Release Round-Up: Week of May 9

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. Jackie DeShannon, Love Forever: Demo Recordings 1966-1968 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Jackie DeShannon signed with Liberty Records and Metric Music in 1960 as a performer and songwriter.  Her big break would come in 1964 when she would open for The Beatles on their first U.S. tour.  The next year she would record Bacharach and David’s “What the World Needs Now is Love” and her recording…

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Listen To The Warm: Real Gone’s May Line-Up Includes Rare Petula Clark plus Jesse Ed Davis, Lamb, The Bottle Rockets, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones and Others

We’ve already told you about the Jackie DeShannon CD – Love Forever: Demo Recordings 1966-1968 – coming from Real Gone Music tomorrow, May 9.  But the label has a packed line-up of other titles ranging from pop to metalcore and years spanning the 1960s to 2000s on both CD and vinyl.  Keep reading for all of the details. First up is a new expanded CD reissue of Petula Clark’s 2007 album Solitude & Sunshine: The Songs of Rod McKuen.  Clark and McKuen first met in France in the 1960s and became good friends. …

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Rock Candy Records To Launch American Label with Sammy Hagar, The Nymphs, More

Rock Candy Records, the brainchild of former music journalist and A&R man Derek Oliver, has just announced the birth of a U.S. arm.  The American operation for Rock Candy will launch this Friday, November 18, with four titles from Sammy Hagar, The Nymphs, Salty Dog, and Tyketto. Amazon U.S. will have the Hagar and Salty Dog titles in stock on December 2. For the past eight years, the London-based label has celebrated rock and its various strains on a variety of reissues from the 1970s-1990s by artists including Toto, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Kansas,…

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