I am continuing our feature: Ask "Mr. Music." Now in its 23rd year of syndication (1986-2008), Jerry Osborne's weekly Q&A feature will be a regular post every Wednesday from now on. Be sure to stop by Jerry's site (www.jerryosborne.com) for more Mr. Music archives, record price guides, anything Elvis, buy & sell collectibles, record appraisals and much more. I thank Jerry for allowing the reprints.
FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 12, 2009
DEAR JERRY: I recently picked up a box of 78s at an estate sale, most of which appear to be old-time blues.
Even though I recognize very few of the recording artists and do not own a 78 rpm player, I say this because so many have titles ending in the word “blues.”
One of these is “Muskadine Blues” (Regal 3296), by Little Walter Trio, which I'm hoping you can tell me a bit about.
For starters, what or where is Muskadine? I've not heard this word before. Even my huge dictionary jumps from musk to muskeg. No entry begins with m-u-s-k-a.
It would also be nice to know when this record came out, and a value estimate.
—Mel Otis, Port Washington, Wisc.
DEAR MEL: Record labels are a legendary source of spelling and grammatical errors, and your Regal disc is an example.
The title should be “Muscadine Blues,” just as nearly all other recordings of muscadine-related songs.
Your dictionary should include muscadine, and define it as a grape or berry, native to a climate found mostly in the southeastern states.
Recorded in 1950, Little Walter's tune is about drinking wine made from muscadine grapes.
Besides harmonica wizard Little Walter, his Chicago-based trio includes Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster, both of whom are very well known.
In early 1953, when Little Walter's records became regulars in the Top 10, Herald reissued “Muskadine Blues,” hoping to jump on the bandwagon. As such, their single came out credited only to him (no “Trio”), and with a very different title: “Take a Walk with Me” (Herald 403). As a result, recent albums on compact disc combine both titles into one: “Take a Walk with Me (Muskadine Blues).”
Either the Regal or the Herald 78 can now sell in the $750 to $1,000 range.
Inspired by Little Walter's Regal original, and its unusual spelling, a record label named Muskadine came along in 1971 and began a fine series of various artists compilations honoring Chicago blues history. Their first LP, “On the Road Again (Anthology of Chicago Blues 1947-1954),” includes their namesake Little Walter Trio track, along with cuts by these other windy city blues legends: Baby Face Leroy (Foster); John Brim Trio; Othum Brown; Delta Joe; J.B. (Hutto) and His Hawks; Floyd Jones and His Trio; Johnny Shines; and Snooky & Moody (Muskadine LP-100).
As for other recordings with this tasty theme, here are some interesting variations: “Muscadine Wine” (Ken Will Morton and the Wholly Ghosts); “Muscadine Wine” (Keith Sewell); “Muscadine Wine” (Sam Hunt); “Muscadine Wine” (James Day and Fish Fry); “My Muscadine Wine” (Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors); “Yesterday's Muscadine Wine” (Syrup); “Muscadine” (John Balch & Jack Pearson); “Muscadine” (Langer & Raabenstein); and my personal favorite, a solid blues instrumental titled “Muscadine Blues,” by Skeebo Knight.
For the perfect companion piece to today's Chicago-blues-harmonica theme, read on:
DEAR JERRY: During the last week of September, one of the celebrity guests on the Bonnie Hunt Show was Elisabeth Moss, a star in the award-winning Mad Men TV series.
Of course they talked about Mad Men, as well as Moss' first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Peggy Olson.
Then, almost as an aside, Elisabeth commented about growing up in Chicago (as did Bonnie Hunt) with both parents being musicians. Without mentioning their names, she stated her mother was one of the world's most famous female blues harmonica players. Then they went on to another topic.
Who is this famous harmonica player whose identity remains a mystery?
—Sheri Nordland, St. Louis.
DEAR SHERI: It does seem odd to have such a renown blues legend for a mother, yet keep her name a secret.
With apologies to Elisabeth, her folks are now officially outed. Her parents are Ron and Linda Moss.
And to say mom is “one of” the world's most famous female blues harmonica players is an understatement. She is the most famous!
Linda has been playing harmonica professionally since age 15, backing many big name blues bands and singers from the Chicago area and beyond.
Just a few of those whose recordings include Linda are: Muddy Waters; Junior Wells; Son Seals; James Cotton; John Lee Hooker, Chick Corea, Isaac Hayes, Melissa Ethridge, Phil Upchurch, and the Edgar Winter Group.
More recently, Linda's harmonica artistry is featured with Kelly's Lot, a California-based blues-rock band.
IZ ZAT SO? The name Kelly's Lot comes from Kelly's Lot, a used car business (motto: "If you want a good deal, go to Kelly's Lot"), operated by Kelly Zirbes in Marina Del Rey, California.
Kelly's passion for singing and entertaining, coupled with a struggling market for car sales, motivated her to drive Kelly's Lot in an entirely different direction.
Five successful albums later, and a few years, have proven Kelly's decision to be exactly the right one. On any given night, Kelly and Perry Robertson, with their band, are likely performing somewhere in California, though this month (October) they are on their second European tour.
Copyright 2009 Osbourne Enterprises- Reprinted By Permission
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Grammy-Award Winning Wyclef Jean To Release Explosive New 13 Song EP
DJ Drama Presents Wyclef Jean AKA Toussaint St Jean 'From The Hut To The Projects To The Mansion' on November 10th
FEATURING DJ DRAMA, EVE, CYNDI LAUPER, TIMBALAND, LIL KIM, AND OTHERS
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyclef Jean returns to his hip-hop roots with the gritty release of "DJ Drama Presents Wyclef Jean AKA Toussaint St Jean From The Hut To The Projects To The Mansion," a collaboration with DJ Drama to be released November 10, 2009 on Carnival House via Megaforce/RED. The EP also features Eve, Timbaland, Maino, Cyndi Lauper, Lil Kim, among others.
Toussaint St. Jean, the title character of Wyclef's new EP, is a persona suggested to Wyclef by his friend and collaborator T.I. The character Toussaint is loosely based on the 18th-century Haitian revolutionary hero, Toussaint L'Ouverture, a figure who brought Haiti to significance on the international stage. Wyclef, who is originally from Haiti, inhabits the role of Toussaint and recreates himself in the spirit of a noble fighter, a man who says exactly what is on his mind. Toussaint's rhymes hit hard, in a "militant style," and make his words felt -- and remembered.
And so what's the difference between Wyclef and Toussaint? "Toussaint is more direct," Wyclef says. "He ain't going to sugarcoat nothing. Whatever he's thinking, he's going to tell you. It's like, I've still got this machete -- my tongue is sharper than it's ever been." To help create suitable musical settings for the grisly tales Toussaint has to tell, Wyclef turned to DJ Drama, who has worked extensively with T.I. "I asked myself, 'Who's the toughest guy out there?'" Wyclef says. "Then I said, well, DJ Drama is pretty badass. So I called him and asked if he'd be interested in doing a mixtape. He heard what I was up to and he said, 'We gotta do a book -- this is a novel!'" He got excited, and it became more like an EP than a mixtape.
The track that best captures the feelings that motivate "Toussaint St. Jean" is the intensely dramatic "The Streets Pronounce Me Dead," a chronicle of Wyclef witnessing his own metaphoric funeral. It's a commentary on Wyclef's sense of himself as a forgotten man on the hip-hop scene, despite the groundbreaking impact of his former group, the Fugees, whose 1996 album "The Score" is the best-selling hip-hop album of all time, with sales of nearly twenty million copies worldwide. The song cites the flood of younger rappers -- Akon, Lil Jon, Kanye West, among them -- who have risen up as Wyclef has gone onto prominence as a solo artist and producer for the likes of Shakira, Mick Jagger, Bono and John Legend.
Tracks like "Warriorz," "Letter From the Penn" and "Toussaint vs. Bishop" paint riveting pictures, "hood stories," as Wyclef describes them, of street life and its consequences. The gripping storytelling in those songs recalls the raw environments in Haiti and Brooklyn from which Wyclef emerged -- "from the hut to the projects to the mansion," as he memorably puts it in "Slumdog Millionaire." It's a story arc that these songs make compelling.
Wyclef views the message of "Toussaint St. Jean" as "not everything that appears bad is really bad, because the real bad men move in silence. So be careful what you emulate, because it's could get you six feet deep. If you don't see me with a gun, it doesn't mean that the guy with the gun is badder than me. I've been in those communities, but you've got to rise past that world." And, as always with Wyclef, there's more to the story than meets the eye. "Toussaint St. Jean" represents just the first step on the road to another album he intends to release in 2010 titled simply "wyclefjean." The album will reflect a three-dimensional portrait of an artist for whom the gritty sagas of Toussaint St. Jean are just one part.
Wyclef, who is also known as one of the hottest music producers today has worked with every major artist from Bono to Shakira to Santana. His 2007 written and produced "Hips Don't Lie" featuring Shakira was a #1 hit around the world, further expanding his utopian multi-cultural appeal. His extensive humanitarian work with his Yele Haiti organization which he founded in 2005 has brought much needed worldwide attention to his native Haiti. His inextricable relationship with fans is unprecedented. In a matter of a few months, Wyclef's Twitter following was over 1 million -- in a sense, his fans are considered an extension of him.
Wyclef Jean is set to release his self titled LP "Wyclef Jean" in March 2010 through Columbia Records.
DJ Drama Presents WYCLEF JEAN AKA Toussaint St Jean "FROM THE HUT TO THE PROJECTS TO THE MANSION" Track Listing:
1.Interlude - From The Hut, To The Projects, To The Mansion
2.Warrior's Anthem
3.The Streets Pronounce Me Dead
4.Slumdog Millionaire feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo
5.Interlude - Every Now & Then
6.Walk Away
7.More Bottles feat. Timbaland
8.You Don't Wanna Go Outside
9.Toussaint vs. Bishop
10.Interlude - The Struggle
11.We Made It
12.Suicide Love feat. Eve
13.Letter From The Penn
14.Robotic Love
15.Gangsta Girl feat. Lil Kim
16.Interlude - Tell The Kids The Truth
17.The Shottas
SOURCE Megaforce/RED
FEATURING DJ DRAMA, EVE, CYNDI LAUPER, TIMBALAND, LIL KIM, AND OTHERS
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyclef Jean returns to his hip-hop roots with the gritty release of "DJ Drama Presents Wyclef Jean AKA Toussaint St Jean From The Hut To The Projects To The Mansion," a collaboration with DJ Drama to be released November 10, 2009 on Carnival House via Megaforce/RED. The EP also features Eve, Timbaland, Maino, Cyndi Lauper, Lil Kim, among others.
Toussaint St. Jean, the title character of Wyclef's new EP, is a persona suggested to Wyclef by his friend and collaborator T.I. The character Toussaint is loosely based on the 18th-century Haitian revolutionary hero, Toussaint L'Ouverture, a figure who brought Haiti to significance on the international stage. Wyclef, who is originally from Haiti, inhabits the role of Toussaint and recreates himself in the spirit of a noble fighter, a man who says exactly what is on his mind. Toussaint's rhymes hit hard, in a "militant style," and make his words felt -- and remembered.
