The world first heard the voices of Maggie and Terre Roche on Paul Simon’s 1972 LP There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. With youngest sister Suzzy, The Roches soon carved out a remarkable career of their own. Between 1979 and 2007, Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy pushed the boundaries of so-called folk music. The songs of The Roches were personal, funny, heartbreaking, vulnerable, witty, sad, joyful, and utterly original as the sisters bared their hearts and souls in striking harmony. Now, on September 11, Cherry Red’s Lemon Recordings and Second Disc Records will celebrate The…
Release Round-Up: Week of April 11
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown: Expanded Edition (Fantasy/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Craft Recordings delivers a newly expanded edition of 1964’s Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi and Charles M. Schulz’s lovable Peanuts characters. The 2CD set offers a fresh remaster of Guaraldi’s initial nine compositions devoted to Charlie Brown…
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Image and Likeness: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp’s Collaborations Revisited in New Collection
A unique team-up between two celebrated guitarists – Andy Summers of The Police and Robert Fripp of King Crimson – will be revisited this spring with a bevy of new material. The Complete Recordings 1981-1984 will expand and remaster the duo’s two studio albums together – 1982’s I Advance Masked and 1984’s Bewitched – along with Mother Hold the Candle Steady, a newly-created album of outtakes from their sessions together. The Blu-ray Audio will include hi-resolution remasters of both albums, new remixes, and “Can We Record Tony?” – an audio documentary created from Fripp’s archival…
Cadence and Cascade: King Crimson’s Early Output Celebrated in Two Limited-Edition LP Box Sets from Panegyric
As the progressive rock titans King Crimson continue their Europe leg of their current Uncertain Time tour, the group has announced two new six-disc, 200-gram vinyl box sets that celebrate their formative years. Arriving on the Panegyric imprint this month, the collections — entitled 1969-1972 and 1972-1974 — bring together seven classic albums between them, as well as an array of rare tracks that are new to vinyl. This marks the first time that King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary mixes, prepared by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp from 2009 to 2013, have appeared…
