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Diamond Life spawned her first Top 10 U.S. hit, the bossa nova-tinged, "Smooth Operator," with its unforgettable sax work, a true classic. Other standouts are the swinging horn-peppered "Your Love Is King," the retro-funk of "When Am I Going To Make A Living," the tender and lovely "I Will Be Your Friend," as well as an imaginative remake of Timmy Thomas' 1971 hit "Why Can't We Live Together" (with an extremely long, brilliant jazzy intro heavy with congas).

Diamond Life had international sales of over six million, becoming one of the top-selling debut recordings of the '80s and the best selling debut ever by a British female vocalist. There has never been a lead singer quite like former model Sade Adu, her cool vocals and exotic looks grabbed everyone's attention. Her ponytails, large hoop earrings and backless dresses, and the fantastic blue-tinged black and white cover art offered up a retro look to match the sound. Everything shimmers here with a sultry yet subtle beauty, pulling you into an atmosphere of a midnight lounge or the club scene from which Sade first emerged. Diamond Life is the album that started it all!

Track Listing:
1. Smooth Operator
2. Your Love Is King
3. Hang On To Your Love
4. Frankie's First Affair
5. When Am I Going To Make A Living
6. Cherry Pie
7. Sally
8. I Will Be Your Friend
9. Why Can't We Live Together

In the fall of 1980, the Grateful Dead purposefully played a series of shows at two venues, the Warfield Theater in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York City, that were considerably smaller than the stadiums and arenas they were, by that point, regularly selling out. They did so with the express interest of recording in an intimate space the opening portion of each show, a stripped-down acoustic set featuring Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir playing acoustic guitars, Brent Mydland playing piano, drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart playing reduced kits and bassist Phil Lesh turning his electric volume down considerably.

The group chose a set list of classic folk and country tunes mixed with their originals and Reckoning is a very obvious ode to the band's early 1960s origins of folk, bluegrass and country. These are the sounds from which this whole long, strange trip was born, and Garcia in particular shines radiantly here.

The sound, as with all records that are stripped to their bare essentials and rid of an overcrowded electric set, is right up there with the very best the Dead ever released. This is also the record for those on-the-fence fans that could do without the wandering-away-from-the-pocket sound that characterized much of the Dead's music. The songs here are tight and compact while still remaining dynamically delicate.

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Track Listing:
1. Dire Wolf
2. The Race Is On
3. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
4. It Must Have Been The Roses
5. Dark Hollow
6. China Doll
7. Been All Around This World
8. Monkey And The Engineer
9. Jack-A-Roe
10. Deep Elem Blues
11. Cassidy
12. To Lay Me Down
13. Rosalie McFall
14. On The Road Again
15. Bird Song
16. Ripple

The eclectic soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's Oscar nominated 1994 film features dialog from the movie as well as selections by Chuck Berry, Maria McKee, Al Green, The Statler Brothers, Kool & The Gang, Ricky Nelson and Dusty Springfield to name a few!

Track Listing:
1. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (Dialogue)/Misirlou - Dick Dale, Amanda Plummer, Tim Roth
2. Royale With Cheese - Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta
3. Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang
4. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
5. Bustin' Surfboards - The Tornadoes
6. Lonesome Town - Rick Nelson
7. Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
8. Zed's Dead, Baby [Dialogue] - Centurian, Maria De Medeiros, Bruce Willis
9. Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest (Dialogue)/You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry, Jerome Patrick Hoban
10. Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill
11. If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags) - Maria McKee
12. Bring Out the Gimp (Dialogue)/Comanche - Peter Green, Duane Whitaker
13. Flowers on the Wall - The Statler Brothers
14. Personality Goes a Long Way [Dialogue] - Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta
15. Surf Rider - The Lively Ones
16. Ezekiel 25:17 [Dialogue] - Samuel L. Jackson

Originally released on Fantasy in 1952, this special exclusive Record Store reissue pressing faithfully reproduces the original 10” vinyl package right down to the red colored vinyl! Features legendary sidemen Bill Smith, Paul Desmond, David Van Kriedt, Dick Collins, Bob Collins, Ron Crotty, and Cal Tjader!

Track Listing:
1. The Way You Look Tonight
2. Love Walked In
3. What is This Thing Called Love
4. September in the Rain
5. Prelude and Fugue on Bop Themes
6. Let's Fall in Love
7. Ipca

1000 ONLY LIMITED EDITION

On the morning of April 25 1963, directly after the conclusion of his final Freewheelin Bob Dylan album session, Bob journeyed to Chicago for a live club appearance and a radio interview.

The gig, on the evening of the same day, was at a newly opened club called The Bear, in which manager Albert Grossman was a partner.

But the primary reason for the 700-mile excursion west was for Dylan to appear on a radio show the following evening, hosted by the extraordinary Studs Terkel.

Capturing the entire broadcast, during which Dylan is questioned and discusses with Studs his thoughts and ideas behind both the songs he performs and others he had written by this juncture, this CD contains a legendary event during which a 21 year old Bob Dylan also performs full acoustic versions of 7 self penned numbers.

Across just over an hour of airtime, Studs and Bob chat like old friends as Dylan is prompted towards playing certain tracks from his then fairly slim body of work, but comes up trumps by pulling songs not just from his imminent second record, but including one from the album after that and showcasing 3 songs that wouldnt see the light of day on record until the 1990s.

Serving both as a historic document of a little known event in the career of a true musical icon, but also as a wholly enjoyable listening experience that stands up to numerous repeat listens.

Track Listing:
SIDE A

1. Farewell
2. Conversation pt.1
3. A Hard Rains Gonna Fall

SIDE B

4. Conversation pt.2
5. Bob Dylans Dream
6. Conversation pt.3

SIDE C

7. Boots Of Spanish Leather
8. Conversation pt.4
9. John Brown

SIDE D

10. Conversation pt.5
11. Who Killed Davey Moore
12. Conversation pt.6
13. Blowin In The Wind

Elvis Aaron Presley was born during the great depression into a poor family in Mississippi. They moved to Memphis during the early '50s, and as a struggling young truck driver, he cut some demos at Sun Studios as a gift for his beloved mother Gladys. These initial songs, of which he had only paid a few dollars to record, would become the catalyst that would kick-start the career of a soon to be worldwide superstar unlike the world has ever known.

Elvis had the amazing ability to sing both R&B and country simultaneously. This with the persona and choreography of a Hollywood movie star on stage, the young Elvis Presley was soon touring, and over the year achieved a number of regional hit singles, electrifying audiences into frenzies wherever he performed.

The folks at RCA Victor knew that this young fellow named Elvis was destined for superstardom. They quickly bought out his contract and signed the legend to a long term deal, and his first RCA single "Heartbreak Hotel" forever etched 'The King Of Rock And Roll' trademark to his name. In 1956 after a chart topping debut LP, his second smash #1 album simply called Elvis truly proved once again that his career was unlike any other in music history.

Filled with more energy than a fireball, the Elvis album took off with the Little Richard classic rocker "Rip It Up." Another chart topping single followed with the much revered "Love Me," a song which he would perform well into the '70s. The album also featured more smash hits like the Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley rocker "Paralyzed," a blues belter Arthur Crudup revisit with Elvis interpretation of "So Glad Youre Mine," and Red Foleys tender ballad about mans best friend "Old Shep." In total, the album showcases twelve important Elvis Presley recordings which have truly stood the test of time.

In honor of the Man, the Music, the Legend, the 'King Of Rock And Roll', Friday Music is very proud and honored to announce the first time 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl release of the RCA Victor classic Elvis by Elvis Presley. As a first installment in their exciting Elvis Presley 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Series, they are very pleased to present this masterwork in all its high fidelity glory.

Mastered impeccably from the original monophonic RCA Victor Records tapes by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios with Kevin Gray and manufactured at R.T.I., this brilliant album will be a much anticipated audiophile dream release for Elvis fans everywhere! For this exclusive presentation, Friday Music is also including the first time ever gatefold artwork which includes the groundbreaking original LP cover elements as well as more rare visuals from this historic Elvis era. They are also enclosing a poly bag to protect your album cover and poly lined inner sleeve to help keep your vinyl in mint shape.

Track Listing:
1. Rip It Up
2. Love Me
3. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold
4. Long Tall Sally
5. First In Line
6. Paralyzed
7. So Glad Youre Mine
8. Old Shep
9. Ready Teddy
10. Anyplace Is Paradise
11. Hows The World Treating You
12. How Do You Think I Feel

January 3, 1987 was a milestone in Austin City Limits history. One of the few individuals in the world of music who truly deserves the title of legend set foot onto the Austin City Limits stage and the result was magic. The legend, of course, was Johnny Cash, and he delivered what even he considered to be one of his finest television performances. The excellent set features an array of his hits including Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, and Long Black Veil, as well as a powerful cover of John Prines Sam Stone, and a timeless duet with wife June Carter Cash on Where Did We Go Right.

Track Listing:
1. Ring Of Fire
2. Folsom Prison Blues
3. Sunday Morning Comin' Down
4. I Walk The Line
5. The Wall
6. Long Black Veil
7. Big River
8. I'll Go Somewhere and Sing My Songs Again
9. Let Him Roll
10. Ballad of Barbara
11. Sam Stone
12. (Ghots) Riders In The Sky
13. Where Did We Go Right? (with June Carter Cash)
14. I Walk The Line (Outro)

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Track Listing:
LP1 - Big Brother & The Holding Company - Big Brother & The Holding Company
1. Bye, Bye Baby
2. Easy Rider
3. Intruder
4. Light Is Faster Than Sound
5. Call On Me
6. Coo coo
7. Women Is Losers
8. Blindman
9. Down On Me
10. Caterpillar
11. All Is Loneliness
12. The Last Time

LP2 - Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
1. Combination of the Two
2. I Need A Man To Love
3. Summertime
4. Piece Of My Heart
5. Turtle Blues
6. Oh, Sweet Mary
7. Ball & Chain

LP3 - Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
1. Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
2. Maybe
3. One Good Man
4. As Good As You've Been To This World
5. To Love Somebody
6. Kozmic Blues
7. Little Girl Blue
8. Work Me, Lord

LP4 - Janis Joplin - Pearl
1. Move Over
2. Cry Baby
3. A Woman Left Lonely
4. Half Moon
5. Buried Alive In The Blues
6. My Baby
7. Me & Bobby McGee
8. Mercedes Benz
9. Trust Me
10. Get It While You Can

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Track Listing:
1. Touch of Your Pips
2. When Your Lover has Gone
3. Bye Bye Blackbird
4. How Deep Is The Ocean (How High is The Sky)
5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
6. Sunday
7. This Can't Be Love

This fresh approach to stylus cleaning has saved all of us from the fear of hard bristled brushes and over applying dangerous fluids. Clean your stylus simply and effectively with the Zerodust from Japan. This space-age polymer bubble allows you to simply lower your stylus onto its surface, then quickly lift the arm lever and youre done! Watch as the stylus tip slowly sinks into the baby soft surface, leaving behind an impression with the stylus debris left behind! This unique device will last a lifetime, can be cleaned with tap water, and can extend the life of your cartridge! Comes complete with a magnifier to inspect your stylus! Our highest recommendation!

After a few seconds, you lift the stylus, and its as clean and reside-free as the proverbial whistleUpside: no potentially dangerous brushing, and no fluids! - Michael Fremer, Stereophile, Recommended Components Issue

Abbey Road won the 1969 Grammy for Best Engineered (Non-Classical) Recording. Nominated for Album Of The Year and Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Group.

Track Listing:
Come Together
Something
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Oh! Darling
Octopus's Garden
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
End
Her Majesty

Gruv-Glide is a dry record treatment that actually enhances the fidelity of the record. Prior to its development, even the highest quality cartridge could not produce the maximum available reproduction from the phono record. Now for the first time, Gruv-Glide will allow you to hear more micro-detail while bringing out the best possible sound.

Gruv-Glide not only increases fidelity, but also reduces surface noise, removes static, and cleans the record. The treated record and cartridge stylus will last longer due to the increased tracking ability and reduced friction. One application lasts for an indefinite period of time. The kit will treat at least 200 records when used as directed, making it a very economical record care system.

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Track Listing:
1. There's A Lull In My Life
2. More Than You Know
3. What Will I Tell My Hear
4. I Never Had A Chance
5. Close Your Eyes
6. We'll Be Together Again
7. Then I'll Be Tired of You
8. Like Someone In Love
9. Midnight Sun
10. I Thought About You
11. You're Blase
12. Night Wind
13. What's New
14. Hurry Home
15. How Long Has This Been Going On
16. I'll Never Be The Same
17. Lost In A Fog
18. Everything Happens To Me
19. So Rare

His vocal qualities lie in a recitative-like, dry declamation, sharp as a knife, as is clearly heard in "Work Song." The pain brought on by lifes adversities can be cried out internally even if you appear to remain unaffected outwardly ("But I Was Cool"). A portion of sarcasm is necessary when the singsong of a slave trader constantly calls for higher bids ("Bid Em In") and when a babbling child can pester its daddy with both banal and existential questions ("Dat Dere").

The generously manned band does not often play all together as in the springy "Signifyin Monkey." Here we have just a few chords on the piano ("Watermelon Man"), there a gently plucked guitar ("Brown Baby"), or a quiet pulsating rhythm ("Afro Blue"), very often not much more was needed for a sin and soul performance by Oscar Brown, who, by the way, and so typically American, regarded himself as an entertainer.

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Track Listing:
1. Work Song
2. But I Was Cool
3. Bid 'em High
4. Signifyin' Monkey
5. Watermelon Man
6. Somebody By Me A Drink
7. Rags and Old Iron
8. Dat Dere
9. Brown Baby
10. Humdrum Blues
11. Sleepy
12. Afro Blue

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Track Listing:
LP1 - Side A:
1. Overture "The Hebrides" (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26
LP1 - Side B:
Symphony No. 3 in A minor ("The Scotch"), Op. 56
1. Andante con molto

LP2 - Side C:
1. Vivace non troppo
2. Adagio
LP2 - Side D:
1. Allegro vivacissimo - Allegro maestoso assai

Anne's debut album, 2009's Blue Mind, is a fantastic audiophile recording featuring a rich and warm midrange, with sultry tones that envelop and embrace, with melodies that soar with a delicate confidence through changes that are a unique blend of jazz and vocal pop. 2011's "Portraits & Perfumes" is an opus of jazz standards featuring expansive, original arrangements and covers, including a brilliant cover of "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd, stunning rendition of "With A Little Help From My Friends" by The Beatles, a calming transcription of "Call Me/You've Got A Friend" by Carole King, alluringly sweet adaptation of "The Nearness Of You" by Hoagy Carmichael, and many, many more!

Bisson is joined again by some of the best jazz musicians in Quebec and by Legendary producer, conductor, and arranger Guy St-Onge. Recorded at St-Onge's Reference Studio in St-Calixte, Quebec, Canada.

Track Listing:
1. Us And Them
2. The Nearness Of You
3. With A Little Help From My Friends
4. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
5. Better Than Anything
6. Call Me/You've Got A Friend
7. What's Wrong With Me?
8. Ripples
9. I Like You Too

BUDDY GUY, JUNIOR WELLS, MUDDY WATERS, KOKO TAYLOR, etc ...

Track Listing:
LP 1

1. Eyesight To The Blind - Sonny Boy Williamson
2. Walkin' The Blues - Willie Dixon
3. I'm Ready- Muddy Waters
4. Groaning The Blues- Otis Rush
5. Sit And Cry (The Blues)- Buddy Guy And His Band
6. Junior's Wail- Junior Wells
7. It Must've Been The Devil- Otis Spann
8. Moanin' At Midnight- Howlin' Wolf
9. Say Man- Bo Diddley
10. Shake It Baby- Sunnyland Slim
11. Five Long Years- Eddie Boyd
12. Easy Baby- Magic Sam
13. You're So Fine- Little Walter

LP 2

1. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man- Muddy Waters
2. Keep It To Yourself- Sonny Boy Williamson
3. Smokestack Lightnin'- Howlin' Wolf
4. I Could Cry- Junior Wells
5. All Your Love- Magic Sam
6. Poison Ivy- Willie Mabon
7. Cry For Me Baby- Elmore James
8. I Can't Quit You Baby- Otis Rush
9. Woman Trouble- Sunnyland Slim
10. Juke- Little Walter And His Combo
11. Ain't That Loving You Baby- Jimmy Reed
12. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)- Howlin' Wolf
13. Pretty Thing- Bo Diddley
14. Keep It To Yourself- Sonny Boy Williamson

With their second album, For the Good Times, The Little Willies take on songs by such masters as Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Dolly Parton. The results demonstrate the joy they take, and commitment they make, to a project that was first born for purely practical reasons.