And so what's the difference between Wyclef and Toussaint? "Toussaint is more direct," Wyclef says. "He ain't going to sugarcoat nothing. Whatever he's thinking, he's going to tell you. It's like, I've still got this machete -- my tongue is sharper than it's ever been." To help create suitable musical settings for the grisly tales Toussaint has to tell, Wyclef turned to DJ Drama, who has worked extensively with T.I. "I asked myself, 'Who's the toughest guy out there?'" Wyclef says. "Then I said, well, DJ Drama is pretty badass. So I called him and asked if he'd be interested in doing a mixtape. He heard what I was up to and he said, 'We gotta do a book -- this is a novel!'" He got excited, and it became more like an EP than a mixtape.
The track that best captures the feelings that motivate "Toussaint St. Jean" is the intensely dramatic "The Streets Pronounce Me Dead," a chronicle of Wyclef witnessing his own metaphoric funeral. It's a commentary on Wyclef's sense of himself as a forgotten man on the hip-hop scene, despite the groundbreaking impact of his former group, the Fugees, whose 1996 album "The Score" is the best-selling hip-hop album of all time, with sales of nearly twenty million copies worldwide. The song cites the flood of younger rappers -- Akon, Lil Jon, Kanye West, among them -- who have risen up as Wyclef has gone onto prominence as a solo artist and producer for the likes of Shakira, Mick Jagger, Bono and John Legend.
Tracks like "Warriorz," "Letter From the Penn" and "Toussaint vs. Bishop" paint riveting pictures, "hood stories," as Wyclef describes them, of street life and its consequences. The gripping storytelling in those songs recalls the raw environments in Haiti and Brooklyn from which Wyclef emerged -- "from the hut to the projects to the mansion," as he memorably puts it in "Slumdog Millionaire." It's a story arc that these songs make compelling.
Wyclef views the message of "Toussaint St. Jean" as "not everything that appears bad is really bad, because the real bad men move in silence. So be careful what you emulate, because it's could get you six feet deep. If you don't see me with a gun, it doesn't mean that the guy with the gun is badder than me. I've been in those communities, but you've got to rise past that world." And, as always with Wyclef, there's more to the story than meets the eye. "Toussaint St. Jean" represents just the first step on the road to another album he intends to release in 2010 titled simply "wyclefjean." The album will reflect a three-dimensional portrait of an artist for whom the gritty sagas of Toussaint St. Jean are just one part.
Wyclef, who is also known as one of the hottest music producers today has worked with every major artist from Bono to Shakira to Santana. His 2007 written and produced "Hips Don't Lie" featuring Shakira was a #1 hit around the world, further expanding his utopian multi-cultural appeal. His extensive humanitarian work with his Yele Haiti organization which he founded in 2005 has brought much needed worldwide attention to his native Haiti. His inextricable relationship with fans is unprecedented. In a matter of a few months, Wyclef's Twitter following was over 1 million -- in a sense, his fans are considered an extension of him.
Wyclef Jean is set to release his self titled LP "Wyclef Jean" in March 2010 through Columbia Records.
DJ Drama Presents WYCLEF JEAN AKA Toussaint St Jean "FROM THE HUT TO THE PROJECTS TO THE MANSION" Track Listing:
1.Interlude - From The Hut, To The Projects, To The Mansion
2.Warrior's Anthem
3.The Streets Pronounce Me Dead
4.Slumdog Millionaire feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo
5.Interlude - Every Now & Then
6.Walk Away
7.More Bottles feat. Timbaland
8.You Don't Wanna Go Outside
9.Toussaint vs. Bishop
10.Interlude - The Struggle
11.We Made It
12.Suicide Love feat. Eve
13.Letter From The Penn
14.Robotic Love
15.Gangsta Girl feat. Lil Kim
16.Interlude - Tell The Kids The Truth
17.The Shottas
SOURCE Megaforce/RED
Music News & Notes
The Faces Reunion: More Than A One-Off
The Faces reunion in London on October 25 might not be just one show, as the band explains below:
The band are playing a charity event at the Royal Albert Hall, in aid of the PRS For Music Members Benevolent Fund and, says drummer Kenney Jones, more shows might happen.
“Don’t rule that out. We got together before Christmas last year to have a laugh and rehearse. And the intention then was do some special shows in 2009. But then our schedules got in the way. However, when the PRS [Performing Rights Society] asked if we’d pay at their 75th anniversary gig, we jumped at the chance, Especially, because the charity attached to this has done so much to help Ronnie’s family [this being late bassist Ronnie Lane, who died in 1997].”
Jones says he is proud of the way that The Faces have become such an enduring influence.
“It’s down to the great songs, I think. That’s what survived. And we always knew how to have fun as well. We enjoyed rock’n'roll!”
Apart form Lane, also missing at the Royal Albert Hall is frontman Rod Stewart. But he simply cannot get over to London.
“Rod was desperate to do it, but he’s got a lot of promotion for his new album in America, and has had to pass. But this is being done with his blessing.”
Joining Jones, guitarist Ronnie Wood and keyboard player Ian McLagan is former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, who’s played with the band before ["He's virtually become a regular member now"]. But who’ll be on vocals?
“That would be telling! We’ll have a few different ones. A mixture of our contemporaries and younger vocalists.”
Also billed to appear at the Royal Albert Hall gig are Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall, Spice Girl Mel C and Kiki Dee. Does this mean one or more of them will also step up to sing with The Faces? Who knows?
For further info, go to www.the-faces.com
=============================
Tom Waits New Music
This 2-CD set chronicles Waits' Glitter and Doom tour of the U.S. and Europe, drawing performances from the 17 tracks from ten different cities. The first CD carries the music tracks while the second CD is Tom's Tales, a 35-minute compilation of Waits' between song banter on a variety of subjects from the ritual of insects to the last dying breath of Henry Ford.
The music covers all eras of Waits' career and reinvents many of the songs with new rhythms and arrangements.
The Faces reunion in London on October 25 might not be just one show, as the band explains below:
The band are playing a charity event at the Royal Albert Hall, in aid of the PRS For Music Members Benevolent Fund and, says drummer Kenney Jones, more shows might happen.
“Don’t rule that out. We got together before Christmas last year to have a laugh and rehearse. And the intention then was do some special shows in 2009. But then our schedules got in the way. However, when the PRS [Performing Rights Society] asked if we’d pay at their 75th anniversary gig, we jumped at the chance, Especially, because the charity attached to this has done so much to help Ronnie’s family [this being late bassist Ronnie Lane, who died in 1997].”
Jones says he is proud of the way that The Faces have become such an enduring influence.
“It’s down to the great songs, I think. That’s what survived. And we always knew how to have fun as well. We enjoyed rock’n'roll!”
Apart form Lane, also missing at the Royal Albert Hall is frontman Rod Stewart. But he simply cannot get over to London.
“Rod was desperate to do it, but he’s got a lot of promotion for his new album in America, and has had to pass. But this is being done with his blessing.”
Joining Jones, guitarist Ronnie Wood and keyboard player Ian McLagan is former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, who’s played with the band before ["He's virtually become a regular member now"]. But who’ll be on vocals?
“That would be telling! We’ll have a few different ones. A mixture of our contemporaries and younger vocalists.”
Also billed to appear at the Royal Albert Hall gig are Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall, Spice Girl Mel C and Kiki Dee. Does this mean one or more of them will also step up to sing with The Faces? Who knows?
For further info, go to www.the-faces.com
=============================
Tom Waits New Music
This 2-CD set chronicles Waits' Glitter and Doom tour of the U.S. and Europe, drawing performances from the 17 tracks from ten different cities. The first CD carries the music tracks while the second CD is Tom's Tales, a 35-minute compilation of Waits' between song banter on a variety of subjects from the ritual of insects to the last dying breath of Henry Ford.
The music covers all eras of Waits' career and reinvents many of the songs with new rhythms and arrangements.
Record Collecting - North of the Border
Exhibitors say today's young music fans are rediscovering the sounds of the '60s and '70s on vinyl
BY ALAN COCHRANE
In the late 1980s, the big record companies declared that vinyl was a dead format and compact discs were the way of the future.
Collectors, however, continue to buck the trend and prefer to listen and seek out their favourite music on the big 12-inch discs.
"A lot of people still prefer the sound and the large format artwork," says David Eisener, who runs Select Sounds, a record emporium in Bedford, N.S. "They like the format and want it on vinyl, especially the classic rock albums, because that's the way it was intended to be listened to."
Eisener is one of many exhibitors bringing loads of vinyl records to Moncton for this Saturday's Fall Record Expo. The expo, now in its seventh year, will bring together dozens of exhibitors from all over Atlantic Canada with thousands of albums and 45-rpm singles for collectors to pore over.
There will also be lots of audio gear and music-related collectibles.
The expo will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Main Street in Moncton. Admission is $32, or free for children under 12.
For many music collectors, the 12-inch vinyl album represents the golden age of music production when bands and record companies released elaborate fold-out covers complete with photo booklets, lyric sheets and artwork.
When record players were replaced by compact disc players, many collectors replaced their albums with CDs and their collections were scattered to the winds. The prized albums usually ended up in cardboard boxes at flea markets and yard sales for 50 cents or $1 each.
Eisener started his store in 1994, a time he says was the low end of interest in buying vinyl. But he saw business pick up after four or five years and, today, collectors of all ages are still seeking out prized copies of classic albums by such timeless performers as The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Eagles and U2.
The collectors are also looking for more recent vinyl copies of newer albums by bands like the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, along with the collectible rarities, limited editions and bootlegs that put vinyl into the realm of obsessive hobbies like hockey cards and comic books.
Eisener says collectors come from all ages and demographics. Surprisingly, many of the collectors are in the 15-25 age group, people who are seeking out albums that are older than they are. One of the reasons for this is that album collecting can help music lovers trace and understand the history and evolution of pop and rock music.
For example, many of today's bands say they were influenced by such '70s supergroups as Led Zeppelin. But when you dig back a bit deeper, you will find that the Zeppelin musicians drew their inspiration from many sources of blues, reggae, folk and rockabilly. Indeed, the story of rock music's evolution shifts like the tide from one side of the Atlantic to the other over time with each generation adding its own ingredients to the recipe.
Many of the collectors are people who grew up with vinyl and got rid of most of their collections years ago, but recently decided to dust off their turntable and get started again.
Eisener says collecting vinyl is reasonably cheap with most records selling in the $5 to $20 range, allowing collectors to gather together a portfolio without spending too much money. And while there are some big-money collectibles floating around, they rarely land on the counters at record stores in Atlantic Canada.
Marty LeBlanc, who runs the Live Wire record shop on Mountain Road and has been organizing the Record Expo for seven years, says some exhibitors travel to Japan and bring back imports and collectibles from around the world.
LeBlanc says record shop owners and appraisers rely on several "bibles" to determine a fair price for a true rarity or collectible.
Collectors have quite a few resources and numbers to check, to find out whether an album is actually worth a lot of money or simply a counterfeit or reissue of something more famous.
