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for the week of April 2, 2013:
Tyler, The Creator: WolfL.A. rapper has been called “…bizarre, surreal, and filthy…”
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The Music is You: a tribute to John Denver15 years after his death and 40 years after the release of his widely beloved song ‘Rocky Mountain High,’ ATO Records celebrates John Denver’s life and music with The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver. The album features covers of Denver’s most popular songs by a diverse group of artists including Dave Matthews, My Morning Jacket, Train, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and many others.. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Wilderness Society in John’s name.
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Bombino : Nomad Nonesuch Records presents Nomad, from the Tuareg guitarist, singer, and songwriter Omara “Bombino” Moctar. At the invitation of The Black Keys‘ Dan Auerbach, the Niger-born artist and his band traveled to Nashville for the recording, helmed by Auerbach at his studio, Easy Eye Sound.Before 2009, Bombino was little known outside Saharan Africa, where his career consisted of regionally available cassettes and roles in local bands. In few years, he has begun to find a following abroad. He sold out venues across the U.S. in his first tour here, in 2011, and has garnered the praise of outlets ranging from Pitchfork to NPR’s Fresh Air, whose critic Milo Miles called Bombino “a young performer with the charisma and probing imagination to become the first Tuareg star. ” Auerbach, winner of the 2013 Grammy for Producer of the Year, became a fan after a friend saw him perform and thought Auerbach might appreciate his unique style of desert blues.
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Cold War Kids__________The Black Angels
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Mudhoney____________________Rilo Kiley
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Gretchen Wilson ________Beth Hart
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Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out: Rolling Stones in Concert! (Expanded edition)This edition includes 3 CDs and 1 DVD: the first CD is a remastered version of the original Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out release. The second CD contains 5 bonus tracks by The Rolling Stones from the original Madison Square Garden concert. The third CD contains 12 bonus tracks by opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner. The DVD features a new short film with never-before-seen archive footage by the legendary Maysles Brothers. The film chronicles the Rolling Stones epic performance at Madison Square Garden in November of 1969, backstage footage with both Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin present as well as scenes of Keith Richards in the studio and footage of the Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! album cover session. This new film is presented in surround sound and includes brilliantly shot full-length performances of five previously unreleased live Stones gems Prodigal Son, You Gotta Move, Under My Thumb, I m Free and (I Can t Get No) Satisfaction before an audience of 16,000 fervent Rolling Stones fans!
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Eagles: The Studio Albums 1972-1979for the week of March 12, 2013:
Sound City : It’s a documentary film; it’s a CD...
Sound City: Real to Reel SOUND CITY, the film, was conceived by Dave Grohl after purchasing the legendary custom-built Neve 8028 recording console from Sound City Studios last year. The board, built in 1972, is considered by many to be the crown jewel of analog recording equipment. Grohl’s personal connection to Sound City began with the 1991 recording of Nirvana’s breakthrough album, Nevermind. Selling over 30 million copies worldwide, Nevermind changed the entire musical landscape and forever altered the course of Dave Grohl’s life.
SOUND CITY–REAL TO REEL is a brand new collection of all-new all-original songs, each one composed and recorded exclusively for the film within its own 24-hour session on that console after it was reinstalled in Grohl and his Foo Fighters’ own 606 Studios. The new tracks–featuring an amazing and idiosyncratic cast of collaborators including Paul McCartney, Grohl’s former Nirvana and current Foo Fighters bandmates, Stevie Nicks, Rick Springfield, Trent Reznor, Joshua Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Lee Ving of Fear, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford of Rage Against The Machine and more–passionately exemplify SOUND CITY’s celebration of the human element of musicianship and recording in an increasingly digital world./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Eric Clapton: Old Sock produced by Eric Clapton, Doyle Bramhall II, Justin Stanley and Simon Climie, features two original songs “Every Little Thing” and “Gotta Get Over. ” Old Sock is released on Clapton’s Bushbranch label.The album is a collection of some of Clapton s favorite songs spanning from his childhood to present day that highlights his vast appreciation and knowledge of music. From Leadbelly to J.J. Cale; Peter Tosh to George Gershwin; Hank Snow to Gary Moore and Taj Mahal, this record is a celebration of so many who have inspired Clapton s rich musical life. Clapton has always had a remarkable ability to recognize great songs and a gift for knowing how to uniquely interpret them, as he does on Old Sock.
