New In 2021


Happy New Year!List the newest releases and re-issues on CD, Download, EP, LP, SACD, Stream or Vinyl.
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@mksun +1 on Aimee Mann.  Been streaming it and it's great songwriting.  Record comes out in January.  
 

did anybody mention the new Aoife O'Donovan?  Available for pre order.

 

 

 

       
 
In December, the 50th Anniversary issue of The Band’s 4th album Cahoots. Though imo overpriced at $149.99, the deluxe boxset contains a new Bob Clearwater mix on LP and CD, some unreleased and/or alternate takes, the second half of a live show taped in Paris in ’71, a 7" 45 RPM single, and a Bluray surround sound disc. Plus a 12" x 12" booklet with notes from Robbie Robertson, as well as three lithographs. This release completes the reissue series of The Band’s first four/essential studio albums.
Looking forward to picking up Aimee Mann's "Queens of the Summer Hotel" today, her first new release in 4 years.  Thanks for your post @jafant!
bdp24

My pleasure. I am sure that I cannot catch every new release out there?
Good to see other's participation.

Happy Listening!
Two by Lucinda Williams:

- Lu’s Jukebox Volume 3: Bob’s Back Pages: A Night Of Bob Dylan Songs.

- Lu’s Jukebox Volume 4: Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night Of 60’s Country Classics.

Both albums feature excellent song choices; I can’t wait to hear what Lu does with them. I also hope her recovery from her stroke earlier in the year is progressing well.
stuartk

Yes! this is a great re-issue on CD and LP.  I own the original 3-CD set from the 1990's. The new edition is 8-CDs.

Happy Listening!
Appearing soon at a record store near you:

- Stomping Ground by Dion DiMucci. If you’re not hip to Dion, get with it, man. Dave Edmunds produced his 1989 "comeback" album Yo Frankie, upon which appear k.d. Lang, Lou Reed (a huge fan of Dion), Paul Simon, pianist Chuck Leavell, and a great rhythm section.

Appearing on Stomping Ground are Billy Gibbons, Bruce Springsteen, Boz Scaggs, Eric Clapton, Keb’ Mo, Marcia Ball, Mark Knopfler, Patti Scialfa (a fantastic singer, and a member of Springsteen’s band as well as his wife), Rickie Lee Jones, and the fantastic slide guitarist Sonny Landreth. Nice accompaniment. ;-)

- At My Piano by Brian Wilson. Brian is given a lot of credit for The Beach Boys’ harmonies, as well as his talents at melody writing and arranging. But I have long made the case for his abilities at writing really, really great chord progressions, his use of modulation and inversion. and other sophisticated composition techniques, far above the level of almost all other Rock ’n’ Roll songwriters.

Brian’s "God Only Knows" is as always a harmony-feast, but the heavy production (employing all the members of The Wrecking Crew studio recording band) and multiple harmony vocal parts make hearing the song’s chords and their harmonic/modulated/inverted movement difficult. You have to listen "through" the dense sounds piled on top of the piano part, played by Brian. I am hoping and assuming At My Piano---Brian playing his songs alone, without instrumental accompaniment and/or vocals, both melody and harmonies--will rectify that situation. Awesome!

- All The Good Times by Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. Originally released in a limited pressing available only through their website, this album will now be available everywhere good music is sold.

And for comic relief, a Christmas album from Billy Idol. Maybe he figured if Dylan could do one, so could he. I predict it sucks.