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COLLECTING
DUST
Sugaree [pictured] is the daughter of the legendary Leon Russell
and toured with his band for over six years playing percussion and singing
background vocals. She adeptly weaves Pop, Adult Contemporary and R&B genres
in The American Dream that take the listener "from an introspective opus
to a dance rhythm that remains long after the song is over." Songs include
Is This War (A Love Song); Security; Stepping Stones and What It Looks Like.
Strange cover, unexciting song titles. Due Jan 5.
TOYLAND
Massive Attack are gearing up to release their fifth album,
'Heligoland', after a seven-year absence from music. Their blog post states the
release date as Feb 8, next year. Guests include Blur's Damon Albarn, Martina
Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey of Elbow, Hope Sandoval, Tunde Adebimpe, Robert and
Grant. Tracks include Babel, Flat Of The Blade, Paradise Circus and Atlas Air.
'Heligoland'? They must have been playing Lego for the past seven years.
RINGO AND JOE WALSH,
BROTHERS-IN-LAW
Ringo and Joe became related last December when Marjorie Bach, the
sister of Ringo's wife Barbara Bach, married in Los Angeles. It was Joe's 4th
marriage. Ringo mentioned this at the press release for his new album, Y Not.
He also said Walsh will be playing guitar on Y Not. Others in the band include
Dave Stewart and longtime Roundheads member Steve Dudas on guitar, Benmont
Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on keyboards, Don Was and Mike
Bradford on bass. Due in January.
HARD ROCK STEADY
Bad Company are set to release their first Blu-ray with "Bad
Company: Hard Rock Live" on Feb 9 next year. The show is from their Aug 8,
2008 date at the Hard Rock Cafe. CD and DVD editions are also available.
KEYS TO FREEDOM
Alicia Keys fourth studio album will be titled "The Element
of Freedom" and it will be released on December 15, 2009 via
Columbia/Arista/J. "Doesn't Mean Anything" is the first single off
the CD. Keys described the album as containing strength and vulnerability.
"There's a feeling theme," she explained. "And I think somewhere
in there there's a balance. It's like one side is strong and one side is
vulnerable. So that's the theme throughout the album. It has this kind of
strong, edgy feel. But it's also intimate and vulnerable and delicate."
RETURN OF THE DOGG
Gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg has a new album, "Malice N
Wonderland" (Doggystyle/Priority), his 10th that's due Dec 8. "I
start off with so much malice in my heart when the record kicks in," Snoop
explained. "By the time I get to the end of the record, I'm in Wonderland.
I'm feeling good about life. I'm celebrating, happy about my wife, my kids,
life in general. It's just a roller coaster of what I'm going through as I
speak.
"I've always juggled the line: 'Should I make a gangster
record? 'Cause I could kill all you rappers if I wanted to,' " Snoop
continued. "Then I have to sit back and say, 'I'm a business, so I'm gonna
make records that can help me in this business.' I have to make radio records,
but when I don't care, y'all in trouble." Snoop Dogg will now have to
contend with the Mayor of New York, Jay-Z who's selling a very smooth and
creamy rap.
NEW ALBUM FROM MARSHALL
CRENSHAW
Marshall Crenshaw's 'Jaggedland' is his first in more than six
years. "The 12 new songs are musical observations about the human
experience, mortality, the state of the world and, of course, love as viewed
through the inimitable Crenshaw perspective." Somehow, Crenshaw managed to
attract Jim Keltner, Greg Leisz and MC5's Wayne Kramer to play on the album.
Due Nov 30.
MARIA MULDAUR RETURNS TO
HER JUGBAND ROOTS
Maria Muldaur & Her Garden Of Joy have a new album, 'Good Time
Music For Hard Times'. What you get are jug band music of depression era songs
and some new tunes. Muldaur is joined by John Sebastian and David Grisman as
well as Dan Hicks who wrote two songs. Due Dec 11.
RETURN OF SAM AND DAVE
Sam and Dave's "Back At 'Cha" finally being released on
Dec 1, 2009! First time on CD for this 1974 album from the Soul duo, originally
released on United Artists. The album maintains the fine tradition of
Gospel-styled Soul duets, recorded in Memphis and includes material written by
Allen Toussaint, Mentor 'Drift Away' Williams and Motown's Pam Sawyer, all
backed by a band featuring Duck Dunn, Al Jackson and Steve Cropper from the
MGs, along with Memphis stalwarts Marvell Thomas, Willie Hall and the Memphis
Horns.
HELLO 'DOLLY'
Dolly Parton's 'Dolly' (4CD Box Set) is her first career-spanning
box set with 99 songs - including seven previously unreleased. With
introduction written by singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell, and new liner notes
written by noted Dolly Parton historian Holly George Warren which features
never-before-seen photos and rare memorabilia. Due January 25.
BOOTLEG NEWS
CLAPTON IN THE '80s
PURPLE IN '74
HENDRIX-ARTHUR LEE'S LOVE ACETATE FOUND
The Blue Thumb acetate
featuring Jimi Hendrix and Love recording and jamming has been discovered and
sold to a group of fans. The acetate is now shared freely on the Crosstown
Traffic bit-torrent site.
The acetate contains just
four tracks. They were all recorded at Olympic Studios, London on March 17,
1970. The first track is The Everlasting First Take 16. Also included are two
attempts at Ezy Rider and finally a jam that has been titled "Loon".
The whole acetate is about 15 minutes in length.
The Everlasting First can be
found on Love's 1970 album False Start and is the only official release
featuring the band and Hendrix. The version on the acetate is as it was
recorded. In the released version, an extra 31 seconds from another take are
added at the beginning. Love at this stage were Lee
with Gary Rowles, Frank Fayad and
George Suranovich.
The "Ultimate
Hendrix" book recalled the session like this:
"Invited by Love's Arthur Lee to contribute to his band's
album, Hendrix returned to Olympic Studios, the recording facility where he had
recorded Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love. Hendrix and percussionist
Remi Kabaka (from Osibisa) joined Love in recording "The Everlasting
First", which came out in December of 1970 as part of Love's False Start.
The three musicians recorded sixteen takes before a basic track met Lee's
approval. Two clean, complete takes of Hendrix's own "Ezy Rider"
followed next. Hendrix then took part in an extended instrumental jam session
before departing."
It should be noted that both
versions of Ezy Rider are brief.
Previous circulating bootlegs
purportedly of the Hendrix-Love sessions were all fakes. You can find the real
thing here http://crosstowntorrents.org/showthread.php?p=21690.
Membership is free and you'll need a high-speed connection to download the
tracks. If you are in a position to help, please donate to the site as they put
up the dollars to buy the acetate at an auction. Sound quality is excellent.
Detailed info about the sessions here http://love.torbenskott.dk/albums/blue_thumb_acetate.asp
THE DOORS LIVE IN NEW YORK BOXSET
The remainder of the concerts
recorded in New York for The Doors' Absolutely Live album will finally see
release on Rhino's and The Doors' own Bright Midnight label. The Doors Live In
New York will be a 6CD boxset and due for release on November 10. The shows
were recorded over two nights on January 17 and 18 in 1970 at New York's Felt
Forum. An early and late show was played on both nights. The boxset has a
recommended retail price of US$89.98.
The Doors' Ray Manzarek hails
these shows as a return to the group's early days, when they used to play a
club called London Fog. "I mean, talk about going back to basics. We used
to do four sets a night at the London Fog, and we only had a small block of
songs written up to that time. So we would do other people's material. And in
New York, it was like the same thing as the London Fog. We've got four shows to
play here, two sets tonight, two sets tomorrow night. Let's play whatever we
want! Let's just go!"
For the final show of the
Felt Forum stand, the band was joined on stage by two guests - The Lovin'
Spoonful's John Sebastian (who played harmonica on the studio version of
"Roadhouse Blues") and drummer Dallas Taylor, who'd played on Crosby,
Stills, Nash's debut. Sebastian sat in for "Rock Me Baby" and was
joined by Taylor for "Goin' To New York Blues" and "Maggie
M'Gill."
All four shows were mixed and
mastered by the band's longtime engineer, Bruce Botnick, who recorded a number
of shows from The Doors' 1970 tour on multi-track tape for the Absolutely Live
album. While most of the music contained on Live in New York is unreleased, a
few songs (and portions of songs) surfaced in 1970 on Absolutely Live and in
1997 on Box Set.
END OF WAIT FOR THE DOORS ON VINYL
Rhino will release 180-gram
vinyl versions of all six Doors studio albums on September 15. Previously
available only in 2007's The Doors Vinyl Box, original stereo mixes of The Doors,
Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, The Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel, and L.A.
Woman will now be available individually at all vinyl retail outlets for a
suggested list price of US$24.98 each.
IT'S MONK, LIVE
Thelonious Monk - 'Live at
the It Club' is a Limited Four-LP Box Set with a 1x11 booklet. This famous show
has The Thelonious Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse from October 31 and November
1, 1964 at the It Club in Los Angeles. "Monk was at a particular high
point pianistically during this gig; in fact, he went into a Los Angeles studio
and recorded the album Solo Monk on the afternoons preceding and following the
live taping..." Mosaic has returned to the original three-track tapes and
mixed them down to beautiful sounding analog stereo masters, presenting the six
sets they played that night as they happened. Due October 20 for £199.99. It's
the Beatles box or this.
BON JOVI NOT BON VOYAGE
Jon and the band will return
with a rock album when Bon Jovi release The Circle on
Nov 10. First single "We Weren't Born To Follow" features an anthemic
chorus of "We weren't born to
follow, come on and get up off your knees, when life is a bitter pill to
swallow, you got to hold on to what you believe." Is Jon for or
against Obama's Health Plan?
