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April 21, 2023 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Eddie Money The Covers

When it comes to Record Store Day, Liberation Hall sure isn't kidding around.  The label has seven titles from a host of rock, jazz, blues, and folk superstars, all set for release on vinyl at independent record stores everywhere tomorrow, April 22 - but that's not all.  All seven albums have also arrived on CD. Eddie Money's The Covers (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) brings the late rock-and-roller's two 2009 EPs together on one album.  The eight songs on The Covers encompass the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Charlie Parker, Eddie Money, Joao Gilberto, Luis Bonfá, Muddy Waters, Phil Ochs, Record Store Day, Romeo Void, The Sir Douglas Quintet

December 6, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Story of Cadet Records

Following recent releases celebrating The Comedy Store, Ghetto Records, and the Philadelphia International label, the Vinyl Me, Please record club has announced the next title in its lavish Anthology series.  The Story of Cadet Records, with eight albums spanning the halcyon era of 1968-1972, is available for pre-order now. Cadet Records emerged in 1965 as the successor to Argo Records, the jazz imprint of Chicago-based rhythm-and-blues label Chess Records.  When brothers and co-founders

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Dorothy Ashby, Etta James, Muddy Waters, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection, Shades of Brown, Terry Callier, The Harold Land Quintet

September 17, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Bob Dylan Bootleg 16

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) (Columbia/Legacy) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest volume of Bob Dylan's long-running archival series, Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) covers the period in which Dylan recorded the albums Shot of Love (the final LP in

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Andrew Gold, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bob Dylan, Erroll Garner, Gleaming Spires, Herb Alpert, Ian Gillan, Jimmie Vaughan, Kasim Sulton, Lindsey Buckingham, Marianne Faithfull, Muddy Waters, Murray Head, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Lowe, Ozzy Osbourne, Rumer, Tim Rice, Vince Guaraldi, Wesley Stace, Yvonne Elliman

July 22, 2021 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Marianne Faithfull Montreux Years

Last week, the 55th Montreux Jazz Festival wrapped up in Switzerland.  Started in 1967 by Claude Nobs, Geo Voumard and Rene Langel, the yearly festival was at first true to its name and focused exclusively on jazz performers.  However, over the years, it has grown to encompass nearly all types of music and has seen a wide range of performers including Etta James, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Lauren Hill, Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, James Brown, Kendrick Lamar, Leonard Cohen, Marvin Gaye, Miles

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Pop Tags: Marianne Faithfull, Muddy Waters

June 3, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

Rory Gallagher Blues pl

Eric Clapton once described Rory Gallagher as "the man who got me back into the blues." Though he never reached the same "household name" fame as Clapton or other contemporaries, Irish guitar legend Gallagher led a movement back to blues roots that began with his band Taste and continued on throughout his solo career from 1971 to 1994. To commemorate 50 years since Gallagher began his recording, UMC has released a new collection that mines the vaults of the celebrated singer and instrumentalist

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Albert King, Jack Bruce, Lonnie Donegan, Muddy Waters, Rory Gallagher

October 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Joan Jett Bad Reputation

Seven is Legacy Recordings' lucky number for this Black Friday's annual Record Store Day event.  On November 23, the label will release seven titles on limited edition vinyl in a variety of genres reflecting the diversity of the Sony vaults. The offerings are highlighted by an EP of mono mixes from Jimi Hendrix; the vinyl debut of the Legacy Edition of The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, coinciding with Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman's current tour celebrating the album; and more vinyl

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Iggy and the Stooges, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Jett, Muddy Waters, Outkast, Rage Against the Machine, The Byrds

March 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Andrew Lloyd Webber Platinum Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Andrew Lloyd Webber: Unmasked - The Platinum Collection (Polydor/UMC) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Let the memory live again!  Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and provocative new memoir Unmasked with this 4-CD, 71-track box set of the same name.  The career-spanning anthology features many of the composer's most famed songs from Phantom of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Gospel, Pop Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Spirit, The Oak Ridge Boys

February 5, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Muddy Waters Cant Be Satisfied

