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August 17, 2020 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

woodstockdigital

Fifty-one years ago this past weekend, a crowd of half a million converged at Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The four-day event became a cultural touchstone and mythical ideal, strengthened even more by the Woodstock film and soundtracks that proliferated the marketplace during the early '70s and beyond. While performers, fans, and countless supposed attendees participated in even more myth-building, a small group of historians and researchers worked

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arlo Guthrie, Bert Sommer, Blood Sweat and Tears, Canned Heat, Country Joe and The Fish, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, John Sebastian, Johnny Winter, Melanie, Mountain, Quill, Ravi Shankar, Richie Havens, Santana, Sha Na Na, Sly and the Family Stone, Sweetwater, Ten Years After, The Band, The Incredible String Band, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Who, Tim Hardin

January 16, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

ROGQRATES BetterThanEzra FrictionBaby

For the last several years,  Run Out Groove, has given music fans the power to vote on new vinyl titles mined from the vaults of Warner Music.  Over the years, some stellar titles just didn't get enough votes to move on to the pressing plants.  Today, Run Out Groove announced a new partnership with vinyl micro-pressers QRATES to bring some of these worthy titles onto vinyl.  The titles up for pre-order include:  Better Than Ezra'sFriction, Baby, Fred Neil's Bleecker & MacDougal, The

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Rock Tags: Better Than Ezra, Fred Neil, Ronnie Hawkins, The Hawks, The Incredible String Band

January 15, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

Eso Renaissance AshesAreBurning

February promises to be a packed month for music fans, as Esoteric brings listeners a new, expanded reissue of Renaissance's 1973 classic, Ashes Are Burning, as well as a reissue of The Byrds, the reunion album by the legendary folk-rock group.  Also on the way are reissues of Tear Gas's self-titled album, an expanded edition of Greenslade's Time and Tide, and a new 3-CD set called Revolution: Underground Sounds of 1968.  Meanwhile, Esoteric's Reactive imprint will issue a 4-CD set

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Brian Auger, Caravan, Dave Mason, Deep Purple, Genesis, Greenslade, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull, John Martyn, Julie Driscoll, Pentangle, Procol Harum, Renaissance, Spooky Tooth, Status Quo, Tangerine Dream, Tear Gas, The Byrds, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Incredible String Band, The Move, The Pretty Things, Traffic, Van Der Graaf Generator

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Eso REvolution 1968 UndergroundSounds

Featuring both classics and unearthed rarities, the set explores the wild year in which psychedelia, jazz, blues, folk, world music, and hard rock all collided to form groundbreaking and genre-pushing new music.  The new compilation includes a number of legendary UK groups, including Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Genesis, and Pentangle.  Also present are Procol Harum, Caravan, Jeff Beck, Spooky Tooth, Traffic, The Move, Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger and The Trinity, The Crazy World of Arthur

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Categories: Uncategorized Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Brian Auger, Caravan, Dave Mason, Deep Purple, Genesis, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull, John Martyn, Julie Driscoll, Pentangle, Procol Harum, Spooky Tooth, Staus Quo, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Incredible String Band, The Move, The Pretty Things, Traffic, Van Der Graaf Generator

February 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Golden Smog Down by the Old Mainstream

Run Out Groove continues to re-present rarities from the Warner Music Group vaults with the announcement of its latest high quality vinyl release. Based on the results of the label's fan vote, Golden Smog's Down by the Old Mainstream has been selected as the next limited edition, numbered ROG title.  The Minneapolis collective made its first big splash in 1995 with this debut album on the Rykodisc label.  It hasn't been available on vinyl since 2010.  Featuring members of The Jayhawks, Wilco,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Folk, Rock Tags: David Blue, Golden Smog, Judee Sill, The Incredible String Band

July 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dust on the Nettles

In the spirit of past box sets such as Love, Poetry and Revolution which spotlighted the British underground psychedelic scene circa 1966-1972, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label has just released Dust on the Nettles, a new 3-CD compendium of British underground folk in roughly the same time period (1967-1972). This new mini-box set, subtitled A Journey Through the British Underground Folk Scene, boasts 63 tracks and a running time of nearly four hours.  The emphasis is on the genre sometimes

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk Tags: Bill Fay, Fairport Convention, Joan Armatrading, The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan

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