Material for the new album was taken from the Willies live repertoire, and by passing around ideas drawn from disparate sources. The selections include more surprising choices, like the trucker classic Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves and Foul Owl on the Prowl, from the soundtrack to In the Heat of the Night. Alongside the more obscure songs, though, For the Good Times also includes some of the best-known songs in the history of country music, like Partons Jolene and the title track, written by Kristofferson and made famous by such singers as Ray Price and Al Green.

Track Listing:
1. I Worship You (Ralph Stanley) Norah & Richard vocals
2. Remember Me (Scott Wiseman) Norah vocals
3. Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves (Cal Martin) Norah & Richard vocals
4. Lovesick Blues (Cliff Friend/Irving Mills) Norah & Richard vocals
5. Tommy Rockwood (Jim Campilongo) - instrumental
6. Fist City (Loretta Lynn) Norah vocals
7. Permanently Lonely (Willie Nelson) Richard vocals
8. Foul Owl on the Prowl (Quincy Jones/Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman) Norah & Richard vocals
9. Wide Open Road (Johnny Cash) Richard vocals w/Norah backing
10. For the Good Times (Kris Kristofferson) Norah vocals
11. If Youve Got the Money Ive Got the Time (Lefty Frizzell/Jim Beck) Norah & Richard vocals
12. Jolene (Dolly Parton) Norah vocals

3 LP set, all recorded originally in 1956/57

Track Listing:
LP1 - Ella & Louis
1. Can't We Be Friends
2. Isn't This A Lovely Day
3. Moonlight In Vermont
4. They Can't Take That Away From Me
5. Under A Blanket Of Blue
6. Tenderly
7. A Foggy Day
8. Stars Fell On Alabama
9. Cheek To Cheek
10. The Nearness Of You
11. April In Paris

LP2 - Ella & Louis Again
1. Don't Be That Way
2. Makin' Whoopee
3. They All Laughed
4. Comes Love
5. Autumn In New York
6. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
7. Stompin' At The Savoy
8. I Won't Dance
9. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?

LP3 - Ella & Louis Again
1. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
2. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
3. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
4. Willow Weep For Me
5. I'm Puttin' My Eggs In One Basket
6. A Fine Romance
7. Ill Wind
8. Love Is Here To Stay
9. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. Learnin' The Blues

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Track Listing:
1. Just In Time
2. He Was Too Good to Me
3. House of the Rising Sun
4. Bye Bye Blackbird
5. Brown Baby
6. Zungo
7. If He Changed My Name
8. Children Go Where I Send You

David Oistrakh's performance here is Absolutely Stunning! This classic recording features the conducting talents of Jascha Horenstein (Bruch) & Paul Hindemith (Hindemith) accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. David Oistrakh is considered one of the best violinist of the twentieth century, premiering new concerti by Nikolai Miaskovsky and Khachaturian as well as two sonatas by his friend Sergei Prokofiev!

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Unrivaled Sonics: First Time Original RIAS Berlin Tapes Have Been Made Available

With the great demand for the LP version of their internationally successful Furtwängler 12CD box set, Audite presents a selection of recordings in LP format for audiophile vinyl enthusiasts. Containing compositions by Beethoven, Bruckner, Schubert, Brahms and Wagner, the LP boxed set (comprising 14LPs on 180g vinyl) presents the principal works of the CD boxed set. The majority of the concerts given by Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic between 1947 and 1954 were recorded by the RIAS Berlin. The original tapes from the RIAS archives have been made available for the first time for this edition so these recordings also offer unsurpassed technical quality.

These RIAS recordings are documents of historical value: they contain a major part of Furtwänglers late oeuvre as a conductor, which was characterised by a high level of focus in different respects. Focus on repertoire which has at its core the symphonic works of Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner (CD & LP box) and is supplemented by works by Bach and Handel and also by topical composers of the time, including Hindemith, Blacher and Fortner (CD box only): artists who were counted amongst the members of moderate modernism and who were not perceived to have been tainted by the cultural politics of the National Socialists.

Focus was also a guiding principle in Furtwänglers concert programs which always feature a particular idea. His interpretations also demonstrate extremely high levels of focus: concentration and focus for him meant a contemporary decoding, a re-creation, which would express the fundamental content of a work. A number of works, the Third, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven as well as Johannes Brahms Third Symphony, are included in two interpretations. They reveal how Furtwängler was able to accentuate different aspects of a work whilst maintaining the same, clear basic conception, and how the actual interpretation depended on the context of the particular program.

The production is part of Audite's series "Legendary Recordings and bears the quality feature 1st Master Release. This term stands for the excellent quality of archival productions at Audite. All historical publications at Audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives. In general these are the original analog tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by todays standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering, professionally competent and sensitively applied, also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations.

Track Listing:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

LP1 - Sides A/B: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastorale' (May 25, 1947)
LP2 - Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (May 25, 1947)
LP3 - Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastorale' (May 23, 1954)
LP4 - Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (May 23, 1954)
LP5 Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica' (June 20, 1950)
LP6 - Side A:
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica' (cont.) (June 20, 1950)
LP6 - Side B:
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica' (December 8, 1952)
LP7 - Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica' (cont.) (December 8, 1952)

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
LP8 - Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (2nd version 1890 - Edition Robert Haas) (March
15, 1949)
LP9 - Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (cont.) (2nd version 1890 - Edition Robert Haas)
(March 15, 1949)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
LP10 - Side A:
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D 759 'Unfinished' (September 15, 1953)
LP10 - Side B:
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D.944 'The Great' (September 15, 1953)
LP11 Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D.944 'The Great' (cont.) (September 15, 1953)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
LP12 - Sides A/B:
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (October 24, 1948)
LP13 - Side A:
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 (December 18, 1949)
LP13 - Side B:
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 (cont.) (December 18, 1949)
Variations on a theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a (June 20, 1950)
LP14 Sides A:
Symphony No. 3 in F Major,Op. 90 (April 27, 1954)
LP14 Sides B:
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 (cont.) (April 27, 1954)

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Tristan und Isolde (Prelude * Isoldes Liebestod) (April 27, 1954)

1994 Self-Titled Major-Label Debut a Folk-Blues Classic

Half-Speed Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Gorgeous Vocal Inflections, Astonishing Acoustic Guitar Lines Possess Incredible Detail

Pure Blues: National Steel Guitar Playing, Raw Harmonica Solos, Soulful Strumming Infuse Originals and Pair of Covers

In an age where most contemporary bluesmen strive to mimic the past and pattern their music after the greats, Keb' Mo' is content to be himself. Original, charismatic, and immensely gifted, the guitarist/vocalist (born Kevin Moore) brings country blues in the late 20th century on his stunning self-titled Epic debut, which quickly climbed the charts and turned the former backing instrumentalist into a household name. Replete with gritty textures, close-up vocals, and resplendent acoustics, Mobile Fidelitys scintillating analog version of this 1994 set finally possesses the fidelity that brings Mos Delta strains out of the backwoods and onto a lively back porch.

Half-speed mastered from the original tapes, this numbered limited-edition 180g LP represents the very first time that Mos watershed album has been given a much-needed sonic facelift. Gone are the hazes that obscured his singing, artificial ceilings that blunted the highs, and digital fog that interfered with the multitude of illuminating tones, details, and notes. Whats revealed is startling intimacy and soothing emotion, Mos gorgeous vocal timbres and inflections given equal space with his guitar, harmonica, and pace. Finally, a great-sounding contemporary blues record that doesnt resort to derivative recycling and bland revivalism.

The son of Southern parents, Mo' channels his heritage via a batch of superb folksy songs that relax, refresh, and regale. While hes since traveled in a more commercialized pop-oriented direction, Mos initial salvo is nothing but raw, pure blues played with unbridled passion, tremendous conviction, and what is best deemed the essence of heart and soul. Keb' Mo' engages with a compelling mix of tradition and modernity, the headliner refraining from any attempt at assuming an artificial personality and instead basing his reputation on quality songs. As such, Mos material resonates with deep, mellow vibes and extraordinary National steel guitar work, which complements his fluid, acoustic finger-picking and soulful strumming.

Mo' occasionally teams with an ensemble. But this record is mostly all about the basics: guitar, voice, and harmonica. Tunes such as Victims of Comfort and Angelina testify on behalf of his phenomenal country-blues songwriting; his covers of Robert Johnsons Come On In My Kitchen and Kindhearted Woman Blues speak to his reverence for the past. Shuffles, ballads, dance songsMo nails them all.

You owe it to yourself to hear this master musician in the finest possible sound. Every movement on the guitar fretboard, every breath Mo' takes before exhaling words, every crisp and gutsy pluck of the stringsthey have never possessed more dynamics, detail, or life. Imaging and soundstaging are incredible.

Keb' Mo' remains one of the finest blues albums made in the post-Stevie Ray Vaughan era. Dont miss this American gem that so many have since tried to copy.

Track Listing:
1. Every Morning
2. Tell Everybody I Know
3. Love Blues
4. Victims of Comfort
5. Angelina
6. Anybody Seen My Girl?
7. She Just Wants to Dance
8. Am I Wrong?
9. Come on in My Kitchen
10. Dirty, Low Down and Bad
11. Don't Try to Explain
12. Kindhearted Woman Blues
13. City Boy

The album has become an instant jazz classic, and the renditions of "Lush Life", "My One and Only Love", and "They Say It's Wonderful" are considered definitive.

Recorded March 7, 1963. Produced by Bob Thiele, Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder.

"Rudy Van Gelder recorded both sets [ORGLP 17 John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman & ORGLP 27 Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By To Say Hello], and they display Hartman's voice amidst a mildly reverberant soundfield, which the 45rpm format exposes to its very limits. Piano is captured particularly well, preserving its timbre and delicate ambience. The 180-gram LPs, pressed at Pallas in Germany, are exceptionally quiet, exposing the texture of Hartman's voice and delicate dynamic gradations of Coltrane's achingly beautiful playing all the better." - Marc Mickelson, www.theaudiobeat.com, Music 5/5, Sound 4/5

"Rudy Van Gelders recording is sympathetic to the musical setting, with Hartman center stage, looming large and just kissed with reverb. Even Tyners piano sounds clean and well-textured, while Coltrane and Jones share a channel, with the tenor sax upfront and the drums pushed appropriately behind." - Michael Fremer, www.musicangle.com, Music 10, Sound 9

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Track Listing:
1. They Say It's Wonderful
2. Dedicated To You
3. My One And Only Love
4. Lush Life
5. You Are Too Beautiful
6. Autumn Serenade

LP2
1. Sparrow
2. Anna's Song
3. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Instrumental)
4. A Funky Space Reincarnation
5. You Can Leave, But It's Going To Cost You
6. Falling In Love Again
7. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise)

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Track Listing:
1. Please Love Me
2. You Upset Me Baby
3. Every Day I Have the Blues
4. Bad Luck
5. 3 O'clock Blues
6. Blind Love
7. Woke Up This Morning
8. You Know I Love You
9. Sweet Little Angel
10. Ten Long Hears
11. Did You Ever Love A Woman
12. Crying Won't Help You

Manufacturer's Description:

Records are precious. Not only are they arguably the best-sounding medium for reproduced music, but they often constitute irreplaceable collections. Even with careful handling contamination cannot be avoided in the long term. It is also well known that residual compounds from the LP pressing process obscure inner detail unless removed by cleaning even new records.

Reiner Glass of Audiodesksysteme has developed a professional quality, easy to use record washing machine he call the Vinyl Cleaner. The Vinyl Cleaner is fully automatic. The record is placed perpendicularly from above into the equipment opening and the red activation button is pressed. When the green LED shines, the clean LP can be removed. During the cleaning process rotary cleaning barrels made from a microfiber material move in opposite directions while a unique ultrasonic system carefully and thoroughly removes even the finest contaminants from the grooves. In use the cleaning solution is thoroughly filtered to avoid recontamination of the LP. Two high performance fans guarantee effective drying with quiet operation.

Technical: How can sound clean?

Ultrasonic is sound generated above the human audible level.

A physical effect called cavitation results from the generation of ultrasonic frequencies in a liquid. In this cavitation process ultrasonic compression waves are created by an ultrasonic transducer. When the amplitude of this soundwave increases to a level where the surface tension of the liquid is broken, the fluid will tear apart leaving behind millions of microscopic vacuum bubbles. These vacuum bubbles then rapidly compress or implode creating millions of tiny liquid jets small enough to clean inside the smallest grooves of an LP. This process, also called microagitation, displaces any contaminants on the surface of the LP.

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For Bob Marley, 1975 was a triumphant year. The singer's Natty Dread album featured one of his strongest batches of original material (the first compiled after the departure of Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer) and delivered Top 40 hit 'No Woman No Cry.' The follow-up Live set, a document of Marley's appearance at London's Lyceum, found the singer conquering England as well. Upon completing the tour, Marley and his band returned to Jamaica, laying down the tracks for Rastaman Vibration (1976) at legendary studios run by Harry Johnson and Joe Gibbs. At the mixing board for the sessions were Sylvan Morris and Errol Thompson, Jamaican engineers of the highest caliber. Though none of these cuts would show up on Legend, Marley's massively popular, posthumous best-of, some of the finest reality numbers would surface on the compilation's more militant equivalent, 1986's Rebel Music set. 'War,' for one, remains one of the most stunning statements of the singer's career. Though it is essentially a straight reading of one of Haile Selassie's speeches, Marley phrases the text exquisitely to fit a musical setting, a quiet intensity lying just below the surface. Equally strong are the likes of 'Rat Race,' 'Crazy Baldhead,' and 'Want More.' These songs are tempered by buoyant, lighthearted material like 'Cry to Me,' 'Night Shift,' and 'Positive Vibration.' Not quite as strong as some of the love songs Marley would score hits with on subsequent albums, 'Cry to Me' still seems like an obvious choice for a single and remains underrated. Though record buyers may not have found any single song to be as strong on those terms as 'No Woman No Cry,' Rastaman Vibration still reached the Top Ten in the United States.

Track Listing:
1. Positive Vibration
2. Roots, Rock, Reggae
3. Johnny Was
4. Cry To Me
5. Want More
6. Crazy Baldhead
7. Who The Cap Fit
8. Night Shift
9. War
10. Rat Race
11. Jah Live

Discover the legendary 'Kind Of Blue' in both mono and stereo versions on collectable 180g Vinyl format

Track Listing:
LP1 - Mono Version
1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches

LP2 - Stereo Version
1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches

As if a whirlwind tour and unbelievable album success with The Eagles Hotel California werent enough for this spirited guitarist, Walsh went back into the studio in 1978 and created his own top chart platter But Seriously, Folks.

Filled with eight unprecedented Walsh rockers, But Seriously, Folks was truly one of his most enduring classics in large part due to the eight minute burner "Lifes Been Good." This song will forever be associated with the '70s rock superstar lifestyle binge as it was also a featured song in the rock movie soundtrack extravaganza FM.

Even more time tested tracks like the blues rocker "At The Station," AOR classics "Over And Over" and "Tomorrow" plus the brilliant and melodic "Indian Summer" made this the album of choice for many rock radio programmers for over a year upon its initial release.

As a first installment in their Joe Walsh 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Series, Friday Music is very pleased to present his career masterwork But Seriously, Folks as a first time ever high quality vinyl release. Mastered from the original Asylum Records tapes by Joe Reagoso (Jeff Beck/ Deep Purple/Yes) at Friday Music Studios with Kevin Gray. Features the rare original gatefold artwork and a poly lined inner sleeve to help keep your vinyl in mint shape.

