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One World

May 11, 2015 By

Rare Earth One World

Culture Factory continues its series from Motown rockers Rare Earth with One World, the band's fourth studio album.  Presented in a mini-LP replica sleeve, the 1971 album contains the hit "I Just Want to Celebrate."

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

#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

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

Seven Steps to Heaven: Miles Davis' Bootleg Series Continues With "Newport 1955-1975"

May 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Miles at Newport

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are headed to Newport with Miles Davis.  The Friday, July 17 release of Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 chronicles the evolution of Davis' style as it treks from 1955 to 1975 with live performances from the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island as well as New York City, Berlin, and Switzerland.  The set arrives sixty years to the day of the first performance it includes (July 17, 1955) and just before this summer's annual Fest,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz Tags: Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ron Carter

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

Before This World

May 5, 2015 By

James Taylor Before This World

James Taylor is back with his first collection of original songs in over 13 years!   The 10-track album Before This World will be available in a number of configurations including a single CD; CD/DVD Deluxe Edition (with the documentary There We Were: The Making of James Taylor's Before This World; vinyl LP; and Super Deluxe Edition with bonus audio, an expanded cut of the film, a 40-page booklet and swag (handwritten lyric replicas, etc.) in a numbered limited edition. Super Deluxe Edition:

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

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

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

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

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

Wouldn't It Be Loverly? Two Julie Andrews Classics Return to CD

April 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Julie Dont Go and Broadways Fair

By anyone's estimation, Julie Andrews was one of Columbia Records' leading lights by 1962.  Her Tony-nominated performances onstage in My Fair Lady and Camelot had both led to chart-topping, record-breaking original cast recordings on the Columbia label; in fact, it was under the leadership of president Goddard Lieberson that the record label underwrote the original Broadway production cost of My Fair Lady - an investment that, needless to say, paid off many times over!  So it was unsurprising

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Julie Andrews

Release Round-Up: Week of April 28

April 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Springfield Faithful

Dusty Springfield, Faithful (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Faithful assembles for the first time on one CD all of the masters produced by Jeff Barry ("Chapel of Love," "Leader of the Pack," "Sugar, Sugar") for Dusty Springfield in 1971.  From his home base at New York's Century Sound, Barry produced thirteen songs for Dusty - twelve intended for album release and one for a non-LP single.  Four songs were released on two 45s, but when Dusty departed Atlantic Records, the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Brinsley Schwarz, Dusty Springfield, Ellie Greenwich, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Jeff Barry, Julie Andrews, Pat DiNizio, Spooky Tooth, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, The Kingbees, Various Artists

10,000 Light Years Ago

April 28, 2015 By

John Lodge 10000 Years

10,000 Light Years Ago marks the first solo album since 1977 for the Moody Blues' bassist/vocalist/songwriter!  It features guest contributions from Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues as well as guitarist Chris Spedding, and includes songs such as "Those Days in Birmingham," "Love Passed Me By" and the title track!  The U.K. edition (linked to below) includes a bonus DVD!

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Review: "Beale Street Saturday Night"

April 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Beale Street

Beale Street in downtown Memphis, Tennessee runs approximately 1.8 miles from the Mississippi River to East Street.  Created in 1841 and originally named Beale Avenue, it was immortalized in 1916 by composer, musician and bandleader W.C. Handy in his "Beale Street Blues."  By the middle of the century, Louis Armstrong, B.B. King, Albert King, Muddy Waters and more had all played Beale Street, recognized as one of the nation's foremost cradles of the blues.  But by the mid-1960s, the legendary

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, R&B/Soul Tags: Furry Lewis, Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge, Various Artists

Loaded: Jeff Beck Offers "Live+" With Tour Performances, New Studio Recordings

April 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Jeff Beck Live Plus

With Jeff Beck currently hitting the road once more, the time is right for Atco's upcoming release of Jeff Beck Live+ culled from performances on the legendary guitarist's 2014 tour with ZZ Top.  The May 19 release features 14 live cuts along with Beck's first two studio recordings since 2010. Beck's tour last year with ZZ Top was curtailed due to the injury of the band's bassist, Dusty Hill; Live+ will arrive in the midst of the April 30-May 10 tour dates for ZZ Top and Beck.  On May 12,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Jeff Beck

Trilogy: Deluxe Edition

April 24, 2015 By

ELP Trilogy

This set is billed as "the most extensive reissue of the Emerson Lake & Palmer masterpiece to date."  The 2-CD/1-DVD-A edition of the 1972 prog classic includes remastered album audio, new high resolution stereo mixes, 5.1 surround mixes by Jakko Jakszyk, a previously unheard version of "From The Beginning," restored artwork, and a 16-page booklet with new liner notes and photos. A U.S. edition, likely to arrive from Razor & Tie, hasn't been confirmed yet.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Classic Rock

Original Album Series

April 24, 2015 By

Brinsley Schwarz Original Album Series

The latest additions to Rhino U.K.'s Original Album Series library brings together the first five studio albums from the pub-rockers in Brinsley Schwarz (including Brinsley himself plus Nick Lowe, Bob Andrews, Billy Rankin and Ian Gomm).  The budget set - with no booklet or new remastering - is nonetheless an affordable way to acquire Brinsley Schwarz, Despite It All, Silver Pistol, Nervous on the Road and Please Don't Ever Change.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

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