Universal Music Catalogue will issue a new collection celebrating the work of the bluesman born McKinley Morganfield but known the world over as Muddy Waters. Can't Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975 presents 40 classic tracks from across the singer/guitarist's tenure on the Chess label. Waters recorded for Chess for most of his life, after being discovered by Alan Lomax in the early 1940s for his Library of Congress-sanctioned sojourn to discover and record local country

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Muddy Waters

December 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Blind Pig 40th

Since 1977, Blind Pig Records has been a leading light for the blues in all its many forms.  The label, originally formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan and named for that city's Blind Pig Café (welcoming musical artists since 1971), has just celebrated its fortieth anniversary with a new 2-CD, 34-track compendium.  Blind Pig Records: 40th Anniversary Collection boasts selections from each decade of the Blind Pig story, featuring many recognizable artists and some lesser-known lights that might just

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues Tags: Muddy Waters, Otis Clay, Otis Rush, Taj Mahal, Various Artists

November 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Popeye OST

Are you making a list and checking it twice? We are! Record Store Day Black Friday is here in less than a month, and this week we're showcasing all of our favorite titles. We've shown you the goods from Legacy, Real Gone, Rhino and Omnivore; now, here are 20 more titles we think you should absolutely check out. There's soundtrack goodies from Varese Sarabande and Light in the Attic; holiday favorites from Bob & Doug McKenzie, Frank Sinatra and "Dolemite" himself; lost gems from Isaac Hayes,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Harry Nilsson, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Goldsmith, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, The Runaways

September 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

The Last Waltz 40th

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

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, The Band, Van Morrison

April 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Soundstage Blues Summit

Muddy Waters (1913-1983) was frequently considered the father of Chicago blues.  Born in Mississippi and discovered there in 1941 by musicologist Alan Lomax, he moved to the Windy City in 1943 and proceeded to refine and redefine the sound of the blues, inspiring not just future artists in the genre but, significantly, those who later created rock-and-roll.  In July 1974, some of the country’s premier blues artists joined together onstage in Chicago to celebrate the Muddy Waters legacy with the

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Buddy Miles, Dr. John, Mike Bloomfield, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon

October 23, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The time was 1965, the place was Columbia Records' studios on Seventh Avenue in New York City between 52nd and 53rd Streets, the occasion was the recording of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. Al Kooper - he of the famed organ riff that propelled "Like a Rolling Stone" - recalled, "Suddenly Dylan exploded through the doorway with this bizarre-looking guy carrying a Fender Telecaster guitar without a case. It was weird, because it was storming outside and the guitar was all wet from the rain. But

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bob Dylan, Michael Bloomfield, Muddy Waters

December 14, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

muddy waters anthology1

It's the lucky thirteenth part of our look at the many reissues of the 100 greatest albums of all time, as selected by Rolling Stone in 2003! We’ll explore the various versions of these classic albums on disc, letting you know which audio treasures can be found on which releases. In today's group, we get the blues, meet the Brits, head to Laurel Canyon and fall in Love!  40. Love, Forever Changes (Elektra, 1967) Welcome to the Top 40!  Released just months after the so-called Summer of Love,

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Categories: News Tags: Love, Muddy Waters, The Beatles, TSD Buyers Guide

April 28, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

gin blossoms

Mark your calendars, friends: a new batch of ICON budget compilations are due from Universal. Between May 3 and 24, UMe is releasing a clutch of ICON sets that run the gamut from country (Willie Nelson, Hank Williams) to R&B (New Edition, Kelly Price), from classics (The Mamas & The Paps, Louis Armstrong) to modern day heroes (Gin Blossoms, Rob Zombie). As usual, there's not much in the way of brand-new or rare material, although some titles have some one-off tunes to their credit.

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Categories: News Tags: Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, New Edition, Rob Zombie, The Mamas and The Papas

April 14, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

playlist metal

Love 'em or hate 'em, the various budget compilations that come from the major labels are quick, easy ways to get catalogue material out to the masses. Universal's ICON and Sony's Playlist series are probably the highest-profile of these series, but the latter is arguably the more beloved of the two, thanks to a concerted effort by some of the producers at Legacy to get rarer tracks on the Playlist discs, whether it's a rare single version or bonus track from a previous reissue. Legacy has 12

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