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December 4, 2018 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

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When John Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, Billy Joel remarked that, "People need to hear a voice like yours to echo the discontent that's in the heartland.  They need to hear stories about it.  They need to know that someone out there feels the way they do."  Though Mellencamp has never sought to be the voice of the Small Town, his stories of struggle, loss, perseverance, and love have spoken to the American heartland for more than forty years. For his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Folk, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Jimmie Rodgers, John Mellencamp, Merle Travis, Robert Johnson, Stevie Wonder

December 2, 2018 By

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Other People's Stuff,  is a new collection of covers that shows Mellencamp applying his knack for storytelling to ten staples from the American music canon.   The material is culled mostly from his own albums, hard-to-find compilations, and documentary soundtracks.  Mellencamp also recorded a brand-new version of "Eyes on the Prize," a standard that he had performed at The White House for the 2010 Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement at the request of President Obama. 

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Categories: Uncategorized Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Jimmie Rodgers, John Mellencamp, Merle Travis, Robert Johnson, Stevie Wonder

December 2, 2018 By

JMellencamp OtherPeople small

Other People's Stuff, is a new collection of covers that shows Mellencamp applying his knack for storytelling to ten staples from the American music canon. The material is culled mostly from his own albums, hard-to-find compilations, and documentary soundtracks. Mellencamp also recorded a brand-new version of "Eyes on the Prize," a standard that he had performed at The White House for the 2010 Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement at the request of President Obama.

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Categories: Uncategorized Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Country, Folk, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Jimmie Rodgers, John Mellencamp, Merle Travis, Robert Johnson, Stevie Wonder

January 6, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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When Todd Rundgren’s Johnson was released in April 2011, the singer-songwriter’s longtime fans were forgiven for greeting the album with surprise.  While Toddheads have been trained to expect the unexpected, Johnson was a departure from even the artist’s most outré projects.  It was Rundgren’s first-ever all-covers album, and its subject wasn’t a songwriter whose influence was readily apparent in Rundgren’s own music.  (At various points in his career, a tribute to Laura Nyro or Kenneth Gamble,

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Categories: News Tags: Robert Johnson, Todd Rundgren

December 16, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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It's time for another installment of our 100 Greatest Reissues list, taking Rolling Stone's list of the greatest albums of all time and investigating their many pressings and expansions as the catalogue industry has grown. Today, enjoy selections from three of the most beloved bands of all time, a pioneer in the blues field and our first selection, a singer/songwriter extraordinaire who proved that rock is not just for the guys. 30. Joni Mitchell, Blue (Reprise, 1971) To read the entries

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, SACD, The Who, TSD Buyers Guide, U2

August 26, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHmbLs7sd5w] Vinyl enthusiasts are going to have Slowhand for the holidays. A report from fanzine Where's Eric? announces the November release of Clapton Blues, a five-vinyl box set that encompasses three of Clapton's great late-period blues albums. First up is From the Cradle, Clapton's first LP since the triumphant success of his MTV Unplugged appearance in 1992. It's a raw, straight pass of a set (the liner notes detail only two overdubs and no

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Robert Johnson, Vinyl

April 26, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Universal) The 2-CD remastered/expanded 40th Anniversary Edition (previously a Best Buy exclusive) and super deluxe 4-CD/2-LP/1-DVD box set of the seminal album both arrive in stores today.  Read more here.  (2-CD – Amazon, Box Set – Amazon) Bob Dylan, The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 (Columbia/Legacy) Murray Lerner’s film chronicling Dylan’s incendiary performances at Newport is released on

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Roy Orbison

March 4, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Here's a topic for discussion for you, our awesome readers, as we head toward the weekend. We're getting close to about a quarter-century or more since the box set entered the CD era. (Bruce Springsteen's Live 1975/85 and Bob Dylan's Biograph would be among the first great examples of such anthologies.) Lately, we've started to see a strange pattern of artists who received great early box sets getting revisited yet again in new sets. The next few months will see boxes devoted to Derek and The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bob Dylan, Open Forum, Robert Johnson

February 17, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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May 8 would have been the 100th birthday of Robert Johnson, arguably the most influential figure in blues music. Of course, Johnson did not live nearly that long - he died at 27 in 1938, leaving a legacy of stirring, influential recordings on 78 RPM records and a bizarrely ill-documented lifeline (only two pictures of him are known to exist, and there's a legend that he gained his guitar prowess thanks to a deal with the devil himself) - but his legacy remains strong. The 1961 compilation King

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