TOUGH BLUES
After a long period with a
stable line-up of the Bluesbreakers, 'Tough' sees John Mayall working with a
new group of musicians that has clearly revitalised him and acted as a spur to
his creativity. Well titled, 'Tough' has a harder hitting feel and a real edge
that sets it apart from his recent albums. Due Sept 15. The album's title Tough
is perhaps derived from the song Tough Times Ahead. Ain't that the blues.
STILL RIDING ON THE PURPLE SAGE
A brand new New Riders of the
Purple Sage album, Where I Come From, is due in October. The album was cut
mostly live in the studio, and the playing is hot. The disc contains seven new
originals co-written by David Nelson and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.
There's even a doper song, Markowski and Bobby Driscoll's grower's anthem,
"Higher." Indeed, this incarnation of the Riders is more in the jam
band mold than the original country-rock "cosmic cowboys" of four
decades ago. Info from promo blurb.
RED KING
2009 is the 40th anniversary
of King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King and new reissues are due
October 26. A new stereo mix by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp will be used.
The CD/DVDA and Box Set editions also include a 5.1 mix by Steven Wilson. The
2CD edition will include five additional tracks drawn from the original
recording sessions on CD1 plus the new mix of the album. CD2 features the 2004
remaster of the original album drawn from the original master tape plus bonus
tracks including the Morgan studios instrumental take of 21st Century Schizoid
Man, 2 tracks from 1969 BBC John Peel sessions, and de-clicked vinyl transfer
of the original mono a+b side single edits of In the Court of the Crimson King.
The deluxe box set version
features all of the material on the double CD & DVD-A editions and comes in
a 12" x 12" size box, which includes King Crimson memorabilia, a full
size 24 page booklet with expanded sleevenotes & photos + additional CD
content.
Also coming in October - King
Crimson - 'Lizard' (CD+DVDA), King Crimson's third album now available
with a new stereo mix (By Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp), bonus tracks,
comprehensive sleevenotes, a 5.1 surround mix, and other extras.
BLACK IS BACK
Cilla Black's The Definitive
Collection (A Life In Music) will be a 2CD/1DVD set from EMI/UK. Due to arrive Sept 7. This set includes all of Cilla's 19
Top 40 hits (including her two number one singles, 'Anyone Who Had A Heart'
& 'You're My World') plus six previously unreleased tracks. The DVD
contains over 20 performances, many taken from her hugely successful BBC TV
series simply entitled `Cilla' - this popular TV series ran from 1968 to 1976.
Also due in September are exclusive digital downloads of all Cilla's original
EMI studio albums. These will be remastered. No plans yet to offer them as
physical CDs. Since there is no iTunes in $ingapore, these releases will not be
available to the $heep here.
BOTTLED AT SOURCE
Turin Brakes' 'Bottled At
Source - The Best Of The Source Years' (2CD) will capture their best tracks to
date. Disc one will feature 13 singles, non-album releases, and a number of
album tracks. The second disc was made up of songs voted for by fans on their
website. Due September 7. If you've no recollection of Turin Brakes' singles,
you're not alone.
DOCTOR WITH HOOK
Dr Hook - 'Pleasure &
Pain/Sometimes You Win...' is a 2 on 1 CD release due Oct 5. It includes hits
'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman', 'Sharing The Night Together' and
'Better Love Next Time'. Digitally remastered, slipcased and
with new notes.
OCTOBER WINE
April Wine's 'Animal
Grace/Walking Through Fire' is a 2 on 1 CD due Oct 5. These are the Canadian
rockers last two '80s albums for Capitol.
DON'T PASS JOE BY
Joe Pass - 'The Complete
"Catch Me!" Sessions' are Pass's first solo recordings after his
release from Synanon (the controversial drink and drug centre). He was asked by Richard Bach, owner of Pacific Jazz Records, to make these recordings in 1963. Digitally remastered,
slipcased and with new notes. Due October 5 for £9.99.
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SODD THE STONES
"Rolling Stones EMI
Studio" on the SODD label presents sessions from 1995's Stripped
album. The Tokyo sessions contain more tracks than the official LP and has the three tracks from Lisbon. Tracks 1-11 are recorded
live in the EMI studio Tokyo, Japan. From 3- 5 March 1995. Tracks 12-14 are recorded live in the studio Lisbon from 23? 26 July
1995. Perhaps these are not new as there was an "ancient" bootleg
covering these sessions.
The second SODD release is
Stones Collectibles, a collection of non-album tracks from 1980 to 1994. These
are very rare track and the label promises this will have no overlap with the
recent Rattle Snake release Lost Legal Live Tracks. It comes with a DVD-R with
promo clips of Highwire, Sex Drive and Dancing In The Street [Mick and David
Bowie].
THANK VU VERY MUCH
Velvet Underground &
Nico's Ultimate Mono & Acetates Album [3CD] features Moe Tucker's acetate
EPs and various promo singles and EPs. Again, this one looks like it's been out
before from a Japanese label using the same sources.
LENNON AT THE DAKOTA
A new label called Monkey
Clown has issued John Lennon At Dakota containing demos recorded at the Dakota
from 1976 to 1980. The DVD-R that comes with this release contains the promos
for Free As A Bird and Real Love. Nothing groundbreaking here.
Meanwhile, fans can still order the Stereo box set from Amazon.com at US$179 (S$258) while Best Buy is offering theirs at US$199 (16 CDs plus 1 DVD). The Stereo box set carries a list price of US$259 (S$374). In $heep City, the Stereo box set is expected to retail around US$276 (S$400!), price of the Mono box set is not known at press time. For the first time the original Beatles mono mixes are being released on CD (previously they were only available on original vinyl!) The Mono box set contains the remastered mono versions of every album released in mono, with the original stereo mixes added to the discs for Help! and Rubber Soul. There is also a new compilation album, Mono Masters (1962-69), which contains all mono tracks not originally included on an album. The albums Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, and Let It Be are not included in the Mono set as they were originally recorded and only released in stereo versions. Unlike the Stereo albums (which are available individually and collectively in a box), the Mono albums are available only as a box set. Those who have heard the tracks say these are the best sounding Beatles yet. BEATLES MONO BOX SET MADE IN JAPAN FLAMING LIPS' EMBRYONIC KRAFTWERK'S BIG BOX ABBA IN JAPAN RELEASE SOMETHING FOR EVERY TENGO FAN RYUICHI SAKAMOTO'S PIANO ACOUSTIC GUITARISTS AIR LOVE 2 LOST LOVE SUN RA'S HELSINKI STILLS READIES TWO ALBUMS Of the two, Manassas - Pieces, will find the Woodstock veteran in better shape. The album will include alternate versions of two "Down the Road" songs, "Do You Remember the Americans" and "Lies," the latter featuring Joe Walsh on guitar. It also features Manassas versions of "Word Game" and "Sugar Babe," which first appeared on "Stephen Stills 2" in 1971, as well as "Like a Fox," which features a then-fledgling Bonnie Raitt on backing vocals. Stills writes that the band's "energy is unrepentant, the creativity irrepressible, and the value of these recordings irrefutable". Less than a year, the drugs kicked in and the band fell to "pieces". The Shepherds Bush show is a harder sell. The collection features both solo acoustic and full band sets, as well as songs from Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young), Manassas, the Stills/Young Band and Stills' solo recordings, along with covers of Bob Dylan's "Girl From the North Country" and Tom Petty's "Wrong Thing to Do." Bear in mind that recent operations have left Stills vocals sounding a bit gruff. But if Dylan can still sell records, there's no reason why Stills can't. SINATRA AT THE MEADOWLANDS SINATRA IN NEW YORK NEW MOTT FROM OLD BOOTLEG NEWS RARE TREAT - SOUNDBOARD DYLAN GREAT PINK FLOYD TITLE, BUT WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? THERE AND BECK RETRO VINYL + + + + +
Madonna is set to release a
new single soon - followed by a new greatest hits compilation. Both are to be
titled Celebration. The compilation will be released on September 28 in the UK
(September 22 in the US). The tracklisting was chosen by Madonna with some
input from her fans who voted on her website. Songs confirmed for inclusion are
'Everybody', '4 Minutes', 'Express Yourself' and 'Vogue'. The album will be
available as both a one-disc and two-disc version, with a DVD to be released at
the same time.
RUMOURS
Apparently on Chuck Prophet's
web site is a comment from Chuck that Bob Dylan was "down the hall
recording a Christmas record". First rumors of specifics about this are
beginning to trickle out. The playlist will include "Have Yourself A Merry
Little Christmas." Proceeds from sales will go to charity it seems. Is it
a single, EP or full album? Discussions can be found at the Isis fan site, the
Steve Hoffman site, IWAN and others.
Rickie Lee Jones "Balm
In Gilead" (New West) with a US release date of Oct 20, 2009. That's also
the title of a Nina Simone track if anyone's wondering.
The Manhattan Transfer
"The Chick Corea Songbook" (Four Quarters) with a release date of
Sept 29, 2009.
THE RETURN OF JIMMY WEBB
Jimmy Webb & The Webb
Brothers - Cotton Wood Farm is Webb's first album after a very long absence.
It's due on Proper Records, Sept 21. "This family collaboration, Cottonwood Farm, juxtaposes several
new songs from the Brothers with a handful of treasures from Jimmy's archives -
two of them previously unreleased, including the epic, 12-minute title track.
