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August 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Joni Archives 4 packshot

Rhino's Joni Mitchell Archives series has been dependably running since 2020, offering alternating box sets featuring troves of unreleased material from the folk legend and remastered versions of the album eras they cover. With the most recent box collecting her last four albums for the Asylum label - Hejira (1976), Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and the live Shadows and Light (1980) - today's new announcement closes that same chapter, offering hours of unreleased live and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Jazz, Pop Tags: Charles Mingus, Graham Nash, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Jan Hammer, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Pat Metheny, T Bone Burnett

August 13, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream

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 discover! A lighter week nonetheless has some fun new digital debuts, including bonus-packed reissues from Belinda Carlisle and a sequel to a classic live jazz album. Belinda Carlisle, Heaven on Earth (Deluxe Edition) / Runaway Horses (Deluxe Edition) (MCA/UMe) Heaven: iTunes / Amazon Horses: iTunes /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Al Di Meola, Belinda Carlisle, Burl Ives, John McLaughlin

July 7, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Al Di Meola Saturday Night in San Francisco

Two months into a joint tour, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco de Lucia took the stage at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre on Friday, December 5, 1980.  The three acoustic guitarists, intuitively connected to one another, employed no rhythm section or other instrumentalists.  Their tight interplay was nothing short of magical; one could hear a pin drop in the 2,300-seat venue.  Di Meola remembered the evening as "a night of pure balls to the wall.  But highly inventive balls to the wall." 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Silva

March 4, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Mary Wilson The Motown Anthology

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Mary Wilson, The Motown Anthology (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Motown Anthology is the ultimate retrospective of Mary Wilson, multi-hyphenate talent: singer, activist, author, fashion icon, actress, mother, grandmother, friend, trailblazer, legend, Supreme.  This first-ever comprehensive overview of Wilson's Motown discography presents 38 songs,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dolly Parton, John McLaughlin, Kim Fowley, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Wilson, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, The Troggs

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