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COLLECTING
DUST 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.
BOOTLEG NEWS
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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. "Jarvis Cocker's second solo album, Further Complications, was recorded by legendary engineer Steve Albini, after the two met at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and tried a few songs together. Further Complications is rockier than his earlier solo work and his work with Pulp, which is maybe explained by Albini's presence, although the record also contains a few soul numbers such as Leftovers." Due May 18. SLOW AND STEADY Beacons of Ancestorship is Tortoise's sixth full-length album, and their first release of new material in five years, since 2004's It's All Around You. "Beacons" gives nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut up beats, heavily processed synths, and mournful, elegiac dirges. "We see these ideas working out in compositions like 'High Class Slim Came Floatin' In,' an eight-minute track which playfully references the world of ecstatic rave and dance culture with a curiously ambivalent, multi-part suite overlaid with robotic, machine-sounding melodies that stop and start in several different time signatures before the song's ultimate resolution; and again in 'Yinxianghechengqi,' which begins as a straightforward uptempo math-rocker before steadily accelerating into a wall of fuzzy atonal sqwonk." Due June 23. FEIST & WILCO Feist makes a guest appearance on Wilco's forthcoming album, Wilco, The Album, which is slated for a June release. The Canadian songstress has teamed up with the Chicago rockers on a tune called 'You And I', reports Rolling Stone. Here's the tracklist, according to Billboard: Wilco The Song, Deeper Down, One Wing, Bull Black Nova, You And I [with Feist], You Never Know, Country Disappeared, Solitaire, I'll Fight, Sunny Feeling, Everlasting. DYLAN COVERED BY FELIX Julie Felix's 'Masters of War' features John Paul Jones on mandolin. Masters of War is Julie's stirring interpretations of nine classic Dylan tracks, including 'Mr. Tambourine Man', 'Subterranean Homesick Blues', 'Hard Rain' & 'I Shall Be Released'. Also playing on the album are Kiki Dee, Danny Thompson & the John Renbourne String Quartet. Due May 11. Led Zeppelin played one of their earliest studio sets on the Julie Felix Hour in 1969. SOUTHER COMES ALIVE J.D. Souther - 'If The World Was You' is a live in the studio album supported by a basic quintet of piano, standup bass, drums, saxophone, and trumpet, colored by Souther's guitar and a cameo from Béla Fleck. It's a stark contrast to the slick SoCal studio gloss of his '70s albums. Due May 11. This basic budget album concept seems to be the route taken by quite a few singer songwriters no longer supported by their former record labels. Says a lot about relationships. TRULY DEEP Deep Purple's Live At Inglewood in 1968 was rescued when a fan found a reel of tape thrown away after the band's first US label, Tetragrammaton, closed. On the surviving tape is a recording of the band's opening set at the Forum in Inglewood, Los Angeles, during Cream's farewell US tour. As support act, Deep Purple's set was a little shorter than normal, just about one hour. "Hush is taken much as the album and gives the audience something familiar to latch on to. The band run straight into Kentucky Woman - their second U.S. single - before hammering into the heavy opening section of Mandrake Root as Lord and Paice settle down for a lengthy instrumental passage. "Their cover of The Beatles' Help makes a good contrast, with some gentle picking from Blackmore, before a lively version of Mandrake Root. Blackmore does indeed seem to be more at home here, with some jazzy work as he attempts to play a different run on almost every bar. Singer Rod Evans returns to introduce the next number, with the 2001 film theme grafted on to River Deep, Mountain High, much heavier than the edited version they later issued as a single. The one hour set ends with their take on Hey Joe." For a recording of this vintage, it isn't perfect as there are glitches on the source tape. Due May 11 on Purple Records. Live At Inglewood is the second issue of this concert on CD. The first was on Deep Purple's first official bootleg label, Sonic Zoom. TIMOTHY SCHMIT'S HIP NEW ALBUM Well Kid Rock's on Expando, the new Timothy [The Eagles] Schmit album. The album of original songs will include a superstar guest list of Dwight Yoakam and Kid Rock plus Graham Nash, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Keb' Mo', Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Van Dyke Parks and The Band's Garth Hudson. No Eagles were invited to the sessions done in Schmit's home studio. Due in September. Meanwhile, the Eagles machine keeps touring because that's where the money is. JUDY & LIZA FINALLY GET A DATE A release date that is. Almost 40 years to the date after Judy Garland's death, and 45 years after it was recorded, 'Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli: Live at the London Palladium' is finally coming out on CD! This is the complete, restored concert, remastered and annotated under the careful ears and eyes of Garland/Minnelli expert Scott Schechter. Plus, you get four bonus piano-only rehearsal takes and a 1965 Judy phone interview! Listen to Judy sing Over The