Rosanne Cash, the oldest child of a country music icon and a superb, genre-hopping performer in her own right, will commemorate a museum exhibit of her life and career with a new career-spanning 2CD retrospective. The Essential Collection brings together 40 of Cash’s most treasured recordings – half from her tenure on Columbia Records and the other from mostly 21st century work on the Capitol, Manhattan and Blue Note labels. The non-chronological set, curated by Cash herself, features all 10 of her No. 1 country singles, including “Seven Year Ache,” “I Don’t…
The Weekend Stream: November 18, 2023
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Our pre-Thanksgiving feast includes three legendary women of rock, a summit of country icons, and some unexpected live gems from an alternative ’80s outfit – plus so much more. Tina Turner, Tina Turns the Country On! / Acid Queen / Rough / Love Explosion (Parlophone) Country: iTunes / Amazon Acid Queen: iTunes / Amazon Rough: iTunes / Amazon Love Explosion: iTunes / Amazon Hot on the heels…
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The Weekend Stream: April 15, 2023
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Rarities and oddities abound: cartoon soundtracks, early works from country legends, and more! Pat Irwin, Rocko’s Modern Life (Original Music from the Series) (Nickelodeon) (iTunes / Amazon) Joe Murray’s colorful cartoon about a harried wallaby and his misadventures was one of Nickelodeon’s edgier cartoons in the early-to-mid ’90s – a similar edge to The Ren & Stimpy Show,…
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Release Round-Up: Week of October 23
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen, Letter to You (Columbia) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP black with white swirl: Bruce Springsteen Online Store 2-LP grey: Your Local Record Shop The Boss returns with a new, long-awaited album featuring The E Street Band. Produced by Springsteen and his frequent collaborator Ron Aniello, it features original songs as well as his first recordings of three compositions he wrote early in his career but never officially released: “Janey Needs a Shooter,” “If I Was the Priest,” and “Song for Orphans.” Letter…
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Review: “Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus” from Bear Family Records
Gather ’round, fellows, I’ll tell you some tales… “If I had known what you were doing in the studio, I would have stopped it,” Bobby Bare recalled RCA Victor’s Jerry Bradley telling him upon hearing the singer’s 1973 double album Sings Lullabys, Legends, and Lies. Happily, Bradley had to live with the album that marked Bare’s return to RCA after a brief sojourn to rival Mercury Records. RCA’s Nashville chief Chet Atkins wanted Bare back on the label, and gave him the freedom to create the sprawling collection of story-songs with one…
Greater American Saturday Night: Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein Celebrated On Bear Family Box
What do you get when you combine one of country’s most underrated outlaws and one of the 20th century’s most beloved poets? A new box set from Bear Family will answer that question across eight incredible discs. Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus collects more than 100 tunes the unlikely duo collaborated on during Bare’s tenure on the RCA and Columbia labels between 1973 and 1983. The set represents a dozen of Bare’s albums, including six presented in full herein. An impressive 25 tracks are being released for the first time, either…
Where You Long To Be: Morello Releases Bobby Bare and Dottsy Album Collections
Cherry Red imprint Morello focuses on country music reissues and we’ve covered them here in the past. The label has been releasing compilations steadily and we thought we would tell you about some of their recent releases, focusing on albums from the 1960s and 1970s. First up is a collection of three albums from Nashville Sound stalwart Bobby Bare released on a 2-CD set. The first two albums make their first appearance on CD outside of a Bear Family box set in 1994 and the third is completely new to CD. The…
Storytellers: Raven Anthologizes Jerry Jeff Walker, Bobby Bare
Two American country legends have recently been celebrated by Australia’s Raven Records label with new 2-CD, multi-label anthologies – Jerry Jeff Walker (“Mr. Bojangles”) and Bobby Bare (“Detroit City”). No Leavin’ Texas 1968-82: The Classic Jerry Jeff follows Raven’s recent reissue of three of the New York-born troubadour’s albums in one package. This 2-CD anthology collects 39 tracks sourced from 15 albums on five different labels (Atco, Vanguard, Decca, MCA and Elektra) originally released between 1968 and 1982. It kicks off, appropriately enough, with “Mr. Bojangles” from Walker’s debut album of the…
