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Coming Back For You: Ronnie James Dio's "Elf" Returns

February 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Elf

Who’s that gleefully malevolent-looking elf? Why, it’s none other than the late Ronnie James Dio, legendary frontman of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell and of course, Dio. Between 1972 and 1975, Dio (under his real name of Ronald Padavona) led the band Elf for three albums. The first of those LPs, the eponymous Elf, has just been reissued by Cherry Red’s Hear No Evil imprint in a newly-remastered edition. Singer/bassist Dio founded Elf in 1967 as The Electric Elves, alongside

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Elf, Ronnie James Dio

Hey Joe! Rare Early Jimi Hendrix Recordings Collected By Legacy, Experience Hendrix

February 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Curtis Knight You Cant Use My Name

With Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings having previously reissued Jimi Hendrix’s core catalogue as well as more unexpected offerings like The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge, where to go next? The answer is back to the very beginning – which, as always, is a very good place to start. You Can’t Use My Name: Curtis Knight & The Squires (Featuring Jimi Hendrix) The RSVP/PPX Sessions is the first in a series of releases intended to place the legendary guitarist’s pre-fame recordings in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, R&B/Soul Tags: Curtis Knight and the Squires, Jimi Hendrix

Sometimes People Forget

February 19, 2015 By

Translator

The music of Translator ("Everywhere That I'm Not") is celebrated with this new collection of demos recorded between 1979 and 1985.  Of the 22 tracks here, 20 are previously unreleased.  The band's Steve Barton has co-produced this release!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock

Dick's Picks Vol. 9--Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 9/16/90

February 19, 2015 By

Dicks Picks 9

Real Gone reissues the first Dick's Picks volumes to feature a concert from the 1990s - in this case, the MSG show of September 16, 1990!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Big Man

February 19, 2015 By

Cannonball Adderley Big Man

Jazz great "Cannonball" Adderley's 1975 album Big Man - a concept album of his score for a music-theatre piece about the legend of John Henry - comes to CD, complete with libretto!  Features guests vocalists Joe Williams, Randy Crawford and Robert Guillaume and instrumentalists including George Duke, Airto Moreira and the Wrecking Crew's Carol Kaye!

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz

Life of Dreams/Beast on My Back

February 19, 2015 By

Crumbsuckers

The hardcore punks' two albums, from 1986 and 1988, are combined on one CD release.

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Craig Fuller/Eric Kaz

February 19, 2015 By

Fuller and Kaz

A lost classic of seventies California rock, featuring guests J.D. Souther, Russ & Leah Kunkel, Leland Sklar, Michael McDonald, and Leo Sayer, returns to CD!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Seems Like Only Yesterday--Live in Montreal 1976

February 19, 2015 By

Jesse Winchester Seems Like

The singer-songwriter's 1976 Montreal radio concert comes to CD!

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Formats: CD Genre: Folk, Pop

Rhapsodies

February 19, 2015 By

Rick Wakeman Rhapsodies

The Yes keyboardist's final A&M solo album produced by Tony Visconti in 1979 gets the Real Gone treatment!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Faithful

February 19, 2015 By

Dusty Springfield Faithful

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 remaining tracks were left on the shelf, and thought lost until the CD era. 

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

A MusiCares Tribute to Paul McCartney

February 19, 2015 By

MusiCares Paul

2012's MusiCares gala tribute to Macca comes to DVD and BD, with performances including Neil Young and Crazy Horse's "I Saw Her Standing There," James Taylor and Diana Krall's "Yesterday" and "For No One," Sergio Mendes' "The Fool on the Hill," Coldplay's "We Can Work It Out," Alicia Keys' "Blackbird" and more!

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Strange Frontier

February 19, 2015 By

Roger Taylor Strange Frontier

Roger Taylor's 1984 sophomore album gains five bonus tracks in Omnivore's new CD reissue.  The original album will also be available on vinyl; the first pressing will be on translucent red vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Fun in Space

February 19, 2015 By

Fun in Space

Roger Taylor's 1981 solo debut gains three single sides in Omnivore's expanded CD edition.  The original album sequence will also be available on vinyl; the first pressing of the latter will be on clear vinyl!

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Live in Dublin

February 18, 2015 By

HO Dublin

Daryl Hall and John Oates' July 15, 2014 show at Dublin's Olympia Theatre - their first in the city - has been captured on audio and video!  The concert's 15 tracks include "Maneater," "She's Gone," "Sara Smile" and more.  Live in Dublin will be available in CD/DVD and BD editions.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock

Countdown To "Physical Graffiti" Begins: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Does Q&A, Expanded Album Streams Tomorrow

February 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Physical Graffiti

The wait for the latest volume of Led Zeppelin's remastered and expanded reissue series is almost over! Tomorrow - Thursday, February 19 - Yahoo Live will stream the 40th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition Premiere. The complete, previously unreleased companion audio from the upcoming deluxe edition will be unveiled, followed by a live Q&A with legendary axeman and album producer Jimmy Page in front of a live audience at Olympic Studios in London, the same studio

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Led Zeppelin

Real Gone Has "Rhapsodies" In April From Dusty Springfield, Rick Wakeman, Jesse Winchester and More

February 18, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Dusty Springfield Faithful