Rainbow, Smile, Never Will I Marry, The Man That Got Away and much more. For us, it's a treat to hear Liza do "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life?" Yes, how could we believe you. On sale now at http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?itemID=CCM20262 COLLECTIBLE ADELE Did you know since Adele's "19" made the UK charts, her album has been reissued in the UK and US with a bonus CD? The record which debuted in the UK at Number One is now issued in the US on Columbia and the label included a five-track live bonus disc. Not to be outdone, her UK label, XL, added a 10-track live bonus CD and an enhanced video track on the "19" reissue. The live tracks are taken from a US promo gig. Both versions are in the shops. REMASTERS OF PROCOL HARUM Two classic Procol Harum titles remastered with bonus tracks. 'A Salty Dog' (From 1969, Bonus tracks: 'Goin' Down Slow', 'Juicy John Pink', 'Crucifiction Lane', 'Skip Softly' (My Moonbeams)/Also Sprach Zarathustra' (All live in the USA April 1969), 'The Milk Of Human Kindness' (Take 1)). And 'Home' (From 1970. Bonus tracks: 'Still There'll Be More' (take 3/raw track), 'Whaling Stories' raw track)). Both are due May 18. WHEATFIELD SOUL Isn't that a great album title? The Guess Who's Wheatfield Soul from 1969 will be reissued on CD in time for its 40th anniversary. Included will be three bonus tracks. But more importantly, the reissue is handled by Iconoclassic Records who did a wonderful job with Laura Nyro's classic albums. So you can expect this reissue to have sterling sound quality. Wheatfield Soul was The Guess Who's U.S. debut album and launched the Canadian group to international stardom with the timeless Top 10 hit "These Eyes." The classic lineup of The Guess Who (led by lead singer/keyboardist Burton Cummings and lead guitarist Randy Bachman) display their eclectic mix of pop, garage rock, Doors-style psychedelia, jazz, and folk. Iconoclassic Records' 40th Anniversary Edition has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes and features extensive liner notes by Guess Who biographer Ralph Chapman, including exclusive new interviews and song commentary from all of the band members as well as producer Richardson and engineer Dave Greene. Due May 12, 2009. BOOTLEG NEWS For the latest postings from bootleg central, visit Hotwacks.com or collectorsmusicreviews.com. THE BAND CAME TO MONTREUX Montreux Casino 1971 (GRAF ZEPPELIN LZSC-002) is a two-disc set with Led Zeppelin's August 7, 1971 tape that surfaced several years ago. This was previously released as The Robert Plant Experience and we have a copy in the archive listed as VG+ audience. NEW OLD CLAPTON The new label GLOF released Eric Clapton's Prejudice, a two-disc
set with the June 14, 1975 show in Tampa. This utilizes a newly discovered tape
for the final three songs, "Little Wing," "Mainline
Florida" and "Keep On Growing" not previously available. A RIDCULOUSLY LARGE POST OF ALMOST ALL OF DYLAN'S NON-LP TRACKS 1962-2005 A kind-hearted Dylan fan has posted on his blog 206 Bob Dylan songs [15 and a 1/2 hours of music] that are rare but NOT BOOTLEGS. All are officially released. Here's the post: "Scattered Bob Dylan tracks from singles, import albums, various artist LPs, promos, radio concerts, soundtracks, recalled releases... you name it (up to around 2005). There are still a few missing (for you obsessive types - #'s 711, 713, 727, 751, 801, 803-804, 846-851, 854-863, & 871), but you'll no doubt find this nearly complete gathering satisfying - grouped and organized by release date. No bootlegs are included, it's all officially released stuff (or promos) excepting Bob's US albums, the Bootleg Series, Traveling Wilburys and the like (don't forget to grab Disc 3 from 2008's Tell Tale Signs). Of course, it can't be as simple as that... there are dupes, some tracks have been re-issued in strange ways (like DVD bonuses), some sessions are split by release dates into different sections, but you'll get the gist. The highlights are endless; the 2005 dub version of "I And I," a simply gorgeous 1963 live take of "Boots Of Spanish Leather," the "mistaken" release of "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window," and the outstanding alternate version of "Everything is Broken," which Dylan delivers like he's singing telegrams. "Rocks And Gravel" (a precursor to "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry"), is a full band performance from the recalled 1963 acoustic Freewheelin' promo LP, illustrating how early Bob had been messin' with "that wild mercury sound." The wonders abound." Go here and enjoy http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2009/01/bob-dylan.html. Be advised that the bitrate is only 96kbps. We downloaded and tested 1 track only. BUY SONIC YOUTH EARLY, GET A FREE LIVE LP To reward early buyers of Sonic Youth's new album, The Eternal, Matador Records are offering a free live LP together with the LP of The Eternal that you order. This is SY's first album since departing from their major label. It includes new bandmate Mark Ibold replacing the departing Jim O'Rourke. The Eternal has finally got a release date of June 9. The cool cover art is by the late guitarist John Fahey. WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW The Pixies have announced a new release, a boxset of all their four studio albums with the Come On Pilgrim EP. New revamped cover artwork will be