One of the most sought-after collectibles is the infamous "butcher cover" of The Beatles' Yesterday and Today album. Released in June of 1966, the album included such big hits as Yesterday, Drive My Car and Day Tripper. The cover photograph showed The Beatles dressed in white butcher smocks covered in fresh-cut meat and cradling decapitated dolls. The photo was so shocking to the industry that all copies of the album were recalled after the first day of release. The record company made up stickers with a much tamer photo of The Beatles posing in a travel trunk, and had them pasted over the offensive cover. A few of the original "butcher cover" albums survived and have been appraised at over $10,000.
LeBlanc says old Beatles, Elvis Presley and other classic rock bands are among the most popular, and people also love to collect the lunch boxes, jigsaw puzzles, toys and other marketing memorabilia that go along with the hobby.
People can also find turntables, speakers, amplifiers and needles to keep their stereo sets humming so they can enjoy their collectible albums.
"The real collectibles are like a fine wine. You have to crack it open once in a while and enjoy it," he says.
LeBlanc says all tables for the expo are sold out but people can bring parts of their own collection to sell to the exhibitors.
"Sometimes you have a gem and sometimes you don't."
SOURCE: http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com
BY ALAN COCHRANE
In the late 1980s, the big record companies declared that vinyl was a dead format and compact discs were the way of the future.
Collectors, however, continue to buck the trend and prefer to listen and seek out their favourite music on the big 12-inch discs.
"A lot of people still prefer the sound and the large format artwork," says David Eisener, who runs Select Sounds, a record emporium in Bedford, N.S. "They like the format and want it on vinyl, especially the classic rock albums, because that's the way it was intended to be listened to."
Eisener is one of many exhibitors bringing loads of vinyl records to Moncton for this Saturday's Fall Record Expo. The expo, now in its seventh year, will bring together dozens of exhibitors from all over Atlantic Canada with thousands of albums and 45-rpm singles for collectors to pore over.
There will also be lots of audio gear and music-related collectibles.
The expo will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Main Street in Moncton. Admission is $32, or free for children under 12.
For many music collectors, the 12-inch vinyl album represents the golden age of music production when bands and record companies released elaborate fold-out covers complete with photo booklets, lyric sheets and artwork.
When record players were replaced by compact disc players, many collectors replaced their albums with CDs and their collections were scattered to the winds. The prized albums usually ended up in cardboard boxes at flea markets and yard sales for 50 cents or $1 each.
Eisener started his store in 1994, a time he says was the low end of interest in buying vinyl. But he saw business pick up after four or five years and, today, collectors of all ages are still seeking out prized copies of classic albums by such timeless performers as The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Eagles and U2.
The collectors are also looking for more recent vinyl copies of newer albums by bands like the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, along with the collectible rarities, limited editions and bootlegs that put vinyl into the realm of obsessive hobbies like hockey cards and comic books.
Eisener says collectors come from all ages and demographics. Surprisingly, many of the collectors are in the 15-25 age group, people who are seeking out albums that are older than they are. One of the reasons for this is that album collecting can help music lovers trace and understand the history and evolution of pop and rock music.
For example, many of today's bands say they were influenced by such '70s supergroups as Led Zeppelin. But when you dig back a bit deeper, you will find that the Zeppelin musicians drew their inspiration from many sources of blues, reggae, folk and rockabilly. Indeed, the story of rock music's evolution shifts like the tide from one side of the Atlantic to the other over time with each generation adding its own ingredients to the recipe.
Many of the collectors are people who grew up with vinyl and got rid of most of their collections years ago, but recently decided to dust off their turntable and get started again.
Eisener says collecting vinyl is reasonably cheap with most records selling in the $5 to $20 range, allowing collectors to gather together a portfolio without spending too much money. And while there are some big-money collectibles floating around, they rarely land on the counters at record stores in Atlantic Canada.
Marty LeBlanc, who runs the Live Wire record shop on Mountain Road and has been organizing the Record Expo for seven years, says some exhibitors travel to Japan and bring back imports and collectibles from around the world.
LeBlanc says record shop owners and appraisers rely on several "bibles" to determine a fair price for a true rarity or collectible.
Collectors have quite a few resources and numbers to check, to find out whether an album is actually worth a lot of money or simply a counterfeit or reissue of something more famous.
One of the most sought-after collectibles is the infamous "butcher cover" of The Beatles' Yesterday and Today album. Released in June of 1966, the album included such big hits as Yesterday, Drive My Car and Day Tripper. The cover photograph showed The Beatles dressed in white butcher smocks covered in fresh-cut meat and cradling decapitated dolls. The photo was so shocking to the industry that all copies of the album were recalled after the first day of release. The record company made up stickers with a much tamer photo of The Beatles posing in a travel trunk, and had them pasted over the offensive cover. A few of the original "butcher cover" albums survived and have been appraised at over $10,000.
LeBlanc says old Beatles, Elvis Presley and other classic rock bands are among the most popular, and people also love to collect the lunch boxes, jigsaw puzzles, toys and other marketing memorabilia that go along with the hobby.
People can also find turntables, speakers, amplifiers and needles to keep their stereo sets humming so they can enjoy their collectible albums.
"The real collectibles are like a fine wine. You have to crack it open once in a while and enjoy it," he says.
LeBlanc says all tables for the expo are sold out but people can bring parts of their own collection to sell to the exhibitors.
"Sometimes you have a gem and sometimes you don't."
SOURCE: http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com
'NCIS' Soundtrack Features New Songs From Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and More
The second soundtrack from one of nation's highest rated TV shows will feature exclusive music by Bob Dylan, Norah Jones, Joss Stone and John Mellencamp, CBS Records announced Monday. 'NCIS: The Official Soundtrack -- Vol. 2' will highlight the songs used in this season of the CBS show, which stars Mark Harmon as a Naval detective.
"People really pay attention to music that's good on television shows," Larry Jenkins, the head of CBS Records, tells Spinner. "In a lot of ways it serves the purpose that radio used to serve."
The blend of music and drama is expected to help both 'NCIS,' which features music from top acts as a major component of the show, and the performers, who gain exposure to a wide audience -- an estimated 20 million viewers per week.
"You have the sort of unveiling going on week after week on the show," Jenkins says. "Before the season even begins, CBS Records trolls its artists to see who has new music they can offer "NCIS. We send the tracks as we get them."
Here is the tracklist for the compilation, which is scheduled for release on Nov. 3.
1. Bob Dylan, 'California'
2. Norah Jones, 'That's What I Said'
3. Joss Stone, 'Every Time I Turn Around'
4. Sick Puppies, 'That Time of Year'
5. Sharon Little, 'Genie in My Dreams'
6. John Mellencamp, 'Someday the Rains Will Fall'
7. Sheryl Crow, 'Murder In My Heart'
8. Keaton Simons, 'Grim Reaper'
9. Otis Redding, 'I've Got Dreams to Remember'
10. Michael Weatherly, 'Bitter and Blue'
11. Saosin, 'Move Slow'
12. Tom Lehrer, 'The Elements'
"People really pay attention to music that's good on television shows," Larry Jenkins, the head of CBS Records, tells Spinner. "In a lot of ways it serves the purpose that radio used to serve."
The blend of music and drama is expected to help both 'NCIS,' which features music from top acts as a major component of the show, and the performers, who gain exposure to a wide audience -- an estimated 20 million viewers per week.
"You have the sort of unveiling going on week after week on the show," Jenkins says. "Before the season even begins, CBS Records trolls its artists to see who has new music they can offer "NCIS. We send the tracks as we get them."
Here is the tracklist for the compilation, which is scheduled for release on Nov. 3.
1. Bob Dylan, 'California'
2. Norah Jones, 'That's What I Said'
3. Joss Stone, 'Every Time I Turn Around'
4. Sick Puppies, 'That Time of Year'
5. Sharon Little, 'Genie in My Dreams'
6. John Mellencamp, 'Someday the Rains Will Fall'
7. Sheryl Crow, 'Murder In My Heart'
8. Keaton Simons, 'Grim Reaper'
9. Otis Redding, 'I've Got Dreams to Remember'
10. Michael Weatherly, 'Bitter and Blue'
11. Saosin, 'Move Slow'
12. Tom Lehrer, 'The Elements'
Pop Singer Al Martino Passes Away at 82
Pop singer Al Martino passed away on Tuesday afternoon at his childhood home in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He was 82.
Martino had seven top twenty hits and six top 20 albums, but he may be best known for playing the part of Johnny Fontaine in the movie The Godfather.
Martino was born October 7, 1927 as Alfred Cini to Italian immigrants. He spent his early life working in the family masonry business but had an ongoing love for music. When his childhood friend, Alfredo Cocozza became an international superstar under the name of Mario Lanza, Cini decided to make a go of the business.
Changing his name to Al Matino, he moved to New York in 1948 where he eventually won first place on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. Soon after, he signed to a small independent label, BBS, recording Here in My Heart which went on to become an international hit, going to number one in both the U.S. and the U.K.
Capitol Records took notice and signed Martino who had a few more hits in the early-50's before his career suddenly took a detour. According to legend, his contract was forcibly taken over by a mafia based management team who demanded $75,000 in protection money. Unable to make the payment, Martino and his family fled to England where his career continued to flourish.
By the time he was able to return to the U.S. in 1958, the public had mostly forgotten him and rock and roll was the music of the day. He signed with 20th Century Fox Records where he recorded a couple of albums but sales were slow and the label dropped him. Martino decided to finance his next record himself and The Exciting Voice of Al Martino got him resigned as an artist at Capitol.
Martino worked relentlessly to reestablish his career, playing many tour dates and appearing as often as possible on TV. The hard work payed off in 1963 when I Love You Because made it up to number 3 on the Pop and number 1 on the Adult Contemporary charts. From that point on, he became a standard part of the AC chart, scoring twenty more top ten hits.
In 1966, Martino released his signature song. Spanish Eyes, based on an instrumental hit by Bert Kaempfert, made it to number 15 on the Pop charts and spent a month at the top in Adult Comtemporary.
In the early 70's, Martino's friend Phyllis McGuire brought him to the attention of Francis Ford Coppola who was making a film version of the book The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Specifically, she thought the part of Johnny Fontaine fit Martino perfectly. Fontaine was based on Frank Sinatra and his fight to be cast in From Here to Eternity, but much of the fictional singer's story also was familiar from Martino's 50's connections. He was cast in the film and the exposure allowed him to continue recording through the rest of the decade.
Martino and Capitol parted ways in the early-80's and the singer continued to tour behind his large catalog. He returned to recording in 2000 with the album Style.
SOURCE: http://winkscollectibles.blogspot.com
Martino had seven top twenty hits and six top 20 albums, but he may be best known for playing the part of Johnny Fontaine in the movie The Godfather.
Martino was born October 7, 1927 as Alfred Cini to Italian immigrants. He spent his early life working in the family masonry business but had an ongoing love for music. When his childhood friend, Alfredo Cocozza became an international superstar under the name of Mario Lanza, Cini decided to make a go of the business.
Changing his name to Al Matino, he moved to New York in 1948 where he eventually won first place on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. Soon after, he signed to a small independent label, BBS, recording Here in My Heart which went on to become an international hit, going to number one in both the U.S. and the U.K.