Track Listing:
1. Over And Over
2. Second Hand Store
3. Indian Summer
4. At The Station
5. Tomorrow
6. Inner Tube
7. Theme From Boat Weirdos
8. Lifes Been Good

Born Mary Frierson in Memphis, TN, home of Stax Records, Wendy Rene was christened by Otis Redding on signing to Stax as a teenager in 1963. Back then, she and brother Johnny Frierson, both singers at the Church of God In Christ, were determined to make it in music. Forming singing quartet The Drapels with two friends, they took the bus to 926 E. McLemore Avenue, auditioned for Stax co-founder Jim Stewart, and won a deal on the spot. As soon as we finished with the Drapels songs and (the rest of the band) were going to the bus stop, I showed Mr. Stewart my songs, recalls Rene. The result? Stewart found two acts in one, and Mary had two contracts with Stax.

Both Drapels and Wendy began recording with the greats, thats The MGs on the groups Young Man, Booker T. Jones playing organ on After Laughter and Steve Cropper playing guitar on the dance craze-inspired Bar-B-Q. Though her career was brief, Wendy Rene left behind a thrilling catalog of classic soul.

Here, Light In The Attic gives it the archive treatment it richly deserves. First ever anthology of Southern soul legend Wendy Rene including 11 singles, 9 rarities and 2 unreleased songs. This 2LP set features glorious mono sound restored and remastered from the original tapes, notes by Andria Lisle interviewing Rene and unseen photos and original label art.

Track Listing:
1. Bar B Q - Wendy Rene
2. Gone For Good - Wendy Rene
3. Your Love Is All I Need - The Drapels
4. After Laughter (Comes Tears) - Wendy Rene
5. I Wish I Were That Girl - Wendy Rene
6. What Will Tomorrow Bring - Wendy Rene
7. Wondering (When My Love Is Coming Home) - The Drapels
8. Deep In My Heart - Wendy Rene
9. Give You What I Got - Wendy Rene
10. Crying All By Myself - Wendy Rene
11. Crowded Park - Wendy Rene
12. Last Love - Wendy Rene
13. Love At First Sight - Wendy Rene
14. She's Moving Away - Wendy Rene
15. He Hasn't Failed Me Yet - Wendy Rene
16. Please Don't Leave Me - The Drapels
17. The Same Guy - Wendy Rene
18. Young Man - The Drapels
19. Can't Stay Away - Wendy Rene
20. First Kiss - Wendy Rene
21. Reap What You Sow - Wendy Rene
22. Young And Foolish - Wendy Rene

Originally released on CD for Drive On Records in 2009, Gun Metal Sky marked Lori Lieberman's debut as an arranger for strings and woodwinds. While most of the songs are self-penned, the collection also includes unique and interesting versions of songs from some of our most beloved songwriters, including Emmylou Harris, Paul Simon, The Bee Gees and The Hollies.

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Track Listing:
1. Early Wednesday Morning
2. Another Galaxy
3. New York Mining Disaster 1941
4. Gun Metal Sky
5. The Opposite of Love
6. When You Were Mine
7. He Needs You
8. Bus Stop
9. More Than This
10. My Baby Needs a Shepherd
11. Killing Me Softly
12. Takes Courage

Half-speed mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelitys numbered limited-edition 180g LP of Kings second solo masterpiece is rife with intimacy, transparency, soulfulness, and you-are-there sound. Never before remastered, Music seems like a brand-new album, Kings familiar voice, intelligent arrangements, and ravishing support band presented on a deep, three-dimensional soundstage. Your appreciation for and understanding of Kings inspirational lyrics and ravishing performances will increase tenfold. Mobile Fidelitys 180g LP brings you that much closer.

Accompanied by percussionist Bobbye Hall, drummer Russ Kinkel, guitarist/vocalist James Taylor, and a cavalcade of professional wind musicians, King delves further into R&B and jazz-derived pop, coming up aces every time. Warm, intelligent, and cohesive, songs echo with simplicity and honesty. And as is typical of much of Kings work, several of tunes here were later covered by other artists, including Its Going To Take Some Time (the Carpenters). Yet the originals trump the later renditions, and the rendition of the standard Some Kind of Wonderful stands as the best ever recorded.

With Taylor lending more of a hand on Music than he does on Tapestry, King expands her confident reach on the piano and peppers the songs with graceful touches of saxophone, flute, pedal-steel guitar, and woodwinds. Ballads sway (Surely), gospel brightness lifts spirits (Brighter), and backup vocals float heavenly pop (Song of Long Ago). Yet the best aspect is Kings voice, infused with fondness, concern, joy, and a quiet power that parallels the delicacy and deliberate nature that define Music.

Mobile Fidelitys audiophile edition is free of the limiting artifacts that have helped keep this record in the dark for the better part of the past few decades. Previously diminished, acoustic guitars, subtle brass elements, and soft percussion contribute to the enjoyment of the songs, and Kings voicepleasant, assuring, emotionalcomes through with incredible clarity and inflection. The brilliance of the legendary Lou Adlers original production is restored to its full glory.

If its at all possibleand it isthis treasure now sounds even more heartwarming than it did upon original release. The companion to Tapestry, Music is an auraland sonicdelight.

Track Listing:
1.Brother, Brother
2.It's Going to Take Some Time
3.Sweet Seasons
4.Some Kind of Wonderful
5.Surely
6.Carry Your Load
7.Music
8.Song of Long Ago
9.Brighter
10.Growing Away from Me
11.Too Much Rain
12.Back to California

Morgan's brand of forward-looking hard bop was influenced by free jazz and put a premium on uninhibited self-expression. Shorter sounded unlike anyone else and wrote highly original compositions. Playing in a sextet with Bobby Hutcherson and Herbie Hancock, Morgan and Shorter contributed all of the songs which include the funky Party Time and other pieces that push hard bop to its limit. The results are exhilarating, vital and timeless.

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Track Listing:
1. The Procrastinator
2. Party Time
3. Dear Sir
4. Stopstart
5. Rio
6. Soft Touch

With the implicit understanding that strength lies in brevity, Bad Religion hew mighty exhortations to action out of a well-trampled happy-punk base, and the sheer motivational impact of "Generator," "Only Entertainment," "Atomic Garden" and "No Direction" sweeps clear any charges of oversimplification or sameness. Generator is a brutal noise that is louder, faster & angrier than ever! A plethora of power punching punk pedagogy.

Track Listing:
01. Generator
02. Too Much To Ask
03. No Direction
04. Tomorrow
05. Babies in the Dark
06. Heaven is Falling
07. Atomic Garden
08. The Answer
09. Fertile Crescent
10. Chimaera
11. Only Entertainment

LP2
2. Gondwana

Edgar Winter, the multi-talented superstar brother of blues rock legend Johnny Winter, has been a fixture on the rock music scene now for several decades. While launching his own successful career with his solo albums and Edgar Winters White Trash, the natural progression for this man was to develop his own supergroup which would become the platinum and gold selling The Edgar Winter Group.

Releasing their first album in 1973, They Only Come Out At Night was an overnight success, thanks to the mind altering studio jam "Frankenstein" which has since become one of classic rocks finest moments. This instrumental smash featured the stunning keyboard of Edgar Winter, the incredible guitar of resident shredder Ronnie Montrose, the thumping bass of the late great Dan Hartman and of course the solid percussive hits of Chuck Ruff.

The album went onto receive more attention from radio programmers across the globe as even further hit songs would rapidly develop including the blues rocker "Undercover Man," the country rock feel of "Round & Round" and of course another top charter with the summer Top 40 Rock driving sounds of Dan Hartmans "Free Ride." The Rick Derringer produced album would go on to stay on the charts for a long time and receive multiple platinum status in a very short time. Truly, one of classic rocks finest albums ever recorded!

Now for the first time ever on audiophile vinyl, Friday Music announces the first installment of their Edgar Winter 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Series with his platinum plus album They Only Come Out At Night. This first time audiophile vinyl release is mastered from the original Epic Records tapes by Joe Reagoso (Johnny Winter/Alice Cooper/Boston) at Friday Music Studios with Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI.

For this special release, the limited edition album comes in the original gatefold album cover, which features the photography of Francesco Scavullo and Norman Seeff and artwork design of John Berg. To keep your album in impeccable condition, they are also including a poly lined sleeve to protect your vinyl investment as well as a poly bag for the classic album cover art.

Track Listing:
1. Hangin Around
2. When It Comes
3. Alta Mira
4. Free Ride
5. Undercover Man
6. Round & Round
7. Rock N Roll Boogie Woogie Blues
8. Autumn
9. We All Had A Real Good Time
10. Frankenstein

LIMITED EDITION LP VERSION OF THE FIFTH TAAKE ALBUM

The fifth studio album, Noregs Vaapen, sees the band refine their True Norwegian Black Metal sound, but also take a step further and include some new elements. The album is filled with Hoests trademark riffs, melodies and vocals, but also includes more unpredictable parts more blacknroll grooves, ice cold mellotrons, and white trash banjo. Limited to 1000 copies, this gatefold double 180g LP features different cover art, A2 poster and a cover version of the classic Emperor song "I am The Black Wizards" as bonus track (featuring Attila Csihar of Mayhem and Ivar Bjornson of Enslaved).

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Fra vadested til vaandesmed
2. Orkan
3. Nordbundet
4. Du ville ville Vestland

LP2
5. Myr
6. Helvetesmakt
7. Dei vil alltid klaga og kyta
8. I am the black wizards

We had our front of house engineer Neal Jensen bring his old Tascam 8-track tape machine and Yamaha board (nothing fancy) out to my barn, Bird said about the recording. We rolled tape as we were learning the songs and to our surprise we started nailing the songs by the second take. I think we got a rough, unfussy honesty in this session.

In addition to versions of the album on 2LP and CD, this super deluxe collectible vinyl box also includes the short film Here's What Happened on DVD featuring live performances, the creation of the album and a rare look into Birds' private studio.

Track Listing:
1. Desperation Breeds
2. Polynation
3. Danse Caribe
4. Give It Away
5. Eyeoneye
6. Lazy Projector
7. Near Death Experience Experience
8. Behind the Barn
9. Lusitania
10. Orpheo Looks Back
11. Sifters
12. Fatal Shore
13. Hole in the Ocean
14. Belles

Like Only Way To Be Alone and their 2010 self-titled sophomore effort, Come Back as Rain showcases the delicately textured melodies and multi-part harmonies that have become the band's signature. Once again revealing their penchant for infectious folk-pop, Good Old War sharpens their sound this time around by infusing Come Back as Rain with the same joyful passion they've ceaselessly brought to the stage.

Track Listing:
1. Over and Over
2. Calling Me Names
3. Amazing Eyes
4. Better Weather
5. Cant Go Home
6. Not Quite Happiness
7. Touch the Clouds (Taste the Ground)
8. It Hurts Every Time
9. After the Party
10. Loud Love
11. Present for the End of the World

Perrys passion for spaghetti Westerns lands right in Sergio Leone territory. With R&B influenced horns (a trademark on many of his early productions) he pushes musical boundaries, working with ex-Mento star Count Sticky, who provided jive talking inspired intros and exultations over Perrys sharp rhythms.

This album pulls together 20 undocumented Jamaican singles (and one dub plate) that beautifully showcase these influences and Perrys development as a producer. A great 2LP set of productions as strong as any of his releases on Pressure Sounds.

Track Listing:
1. Val Bennett & The Upsetters: Val Blows In
2. Count Sticky & The Upsetters: Boss
3. The Upsetters: High Plains Drifter
4. Busty Brown & The Upsetters: Its Growing
5. The Upsetters: The Man With No Name
6. The Upsetters: Dont Want To Lose You
7. The Bllechers: Whats Wrong With You
8. The Mellotones: What & Botheration (Pan Mix)
9. The Silvertones: He Dont Love You
10. Dave Barker & The Upsetters: Next To You
11. Dave Barker & The Upp: Sitting And Waiting
12. The Ethiopians: Awake
13. The Upsetters: Amigo
14. Jimmy & The Inspirations: Aint No Love
15. Count Sticky & The Upsetters: Rockfort Psychedelion
16. Lee Perry & The Upsetters: A Big Joke
17. The Inspirations: Buttoo Girl
18. The Versatiles: Thanks We Get
19. The Faithful Brothers: Iniquity Workers
20. Junior Byles & The Righteous Upsetters: Rub Up Festival 71

"The Sound of Jazz" is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts, and was one of the first major programmes featuring jazz to air on American network television. 

The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York City. The show was hosted by New York Herald-Tribune media critic John Crosby, directed by Jack Smight, and produced by Robert Herridge. Jazz writers Nat Hentoff and Whitney Balliett were the primary music consultants.

The Sound of Jazz brought together 32 leading musicians from the swing era including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Jo Jones and Coleman Hawkins; the Chicago style players of the same era, like Henry 'Red' Allen, Vic Dickenson, and Pee Wee Russell; and younger 'modernist' musicians such as Gerry Mulligan, Thelonious Monk, and Jimmy Giuffre. These players played separately with their compatriots, but also joined to combine various styles in one group, such as Red Allen's group and the group backing Billie Holiday on "Fine and Mellow". 

The show's performance of "Fine and Mellow" reunited Billie Holiday with her estranged long-time friend Lester Young for the final time. Jazz critic Nat Hentoff, who was involved in the show, recalled that during rehearsals, they kept to opposite sides of the room. Young was very weak, and Hentoff told him to skip the big band section of the show and that he could sit while perform

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Track Listing:

The 11-song set features material culled from such Golden Earring albums as: 1969's On the Double ("My Baby Ruby"); 1970's Eight Miles High ("Everyday's Torture"); 1970's Golden Earring ("Big Tree Blue Sea," "I'm Going to Send My Pigeons to the Sky"); 1971's Seven Tears ("She Flies On Strange Wings," "This Is The Other Side of Life"); and 1972's Together ("From Heaven From Hell," "Jangalene") among others.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Where Will I Be
2. Another 45 Miles
3. Everyday's Torture
4. She Flies On Strange Wings
5. Big Tree Blue Sea

LP2
1. This Is The Other Side of Life
2. Holy Holy Life
3. From Heaven From Hell
4. I'm Going to Send My Pigeons to the Sky
5. My Baby Ruby
6. Jangalene

The two sides of the album reflected very different moods: the first side was packed with fast-paced, louder numbers, while the second side was more mellow, which Springfield suggested would be suitable for listening to at night.

