP,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: David Bowie

WIN! WIN! WIN! Ready To Take A Chance: Varese Reissues Charles Fox Soundtrack, Solo LP

September 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Foul Play OST

If, by chance, you don't know the name of Charles Fox, you undoubtedly know his songbook: "Ready to Take a Chance Again."  "Killing Me Softly with His Song."  "I Got a Name."  The themes to The Love Boat, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love American Style, The Bugaloos, Angie, Wonder Woman, and more.   Varese Vintage has recently celebrated the Emmy and Grammy-winning composer's enormous legacy with two reissues.  The soundtrack to Foul Play returns to CD (having been previously issued as a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Barry Manilow, Charles Fox

Release Round-Up: Week of September 9

September 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up...one of the most packed in recent memory! Beatles, Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Apple/Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue.  That changes today with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Faith No More, Herb Alpert, John Phillips, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Ramones, The Beatles, The Connells

SoulMusic Records Round-Up: Label Reissues Isaac Hayes, Curtis Hairston, Mass Production

September 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Isaac Hayes Love Attack

A quartet of recent releases from SoulMusic Records in association with Cherry Red turn the spotlight onto overlooked classics of 1980s R&B. Isaac Hayes' Love Attack (1988) put the hot buttered soul man squarely into Big '80s territory with thumping drum machines and gleaming synthesizers.  It was the Stax legend's second album for Columbia Records and built on the sound of his label debut U-Turn on which he'd played almost every instrument on the record.  For Love Attack, he was joined

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Curtis Hairston, Isaac Hayes, Mass Production

Remember Love: Yoko Ono's Catalogue to Be Reissued

September 7, 2016 By Mike Duquette 15 Comments

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

Since shortly before The Second Disc began in 2010, we've seen a swath of major reissues, overhauls and catalog deliveries of the works of both The Beatles, together and separately, too. This fall, it's time to take a look at the catalogue of one of The Beatles' most intriguing associates: Yoko Ono. John Lennon's second wife is not "the woman who broke up The Beatles," as has been famously charged. But John's devotion to her as expressed in much of his solo music, as well as her own

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: John Lennon, Yoko Ono

Rock My Soul: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Collect Early British Hard Rock On "I'm a Freak, Baby"

September 7, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Im a Freak Baby

What do Deep Purple, The Move, Hawkwind, Fleetwood Mac and The Yardbirds all have in common?  Though each of those five bands carved out distinct musical identities, all incorporated elements of psychedelia in their early hard-rock explorations.  A new 3-CD box set from Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint offers an in-depth chronicle of the music that planted the seeds of progressive rock and metal.  I'm a Freak, Baby is, as per its subtitle, A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, The Mickey Finn, The Yardbirds, Third World War, Uriah Heep, Various Artists

Oh Yeah! "Ferris Bueller" Soundtrack Coming from La-La Land Records

September 6, 2016 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Ferris Bueller LLL

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you might miss something...like La-La Land Records' newest soundtrack title, the first-ever release of a soundtrack from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. An all-time classic since it was first released in 1986, John Hughes' seminal comedy (which he wrote in under a week and also directed) tells the story of the titular teen slacker (Matthew Broderick), who takes a day off from school and recruits his neurotic best friend

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ira Newborn

Release Round-Up: Week of September 2

September 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Robert Goulet Definitive

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up highlighted by the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! The Isley Brothers, Groove with You...Live! (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We're incredibly excited and proud to bring this sizzling, swooning and immersive double-album document of The Isley Brothers at the peak of their powers to CD for the very first time!  Groove with You...Live! features powerful renditions of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, Freddie Mercury, Porter Wagoner, Robert Goulet, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Isley Brothers, The Meters

It Was A New Day Yesterday: Jethro Tull Continues Reissue Series with "Stand Up" In New Stereo, Surround Mixes

September 1, 2016 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Jethro Tull Stand Up Elevated Edition

For the past several years, Jethro Tull has been releasing expanded editions of their albums featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson.  Coming on November 18, just under a year after the release of the last reissue in the series of 1976's Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, is a 2CD/1DVD version of 1969's Stand Up, entitled Stand Up: The Elevated Edition. The sophomore album by the band, Stand Up was the first to feature music written completely by Ian Anderson (with the exception of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jethro Tull

