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Van Halen - Women and Children First (MoFi SACD) TBA
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Ghost - Rite Here Rite Now (July)
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Petty County - A Music Celebration of Tom Petty
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A new one (Consequences Of The Crown) from Shelby Lynne on August 16th.
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bdp24
Nice to see Shelby in 2024.
Happy Listening!
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On September 13th Nick Lowe’s first new album in over a decade comes out on Yep Roc Records. Providing musical accompaniment is Los Straitjackets, his road band for quite a while now. The title is Indoor Safari.
I take particular interest in this album as an old friend and former bandmate of mine plays bass in The Straitjackets. We met in September of 1962 (!) on the first day of 7th grade at Hyde Jr. High in Cupertino, California, and became fast friends (I learned to play drums on his set of Japanese drums, then got my own set of used Ludwigs and A. Zildjian cymbals). We played together in a coupla bands in the ensuing years, the last being The Hillbilly Soul Surfers, an instrumental trio working out of Los Angeles.
We both loved Nick’s debut solo album (after leaving The Brinsley Schwarz Band), Jesus Of Cool (renamed Pure Pop For Now People for it’s U.S.A. release on Columbia Records), though I greatly preferred the follow up, Labour Of Lust. Nick’s former partner in the band Rockpile Dave Edmunds (they had a falling out many years ago) I love even more. I received a concert poster for Rockpile’s October 17th, 1979 show at The Hollywood Palladium as a gift from an old (young at the the time 😊) girlfriend, and as fate would have it years later played in the band of the artist listed on the poster as Rockpile’s opening act, Pearl Harbour (Pearl was a for a time married to Clash bassist Paul Simonon, but I kept my opinion of his musicianship to myself 😁). I didn’t see that show, but saw Rockpile at The Country Club in nearby Reseda, with Moon Martin opening. A great show! Nick of course played bass on John Hiatt’s brilliant Bring The Family album, with Ry Cooder on guitar and Jim Keltner on drums. Pretty good little combo 😉.
Pete (Pedro in the parlance of Los Straitjackets) has a home studio with a 2" 16-track 3M recorder, great mics, and a nice board, so I’ll be curious to see if that’s where they made the album (I would ask him, but we too had a falling out many years ago 😉).
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Van Halen - Diver Down (MoFi SACD) TBA
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Nite Owls by JD McPherson (from the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant band) on September 27th.
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On August 12th Real Gone Music is releasing the never-before issued recordings Dusty Springfield made in 1971 with Jeff Barry (famous for his Pop songwriting with partner Ellie Greenwich) producing, entitled Faithful. It is a pressing of 1500 LP's worldwide, so if you want a copy I would pre-order it now from RGM!
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Elton John - Friends Soundtrack (50th Anniversary Pink LP)
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Nik Kershaw - The MCA Years (Box Set) TBA
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From Genesis To Relevation - (Remix) TBA
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Tracy Chapman - S/T (Re-issue LP) TBA
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King Crimson - Sheltering Skies (September)
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Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life (LP Re-issue) August
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Bob Dylan - 1974 Live Recordings (27 Disc Box Set) September
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The Rolling Stones - VooDoo Lounge (30th Anniversary Edition) July
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Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines (Blu-Ray Audio/ Atmos) September
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Zappa - Apostrophe (') 50th Anniversary (July)
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Johnny Cash - Live At Folsom Prison (MoFi 2LP set and SACD)
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The Doobie Brothers - TBD
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To be released on 7/26/2024.
Perpetual Mutations by, Gavin Harrison (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree) and Antoine Fafard (one of the best jazz-fusion bass players on the planet).
With:
Jean-Pierre Zanella: Soprano Saxophone
Dale Devoe: Trombones and Trumpets
Joasia Cieslak: Cello
Isodora Filipovic: Cello
Reinaldo Ocando: Marimba & Vibraphone
Pier Luigi Salami: Piano and Rhodes
Tadeusz Palosz: Handpans and Log Drum
Ally Storch: Violin
Rodrigo Escalona: Oboe
Haven’t heard the entire recording yet, but what I have heard sounds pretty killer. Incredible musicianship, great melodies, interesting textures, complex and creative.
Kind of straddles the line between fusion and prog.
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Rory Gallagher - BBC Box Set (18CD + Blu-Ray)
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"Fast" Eddie Clarke - Box Set (Spetember)
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"Fast" Eddie Clarke - Box Set (September) : Corrected.
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@jafant: In addition to the 27-CD boxset of Dylan’s 1974 Live Recordings that Sony Records is issuing on September 20th (27 CD’s  !), Third Man Records is issuing a 3-LP set of (some of) those recordings that augments the original 2-LP set from 1974, with no song duplication between the two. The catch is that the set is available only to Third Man Records "Vault" subscribers. The good news is that a quarterly subscription costs $75, and that subscription entitles one to the LP set at no extra charge. So you enroll and pay now (deadline July 31st), receive the LP set, and if you wish not renew your quarterly subscription at the end of the three months. A 3-LP set for $75, not bad at all.
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Paula Cole - This Fire (Vinyl Re-issue)
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Pete Townsend - Live In Concert 1985-2001 (14CD box set)
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10,000 Maniacs - MTV Unplugged (2-LP Edition) September
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Rodney Crowell- The Houston Kid
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Bryan Ferry - Retrospective (5 CD Box Set) November
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Fairport Convention - Onstage & On-Air 1982-1990 (11-CD 1 DVD Box Set) TBA
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