Track Listing:

LP 1 Side 1

1. Love Me- The Phantom (1:33)
2. Rumble- Link Wray & His Raymen (2:17)
3. Switchblade- Ron Thompson (1:57)
4. Rockin' In The Graveyard- Jackie Morningstar (2:42)
5. Storm Warning- Mac Rebennack (3:18)
6. Strollin' After Dark- The Shades (2:09)
7. Stampede- The Scarlets (1:58)
8. Machine Gun- The Riptides (2:10)

LP 1 Side 2

1. Werewolf- The Frantics (2:02)
2. Moon Dawg- The Gamblers (2:15)
3. Nameless- The Rockin' R's (1:40)
4. The Train Kept A Rollin'- Johnny Burnette (2:16)
5. Ghost Riders In The Sky- The Ramrods (2:36)
6. Bip Bop Boom- Mickey Hawks & The Night Raiders (1:39)
7. Jungle Fever- The Playboys (1:12)
8. Jessie Pearl- Dick Dale (2:14)

LP 2 Side 1

1. Rock Billy Boogie- Johnny Burnette (2:36)
2. Madness- The Rhythm Rockers (2:37)
3. Trapped Love- Keith Courvale (2:01)
4. Have Guitar, Will Travel- The Scotty Moore Trio (2:01)
5. Comanche- Link Wray & His Raymen (2:41)
6. Come On Little Mama- Ray Harris (2:19)
7. Boppin' High School Baby- Don Willis (2:31)
8. Mule Skinner Blues- The Fendermen (2:25)

LP 2 Side 2

1. I Put A Spell On You- Screamin' Jay Hawkins (2:26)
2. Rawhide- Link Wray & His Ray Men (2:14)
3. Weekend- The Kingsmen (2:22)
4. Rockin' Bones- Ronnie Dawson (1:57)
5. School Of Rock N' Roll- Gene Summers And His Rebels (2:06)
6. Warrior Sam- Don Willis (2:40)
7. Let's Have A Ball- Jim McDonald (2:02)
8. Unitar Rock- Willie Joe And His Unitar (2:22)

1. Baby Please Don't Go- Big Joe Williams
2. Country Blues- Muddy Waters
3. Parchman Farm Blues- Bukka White
4. I Believe I'll Dust My Broom- Robert Johnson
5. Candy Man Blues- Mississippi John Hurt
6. Shady Grove Blues- John Lee Hooker

LP 1 Side 2

1. Standing At The Crossroads- Elmore James
2. Mississippi River Blues- Big Bill Broonzy
3. Crawlin' King Snake- Tony Hollins
4. Nobody's Fault But Mine- Blind Willie Johnson
5. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues- Skip James
6. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)- Robert Johnson

LP 2 Side 1

1. Landing Blues- John Lee Hooker
2. Fixin' To Die- Bukka White
3. Canned Heat Blues- Tommy Johnson
4. Love In Vain- Robert Johnson
5. Stagolee- David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
6. Shake It And Break It- Charley Patton

LP 2 Side 2

1. Death Valley Blues- Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
2. I Be's Troubled- Muddy Waters
3. Rootin' Ground Hog- Big Joe Williams
4. My Pencil Won't Write No More- Bo Carter
5. Special Steam Lines- Bukka White
6. Hellhound On My Trail- Robert Johnson

This is really like the good old days a new complete Beethoven cycle on vinyl LP! Of course, Andreas Spreer also had several Beethoven symphonies pressed on vinyl for Tacet (each of which is also worth recommending), but now all nine are available in a high-quality box with a sturdy plastic slipcase. Inside are LPs which have been impeccably pressed by Pallas on 180-gram vinyl and a lavish, large-format 32-page booklet.

In other respects as well, everything is of the very best quality. The distinguished Polyhymnia team around Jean-Marie Geijsen did the original high-resolution digital multichannel recordings and the editing. The stereo SACD mix outstanding, by the way was not simply used for the analog master, however. Instead, Ralf Koschnicke of the Duisberg audiophile label Acousence remixed the multitracks on the analog level. The press matrices were made by none other than Hendrik Pauler at Pauler Acoustics, in the studios of his father, Günter, also committed to absolutely superb sound. It was worth the expenditure. The award-winning recordings, dating from 2004 to 2008, sound overwhelmingly good.

The Performance:
Anyone who has heard them in the concert hall will not soon forget this experience. The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is an orchestra that reacts with incredible alertness, carries out the conductor's directions with lightning speed and passion characteristics which are sadly lacking with a good many municipal symphony orchestras. Perhaps it is because the musicians are partners in their own orchestra, which means that they decide all matters democratically but also bear the business risks themselves, whereas in a "normal" orchestra the musicians generally enjoy civil service status. The fact that the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie was the first orchestra ever to receive the German Record Critics' Certificate of Special Merit in 2009 is justified, as demonstrated by this Beethoven cycle, which was recorded from 2004 to 2008 and, after its release on SACD, is now available for a limited time as an 9LP box set!

There are countless recordings on the market of this most important symphony cycle in musical history. Whereas Wilhelm Furtwängler emphasized the solemn dimension of the music with relatively measured tempos, a tradition continued by such disciples as Barenboim, many contemporary conductors, like Herreweghe, Vänskä, Manze, etc., adopt an approach influenced by the principles of historical performance practice with a lean sound in the strings and winds, brisk tempos, and sharper accents.

The Kammerphilharmonie and Paavo Järvi also follow the latter path. Although they use modern instruments except for natural trumpets and timpani compared to the traditional symphony orchestra, their reduced forces come close to the performance practice of Beethoven's day. The result is a relatively bright, transparent sound in which even seasoned Beethoven listeners can discover previously hidden musical details.

With a good many modern conductors, the emancipation from tradition sometimes seems "contrived" Beethoven brushed the wrong way. With Paavo Järvi, however, everything flows organically. Although he does not shape the Andante cantabile con moto from the First Symphony as an expansive stream of sound, with a brisk tempo he gives it a supple, elegant character, and its charming melody is not lost. During the first movement of the Fifth Symphony, with its famous "fate" motif, he does not emphasize its dramatic weight but takes the movement briskly and jauntily. With sharp accents, abrupt dynamic changes, and a driving tempo, the subsequent climaxes ultimately seem no less explosive than with the "old greats."

Track Listing:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Record 1 - A Side:
Symphony No. 1 in C major op. 21
I. Adagio molta - Allegro con brio
II. Andante cantabile con moto
III. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace
IV. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace
Record 1 - B Side:
Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 36
I. Adaio molto - Allegro con brio
II. Larghetto

Record 2 - A Side:
Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 36 (cont.)
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Allegro molto
Record 2 - B Side:
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major op. 55 "Eroica"
I. Allegro con brio

Record 3 - A Side:
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major op. 55 "Eroica" (cont.)
II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
Record 3 - B Side:
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major op. 55 "Eroica" (cont.)
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
IV. Finale: Allegro molto

Record 4 - A Side:
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major op. 60
I. Adagio - Allegro vivace
II. Adagio
Record 4 - B Side:
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major op. 60
III. Allegro vivace
IV. Allegro ma non troppo

Record 5 - A Side:
Symphony No. 5 in C minor op. 67
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante con moto
Record 5 - B Side:
Symphony No. 5 in C minor op. 67 (cont.)
III. Allegro
IV. Allegro - Presto

Record 6 - A Side:
Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68 "Pastorale"
I. Erwachen heiterer Gefuhle bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
II. Szene am Bach: Andante molto moto
Record 6 - B Side:
Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68 "Pastorale" (cont.)
III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landieute: Allegro
IV. Gewitter, Sturm: Allegro
V. Hirtengesang - Frohe und dankbare Gefuhle nach dem Sturm: Allegretto

Record 7 - A Side:
Symphony No. 7 in A major op. 92
I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
II. Allegretto
Record 7 - B Side:
Symphony No. 7 in A major op. 92 (cont.)
III. Presto - assai meno presto
IV. Allegro con brio

Record 8 - A Side:
Symphony No. 8 in F major op. 93
I. Allegro vivace e con brio
II. Allegretto scherzando
III. Tempo di Menuetto
IV. Allegro vivace
Record 8 - B Side:
Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125
I. Allegro ma non troppo un poco maestoso

Record 9 - A Side:
Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125 (cont.)
II. Molto vivace
III. Adagio molto e cantabile
Record 9 - B Side:
Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125 (cont.)
IV. Presto - Allegro assai

Reissuing this masterpiece was quite the undertaking for Analogue Productions. Keep in mind that almost without exception, for every pop record recorded after 1992, even if it's recorded to analog tape like this one, the songs are stored individually. That means that there is never an actual complete album master compiled. So to cut an LP from tape, they had to have mastering engineer Doug Sax assemble an analog master in order so that he could then cut the record to LP, using his famed tube electronics.

The resulting 200g heavyweight platter from Quality Record Pressings is dead quiet and smooth. Plating was also done in-house at QRP by Gary Salstrom. And on the heels of Analogue Productions' reissue of Dusty Springfield's Dusty In Memphis, which was named Stereophile's 'Recording of the Month' for February 2012, the timing couldn't be more perfect. An unparalleled mixture of great music, great performances and a great recording!

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Track Listing:
1. Just A Little Lovin'
2. Anyone Who Had A Heart
3. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
4. I Only Want To Be With You
5. The Look Of Love
6. Breakfast In Bed
7. Willie And Laura Mae Jones
8. I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore
9. Pretend
10. How Can I Be Sure

1. Heartbreak Hotel (2:11)
2. All Shook Up (1:58)
3. Don't Be Cruel (2:04)
4. Hound Dog (2:18)
5. Too Much (2:35)
6. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear (1:49)
7. Love Me Tender (2:44)

LP 1 Side 2

1. Jailhouse Rock (2:29)
2. Don't (2:50)
3. Hard Headed Woman (1:57)
4. One Night (2:32)
5. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I (2:41)
6. A Big Hunk Of Love (2:06)
7. Love Me (2:46)

LP 2 Side 1

1. It's Now Or Never (3:15)
2. I Got Stung (1:51)
3. Are You Lonesome Tonight? (3:08)
4. Soldier Boy (3:06)
5. I Got A Woman (2:27)
6. Stuck On You (2:15)
7. Blue Suede Shoes (2:01)

LP 2 Side 2

1. Blue Moon Of Kentucky (2:05)
2. That's All Right (1:58)
3. Mystery Train (2:26)
4. Such A Night (3:01)
5. Good Rockin' Tonight (2:15)
6. King Creole (2:09)
7. I Need Your Love Tonight (2:06)

1. I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
2. Phonograph Blues
3. Ramblin' On My Mind
4. Kindhearted Woman Blues
5. Terraplane Blues
6. I'm A Steady Rollin' Man
7. Walking Blues
8. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
9. Dead Shrimp Blues
10. Sweet Home Chicago
11. 32-20 Blues
12. Come On In My Kitchen
13. If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
14. Me And The Devil Blues

LP 2

1. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
2. Stones In My Passway
3. Cross Road Blues
4. Travelling Riverside Blues
5. Whenn You Got A Good Friend
6. Milkcow's Calf Blues
7. Hellhound On My Trail
8. From Four 'Til Late
9. Honeymoon Blues
10. Stop Brakin' Down Blues
11. Malted Milk
12. Little Queen Of Spades
13. They're Red Hot
14. Drunken Hearted Man
15. Love In Vain

We All Raise Our Voices to the Air: (Live Songs 04.11-08.11) was recorded at numerous shows during their sold out 2011 North American tour. The 20-song set compiles tracks from all phases of the band's illustrious career and appeals to both hardcore fans as well as those fans who just recently were exposed to the magic of The Decemberists including not only their radio hits like "Down by the Water," "Calamity Song" and "This is Why We Fight," but also live show favorites and some special gems.

Track Listing:
1. The Infanta
2. Calamity Song
3. Rise To Me
4. The Soldiering Life
5. We Both Go Down Together
6. The Bagmans Gambit
7. Down By The Water
8. Leslie Ann Levine
9. The Rakes Song
10. The Crane Wife 1, 2, and 3
11. Oceanside
12. Billy Liar
13. Grace Cathedral Hill
14. All Arise!
15. Rox In The Box
16. June Hymn
17. Draculas Daughter > O Valencia!
18. This Is Why We Fight
19. The Mariners Revenge Song
20. I Was Meant For The Stage

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"Rather, this is a flat-out, unconditional, "Holy Mother of Crap, I can't believe how good this thing is" recommendation. It's hard to imagine another way of spending $****.** that will add this much to your system." - Art Dudley - Sterophile

The Johnny Mercer Songbook is very last release by Speakers Corner in the superb Ella Fitzgerald songbook series. To speak of 'songs' by Johnny Mercer, and just calling him a 'composer', falls far short of the truth for he is the personification of a top composer, a great lyricist, and a shrewd businessman, who set up a monument to himself with his extremely successful record company Capitol Records. Ella sang Johnny Mercer’s compositions over and over again, and on this recording we have a wonderful version of "Something’s Gotta Give" and Johnny Mercer’s theme song and showpiece "Dream". His inspiration as a lyricist is masterly. Who else could have thought of such a gorgeous introduction to Stan Getz’s number "Early Autumn" ...When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breeze and touches with her hand the summer trees...

Or the refrain from "I Remember You": ...When my life is through, and the angels ask me to recall the thrill of them all.... All in all, Johnny Mercer composed or wrote the lyrics to over 1000 songs, 13 of which Ella performs here in masterly fashion and in her own inimitable style – mellifluous, electric, or swinging.

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Some violinists impress by a dazzling technique, as flawless and polished as a diamond. Some impress by the intensity of their vision, their genius for saying something fresh with a musical phrase that the listener may have heard a thousand times before. Others by their daring, their willingness to push themselves beyond the boundries of safety - perhaps by choosing an audacious tempo, or by producing some extraordinary and startling tone-colour. Anne-Sophie Mutter does all this and more!

Gathered together here is music that Mutter might play as encores after an intense recital or concerto programme. Several were written by composers who were themselves virtuoso violinists, and whose very intention was to test the technical mettle of all who dared to attempt a performance. For some violinists, simply playing the notes would be enough. But being Mutter, these pieces are interpreted with as much care and intelligence as the most profound concerto.

Discovered as a child prodigy by Herbert von Karajan, Mutter has been holding the world's music-lovers mesmerized for at least 17 years.

Recorded: Vienna, Musikverein, Grosser Saal, November 1992.

Track Listing:
Pablo De Sarasate (1844-1908)
1. Zigeunerweisen (Airs bohemiens)
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
2. Legende
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
3. Sonata in G Minor "Devil's Trill" (arranged by Riccardo Zandonai)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
4. Tzigane
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
5. Meditation - from "Thais"
Pablo De Sarasate
6.-10. Fantasie de concert sur des motifs de "Carmen"
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
11. Berceuse

FANTASTIC 180 GRAM WHITE VINYL REISSUE OF ACCEPT'S FIFTH ALBUM

European label Lark Records released the album in December 1983, but its US release was delayed until a month later as to not compete with the band's then-current album Restless and Wild, which had arrived in the US in early 1983.

It is the band's best known and highest-selling album, selling about two million copies worldwide, and is Accept's only record to attain Gold certification in America.

The album's lead single, "Balls to the Wall", became Accept's signature tune and remains a metal anthem and trademark in the genre.

Critic Martin Popoff has declared Balls to the Wall the greatest metal album of the 1980s, praising the combination of smooth production, powerful guitar riffs and strong melodies that are found throughout the record.

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Track Listing:
1. Balls To The Wall
2. London Leatherboys
3. Fight It Back
4. Head Over Heels
5. Losing More Than Youve Ever Had
6. Love Child
7. Turn Me On
8. Losers And Winners
9. Guardian Of The Night
10. Winterdreams

It was, and is, hard to argue with her approach. Accompanied by an all-star cast of supporting musicians, Barber delivered an album Time called devastating. Highlights include her stunning version of "Yesterdays," the rarely recorded vocal version of "Invitation," and an achingly beautiful take on So In Love from the songbook of Barbers songwriting idol, Cole Porter. A multiple Stereophile R2D4 winner recorded by Jim Anderson, Nightclub is the American popular songbook given new life by one of the most expressive voices in contemporary music.

Track Listing:
1. Bye, Bye Blackbird
2. Invitation
3. Yesterdays
4. Just For A Thrill
5. You Don't Know Me
6. Alfie
7. Autumn Leaves
8. Summer Samba
9. All Or Nothing At All
10. So In Love
11. A Man & A Woman
12. I Fall In Love Too Easily
13. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Bonus Track)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of this 1961 release including one bonus track. Explorations, recorded on February 2, 1961, was Bill Evans fourth LP as a leader and the second studio album by the legendary Evans trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. The Evans-LaFaro-Motian Trio would reach a climax with their June 25, 1961 club recordings at the Village Vanguard in New York. LaFaro would die in a car accident just ten days later, at the age of 25. Evans was so shocked by his bassist's death that he waited a long time before forming a new trio.

Track Listing:
1. Israel
2. Haunted Heart
3. Beautiful Love
4. Elsa
5. Nardis
6. How Deep is The Ocean?
7. I Wish I Knew
8. Sweet And Lovely
9. The Boy Next Door*

*Bonus Track

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of this 1961 album from the Jazz greats including one bonus track.

