Now that Sony and BMG have become a gigantic music conglomerate, we’re hoping that they’ll use those pooled resources to release interesting new products involving their massively extensive library. We’ve long been fans of the Columbia Legacy reissue project through Sony, but now we’re seeing that treatment adapted to BMG’s back catalog as well with [...]
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One of Classic Rock’s most beloved bands, Procol Harum, will have its In Concert With The Danish National Concert Orchestra And Choir released on CD (Eagle Records) and DVD (Eagle Vision) May 26. Procol Harum In Concert With The Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir is a 21-song DVD (running time: 124 minutes; retail sales [...]
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1931 (Go Out Dancing – Part 1) is the first record in nearly 20 years from keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist, Tony Carey that is credited to his Planet P Project. Although released on a handful of different labels since 2003, it’s recently been re-released by Renaissance Records. While Carey has been successful in Europe as a solo performer [...]
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The Hoople is the third of a trio of spectacular records issued by glam-rock superstars, Mott The Hoople. Discounting a final live album in late 1974, The Hoople is vocalist Ian Hunter’s last attempt at working out his showy, ’50s-style rock and roll within a band context. Coming hot on the heels of their phoenix [...]
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The Flatlanders’ first album, More A Legend Than A Band, is an essential record for anyone interested in great songwriting, as the LP features the dynamic Texas trio of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock. Early Gilmore classics including “Dallas” and “Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown” are balanced by Hancock’s “You’ve [...]
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Check out these photos of guitar great Jeff Beck performing live in New York City. Backing Beck is drumming phenom Vinnie Colaiuta and bassist Tal Wilkenfeld. (Photos courtesy of Bluestorm Music’s Arnie Goodman).
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No-Man’s sixth studio release, Schoolyard Ghosts, is as much a revelation for fans of No-Man’s previous work as it is for fans of the duo’s guitarist, Steven Wilson. Wilson, who started the No-Man project with vocalist Tim Bowness at more or less the same time that he began his better known group Porcupine Tree, in [...]
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Vinyl Lovers Records has reissued Joe Jackson’s solo debut, Look Sharp! as a 10-inch double record that includes the bonus cuts “Don’t Ask Me” and “You Got The Fever.” Hearing this record 30 years after it initially hit the stores, and in this unique format, rekindles the excitement that we first experienced knowing that great [...]
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Guitarist Robin Trower made a seamless jump from Procol Harum in the early 1970s to a solo career, exciting new audiences with his Jimi Hendrix-tinged sound and stylings. Trower turned up the reverb and unleashed walls of brooding, powerful sound from his Fender Stratocaster. Though it would be his sophomore release, Bridge Of Sighs, that [...]
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The Allman Brothers Band – Macon, Georgia’s, favorite musical sons – are remembered warmly by several folks closest to the band members including Linda Oakley Miller (widow of Berry Oakley), Willie Perkins (former Allman Brothers Band road manager), John Lyndon (brother of the late Twiggs Lyndon) and Alan Walden (music promoter and brother of Capricorn [...]
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