Bob Dylan – Shadows In The Night (CD)

Featuring ten tracks, the Jack Frost-produced album is the 36th studio set from Bob Dylan and marks the first new music from the artist since 2012’s worldwide hit Tempest. Upon Columbia’s announcement of the album’s forthcoming release, Bob Dylan commented, “It was a real privilege to make this album. I’ve wanted to do something like this […]

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The Buckinghams – The Complete Hit Singles (CD)

This new Buckinghams compilation features all of their hit singles from the 60s, including their #1 pop smash ‘Kind Of A Drag’. In addition, the album features ‘Don’t You Care,’ ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy’ and the special radio edit of the hit ‘Susan’. This is the 50th anniversary of The Buckinghams. They are still an active […]

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Editor Neil McCauley: Today I’m listening to Van Morrison ‘Pay The Devil’

Meanwhile ……. “His vocal digs into the lyrics and sets it in the blanket of the deceptively loose barroom-styled accompaniment. The set closes with a deeply emotional read of Rodney Crowell’s “Till I Gain Control Again.” Paul Godden’s lonesome dobro is the engine that guides it emotionally. Bob Loveday’s violins add painterly touches to the […]

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Mastering Monteverdi’s Orfeo

David Vickers speaks to Andrew Parrott on the 40th anniversary of the Taverner Consort and Players. You’ve conducted a lot of opera around the world, but you haven’t recorded many. The Taverner Consort and Players made two different recordings of Dido and Aeneas, and then there’s a famous recording of the Florentine intermedi performed at a […]

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SUGDEN: Their separates – brilliant, or just misplaced nostalgia?

Hello. I am wondering if other people can relate to something I have experienced lately and perhaps help me better understand it. For about a year now, I have been restlessly moving from amp to amp (always somehow satisfied, never fully so) until I finally settled about three months ago on an ex-demo pair of […]

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Rock Candy Funk Party (ft. Joe Bonamassa) – Takes New York – Live At The Iridium (2CD+DVD)

A live DVD/Blu-ray package which includes a 30-minute documentary and an exclusive live companion double CD featuring over 100 minutes of music  all filmed and recorded at the legendary Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. The sound of Rock Candy Funk Party (RCFP) is as celebratory as the band name suggests.  Spinning a fresh […]

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STEAMHAMMER: Mountains: (CD Remastered Edition)

NEW OFFICIAL REMASTERED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC 1971 ALBUM BY PROGRESSIVE / BLUES ROCK GROUP STEAMHAMMER FULLY RESTORED ARTWORK AND LINER NOTES Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered edition of the classic 1971 album by British Progressive / Blues Rock band Steamhammer. Formed in 1968 by Kieran White and […]

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LOUIS ARMSTRONG: His genius lives on

Louis Armstrong’s biographer John Chilton enjoys a new 10-CD boxset that showcases a musical master. Louis Armstrong’s reputation as the greatest of all jazz musicians will be consolidated by the issue of a ten-CD box set covering much of his recording career. The 165 racks range from his first recorded solo (Chimes Blues in 1923) […]

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LUTHER DICKINSON: Blues & Ballads – A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II (CD)

  “‘Blues & Ballads’, this acoustic collection of songs interpreted simply, recorded live, solo or with a small group of friends,celebrates my relationship between music, songs, the written word and legacy. ‘Blues & Ballads’ celebrates the American oral tradition of blues and folk songs, not only being passed down and evolving but being transcribed (the […]

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