Track Listing:
1. Duke's Place
2. I'm Just A Lucky So and So
3. Cottontail
4. Mood Indigo
5. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
6. The Beautiful American
7. Black and Tan Fantasy
8. Drop Me Off In Harlem
9. The Moochie
10. In A Mellow Tone
11. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)*

*Bonus Tracks

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of this 1961 album including two bonus tracks. Despite the much spoken rivalry between them, Duke Ellington and Count Basie were close friends and great admirers of each other's work. Although they had known each other since their youth, and on many occasions were featured on the same bill, the Duke and the Count never crossed paths in a recording studio before the 1961 session included here. While their bands performed separately on the same stage many times following the 1961 session, they would never record together again. Wax Time.

Track Listing:
1. Battle Royal
2. To You
3. Take The "A" Train
4. Corner Pocket (Aka Until I Met You)
5. Blues In Hoss' Flat (Blues In Frankie's Flat)*
6. Wild Man (Aka Wild Man Moore)
7. Segue In C
8. B D B
9. Jumpin' At The Woodside
10. One More Once*

*Bonus Tracks

Nothing would be easier for British rock legend UFO than to rest on their laurels. The band could easily release the occasional best-of album to earn a few additional royalties and otherwise content themselves with looking back at their exceptionally glorious past. And it certainly wouldnt be a problem for UFO to sell out tours on the strength of their legendary name with a great hoopla and low artistic values. But idleness or indeed a musical standstill have always been out of the question for Phil Mogg, Paul Raymond, Andy Parker, and Vinnie Moore. These in equal measures experienced and ambitious musicians are interested in the present, their love of creativity and the active continuation of their celebrated band history. And now we can look forward to Seven Deadly, the bands latest studio album which combines present and future with UFOs greatest fortes.

As already mentioned, UFO continue to be a live force to be reckoned with. Their 2011 U.S. tour was an absolute smash, and at the time of Seven Deadlys release, UFO will be performing at the Monsters Of Rock Cruise The Voyage: there could hardly be a more fitting setting for this exciting new album!

Track Listing:
1. Fight Night
2. Wonderland
3. Mojo Town
4. Angel Station
5. Year Of The Gun
6. The Last Stone Rider
7. Steal Yourself
8. Burn Your House Down
9. The Fear
10. Waving Good Bye
11. Other Men's Wives (bonus track)
12. Bag O' Blues (bonus track)

This classic LP of the Bach Concertos was recorded when Menuhin was in his early 40s and in his prime and the LP has been newly cut at EMIs Abbey Road Studios from the original stereo EMI Master Tapes.

The Bach A minor and E minor Concertos were recorded at Londons famous Kingsway Hall venue on the 7th & 8th of October 1958, and the Double Concerto (with the legendary French violinist Christian Ferras) recorded on 8 July 1959.

Produced and engineered by Peter Andry and Robert Gooch. The album is pressed on 180g vinyl to audiophile standards and features the original album artwork.

Track Listing:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Side 1:
Violin Concerto in A minor
1. Allegro - Andante
Double Concerto in D minor
2. Vivace - Largo ma non tanto
Side 2:
Double Concerto in D minor
1. Allegro
Concerto in E Major
2. Allegro - Adagio - Allegro assai

Hi-Q Records presents a superior 180g audiophile vinyl pressing of this famed recording cut at Abbey Road Studios from the original stereo analogue master tapes.

Track Listing:
1. Reveries - Passions
2. Un bal
3. Scene aux champs
4. Marche au supplice
5. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat

Recorded in Berlins Grunewaldkirche on 18, 19 & 20 May 1958. Produced by the legendary Walter Legge, assisted by Fritz Ganss and engineered by Horst Lindner.

Cut at Abbey Road Studios from the original stereo analogue master tapes with the Neumann VMS80 lathe fed an analogue pre-cut signal from a specially adapted Studer A80 tape deck with additional playback head. Pressed on 180g vinyl to audiophile standards and features the original album artwork.

Track Listing:
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No. 9 in E Major, Op. 95

Side 1
1. Adagio - Allegro molto
2. Largo
3. Scherzo (Molto vivace)

Side 2:
1. Allegro con fuoco

Interestingly, the Fauré Requiem was not recorded in Kings College Chapel but the more manageable acoustic of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, on 10 December 1967. Produced by Christopher Bishop and Engineered by Neville Boyling.

Cut at Abbey Road Studios from the original stereo analogue master tapes with the Neumann VMS80 lathe fed an analogue pre-cut signal from a specially adapted Studer A80 tape deck with additional playback head.

Pressed on 180g vinyl to audiophile standards and features the original album artwork.

Track Listing:
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Requiem
1. Introit and Kyrie
2. Offertoire (Solo baritone: John Carole Case)
3. Sanctus
4. Pie Jesu (Solo treble: Robert Chilcott)
5. Agnus Dei
6. Libera Me (Solo baritone: John Carole Case)
7. In Paradisum

Pavane Op. 50 (orchestral version)

FANTASTIC 180 GRAM DOUBLE VINYL VERSION OF THIS EARLY BROADCAST

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED EARLY BROADCAST

FEATURES RARE VERSIONS OF MANY EARLY SPRINGSTEEN HITS

Tracks 1 5 Live broadcast on WBCN-FM BOSTON 9th Jan 1973

Tracks 6 12 Live broadcast on WMMR-FM PHILADELPHIA 24th

April 1973 from The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Satin Doll
2. Bishop Danced
3. Circus Story
4. Song For Orphans
5. Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?

LP2
6. New York Song
7. Circus Story
8. Spirit In The Sky
9. Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
10. Santa Ana
11. Tokyo
12. Thundercrack

FANTASTIC 140 GRAM CLEAR QUADROUPLE VINYL REISSUE OF THIS LEGENDARY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN LIVE PERFORMANCE

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The words 'legendary', 'seminal' and 'classic' are very often over-used in the heated hyperbole that surround rock concerts in general and Bruce Springsteen gigs in particular.
They lead to overblown phrases such as "essential for every fan" and one of his greatest ever shows.

This recording of a concert Bruce and the E-Street Band played in Philadelphia in February 1975 really is that of a legendary Springsteen show, a seminal moment in his career, a classic performance and an essential part of any fan's library of The Boss work. This is one of his greatest ever performances.

LEGENDARY LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM PHILADELPHIA, 1975

1000 ONLY LIMITED EDITION

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Track Listing:
LP1
1. Intro.
2. Incident On 57th Street
3. Mountain Of Love
4. Born To Run
5. The E Street Shuffle
6. Wings For Wheels (Thunder Road)
7. I Want You

LP2
8. Spirit In The Night
9. Shes The One
10. Growin Up
11. Its Hard To Be A Saint In The City
12. Jungleland
13. Kittys Back

LP3
14. New York City Serenade
15. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
16. 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)

LP4
17. A Love So Fine / Shout
18. For You
19. Back In The USA
20. Thunder Road*
21. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out*
22. Pretty Flamingo*
23. Backstreets*

* Live at The Roxy, Hollywood, CA. (10/17/1975)

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Limited to Only 2500 Numbered Limited Edition Copies!

Jaco Pastorius' eponymous 1976 solo debut was originally released in 1976 on Epic Records. Produced by Blood Sweat & Tears founder Bobby Colomby, the 9-song set features eight definitive originals and a transcription of the bebop standard "Donna Lee," all showcasing Jaco's genius as both an instrumentalist and composer.

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Track Listing:
1. Donna Lee
2. Come On, Come Over
3. Continuum
4. Kuru / Speak Like a Child
5. Portrait of Tracy
6. Opus Pocus
7. Okonkole Y Trompa
8. (Used to Be A) Cha-Cha
9. Forgotten Love

John Lanchbery was an English conductor and composer famous for his ballet arrangements, especially those for The Royal Ballet. Lanchbery was principal conductor with The Royal Ballet for 13 years starting in 1959.

Undoubtedly, Lanchbery’s most celebrated recording – in both a highlights and later a complete form – is of his music for Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée. Sir Frederick Ashton was a leading international dancer and choreographer, who is most noted as the founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet in London.

The French composer Hérold usually takes all the credit, but Lanchbery’s selection is far more elaborate than that attribution might suggest. Herold was a French opera composer, now best known for the delightful ballet score for La Fille mal gardée (1828). Born just over a year before Rossini, he did much to make ballet music more important in its own right; at the time it was the norm to to make ballet scores entirely out of existing opera melodies and popular tunes.

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold, to give him his full name, is only one of at least half a dozen composers whose music went towards giving La fille mal gardée as we know it today its special flavour.

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Track Listing:
LP1 - Side A:
1. Introduction
Dance of the Cock and Hens
Lise and the Ribbon
Thomas and Alain
LP1 - Side B:
1. Picnic
Flute Dance
Quarrel
The Fanny Ellsler Pas-de-Deux
(a) Introduction
(b) Girl's Solo
(c) Adage
(d) Man's Solo
(e) Coda

LP2 - Side C:
1. Simone
Clog Dance
Maypole Dance
Storm and Finale (Act I)
Spinning
Tambourine Dance (aria con variazioni)
LP2 - Side D:
1. Harvesters
Thomas, Alain and the Notaries
Pas-de-Deux
Finale

This Limited Edition Numbered Box collects many of these classical gems on a must have 6LP set cut at Emil Berliner Studios and pressed on 180g audiophile vinyl. Content from the excellent booklet essay as published in the recent 50 x CD cube release has now been reset as a 12", LP-format square booklet.

Mercury Living Presence continues to enjoy a special reputation as one of the most enterprising, prestigious and sonically-spectacular labels in the history of classical recording.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Ouverture solennelle "1812," Op.49
2. Commentary to the "1812 Overture"/Sound effects/Bells
3. Capriccio italien, Op.45

LP2
1. Fantasy on Two Folk Songs
2. At Sunrise
3. The Linden Tree
4. Kamarinskaya
5. Fantasy on Volga Melodies
6. In the Moonlight
7. Midnight in Moscow
8. Under the Apple Tree
9. Dance of the Comedians
10. The Living Room
11. Evening Bells
12. My Dear Old Friend, Please Visit Me
13. Waltz of the faun
14. The Flight of the Bumble-Bee

LP3
1. Brazilian Sleigh Bells
2. Andalucía
3. Malagueña
4. Intermezzo
5. Jamaican Rumba
6. Batuque
7. Amparito Roca
8. Ritual Fire Dance
9. The Bullfighter's Prayer, Op.34 (La oración del torero) - Version for String Orchestra
10. Brazilian Dance

LP4
1. Allegro
2. Adagio ma non troppo
3. Finale (Allegro moderato)
4. Kol Nidrei, Op.47 - Adagio on Hebrew Melodies for Cello and Orchestra

LP5
1. Allegro non troppo
2. Adagio
3. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace - Poco più presto

LP6
1. Moderato
2. Adagio sostenuto
3. Allegro scherzando
4. Prelude in E flat, Op.23, No.6
5. Prélude in C sharp minor, Op.3, No.2

Recorded live in front of a feverish audience at The National Ballroom in Kilburn, London on Octorber 23, 1986 just six months before the band's demise and released a year after, Rank is most likely the closest many Smiths' fans will ever come to hearing them in concert. Engineered and produced by Grant Showbiz, the thrilling 14-song set finds Morrissey, Marr and company in rock star mode at their absolute creative peak tearing through definitive live versions of Smiths' classics like "Panic," "Ask," "Cemetry Gates," "I Know It's Over" and "Bigmouth Strikes Again." An essential and rewarding live document from the best band of the '80s!

Track Listing:
LP1
1. The Queen Is Dead
2. Panic
3. Vicar In A Tutu
4. Ask
5. His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians (Medley)
6. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
7. Rubber Ring/What She Said (Medley)

LP2
1. Is It Really So Strange?
2. Cemetry Gates
3. London
4. I Know It's Over
5. The Draize Train
6. Still Ill
7. Bigmouth Strikes Again

The set list moves seamlessly between songs from Iron Maiden's most recent studio album, 2010's The Final Frontier through to classic fan favorites from the band's vast and varied catalog. Maiden's Final Frontier World Tour 2010-11 saw the band circumnavigating the globe for the third time in their customized Boeing 757 - Ed Force One, piloted by lead singer Bruce Dickinson, and playing 98 shows in 36 countries to over 2 million fans.

Bass player and founding member Steve Harris comments, "After much consideration, we chose the Santiago show as we felt it was one of our best performances of the entire tour and to play at the prestigious Estadio Nacional was a landmark moment for us. For reasons known to our fans, it took a long time before we got to play our first show in Chile, and once we did get to play a show, the response was so phenomenal we just had to keep coming back, and its gotten better and better each time!"

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Satellite 15
2. The Final Frontier
3. El Dorado
4. 2 Minutes To Midnight
5. The Talisman
6. Coming Home
7. Dance of Death
8. The Trooper
9. The Wicker Man

LP2
1. Blood Brothers
2. When the Wild Wind Blows
3. The Evil That Men Do
4. Fear of the Dark
5. Iron Maiden
6. The Number of the Beast
7. Hallowed Be Thy Name
8. Running Free

With MDNA, she breaks innovative new ground with songs that explode with ferocious rhythmic energy, while also offering the kind of irresistible pop melodies that are the hallmark of her classic compositions. Since pre-release sales orders began exclusively on iTunes worldwide, the album has reached #1 on the store's charts in 50 countries and became the largest one-day pre-order of any album in iTunes history.

MDNA opens with "Girl Gone Wild," an anthemic collaboration with Italian club wunderkind Benny Benassi. Amid a frenetic collision of beats and keyboards, Madonna sets the tone for an album that she vividly characterizes as having the intensity of a "caged animal." From there, the listener is taken on the heart-racing, reckless joyride "Gang Bang," a reunion with Ray of Light collaborator William Orbit. At the first ominous, bass-soaked thump of the beat, it's clear that Madonna and Orbit are navigating previously unchartered musical territory. The unapologetic, foreboding tone of anger in her vocal builds to the point of violent mania. And just when you think she couldn't go any further, she does. This is Madonna at her most primal and animalistic.

There is no denying the kinetic chemistry that Madonna shares with Orbit, as exemplified by their additional MDNA creations. "Some Girls" exudes an almost masculine funk swagger, while "I'm A Sinner" shows the pair indulging in jangly guitars and retro-splashed pop percussion. It is also with Orbit that Madonna has created her most delicate compositions, most notably the deliciously romantic "Falling Free," and the gently percussive "Masterpiece," which won a 2012 Golden Globe Award for its inclusion in her motion picture directorial debut, W.E.

In contrast to Madonna's pensive moments with Orbit on MDNA are flourishes of spectacular joy with Benassi. It is during their dancefloor-friendly tracks that longtime aficionados of the artist's pure-pop efforts will experience absolute bliss. He brings out her cheeky, playful side on "I'm Addicted," which reveals its massive pop-hit potential in its booming bassline and its meticulous, infectious chorus chant.

Of the collaborations Madonna explores throughout this project, the results of her time with French DJ/producer Martin Solveig are the most unexpectedly intriguing. Their shared affinity for film and art imagery is unmistakable in their lyrics, drawing an ear-tickling contrast with the sweet, often varied tones of their music. "Turn On The Radio" has a charming, earnest quality, while the top-10 hit "Give Me All Your Luvin'" has a sexy, surf-rock vibe that conjures images of sunshine within its first few instrumental bars.

Perhaps most powerful of Madonna and Solveig's tracks is the reflective "I Don't Give A...," during which she ruminates on the necessary end to a relationship with brutally sensitive prose like "I tried to be a good girl. I tried to be a wife. Diminished myself. I swallowed my light." It's a startlingly beautiful, delicate moment that evolves into a climax of extraordinary empowerment.

MDNA is unequivocal proof that Madonna continues to be the world's most inventive musical artist. Her desire to bring bold new ideas to the mainstream is unparalleled. No doubt, this will be illustrated in a worldwide concert trek that will show the artist shattering the boundaries of a traditional stage show. Madonna understands and respects the simple purity of pop music, while thriving on the belief that people are as smart and hungry for truth and art as she is. It is that belief that will undeniably keep Madonna creating more inspired and inspiring music for years to come.