Clapton assembled a band for the recordings consisting of longtime collaborators Steve Gadd (drums), Willie Weeks (bass) and Chris Stainton (keyboards) along with some surprise guest additions. JJ Cale joins the song “Angel” for backing vocals and guitar, Chaka Khan joins as backing vocalist for “Get On Over, ” Steve Winwood on the Hammond B3 Organ on “Still Got The Blues, ” Paul McCartney on bass/vocals on “All of Me, ” Jim Keltner on drums for “Our Love is Here To Stay. “
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David Bowie: The Next Day Bowie’s first studio album in ten years and his 30th studio recording. The album was produced by long-term collaborator Tony Visconti and was recorded in New York. The Next Day is a dense, angry, complex rock album. “I stumble to the graveyard and I lay down by my parents,” Bowie sings on I’d Rather Be High, “Whisper: ‘Just remember, duckies, everybody gets got.’”///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Bon Jovi: What About Now The legendary New Jersey rockers 12th studio album.//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Devendra Banhart : Mala his 8th studio album and Nonesuch debut. The singer/songwriter co-produced the record with his longtime bandmate, guitarist Noah Georgeson. He and Georgeson played most of the instruments themselves, using borrowed equipment and a vintage Tascam recorder they’d found in a pawn shop.//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Larry Coryell: The Lift In the 1970s Larry Coryell was almost as big a guitar star as John McLaughlin, and an equivalent influence on the development of early electric jazz-rock fusion … Coryell’s crackling uptempo bursts and engagingly rough-hewn energy give this familiar music a vividness and infectious enthusiasm.////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 new album’s from Blind Pig Records
Cash Box Kings / Southern Hospitality
Sena Eberhardt / San Francisco, by way of Ann Arbor
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the week of March 5 2013
In like a lion, baby…
Jimi Hendrix: People, Hell & Angels is a new album of twelve never before released Jimi Hendrix studio recordings. This special album showcases the legendary guitarist working outside of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience trio. Beginning in 1968, Jimi Hendrix grew restless, eager to develop new material with old friends and new ensembles. Outside the view of a massive audience that had established the Experience as rock’s largest grossing concert act and simultaneously placed two of his albums together in the US Top 10 sales chart, Jimi was busy working behind the scenes to craft his next musical statement.
Earth Blues: Totally unlike the version first issued as part of Rainbow Bridge in 1971, this December 19, 1969 master take features just Hendrix, Cox and Miles—stripped down funk at its very origin.
Somewhere: This newly discovered gem was recorded in March 1968 and features Buddy Miles on drums and Stephen Stills on bass. Entirely different from any previous version fans have heard.
Hear My Train A Comin’: This superb recording was drawn from Jimi’s first ever recording session with Billy Cox & Buddy Miles—the rhythm section with whom he would later record the groundbreaking album Band Of Gypsys.
Bleeding Heart: This Elmore James masterwork had long been a favorite of Jimi’s. Recorded at the same May 1969 session as “Hear My Train A Coming,” Jimi had a firm understanding of the arrangement and tempo he desired. Before they began, Jimi instructed Cox and Miles that he wanted to establish a totally different beat than the standard arrangement. He then kicked off this amazing rendition unlike any other he had ever attempted.
Let Me Move You: In March 1969, Jimi reached back to another old friend, saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood. Before he was discovered by Chas Chandler in the summer of 1966, Jimi had contributed guitar for Youngblood and such infectious rhythm and blues styled singles such as “Soul Food”.
This March 1969 session features Hendrix and Youngblood trading licks on this never before heard, high velocity rock and soul classic.
Izabella: In the aftermath of the Woodstock festival, Jimi gathered his new ensemble, Gypsy Sun & Rainbows at the Hit Factory in August 1969 with engineer Eddie Kramer. “Izabella” had been one of the new songs the guitarist introduced at the Woodstock festival and Jimi was eager to perfect a studio version. This new version is markedly different from the Band Of Gypsys 45 rpm single master issued by Reprise Records in 1970 and features Larry Lee, Jimi’s old friend on rhythm guitar.
Easy Blues: An edited extract of this gorgeous, free flowing instrumental was briefly issued as part of the long out of print, 1981 album Nine To The Universe. Now nearly twice as long, fans can enjoy the dramatic interplay between Jimi, second guitarist Larry Lee, Billy Cox and drummer Mitch Mitchell.
