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June 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Very Best of The Happenings

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up...it's one of the year's most eclectic yet, with heavy hitters from Pink Floyd to Petula Clark...including releases from The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Edgar Winter and more! Petula Clark, Natural Love: The Scotti Brothers Recordings (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In the early years of the 1980s, Petula Clark was signed to the Scotti Brothers label in the U.S. and starring in a revival of The Sound of Music

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: 10000 Maniacs, Air Supply, David Bowie, Edgar Winter, Fairport Convention, Gary Burton, Loudon Wainwright III, Paul Simon, Petula Clark, Pink Floyd, The D.O.C., The Happenings, The Kinks, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Traveling Wilburys

April 29, 2016 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Petula Clark Natural Love

With spring having just begun, it might be hard to believe that summer is going to be here before we know it.  But the year marches on and Real Gone Music is kicking off the summer with its June 3rd  slate of titles.  As per usual with the label, there are a wide variety of genres being represented, including one that Real Gone has never dipped into before. We'll begin with the two titles that feature liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese.  The first is a collection from sixties British

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Air Supply, Fairport Convention, Grateful Dead, Loudon Wainwright III, Maynard Ferguson, Petula Clark, The D.O.C., The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

July 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dust on the Nettles

In the spirit of past box sets such as Love, Poetry and Revolution which spotlighted the British underground psychedelic scene circa 1966-1972, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label has just released Dust on the Nettles, a new 3-CD compendium of British underground folk in roughly the same time period (1967-1972). This new mini-box set, subtitled A Journey Through the British Underground Folk Scene, boasts 63 tracks and a running time of nearly four hours.  The emphasis is on the genre sometimes

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk Tags: Bill Fay, Fairport Convention, Joan Armatrading, The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan

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