Jimmy wrote Cottonwood Farm in the early '70s for his grandfather, and it
proved an ideal focal point for the album, its various movements presenting
character-roles for the family's many singers (including Jimmy's father Bob and
his youngest daughter Camila).
"Two other songs from
Jimmy's catalogue proved to be similarly well-suited for the family treatment.
Highwayman, which gave a name and a No. 1 hit to the mid-'80s country
supergroup featuring Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris
Kristofferson, neatly accommodated room for the family ensemble's multiple lead
vocalists. And If These Walls Could Speak had a strongly personal pull because
its story is set within a 200-year-old farmhouse where the Webbs once lived.
"The album's other two
Jimmy-penned tracks are Snow Covered Christmas, which he wrote in the '80s but
has never before released on an album; and Where The Universes Are, which
appeared on 1977's El Mirage but is sung this time around by Jimmy's son James.
"The Webb Brothers'
songs include Hollow Victory, an anti-war song that James and Christiaan wrote
shortly after the U.S. invaded Iraq; Bad Things Happen To Good People, a bouncy
pop number written and sung by Justin; the country-tinged Old Tin Can, written
by the brothers and sung by Christiaan; and Mercury's In Retrograde, written by
Christiaan and Justin and sung by James.
"Cornelius Webb plays
bass throughout the record. On drums is Cornelius' best friend Cal Campbell -
son of Glen. Jimmy's father, Bob Webb, not only sings on Cottonwood Farm but
also takes lead vocals on the album-closing 1940s standard Red Sails In The
Sunset."
DEATH & KRIS
Kris Kristofferson
"Closer To The Bone" produced by Don Was returns to his current
themes of love, separation, loss, and mortality. The subject matter ranges from
the musician's family ("From Here to Forever", "The
Wonder") to Kristofferson's late friend Johnny Cash ("Good Morning
John"). Kristofferson says of the new album, "I like the intimacy of
the new album. It has a general mood of reflecting on where we all are at this
end of life." Songs on it are dedicated to or about friends who have died
including musician Stephen Bruton, Johnny Cash and Eddie Rabbit's son Timmy who
died following an unsuccessful liver transplant. It's due Sept 29. The deluxe
edition includes a bonus CD Live From The Olympia Theatre (Dublin, Ireland
3/21/08) and poster. A selection of 8 songs recorded live on the second night
of a 3 night, sold-out stand at the legendary concert hall.
THE AMERICAN IN WILLIE
Every now and then, Willie
Nelson will reinvent himself. On American Classic, he's Rod Stewart
interpreting Willie Nelson doing standards. Norah Jones chimes in on Baby It's
Cold Outside and Diana Krall croons along on If I Had You. Due August 25. It
should be mentioned another version of Always On My Mind is included.
COMPLETE SUPREMES & FOUR TOPS DUETS
It's the '70s and The
Supremes are with new lead singer Jean Terrell. Motown teams the trio with
their other all-male group, The Four Tops. On August 14, Hip-o Select releases
The Supremes & The Four Tops "Magnificent: The Complete Studio
Duets". All three collaboration albums are included on this new 2CD set.
But that's not all. The Supremes and Tops recorded enough for a fourth album -
11 tracks of high-quality Motown magic that also are included in this
collection. Magnificent: The Complete Studio Duets also includes a beautiful 28
page booklet stuffed with rare photos, an essay by Mark Bego with personal
reminiscences from the groups and detailed annotations.
TULL AT MSG
Jethro Tull - 'Madison Square
Gardens' (CD/DVD) is a 1978 concert. Jethro Tull became the first rock group to
appear live from America on British TV. The performance was part of a US tour
to support the release of the group's first full-length concert album, double
LP "Live - Bursting Out". Featuring audio and video of many of their
most popular tracks, such as Aqualung, Song From The Wood, Thick as a Brick,
Heavy Horses and more. The DVD will be in Dolby 5.1 surround. Due Sept 21 for
£12.99.
HAWKWIND TAKE OFF
Hawkwind - 'Levitation' (3CD
Expanded Ltd) is a new release with all newly remixes from the original 24
track master tapes. Features unreleased tracks, three postcards and a fully replicated 1980 tour
programme. Recorded in 1980 and featuring Ginger Baker. Although Baker's tenure
with Hawkwind was brief, a concert at Lewisham Odeon in December 1980 was
recorded by a mobile unit. Now remixed from the original multi-track masters
this deluxe edition includes the entire concert (during which Sci Fi author
Michael Moorcock guested) on 2 CDs." This edition is limited to 3,000
units and will then be reduced to just a single CD release later. Due September
28 for £18.99.
QUICKSILVER AT THE QUARTER NOTE
Quicksilver Messenger Service
- 'Live at the Quarter Note Lounge, New Orleans, LA, July 1977' (2CD) continues
the archival series from the legendary American band. "Recorded in July
1977, the line up features Dino Valenti and Gary Duncan and includes 'Who Do
You Love' and 'Mona' alongside lesser known songs Bittersweet Love and Cowboy
On The Run from the bands reunion album Solid Silver" Released September
14th. for £15.99
JOHN DENVER LIVE ON DVD
John Denver - 'Around The
World Live' (5DVD) contains performances from Australia 1977, Japan 1981,
England 1986, Japan 1984, Farm Aid 1985, 1987 and 1990, plus two documentaries
and much bonus material. Due October for £24.99. Not a bad collection as it
includes a performance from the '70s, his prime years.
LITTLE SAINT NICK, AGAIN
The Beach Boys are releasing
yet another Christmas album, "Christmas Harmonies", due August 25.
What looks rehashed is the medley of Child Of Winter with Here Comes Santa
Claus. There's also an alternate take of Auld Lang Syne, if you really need
one.
THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE
Peter Wyngarde - When Sex
Leers Its Inquisitive Head is on the archive label RPM. Wyngarde was an actor
in swinging London in the '60s and had a smash TV series where he starred as
sleuth/crime-writing sex monster Jason King.
"When it came to the
obligatory spin-off album however, nothing you'd heard before could possibly
have prepared you for Wyngarde's 1970 vinyl love-letter. A collection of
contemporary standards it most certainly was not. The album included songs
which exploded into rampant rages of male sexuality, couched in an aesthetic
abandon that set off alarm bells even in those permissive times.
"The record's
outrageousness often overwhelms what would still be one of the more bizarre
episodes in popular music. The listener is unlikely to forget Hippie And The
Skinhead, where Wyngarde reads out a letter written to 'The Times' by two Home
Counties skinhead girls, or the tale of Billy the Queer, Pilly Sexy Hippie,
sung over an incongruous Nashville backing. And there's even something for
discerning lovers of late '60s English rock as he takes on the Attack's Neville
Thumbcatch, written by Vic Smith. This is now a very welcome repress for this
post-modernist classic and the glorious package includes an interview with
Peter, original artwork and an abundance of groovy pics." Due Sept 7 for
£8.99. Includes the song "Rape".
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The Wright 1 label has
released Pink Floyd's Mother's Secrets, a one-disc title with
a previously uncirculated soundboard recording. That is if you don't
already own the fan-made title Careful With These Tracks (Yellow Cow). This
58-minute tape contains five tracks recorded at the Manchester College of
Commerce on May 2, 1969 and at Mother's in Birmingham on April 27,
1969. They ended up on the official release Ummagumma.
Strangely, the write up found
at collectors music reviews states that " 'Interstellar Overdrive' is
pulled from the official release for completeness". According to Yellow
Cow, Interstellar Overdrive is the live version left off Ummagumma and is now
restored on the new bootleg. A de-glitched version of the Yellow Cow copy was
done by fan "darkcycle" and has since circulated as the best version
to get.
But if you want a silver disc
version, Wright 1 has packaged theirs in a cardboard gatefold sleeve with lots
of nice pictures. One point to note: All circulating versions are MP3s. No
lossless version has yet to emerge.
+ + + + + David Sylvian will release
"Manafon," September 14. David has described the new album as,
"a completely modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive,
democratic, economical." According to sources, there are no percussionists
on the new album. The basic arrangement is improvised backdrop with spare
overdubs supporting Sylvian's singing. Lyrical themes concern the loss of
faith, life as a quixotic and isolated individual, and creativity.
"Manafon" will be available in two editions. A regular CD/digipak
edition and a twin volume deluxe edition with CD and DVD featuring the film
'Amplified Gesture'. The album will be released on Sylvian's Samadhisound
label.
SPECIAL BEE GEES BOX TO SPOTLIGHT ALL
For their 50th anniversary, the
remaining two Bee Gees will release Mythology, a four-disc set with one disc
each for Barry, Robin, Maurice and youngest brother Andy, who was never a full
member of the group. The discs will contain their best songs plus some
unreleased works. For those on a budget, a new 2CD best of, The Ultimate Bee
Gees: The 50th Anniversary Collection, will contain the usual hits plus their
performances of songs they wrote for others. A deluxe edition includes a DVD of
previously unreleased footage. Both sets will be released November 3.
CARPENTERS GET OVERHAUL IN JAPAN
Universal in Japan will release
the entire Carpenters catalog including the exclusive to Japan album, Live In
Japan, on the SHM-CD format. SHM-CD is a fully-compatible format for any CD
player. It is made of a super-hard substance that apparently reflects sound
better. The Live In Japan set debuts Aug 26. All albums were come in
vinyl-replica paper sleeves. The albums are Offering, Close To You, Carpenters,
A Song For You, Now & Then,
Live In Japan, Horizon, A Kind Of Hush, Live in London, Passage, Made In
America, Voice Of The Heart, Lovelines, Christmas Portrait and Old Fashioned
Christmas.