Crash Landing: Perhaps known as the title song for the controversial 1975 album that featured Hendrix master recordings posthumously overdubbed by session musicians, this April 1969 original recording has never been heard before. Jimi is joined here by Billy Cox and drummer Rocky Isaac of the Cherry People to record this thinly veiled warning to his girlfriend Devon Wilson.
Inside Out: Jimi was fascinated by the rhythm pattern which would ultimately take form as “Ezy Ryder”. Joined here by Mitch Mitchell, Jimi recorded all of the bass and guitar parts for this fascinating song–including a dramatic lead guitar part amplified through a Leslie organ speaker.
Hey Gypsy Boy: The roots of Jimi’s majestic “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)” trace themselves to this March 1969 recording. Unlike the posthumously overdubbed version briefly issued as part of Midnight Lightning in 1975, this is original recording that features Jimi joined by Buddy Miles.
Mojo Man: Jimi lends a hand to Albert & Arthur Allen, the vocalists known as the Ghetto Fighters, whom he had befriended in Harlem long before he achieved fame with the Experience. When the two recorded this inspired, previously unreleased master at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama they took it back to Hendrix at Electric Lady Studios. Jimi knew just what to do to elevate the recording beyond contemporary R & B to the new hybrid of rock, rhythm and blues he was celebrated for.
Villanova Junction Blues: Long before his famous performance of this song at Woodstock, Jimi recorded this studio version with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles at the same May 1969 session which yielded “Hear My Train A Comin’” and “Bleeding Heart” also featured on this album. Never fully finished, the song stands as an example of the fertile ideas he hoped to harness.
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Boz Scaggs: Memphis Produced by Steve Jordan (John Mayer), Memphis was recorded at Willie Mitchell legendary Royal Studio in Memphis, where the late Mitchell recorded Al Green and other hit music artists. Joining Scaggs on MEMPHIS are Willie Weeks (bass), Ray Parker Jr. (guitars), Spooner Oldham (keyboards), the Memphis Horns, Lester Snell (string arrangements) and Steve Jordan (drums).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Madeleine Peyroux : The Blue Room reinterpreting songs from Ray Charles seminal album MODERN SOUNDS IN COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC, as well as others from legendary artists such as Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, John Hartford and Leonard Cohen, whose legacies are herein enveloped into a similar melting pot of the variety of American popular song. Featuring sparse arrangements, each of the 11 tracks on the album sets a tone and mood that respects where the originals came from, but offers a modern reinterpretation of each song.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How To Destroy Angels : Welcome Oblivion Trent Reznor’s (Nine Inch Nails) new group that includes his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and longtime producer Atticus Ross. After two EPs, “Welcome Oblivion” marks the group’s full-length debut. Rather than a major departure from NIN, the music zeroes in on a narrow sliver of Reznor’s repertoire. With Maandiq delivering vocals barely above a whisper, “Oblivion” traffics in slow-motion shadow-play. The bubbling, burbling electronic crosscurrents create an undercurrent of anxiety, while never taxing the volume meter.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Son Volt : Honky Tonk Led by founding member of Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar. Excavating, distilling and reimagining the classic honky tonk sound of Bakersfield (along with the influence of Tennessee and Texas), the music on this album is about heartache, but there s also optimism and perseverance. Pedal steel guitar and twin fiddles anchor a timeless music, in which the clear hard truths of the lyrics mine the emotional complexities of life and love, making ‘Honky Tonk’ a landmark on a continuing journey.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
They Might Be Giants!_________Youth Lagoon!!
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Chelsea Light Moving is the current group led by Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore. He is the songwriter and plays over-amped hyper electric guitar and sings with raw-glam-destructo vocals. The band is a four piece featuring Samara Lubelski, who has played violin with TM on his last two solo LPs (Demolished Thoughts and Trees Outside The Academy) and with Chelsea Light Moving plays deep psyche pop metal bass guitar. Keith Wood, who records under the aegis Hush Arbors, plays electric guitar with a pick forged from angel wing and John Moloney, aka “Pegasus”, approaches the drums like an asteroid hurtling toward Earth. The first self-titled CD was recorded in two spurious sessions with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato in Sone Lab, a killer studio in Easthampton Massachusetts. The band is ready to detonate any birthday party, wedding or hullabaloo in any country, planet or stratosphere that doesn’t support right wing extremist NRA sucking bozo-ology.~ Thurston Moore
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Bajofondo!_____Autechre!!____Robyn Hitchcock!!!