Track Listing:
1. Girl Gone Wild
2. Gang Bang
3. I'm Addicted
4. Turn Up The Radio
5. Give Me All Your Luvin' (ft. Nick Minaj & M.I.A.)
6. Some Girls
7. Superstar
8. I Don't Give A (ft. Nick Minaj)
9. I'm A Sinner
10. Love Spent
11. Masterpiece
12. Falling Free

Bonus Tracks:
13. Beautiful Killer
14. I Fucked Up
15. B-Day Song
16. Best Friend
17. Give Me All Your Luvin (feat. Nicki Minaj & M.I.A.) (LMFAO Remix)

While most of Slipstream is self-produced and features Raitt's longtime touring band, four of the album's songs were helmed by celebrated producer Joe Henry (Allen Toussaint, Solomon Burke) and showcase his unusual crew of extraordinary musicians. Additional guests include Bill Frisell, Al Anderson (NRBQ), Ireland's Paul Brady and Maia Sharp.

The album's 12-tracks feature Raitt's renditions of songs by such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Joe Henry and Loudon Wainwright III. An updated, reggae-fied version of Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down the Line" leads the charge here as the album's first single.

Track Listing:
1. Used to Rule the World
2. Right Down the Line
3. Million Miles
4. You Can't Fail Me Now
5. Down To You
6. Take My Love With You
7. Not Cause I Wanted To
8. Ain't Gonna Let You Go
9. Marriage Made in Hollywood
10. Split Decision
11. Standing in the Doorway
12. God Only Knows

Later, his songs were popularized by groups, such as The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Cream, and Led Zeppelin, whose "Whole Lotta Love" was loosely based don Dixon´s "You Need Love". On this 1970 LP, the quintessential blues songwriter performs his own tunes - every one a classic: "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man", "The Little Red Rooster", " Spoonful" and of course "Back Door Man" to name a few!

Long overdue, the album was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1986, whereas Willie Dixon was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Track Listing:
1. Back Door Man
2. I Can't Quit You, Baby
3. The Seventh Son
4. Spoonful
5. I Ain't Superstitious
6. You Shook Me
7. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
8. The Little Red Rooster
9. The Same Thing

Produced by long-term collaborator John Reynolds, its 10-tracks play like an encyclopedic definition of O'Connor's impressive oeuvre: songs about love and loss, hope and regret, pain and redemption, anger and justice.

This is an album of consistently moving, exciting, brilliant and beautiful songs built around Sinead's voice at its very best, raw and passionate. The album contains original tracks all self/co-written bar one cover of John Grant's "Queen of Denmark."

Track Listing:
1. 4th & Vine
2. Reason With Me
3. Old Lady
4. Take Off Your Shoes
5. Back Where You Belong
6. Wolf Is Getting Married
7. Queen of Denmark
8. Very Far From Home
9. I Had A Baby
10. V.I.P.

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In a musical era dominated by Nirvana and grunge, New Jersey native Dave Wyndorf and his Monster Magnet managed to set the world on fire with an abrasive bash of retro hard rock.

A simple rehashing of Led Zeppelin- and Black Sabbath-riffs would never do, and so they set their drug-damaged minds to redefining those riffs to psychedelic effect, creating their own brand of Seventies inspired space-rock.

Released in 1993, "Superjudge" is their second album. The band somewhat abandon the feedback-heavy jams of their debut in favor of groovy, and dare we say catchy, songs that still sound gritty enough to get that essential stoner feel.

A hedonistic harvest from the mushrooms planted by Hawkind, Steppenwolf and Blue Cheer…

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Track Listing:
1. Cyclops Revolution
2. Twin Earth
3. Superjudge
4. Cage Around The Sun
5. Elephant Bell
6. Dinosaur Vacume
7. Evil (Is Going On)
8. Stadium
9. Face Down
10. Brainstorm
11. Black Balloon

Bob Marley was born February 6, 1945 in rural St. Ann's Parish, Jamaica, leaving home at 14 to pursue a music career in Kingston. A naturally gifted musician and singer he recorded his first track in 1962. In '72 finding himself stranded in London with his band the Wailers he signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records and went on to enjoy global success and to put reggae on the music map. Many of his songs - which highlighted both Jamaica's poverty and the spirituality of its people - have since become universal anthems. Bob Marley died of cancer on May 11, 1981 at the age of 36.

Says Kevin MacDonald, "Marley the film is an intimate, human portrait of the legendary singer. But as with any film about an artist - the main purpose has got to be to send the listener back to the music with a renewed appreciation for its beauty and significance. That's why I am so happy that Island are releasing this special collection of songs from and inspired by the movie."

Says Chris Blackwell, "Kevin MacDonald has made a wonderful film about Marley. I think it will touch the hearts of many. It tells Bob's story properly for the first time and you get a real sense of the man and his incredible talent. His spiritual message is as relevant now as it ever was and his music still resonates around the world."

The soundtrack to "Marley" includes, for the first time on record, the 1978 One Love Peace concert performance of 'Jammin' during which Marley joined the hands of bitter political rivals Michael Manley and Edward Seaga, a gesture which went some way towards restoring peace to a strife-torn Jamaica. The tracklisting of the soundtrack follows the chronology of the film.

Track Listing:
1. Corner Stone
2. Judge Not
3. Simmer Down
4. Put It On
5. Small Axe
6. Mellow Mood
7. Stir It Up
8. Concrete Jungle
9. Crazy Bald Heads (Groucho mix)
10. Natty Dread
11. Trenchtown Rock (live at The Roxy Theatre)
12. Get Up Stand Up
13. Work
14. Jammin' (live at One Love Peace concert)
15. Exodus (Kindred Spirit dub mix)
16. No Woman No Cry (live at the Lyceum)
17. War (Live at the Rainbow)
18. I Shot the Sheriff (Live at the Lyceum)
19. Roots Rock Reggae
20. Three Little Birds
21. Real Situation
22. Could You Be Loved
23. One Love / People Get Ready
24. Redemption Song
25. High Tide or Low Tide

This 16-song, 2LP set captures an early live performance from Dire Straits in Germany cirica 1979 and features the original band of Mark and Dave Knopfler on lead and rhythm guitars, John Illsley on bass and Pick Withers on drums. Highlighted by Mark Knopfler's trademark vocals and nuanced guitar work, the excellent set includes material from the band's breakout self-titled 1978 debut in "Down to the Waterline," "Six Blade Knife," "Water of Love," "In The Gallery," "Sultans Of Swing" and "Wild West End" along with cuts from their subsequent sophomore effort, Coummunique, in "Once Upon a Time In The West," "Lady Writer," "Single Handed Sailor," "Follow Me Home," "News" and "Where Do You Think You're Going?"

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Down To The Waterline
2. Six Blade Knife
3. Once Upon A Time In The West
4. Lady Writer
5. Single Handed Sailor
6. Water Of Love
7. In The Gallery
8. Follow Me Home

LP2
1. News
2. What's The Matter Baby?
3. Lions
4. Sultans of Swing
5. Wild West End
6. Where Do You Think You're Going?
7. Eastbound Train
8. Sultans Of Swing (Redux)

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Track Listing:
Tracks 1-11 Cabaret Metro, Chicago, 28.3.1992 Q101 FM Broadcast
1. Release
2. Improv. (You Tell Me)/Even Flow
3. Once
4. State Of Love and Trust
5. Alive
6. Black
7. Deep
8. Jeremy
9. Why Go
10. Porch
11. Garden
Saturday Night Live 11.4.1992
12. Alive
13. Porch
MTV Awards, Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, 9.9.1992
14. Jeremy
Singles Premiere, Park Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, 9.10.1992
15. State Of Love and Trust
16. Baba O’Riley

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Counting Crows' debut album August And Everything After was released in late 1993 and went on to sell over seven million copies in America.

On September 18, 2007, the band performed the complete album live at Town Hall in New York City.

This live showcase of their complete debut album proves what truly great performing artists Counting Crows are.

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Track Listing:
LP1
1. Round Here / Raining In Baltimore
2. Omaha
3. Mr. Jones
4. Talking
5. Perfect Blue Buildings
6. Anna Begins
7. Time And Time Again

LP2
8. Rain King
9. Introduction To Sullivan Street
10. Sullivan Street
11. Ghost Train
12. A Murder Of One

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With In Utero topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic following its September 1993 release, Nirvanas celebrity was not in question. When it was announced that the band would be headlining at Seattle’s Pier 48 on 13th December 1993, with a bill that was also to feature The Breeders, Cypress Hill and Pearl Jam, fans braved pouring rain to queue overnight for free tickets. Pier 48s cavernous warehouse on Seattle’s lakefront couldn’t have been a more perfect venue for the ultimate grunge showcase, and with the show broadcast across multiple TV and Radio networks for all to enjoy, the gigs legacy was assured. The Nirvana set played that cold December night almost 20 years ago is included on this LP.

Previously unreleased broadcast of the seminal Pier 48 gig

Also included is a second Nirvana broadcast of the bands show at The Palace, in Melbourne, Australia on 2nd February, 1992, with Nirvana showcasing much of what was then their new album, Nevermind

Finally an additional four tracks from the two appearances Nirvana made on legendary American sketch show Saturday Night Live are also made available

Together, these vintage recordings complete this career spanning package and provide the ultimate collection of live Nirvana performances

Includes rare versions of Come As You Are, Lithium and Smells Like Teen Spirit

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Track Listing:
1. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
2. Drain You
3. Breed
4. Serve the Servants
5. Rape Me
6. Heart Shaped Box
7. Pennyroyal Tea
8. Scentless Apprentice
9. Lithium
10. Endless Nameless
Tracks 1-10 MTV Live & Loud Broadcast, Seattle, 13th December, 1993

11. About a Girl
12. Come As You Are
13. Breed
14. Polly
15. Lounge Act
16. Love Buzz
17. Lithium
Tracks 11-17 Triple J Broadcast, The Palace, Melbourne, 2nd February, 1992

18. Smells like Teen Spirit
19. Territorial Pissings
Tracks 18-19 Saturday Night Live, 11.1.1992

20. Rape Me
21. Heart Shaped Box
Tracks 20-21 Saturday Night Live, 25.9.1993

Radio Music Society is her most diverse, ambitious and masterful recital yet. The set is a companion, rather than a sequel, to Spalding's previous release, which reached #1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart. "Originally I thought it would be fun to release a double album," she explains, "One disc with an intimate, subtle exploration of chamber works and a second one in which jazz musicians explore song forms and melodies that are formatted more along the lines of what we would categorize as 'pop songs.' Those are the two things that really interest me, and it intrigues me to think about different presentation approaches while writing each kind of song. On the pop song side, I think about listeners who aren't into jazz, but I also think about the people within my musical community who can interpret each idea best."

"Radio Song," the album's opening track, both sets the tone and confirms the aptness of Spalding's 'radio music' metaphor. "Everyone has the experience of turning on a car radio," she explains,"mindlessly flipping through the dial and suddenly a fragment grabs you and you're totally digging it. I wanted to capture that moment when the music just sinks in. It's about the power of song, and how at the least it can save the day."

Songs about love run also run the gamut on Radio Music Society. "Hold On Me" is a narrative of unrequited love, inspired by people who cling to dreams of relationships that can never be realized. "Let Her," one of Spalding's older compositions, was inspired by "different people I've known who are in miserable situations, then complain when they end." "Cinnamon Tree," written to cheer up a friend, celebrates platonic love, and Spalding's belief that "the love between friends is just as important as romantic love." "Crowned and Kissed," with references to King Arthur and Midas, is about "the unsung royalty in your life, men and women who quietly, every day do the most honorable things, and who deserve to be honored even if they don't end up with castles and thrones." The edgy "Smile Like That" marks the moment a person realizes that his or her partner has developed other interests.

Among its many strengths, Radio Music Society is a celebration of the men and women who have helped cultivate Spalding's talent, as well as those who have nurtured her vision and inspired her along the way. "I've had the honor and blessing of working with so many phenomenal jazz musicians over the years," she says. "As I've gotten to know them and their music, I've grown to love them as family and colleagues. I wished for an opportunity for us all to interpret songs together, so that they can be heard and received by a larger audience."

That music is realized by many of the brilliant musicians who are part of Spalding's ever-expanding universe. In addition to longtime partners Joe Lovano, keyboard player Leo Genovese and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, the album contains contributions from jazz legends Jack DeJohnette and Billy Hart; guitar heroes Jef Lee Johnson and Lionel Loueke; an array of master vocalists including Algebra Blessett, Lalah Hathaway, Gretchen Parlato, Leni Stern and Becca Stevens; hip-hop giant Q-Tip (who performs on and co-produced two tracks); and two Portland-based musicians, Janice Scroggins and Dr. Thara Memory, who provided essential mentorship in Spalding's youth.

Track Listing:
1. Radio Song
2. Cinnamon Tree
3. Crowned & Kissed
4. Land of the Free
5. Black Gold (ft. Algebra Blessett and Lionel Loueke)
6. I Can't Help It (ft. Joe Lovano)
7. Hold On Me
8. Vague Suspicions
9. Endangered Species (ft. Lalah Hathaway)
10. Let Her
11. City of Roses (ft. Q-Tip)
12. Smile Like That

Recorded by multi-Grammy-nominated "Prof." Keith Johnson at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, the Yerba Buena Bounce sessions benefited from the historic ambience, scene of hundreds of classic jazz and rock recordings. Using his own custom-built microphones and electronics (as always), Johnson was able to utilize some of Fantasy's unique facilities, such as a legendary echo chamber, to add luster to his always life-like soundscapes.

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Track Listing:
1. Mystery Pacific
2. Hot Lips
3. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
4. Sway
5. Number Two
6. Souvenir de Villingen
7. Tickle Toe
8. Black and White
9. Rythme Futur
10. Lullabye
11. Yerba Buena Bounce
12. Stardust
13. Borneo
14. Georgia Cabin
15. Improvisation #2
16. JAM: Some Of These Days

Audiophile Sound at Last: Sonic Subtleties, Loose Interplay, Organic Spirit, Warm Textures Presented Like Never Before on Definitive Mobile Fidelity Reissue

Dylan at His Most Humorous, Unguarded, Loose: Folk Tales, Weird Narratives, Rock Ballads, Inside Jokes, Allusions Pepper Alchemic Material

Includes This Wheels on Fire, You Aint Goin Nowhere, Tears of Rage, Million Dollar Bash, Yazoo Street Scandal

Ranked 291 on Rolling Stones List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Blonde on Blonde, and Blood on the Tracks Also Available from Mobile Fidelity

Basements have long been associated with raw, off-the-cuff rock n roll, the damp and dark spaces serving as the woodshedding venues for countless bands. Yet no basement is more famous, and none yielded music as familiarly weird, wholesomely American, joyously loose, and identifiably humorous as that in the upstate New York house dubbed Big Pinkthe location where, during the summer and early fall of 1967, Bob Dylan and The Band played a vivid tapestry of covers, originals, and traditionals that signaled the advent of Americana. Once again, the Bard changed the world.

As part of its Bob Dylan catalog restoration series, Mobile Fidelity is thoroughly humbled to have the privilege of mastering the iconic LP from the original master tapes and pressing it on dead-quiet LPs at RTI. The end result is the very finest, most transparent analog edition of The Basement Tapes ever producedand the first-ever analog reissue. Inimitable, the particulars of The Basement Tapesespecially, the gather-round-in-a-huddle assembly of the instrumentalists, home-made character, domestic vibe, and low-volume nature of the recordingscome to fore here in a manner that takes the listener down the stairs at 2188 Stoll Road and brings the images of Dylan, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, and Co. to life.

Fresh off experiencing a motorcycle accident and the wrath of audiences hostile to his embrace of amplified music, Dylan elected to retreat to the comforts of rural and family life. He soon began collaborating with members of the Band in his house, ultimately moving the sessions to Big Pink. Informal, peaceful, relaxed, open-minded: The collaborations blanket country stomps, roots hootenannies, forgotten spirituals, earthy originals, chaotic marches, dreamscapes, dance tunes, folk laments, catch-as-you-can improvisations. On The Basement Tapes, mythical ghosts and dead legends reappear, reveling in the absurdity, comedy, mystery, aura, and alchemy.