Richard Carpenter has been
hoovering between Japan and California and was in Japan recently to
"accompany" Karen for Japan TV. She was transmitted on a large
screen.
FOREIGNER INVASION UNABATED
Foreigner are set to release a
3-CD set of new music, remixed hits and live performances. Entitled Can't Slow
Down, the album will be available on September 29 via Rhino Entertainment. The
album features 13 new songs produced by Marti Frederiksen and Mark Ronson, the
title track a nod to NASCAR and the band's appearance at this year's Samsung
500 in Texas.
The second disc remixes
Foreigner classics such as 'Double Vision', 'Cold As Ice', 'Urgent', 'Hot
Blooded' and 'I Wanna Know What Love Is'. The third disc is a DVD which culls
performances of hits in 5.1 surround sound, plus footage from Foreigner's
current European tour. To be sold only in Walmart for US$12. The band launches
its US tour July 30th in Morristown, N.J.
BROWN DISC FOR SEPTEMBER
Ex-Stone Roses' singer Ian Brown
will release his new album, My Way, on Sept 28, the singer announced. Despite
the title, Brown says he was inspired by Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Apparently, the final day of mixing took place when Jackson died on June 25.
The first single is Stellify, due Sept 21.
THE REAL DEAL
A while ago, we wrote "Mike
Felten owns a record store somewhere in middle America. He also has something
most folks have long since given up on - a conscience." Apart from running
a record store, Felten is also a musician. He has two albums out - Landfill (2003)
and Tossin' It Away (2007) - and he is on the road and trying to finish up his
third album. Visit mikefelten.com for updates, or better still order his albums
here:
WALKER AND THE RAIN
"Gary Walker was the
drummer in the legendary Walker Brothers and this is his debut, Gary Walker And
The Rain - 'Album No. 1'." It remains his only solo album, originally
released in 1968 and only in Japan. "The least-likely-to Walker Brother
cut this hard-hitting, Who-inspired, pop psych album with an excellent,
hand-picked band and is purportedly the first to ever be recorded in '3D'. This
is the first time it has been officially out on CD, and includes the extremely
rare single Gary's Theme as a bonus." Due July 27.
ELECTRONICA
So how many readers have this in
the strictly limited edition 50CD boxset? We refer to Klaus Schulze's La Vie
Electronique, a mindblowing collection in chronological order. For the ordinary
people, Schulze has now put out the set as manageable 3CD sets. We are now at
set 3 and 4. 'La Vie Electronique 3' (3CD) includes material recorded live in
1975 while 'La Vie Electronique 4' (3CD) includes material recorded live in 1975 and 1976. Due August 10.
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KEEPIN' THE CUSTOMERS SATISFIED
Finally, bootleggers deliver
Simon & Garfunkel Perfect Moment, a two disc set of the Tokyo Dome
show in Japan on July 10, 2009. The bootleggers have been badly
beaten to the punch here. Both the July 10 and 11 shows appeared on torrent
sites a few days after the gigs. All audience.
OH GOD, YOU TOO?
Godfather has three U2 titles
coming out from their most recent European tour. In The Capital Of Surrealism
(GR 403/404) covers the tour opener in Barcelona on June 30. The Other Side Of
Silence (GR 405/406) has the July 7 show, the first in Milan. Shout For
Joy (GR 407/408) has the second Milan show the following night. All audience
recordings.
BOXFUL OF ROD'S
The Rod Stewart Sessions
1971-1998 will offer 63 tracks across four CDs with 26 of them new while the
remainder are alternate takes of songs he recorded.
Here are some tracks to be
included: "(T)he set opens with a decidedly rough take of 'Maggie May',
that broke him as a solo artist in 1971. SESSIONS offers alternate versions of
well-known hits from that era such as 'Sailing', 'Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be
Alright)', 'You Wear It Well', and an acoustic version of 'You're In My Heart
(The Final Acclaim)'.
"Alongside those are
rarities like the unfinished 'Think I'll Pack My Bags' (which later appeared on
Ron Wood's solo debut rewritten as 'Mystifies Me'), an early version of 'So
Tired' that finds the band working out the arrangement in the studio, and an
acoustic version of the B-side 'Rosie'.
"Of special note is the
rumored-to-exist but never heard-until now-sequel to 'The Killing of Georgie';
'Innocent (The Killing of Georgie Part III)' completes the epic narrative begun
on 1976's A Night On The Town."
From 1980's Foolish Behaviour
album, intended to be a double, are several goodies. An early version of the
album track "Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight" plus four unreleased
tracks presumably destined for the never released second disc - "Time Of
My Life," "TV Mama," "Stupid," and Buddy Holly's
"Maybe Baby."
While the multitracks for
Tonight I'm Yours (1981) have gone missing, the producers managed to recover an
unreleased song called "Thunderbird" from the session's only
surviving mixdown tape.
The final disc is dedicated to
Stewart's resurgence as an artistic and commercial force in the '90s. It begins
with six songs recorded in the summer of 1992 that were shelved in favor of
Unplugged… And Seated, including a cover of Bob Dylan and The Band's "This
Wheel's On Fire," and an all-star remake of the 1969 Python Lee Jackson
song (originally also sung by Rod) "In A Broken Dream," which
features Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. Also
included is Stewart's cover of Bobby Womack's "Looking For A Love,"
which was surprisingly left off A Spanner In The Works (1995) and a version of
Oasis' "Rockin' Chair" that he recorded for When We Were The New Boys
(1998). Due September 29 on Rhino.
GENESIS LIVE
Following the reissue of the
recent Genesis studio albums, EMI will release Genesis Live 1973-2007, an
8CD + 3DVD box-set gathering the four live albums recorded from 1973 to 1992.
The box set also includes the long-awaited release in stereo and 5.1 of Live At
The Rainbow 1973 only available with this collection. Other albums upgraded to
5.1 include Genesis Live with five bonus tracks from 1975, Seconds Out, Three
Sides Live and The Way We Walk. Due Sept 14 for £84.99.
STING'S FIRST CHRISTMAS
Sting will release a new album,
If On A Winter's Night..., on October 27. The record is a collection of
interpretations of traditional and classic tunes, along with two of Sting's own
compositions. It will be released through Deutsche Grammophon. According to the
publicity blurb it will include "carols and lullabies from the British Isles".
"The theme of winter is rich in inspiration and material," Sting said
in a statement. "By filtering all of these disparate styles into one album
I hope we have created something refreshing and new." Eeeeeyew.
ALL SMOKEY
Motown legend Smokey Robinson
unleashes a new album of original material featuring guests Carlos Santana,
Joss Stone and India.Arie. Beautiful retro artwork by Shepard Fairey's Studio
Number One. Due Aug 25. Smokey must be hoping to pull off a Santana
Supernatural. All the best.
ON YOUR MARK, GET LUCKY
Mark Knopfler has a forth-coming
album, Get Lucky, due Sept 15. New songs include Hard Shoulder You Can't Beat
The House, Before Gas & TV, Cleaning My Gun and Piper To The End. What was
he smoking?
Here's the cool cover of A
Solitary Man: The Early Songs Of Neil Diamond" (Ace UK) featuring 24 songs
of Neil Diamond as covered by The Monkees, Cliff Richard, Deep Purple, Sadina,
Jan Tanzy, the Solitaires, Jay & the Americans, Jimmy Clanton, Billy Fury,
Marcie Blane, Ronnie Dove and the Rocky Fellers among others. Few artists ever
recorded better versions of Neil Diamond's compositions than Arthur Alexander,
Lulu, BJ Thomas, the Wanderer's Rest or Bobby Womack. Due Aug 31 in the UK.
+ + + + + HERE THEY COME
ICONOCLASSIC'S MOTHER'S SPIRITUAL
Laura Nyro's Mother's Spiritual
from 1984 will be reissued in the US with a bonus track. Due June 23. The album
was a return to previous themes of individual politics, nature and the
environment and feminist themes.
As Nyro biographer Michele Kort
(author of Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro) comments in her
new and typically incisive liner notes, "When Laura Nyro released Mother's
Spiritual on Columbia Records in 1984, she certainly wasn't tapping into the
mainstream musical zeitgeist. It was a good year for women in pop music, but
those women were named Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner and Madonna, and they were singing
about girls who just wanted to have fun.
"Nyro was no longer a girl,
but a grown-up woman - a mother, a lover and, literally, a tree hugger.
Motherhood pushed Nyro further into feminism, but it was a goddess-conscious
ecofeminism, intimately close to nature. She drew lyrical imagery from the green
environment now, in stark contrast to the urban dramas she played out in her
extraordinary early albums. She also had new love to inspire her, this time in
the form of a woman. The 14-cut album was a huge departure from the angsty,
intense music of her early career, but repeated attention revealed the depth
and richness of her new vision of both life and music. The melodies and singing
are gorgeous, the playing unobtrusively right." Nyro passed away in 1997.
This edition is mastered by Vic
Anesini and contains one bonus track, the live
"Man In The Moon" sports an alternate lyric and different melodic
development. The tracklist including the bonus track is the same as a recent
Japanese cardboard LP replica reissue. It is unknown if both share the same
digital remastering.
For $ingaporeans, take note
Track 2 is The Right To Vote. Few $ingaporeans have ever voted in $heep City as
there are many walkovers for lack of opposition candidates.
