VIA PRESS RELEASE | In a career spanning more than four decades, John Stewart swiftly progressed, from his beginnings in a Southern California garage band, through folk groups the Cumberland Three and the Kingston Trio, to a successful solo career. He contributed well over 40 albums and more than 600 songs to our musical universe. […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | During his two-decade association with Columbia Records, Andy Williams chalked up more hit singles and sold more albums than any other pop crooner of the period. Boosted by the popularity of his Emmy-winning television series The Andy Williams Show, the personable singer bridged the classic American Songbook of standards and showtunes […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers were the greatest incubator of talent the jazz world has ever known, and the late-‘50s were arguably the outfit’s most fertile period, as Blakey led not one, not two, not three, but four aggregations that spawned the next generation of jazz superstars. While Blakey recorded for a […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Grammy Award winner and two-time Emmy nominee Dom Flemons is known as “The American Songster.” Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor, music scholar, historian, and record collector. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, fife, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, and rhythm bones. A co-founder of the Grammy®-winning […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Hank Williams was a star of WSM’s Grand Ole Opry when he began hosting his own radio show for the same station in 1951. Sponsored by Mother’s Best Flour Company, the 15-minute broadcasts aired every weekday. But there was a problem. Williams was wildly popular and his aggressive touring schedule meant […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “Cream was a shambling circus of diverse personalities who happened to find that catalyst together… any one of us could have played unaccompanied for a good length of time. So you put the three of us together in front of an audience willing to dig it limitlessly, we could have gone […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | First-ever release of two-disc set, recorded live between his second and third studio albums, offers a rare glimpse into the legendary singer/songwriter. By 1968, Tim Buckley had developed into one of the most promising singer/songwriters on the scene, following the release of his second album, 1967’s Goodbye and Hello. Less than […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Producer, A&R man, songwriter, sometimes-vocalist, and, above all, a guitarist par excellence, Chet Atkins basically invented RCA’s lush Nashville sound on the way to becoming a 14-time Grammy winner and member of both the Country Music and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame. The Complete RCA Victor & Columbia Christmas Recordings […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Esoteric Recordings is proud to announce the release of a new re-mastered five-disc deluxe expanded boxed set limited edition (comprising 4 CDs and a DVD) of Modern Music, the legendary 1976 album by Be Bop Deluxe. Recorded in June and July 1976 at Abbey Road Studio Three, Modern Music was the […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Limited edition, definitive four-CD, 79-track box recounts the history of Los Angeles’ “West Coast East Side Sound” via the classic hits of Cannibal & the Headhunters and many more. Roots of Chicano rock detailed in deeply annotated 102-page book featuring detailed essays and dozens of previously unseen photos. The rip-roaring sound […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | All the singer-pianist’s defining work for Imperial and ABC-Paramount is compiled on comprehensive 12-CD/1-DVD collection. Bear Family Records, the international gold standard for excellence in music reissues, offers the most in-depth look yet available at the groundbreaking R&B and rock ’n’ roll hits of the pioneering New Orleans singer-pianist Fats Domino […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Much has been documented about the pioneering music that came out of the United States in the 1960s, amidst the social and political strife of the era. Certainly, the times were changing, but the music scene wasn’t just about the Summer of Love, or festivals like Woodstock or Monterey Pop. There […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Craft Recordings is proud to announce the release of Joan Baez’s Live at Woodstock, available today now on all digital and streaming platforms. For the very first time, fans can hear the influential folk singer’s entire set, as it was performed at the historic festival 50 years ago. Live at Woodstock […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | The Louvin Brothers—Ira and Charlie—were one of the great family close harmony acts that did much to shape the sound of Country music in the fifties and sixties. Like just about any Country music act of note from that era, their off-stage lives were permeated by fraternal fallings-out, spousal abuse, alcoholism […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | As part of the ongoing celebration of their 50th anniversary, on September 6 the Allman Brothers Band Recording Company–caretakers of the original band’s unreleased catalog–in conjunction with distributor The Orchard will release a four-CD set titled Fillmore West ’71, culled from an epic weekend of live music recorded at the legendary […]