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the week of February 26, 2013
Atoms For Peace: Amok Atoms for Peace is Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich, Mauro Refosco, Joey Waronker, and Flea. They came together by playing in support of Thom’s Grammy nominated album The Eraser. The got a big buzz from those shows and discovered loads of energy from transforming the music from electronic to live, so they carried on for a few days in the studio and decided to make it a loose, on-going thing… since everyone in the band has a day job as well.
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Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: Old Yellow Moon features four songs written by Crowell as well as interpretations of songs such as Hank DeVito’s ‘Hanging Up My Heart,’ Roger Miller’s ‘Invitation to the Blues,’ and Allen Reynolds’ ‘Dreaming My Dreams,’ among others. Produced by Brian Ahern (Johnny Cash, George Jones, Roy Orbison),Old Yellow Moon is the first official collaboration from the duo since Crowell joined Harris’ Hot Band as guitarist and harmony singer in 1975. In addition to Harris and Crowell, the album features world-renowned musicians including Stuart Duncan, Vince Gill, and Bill Payne, as well as members of the original Hot Band.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johnny Marr: The Messenger one of the most celebrated guitarists in the history of contemporary music, presents his debut solo album, The Messenger. The album features Marr front & center on vocals & guitar, & represents our first chance to capture Johnny Marr s musical vision exactly as he envisioned on the first true solo album of his career. The Messenger was written & produced by Marr himself. Best known for his work alongside Morrissey as the creative force behind The Smiths, Marr has continued his career as an official member or touring guitarist for a diverse array of acclaimed bands since.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Mavericks: In Time the first album in 10 years from the reunited Country/Rock outfit led by Raul Malo. Again drawing on myriad influences – from Buck Owens’ tonk to Roy Orbison’s heartbreak, Ravel’s eroticism to Buena Vista Social Club’s infectious rhythms, Patsy Cline’s brazen emotion and that little Mavericks’ magic. For their first sessions in almost a decade, it was spontaneous combustion; literally, the band falling into step with the euphoria they were known for. And they built quite an album from there. ”It took life for us to get to this point everybody was so free. From the first notes, it sounded like an explosion of sound; we went where the songs took us with a singularity of purpose. We came in to make music as grown-ups, to make music as men.” Raul Malo (lead singer)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
James Hunter Six: Minute By Minute For his first new album in five years, ‘Minute By Minute,’ British soul man James Hunter teamed with Daptone mastermind Gabriel Roth (Amy Winehouse, Sharon Jones) for a horn-fueled blast of deep soul and R&B. The album’s 12 new original songs mark not only Hunter’s first collaboration with Roth (aka Bosco Mann), but his first time recording in America.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Joan Armatrading: Starlight a quintessential Joan Armatrading record that will not disappoint fans.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran: Hagar’s Song a collection of intimacy and homage, features pieces especially dear to Lloyd, ranging from compositions by Billy Strayhorn (Pretty Girl a/k/a Star-Crossed Lovers), Duke Ellington (Mood Indigo) and George Gershwin (Bess, You Is My Woman Now) to a standard strongly associated with Billie Holiday (You ve Changed), Brian Wilsons most famous Beach Boys ballad (God Only Knows) and a Bob Dylan song definitively interpreted by the Band (I Shall Be Released). The centerpiece of the album is the title suite composed by Lloyd and dedicated to his great-great-grandmother, who was taken from her home in south Mississippi at age 10 and sold to a slave-owner in Tennessee.The release of Hagars Song comes in time to help mark Lloyds 75th birthday, on March 15, 2013. About the pieces that constitute Hagars Song, the saxophonist says: Music has always been my inspiration and consolation I hope to give the same. The songs we chose for the recording are part of the continuous thread of music that is my life.