Capitol Records took notice and signed Martino who had a few more hits in the early-50's before his career suddenly took a detour. According to legend, his contract was forcibly taken over by a mafia based management team who demanded $75,000 in protection money. Unable to make the payment, Martino and his family fled to England where his career continued to flourish.
By the time he was able to return to the U.S. in 1958, the public had mostly forgotten him and rock and roll was the music of the day. He signed with 20th Century Fox Records where he recorded a couple of albums but sales were slow and the label dropped him. Martino decided to finance his next record himself and The Exciting Voice of Al Martino got him resigned as an artist at Capitol.
Martino worked relentlessly to reestablish his career, playing many tour dates and appearing as often as possible on TV. The hard work payed off in 1963 when I Love You Because made it up to number 3 on the Pop and number 1 on the Adult Contemporary charts. From that point on, he became a standard part of the AC chart, scoring twenty more top ten hits.
In 1966, Martino released his signature song. Spanish Eyes, based on an instrumental hit by Bert Kaempfert, made it to number 15 on the Pop charts and spent a month at the top in Adult Comtemporary.
In the early 70's, Martino's friend Phyllis McGuire brought him to the attention of Francis Ford Coppola who was making a film version of the book The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Specifically, she thought the part of Johnny Fontaine fit Martino perfectly. Fontaine was based on Frank Sinatra and his fight to be cast in From Here to Eternity, but much of the fictional singer's story also was familiar from Martino's 50's connections. He was cast in the film and the exposure allowed him to continue recording through the rest of the decade.
Martino and Capitol parted ways in the early-80's and the singer continued to tour behind his large catalog. He returned to recording in 2000 with the album Style.
SOURCE: http://winkscollectibles.blogspot.com
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
New Music Releases – October 13, 2009
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Ah Holly Fam'ly - Reservoir (vinyl)
Andrew Bird - Anonanimal (vinyl)
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain (vinyl)
Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
Aretha Franklin - This Christmas
Bad Lieutenant - Never Cry Another Tear
Baroness - Blue Record
Barzin - Notes To An Absent Lover
Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Beaten Awake - Thunder$troke
Bell Horses: This Loves Last Time
Black Feelings - Black Feelings
BOAT - Setting the Paces
Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart
Bowling For Soup - Sorry For Partyin'
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Songs from Lonely Avenue (vinyl)
Broadcast & the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Buddy Wakefield - Live at the Typer Cannon Grand
Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy (2-LP vinyl & CD)
Can - Inner Space (vinyl reissue)
CANT/Arthur Russell split 7″
Carolyn Mark - Let's Just Stay Here (vinyl)
Chinese Stars - Heaven on Speed Dial
Chita Rivera - And Now I Sing
Coma - Crystal 12″
Connie Talbot - Holiday Magic
David Archuleta - Christmas From The Heart
Dead By Sunrise - Out Of Ashes
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Parallel Uni-Verses
Devendra Banhart - Baby (vinyl)
Digital Leather - Warm Brother
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Fountain
Editors - Papillon
Ellen Allien - Lover (vinyl)
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Erin McKeown - Hundreds of Lions
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Five For Fighting - Slice
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Forro in the Dark - Light a Candle
Ghostface Killah - Ghostdini, The Wizard of Poetry (green vinyl)
Godflesh - Pure/Cold World [3xCD reissue]
Grant Lee Phillips - Little Moon (vinyl)
Grooms - Rejoicer
Hall & Oates - Do What You Want, Be What You Are/The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates (4-CD box set)
Har Mar Superstar v- Dark Touches
Harper Simon - Harper Simon
Heavy Trash - Midnight Soul Serenade
Hi Red Center - Assemble
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs - Devil Do
Hudson Mohawke - Butter
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Imaad Wasif - The Voidist (vinyl)
J Dilla - Dillanthology 3 [Rapster]
Jack Bruce & Robin Trower - Seven Moons Live
Jackson 5 - Ultimate Christmas Collection
James McMurtry - Live in Europe (vinyl)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 (vinyl)
Jerry Garcia - Hooteroll?
Joan Baez - How Sweet The Sound (DVD) (CD & DVD)
Jodis - Secret House
Joe Gideon & the Shark - Harum Scarum (vinyl)
Kaito - Trust
Lackthereof - A Retrospective 1998-2008 or I Was a Christian
Lady Gaga - Paparazzi: The Remixes (vinyl)
Leaves Eyes, "Njord" (Napalm)
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Linda Eder – Soundtrack
Little Girls - Concepts (vinyl)
Little Wings - Wonder City (Knw-Yr-Own)(reissue)
Los Lonely Boys - 1969 [EP]
Lostprophets - It's Not the End of the World-But I Can See It From Here
Luciano - Tribute to the Sun
Majority Rule - Interviews with David (CD/LP reissue)
Mario - D.N.A.
Michael Buble - Crazy Love
Modeselektor - Body Language, Vol. 8 (vinyl)
Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk (vinyl & digital download)
Mum - Prophecies and Reversed Memories (vinyl)
MV&EE - Barn Nova
Neil Diamond - A Cherry Cherry Christmas
Nellie McKay - Normal as Blueberry Pie, A Tribute to Doris Day (vinyl)
Nels Cline & G.E. Stinson - Elevating Device
Neon Indian - Psychic Charms
Nick Cave - Nick Cave's Jukebox
Nihill - Grond
Olafur Arnalds - Found Sounds
Peanut Butter Wolf - 45 Live 7″ Box Set
Piano Magic - Ovations (vinyl)
Raincoats - The Raincoats (vinyl reissue)
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII: Live At Hampton Court Palace
Roots - How I Got Over
Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang! (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Have A Nice Day (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Joyride (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Look Sharp! (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Pearls Of Passion (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Room Service (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Tourism (remastered with bonus track)
Say Anything - Say Anything
Shakira - She Wolf
Shelley Short - Cave a Canoo
Small Black: Small Black
Snoop Dogg - The Lost Sessions, Vol. 1
Sole and the Skyrider Band - Plastique
Spider Bags - Teenage Eyes” 7″
Sugarland - Gold and Green
Summer Set - Love Like This
Temper Trap - Conditions
Thao With the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster (vinyl)
The Fauns -The Fauns
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
The Paper Chase - Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 (vinyl)
The Units - History of the Units: The Early Years: 1977-1983
Think About Life - Family
Thomas Function - In the Valley of Sickness (vinyl)
Those Who Lie Beneath - An Awakening
Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions
Various Artists - Putumayo Presents: A Family Christmas
Various Artists - Soundtrack 90210
Various Artists - The Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection
Various Artists - Tumbele: Biguine, Afro and Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-1974
Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity
Viva Voce - Rose City (vinyl)
W.A.S.P. - Babylon
Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse EP
Widespread Panic - Montreal '97
Yoga - Megafauna
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Ah Holly Fam'ly - Reservoir (vinyl)
Andrew Bird - Anonanimal (vinyl)
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain (vinyl)
Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
Aretha Franklin - This Christmas
Bad Lieutenant - Never Cry Another Tear
Baroness - Blue Record
Barzin - Notes To An Absent Lover
Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Beaten Awake - Thunder$troke
Bell Horses: This Loves Last Time
Black Feelings - Black Feelings
BOAT - Setting the Paces
Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart
Bowling For Soup - Sorry For Partyin'
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Songs from Lonely Avenue (vinyl)
Broadcast & the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Buddy Wakefield - Live at the Typer Cannon Grand
Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy (2-LP vinyl & CD)
Can - Inner Space (vinyl reissue)
CANT/Arthur Russell split 7″
Carolyn Mark - Let's Just Stay Here (vinyl)
Chinese Stars - Heaven on Speed Dial
Chita Rivera - And Now I Sing
Coma - Crystal 12″
Connie Talbot - Holiday Magic
David Archuleta - Christmas From The Heart
Dead By Sunrise - Out Of Ashes
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Parallel Uni-Verses
Devendra Banhart - Baby (vinyl)
Digital Leather - Warm Brother
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Fountain
Editors - Papillon
Ellen Allien - Lover (vinyl)
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Erin McKeown - Hundreds of Lions
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Five For Fighting - Slice
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Forro in the Dark - Light a Candle
Ghostface Killah - Ghostdini, The Wizard of Poetry (green vinyl)
Godflesh - Pure/Cold World [3xCD reissue]
Grant Lee Phillips - Little Moon (vinyl)
Grooms - Rejoicer
Hall & Oates - Do What You Want, Be What You Are/The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates (4-CD box set)
Har Mar Superstar v- Dark Touches
Harper Simon - Harper Simon
Heavy Trash - Midnight Soul Serenade
Hi Red Center - Assemble
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs - Devil Do
Hudson Mohawke - Butter
Buy Vinyl Here
Imaad Wasif - The Voidist (vinyl)
J Dilla - Dillanthology 3 [Rapster]
Jack Bruce & Robin Trower - Seven Moons Live
Jackson 5 - Ultimate Christmas Collection
James McMurtry - Live in Europe (vinyl)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 (vinyl)
Jerry Garcia - Hooteroll?
Joan Baez - How Sweet The Sound (DVD) (CD & DVD)
Jodis - Secret House
Joe Gideon & the Shark - Harum Scarum (vinyl)
Kaito - Trust
Lackthereof - A Retrospective 1998-2008 or I Was a Christian
Lady Gaga - Paparazzi: The Remixes (vinyl)
Leaves Eyes, "Njord" (Napalm)
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Linda Eder – Soundtrack
Little Girls - Concepts (vinyl)
Little Wings - Wonder City (Knw-Yr-Own)(reissue)
Los Lonely Boys - 1969 [EP]
Lostprophets - It's Not the End of the World-But I Can See It From Here
Luciano - Tribute to the Sun
Majority Rule - Interviews with David (CD/LP reissue)
Mario - D.N.A.
Michael Buble - Crazy Love
Modeselektor - Body Language, Vol. 8 (vinyl)
Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk (vinyl & digital download)
Mum - Prophecies and Reversed Memories (vinyl)
MV&EE - Barn Nova
Neil Diamond - A Cherry Cherry Christmas
Nellie McKay - Normal as Blueberry Pie, A Tribute to Doris Day (vinyl)
Nels Cline & G.E. Stinson - Elevating Device
Neon Indian - Psychic Charms
Nick Cave - Nick Cave's Jukebox
Nihill - Grond
Olafur Arnalds - Found Sounds
Peanut Butter Wolf - 45 Live 7″ Box Set
Piano Magic - Ovations (vinyl)
Raincoats - The Raincoats (vinyl reissue)
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII: Live At Hampton Court Palace
Roots - How I Got Over
Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang! (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Have A Nice Day (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Joyride (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Look Sharp! (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Pearls Of Passion (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Room Service (remastered with bonus track)
Roxette - Tourism (remastered with bonus track)
Say Anything - Say Anything
Shakira - She Wolf
Shelley Short - Cave a Canoo
Small Black: Small Black
Snoop Dogg - The Lost Sessions, Vol. 1
Sole and the Skyrider Band - Plastique
Spider Bags - Teenage Eyes” 7″
Sugarland - Gold and Green
Summer Set - Love Like This
Temper Trap - Conditions
Thao With the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster (vinyl)
The Fauns -The Fauns
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
The Paper Chase - Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 (vinyl)
The Units - History of the Units: The Early Years: 1977-1983
Think About Life - Family
Thomas Function - In the Valley of Sickness (vinyl)
Those Who Lie Beneath - An Awakening
Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions
Various Artists - Putumayo Presents: A Family Christmas
Various Artists - Soundtrack 90210
Various Artists - The Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection
Various Artists - Tumbele: Biguine, Afro and Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-1974
Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity
Viva Voce - Rose City (vinyl)
W.A.S.P. - Babylon
Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse EP
Widespread Panic - Montreal '97
Yoga - Megafauna
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Music News & Notes
Uriah Heep Offer Limited Edition Celebration Artwork
Uriah Heep are offering fans the opportunity to buy one of just 300 prints of the artwork for new album Celebration.
