Limited edition 7CD Box Set featuring influences, rare live performances with the Flying Burrito Brothers, interviews and cover versions by Emmylou Harris, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark, Linda Ronstadt New tracklist and shows Gram Parsons is the father of country-rock. With the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, the songwriter […]
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Robin Thicke’s latest album has flopped, but he’s not alone: here are five more commercially disastrous albums by major acts http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jul/09/robin-thicke-five-blockbuster-albums-that-bombed-jagger-carey-duffy-guns-n-roses-glasvegas
We are told ….. In a world of lavish, expensive box sets, you might expect Roxy Music’s 40th anniversary package to be the most lavish of the lot. But there’s no luxurious booklet full of pictures; no illuminating accompanying essay by their most ardent chronicler, Michael Bracewell; no sumptuous cover photo of an Anthony Price-styled […]
Disc 1. Carousel Ballroom, S.F., California – 14th Feb 1968 (KMPX FM Radio Broadcast) 1.Fish Cheer 2.I Feel Like I’m Fixing To Die Rag 3.LSD 4.Thursday 5.Rock Coast Blues 6.Masked Marauder 7.Death Sound Blues 8.Flying High 9.Rock & Soul Music Disc 2. Eagles Auditorium, Seattle WA – 1st November 1969 (KOL FM Broadcast) 1 Love […]
Helen Pidd writes: Musical interaction brings harmony to dementia patients. Vera and Jack Burrows met as teenagers. “Childhood sweethearts,” said Vera, brightly. “Then he dumped me when I was 17 and married someone else and we didn’t see each other for 54 years. We were at a dance and he said: ‘Is that you, Vera? […]
From the archives: Andrew Dickinson is a young tenor with a strong stage personality and bold ambition, says Rupert Christiansen. Who is he? An impressively bright and ambitious 28-year-old tenor, Andrew Dickinson is about to sing with Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera. How did he get here? Dickinson grew up in a suburb of Liverpool […]
We are told ….. In celebration of the Small Faces recent induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Charly Records are proud to present Here Come The Nice , a beautiful heavyweight deluxe box set compilation of the band s 1960 s career on Andrew Loog Oldham s pioneering Immediate Records label. 75-songs […]
CLASSIC 1998 BROADCAST RECORDING FROM THE ORIGINAL WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL SITE Having carved out an immortal legacy via her unique voice, unmatched compositional skills and individual style, Stevie Nicks hasreceived enormous renown for her work both with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. Having originally left the band in 1991, she joined the reunion of […]
Afro-Peruvian music has its roots in the communities of black slaves brought to work in the mines along the Peruvian coast. As such, it’s a fair way from the Andes, culturally and geographically. However, as it developed, particularly in this century, it drew on Andean and Spanish, as well as African traditions, while its modern […]
Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz: Danse macabre. Liszt: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude; Mephisto Waltz No1. Behzod Abduraimov (piano) Decca 478 3301, £12.99 Mark the name. Behzod Abduraimov, born in Uzbekistan and still only in his very early twenties. He is a remarkable young pianist, and it is well worth getting in on the ground floor with this […]
Following the hugely anticipated Early Years collection, Pink Floyd now release the 6 individual collections that were first released as part of ‘The Early Years 1965-1972’ box set. Whether a fan of the early Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, or to the final moments before ‘The Dark Side of The Moon’, there is something in […]
In 2007, Joni Mitchell released her last studio album to date,Shine. That release was her first recording since 2002’sTravelogue and first collection of new songs since 1998’sTaming the Tiger. Over the past seven years, the influential singer-songwriter has mainly made headlines for her candid and revealing interviews, on which she’s held forth about such topics as […]
Live In Dublin is the first and only release of a complete Leonard Cohen concert to be shot in high definition. Lensed and recorded at Dublin’s 02 Arena on September 12th 2013, Leonard Cohen – Live In Dublin documents a peak performance from the musician’s monumental sold-out 2012-2013 world tour, introducing Cohen’s then-latest release (2012’s […]
Terri and I were recently watching a YouTube documentary on old Route 66. Boy, did that bring back some memories. As a lad, my grandmother Elsie packed me and my two sisters into her 1952 Chevrolet and drove us from Southern California to Saint Louis Missouri, and back again along Route 66: Burma Shave signs, […]
EVERYTHING’S BEAUTIFUL, beautifully crafted, reimagined interpretations of Miles Davis’ music produced by Grammy Award winner Robert Glasper (who also served as co-producer of the MILES AHEAD motion picture soundtrack) with musical guest artists including Bilal, Illa J, Erykah Badu, Phonte, Hiatus Kaiyote, Laura Mvula, KING, Georgia Ann Muldrow, John Scofield and Ledisi, and Stevie Wonder. […]
It goes without saying that 1968 doesn’t have the same kind of cachet as 1967 – ayear that, in musical terms, will always be indelibly associated with the Summerof Love, Sgt Pepper and the emergence of psychedelia. But although the major players turned away from the excesses of the previousyear in favour of a back-to-basics […]
Music has been a major passion for the last 28 years and for me what really started that passion was going to see bands play live. I still remember that feeling of my very first concert; how the hairs stood on the back of my head and just being taken away by the energy of […]
Until last year Sameer Rahim had little interest in classical music – but now he is hooked on opera. In a new column he offers a novice-eye’s view of this seemingly forbidding but truly magical art form. I grew up in a household where not a note of classical music was played. I must […]
“Is this meant ironically? Is it a joke? Do I mean this seriously? In what way?” David Byrne seems to be simultaneously inviting and acknowledging some likely reactions to his 2018 album, American Utopia, in his own liner notes. At a time when America has been thrown into a state of chaos — something Byrne […]
Richard Buskin writes as follows: Towards the end of the award‑winning video that was shot to promote her 1990 international hit single ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, tears run down each of Sinéad O’Connor’s cheeks as she sings, “All the flowers that you planted, Mama, in the back yard, all died when you went away.” These, […]
Drums & Wires is the second in a series of remixed & expanded XTC Classics The album has been mixed for 5.1 Surround Sound from the original studio masters by Steven Wilson with input from Andy Partridge & is fully approved by XTC. CD features a completely new stereo album mix by Steven Wilson CD […]
One of America’s leading sopranos for over three decades, and a favourite with conductors from Karajan to Levine, Alan Blyth pays tribute. I was present in 1952 at the Stoll Theatre in London when Leontyne Price made her London debut, virtually unknown, in a legendary tour of Porgy and Bess. I cannot say I recall […]
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD AND POCO FOUNDER MEMBER WITH EARLY SOLO SHOW FROM 1976 With his trademark smooth tenor vocals and non-nonsense guitar, Richie Furay and his then band – Jay Truax on bass, John Mehler on drums, Tom Stipe on keyboards, Virgil Beckham on guitar and Alan McDougall on percussion – played the My Father’s Place […]
Translated from Japanese – but not by us! We are told: North American tour of summer in the summer of 1965 which became a former unexpected stadium tour in the history of rock. The first day of the Shea Stadium performance, including a number of performances & occasional happenings that occurred on the scene of […]