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Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks 25 May 1978 This pair of Grateful Dead shows, taken from an extended East Coast run in the Spring of 1978, not only were among the best of the year, but with the loving touch of Bear and Betty Cantor-Jackson at the controls rank as one of the most beautifully recorded entries in the Dick’s Picks series. Both concerts which appear here minus just two and three songs, respectively find the group in exceptionally lyrical form on ballads like “Loser,” “Stella Blue,” “Looks Like Rain” and “They Love Each Other.” Also not to be missed is a superlative, slowed-down version of “Friend of the Devil” and the rare performance of Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” as an encore (the band only played it about a dozen times live). Full of diamonds for Deadheads.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Steven Wilson: Raven That Refused To Sing and Other Stories from the highly respected British Prog artist, producer and member of Porcupine Tree and No Man amongst others. The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) was written between January and July and recorded in Los Angeles in September. Steven’s current band is a collection of stellar musicians: lead guitarist Guthrie Govan, bassist Nick Beggs, Marco Minnemann on the drums, Theo Travis playing saxophone/flute, and Adam Holzman on keyboards. The record has been engineered by legendary producer/engineer Alan Parsons and consists of six songs, three of which are 10 minute plus epics and are based on stories of the supernatural.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
the week of February 19, 2013
Son of Rogue’s Gallery Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & ChanteysProducer Hal Willner has made a specialty of matching maverick artists, often in unexpected pairings, with surprising material;
in 2006, he offered up a supreme example with the first volume of Rogues Gallery, hatched up on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest with actor Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski, who serve as executive producers
of both volumes. Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys features exclusive performances by
Tom Waits, Keith Richards, Michael Stipe, Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, Iggy Pop, Richard Thompson, and many many more.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Push The Sky Away produced by Nick Launay and recorded at La Fabrique, a recording studio based in a 19th Century mansion in the South of France, where the walls of the main studio are lined with an immense collection of classical vinyl. Push The Sky Away is the first album on the band’s own label, Bad Seed Ltd.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Robben Ford: Bringing it Back Home is a stunning study in soul, style and virtuosity that cuts to the heart with its exceptional, emotion-laden musicianship. The disc also brings the five-time Grammy nominated stage and studio legend back to his earliest roots as a performer, playing blues. Bringing It Back Home’s all-star line-up features organist Larry Goldings, drummer Harvey Mason, bassist David Piltch and trombonist Steve Baxter.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jerry Garcia Band: Garcia LIVE Volume One The first release from the newly-launched Garcia Live series features a recording from the historic Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey on March 1, 1980. The band performed an early and a late show on this evening, as was common at the time. The shows were originally multi-tracked on a 24-track mobile rig for WNEW’s broadcast of the early show.The band, which included Garcia on guitar and vocals, partner in crime John Kahn on bass, Ozzie Ahlers on Keys and Johnny de Foncesca on drums at the time, was wrapping up a three-week East Coast run with the performances on this evening. Highlights including a take on the Jimmie Rodgers penned rave-up, “That’s All Right,” an early show encore of “Deal” and a rollicking version of “That’s What Love Will Make You Do” show Jerry and the band loose and fluid at the end of the tour.
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Fat Boy Slim__________Charlie Daniels Band
Mark Kozelek______________GODFLESH
the week of February 12, 2013
Nataly Dawn (from Pomplamoose): How I Knew Her comprises 12 autobiographical, introspective songs by Dawn was produced by her longtime partner Jack Conte. The album was recorded at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, CA with a group of accomplished musicians including Ryan Lerman (Ben Folds, A Fine Frenzy) on electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, and acoustic guitar; David Piltch (k.d. lang, Bill Frisell, Bonnie Raitt) on upright bass; Louis Cole (Louis and Genevieve, Pomplamoose); and Matt Chamberlain (Brad Mehldau, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Jon Brion) on drums.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age best known as the frontman for Roxy Music.. The Jazz Age is a step back to the classic Jazz era of the 1920s. By re-recording hits with top Jazz musicians, Bryan Ferry has given a new sound to his back catalog and the album includes hits such as “Don’t Stop the Dance” and “Slave to Love”.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison: Cheater’s Game She is the queen of post-modern cred-country. He is the aw shucks singer/songwriter with #1 records cut by the Dixie Chicks, George Strait, and Tim McGraw. Together they are the first couple of Texas music, and, they have finally recorded together.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Allman Brothers LIVE from 1973…
Devon Allman (Greg’s boy) BORN in 1975…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Otis Taylor___________________Anders Osborne
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Pat Metheny______________The Foals
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Music to play while you’re reading the new Sports Illustrated
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Music to play after youve read the new Sports Illustrated
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the week of February 5, 2013
Eric Burdon: ‘Til Your River Runs DryIn the 1970′s I worked at a little club in Huntington Beach, CA called The Golden Bear;
Eric Burdon performed there a few times. A real gentleman and a great singer.
Remember The Animals, and “Spill The Wine”?