These have been created by the artist, Ioannis, and measure 18 inches x 24 inches. Unframed, each is numbered and signed by Ioannis and all of the band. In addition, there are also 60 prints available of the alternative cover for the album, which is now part of the CD artwork. These have been numbered and signed by the artist.
The first 25 people to order one of the album prints will also get one of the alternative cover prints, plus a pencil drawing done as preparation for the final artwork, again signed by Ioannis. The next 35 fans will get the two prints.
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Uncle Tupelo's 'Anodyne' sees vinyl release in November
Finding Uncle Tupelo albums on vinyl is no easy task, and it's anyone's guess why Sony Legacy didn't include the LP format when it reissued the band's first three records in 2003.
Uncle Tupelo's last album, 1993's "Anodyne," was never released on vinyl in the first place, and Warner Bros. also skipped a wax pressing in 2003 when it reissued the album many fans regard as the band's best work.
They're rectifying that oversight.
In conjunction with Rhino, Warner Bros. releases "Anodyne" on 180-gram vinyl Nov. 24, according to ordering information on the label's press B2B. (Note to Warner marketing copywriters: the original drummer was Mike Heidorn, not "Heldorn." The other core members, of course, were Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy.)
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Jawbox reunites for late-night TV appearance, album reissue
Jawbox will mark the reissue of their album "For Your Own Special Sweetheart" with a Dec. 8 appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," according to a press release. The performance will be the DC post-punk icons' first of any kind in 12 years.
Originally released by Atlantic Records in 1994, "For Your Own Special Sweetheart" has been remastered and will be re-released Nov. 24 on CD and vinyl. The new version will include three additional tracks that appeared on a 1994 EP.
Jawbox, which played its first show opening for Fugazi in 1989, released two albums for the Dischord label before signing with Atlantic. "For Your Own Special Sweetheart" is widely considered to showcase the band at its peak.
There has been no word as to possible tour plans following the album reissue and the Jimmy Fallon appearance.
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R.I.P. Blue Cheer's Dickie Peterson
Dickie Peterson, frontman for the hugely influential San Francisco power trio Blue Cheer, died at home in Germany this morning, as Blabbermouth reports and Blue Cheer's publicist confirms. No cause of death has been reported yet, though Blabbermouth believes he suffered from cancer. Peterson was 61.
On late-60s albums like Vincebus Eruptum and Outsideinside, Blue Cheer perfected a form of thudding, riff-heavy psychedelic rock rooted in a primordial blues lurch. The band landed on the top 40 with a scraggly cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues", but their real impact wouldn't be felt for years. In the decades that followed, echoes of the band's stoned, simplistic roar would resonate in metal, punk, and grunge. Peterson's bored snarl and murky bass crunch, in particular, served as a stylistic bridge between mid-60s garage rock and early metal bands like Blue Cheer contemporaries Black Sabbath.
Blue Cheer broke up in the early 70s, but the band reformed to tour and record at various points over the years.
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Pulp Reissues to Hit U.S.
American Pulp fans looking to fill out their Britpop collection while avoiding import CD prices can rejoice. Three Pulp classics-- 1994's His 'n' Hers, 1995's Different Class, and 1998's This Is Hardcore-- are being re-released in the U.S. November 17 via Universal, according to a Billboard report. The deluxe editions-- featuring B-sides, demos and notes by Jarvis Cocker-- have been available in the UK since 2006.
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Paul McCartney Unveils Tracklisting For New Live Album Recorded at Citi Field
Paul McCartney has unveiled the tracklisting for his new live album and DVD, 'Good Evening New York City'.
The album, released on November 23, was recorded during the former Beatle's three-night residency at Citi Field, Queens in July.
The 33 tracks include hits from Sir Paul's solo career, as well as his Beatles and Wings back catalogues.
The DVD footage was filmed using 15 high-definition cameras, while 75 audience members were also given Flip Cams.
Sir Paul's concerts in July marked the official opening of Citi Field, home of the New York Mets.
They were also a return of sorts for the singer, who played at the baseball team's former home, the Shea Stadium, with the Beatles in 1965.
The tracklisting for 'Good Evening New York City' is as follows:
Disc 1 -
'Drive My Car'
'Jet'
'Only Mama Knows'
'Flaming Pie'
'Got To Get You Into My Life'
'Let Me Roll It'
'Highway'
'The Long And Winding Road'
'My Love'
'Blackbird'
'Here Today'
'Dance Tonight'
'Calico Skies'
'Mrs Vandebilt'
'Eleanor Rigby'
'Sing The Changes'
'Band On The Run'
Disc 2 -
'Back In The USSR'
'I’m Down'
'Something'
'I’ve Got A Feeling'
'Paperback Writer'
'A Day In The Life'/'Give Peace A Chance'
'Let It Be'
'Live And Let Die'
'Hey Jude'
'Day Tripper'
'Lady Madonna'
'I Saw Her Standing There'
'Yesterday'
'Helter Skelter'
'Get Back'
'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'/'The End'
This Date In Music History-October 13
Birthdays:
Paul Simon (1942)
Robert Lamm - Chicago (1944)
Sammy Hagar - Montrose/Van Halen (1947)
John Ford Coley - England Dan & John Ford Coley (1948)
Simon Nicol - Fairport Convention (1950)
Marie Osmond (1959) .
Zak Starkey (1965)
Carlos MarÃn - Il Divo (1968)
Ashanti Douglas (1980)
They Are Missed:
Shirley Brickley, a founding member of the Orlons, died of gunshot wounds in 1977. She was 32. The Philadelphia-based R&B group had a number of top 40 hits in the early 1960s.
TV host Ed Sullivan died in 1974. Leader of the Ed Sullivan Singers and Orchestra. Introduced The Beatles and other UK acts to America via his Ed Sullivan TV show, from New York City, which ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, on CBS every Sunday night at 8pm. The Beatles appearance on February 9th 1964 is considered a milestone in American pop culture and the beginning of the British Invasion in music. The broadcast drew an estimated 73 million viewers.
B-52’s guitarist Ricky Wilson died in 1985 at age 32 of complications resulting from AIDS.
In 2001, Australian singer songwriter Peter Doyle died of throat cancer aged 52. Solo artist and a member of The New Seekers. Scored the hits, ‘What Have They Done To My Song Ma’, ‘Never Ending Song of Love’ and ‘I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing’ with The New Seekers.
History:
The Four Preps, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby all appeared on a CBS television special in 1957 to introduce the brand new Edsel automobile.
Frank Sinatra started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1958 with 'Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely'.
In 1958, a Billboard featurette on the Teddy Bears notes "18 year old Phil Spector, who wrote and arranged their hit 'To Know Him is to Love Him,' is studying to be a court reporter."
In 1963, the Beatles appeared on BBC's "Sunday Night at the Palladium." Thousand of fans jammed the streets adjacent to the theater. It's the first demonstration of Beatlemania as many of the fans battle with police to get into the theater. The group's television appearance was witnesses by 15 million British viewers.
The Who recorded "My Generation," at Pye studios, London in 1965.
In 1965, recording at Abbey Road studios for the album Rubber Soul, The Beatles begin and complete "Drive My Car" in four takes plus overdubs.
Janis Joplin's ashes were scattered off the coast of California in 1970.
Don McLean's "American Pie" album was released in 1971.
The Rolling Stones started a four week run at #1 on the US album chart with "Goats Head Soup," the group's fourth US #1.
In 1975, Neil Young undergoes surgery in Los Angeles. An "object" is scraped from his vocal chords, which had been bothering him. Although he's back in the studio rather quickly, Young is hampered by the setback and bows out midway during his 1976 tour with Stephen Stills because of the strain on his voice. I guess they never fixed it.
In 1979, The Guinness Book of Records claimed Paul McCartney (with and without John Lennon) was the most successful composer of all time.
AC/DC position themselves as the heirs to Led Zeppelin with Back in Black, which turns platinum on this date in 1980. The albums makes it up to #4.
Stevie Wonder started a three week run at #1 in 1984 with 'I Just Called To Say I Love You', his 7th US #1, also #1 in the UK.
In 1992, the San Francisco board of supervisors votes to rename the San Francisco Civic Auditorium after rock promoter Bill Graham, who'd been killed a year earlier in a helicopter crash.
Also in 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the families of two teenage suicide victims could not sue Ozzy Osbourne for allegedly inspiring their sons to kill themselves through the song "Suicide Solution."
The Crossroads Center in Antigua, a $6.5 million addiction recovery center underwritten by Eric Clapton, opened in 1998. The center offers an intensive 29-day recovery program for $9,000. Those who can't pay are expected to work off the debt after treatment. Clapton says he'll offer his experience and will work directly with patients from time to time.
In 2004, the US Internal Revenue Service charged 63-year-old Ronald Isley, lead singer of the Isley Brothers, with tax evasion for failing to report income from royalties and performances by the band between 1997 and 2002. He was later found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison.
The Flaming Lips issue “Embryonic,” their 12th album - 8th on the Warner Bros. imprint in 2009.
Paul Simon (1942)
Robert Lamm - Chicago (1944)
Sammy Hagar - Montrose/Van Halen (1947)
John Ford Coley - England Dan & John Ford Coley (1948)
Simon Nicol - Fairport Convention (1950)
Marie Osmond (1959) .
Zak Starkey (1965)
Carlos MarÃn - Il Divo (1968)
Ashanti Douglas (1980)
They Are Missed:
Shirley Brickley, a founding member of the Orlons, died of gunshot wounds in 1977. She was 32. The Philadelphia-based R&B group had a number of top 40 hits in the early 1960s.
TV host Ed Sullivan died in 1974. Leader of the Ed Sullivan Singers and Orchestra. Introduced The Beatles and other UK acts to America via his Ed Sullivan TV show, from New York City, which ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, on CBS every Sunday night at 8pm. The Beatles appearance on February 9th 1964 is considered a milestone in American pop culture and the beginning of the British Invasion in music. The broadcast drew an estimated 73 million viewers.
B-52’s guitarist Ricky Wilson died in 1985 at age 32 of complications resulting from AIDS.