added in both the limited and deluxe editions. The set called Minotaur will take orders June 15. The sound quality will have to best the 2007 MFSL SACD versions to be worth it. WALK RIGHT BACK Peter Walker's 'Spanish Guitar' sees the return of the musical director of the Acid Tests. "Peter, like the great blues guitar pickers before him, disappeared from public and recorded life for decades, and yet practiced and studied all along. Spanish Guitar is the culmination of this past era, finding Peter starting up where he left off with Rainy Day Raga, tracing his beloved Indian sound to Spain, where the gypsies went to redefine Spanish music and create what is now known as Flamenco." Walker was an influential '60s folk raga guitarist and musical director of the Acid Tests. Larry Coryell called him "inspired and versatile, a unique artist who deserves to be heard. One of the most original practitioners of contemporary music. His music is Beautiful." Due May 18. RED HOUSE MARK Mark Kozelek - 'Lost Versus Live' is a veritable "best of" selection of songs from his career with Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon done live. Recorded during Kozelek's 2007 and 2008 acoustic tours (with Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters guitarist Phil Carney), this 14 song set features songs primarily chosen from the Sun Kil Moon catalogue but also includes solo and Red House Painters material. Due May 18. HALL & OATES LIVE Hall and Oates - 'Live Time' "is the first time ever that this gold album has been issued on CD. Complete with the original graphics, artwork, and rare album art elements. Impeccably remastered by Hall and Oates expert Joe Reagoso, this fine remastered version includes the hits 'Sara Smile', 'Rich Girl', and 'Do What You Want, Be What You Are'." Due May 4. MOORE MONTREUX Gary Moore - 'Essential Montreux' (5CD) covers five shows from 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999 & 2001. Due June 15. Heavy set. DOORS DOCUMENTARY The Doors - 'From The Outside' (DVD) features rock journalists and writers, and those who lived through and were affected by The Doors' music contribute to this most original documentary film. The programme is further enhanced by the rare footage of the band, classic live and studio performances, seldom seen photographs, news clips, location shots and more. Extras include 'Conversation with The Lizard Queen', in which Patricia Morrison talks about Jim Morrison." Due April 27. BOOTLEG NEWS For the latest postings from bootleg central, visit Hotwacks.com or collectorsmusicreviews.com. THE NIGHT BEFORE ALBERT HALL The TCOLZ label will release Led Zeppelin - Out Of The Bristol Tale (TCOLZ 047/048). This is a two-disc set with the newly surfaced January 8, 1970 Bristol tape, the night before their famous Royal Albert Hall performance. NEW RECORDING DISCOVERED. BECK IN DETROIT 1968 The Jeff Beck Group's Rock My Plimsoul (Wardour-064) continues the interest in Jeff Beck's career with the tape from the Grande Ballroom in Detroit on November 3, 1968 in truly amazing sound. BIG WEMBLEY Page & Plant's Wembley 1995 is a four-disc set with new masters from the final days of the first European tour on July 25 and 26 at Wembley. A special edition is strictly limited to 50 copies. GODFATHER WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS Godfather released Bruce Springsteen's Working On A Show (GR
370/371). This is a two-disc set which contains the Working On A Dream tour
rehearsal show #1 at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey on March
23, 2009. It's also out there on the net as a free download. LET IT ROLL ONE MORE TIME FOR GEORGE Capitol/EMI announced April 15 George Harrison's first ever career-spanning solo hits collection, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison. To be released June 16, the new title will feature digitally remastered tracks in deluxe packaging, including an extensive booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos. The CD will span his entire solo recording career, including "My Sweet Lord," "Isn't It A Pity," "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)," and "Got My Mind Set On You." The new title will also feature live recordings of three Harrison-penned Beatles songs, "Something," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Here Comes The Sun" from his 1971 all-star Concert For Bangladesh benefit. GREAT HELMSMAN The Band's Levon Helm will release his second solo album, "Electric Dirt," on June 30, according to his press release. Interesting tracks include "Growing Trade," co-written by Helm and producer Larry Campbell; "Golden Bird" by longtime Woodstock resident Happy Traum; "Tennessee Jed," co-written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter and a staple of the Grateful Dead's live repertoire for decades; "Kingfish" by Randy Newman; and "I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel To Be Free" by Nina Simone. "Electric Dirt," which will be released by Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records, was recorded at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, commonly called, "The Barn," where Helm for the past several years has staged his "Midnight Ramble" house concerts. Visit http://www.levonhelm.com for information. WINCHESTER'S STATION Love Filling Station, Jesse Winchester's Appleseed debut and his first studio CD in a decade, offers nine originals