His new album is very cool…
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Richard Thompson: Electric produced by Buddy Miller.Thompson, named one of Rolling Stone Magazine s 20 Greatest Guitarists, brings a record full
of gifted songwriting and virtuosic guitar playing. Electric was made at Buddy Miller s home studio in Nashville, TN.
The record features Alison Krauss on the song “The Snow Leopard.”
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Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without A Net marks the legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter return to Blue Note Records for his first album as a leader for the iconic label in 43 years. The album which features his long-running Quartet with pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade is a 9-track musical thrill ride that consists of live recordings from the Quartet s European tour in late 2011, the one exception being the 23-minute tone poem Pegasus which features the quartet with The Imani Winds recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The album features six new Shorter compositions, as well as new versions of his tunes Orbits (from Miles Davis Miles Smiles album) and Plaza Real (from the Weather Report album Procession).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Josh Groban: All That Echoes features production from Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls, Paramore). Included are covers of songs by such artists as Stevie Wonder, Glen Hansard, and Jimmy Webb. Also featured are seven original songs composed by Groban, as well as guest appearances from trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and Italian singer Laura Pausini…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jim James: Regions of Light and Sounds of Godwritten, produced and all instruments performed by Jim James (with the exception of strings and percussion)
in Louisville, KY. The music on the album is inspired by life and the novel in woodcuts `Gods’ Man’ by Lynd Ward.
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Eels_____________________Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Now 45_______________Tim McGraw
Jewel_______________Harry Connick, Jr
Coheed & Cambria________Misfits
Tony Bennett__________Brotha Lynch Hung
Ron Sexsmith________The Steeldrivers
The Bronx___________Joe Buden
the week of January 29, 2013
One of our favorite people in the world is Charlie Musselwhite. Besides being a consummate musician, Charlie and his family have been friends of the record store for over 20 some-odd years. We are proud to have a large selection of Charlie’s music available, and extra happy when he puts out a terrific new album !
Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite: Get Up!Charlie Musselwhite’s searing point/counter-point harmonica accentuates Harper’s vocals throughout Get Up!,
tying its songs (10 Harper originals) together into a cohesive musical whole.
Nothing says “I love you” like some Blues Harmonica. Spend Valentines Day with Charlie at The Raven Theater
in Healdsburg. Tickets available you know where…
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Andrea Bocelli________________Destiny’s Child
Tegan and Sara_____________Rumours 35th Anniversary Edition
Lisa Loeb__________________Hatebreed
Tomahawk_________________Texas Flood 25th Anniversary Edition
Brett Dennen Collection________Miles LIVE in ’69 (previously un-released)
Rock Candy Funk Party is guitarist Joe Bonamassa, drummer Tal Bergman (Billy Idol, Joe Bonamassa, LL Cool J, Rod Stewart), bassist Mike Merritt (The Basic Cable Band on Conan), guitarist Ron DeJesus (Planet Funk, Groove vol 1), and keyboardist Renato Neto (Prince) – decided to gather in the studio to make an instrumental record, bringing in sounds from Jazz, Funk and Rock that captures the vibe of the early 70s and 80s, and bringing it into the modern age.
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The week of January 22, 2013:
Camper Van Beethoven: La Costa Perdida Alternative rock pioneers Camper Van Beethoven have returned with a new album, LA COSTA PERDIDA their 429 Records debut. The lineup, featuring Victor Krummenacher (bass, baritone guitar), Greg Lisher (guitars), David Lowery (guitars and vocals), Chris Pedersen (drums), Jonathan Segel (violin , guitar , mandolin, organ , backing vocals) and Michael Urbano (drums and percussion), have reunited and created their most cohesive album yet. Produced by the band, this album, their eighth studio album and first since 2004, is steeped in their connection to Northern California, specifically the areas where the band members first nurtured their musical talents Redlands, Santa Cruz and San Francisco. With a geographical jumping off point, the band fills in the dramatic, joyous, interpersonal and psychological aspects of the locales as only CVB can. The ten tracks on LA COSTA PERDIDA were recorded in the Oakland home studio of Jonathan Segel.Says Victor Krummenacher: The coolest part was that everything flowed from the fact that these distinctive musicians and personalities sat in the living room. Our music now sounds like four people are writing it. The songs have great energy, but we re more relaxed and stately and a lot more confident. The songwriting here has elements of vintage Camper along with grown-up Camper.
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Aaron Neville: My True Story
“These songs helped to mold me into who I am,” says Aaron Neville. “They’re all dear to my heart, and they rode with me, in my bones, through all these years.”