DUSTBOWL BALLADS FROM WOODY
There's a brand new Woody
Guthrie boxset coming from Rounder Records, August 25. It will be the first in
the Woody Guthrie Legacy Series and called My Dusty Road. The original metal
masters for these songs, recorded in the mid 1940s by Herbert Harris and Moses
Asch, had languished for years in the Brooklyn basement of an elderly woman,
stacked in cardboard barrels.
When Guthrie's daughter, Nora,
heard them for the first time she said, "Wow. Just the fact that I could
hear the music so clearly was 'wow' enough! But then, this soft flow of old
feelings followed, as I heard my father's voice start to fill the room, and I
absolutely remembered it, and then he was right there with me... These
recordings are treasures."
The mastering engineer for this
project is Doug Pomeroy. The set includes 54 songs on 4 compact discs,
including 6 previously unreleased tracks as well as Guthrie's "hits"
such as This Land is Your Land, Going Down the Road (I Ain't Gonna Be Treated
This Way), Talking Sailor, Hard Travelin, The Sinking Of The Reuben James and
Pretty Boy Floyd.
The set is to get the deluxe
treatment. It will come with a 68-page full color book, written by Guthrie
historian Ed Cray and Rounder's Bill Nowlin. Also included are facsimiles of
Guthrie's business card, a postcard sent from Florida to his wife and a booking
card from the 1940s. The entire package, with thematically-organized discs in separate sleeves, comes in a durable replica of a 1940s-style vintage
suitcase, complete with handles and latches.
TORTOISE BEACONS
Sixth album from the cult Chicago
post-rockers, Tortoise, is Beacons Of Ancestorship. "A much harder-edged
record than its predecessor, it throws dense, heavily overdriven synths into
the mix on many tracks, giving a danceable electro edge to the band's unique
and patented blend of rock, jazz and avant-garde tropes." Due June 22.
JASON REMEMBERS
Jason Molina's
16th full-length with Secretly Canadian, and Magnolia Electric Co.'s fifth
full-length. "Josephine" is a concept album that pays tribute to the life and
spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell. It contains some of the strongest songs
Molina has written. He's approached the universal loneliness before, but never
in such a focused, directed manner. Due July 21.
SUN BOYS
Brian Molko's Placebo have a new album, Battle For The Sun, due June 8. Molko
said: "I believe 'Battle' to be the first of our albums to tell a story
over the course of its 52 minutes. Our previous releases were really only
collections of songs and even though the songs are ordered according to the
musical flow, I hope that if you listen hard enough to the words that some kind
of discernible thematic unity will begin to emerge." Heavy. And the first
track is... Kitty Litter.
DUST IS DUST
Jay Farrar's
Son Volt return with American Central Dust on Rounder Records, due July 7. There's nothing central or
unique about dust. But the new album is a return to its roots of tunes and
hooks.
PSYCH-OUT WITH KASABIAN
"Kasabian have always had
an electronic element to their sounds, but their tongue-twisting third album,
'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum', showcases this part of their sound, with
one track being described as sounding like 'Daft Punk and The Clash together'.
The album is also more psychedelic than previous efforts. Must be dad's record
collection. The deluxe edition has a CD/DVD with a live concert. Due June 8.
BRAND NEW DINOSAUR JR
"Brand new album from the
original, lineup of Dinosaur Jr - J.Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph - comes Farm.
It encompasses Dinosaur Jr's signature palette - soaring and distorted guitar,
unshakable hooks, honey-rich melodies, with songs that get into your head and,
bouncing around happily, stay there." Due June 22.
STUART NEEDS HELP
"God Help The Girl includes
Stuart Murdoch's discovery Catherine Ireton, Asya of Smoosh, Neil Hannon of The
Divine Comedy, the other members of Belle & Sebastian and a 45-piece orchestra
conducted by 'Withnail & I' composer Rick Wentworth. Murdoch is mainman of
Belle & Sebastian. The album will be released on CD and LP, and also a
special edition hardback book-style limited edition CD (limited to 5000
copies). Due June 22.
TOMMY'S SUPERSTAR VERSION
The Who's Tommy had a remarkable superstar rendering back in the early '70s. Involved in
the project were the London Symphony Orchestra providing backup for Rod
Stewart, Richie Havens, Maggie Bell, Steve Winwood, Ringo Starr, Richard Harris,
Sandy Denny and The Who. Now Repertoire Records are preparing a fresh reissue
with all the elements that came with the original LP release [see picture]. It
will come with a slip case, the 32-page full color
booklet, and a fresh remaster. The old Rhino CD has long been out-of-print.
TIM BUCKLEY LIVE
Tim Buckley - 'Live at the
Folklore Center, NYC - March 6th, 1967' is a new album due August 25. It was a
performance in front of 35 fans and recorded by Izzy Young, a folk impresario.
Featuring mostly tracks off Buckley's 1966 self-titled debut and his 1967
follow-up Goodbye and Hello, the live recording also contains six Buckley
compositions that have never before been released on any studio or live album:
"Just Please Leave Me," "What Do You Do (He Never Saw
You)," "If The Rain Comes," "Cripples Cry,"
"Country Boy" and "I Can't Leave You Loving Me."" The
album was produced for release by Tompkins Square label's Josh Rosenthal in
cooperation with Buckley's Estate, and mastered from the original tapes by Grammy-winning
engineers Steve Rosenthal, Warren Russell-Smith and Jamie Howarth.
ROD STEWART'S SOUL BOOK?
Rod Stewart is rumoured to be
working on a soul album. Steve Tyrell, who produced Songbook IV, is involved in
some of the songs including "Only the Strong Survive" (a Jerry Butler
song) and "You Make Me Feel Brand New" originally by the Stylistics.
WONDER WOMAN SINGS
Lynda Carter, 57, the former
actress of Wonder Woman has a new album, At Last, due soon. No tracks have been
listed as yet. Stay tuned.
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SO BADFINGER
Badfinger's For Petes Sake -
1968-1975 Demos, Outtakes And Rarities [2CD Baby Hester] is a 2CD set that
compiles some of the best uncirculating or hard-to-find Badfinger demos and
studio outtakes. Highlights include a 'new' version of Coppertone Blues, the
speed-corrected demo of Without You, the first appearance on CD of an alternate
'piano version' of Do You Mind and rough mixes of tracks from their Apple era.
CD2 has the original mix of the 1974 Head First album taken from a cassette
belonging to Mike Gibbins in the late '90s. These '74 mixes are different from
the Snapper release from 2000 and are said to be a "major upgrade".
NICE, NICE
The Nice's Fillmore West 1969
(Virtuoso 069) is a one-disc set with the December 12, 1969 show in San
Francisco when they opened for King Crimson.
DIGGING IN
Pink Floyd's Nassau 1975 Day 2
(Sigma 43) is a three-disc set of the June 17, 1975 show from the Nassau
Coliseum. This show has been around. It's an audience recording generally
traded as Ex-. HOT BEASTIES
When they're not re-releasing
classics and near-classics, the Beastie Boys are trying to come up with a new
record that could possibly be re-released as a classic 20 years from now. The
new album is called Hot Sauce Committee and is tentatively due in September.
SCARLET & PETE GO WITH THE WIND
Scarlett Johansson and Pete
Yorn are set to release an album of duets, 'Break Up', September 8. The album
features eight original songs plus a cover of former Big Star man Chris Bell's
1978 song 'I Am The Cosmos'. The themed album is about an affair that
"breaks up".
MARY NOW AND THEN
Mary Hopkin is releasing,
through her Mary Hopkin Music website, a 14 track collection of songs recorded
between 1970 and 1988, Now And Then. These are all previously unreleased
tracks, and were produced by Tony Visconti. Mary's daughter Jessica Morgan, who
runs the site and helps put togther these collections, has mentioned a box set
that is in the works and will likely be released next year. Visit the Hopkin
site for updates.
SUPERGROUP CHICKENFOOT?
"Chickenfoot are a true
supergroup, comprising of two ex-members of Van Halen, including singer Sammy
Hagar; guitarist Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. A
high energy rock band, the sound of their debut album is reminiscent of Led
Zeppelin at their heaviest, and vocalist Hagar claims that Chickenfoot could
even rival Zeppelin!!" The self-titled album will
be released June 8.
WHISKEY, GROOGRUX & DAVE
Dave Matthews Band's
"Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King" (RCA deluxe edition comes with a
DVD) is due June 2. The new DMB album was produced by Rob
Cavallo. A number of songs have been played live since the summer of
2007, including "Round and Round," "Cornbread,"
"#27" and "Falling Off the Roof".
COPE'S BLACK SHEEP
Black Sheep's 'Kiss My Sweet
Apocalypse' (2CD/2LP) "....is the debut double-LP
and 2CD set from Julian Cope's brand new free action group Black Sheep, a nine
or ten piece ensemble of outsider reprobates whose spirited performances upon
massed orchestral percussion, Mellotron 400s and acoustic guitars summon dead
ancestors and memories of times past in an effort to achieve total psychic
Meltdown." Comes clothed in Anarchist red-and-black replete with a
delightful Black Sheep calendar. The LP is 180 gram heavy vinyl packaged in
gatefold sleeve and CD in a deluxe digi pack with a 28 page booklet. Due June 29.