One surefire cure for the winter blues is to think ahead to the warmer climates awaiting us in spring.  And Real Gone Music is seeing to it that April 2015 will shower not only with rain but with a full slate of new releases! This batch includes a sprawling set from Yes’ Rick Wakeman produced the great Tony Visconti, two more visits down memory lane with Grateful Dead, plus some rare music from underrated singer/songwriters Craig Fuller and Eric Kaz, and Jesse Winchester.  And that’s not

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Cannonball Adderley, Craig Fuller, Dusty Springfield, Eric Kaz, Jesse Winchester, Rick Wakeman, The Crumbsuckers, The Grateful Dead, Yes

Review: Chicago, "XXXIV: Live in '75"

February 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

chicago live 75

When they took the stage at Largo, Maryland's Capital Centre in June, 1975, nostalgia was foremost on the minds of the members of Chicago.  Early in the set preserved by Rhino on Chicago XXXIV: Live in '75, comments are made from the stage with a great deal of surprise: "[Here's] another blast from the past!"  "Nostalgia is in nowadays."  "We would like to be nostalgic."  Would the Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane and James Pankow of 1975 been able to conceive that they'd be playing

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Chicago, The Beach Boys

Postcards from Paradise

February 17, 2015 By

Ringo Postcards

Ringo Starr's eighteenth album arrives just in time for his solo induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Guest musicians include members of Starr's most recent All-Starr Band, all of whom co-wrote one track with Starr: Todd Rundgren, Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Richard Page, Warren Ham and Gregg Bissonette.  Guest appearances are also promised from Joe Walsh, Richard Marx, Peter Frampton and Dave Stewart.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

No Pier Pressure (Deluxe Edition)

February 17, 2015 By

Brian Wilson No Pier Pressure

Brian Wilson returns with his long-anticipated eleventh studio album featuring Al Jardine, David Marks and Blondie Chaplin of The Beach Boys, plus Nate Ruess of fun., She & Him, Kasey Musgraves, Sebu Simonian of Capital Cities, Peter Hollens, Mark Isham, and longtime members of Wilson's band.  Wilson and Joe Thomas (The Beach Boys' That's Why God Made the Radio) have produced. The standard CD edition will include 13 songs, while a deluxe CD edition has been promised with 16.  The 2-LP

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of February 17

February 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

pretenders box

  The Pretenders, 1979-1999 (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This mega-box features all of Edsel's expanded Pretenders reissues, totaling the band's eight Sire/Warner Bros. albums across 14 CDs and 8 DVDs (with six of the titles as 2-CD/1-DVD sets and two as 1-CD/1-DVD sets).  Wow!  All of the box set's albums are also available individually (see below)!  All track listings and discography can be found here. The Pretenders, 1979-1999 individual CD/DVD reissues

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Pepper, Bob Marley, Chicago, Glen Campbell, Kiki Dee, Pretenders, The Alan Parsons Project, The Box Tops

In Memoriam: Lesley Gore (1946-2015)

February 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Lesley Gore

I last saw Lesley Gore on October 4, 2010. Lesley was one of a starry assemblage of artists paying tribute to Marvin Hamlisch at New York’s Symphony Space. Though I seem to recall her making a comment about the song not being part of her current repertoire, she gamely performed her 1965 hit “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows” for her friend Marvin, its composer. If you closed your eyes, you were back in time to a more innocent era – whether you had actually been there or not – and filled with the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Lesley Gore

Little Earthquakes (Deluxe Edition)

February 16, 2015 By

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos' 1992 debut is expanded by Rhino to two CDs with the addition of 18 bonus tracks from period singles.  The original album will also be available on vinyl.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Grapefruit Collects Rare Psych-Pop From Pre-Deep Purple Episode Six, More on "Shapes and Shadows"

February 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Shapes and Shadows

Musical renaissance man Les Reed is responsible for some of the most beloved pop tunes of all time – “It’s Not Unusual,” “There’s a Kind of Hush,” and “The Last Waltz” among them.  His songs have been recorded by Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, Shirley Bassey, Petula Clark and Bing Crosby.  Less well known is that Reed also founded a record label.  His Chapter One Records was formed in 1968 and lasted until 1973, releasing music by a diverse collection of artists including Episode Six (a proving

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Deep Purple, Les Reed, Mark Wirtz, Various Artists

Listen, People: Bear Family Compiles Herman's Hermits Anthology, Premieres Stereo Mixes

February 11, 2015 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Hermans Hermits Bear Family

Bear Family Records is into something good! On March 27, the reissue specialists will unveil The Best of Herman’s Hermits: The 50th Anniversary Anthology, a two-CD, 66-song collection including all of the band’s classic hit records plus demos, B-sides, rarities and a 140-page (!) booklet. For this set which totals almost three hours of music, a whopping 56 tracks are promised to appear for the very first time in true stereo mixes. Herman’s Hermits burst onto the pop scene with their 1964

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Herman's Hermits

Review: Judy Garland, "Swan Songs, First Flights: Her First and Last Recordings"

February 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

JG Swan Songs

"Forget your troubles, come on, get happy!" exhorts the song by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ruth Etting, "America's Sweetheart of Song," introduced the anthem in 1930 as the finale of Broadway's short-lived The Nine Fifteen Revue. But as soon as a svelte Judy Garland performed the song against a painted backdrop of white clouds on a pink sky for 1950's MGM musical Summer Stock, "Get Happy" belonged to no one else. After all, Koehler's lyrics could have been written for Garland, epitomizing her

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Judy Garland

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