With MY TRUE STORY, one of the world’s finest singers is revisiting the music he grew up with, and adding a few new spins along the way. Neville’s first release for Blue Note Records is a collection of twelve classic doo-wop numbers, performed in his utterly inimitable vocal style, and co-produced by Blue Note President Don Was and Keith Richards.
The selections on the album include classics by such vocal-group giants as Little Anthony and the Imperials (“Tears on My Pillow”), Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (“Work With Me, Annie”), and the Drifters (“Money Honey,” “Under the Boardwalk,” “This Magic Moment”). To Neville, though, these songs weren’t just the soundtrack to his youth; they became the underpinning for all of the remarkable music he has created across five decades.
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Carrie Rodriguez : Give Me All You Got is the fifth full-length solo album from singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist Carrie Rodriguez. Produced by Lee Townsend (Bill Frisell,Loudon Wainwright III, Kelly Joe Phelps) at Berkeley s Fantasy Studios and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound NYC, the record marries Rodriguez s Texas background with a decade spent in Brooklyn, NY. These new original tunes run the gamut of intense emotions, from heartache to budding new love, from betrayal to resigned acceptance, and finally to the sheer joy of simply being alive, she says.
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12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief
The Robin Hood Relief Fund will receive 100% of the net proceeds of Columbia Records and the artists from the sale of this album (a minimum of $6.50 for sales in the United States).2CD set. Star-studded benefit for the victims of Hurricane Sandy, recorded at Madison Square Garden in December 2012! Features Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, The Who, Eric Clapton, Chris Martin (Coldplay) and others.
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Bad Religion: True North In a world still brimming with rampant anti intellectualism, inequality and oppression, Bad Religion’s signature brand of sonically charged humanist dissent seems as relevant as ever. On True North, the storied band deliberately revisits and refines the powerful and melodic Southern California sound they helped to define. 16 songs. 35 minutes. Punk Rock.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pogues compilation_____Jose James
Petra Haden__________Patricia Barber
Neil Young DVD_______Rodriguez Documentary
NEW January 15, 2013:
Yo La Tengo: FadeThis thirteenth album from the cult American indie rock trio (that played The Last Record Store!) is the follow-up to 2009’s Popular Songs. Bringing to mind their late-90s career high I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, this is one of their most personal albums to date, dealing with themes of aging, emotion and loss.
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A$Ap Rocky : Long.Live. A$Ap In 2012, this dude wound up in a Lana Del Rey video, performed next to Rihanna at the MTV Video Music Awards, starred in an EA Sports video games commercial, and got a three-million dollar contract with RCA Records. The kid has swagger:“Cause my chain came from Cuba, got a lock up on the link/And them red bottom loafers just to complement the mink”
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Christopher Owen : Lysandre After deciding to split his group Girls in 2012, Christopher Owens releases his first solo record, Lysandre. Girls’ short career arc went from scrappy, reverb-drowned eccentrics to majestic psych-prog-tinged rock, but his first effort finds Owens stripping back on both reverb and majesty in favor of a more organic, intimate sound. Split between confessional, Baroque folk ballads and bubbly rockers, the brief album traces the splintering of a love affair with all the melodic strength and clunky lyrical style associated with Owens’ previous work. He sounds more comfortable laying back in the ballads this time out, surrounding his ultra-plaintive vocals with a comforting array of acoustic guitars, vibraphones, electric pianos, and female backing vocals.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ziggy Marley: In Concert chestnuts like “Tomorrow People” roll along in a more natural way than they ever have before, and there’s no watching the clock either, as “Jah Will Be Done” gleefully skanks past the eight-minute mark with ease. Then there’s the excellent reading of Dad’s “War,” a militant classic that now fits perfectly with Ziggy’s richer sound, a sound enriched by the weathering and slight cracks in his voice, coupling vintage spirit with vintage sound.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pete Escovedo: LIVE from the Stern Grove Festival from July of 2012, Escovedo’s big band and some special guests pulled out all the stops in a program of Latin jazz classics and standards. Co-produced by Escovedo and his daughter, drummer/percussionist extraordinaire Sheila E., the set cooks from the opening moments of “Picadillo Jam,” by Escovedo’s hero Tito Puente. Escovedo’s sons, Juan and Peter Michael, are in the band on congas and drums respectively. Live from Stern Grove is modern Latin big-band jazz at its very best.