HUNTER GOES OVERBOARD
Ian Hunter's Man Overboard
will be released on July 21, 2009, and is his 13th solo album. Recorded in late
2008 in Pawling, NY. Man Overboard was produced by Andy York (veteran guitarist
for John Mellencamp) and Ian Hunter and features a backing band of Steve Holley
on drums and percussion (Wings, Joe Cocker), Paul Page on bass (Dion), Jack
Petruzzelli on electric guitar (Rufus Wainwright, Joan Osbourne), James Mastro
on electric guitar (Patti Smith, John Cale), Andy Burton on piano and organ
(The Db's) and Producer Andy York on guitar and backing vocals. More info at
http://www.ianhunter.com
SKYNYRD'S GOD & GUNS
Lynyrd Skynyrd's next album
God & Guns will be released on September 29. The new album features 13 tracks was recorded in Nashville. The first single from the
album, 'Still Unbroken', will be shipping to rock radio in July. Lynyrd Skynyrd
will be co-headlining the Rock Rebels Tour this summer across the US with their
good friend Kid Rock.
NEW BUFFY
Buffy Sainte-Marie's 'Running
For The Drum' (CD/DVD) "is a new limited edition package with both the
brand new album and the documentary DVD "A Multimedia Life"."
'Running For The Drum' contains 12 new inspired songs
and stories about current events, art, politics and the aboriginal people.
"Buffy Sainte-Marie: A MultiMedia Life" is her extraordinary life
story from her early days bursting onto the Greenwich Village folk scene in the
60's." Due July 6. Worth it for the DVD.
RICK DANKO LIVE
Rick Danko & Richard
Manuel's 'Live in Scranton, PA Dec 1985' features both ex-The Band members
captured during the late performance at O'Tooles Bar in Scranton PA on December
12, 1985. Includes Band classics, Unfaithful Servant,King Harvest, and Chest Fever. Recorded less than three months before the sad and
untimely death of Richard Manuel. Also due is Rick Danko - 'Washington DC Dec
1987' (2CD). A 28 track 2CD live set from 1987. Both released July 20 on the
Bear label.
MSG & UFO OFFICIAL BOOTLEGS
Michael Schenker Group - Walk
The Stage: Official Bootleg Box Set (4 CD + 1 DVD), due June 22, will include
the following shows:
CD 1 - Live At The
Hammersmith Odeon 1980
DVD - Live At The Hammersmith
Odeon 1983 (2008 Digital Remaster)
The UFO - Official Bootleg
Box Set (6 CD), due in July, will include these shows:
CD 1 - Live At Record Plant,
NYC
METHENY-BURTON QUARTET
Gary Burton
& Pat Metheny with Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez, the "Quartet Live". "A revisited edition of the classic Gary
Burton Quartet. The album features three original members and jazz legends
Burton, Pat Metheny and Steve Swallow along with one new member, and perhaps one
of the most prominent drummers of his generation, Antonio Sanchez. The 11-song album was recorded live at
Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland." Due June 8.
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FROM GODFATHER
Bob Dylan's Return To Me, Bella Mia (GR 380/381) is a two disc set with the April 18,
2009 Florence, Italy show with bonus tracks from the April 17 Rome
show. Bruce Springsteen's Got To Be Good (GR 387/388/389) is a three disc
set with the April 26, 2009 Atlanta show with bonus tracks from the two
Philadelphia shows. This also contains a four page booklet with detailed liner notes. Great packaging as
usual from Godfather.
STRAIGHT FROM TELEVISION
On DVD is Iron Maiden's Ed
Force One Route To Chile (AS 171) with the pro-shot footage from the March 9,
2009 Santiago show. It saves you money if you have a email pal in Chile.
CLASSIC ROCK
Pink Floyd's The Sixth German
Show (GR 382/383) is the silver debut of the February 18, 1981 Dortmund Wall
show. Led Zeppelin's Adelaide Revival (GR 384/385) is a two
disc set with the February 18th, 1972 Adelaide show from Zeppelin's only
tour of Australia. Godfather have a very
inclusive release schedule of classic rock and new shows.
TAYLOR MADE
Mick Taylor's Tokyo 2009 is a
five disc set with the April 20 and 21, 2009 shows. This is a no-label release limited to only 50 numbered
copies. Super exclusive.
STONES KEEP ON ROLLIN'
The SODD label issued two
interesting Rolling Stones titles. Philadelphia (Dress Rehearsal) Special 1 is
a three disc set with the rehearsals for the August 28, 1989 JFK Stadium
concert and Philadelphia (Dress Rehearsal) Special 2 is a two disc set with the
rehearsals before the August 29 show.
QUEEN'S MIRACLE
Tarantura issued Queen's The
Miracle Game featuring a brand new Mr. Peach recording of the February 16, 1981
concert, one of the rare times they played "Vulcan's Theme" live. + + + + + JESUS CHRIST
"PLACEBO" SUPERSTAR
The star treatment is bestowed on UK band Placebo who have a new
album, Battle For The Sun, due June 8. "Placebo's sixth record, and their
first full studio album with new drummer Steve Forrest is heavier than more
recent efforts, and recalls the band's original harder sound. However, there
are more complex string arrangements, as well as trumpets and saxophones,
showing the band is still growing musically and expanding their sound."
Along with the new release is a UK limited edition 10-disc
[8CD/2DVD] boxset comprising all 6 of Placebo's studio albums ['Placebo',
'Without You I'm Nothing', 'Black Market Music', 'Sleeping With Ghosts',
'Meds'], the 'Covers' album on which they cover classic hits by Kate Bush, The
Smiths, T-Rex, Depeche Mode, Boney M, Sinead O'Connor among others; a plethora
of b-sides and live recordings; plus the 'Once More With Feeling' and 'Sleeping
With Ghosts' DVDs. Each disc is presented in a matt laminated digipak picture
sleeve with individual booklets, and comes housed in a spot-varnished lift-off
lid box. Are Placebo a superstar band or not?
KLAUS & LISA SAY
'DZIEKUJE BARDZO'
Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard's 'Dziekuje Bardzo' (3CD Live)
"not only contains the concert in Warsaw from November 13, 2008, but also
a complete concert which was recorded the day before in the Schiller's Theatre
in Berlin. As always with Klaus Schulze, exclusive new pieces were played in
both concerts, Lisa Gerrard is to be heard on the tracks 'Bazylika NSJ', 'Godspell',
'Ocean Of Innocence' and 'Spanish Ballerina' as a singer, 'Shoreless One' and
'Shoreless Two' are two long Klaus Schulze-solo pieces with breathtaking solos
on the Mini-Moog".
The other 'Dziekuje Bardzo' release is a DVD. "The DVD
is published in an elegant slipcase and contains the 30-minute documentation
"In The Moog For Love" with a detailed interview with Lisa Gerrard in
addition to the concert, directed by James L. Frachon." Both are released
June 1.
NAKED BARENAKED LADIES -
THE MP3 ALBUM
What do Barenaked Ladies sound like without their singer Steve
Page? Find out on their MP3 only double live album Barenaked Ladies' Live At
Universal Studios March 7, 2009. On sale at all good digital outlets now. This
was their first show without founding member Steve Page. Kevin Hearns covers
for most of the absent Page's parts. Expect to see more exclusive MP3 only
albums.
TROWER SINGS FOR YOU
Robin Trower's What Lies Beneath, due July 14, 2009 and
distributed on V-12 Records, will feature the axeman playing and singing for
you. While Trower has acknowledged Jimi Hendrix as an inspiration, we are not
sure he has the golden throat to sing.
THIS IS TOM JONES, THIS IS
'This is Tom Jones: What's New Pussycat' is a brand new DVD
featuring performances by: Tom Jones, Bee Gees, John Denver, Mama Cass Elliot,
Sergio Mendes, Lynn Redgrave, George Carlin, Tim Conway and more. All are from
his own weekly musical variety show, This is Tom Jones, a hip, high-energy hour
of entertainment that ran on ABC from 1969 to 1971. These episodes have never
before been out on video. Re-mixed and re-mastered for pristine sound. Can't
say the same for the picture. Released June 1.
BY THE TIME WE GOT TO
WOODSTOCK, IT WAS REMASTERED
Two 40th Anniversary, 2CD reissues remastered from the
original analogue soundboard tapes recorded at the historic 1969 concert. Both
Woodstock and Woodstock 2 reissues preserve the running order featured on
original LP sets, opening with John Sebastian's 'I Had A Dream'. Deluxe
booklets features rare photos and new liner notes by Gene Sculatti. Due June 1.
WASN'T BORN SAGITTARIUS
Sagittarius' 'Present Tense' is to be reissued by Revola in the
UK. This is "an album with possibly the most beautiful soundscapes ever
committed to tape, the sound of universal love! Virtually a collaboration
between Gary Usher and Curt Boettcher, both in their own right near-geniuses of
pop-psych the album also features a plethora of stars and strange bedfellows,
from The Firesign Theatre to The Millennium, from Glen Campbell to The Wrecking
Crew, from Beach Boy Bruce Johnston to future Bread man Jimmy Griffin."
This is the remastered version of the original 1968 release, the CD also
features a whole raft of single mixes. Due June 29.
LEO SAYER DON'T MIND
Leo Sayer's "Endless Flight" will be remastered and
released by Friday Music on May 19. The 1976 album featured his big hit You
Make Me Feel Like Dancing. In 2002, RPM released the same album but with bonus
tracks. Go with RPM.
BEAT IT
Three massive DVD Volumes, Story Of Beat Club, making up the
entire famed German Rock TV show from 1965 to 1972 will be released in June. A
total of 24 DVDs that span seven years.
'Story of Beatclub Vol.1' (1965 -1968) (8DVD) features:The
Who, The Hollies, The Walker Brothers, Sounds Incorporated, The Moody Blues,
Cream, The Smoke, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Kinks, The Herd, The Troggs,
Chris Farlowe, Dave Davies, The Bee Gees, Cat Stevens and many, many more.