among its dozen songs. It also highlights Jesse as a graceful, soulful vocalist, as memorable a singer as a songwriter. From the press blurb: "His light southern tenor drawl, warmly wrapped in country/bluegrass/folk arrangements, can gently ascend to the heavens a la Roy Orbison, as in the lovestruck wonderment of "O What a Thrill" (already covered by The Mavericks), dish some sly, wry dirt ("It's a Shame About Him") and even capture the sublime hush of Ben E. King's classic "Stand By Me," one of the CD's three covers. The lightly rocking "Wear Me Out," another original, mixes a mock-plaintive vocal of sexual exhaustion with a funky, gospel-tinged call-and-response as the great bluegrass solo artist and sideman Jerry Douglas threads carnal lap steel guitar licks throughout the song." As the album's title suggests, this album was inspired by his wife. Due April 21. THIS JAGGEDLAND Over 25 years since breaking through to critical and commercial acclaim with 1982's self-titled Marshall Crenshaw debut and its infectious, era defining Top 40 hit "Someday, Someway," Marshall creates an incredible new chapter with this highly anticipated 429 Records debut. Jaggedland is a musically dynamic and lyrically intimate collection of songs that hark back to his early days. Released June 2. COUNTRY CLUB "In true honky tonk style, Country Club is the bastard child of a drunken promise. A post show hang-out between X & the Knitters' John Doe and The Sadies produced the idea to join forces to make an album of country songs. Both rock 'n' roll and country music are littered with the ghosts of broken promises, but this one was destined to become reality. Timeless sounds abound on Country Club, driven by Doe's gorgeously rough-hewn vocals, the dueling thousand pound chops of the guitar-wielding Good brothers and The Sadies' world class rhythm section of Mike Belitsky and Sean Dean." Covers of Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings stand alongside tunes by Tammy Wynette and Roger Miller, all of them getting unique treatments by Doe and The Sadies. "On Country Club, John Doe and The Sadies find the perfect blend of the reverent and the experimental, resulting in a slightly psychedelic brew that just might pass for straight if you're not lookin'." Released Apr 14. OTHER SPEKTOR The release date for the new album from Regina Spektor has been announced. 'Far' will be released on June 23. The 13-track album was produced by four producers: Jeff Lynne, Eminem and Dr. Dre collaborator Mike Elizondo, David Kahne and Garret 'Jacknife' Lee, who's worked with Weezer and REM. CANTERBURY TALE Kevin Ayers' new album 'The Unfairground' (180 Gram Vinyl) is a high quality 180g pressing, on virgin vinyl, "a real return to form for Ayers, helped in part by cameos from Teenage Fanclub, Euros Childs and Candie Payne." Includes the tracks 'Walk On Water', 'Brainstorm' and 'Run Run Run'. Almost two years in the making from New York City to Tucson, Az, to London to Glasgow, Kevin Ayers' long awaited new album is now coming out with a full gatefold sleeve on Music On Vinyl." Due May 4. THE LAST DAY AT THE FILLMORE The DVD debut of out-of-print 1972 documentary, Fillmore: The Last Day with performances by The Grateful Dead, Santana, and many more. Long out-of-print, Rhino and the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation present the DVD debut that features highlights from all five nights, including songs by the Grateful Dead ("Casey Jones," "Johnny B. Goode"); Santana ("Incident At Neshabur," "In A Silent Way"); Quicksilver Messenger Service ("Mojo," "Fresh Air"); Jefferson Airplane ("Volunteers"/"We Can Be So Good Together"); along with performances by Cold Blood, Hot Tuna, and Lamb. Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres writes the liner notes for the DVD. Due June 2. MUDDY WINTER Muddy Waters' 'Johnny Winter Sessions 1976-1981' is an exclusive Australian release on Raven Records. "Signed to Columbia subsidiary Blue Sky, Muddy recorded four hard-edged, timeless, back-to-basics albums with Winter that remain classics of the genre. Backed by Winter and the likes of Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Big Walter Horton and Jerry Portnoy, Muddy just roars like a lion from go to whoa! This essential collection culls the best tracks from Hard Again, I'm Ready, King Bee and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live on one scintillating, 77-minute CD." Due May 4. STONER CROWS Stone The Crows' 'Radio Sessions 1969-1972' (2CD) "brings together all the band's radio sessions from different shows over the 1969-1972 period. All tracks feature Les Harvey except the last three on CD2 which were recorded after Les' death with Jimmy McCullough on guitar who left the band in 1973 when he got an offer to join Wings." Due May 4. BOOTLEG NEWS For the latest postings from bootleg central, visit Hotwacks.com or collectorsmusicreviews.com. ROTTERDAMNED Pink Floyd's Grote Zaal (Sigma 38) is a new Sigma release which contains the November 7, 1970 Rotterdam show. An audience recording. CLAPTON IN THE '80s The Tricone label comes back with Eric Clapton's Let Me In (Tricone 011/012 2CD) with the December 8, 1981 Kanagawa performance in "amazing sound quality." It's a rare release of an Another Ticket show. POT LUCK Rainbow's Same Old Dream (Darker Than Blue 064/065) is a two-disc
set with the October 22, 1982 Tokyo show. The title says it all.