In 2001, Australian singer songwriter Peter Doyle died of throat cancer aged 52. Solo artist and a member of The New Seekers. Scored the hits, ‘What Have They Done To My Song Ma’, ‘Never Ending Song of Love’ and ‘I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing’ with The New Seekers.
History:
The Four Preps, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby all appeared on a CBS television special in 1957 to introduce the brand new Edsel automobile.
Frank Sinatra started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1958 with 'Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely'.
In 1958, a Billboard featurette on the Teddy Bears notes "18 year old Phil Spector, who wrote and arranged their hit 'To Know Him is to Love Him,' is studying to be a court reporter."
In 1963, the Beatles appeared on BBC's "Sunday Night at the Palladium." Thousand of fans jammed the streets adjacent to the theater. It's the first demonstration of Beatlemania as many of the fans battle with police to get into the theater. The group's television appearance was witnesses by 15 million British viewers.
The Who recorded "My Generation," at Pye studios, London in 1965.
In 1965, recording at Abbey Road studios for the album Rubber Soul, The Beatles begin and complete "Drive My Car" in four takes plus overdubs.
Janis Joplin's ashes were scattered off the coast of California in 1970.
Don McLean's "American Pie" album was released in 1971.
The Rolling Stones started a four week run at #1 on the US album chart with "Goats Head Soup," the group's fourth US #1.
In 1975, Neil Young undergoes surgery in Los Angeles. An "object" is scraped from his vocal chords, which had been bothering him. Although he's back in the studio rather quickly, Young is hampered by the setback and bows out midway during his 1976 tour with Stephen Stills because of the strain on his voice. I guess they never fixed it.
In 1979, The Guinness Book of Records claimed Paul McCartney (with and without John Lennon) was the most successful composer of all time.
AC/DC position themselves as the heirs to Led Zeppelin with Back in Black, which turns platinum on this date in 1980. The albums makes it up to #4.
Stevie Wonder started a three week run at #1 in 1984 with 'I Just Called To Say I Love You', his 7th US #1, also #1 in the UK.
In 1992, the San Francisco board of supervisors votes to rename the San Francisco Civic Auditorium after rock promoter Bill Graham, who'd been killed a year earlier in a helicopter crash.
Also in 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the families of two teenage suicide victims could not sue Ozzy Osbourne for allegedly inspiring their sons to kill themselves through the song "Suicide Solution."
The Crossroads Center in Antigua, a $6.5 million addiction recovery center underwritten by Eric Clapton, opened in 1998. The center offers an intensive 29-day recovery program for $9,000. Those who can't pay are expected to work off the debt after treatment. Clapton says he'll offer his experience and will work directly with patients from time to time.
In 2004, the US Internal Revenue Service charged 63-year-old Ronald Isley, lead singer of the Isley Brothers, with tax evasion for failing to report income from royalties and performances by the band between 1997 and 2002. He was later found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison.
The Flaming Lips issue “Embryonic,” their 12th album - 8th on the Warner Bros. imprint in 2009.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Record albums have staying power
Vinyls are coming back in style
By Amanda Dovel
Walking down the stairs of “Albums on the Hill,” the store is a cluttered mess of fliers, CD’s, posters and of course an entire room full of LPs. The new Built to Spill album “Good Ol’ Boredom” was playing in the background of the store, unleashing a new part of the music world few are familiar with. This is the underground world of vinyl records.
Andy Schneidkraut has owned Albums on the Hill for 22 years. He sees a lot of young people buying and collecting vinyls and believes it’s about the sound quality and actually understanding the music.
“It’s about the experience, its more relational and intimate,” Schneidkraut said. “The music is not intended to be background noise, it’s about wanting to listen and having to actively get up and turn it over to listen to the other side.”
Recently, the top album sold at Albums is the limited edition 12” vinyl single from Thom Yorke of Radiohead. The record features “FeelingPulledApartbyHorses” and “The Hollow Earth.”
Classic rock albums such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead and many more from the 60s and 70s are still topping the charts in record sales. Records were born in a time where rock and roll ruled the music scene and the young adults that listened to it.
The cultural influence of these albums is obvious as the demand for classic records continues to increase. Many students expressed their love for vinyl records that have been passed down to them from their parents who collected many albums.
Taylor Iverson, a 20-year-old double majoring in film and journalism, said he found a vintage Beatles album in his parent’s collection and has collected over fifty records since. Iverson said he believes the best sound quality is in LPs.
“With vinyl, you hear the music exactly the way the artists want you to hear it,” Iverson said. “It’s the most pristine sound possible.”
Sam Sacher, a 21-year-old junior ethnic studies major, said she too became interested in record collecting because of her family.
“My dad listened to a lot of bad music but also some cool jazz, funk and soul,” Sacher said.
Sacher said was hooked on “The Blues Brothers” when she was younger, and she believes records are a different, more involved way of listening that has been lost over time.
She said that if she knows she likes the whole album, she’ll buy the record. If she only wants one song she’ll just buy the MP3, although she agrees the sound quality of a record is much better than anything else. Her most recent purchase is Betty Davis’ “Nasty Gal” LP.
“The album is raunchy, sexually charged funk,” Sacher said.
Vinyl sales have helped encourage people to continue buying music, rather than getting it for free off the Internet. Modern LP releases often come in a package that enables the purchaser to walk away with tangible album art, a high quality sound recording and often a code to download the MP3 version of the album for free.
LP purchases always support that band, but also the artist who designed the album art.
Iverson said he just bought the vintage “Grand Funk Railroad,” double LP, and that it came with “an awesome poster.”
Sacher said that she hopes the increase in record sales will encourage bands to wait on releasing their album until it’s perfect. That way, people will want to purchase the entire album to listen to it all the way through and really appreciate it’s crackling sound on the record player.
Adam Ladwig is the director of Radio 1190 on campus and a 21-year-old broadcast news major. He said he collects records because he likes the feel of a record; by holding a record the collector is much more involved in the music, when compared to the impersonal action of Internet downloading.
“It’s much more fun to drop a needle on a record than it is to play a CD,” Ladwig said. “There is a more earthy sound coming off a record player.”
While portability is sacrificed with the use of a record player, an iPod or mp3 player will never get sound that “pops” and “hisses” like that of a record player.
John Martinez has been employed at Bart’s CD cellar for 12 years now and he works upstairs in the vinyl section. He describes how his love of music has connected him with vinyl records.
“I like being around records,” Martinez said. “I’ve had the vinyl bug since I was little and I have been at it so long I just cant imagine doing anything else.”
He believes vinyl records are an “all encompassing medium” with has visual, audio and sensual qualities about it. Martinez also said he believes records create the best sound possible and you can hear the entire audio spectrum.
“Music is a really good escape from reality, it’s a distraction,” Martinez explains. “Music takes you out of yourself, a good concert invigorates you for days. It allows you to tap into feelings you have trouble expressing whether they’re happy or sad.”
SOURCE: http://cuindependent.com/
By Amanda Dovel
Walking down the stairs of “Albums on the Hill,” the store is a cluttered mess of fliers, CD’s, posters and of course an entire room full of LPs. The new Built to Spill album “Good Ol’ Boredom” was playing in the background of the store, unleashing a new part of the music world few are familiar with. This is the underground world of vinyl records.
Andy Schneidkraut has owned Albums on the Hill for 22 years. He sees a lot of young people buying and collecting vinyls and believes it’s about the sound quality and actually understanding the music.
“It’s about the experience, its more relational and intimate,” Schneidkraut said. “The music is not intended to be background noise, it’s about wanting to listen and having to actively get up and turn it over to listen to the other side.”
Recently, the top album sold at Albums is the limited edition 12” vinyl single from Thom Yorke of Radiohead. The record features “FeelingPulledApartbyHorses” and “The Hollow Earth.”
Classic rock albums such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead and many more from the 60s and 70s are still topping the charts in record sales. Records were born in a time where rock and roll ruled the music scene and the young adults that listened to it.
The cultural influence of these albums is obvious as the demand for classic records continues to increase. Many students expressed their love for vinyl records that have been passed down to them from their parents who collected many albums.
Taylor Iverson, a 20-year-old double majoring in film and journalism, said he found a vintage Beatles album in his parent’s collection and has collected over fifty records since. Iverson said he believes the best sound quality is in LPs.
“With vinyl, you hear the music exactly the way the artists want you to hear it,” Iverson said. “It’s the most pristine sound possible.”
Sam Sacher, a 21-year-old junior ethnic studies major, said she too became interested in record collecting because of her family.
“My dad listened to a lot of bad music but also some cool jazz, funk and soul,” Sacher said.
Sacher said was hooked on “The Blues Brothers” when she was younger, and she believes records are a different, more involved way of listening that has been lost over time.
She said that if she knows she likes the whole album, she’ll buy the record. If she only wants one song she’ll just buy the MP3, although she agrees the sound quality of a record is much better than anything else. Her most recent purchase is Betty Davis’ “Nasty Gal” LP.
“The album is raunchy, sexually charged funk,” Sacher said.
Vinyl sales have helped encourage people to continue buying music, rather than getting it for free off the Internet. Modern LP releases often come in a package that enables the purchaser to walk away with tangible album art, a high quality sound recording and often a code to download the MP3 version of the album for free.
LP purchases always support that band, but also the artist who designed the album art.
Iverson said he just bought the vintage “Grand Funk Railroad,” double LP, and that it came with “an awesome poster.”
Sacher said that she hopes the increase in record sales will encourage bands to wait on releasing their album until it’s perfect. That way, people will want to purchase the entire album to listen to it all the way through and really appreciate it’s crackling sound on the record player.
Adam Ladwig is the director of Radio 1190 on campus and a 21-year-old broadcast news major. He said he collects records because he likes the feel of a record; by holding a record the collector is much more involved in the music, when compared to the impersonal action of Internet downloading.
“It’s much more fun to drop a needle on a record than it is to play a CD,” Ladwig said. “There is a more earthy sound coming off a record player.”
While portability is sacrificed with the use of a record player, an iPod or mp3 player will never get sound that “pops” and “hisses” like that of a record player.
John Martinez has been employed at Bart’s CD cellar for 12 years now and he works upstairs in the vinyl section. He describes how his love of music has connected him with vinyl records.
“I like being around records,” Martinez said. “I’ve had the vinyl bug since I was little and I have been at it so long I just cant imagine doing anything else.”
He believes vinyl records are an “all encompassing medium” with has visual, audio and sensual qualities about it. Martinez also said he believes records create the best sound possible and you can hear the entire audio spectrum.
“Music is a really good escape from reality, it’s a distraction,” Martinez explains. “Music takes you out of yourself, a good concert invigorates you for days. It allows you to tap into feelings you have trouble expressing whether they’re happy or sad.”