Review: Judy Henske and Jerry Yester, "Farewell Aldebaran"

August 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Judy Henske and Jerry Yester Farewell Aldebaran

Hello, Aldebaran...or more accurately, welcome back! Farewell Aldebaran first arrived in 1969 on Frank Zappa's Straight Records label from the duo of Judy Henske and Jerry Yester.  Henske was the onetime "Queen of the Beatniks" whose distinctive, bluesy and big voice earned her legions of fans on the folk circuit.  In 1963, Henske married Jerry Yester, a member of The Modern Folk Quartet and veteran of The New Christy Minstrels.  When the MFQ broke up, Yester busied himself as a producer,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Jerry Yester, Judy Henske

Warm Ride: HNE Collects Graham Bonnet's Pre-Rainbow Albums Including Lost LP

August 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Graham Bonnet Back Row

Cherry Red's Hear No Evil Recordings imprint has returned to the catalogue of Graham Bonnet with a pair of recent releases.  Before stepping into the role vacated by Ronnie James Dio in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, the big-voiced Bonnet had cut a number of records in a pop/R&B, rather than a hard rock, vein.  HNE has reissued and expanded the vocalist's never-before-released 1974 DJM album Back Row in the Stalls on one CD, as well as Graham Bonnet (1977) and No Bad Habits (1978) on a

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 26

August 26, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Becoming The Beach Boys

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Beach Boys, Becoming The Beach Boys: The Complete Hite and Dorinda Morgan Sessions (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 2-CD set, a tie-in with Jim Murphy's recent book Becoming The Beach Boys 1961-1963,  chronicles the earliest years of America's Band.  Featuring 62 tracks (over 40 previously unreleased), Omnivore's CD is released in conjunction with The Beach Boys' Brother Records, and features all of the extant

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barbra Streisand, Dusty Springfield, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, Todd Rundgren, Twisted Sister

Steppin' Out: Intervention Records Reissues Two From Joe Jackson

August 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Joe Jackson Night and Day

Look Sharp!  Joe Jackson certainly did as nattily attired on his debut release of that name.  Joined by Graham Maby on bass, Gary Sanford on guitar and Dave Houghton on drums, pianist-singer Jackson delivered a record for the ages.  Both Look Sharp! and Night and Day, Jackson's fifth album for A&M Records, have recently been reissued as deluxe audiophile vinyl editions by the team at Intervention Records.  Happily, they're sonically every bit the equal of the label's stellar reissue earlier

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It Had To Be You: Real Gone's October Slate Features Eddie Money, Keely Smith, Mahalia Jackson, John Hammond, Percy Faith and More

August 24, 2016 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Eddie Money Complete Hits

Real Gone Music has just announced their October slate of titles and while only one of them will get you into the Halloween spirit, there might well be something else among the eclectic choice of genres to pique your interest! First up, Real Gone is releasing three two-disc greatest hits collections.  One of these features liner notes from our very own Joe Marchese:  Percy Faith's The Definitive Collection.  Faith was hugely in demand at Columbia Records, arranging and conducting for a large

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Eddie Money, Eden Atwood, Evelyn "Champagne" King, John Hammond, Keely Smith, Percy Faith, Sandy Bull

Ramseur Reissues Josh White's Elektra Classic "Josh At Midnight" On Vinyl

August 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Josh White At Midnight

Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman once said of Josh White, "Josh was his own man in a time before it became fashionable."  Indeed, White (1914-1969) had a remarkable career.  He recorded blues, gospel and folk on so-called "race records" in the 1920s and 1930s before moving on to headline at New York's Café Society, and appearing on radio, in motion pictures and in four Broadway productions.  He played stages around the world, singing before royalty.  Yet the career of the pioneering

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Folk Tags: Josh White

A Taste of Honey: 25 Herb Alpert Albums Come to CD on September 9

August 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 13 Comments

Herb Alpert Catalog Reissues

Herb Alpert is about to release his latest studio album, Human Nature, on September 30, and it looks to be an exciting set even by the high standards of the eternally youthful trumpeter.  His fourth album in three years, Human Nature features five original songs plus reworkings of Steve Porcaro and John Bettis' "Human Nature" (the 1983 Michael Jackson hit), Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Alfie" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," and a world premiere composition from Bacharach and Elvis Costello,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Lani Hall

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