The Allman Brothers are selling all 15 of their recent shows at the Beacon Theatre in New York as a boxset of 47 CDs called Beacon Box 2009. The catch is in the price - US$500 [over in the UK it's even more expensive £549.99 ] for what are probably CD-Rs. Also Dickey Betts didn't show. But what you will get are the two nights [ March 19, 20] when Eric Clapton reprised his best songs with the Allmans. The late Duane Allman was guitarist on the Layla album. Then there is the night of March 26, their 40th anniversary, when the Allmans played the entire albums Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South. Also each night was star studded with Johnny Winter, Los Lobos, Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, Boz Scaggs, Taj Mahal and many others. They played on different nights. In addition to the Beacon concerts, this box set will include a special bonus performance of the Allman Brothers Band at Warren Haynes's 20th annual Christmas Jam which occurred in December of 2008 [2CD]. Each Beacon show is a 3CD set. Order here http://www.hittinthenote.com/cart/c-128-2009.aspx NOTE: Some fans have reported that the show on March 26 has audio dropouts on the first two songs and later there are intermittent sonic problems throughout.
The Rolling Stones Boxset' (Slipcase + First 4 Albums) - The Rolling Stones are to release 14 re-mastered classic albums throughout 2009. This unique, limited edition collectors' box set is released at the same time as the first 4 titles - 'Sticky Fingers', 'Goats Head Soup', 'It's Only Rock'N Roll' & 'Black And Blue' and has space for the remaining titles - to be reissued through 2009. The first set rolls out May 4. The next four albums: 'Emotional Rescue', 'Some Girls', 'Tattoo You' and 'Undercover' will be released on June 8th. The last time these Rolling Stones albums were reissued, they were remastered by Virgin. The 2009 editions will all sport a fresh remaster. The recent Japanese Stones SHM reissues covered their Decca period.
"Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood Live From Madison Square Garden" is set for a spring release. It will be available as a deluxe 4 disc set (2 DVDs/2 CDs). These will also be available as standard sets sold separately. It will run as a complete show although the running order is slightly different than on the night. The second DVD will contain "The Road to Madison Square Garden", an exclusive documentary featuring new interviews with Eric and Steve, together with rare footage and photographs of Cream, Traffic and Blind Faith plus "Rambling On My Mind", the final preparation for the three legendary performances highlighted by an acoustic soundcheck performance by Eric of the Robert Johnson standard "Rambling On My Mind." Bonus Performances on DVD2 include "Lowdown," "Kind Hearted Woman" and "Crossroads." ISLAND IN THE SUN Island Records Reggae Box Set - War Ina Babylon' (3CD Box) charts "Island's rise from its very origins into the modern age, 'War Inna Babylon' not only provides a fascinating insight into the changing sound of Jamaican music over the past 40 years, but also brings together some of the greatest Ska, Rock Steady and Reggae recordings of all time. In doing so, the collection tells the story of both Reggae and the celebrated label itself, through the 64 essential tracks and the fascinating narrative in the accompanying booklet." Due May 25. Yet another boxset of Reggae. LOVE FROM HANDSOME FAMILY The Handsome Family - 'Honey Moon' is their eighth album, a collection of their musical influences. "All such musical influences, combined with Rennie's lyrical exploration of all aspects of romance - be it spiritual or pastoral, animal, vegetable or mineral - result in an album of love songs like no other heard before." Due April 20. RUN FOR COVERS Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet will release a second volume of Under The Covers. No date has been mentioned. But Vol 2 will feature songs from George Harrison, Rod Stewart [Maggie May], John Lennon [Gimme Some Truth], Carly Simon [You're So Vain], Mott The Hoople [All The Young Dudes] and Fleetwood Mac. Guests Lindsay Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac will perform on 'Second hand News, while Steve Howe from Yes on 'I've Seen All Good People' and Dhani Harrison, son of George, on 'Beware Of Darkness'. SPACE IN A CAN The Inner Space's 'Agilok & Blubbo' (CD/LP 180G) is the soundtrack by the legendary pre-CAN band. "The Inner Space is the stuff of legend. This obscure outfit is best known as the antecessor band of Can (Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit) and lasted just a few months before renaming themselves Can and releasing Monster Movie. They left two ultra-obscure seven inches as their only recorded legacy and only the first of them is credited to The Inner Space, it contained two songs taken from the soundtrack of 1969's underground film Agilok & Blubbo. Originally released by the the German Vogue label in 1969." Due May 25. JOURNEY LIVE IN TOKYO Journey - 'Live In Tokyo' (DVD) was recorded at the Koseinenken Hall, July 31, 1981, featuring 24 live songs including fan favourites Don't Stop Believing, Dead or Alive and Anyway You Want It. On sale now. NAZARETH LIVE HAIR OF THE DOG Nazareth - 'Hair Of The Dog: Live From London' (DVD) captures a full show from the London leg of one of the band's many UK tours from the early 1980's, 60 minutes. Due April 13. SHAWN PHILLIPS CONTRIBUTION AND MORE 'Contribution'/ 'Second Contribution' (2-on-1 CD) was "originally released in 1970 and 1971 on the A&M record label. 