SOURCE: http://cuindependent.com/
Vinyl Collective Top 10 Sales of the past week
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1 Vinyl Collective Raffle Ticket 123 copies
2 MICAH SCHNABEL (of Two Cow Garage) “When the Stage Light Goes Dim” CD 108 copies
3 Suburban Home Chad Price Fall,Winter Sampler DIGITAL ALBUM (mp3) 68 copies
4 LAWRENCE ARMS “Buttsweat And Tears” 7″ 50 copies
5 COBRA SKULLS “American Rubicon” LP red w/ white marble vinyl 36 copies
6 WHATEVER 30 copies
7 THE SWELLERS “Welcome Back Riders” 7″ pink/blue half and half vinyl 21 copies
8 LUCERO “1372 Overton Park” LP 20 copies
9 THE SWELLERS “Welcome Back Riders” 7″ pink w/ blue haze vinyl 19 copies
10 CONVERGE “Axe To Fall” LP colored vinyl 16 copies
10 CHUCK RAGAN/ BRIAN FALLON “Gospel Songs” 7″ brown vinyl VC exclusive color 16 copies
10 Suburban Home SHOTGUNATOR black 16 copies
A few interesting numbers. The Raffle got off to a great start. 221 more tickets and we will be picking some winners. Micah Schnabel’s CD got off to a good start and should be sold out by next week as we are only getting 200 copies. The Lawrence Arms 7″ is again sold out, just asked if we can get more. The Cobra Skulls “American Rubicon” got off to a solid start, but seriously, everyone should own this album. And the Swellers are keeping strong. ~ Virgil
1 Vinyl Collective Raffle Ticket 123 copies
2 MICAH SCHNABEL (of Two Cow Garage) “When the Stage Light Goes Dim” CD 108 copies
3 Suburban Home Chad Price Fall,Winter Sampler DIGITAL ALBUM (mp3) 68 copies
4 LAWRENCE ARMS “Buttsweat And Tears” 7″ 50 copies
5 COBRA SKULLS “American Rubicon” LP red w/ white marble vinyl 36 copies
6 WHATEVER 30 copies
7 THE SWELLERS “Welcome Back Riders” 7″ pink/blue half and half vinyl 21 copies
8 LUCERO “1372 Overton Park” LP 20 copies
9 THE SWELLERS “Welcome Back Riders” 7″ pink w/ blue haze vinyl 19 copies
10 CONVERGE “Axe To Fall” LP colored vinyl 16 copies
10 CHUCK RAGAN/ BRIAN FALLON “Gospel Songs” 7″ brown vinyl VC exclusive color 16 copies
10 Suburban Home SHOTGUNATOR black 16 copies
A few interesting numbers. The Raffle got off to a great start. 221 more tickets and we will be picking some winners. Micah Schnabel’s CD got off to a good start and should be sold out by next week as we are only getting 200 copies. The Lawrence Arms 7″ is again sold out, just asked if we can get more. The Cobra Skulls “American Rubicon” got off to a solid start, but seriously, everyone should own this album. And the Swellers are keeping strong. ~ Virgil
Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales
Week Ending 10/10/2009
1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Stereo Parlophone Gold UK First Press - $7,328.72
2. LP - Johanna Martzy "Bach: The unaccompanied Violin Sonatas" Columbia Box set UK - $5,625.00
3. 45 - William Powell "Heartache Souvenirs" / "The Chicken Shack" Power-House - $5,000.00
4. LP - Jackie McLean "New Tradition" Ad-Lib - $4,036.00
5. LP - Hank Mobley self titled Blue Note 1568 - $3805.00
As always, a special thank you to Norm at http://ccdiscoveries.blogspot.com for this great data. Stop in and listen to their unique radio show Accidental Nostalgia with Norm & Jane On Radio Dentata - 60 minutes of rare records and nugatory narration. Every Tuesday 4PM PT/7PM ET, Sunday 9AM PT/12PM ET & Monday 12AM PT/3AM ET
1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Stereo Parlophone Gold UK First Press - $7,328.72
2. LP - Johanna Martzy "Bach: The unaccompanied Violin Sonatas" Columbia Box set UK - $5,625.00
3. 45 - William Powell "Heartache Souvenirs" / "The Chicken Shack" Power-House - $5,000.00
4. LP - Jackie McLean "New Tradition" Ad-Lib - $4,036.00
5. LP - Hank Mobley self titled Blue Note 1568 - $3805.00
As always, a special thank you to Norm at http://ccdiscoveries.blogspot.com for this great data. Stop in and listen to their unique radio show Accidental Nostalgia with Norm & Jane On Radio Dentata - 60 minutes of rare records and nugatory narration. Every Tuesday 4PM PT/7PM ET, Sunday 9AM PT/12PM ET & Monday 12AM PT/3AM ET
Waylon Jennings' RCA Years Reissued On Collectors' Choice
Waylon Jennings is the recognized father of the Outlaw movement of country, a rebel against the Nashville establishment whose recordings blended honky-tonk, rock 'n' roll and folk in a way virtually nobody else was doing at the time. Collectors' Choice has chosen six of Jennings' many RCA long-players from 1966-'70 and will release them as three twofer CDs: "Folk Country/Waylon Sings Ol' Harlan," "Love of the Common People/Hangin' On and Waylon/Singer of Sad Songs." The CDs will hit the streets on November 24, 2009. Grammy Award-winning annotator/historian Colin Escott wrote the liner notes.In the 1950s, Jennings was a Lubbock DJ and fledgling singer whose first record was produced by Buddy Holly (Jennings briefly played bass for Holly, and gave up his airplane seat to the Big Bopper before the ill-fated flight that took the lives of the Bopper, Holly and Richie Valens).
In 1963 Jennings, then living in Phoenix, signed to A&M for one LP that went nowhere, and was advised by Bobby Bare, for whom he'd co-written a hit, that Nashville was the place to be. So when RCA Nashville A&R head/producer Chet Atkins invited Jennings to sign, he jumped at the chance: "I started out for Nashville in a yellow Cadillac with a yellow-haired woman."
As Escott reminds us in the liner notes for Folk Country/Waylon Sings Ol' Harlan, "Waylon, remembered by many these days as a grizzled cowboy stoner, was young once. Most artists dismiss their old work, but Waylon thought he was as good as he could be during every phase of his long career, and the evidence bears him out." The two albums, coupled onto one CD, document the 1966-67 period as Jennings found his way in Nashville.
"Folk Country," Jennings' RCA debut, was so called as Atkins wanted to attract some of the folk hootenanny crowd, but the record was mainstream country all the way -- most of the songs written by Harlan Howard, "among the most gifted and prolific writers in country music history," as Escott notes. From the album came Jennings' first hit, "That's the Chance I'll Have to Take." One year, two LPs and a movie later (Nashville Rebel, 1966), Jennings returned to the studio for his fourth RCA album, Waylon Sings Ol' Harlan, cut in '66 and released in '67. Included were Howard songs "Busted," "Tiger By the Tail," "She Called Me Baby," "Foolin' Around" and "In This Very Same Room."
The second CD combines "Love of the Common People" (1967) and "Hangin' On" (1968). Early in his career, Jennings released three LPs a year featuring old songs, then-current songs that moved him, and his most recent hits. Included on "Love of the Common People" were the title track, Lennon/McCartney's "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away," Mel Tillis' "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" (three years before it was a hit for Kenny Rogers & the First Edition) and "Young Widow Brown," later recorded by Frankie Miller. In the fall of 1967, Harlan Howard's "The Chokin' Kind" became Jennings' biggest hit, peaking at #8 on the country charts. It appeared on Hangin' On, and later became a #1 soul hit for Joe Simon. Also on Hangin' On: "Lock, Stock and Teardrops," "Hangin' On" and "The Crowd." Atkins, says Escott, "didn't care too much about albums. Singles were his business." And so after accumulating enough recorded material from Jennings, thrice yearly Atkins would pull songs for an LP. Hangin' On came out of several sessions between February and September 1967. And this got Jennings thinking about the meaning of albums.
Jennings grew weary of the "Nashville way." As Escott points out, "It was an assembly line and after five years, Jennings was beginning to resent it. He wanted less quantity and more quality. He wanted albums to be personal statements, not assemblages of songs from different sessions. And he wanted to work with his road band, not session men. Rock singers had achieved that level of autonomy but country musicians were still locked into Nashville's old ways."
Collectors' Choice's third CD twofer includes two 1970 LPs, when the tides were starting to turn. It was a big year for the artist as six of his songs appeared in the Mike Jagger movie Ned Kelly, A&M Records released a compilation of his early recordings, and RCA released a greatest hits collection. He also produced an album by his wife, Jessi Colter. And Chet Atkins, long Jennings' producer, was withdrawing from production to refocus on playing. Jennings was assigned a new producer, Danny Davis, and the transition didn't go well. "I would go into the studio and do tracks," Jennings wrote, and when I came back, I wouldn't recognize the same song." And there were other grievances. Yet their first collaboration, Waylon, turned out well and bore a #3 hit, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man." Also included were Mickey Newberry's stoner anthem "Thirty-third of August" and "All of Me Belongs to You," as well as a re-record of "Yellow Haired Woman."
Jennings shares CD space with Singer of Sad Songs, produced by the late Lee Hazelwood not in Nashville but rather Los Angeles. Sidemen included Randy Meisner (Poco), and future New Riders of the Purple Sage members Allen Kemp and Patrick Shanahan. Material ranged from Hazelwood's "She Comes Running" to Chris Kenner's R&B hit "Sick and Tired," plus songs by Tim Harden, Tom Rush and the Louvin Brothers. The transition to Outlaw was now complete. Singer of Sad Songs was an artistic success -- likely ahead of its time -- but commercially it failed. Escott writes, "Within couple years, however, Waylon Jennings would be making albums that are even now considered unapproachable classics . . . Waylon was in search of something and he was beginning to discover what it was. We'd all find out soon enough."
Music News & Notes
THE MISFITS return with LAND OF THE DEAD
The Misfits are getting ready to release their first studio recordings since 2003's MISFITS PROJECT 1950, and their first original material in over a decade.
The horror rock icons will release 2-new tracks, "Land of the Dead" and "Twilight of the Dead" digitally beginning October 27th (just in time for Halloween!), before offering them on vinyl in several limited-edition configurations.
They will also press the two songs in a limited edition (1,000 copies) 12" maxi single in clear red vinyl with a cover by Arthur Suydam in a salute to George A. Romero's films. Those that attend Misfit shows during the balance of the year will also have an opportunity to buy a copy on clear orange vinyl.
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Jon Anderson Once Again Criticizes Yes Bandmates
A little over a year ago, Jon Anderson wrote a cutting post on his website about how he felt disrespected by the other members of Yes for their lack of communications after he became ill and his replacement in the band by a singer they found on the internet.
Rock Radio is now reporting that he has once again come out with criticisms of his bandmates over their current tour with Yes tribute band singer Benoit David up front when he was healthy enough to do the tour with them.
"I'd actually been ill for about five years and it got to the point where I couldn't continue. I had to take a complete break - and ended up having six operations."The band recruited a guy from a Canadian Yes tribute band and went on the road with him. I felt they could have waited until I'd recovered.
"I said to them I was available, but they said they were contracted to Benoit. It's a complicated situation.
"I think it's inappropriate and not respectful to the fans. People have bought tickets thinking I'm performing on the tour.
"I would like everybody to know that, as much as I wish the band well, they should not tour as Yes. The fans should be advised that I'm not part of the tour."