'Story of Beatclub Vol.2' (1968-1970) (8DVD) features: Harry
Nilsson, The Who, The Troggs, Tiny
Tim, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Manfred Mann, Joe Cocker, The Beach Boys, Canned
Heat, Love Sculpture, Fleetwood Mac, Spooky Tooth, Caravan, Keef Harley Band,
Procol Harum, Richie Havens.
'Story of Beatclub Vol.3' (1970-1972) (8DVD) features: Alexis
Korner, Alice Cooper, Amon Düül II, Birth Control, Can, Canned Heat, Captain
Beefheart & His Magic Band, Caravan, Family, Fanny, Fotheringay, Frumpy,
Ginger Baker's Air Force, Grateful Dead, James Taylor, Jeff Beck Group, Patto,
Poco, Popol Vuh, Santana, Stephen Stills, Stone The Crows, Stoneground, T. Rex,
The Byrds, The Doors, The Everly Brothers, The Grease Band, The Incredible
String Band, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage, The Rolling Stones, The Soft
Machine, Yes.
Priced at £89.99 for EACH set. The label is F-Minor.
GREEN ON GREEN
Two Peter Green solo album reissues, 'Little Dreamer' from 1980
features Fairport Convention drummer Dave Mattacks. Green continues in a funky
vein with "Mama Don't You Cry," as if shaking off the cobwebs and
actually trying to pay attention to the current scene. He goes right back to
his roots on the album's third tune with "Born Under a Bad Sign" and
stays with blues derivatives the rest of the way. The album-ending title track
sounds like a seven-minute version of the dreamy Green tune
"Albatross," a hit for Fleetwood Mac in the '60s..." Due May 25.
The second, 'In The Skies' from 1979, comes after almost a decade of
personal, drug-addled hell since his 1970 debut. Although Green shares lead
guitar work with Snowy White, it's clear from his fluid technique and haunting
tone that he can still play. "A Fool No More" is the kind of slow
blues Green excels at. Five of the nine songs are instrumentals. Due July 27.
Info from All Music Guide.
STARFUCKER CENSORED
The recent reissue of The Rolling Stones albums from the '70s
included Goats Head Soup. Apparently a track on that album, Starfucker or Star
Star, has been censored. The offending word has been "smeared" on the
line "I bet you keep your pussy clean". The disc was remastered by
Stephen Marcussen and Steware Whitmore at Marcussen Mastering,Hollywood CA. For
the uncensored version on CD, try the 1994 Virgin edition mastered by Robert
Ludwig.
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OSAKA SOUNDBOARD
New on Zion is Simon And Garfunkel's Eastbound (Zion-022). This
debuts a new soundboard recording for the May 8, 1982 Osaka show which is
already documented by a great sounding audience recording.
EARL OF DYLAN
Bob Dylan's Live In '81 Earl's Court on the Raz label contains a
brand new, excellent quality recording of the June 28, 1981 show which includes
the gospel tracks. While Dylan's Live In '88 is a two-disc set containing
the two soundboards issued earlier this year. Now what's the point of that? DOUBLE THE FLAME
The Flaming Lips are set to release their first-ever "White
Album" ie double album, and it is tentatively scheduled to be released
late this summer, Billboard reports May 12. Speaking about the album, Wayne
Coyne said the decision to make it a double LP was inspired by jam sessions the
band had at drummer Steven Drozd's house. It's going to be "out
there" music. The band have already written 13 tracks for the record,
which is the follow-up to 2006's 'At War with the Mystics', and plan to add a
further eight or nine to the effort. Don't expect another Basement Tapes.
BOWIE'S STORYTELLERS SET FOR CD/DVD
RELEASE
David Bowie's 1999 TV show for VH1's Storytellers is due for a
CD/DVD release July 14. The New York show contains many of Bowie's best songs
done in an almost acoustic setting at Sony Studios.
PAUL SIMON'S LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
HONOR
Paul Simon & Friends - 'Library Of Congress' (DVD) was
"filmed in May 2007 at the Library of Congress in honour of Paul Simon
being the first ever recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular song. Alison
Krauss, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo,
Marc Anthony, Art Garfunkel, Shawn Colvin and a host of others joined Paul
onstage in a multicultural tribute to the music of a great American artist and
a great American art form." Due June 8.
WHITESNAKE REISSUES IN DELUXE FORMAT
Re-releases of Whitesnake's Slip Of The Tongue (20th anniversary)
and Slide It In (25th anniversary) albums are now planned for second week of
June 2009 for a UK release. Both are the combined CD/DVD type now favoured by
EMI and come in nice digipaks.
Slide It In CD has: both US and UK mixes of all tracks plus one
live song (20 tracks total). DVD has: Guilty Of Love, Slow An' Easy, Love Ain't
No Stranger (all promos), Guilty Of Love (Donnington 1983), Love Ain't No
Stranger (Live: Starkers In Tokyo), Give Me More Time (BBC TV Top Of The Pops
19/1/84), Love Ain't No Stranger (Live... In The Still Of The Night).
Slip Of The Tongue CD has: album plus Now You're Gone (US Remix),
Fool For Your Loving (The Vai Voltage Mix), Slip Of The Tongue, Kittens Got
Claws (Live At Donnington 1990) DVD has: Fool For Your Loving, Now You're Gone,
The Deeper The Love (all promos), The Deeper The Love, Sailing Ships (Live:
'Starkers In Tokyo'), Judgement Day (Live... In The Still Of The Night), Slip
Of The Tongue, Kittens Got Claws (Live At Donnington 1990)
TRULY SIMPLE
"'Graffiti Soul' is the fifteenth studio album by Simple
Minds. Recorded at Rockfield Studios where the band recorded three of their
classic albums ('Reel To Reel Cacophony', 'Empires and Dance' and 'New Gold
Dream'), the band try and recapture the raw and edgy feeling of these records
with renewed optimism and a sense of purpose. The special edition of the album
features covers of classic tracks by artists such as Massive Attack, Neil Young
and Magazine." Due May 25. If ever there's a sign of desperation, it's the
inclusion of the "cover versions".
EARLE AT THE BEEB
Steve Earle - 'Live At The BBC' is 17 tracks culled from a 1988 'Town
& Country Club' London appearance and a 1987 Manchester show. Due June 29.
SECOND CHANCE
"In 1969, Cher recorded what would be her only solo album,
'3614 Jackson Highway', to be
released on Atco Records, and what many people feel - especially rock fans -
was the finest album of her career, an 11-track collection of mostly covers
that would be recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama
with the equally legendary Muscle Shoals session players (the album title is
the address of the studio). As they had, six months earlier, with Dusty
Springfield's Dusty in Memphis, producers Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler and Tom
Dowd sought to redefine Cher as a country/soul singer, and the results were
similarly spectacular artistically if not commercially, easily the most
ambitious recording of her long career." Released by Collector's Choice
Music on June 22. If memory serves, the Rhino Handmade version, long
out-of-print, had a bounty of bonus tracks. It was also extremely limited.
FOR HOG NUTS
The Groundhogs' 'Live UK Tour 1976' feature the band live at The
Kings Hall in Derby on September 13, 1976 for a live radio broadcast featuring
over 65 minutes re-mastered direct from the radio station original tape
recordings. Includes previously unreleased live material including tracks from
the 1976 Crosscut Saw album plus favourites from the Split and Solid albums
including 'Cherry Red'. Also comes with a 12 page booklet with rare photos and liner
notes from lead guitarist and vocalist-Tony McPhee who gives a track by track
description." Due June 15.
AH UM AH HUH
Charles Mingus - 'Mingus Ah Um' (2CD 50th Anniversary) contains
'Mingus Ah Um' and its sequel 'Mingus Dynasty', in their entirety plus four
bonus tracks from the sessions and three alternate takes and rare
correspondence, and session records. All of the masters were beautifully
remixed in 24 bit on a vintage Presto all-tube three-track tape machine."
Due May 25.
GETZ SHINES
'Stan Getz At The Shrine' (Live In Los Angeles 1954) is a session
from Los Angeles, California. Featuring a flexible but solid band, these 10
tracks show a lot of musical variety. On this disc, Getz and Brookmeyer play
off of each other wonderfully, creating interesting counterpoints. It almost
sounds as if they are creating a two-part jazz fugue on the final statements of
certain songs." Two bonus tracks are also included here, borrowed from a
concert recorded the following night. Due May 25.
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ZEPPELIN DAY
Tarantura released Led Zeppelin's A Day Before The Hoochie Coochie
Man's B'Day, a two-disc set with the recently surfaced master tape of the
January 8, 1970 Bristol show. It sold out on the day of its release. Probably
the same source as the TCOLZ version.
BIG PINK
Pink Floyd's Assorted Lunatics (Sigma 40) is a six-disc set
covering the March 8 & 9 Osaka and March 10 Kyoto shows in Japan during
their visit in 1972.
JUST ANOTHER NIGHT
Paul McCartney 2nd Night At Dome is a two-disc set featuring the
March 5, 1990 show in Tokyo in what is being described as fantastic sound quality.
Surprised? Nanci Griffith has always had balls. She returns in
June with a new album of nine originals and four covers, The Loving Kind, on
Rounder Records, due June 9.
The title track, emblematic of the album's story songs, refers to
"Loving v. Virginia", the 1967 landmark civil rights case that once
and for all ended the ban on interracial marriages in the U.S. Richard and
Mildred Loving were a married white man and black woman who were forced to
leave their native state of Virginia under threat of arrest because of the
state's Jim Crow law prohibiting marriages between different races.