'Contribution', Shawn Phillips' first major album, mixes progressive rock and folk sounds in a manner unique to its time. Recorded with help from Traffic (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood) among others, this is a condensation of a far more ambitious studio original that was intended to fill three LPs. On 'Second Contribution', Phillips carries us across folk ('The Ballad Of Casey Deiss') and rock styles, with a heavy R&B feel at times ('Song For Mr. C'), with help from Elton John's arranger Paul Buckmaster." Due June 1. LULU'S SHOUT Lulu's 'Shout! - The Complete Decca Recordings' (2CD) is an RPM compilation. "This is the first-ever collection of Lulu's complete recordings for Decca from 1964 to 1967. Includes the Top 10 hits Shout! (here in its rarer mono single variation) and Leave A Little Love, plus other hits Here Comes The Night and Try To Understand. This 42-track collection includes two rare German language tracks, a scarce EP and a raft of singles, several tracks include session work from Jimmy Page." Due May 18. RARE BURT 'Paradise Island: The Rare Songs Of Burt Bacharach' collects 33 songs by various artists on 2CDs. Some interesting finds include Patti Page's Keep Me In Mind [Single]; Jerry Lewis' Sad Sack; Jane Morgan's With Open Arms; Connie Francis' Wanting Things; Richard Chamberlain's Blue Guitar; Tony Orlando's Accept It; Marianne Faithfull's If I Never Get To Love You and more. Hopefully ready by June 1. BOOTLEG NEWS
Sir Paul McCartney's Things We Said In Denver on Audiofon is a one-disc title with the November 1, 2005 soundcheck in Denver.
Virtuoso have three Genesis reissues of Sirene bootlegs. Dijon 1978 contains the June 3, 1978 France soundboard that was released by Sirene as Big Jim Must Be Mad. Windy Day Southampton is a two-disc recording with the Southampton 1977 soundboard. And Definitive Trick has the well traveled Pittsburgh 1976 radio broadcast. + + + + + THE CSN DEMOS A collectors CD from Crosby, Stills & Nash is due June 2 called Crosby, Stills & Nash Demos. The tracklisting as follows: Marrakesh Express, Almost Cut my Hair, You Don't Have to Cry, Deja Vu, Sleep Song, My Love is a Gentle Thing, Be Yourself, Music is Love, Singing Call, Long Time Gone,Chicago and Love the One You're With. Co-produced by Joel Bernstein who also keeps the archives for Neil Young. Look out for Neil Young joining Crosby and Nash on "Music is Love" for Crosby's 1971 solo debut album, "If I Could Only Remember my Name". The release will coincide with the trio's induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame and a new summer tour. On the recording front, CSN are recording a new album of covers with resurrectionist Rick Rubin.
VideoArts Music in Japan will be releasing Merry Clayton's three ODE albums on CD on April 22, 2009. They are the impossible to find Gimme Shelter (VACM-1388); the self titled Merry Clayton (VACM-1389) and Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow (VACM-1390). Japan's Disk Union will have one of their box sets, pictured at the following link. http://diskunion.net/portal/ct/detail/54C090222800 PETTY'S BOX Tom Petty & Heartbreakers - 'Running Down A Dream' (3DVDs + 1CD) with over 5 hours of video, 1 CD of rare and unreleased tracks is finally having a UK release April 1. Peter Bogdanovich's epic four-hour film about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. OUR LIFE WITH BOB EXPANDS Bob Dylan - 'Together Through Life' (CD/Vinyl) is now also to be released as a 2CD+DVD set on April 27. The bonus CD contains 1 episode of Dylan's radio show Theme Time with the Friends & Neighbours episode. The DVD is called "Roy Silver - The Lost Interview". Looks like this release is targetted at longtime fans. HARD TO FIND DAVID CASSIDY REISSUED Four classic David Cassidy albums in Japanese mini sleeves have been reissued March 25, 2009. They are Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes; Higher They Climb The Harder They Fall; Home Is Where The Heart Is and Getting It In The Street. Each will retail at ¥2,520.
BMG in Japan has released six CDs by the Fifth Dimension in mini-album sleeves on February 25, 2009. The titles are: Up, Up And Away (BVCM-35585) As usual, Disk Union will have one of their box sets available. 5D's Live! album was reissued on CD by Collector's Choice in 2007, and included 3 bonus tracks. The Japanese reissue includes the same bonus material. VIOLIN JAZZ WITH LUC PONTY Jean-Luc Ponty's 'Canteloupe Island' originally released as a double album on Bluenote Records in 1969, has all his highlights including 'King Kong'. Now digitally remastered and with a slip-case cover. Due May 4. ROGER & WENDY LIMITED Not a company but a limited edition. "Formerly of '60s US psych-folk band Euphoria, Roger & Wendy financed this privately pressed album, 'Love Rog and Wen' for family and friends in 1971. They later renamed themselves Bermuda Triangle. This is a top notch collection of psych-folk gems. A superb artifact from the early '70s US underground psych folk scene. Taken from the original master tapes, and using the original sleeve artwork, this is a strict limited edition of 450 copies pressed on virgin DMM 180gm vinyl". Due May 20.