In Invisible Republic, his scintillating book about the sessions, cultural critic Greil Marcus states: At a time when the country was tearing itself apart in a war at home over a war abroad, the music was funny and comforting; it was also strange, and somehow incomplete. Out of some odd displacement of art and time, the music seemed both transparent and inexplicable when it was first heard, and it still does. Indeed, The Basement Tapes appear to emanate from an indefinable chasm between modern and ancient, self-evident and mysterious, shapeless and fully formed, abstract and concrete, histories unwritten and chronicled. But every note chimes with freenessa liberating fun, humble simplicity, and bond-creating camaraderie felt in every hoot, holler, laugh, and false start.

The Basement Tapes capacity to remain so gloriously honest and timelessperformances that genuinely couldve been made today, ten years from now, or back in the 1930shelps account for their emotional resonance and unsurpassed reputation as a snapshot of how unencumbered American music, and art with deep historical roots and connective cultural tissues, is supposed to sound.

Mobile Fidelitys reissue squares away the late-night bleariness, jovial atmosphere, low-ceiling dimensions, and ensemble-based perspective of the sessions, allowing the listener to become Hamlet, the dog who slept nearby Dylan, Robertson, and Co. as it all went down. This is not to be missed.

Given the sonic and artistic merit of this album, we anticipate huge demand.

Track Listing:
1. Odds and Ends
2. Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
3. Million Dollar Bash
4. Yazoo Street Scandal
5. Goin to Acapulco
6. Katies Been Gone
7. Lo and Behold
8. Bessie Smith
9. Clothes Line Saga
10. Apple Suckling Tree
11. Please Mrs. Henry
12. Tears of Rage
13. Too Much of Nothing
14. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
15. Aint No More Cane
16. Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
17. Ruben Remus
18. Tiny Montgomery
19. You Aint Goin Nowhere
20. Dont Ya Tell Henry
21. Nothing Was Delivered
22. Open the Door, Homer
23. Long Distance Operator
24. This Wheels on Fire

Featuring the powerful superstar vocals and keyboards of the great Dennis DeYoung, the legendary hard rockin guitarist/vocalist James Young, the exciting songs, voice and guitar stylings of Tommy Shaw, the pumping bass of Chuck Panozzo and the power drumming of the late John Panozzo, Cornerstone has gone on to be one of their most popular albums, selling millions of units worldwide thanks in part to the #1 super smash single "Babe."

Friday Music is very honored to present once again Cornerstone, which also continues their exclusive and much applauded Styx 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Series. Authorized by Styx, this exceptional HQ album is now mastered impeccably from the original A&M Records tapes by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music studios with Kevin Gray.

This limited edition masterpiece is also housed in a beautiful first time gatefold cover and includes all the hits you remember like "Babe," "Never Say Never," "Lights" and "Boat On The River." This album truly continued the arena rock level of popularity for Styx, and has kept them at the top of their game ever since. Cornerstone, truly a fine album for the audiophile vinyl domain.

Track Listing:
1. Lights
2. Why Me
3. Babe
4. Never Say Never
5. Boat On The River
6. Borrowed Time
7. First Time
8. Eddie
9. Love In The Midnight

Produced by the multi-talented Ron Nevison (Jefferson Starship/Kiss), Lights Out contained eight stellar tracks which have truly become benchmark UFO classics. From the opening guitar and drum riff of the smash single "Too Hot To Handle," you will soon know that you are in for one amazing hard rock extravaganza.

The quintet roars on with more UFO standards like the energy fused follow-up single "Gettin’ Ready," the hard rock drenched "Electric Phase" and of course the anthemic title track "Lights Out." This watershed album even contained a brilliant interpretation of Love’s "Alone Again Or," as well as the power balladry of the epic "Love To Love."

In an effort to continually offer consummate music lovers with the greatest rock recordings of all time, Friday Music proudly presents for the first time ever on 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl in North America, UFO’s classic masterpiece Lights Out.

Impeccably mastered from the original Chrysalis Records tapes by Joe Reagoso (Deep Purple/Alice Cooper/Jeff Beck) at Friday Music Studios and at Capitol Records with Ron McMaster, Lights Out also begins the first release in the extensive UFO/Friday Music 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Series.

In addition to the hard rocking music contained on this stunning release, to celebrate this limited edition album, Friday Music is also including a first time gatefold cover which features the original artwork from the 1977 classic, plus a poly lined sleeve to protect your vinyl and a poly bag to keep your album cover in mint condition.

Track Listing:
1. Too Hot To Handle
2. Just Another Suicide
3. Try Me
4. Lights Out
5. Gettin’ Ready
6. Alone Again Or
7. Electric Phase
8. Love To Love

Indigos features performances of jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo", "Autumn Leaves", "Prelude To a Kiss" and more!

Track Listing:
1. Solitude
2. Where or When
3. Mood Indigo
4. Autumn Leaves
5. The Sky Fell Down
6. Prelude To a Kiss
7. Willow Weep For Me
8. Tenderly
9. Dancing In the Dark

Consistent throughout the project is the world-class musicianship of the Santana Band members, who bring vitality and heart to every note. Santana will be kicking off a major Las Vegas residency at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay in May of 2012 and will tour throughout the summer. 180g vinyl LP with digital download card

Santana, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee, has sold over 100 million albums worldwide throughout his career and an amazing 30 million albums in the last decade alone. In addition to 46 Platinum Certifications and 21 Gold Records, he has garnered 10 Grammy Awards.

Track Listing:
1. Shape Shifter
2. Dom
3. Nomad
4. Metratron
5. Angelica Faith
6. Never The Same Again
7. In The Light of a New Day
8. Spark of the Divine
9. Macumba In Budapest
10. Mr. Szabo
11. Eres La Luz
12. Canela
13. Ah, Sweet Dancer

England's Electric Light Orchestra, better known to its fans as ELO, went from cult status to arena-level superstardom in the 1970s, evolving from eclectic classically-influenced prog-rockers to state-of-the-art hitmakers. At the peak of their popularity, they were one of the world's biggest-selling recording acts, and also one of the most unusual. Combining rock instrumentation with a full string section, ELO couldn't help but stand out, both musically and visually.

Originally launched by Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and Roy Wood as a side project to their legendary band the Move, ELO arrived in 1971 with their self-titled debut album accidentally released as No Answer due to a miscommunication with the band's US label. The core trio of Lynne, Wood, Bev Bevan, augmented by Bill Hunt and Steve Woolam, approach the music here both like a hard rock band attacking a song and a string ensemble playing chamber music.

The philosophical differences between Wood and Lynne only commingled for this lone album however, as Wood relinquished ELO to Lynne and went on to form Wizzard. Although their styles were wide ranging, citing Wood's baroque-flavored “Look at Me Now” and Lynne's hard rock number “10538 Overture” as examples, it was that same bookend combination that also makes the album a masterpiece way ahead of its time.

"All in all, I think these tracks are quite amazing because neither Roy or me had any idea how to approach this project, we just got on with it." - Jeff Lynne

"I would have to say that together, Jeff and myself made my original dream into a reality. If I am to be honest, I sincerely love him for it." - Roy Wood

Track Listing:
1. 10538 Overture
2. Look at Me Now
3. Nellie Takes Her Bow
4. Battle of Marston Moor
5. First Movement (Jumping Biz)
6. Mr. Radio
7. Manhattan Rumble (49th Street Massacre)
8. Queen of the Hours
9. Whisper in the Night

The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oivin Fjeldstad performing Grieg Peer Gynt Suite.

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Track Listing:
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt
LP1 - Side A
1. Prelude, Op. 23, No. 1
2. Morning Mood, Op. 23, No. 13
LP1 - Side B
1. The Death of Ase, Op. 23, No. 12
Anita's Dance, Op. 23, No. 16
2. In The Hall of the Mountain King, Op. 23, No. 7
LP2 - Side C
1. Ingrid's Abduction and Lament, Op. 23, No. 4
2. Arab Dance, Op. 23, No. 15
LP2 - Side D
1. Peer Gynt's Home-coming, Op. 23, No. 19
Solvejg's Song, Op. 23, No. 11
2. Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter, Op. 23, No. 8

This 2-LP edition comes with deluxe packaging with Mono and Stereo mixes on coloured vinyl all re-mastered from original tapes by Kinks archivist Andrew Sandoval.

Only 500 made!

Track Listing:
David Watts
Death of a clown
Two sisters
No Return
Harry Rag
Tin soldier man
Situation vacant
LOve me till the sun shines
Lazy old sun
Afternoon tea
Funny face
End of the season
Waterloo sunset

Anyone who's witnessed a much-anticipated jam session only to be disappointed - with each participant deferring to the other, the end result being that neither ever got out of first gear will welcome this pairing of two giants of blues guitar. Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan obviously shared a mutual admiration, but it simply wasn't in either one's makeup to a) be intimidated or b) take a backseat to anyone. Not without kicking up a little dust.

This is such a precious set to any fan of either of these blues giants. In addition to the free-spirited jams, there are priceless episodes of conversation between each song, both men exchanging accolades and King giving the much younger Vaughan (though tragically it was Vaughan who died first) some sage advice. This simply is a must-have.

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Track Listing:
1. Call It Stormy Monday
2. Old Times
3. Pride And Joy
4. Blues At Sunrise
5. Turn It Over
6. Overall Junction
7. Matchbox Blues
8. Who Is Stevie
9. Don't Lie To Me
10. Ask Me No Questions
11. Pep Talk

Import

Track Listing:
1. The One To Sing The Blues
2. Im So Bad (Baby I Dont Care)
3. No Voices In The Sky
4. Going To Brazil
5. Nightmare/The Dreamtime
6. Love Me Forever
7. Angel City
8. Make My Day
9. Ramones
10. Shut You Down
11. 1916

Import

Track Listing:
LP1
1. I’m Going Home
2. Killing Floor
3. As The Years Go Passing By
4. Ain’t That Just Like A Woman
5. Yer Blues
6. Who’s Been Talking

LP2
7. Crossroads
8. Dust My Broom
9. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
10. All Along The Watchtower

A labor of love for both Wainwright and Ronson, Rufus calls Out of the Game, “the most pop album I’ve ever made,” while Ronson recently stated, “it’s the best work of my career.” Recorded in New York in the fall of 2011, the twelve songs are hook-laden, memorably arranged tracks reminiscent of Rufus’ early work, following 2010’s more quietly intimate outing, Songs For Lulu.

From the uptempo opening chords of the title track and first single, to the gospel tinged rock of "Jericho," through the beauty of "Sometimes You Need" and the emotional pull of "Candles," this new release ranks alongside Rufus Wainwright’s very best.

Musicians on the album include the Dap-Kings who Ronson used for the groundbreaking Amy Winehouse Back To Black album and his own Record Collection; Wilco’s Nels Cline; Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow; and Sean Lennon and Martha Wainwright.

Influences, as ever, were all encompassing. Ronson says Out of the Game, “has a real 70’s, Laurel Canyon spirit” while Rufus cites “all the greats, Elton, Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, basically the brash and beautiful. It’s also very Rufus.”

Affectionately referred to by Elton John as "the greatest songwriter on the planet" and praised by The New York Times for his “genuine originality,” Grammy nominee Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation. He is the son of folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, and brother of Martha Wainwright, but Rufus has achieved his success by carving out his own singular sound in the worlds of rock, opera, theater, dance and film.

Track Listing:
1. Out of the Game
2. Jericho
3. Rashida
4. Barbara
5. Welcome to the Ball
6. Montauk
7. Bitter Tears
8. Respectable Dive
9. Perfect Man
10. Sometimes You Need
11. Song Of You
12. Candles

The song "Svatar Rosor" is immersed in an alternating bath of major and minor to evoke a dramatic and tragic mood, while the wonderfully colorful "Den Första Kyssen, op. 37 no. 1" depicts in music a girl’s dialogue with the evening star. And with "Flickan kom op. 37 no. 5" and "Var det en dröm op. 37 no. 4," a powerful vocal drama is placed alongside a lyrical gem. Of the latter work Sibelius allegedly said: "Here you are, this is my most beautiful song!"

Without a doubt, Kirsten Flagstad is the ideal singer for this repertoire. Her highly dramatic soprano voice rises monumentally over the surging orchestral sound but dims down appropriately and effortlessly in the hushed passages. Wagnerians, Strauss lovers and fans of grand romantic gesture will thoroughly enjoy this LP.

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Track Listing:
1. Sibelius Song Recital

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Track Listing:
1. The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from The Sandpiper)
2. (Take Me to) Aruanda
3. Manhã de Carnival
4. Fly Me to the Moon
5. The Gentle Rain
6. Non-Stop to Brazil
7. O Ganso
8. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
9. Day by Day
10. Tristeza (Goodbye Sadness)
11. Funny World (Theme from Malamondo)

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Comes on mixed colored vinyl, each is different and unique! The second volume in the ongoing Deadly Shots series. Vol.II features Aggrolites keyboardist Roger Rivas. 2011 saw the Plant grow by leaps and bounds. With stacks of highly favorable press from their most recent release "Shake Up the Place," the Plant is ready to grow to new heights.

Track Listing:
1. Bass Drum
2. Drums
3. Bass
4. Rhythm Guitar
5. Lead Guitar
6. Piano
7. Hammond Organ
8. Percussion
9. Farfisa
10. Room Left
11. Room Right

After four years of hide and seek in which blogs blew up at the sudden release of any track with her name attached to it, Santigold returns in a moment of global aggression and vulnerability. Honing in on the hyper-media cult of personality, in her unmistakable voice she asks the listener: Into what fantasy do you hurl yourself as you gaze into the glow of your machine? The answer to this question is central to what drives Master of My Make-Believe, her latest work to be released this spring on Atlantic Records.

As an antidote against self-celebratory status updates in a climate where the focus on fame outweighs a days emotions, Master of My Make-Believe summons pop culture zombies back to life. This is sound proof of an artist on a diligent journey, measuring the power of individual mood against social clamor. Sifting through a wondrous wreckage of airplay, upload, and anguish, Santigolds talent lies in filtering reality through freakdom, to find in desire a timeless spark of raw magic.

Anyone caught referring to Master of My Make-Believe as a sophomore effort is only half right. Though relatively fresh as Santigold, Santi Whites history of writing, production, and performance stretch beyond the centurys flip. Her collaboration with the industrys most recognized and respected talent is something continuous and wide reaching, making her musical lineage all the much richer. Declared Best Breakthrough Artist by NME in 2008 and Pop Music Vanguard by ASCAP in 2009, the voice that defines Santigold is as complex as the faces that pack a subway car, as intimate and honest as conversation on a weathered stoop.

Through chopped pianos, the clink of glass bottles, and the peaking blast of motorcycle engines, Master of My Make-Believe accounts for 21st century details of life from the hearts center to the minds periphery. In her pen and in her voice, the breadth of substance presented in Santigolds newest songs is immediate and complex. There are valleys here wherein the drudge of daily living is met with caution and confronted by mortality, but underneath it all there is the celebration of each persons power and vision to fight toward what they believe. Consider this your invitation.

Track Listing:
1. GO!
2. Disparate Youth
3. God From The Machine
4. Fame
5. Freak Like Me
6. This Isn't Our Parade
7. The Riot's Gone
8. Pirate In The Water
9. The Keepers
10. Look At These Hoes
11. Big Mouth

Ah the Mediterranean... Filled with fine foods, wines, beautiful people, and the inspirational style of music that descended upon the able fingers of these guitar giants. This is by far one of the hottest guitar albums ever to bless sweet vinyl. Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, & Paco Delucia play classical guitars (the kind with the nylon strings) in a flamenco / jazz style that will blow your socks off!

Recorded live in concert in San Francisco this album has spectacular sonics and musicianship to boot!

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Track Listing:
1. Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho
2. Short Tales of the Black Forest
3. Frevo Rasgado
4. Fantasia Suite
5. Guardian Angel

Named after Allen Ginsberg's famous poem, the 12-song set marks a noticeable departure in the band's sound, infusing elements of country, blues and gospel as well as underlying themes of sin and salvation. A tribute to their hometown of San Francisco and its ties to the Beat generation, the album's appropriated retro feel may also have T Bone Burnett to thank who happens to be credited in the liner notes for "additional recording assistance."

