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Holiday Gift Guide Review: Joni Mitchell, ‘Love Has Many Faces’ [8-LP Box Set]

December 11, 2018 by Sam Stone | 5 Comments

It’s coming on Christmas… and just in time for the holidays, Rhino has treated Joni Mitchell fans with a new, 8-LP box set, Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced. Previously released in a 4-CD configuration in 2014, this Joni Mitchell-curated collection finds the celebrated songwriter, singer, and visual artist exploring the many contexts and definitions of love. The result is a 53-song, four-act suite that craftily presents some of Joni’s best work in a compelling sequence, including 20 songs that are brand-new to vinyl. Love Has…

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Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews

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Vinyl

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Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Billy Idol, Billy Preston, David Baerwald, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Herbie Hancock, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, Thomas Dolby, Tom Petty, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter

Release Round-Up: Week of November 2

November 2, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Melissa Manchester, Mathematics: The MCA Years (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music bring Melissa Manchester’s 1985 MCA album to CD for the very first time in an expanded 2-CD deluxe edition! Mathematics: The MCA Years features the original Mathematics (produced by George Duke, Brock Walsh and Robbie Nevil, Trevor Veitch and executive producer Quincy Jones!) on the first CD, while the second disc boasts 13 bonus tracks including every period remix, the non-LP…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Eagles, John Klein, Joni Mitchell, King Crimson, Marianne Faithfull, Melissa Manchester, Metallica, Mott the Hoople, Paul Williams, Rod McKuen, Rosanne Cash, The McGuire Sisters

The Only Joy in Town: Rhino Announces Limited, 8-LP Reissue of Joni Mitchell’s “Love Has Many Faces” Box Set

October 24, 2018 by Sam Stone | 3 Comments

The renowned songwriter, singer, guitarist, and painter Joni Mitchell will turn 75 this November. The milestone is being marked by a recently announced pair of tribute concerts in L.A., a new photo book, and now, a limited-edition, 8-disc,180-gram vinyl box set of some of Joni’s finest work–53 ruminations on love and all its complexities from across her storied career, including many tracks that are brand-new to vinyl. Yesterday, Rhino officially announced the November 2 release of an 8-LP box set version of Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to…

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News

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Box Sets, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop

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Joni Mitchell

Take Off Your Thirsty Boots and Stay For Awhile: Real Gone Announces “The Essential Eric Andersen”

February 8, 2018 by Randy Fairman | 4 Comments

Real Gone Music has announced that, in conjunction with Sony’s Legacy Recordings, the label is adding a new title to the long-running Essential series with a volume devoted to singer-songwriter Eric Andersen. The 2-CD The Essential Eric Andersen, due March 30, features 33 songs chosen by Andersen himself which span his entire career and feature recordings from eighteen albums and ten different labels including Vanguard, Warner Bros., Columbia, Arista, Gold Castle, Appleseed, Meyer, Ryko, Smithsonian Folkways and CBS Holland. Eric Andersen moved to New York in the early 1960s and soon became…

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Folk

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Dan Fogelberg, Eric Andersen, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Richard Thompson

Release Round-Up: Week of December 15

December 15, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beatles, The Christmas Records (Capitol/Apple/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Happy Christmas, Beatle people! The Christmas Records, a seven-disc vinyl box set from the Fab Four, features colored 45 RPM recreations of the Beatles’ original Christmas fan club flexi-discs (all single-sided except for the last two in 1968 and 1969). The original sleeve artwork has been recreated for each title, and an enclosed 16-page booklet offers recording notes plus reproductions of the newsletters sent with each disc! The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Reggae

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Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Ethiopian and His All-Stars, Gladiators, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Stan Getz, The Beatles, The Guess Who

A Case of You: Herbie Hancock’s ‘River: The Joni Letters’ Celebrates 10 Years with Expanded Reissue

December 12, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

A decade ago, Herbie Hancock’s latest surprised both jazz enthusiasts and mainstream audiences – and now, it’s available in a new expanded edition. Verve and UMe will reissue Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters for its 10th anniversary this Friday, December 15. The original album, mostly featuring songs of Joni Mitchell, will be paired with a bonus EP of four additional recordings from the sessions. Two of them – covers of “A Case of You” and “All I Want” – were previously only available on an Amazon-exclusive pressing of the album, while the…

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Jazz

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Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Lenoard Cohen, Norah Jones, Tina Turner

Life Is A Carnival: The Band Celebrates 40 Years of “The Last Waltz” With New Reissues

September 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 10 Comments

Forty years ago on Thanksgiving Day 1976, The Band took the stage at San Francisco’s Winterland for their final performance. Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and others joined Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel for the concert event known as The Last Waltz. Director Martin Scorsese’s film of the evening was released in April 1978, setting a high bar for concert movies. On November 11, Rhino will mark this landmark anniversary of The Last Waltz with four new…

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News

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock

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Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, The Band, Van Morrison

Special Shout-Out to This Year’s Reissue Grammy Winners; Legacy Leads Catalogue Pack

February 23, 2016 by Randy Fairman | 3 Comments

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The 58th Annual Grammy awards were held a little over a week ago and there were numerous winners. The Grammys have so many categories that the majority are not given out on the actual television broadcast. Even though we’re a little late, we’d like to give acknowledgment to the winners from reissue and catalogue labels who picked up an award, some for categories that aren’t always exclusively associated with reissues. The biggest winner of the night for reissue labels was Sony’s Legacy Recordings. The label, whose upcoming slate of releases includes a stunning,…

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News

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, SACD

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock

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Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, The Band

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Joni Mitchell, “Love Has Many Faces”

December 16, 2014 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

Joni Mitchell wasn’t yet 25 when she first gifted the world her song “Both Sides Now.” Judy Collins made its first commercially-released recording; soon artists were lining up to record it, including Frank Sinatra. The 25-year old Mitchell herself released it in 1969. In what might be her most famous song, she asserted, “I really don’t know love at all.” Flash-forward to the present day, and the 71-year old singer-songwriter-artist seems well-acquainted with the vagaries of that most universal subject. Mitchell has curated a retrospective of her career in the form of…

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Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

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Joni Mitchell

Release Round-Up: Week of November 17

November 17, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Henry Mancini, The Classic Soundtrack Collection (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Classic Soundtrack Collection features 18 of Mancini’s most memorable soundtrack albums for RCA, Columbia and Epic Records on nine CDs, spanning the period between 1960’s High Time and 1978’s Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, and adds bonus material from vocalists including Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams and, on a previously unreleased track, Julie Andrews. Johnny Mathis, The Global Albums Collection (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) A Columbia artist since 1956, Johnny Mathis departed his label home just once –…

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News, Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bruce Springsteen, Captain Beefheart, David Bowie, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Joni Mitchell, King Crimson, Old 97's, Paul McCartney, Peter Paul and Mary, The Rolling Stones, Wilco

A Case of Joni: Mitchell Curates New Love-Themed, Career-Spanning Box Set

October 15, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

In 2007, Joni Mitchell released her last studio album to date, Shine. That release was her first recording since 2002’s Travelogue and first collection of new songs since 1998’s Taming the Tiger. Over the past seven years, the influential singer-songwriter has mainly made headlines for her candid and revealing interviews, on which she’s held forth about such topics as Bob Dylan’s alleged plagiarism and her own struggles with Morgellons disease. So it’s refreshing that Mitchell is back in the spotlight for her music, thanks to a new box set to arrive just in…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

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Joni Mitchell