Chuck Berry in a box. You Never Can Tell/ The Complete Chess Recordings 1960 - 1966 (4CD Limited to 5,000 non-numbered limited edition copies) contains "108 tracks digitally remastered. 18 previously unreleased tracks including a 45-Minute Live Concert From 1963. Features Original Stereo Versions Of The Hits "No Particular Place To Go," "You Never Can Tell," And "Nadine (Is It You?)', Track-By-Track Credits, Great Period Graphics & Photos, A Singles Discography, and Extensive Liner Notes by Berry Biographer Fred Rothwell". A US Import 4CD Box Set for £79.99 . BOOTLEG FRIENDLY LYNYRD SKYNYRD Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd join the bands who put out authorised live recordings. 'Authorized Bootleg - Live Cardiff Capitol 1975' was recorded on the band's 'Nuthin' Fancy' tour. The second 'Authorized Bootleg - Live Winterland 1976' features Ronnie Van Zandt and the band at the Winterland in San Francisco. Both released April 6. MATT AT THE BEEB Matt Monro's 'Matt At The BBC' (CD/DVD) is a double disc set with an audio CD, the bulk of which was recorded as a transcription tape in 1961 featuring the Ted Heath Orchestra. This tape was never broadcast in the UK. The second part of this set is a DVD of some of Matt's finest BBC television performances." Due Apil 27. JAPANESE NOISE Two new releases from Haino Keiji. Haino Keiji & Yoshida Tatsuya - 'Houenfiomiume' (CD) is the controversial work which stepped into the forbidden territory of editing of the performance of Haino Keiji. Yoshida breaks up their studio session boldly, and restructures it from the unacceptable tune reproduced by extreme editing to the pop song thing that is a surprise." Haino/Makoto/Tatsuya's 'Ichi to Ichi ga Kasanatte Shimaumade' (DVD) is a live recording from August 18, 2008 at After Beat, in Tokyo. Features Haino (guitar), Kawabata (guitar), & Yoshida (drums). This is in NTSC, region free and 76 minutes in length (video & audio combined). Both released April 27. WALLY STOTT'S DR WHO SOUNDTRACK Wally Stott was Scott Walker's alias when he wrote and recorded a soundtrack for the Dr Who TV series. 'Dr Who : The Tenth Planet' (Original S/T) is being released on a mini-CD April 27. "The music on this mini-CD album is taken from the 1966 Dr Who Episode 'The Tenth Planet'. It was not only the last episode to feature the first Doctor, William Hartnell, before he regenerates, but also the first to feature the Cybermen. Limited to 2,000 copies. BOOTLEG NEWS HOLLOW HORN OF PLENTY Hollow Horn pushed out Vol. 5 of their Recording Artist Series "The Ghost Of Electricity (TV Shows Part 3)" reports Hotwacks.com who scooped the news on their February 23rd news column. Also coming from the empty forkers are Mixin' Up The Medicine which will be just the Bob Dylan portion of The Basement Tapes via the new HH 'The Safety Tape' June-October 1967. Finally, there will be Mighty Mockingbird featuring the complete Isle Of Wight Bob Dylan performance tape from August 31, 1969.
Black Sabbath's The Manor Tapes: Born Again Remixed Demos is a two-disc set with the "original" and "remastered" versions of the Born Again demos. This is, according to the label, "longer and better than previous demo release." We'll see.
Whitesnake's Gambler's View is a one DVD title with the pro-shot
footage from Seibu Stadium, Saitama, Japan on August 11 & 12, 1984.