"I read Mildred Loving's obituary in The New York Times last
year and it just floored me," recalls Griffith. Tragically, Richard died
in a tragic car accident just months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the
couple's favor. "She never remarried and in her last interview, just
before she passed away, she expressed hope that their case would eventually be
the open door to the legalization of same sex marriage."
Another track on the album, "Not Innocent Enough," is
also built around a political and legal controversy, namely the celebrated
death row case of Philip Workman, who was convicted in 1981 of killing a
Memphis police officer. Despite new evidence that proved his innocence, which
he always maintained through his five scheduled execution dates, Workman was
put to death by the State of Tennessee on May 9, 2007. Fellow singer-songwriter
John Prine joins Griffith on this track, backed by a chorus that also includes
tunesmiths Elizabeth Cook and Todd Snider.
"I started writing this song long before Philip was executed,
but just couldn't finish it until that final injustice took place," says
Griffith.
On a more personal note, "Up Against The Rain,"
co-written with her longtime collaborator Charley Stefl, is Griffith's tribute
to her mentor, country-folk singer and poet Townes Van Zandt. But on a broader
level, the song "could be for anyone's hero and with me, I also lost my
dear, beautiful stepfather just before Christmas of last year, and we recorded
the song the day I retuned from his funeral in Austin. So, it's very close to
my heart."
The well-chosen covers include Money Changes Everything, One Of
These Days, Party Girl.
TWO CHEERS FOR ROD MAN
Two classic Rod Stewart albums will be given the deluxe 2CD set
treatment come June 30 when Atlantic Crossing and A Night On The Town are
released. Here's the twist. For a limited time, Warner Bros. will reissue both
albums as two-disc Collector's Editions that contain the original album
remastered with a bonus track and a second disc that contains unreleased takes
of EVERY album track, plus unreleased outtakes. When summer's over, the 2CD
sets will be replaced by a single-disc collection with fewer bonus tracks.
For Atlantic Crossing, along with an alternate version of the
album, the bonus disc also contains an eclectic trio of outtakes: the Bee Gees'
"To Love Somebody," Lee Dorsey's "Holy Cow," and Elvis
Presley's "Return To Sender." It should be noted that Atlantic
Crossing was recorded with Booker T's MGs and for the first time some session
tracks will be released.
The second disc of A Night On The Town features a preliminary
treatment of Lennon/McCartney's "Get Back" for the film All This And
World War II, and two outtakes written by Stewart. The first,
"Rosie," was used as the B-side of "Killing Of Georgie."
The second, "Share," features a gorgeous, understated guitar
arrangement from an unidentified source that sounds suspiciously like Steve
Cropper.
HOWLING BELLS
A special edition of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells is due June 8.
From Your Way To Music.com: "This exciting new version of his 1973
groundbreaking album will not only be repackaged, but Mike himself has also
remastered the tracks from his home in the Bahamas. There will be FOUR physical
editions of the album, as well as TWO digital versions. All versions will carry
a new 2009 stereo mix of the album."
The DELUXE EDITION has a 5.1 mix, while the boxed ULTIMATE
EDITION, complete with 60 page hardback book with a foreword by Mike Oldfield,
poster, plectrums and all manner of Tubular delights, contains all of this as
well as previously unheard demo and rough mixes of this epochal recording. Both
special editions include the 1973 BBC studio performance on a bonus DVD. There
will also be a double-disc edition of the album with a bonus disc of Oldfield's
biggest hits between 1974 and 1983. This edition will be extensively advertised
on TV.There will also be a vinyl release.
To celebrate the release, on June 6 at 6pm (6.6.6pm) a worldwide
bell ringing event will take place. Footage of the bell ringing round the world
will then be shown on Mike's website. Hey Mike, how about a masturbate-a-thon
with the crucifix? That'll guarantee page-views.
"The Smithereens Play Tommy" is the new album by The
Smithereens. Pat DiNizio wrote: "This is our take/interpretation of one of
our favorite albums by one of our favorite bands ever, The Who, in celebration
of the 40th Anniversary of its original release in 1969! We are doing a
one-disc abbreviated "Live At Leeds"-styled version of
"TOMMY"…" Due May 5. It should be out now.
IT'S A LEMONHEAD
Lemonheads' 'Varshons' "is an album of cover versions
produced by Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes with help from Cornershop's
Anthony Saffery. The album features a variety of tracks from GG Allin, Wire,
Leonard Cohen, Christina Aguilera[?!!?] and others. Guest performances include
vocals from actress Liv Tyler on Leonard Cohen's "Hey, That's No Way To
Say Goodbye," and model Kate Moss also guests." Due June 15. Don't
say it sucks, try it first.
SLOW WIND BLOWS
Lightning Seeds' 'Four Winds' is only "their sixth studio
album. Using personal life experiences and reflecting on childhood memories,
Four Winds is a delicate, insightful and honest piece of work. The album
consists of 10 brand new tracks. It's instantly recognisable as 'Lightning
Seeds' - exquisite pop melodies." Due May 18.
BOX OF ROSES
George Jones' 'A Good Year For The Roses' (4CD Bear Family) comes
with a 52-Page LP Sized Book - 131 tracks, and playing time of 341m.
"George Jones' classic Musicor recordings have been out of circulation for
years while a lawsuit was resolved. Jones' Musicor recordings were never issued
systematically or in full until now. The set includes 20 previously unissued
recordings. Includes all-time classic George Jones hits, such as 'When The
Grass Grows Over Me', 'I'll Share My World With You', 'As Long As I Live'. This
is the second part of Bear Family's comprehensive two volume edition of Jones'
complete Musicor recordings, covering all sessions from 1965 until 1971."
Due June 16 for £64.99 and worth every penny.
MANDY MOORE AS AMANDA LEIGH
The height of creativity? To name your album after another person,
is Mandy Moore's [now Mrs Ryan Adams] new album due May 26. Eleven brand new
songs. We like the title "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The
Week".
Renaissance "Live At Carnegie Hall: Deluxe Anniversary
Edition" 2CD remaster of the 1976 album (Friday Music) will finally see an
American release. The date has yet to be scheduled. Complete with original
album graphics and remastering from the original Warner Bros./Sire Records
vault tapes in 2009. Best of all it's on the Friday Music label, so the
mastering should be great.
DANNY'S LIVE ALBUM
Apparently some legal issues in the U.S.A. has stopped the release
of Dan Fogelberg's Live In Colorado 1977. It is still on sale in Europe and the
U.K where it has been on sale since February. All songs are from his first two
albums, except "Next Time," which was on Captured Angel, and Now The
Show Begins. Since the label for this release is unfamiliar to us, The Store
For Music, does anyone know whether this is a grey product?
DERRINGER PULLS INTO CLEVELAND
Rick Derringer's Live In Cleveland has been released March 17 with
little fanfare. "This was originally a promotional album pressed up and
sent to radio stations by Blue Sky (CBS). It features the Derringer band
(Derringer, Danny Johnson, Kenny Aaronson, Vinny Appice) shortly after the
release of their first album and is a totally different performance from the
commercially-released Derringer Live set. While some of the songs are the same,
this one includes a few different ones including a nearly 13-minute 'Rock and
Roll Hoochie Coo' and a cover of Bowie's 'Rebel Rebel'." Out now on
Wounded Bird.
RAY OF HOPE
Ray Charles' "A Message From The People" his 1972 album
remastered for the first time for CD and due on Concord. Release date not fixed
yet. Great moving songs including what is said to be the definitive version of
America The Beautiful. There's also a stirring cover of Wonder's Heaven Help Us
All.
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FROM THE DEEP
New Deep Purple from Darker Than Blue label on the way...
"Live In Germany" 3CD compiles two great audience tapes sourced from
1st Generation reels and capture concerts from Stadthalle in Offenbach on
November 27, 1970 and April 10, 1971.
OLD BOOT
There is also a non-label Jeff Beck 2CD/1DVD set due soon and it's
called "Gets Them All In The End". It contains the FM Broadcast,
Audience recording and proshot/soundboard video of the June 1, 1986 concert at
the Prince Hotel in Kaurizawa, Japan with Santana and Steve Lukather. This show
has been booted before.
IT'S A WENDY
The Wendy Label are releasing Led Zeppelin's two Dallas 1975 shows
as "Zapruder" 3CD with the March 4 soundboard, and "Babusha
Lady" 3CD featuring the March 5 soundboard respectively. Meanwhile,
Tarantura's 2CD "Bristol 1970" is now in distribution.
GODFATHER'S APARTMENT TAPES
Godfather Records have released Bob Dylan's 1967 apartment tapes
as Ramblin' Round Minnesota (Godfather Records GR 363) the Bonnie Beecher
Apartment Tapes, Minneapolis, MN - December 22, 1967. The songs were recorded
in one two-and-half-hour session at Bonnie's apartment. Over the years, only
three of the songs have been officially released. Dylan runs through a series
of covers only four of which, "Man Of Constant Sorrow,"
"Gospel Plow," "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" and "See
That My Grave Is Kept Clean" would appar on his first album. These
tapes appeared on the first bootleg ever, The Great White Wonder. Godfather
have a reputation for making loud CDs.
THE CAT'S BACK
Crystal Cat released two new titles, Neil Young's Big Moon
Over Colmar (CC 915-916) is a two-disc set documenting the August 15, 2008 show
at Le Theatre De Plain Air, Colmar, France. While AC/DC's It Smells
Rock'n'Roll (CC 917-918) has the February 20, 2009 show at The Globe
Arena, Stockholm, Sweden. The crystal feline generally use their own tapes. For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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