While the announcement may not be part of Yes' tour advertising, the following statement is prominent on the front of their web page:
Yes will be Europe starting in late October. Steve, Chris, and Alan will once again be joined by Benoit David on vocals and Oliver Wakeman on keyboards. All dates can now be found on the Europe Tour page. Jon Anderson is not part of the lineup on this tour...
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King Crimson Listen
Seven of the early members of King Crimson reunited on Friday night, not to play. but to listen to remastered versions of their albums In the Court of the Crimson King, Lizard and Red. Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Pete Sinfield, Bill Bruford, Mel Collins, David Cross and John Wetton gathered at Air Studios in North London to hear selections from the albums, recently remastered by Fripp and Steven Wilson and released on Britain's Panegyric label. The balance of the group's works are schedule for remastering and release next year.
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Lucy In The Sky Song
Julian Lennon has recorded a tribute to his childhood friend, Lucy Vodden, who passed away recently from lupus. A drawing of Vodden by Julian inspired John Lennon to write Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds for the Beatles.
Lennon was in the studio working with new artist James Scott Cook on Cook's new album for Lennon's theRevolution Records. Originally, Julian was to sing background vocals on Cook's song Lucy, but the circumstances of Vodden's passing turned the record into a duet that is being released as a charity single to benefit lupus research.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Australian Music to the World (THE SIXTIES)
Here is another interesting article from my vinyl friend down under, Donald Kay:
by Donald J. Kay
Australian music from the sixties technically wasn’t recorded by Australians. We had overseas interests, migrants, which Australia would take under her wing and embrace and call them AUSSIE. Artists such as the Bee Gees, (UK) AC/DC (UK/Scottish), Easybeats (English Dutch), Billy Thorpe (UK,) Ray Columbus and the Invaders (New Zealand), to name but a few.
The record buying public went crazy over these artists, buying their records, watching every pop show we could, just so we could get a glimpse of our idols. Their concerts were sell outs, filled with mass hysteria, girls fainting in the aisles, having to be carted out on stretchers. The music was raw and poppy, selling in the millions. Unknowns became known and ‘till this day some of these artists remain legends.
Stories have been tossed around as to how the Aussie artists got their recognition in America. Some say, they made personal appearances on TV shows etc., while other’s say they got records released possibly because ozzie labels did deals with major/minor labels. Artists like Johnny Young, Normie Rowe, Russell Morris, Bee Gees, Johnny O’Keefe, Lynne Randel, and Dinah Lee all went to the UK or US, to record, and had records released there. It wasn’t until the 70’s with the advent of the video, that many major artists gained recognition, band such as: AC/DC, Midnight Oil, The Church, Little River Band, Jimmy Barnes, Kylie, among others. During the ensuing years thousands of videos were made, cementing the Aussie icons onto the world stage of music.
One of the MEGA metal bands in the world today, AC/DC, had their foundation in Western Australia (as the Valentines). The band had great success playing to packed houses all over Perth. With a few singles under their belt, having recorded for the small Perth label called Clarion, the band decided to broaden their musical horizons and make the journey east. After establishing themselves in Melbourne, they scored a record deal with Philips, which would see them record two or three singles, plus an E.P., and then disband. Vince Lovegrove would go on to manage the ever popular Divinyls, while Bon Scott would join Adelaide outfit, Fraternity, who recorded in their own studios in the Adelaide hills. Again the total output would be 3 or 4 singles and 2 albums, which are highly sought after by collectors.
After Fraternity disbanded, another band was happening, waiting for Bon Scott to take hold of the reins and rock hard. Their first lead singer was Dave Evans, who lent his vocals to the track “Can I Sit next To You Girl.” Evans was soon replaced with the legendary Bon Scott, who would re-record the Dave Evans track, making it his own. Bon would go on to leave his mark in rock history with many great hits and albums under his belt, until his sad death on the Feb, 19, 1980. The band almost folded, but kept going for Bon’s sake, and recruited Brian Johnson, who remains as lead singer to this day.
Another great export to the world is the Sydney band, The Church, featuring lead singer, Steve Kilbey. They first came to prominence after recording a 4 track demo and scoring a record deal with EMI records, with such favourites as “The Unguarded Moment,” and their classic first album,” Of Skins And Heart.” They had great success with their singles and albums souring high in the world charts.
Furthermore, another legendary band, The Divinyls would cement themselves in the music world, when Chrysalis records signed them. Founding members Christina Amphlett, (cousin of Little Pattie), and Mark Mcentee, would recruit players Jeremy Paul (ex-Air Supply), Rick Grossman (Matt Finish) among others. They were very big on the US touring circuit, with their albums, “Desperate,” What a Life” and “Temperamental” and remain personal favourites to this day. Chrissie hasn’t been well lately; having being diagnosed with MS. Former guitarist Mark Mcentee has been living in Perth, W.A.managing a clothing shop with his girlfriend.
Speaking of bands that got their start in Perth, before moving to the big smoke (Melbourne), INXS started out as the Farris Brothers, playing around the pubs and clubs of Perth, before relocating to Melbourne and teaming up with a very young Michael Hutchence, Kirk Pengily, and Gary Beers to become the explosive force known as INXS. Their first track, recorded for the small “Deluxe” label, was a cover version of Aussie band, the Loved Ones, track called “The Loved One.” Another 3 or 4 singles followed before they signed up to the giant WEA music group, which would launch them to the world stage with INXS becoming popular both with FM programmers and also a top billing stage act in their own right.
On the political fence sat one Peter Garrett, who would incorporate his political views in the music that was Midnight Oil. The group were playing pubs and clubs before signing up to Powder Works label, before moving to CBS records with such political motivated songs like “U.S. Forces” and “Blue Sky Mining.” At the present moment Garrett is heavily involved in the political arena, with his musical contributions firmly embedded in music history.
The ever popular Men at Work struck gold with their first self-titled album,” Men at Work.” The album would contain the now anathematic track “Down Under” which has become world famous because of its association with the “Americas Cup.” Enough said.
Nick Cave would leave his mark in music history, firstly with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and a great duet with Kylie Minogue “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” a song reminiscent of the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood duets of the sixties. His most memorable album is Murder Ballads.
In closing, there are many Australian bands making their mark, not only on Australian shores, but they’re being heard and appreciated by the music fans, Worldwide. Australia stand up and be counted.
by Donald J. Kay
Australian music from the sixties technically wasn’t recorded by Australians. We had overseas interests, migrants, which Australia would take under her wing and embrace and call them AUSSIE. Artists such as the Bee Gees, (UK) AC/DC (UK/Scottish), Easybeats (English Dutch), Billy Thorpe (UK,) Ray Columbus and the Invaders (New Zealand), to name but a few.
The record buying public went crazy over these artists, buying their records, watching every pop show we could, just so we could get a glimpse of our idols. Their concerts were sell outs, filled with mass hysteria, girls fainting in the aisles, having to be carted out on stretchers. The music was raw and poppy, selling in the millions. Unknowns became known and ‘till this day some of these artists remain legends.
Stories have been tossed around as to how the Aussie artists got their recognition in America. Some say, they made personal appearances on TV shows etc., while other’s say they got records released possibly because ozzie labels did deals with major/minor labels. Artists like Johnny Young, Normie Rowe, Russell Morris, Bee Gees, Johnny O’Keefe, Lynne Randel, and Dinah Lee all went to the UK or US, to record, and had records released there. It wasn’t until the 70’s with the advent of the video, that many major artists gained recognition, band such as: AC/DC, Midnight Oil, The Church, Little River Band, Jimmy Barnes, Kylie, among others. During the ensuing years thousands of videos were made, cementing the Aussie icons onto the world stage of music.
One of the MEGA metal bands in the world today, AC/DC, had their foundation in Western Australia (as the Valentines). The band had great success playing to packed houses all over Perth. With a few singles under their belt, having recorded for the small Perth label called Clarion, the band decided to broaden their musical horizons and make the journey east. After establishing themselves in Melbourne, they scored a record deal with Philips, which would see them record two or three singles, plus an E.P., and then disband. Vince Lovegrove would go on to manage the ever popular Divinyls, while Bon Scott would join Adelaide outfit, Fraternity, who recorded in their own studios in the Adelaide hills. Again the total output would be 3 or 4 singles and 2 albums, which are highly sought after by collectors.
After Fraternity disbanded, another band was happening, waiting for Bon Scott to take hold of the reins and rock hard. Their first lead singer was Dave Evans, who lent his vocals to the track “Can I Sit next To You Girl.” Evans was soon replaced with the legendary Bon Scott, who would re-record the Dave Evans track, making it his own. Bon would go on to leave his mark in rock history with many great hits and albums under his belt, until his sad death on the Feb, 19, 1980. The band almost folded, but kept going for Bon’s sake, and recruited Brian Johnson, who remains as lead singer to this day.
Another great export to the world is the Sydney band, The Church, featuring lead singer, Steve Kilbey. They first came to prominence after recording a 4 track demo and scoring a record deal with EMI records, with such favourites as “The Unguarded Moment,” and their classic first album,” Of Skins And Heart.” They had great success with their singles and albums souring high in the world charts.
Furthermore, another legendary band, The Divinyls would cement themselves in the music world, when Chrysalis records signed them. Founding members Christina Amphlett, (cousin of Little Pattie), and Mark Mcentee, would recruit players Jeremy Paul (ex-Air Supply), Rick Grossman (Matt Finish) among others. They were very big on the US touring circuit, with their albums, “Desperate,” What a Life” and “Temperamental” and remain personal favourites to this day. Chrissie hasn’t been well lately; having being diagnosed with MS. Former guitarist Mark Mcentee has been living in Perth, W.A.managing a clothing shop with his girlfriend.
Speaking of bands that got their start in Perth, before moving to the big smoke (Melbourne), INXS started out as the Farris Brothers, playing around the pubs and clubs of Perth, before relocating to Melbourne and teaming up with a very young Michael Hutchence, Kirk Pengily, and Gary Beers to become the explosive force known as INXS. Their first track, recorded for the small “Deluxe” label, was a cover version of Aussie band, the Loved Ones, track called “The Loved One.” Another 3 or 4 singles followed before they signed up to the giant WEA music group, which would launch them to the world stage with INXS becoming popular both with FM programmers and also a top billing stage act in their own right.
On the political fence sat one Peter Garrett, who would incorporate his political views in the music that was Midnight Oil. The group were playing pubs and clubs before signing up to Powder Works label, before moving to CBS records with such political motivated songs like “U.S. Forces” and “Blue Sky Mining.” At the present moment Garrett is heavily involved in the political arena, with his musical contributions firmly embedded in music history.
The ever popular Men at Work struck gold with their first self-titled album,” Men at Work.” The album would contain the now anathematic track “Down Under” which has become world famous because of its association with the “Americas Cup.” Enough said.
Nick Cave would leave his mark in music history, firstly with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and a great duet with Kylie Minogue “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” a song reminiscent of the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood duets of the sixties. His most memorable album is Murder Ballads.
In closing, there are many Australian bands making their mark, not only on Australian shores, but they’re being heard and appreciated by the music fans, Worldwide. Australia stand up and be counted.
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