"Released on standard and deluxe formats, the Miroir Noir DVD film follows Arcade Fire through the making and touring of their 2007 album Neon Bible, documenting the band at their Montreal studio, the making of promotional films and videos, along with live footage and a few short films made on the road. The standard edition DVD features the 70 minute film Mirror Noir, while the deluxe version contains bonus material including Arcade Fire's live performance on Jonathan Ross, Saturday Night Live and at Maida Vale and comes in an accordian folded panorama and artcover, linen bound packaging, wrapped with blue ribbon." Released April 6. EARLE'S TOWNES Steve Earle's upcoming album, Townes, will be available on May 12, 2009. "The 15-song set has tunes written by Earle's friend and mentor, the late singer-songwriter, Townes Van Zandt. When speaking about Townes, Earle stated, 'This may be one of the best records I've ever made.' The album features such guests as Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine/The Nightwatchman, Steve's wife and acclaimed singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, Dennis Crouch, Tim O'Brien, Darrel Scott, Shad Cobb and Steve's son, Justin Townes Earle. 'Townes' will also be available as a deluxe two-CD set, as well as double limited edition 180 gram vinyl. COSTELLO GETS T-BONE HELP Just over a year after Elvis Costello released 2008's Momofuku, the rocker-TV host will return with a new album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, on June 2. Recorded in Nashville with Raising Sand producer T-Bone Burnett, Secret will feature 13 tracks, including one co-written by Loretta Lynn and two songs Costello originally wrote for Johnny Cash. The album features 10 previously unrecorded tracks, though some of the songs were previewed when Costello toured with Bob Dylan in 2007. The album will mark Costello's third collaboration with Burnett following 1986's King of America and 1989's Spike. Several of the album's tracks were inspired by an unfinished commission about Hans Christian Andersen that Costello was to write for the Royal Danish Opera, while other songs are about singer Jenny Lind, who had a relationship with Andersen. The double LP version adds two songs, his cover of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale" and another song called "What Lewis Did Last," a sequel of sorts to the Appalachian murder ballad "Omie Wise." O YEAH "Brooklyn's Yeah Yeah Yeahs led an art-rock insurrection with their debut album 'Fever To Tell' in 2003, and the long-awaited release of their third, 'It's Blitz', cements them as more than merely scene figureheads. While it shares occasional sonic similarities to their earlier work, the majority of 'It's Blitz' sees the band tackling more intricate and considered territory. However, with lead single 'Zero' they prove that they still know how to marshal the dancefloor, albeit with an unexpectedly industrial-sounding edge." The initial deluxe CD digipak comes with 4 additional accoustic tracks. Pure bliss due April 6. NIRVANA TO BE RELEASED ON AUDIOPHILE VINYL US company Original Recordings Group (ORG) has announced plans to re-release Nirvana's era-defining albums 'Nevermind', 'In Utero' and 'MTV Unplugged' on 180-gram, audiophile quality vinyl this year, reports Billboard. Apparently, for MTV Unplugged, it will be the first time the album is offered on vinyl. Sub Pop will handle the release of Nirvana's Bleach. LOST ALEX HARVEY BAND ALBUM In early 1974, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band went into the studios with U.S. producer Shel Talmy to record sessions for their third album. Upon completion, the band decided they were not happy with the overall sound and amazingly decided to scrap the entire album. A fully mixed album was left with Shel Talmy who departed back to Los Angeles not long after. Most of the songs were completely reworked with different arrangements and lyrics and appeared at the end of 1974 on the album 'The Impossible Dream'. Now after 34 years, MLP have unearthed this treasure and the album has been re-assessed by both Shel Talmy and the band. The tracks have been completely remastered and fully approved by the band members. Now fans can hear how songs like Vambo, Anthem and Man In Jar originally sounded. This CD comes in a deluxe package with a 20-page booklet of rare photos and track by track comments by the band. JEFF HEALEY'S LEGACY The Jeff Healey Band - 'Legacy: Volume One' (3CD) contains singles, unreleased live recordings, unreleased live video, interviews and candid shots. A "Rock-umentary" of rare footage, interviews, intimate behind the scenes moments, un-seen live performances from around the World spanning the 18-year career of the Jeff Healey Band, including collaborations and jams with the likes of: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Keith Richards, Sheila E, Clarence Clemons. Due April 6. Healey died March 2, 2008. THE SAINTS Saint Etienne have two Expanded Reissues. 'Foxbase Alpha' (2CD) "is remastered with a second disc featuring b-sides, mixes and five previously unreleased tracks, with a booklet packed with brand new sleevenotes, images and memorabilia" and 'Continental' (2CD) "a Japanese only compilation of Saint Etienne's non-album singles, cover versions and new material that was recorded in 1996-97 inbetween working on other projects. The album now receives it's first ever release outside of Japan and has been remastered and expanded to two discs, including 4 previously unreleased tracks. It comes with a booklet packed with brand new sleevenotes, images and memorabilia." Due May 11. THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR Two limited edition packaged CDs in a hardback digibooks format will be reissued for XTC's two Dukes Of Stratosphear releases from 1985. The albums are 25 O'Clock and Psonic Psunspot. All will feature brand new artwork booklets with new sleeves notes by Andy, Colin and Dave Gregory and exclusive archive photos. The extra tracks are demos and extra recordings. Plus, a video on each. Due April 6. RAY OF HOPE Ray Davies & The Crouch End Festival Chorus release 'The Kinks Choral Collection', a choral album on which the Kinks' Ray Davies has been collaborating with the Crouch End Festival Chorus since 2007. The album will feature 15 tracks including Shangri-La, Days, Working Man's Cafe, See My Friends, You Really Got Me and a Village Green suite. The Chorus and band are arranged by Ray Davies and Steve Markwick under the direction of David Temple. Due June 8. 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