With low-key Americana anthems like "Shuffle Your Feet" and "Ain't No Easy Way," Howl may be an uncharacteristic release in the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club catalog, but it's no less rewarding or musically accomplished.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Shuffle Your Feet
2. Howl
3. Devil’s Waitin’
4. Ain’t No Easy Way
5. Still Suspicion Holds You Tight
6. Fault Line
7. Promise

LP2
1. Weight of the World
2. Restless Sinner
3. Gospel Song
4. Complicated Situation
5. Sympathetic Noose
6. The Line

Executive produced by Academy Award winner T Bone Burnett, The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 And Beyond Original Soundtrack features the unparalleled and diverse sounds of Grammy Award winner Taylor Swift, Arcade Fire, The Civil Wars, Miranda Lambert, The Decemberists, Neko Case, Kid Cudi and more. Includes the smash singles "Safe & Sound" (Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars) and "Abraham's Daughter" (Arcade Fire).

Track Listing:
1. Kingdom Come (The Civil Wars)
2. Take The Heartland (Glen Hansard)
3. Come Away To The Water
4. Run Daddy Run (Miranda Lambert feat. Pistol Annies)
5. Rules (Jayme Dee)
6. Eyes Open (Taylor Swift)
7. Lover Is Childlike (The Low Anthem)
8. Just A Game (Birdy)
9. Abraham's Daughter (Arcade Fire)
10. Tomorrow Will Be Kinder [The Hunger Games Soundtrack Version] (Secret Sisters)
11. Nothing To Remember (Neko Case)
12. Safe & Sound (Taylor Swift feat. The Civil Wars)
13. The Ruler And The Killer (Kid Cudi)
14. Dark Days (Punch Brothers)
15. One Engine (The Decemberists)
16. Daughter's Lament (Carolina Chocolate Drops)

Tim Rice-Oxley on the album: "Strangeland feels like an adventure that brings with it different things for different people, and like any adventure is full of uncertainty, and the potential for mishap, as well as the possibility of amazing things and glorious discoveries. I love the idea of the journey through Strangeland being a journey of redemption."

Keane is singer Tom Chapin, drummer Richard Hughes, keyboardist Rice-Oxley and bassist Quin. Four years have elapsed since Keane’s last album Perfect Symmetry; two since Night Train, the EP which followed its three full-length predecessors to the top of the British album charts, securing them a place in pop history. If Keane’s feverishly loyal fanbase wondered what the group’s next album would sound like, they weren’t the only ones. In the eight years following the release of 2004’s 9 x platinum Brit award winning Hopes & Fears, every Keane album has marked a clear progression from the previous one: the anxious emotional terrain mapped out by Under The Iron Sea to the iridescent poptimism of Perfect Symmetry.

“In many respects, it feels like the completion of a circle,” says drummer Richard Hughes. “On the album you have songs that draw upon the experiences we used to share as kids, growing up in Battle. You can never really go back, of course. Once in a while though, after a good day, we’ll go to the local pub and talk about everything and nothing until it’s time to go home. Whatever it is that makes us Keane, that invisible glue, is still there. And you can hear it all over Strangeland.”

Track Listing:
1. You Are Young
2. Silenced By The Night
3. Disconnected
4. Watch How You Go
5. Sovereign Light Cafe
6. On The Road
7. The Starting Line
8. Black Rain
9. Neon River
10. Day Will Come
11. In Your Own Time
12. Sea Fog

Wilson has finally achieved her dream with the Decca Records release of her debut album AM/FM, an intimate, elegant and beautifully sung collection of classics from the ’60s and ’70s that, taken together, make up the soundtrack to her life. “That time period was hugely influential on me as a kid and as a teenager,” she says. “I’d spend hours and hours lying on my bed, holding up the albums, reading the liner notes, and learning all the words to these songs that expressed exactly what I was feeling. They were like a little road map of human experience. Back then, we would even memorize the names of the musicians and photographers. There wasn’t a ‘thank you’ mentioned on a liner note that wasn’t studied and analyzed.”

Carefully curated by Wilson, her producer, Fred Mollin, and Decca Records’ Senior VP of A&R Jay Landers, AM/FM is filled with songs that resonate emotionally with Wilson. “I can remember where I was when I heard each one and what it meant to me,” she says. The album is essentially divided into two sections. The first half, AM, features songs from the ’60s that Wilson remembers singing along to on AM radio while riding in the back seat of her parents’ car and that recall the “lovely innocence and hopefulness of the time”: The songs include “All I Have To Do Is Dream,” (written by Vanessa Joy Amorosi, Mark Ronald Holden & Irmgard Klarmann), “Never My Love,” (written by Richard P. Addrisi & Donald J. Addrisi), “Cherish,” (written by Terry Kirkman), “Come See About Me” (written by Edward Holland Jr, Brian Holland & Lamont Dozier), “Angel Of The Morning” (written by Chip Taylor), “Walking In The Rain” (co-written by Phil Spector and songwriting team Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for the Ronettes), “Wichita Lineman” (written by Jimmy Webb), and “You Were On My Mind” (written by Sylvia Fricker).

By the time Wilson got her own car (a Datsun 2000 Roadster) at age 17, popular music lived on FM radio. She became enamored with the folk-rock singer/songwriters who dominated those airwaves in the early ’70s and her favorite songs make up the FM half: “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” (written by Danny O’Keefe), “Love Has No Pride (written by Eric Kaz & Libby Titus),” “Please Come To Boston” (written by Dave Loggins), “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King), “Faithless Love” (written by J.D. Souther), and “River” (by Joni Mitchell). “As I got older, I began to understand that not everything had a happy ending,” Wilson says, “so I was drawn to songs by women who wrote about how love was not always the dream fantasy; that there was pain and disappointment involved.”

Augmenting Wilson’s exquisite vocal performances are appearances by special guests Chris Cornell, Sheryl Crow, Jimmy Webb, Jackson Browne, Faith Hill, Vince Gill, and Patty Scialfa (who also produced “Come See About Me”). “When I was growing up, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, and Dolly Parton would all perform on each other's albums,” Wilson says. “I remember thinking how great it was that all these wonderful artists would help each other out. There was a camaraderie and connection between them that I thought was very cool. I’ve always loved the idea of an artistic community where people collaborated.”

Track Listing:
1. All I Have To Do Is Dream
2. Never My Love
3. Come See About Me
4. Angel of the Morning
5. Walking in the Rain
6. Wichita Lineman
7. Cherish
8. You Were On My Mind
9. Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues
10. Love Has No Pride
11. Please Come To Boston
12. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
13. Faithless Love
14. River

The California-based band’s fourth Brushfire Records release showcases their unfettered passion, wit, and imagination while simultaneously exploring hitherto uncharted musical terrain. Invigorated by an unstructured approach to the studio process, ALO have accessed new avenues of resourcefulness, resulting in a truly distinctive collection of songs that adroitly captures all the glorious ingenuity and adventure of the band’s legendary live sets.

In April of 2011, ALO convened at San Francisco’s Mission Bells studio with no plans other than to make some music together. With studio owner/longtime collaborator David Simon-Baker assisting behind the board, the band opted to take the same improvisational tack towards recording as they do on stage. Any distinctions between pre-production and real recording would be shed, allowing for ALO’s instinctive spontaneity to make it to track.

ALO let their imagination run free, both musically and lyrically, resulting in such larger-than-life highlights as the Old West flight of fancy, “Cowboys and Chorus Girls,” the self-explanatory glitterball workout, “Room For Bloomin” and at the heart of the album, the raucous reverie for days past, “Blew Out The Walls." Where prior albums featured songs penned individually and then arranged by the band, this time out, ALO were determined that their collective spirit inform every groove.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Dead Still Dance
2. Blew Out the Walls
3. Falling Dominoes
4. Speed of Dreams
5. Storms and Hurricanes

LP2
1. Cowboys and Chorus Girls
2. Bark of a Tree
3. Combat Zone
4. Room for Bloomin'
5. Reviews (From Here to Zed)

For one example of a happy accident, Aubert was surprised to discover Lee's home studio was smack in the middle of the Topanga Canyon woods, minutes from where the singer grew up. "I hadn't been back in years, he recalls. "I thought it would be fun to walk down my old street. It was like playing with fire a little bit. So much came back that I had forgotten about and it was a really emotional experience. I just realized this place and the feelings I had are still ingrained in me."

Aubert says the songs sound "like a horror movie," all of them beginning to percolate while he was country-hopping and people-watching during a European vacation. "(2009's) Swoon was more about what I was feeling at that particular time," he says, "whereas with this one, I wanted to see what built me. It was learning why I am the way I am."

Track Listing:
1. Skin Graph
2. Make Believe
3. Bloody Mary (nerve endings)
4. Busy Bees
5. Here We Are (chancer)
6. Mean Spirits
7. Simmer
8. The Pit
9. Dots and Dashes (enough already)
10. Gun-shy Sunshine
11. Out of Breath

The Legendary Demos trace King's journey from her days as an Aldon staff writer in the 1960s to the start of her solo career in the 1970s and contains the original demoed recordings of such future standards such as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "It's Too Late" and "You've Got A Friend."

Also features early takes of 6-tracks that formed the basis for King's world-wide solo breakthrough 1971 Tapestry, one of the best-selling and most beloved albums of all-time.

Aldon Music used these demos to pitch King's material to other artists, from Gene Pitney and Bobby Vee to Aretha Franklin and the Monkees. While the recordings have long been coveted and collected within the industry, they have never before been released to the public.

This collection of hidden gems represents the missing link in the chain of Carole King's brilliant career! Includes liner notes by acclaimed author and Rolling Stone contributing editor David Browne.

Track Listing:
1. Pleasant Valley Sunday (1966)
2. So Goes Love (1966)
3. Take Good Care of My Baby (1961)
4. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (1967)
5. Like Little Children (1966)
6. Beautiful (1970)
7. Crying in the Rain (1962)
8. Way Over Yonder (1970)
9. Yours Until Tomorrow (1966)
10. It's Too Late (1970)
11. Tapestry (1970)
12. Just Once In My Life (1965)
13. You've Got a Friend (1970)

Van Halen makes their welcome return with A Different Kind Of Truth, their first album since 1998's III, their first with singer David Lee Roth since the band's classic multi-platinum album 1984 and the first to feature Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang on bass! The all original 13-song set was recorded in 2011 with producer John Shanks and is partially based on demos the band made in the '70s. Eddie and Roth are in fine form and don't miss a beat on highlights like the catchy "She's The Woman," the soulful rocker "Big River" and the stadium sized "Stay Frosty." Double gatefold 180g vinyl with custom LP artwork.

Formed in Pasadena, CA in 1972, Van Halen has enjoyed major success since the release of their self-titled debut in 1978. The band has sold in excess of 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstreem Rock chart in history. They are only one of five rock bands to have had two Diamond Certified albums and were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in March of 2007. Van Halen's classic repertoire of hits remain some of the most influential rock songs ever produced and A Different Kind Of Truth is sure to add some more fuel to the fire!

Track Listing:
1. Tattoo
2. She's The Woman
3. You and Your Blues
4. China Town
5. Blood and Fire
6. Bullethead
7. As Is
8. Honeybabysweetiedoll
9. The Trouble With Never
10. Outta Space
11. Stay Frosty
12. Big River
13. Beats Workin'

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Its not often that an album disavowed by its own author at the time of release goes on to become considered a modern classic. Yet thats exactly what happened with Chicago blues legend Howlin Wolfs 1969 LP The Howlin Wolf Album, a release that has since attained mythical status due to the controversy behind it.

Released on Cadet Records, a subsidiary of legendary imprint Chess Records, The Howlin Wolf Album was a radical experiment for a well established artist: attempt to integrate electric instruments and psychedelic arrangements into his revered signature blues sound. The result was an album that Wolf himself initially disregarded on the nowinfamous cover, but one that has won a special place amongst dedicated music aficionados thanks to its unique mix of traditional blues and electric rock elements.

Get On Downs reputation for high quality reissues continues with The Howlin Wolf Album, which features a special Stoughton vinyl pressing with audio remastered from the original analog tapes for optimum sound quality and comes packaged in a paste-on style jacket featuring the albums famous original artwork.

Track Listing:
Side 1
1. Spoonful
2. Tail Dragger
3. Smokestack Lightning
4. Moanin at Midnight
5. Built For Comfort

Side 2
1. The Red Rooster
2. Evil
3. Down In The Bottom
4. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
5. Back Door Man

Import

FANTASTIC 180 GRAM BROWN VINYL REISSUE OF THIS LEGENDARY LEONARD COHEN LIVE PERFORMANCE

RARE LIVE BROADCAST FEATURES RECORDINGS OF BIRD ON A WIRE, SUZANNE AND JOAN OF ARC

1988 was notable in the career of Leonard Cohen for a number of reasons. Not only was he was still reeling from the rejuvenation of his career in the US, largely as a result of Jennifer Warnes Cohen covers album from the previous year, Famous Blue Raincoat, but his own, second album of the decade was finally released.

Im Your Man was a collection of songs quite unlike anything Leonard had recorded previously, and the sound, replete with fashionable 1980s synthesisers, was greeted with applause unlike similar forays from contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

The album was promoted via a series of television interviews, and an extensive tour of Europe, Canada and the U.S. Many shows were broadcast on European and US television and radio, but generally considered to be the finest of the tour was transmitted across the airwaves from the Massey Hall in Canada on 9th November.

Featuring 6 of the 8 numbers from I’m Your Man augmented by a gorgeous Joan Of Arc, a lengthy I Tried To Leave You - featuring band introductions and a few amusing anecdotes - and from his previous record, 1984s New Positions, Heart With No Companion and Coming Back To You are featured too.

Being on home turf, Leonard was never going to get out alive without giving the old guard a bit of what they came for most, so the show is almost bookended by classics Bird On A Wire and Suzanne.

As the final track on this wonderful LP, Leonards reading of his 1992 epic The Future , from the album of the same name, broadcast live on Canadian TV in 93, is included as a bonus cut.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Aint No Cure For Love
2. Bird On A Wire
3. Im Your Man
4. Heart With No Companion
5. Take This Waltz
6. Tower Of Song
7. Joan Of Arc

LP2
1. Jazz Police
2. First We Take Manhattan
3. Coming Back To You
4. Suzanne
5. I Tried To Leave You
6. Whither Thou Goest
7. The Future*

*bonus track

Import

FANTASTIC 180 GRAM GREY VINYL VERSION OF THIS LEGENDARY BROADCAST

LEGENDARY BROADCAST FEATURES RARE RECORDINGS OF ABBA ZABA, ORANGE CLAW HAMMER AND MANY MORE

The six bonus cuts here include both songs played during his 1980 Saturday Night Live appearance in November 1980, an ultra rare Orange Claw Hammer, recorded with Frank Zappa for a special radio show the two compiled and presented in 1975, plus three tracks going back to a 1971 broadcast, when he plays two tracks from the just released Lick My Decals Off Baby and one from its predecessor, the mighty Trout Mask Replica

Running at over 75 minutes in total this LP represents the oft forgotten power and dynamics of Beefheart in concert, and reminds us all just what an extraordinary performer the man christened Don Van Vliet really was.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man
2. Abba Zaba
3. Hot Head
4. Ashtray Heart
5. Dirty Blue Gene
6. Best Batch Yet
7. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
8. Doctor Dark
9. Bat Chain Puller

LP2
1. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
2. Kandy Korn
3. Big Eyed Beans From Venus
4. When Big Joan Sets Up
5. Woe Is Uh Me Bop
6. Ballerin Plain
7. Orange Claw Hammer
8. Hot Head
9. Ashtray Heart

This 2-LP edition comes with deluxe packaging with Mono and Stereo mixes on coloured vinyl all re-mastered from original tapes by Kinks archivist Andrew Sandoval.

Only 500 made!

Track Listing:
Victoria
Yes Sir, no Sir
Some mother's son
Drivin'
Brainwashed
Australia
Shangri La
Mr. Churchill says
She's bought a hat
Like Princess Marina
Young and innocent days
Nothing to say
Arthur