RUSH RELEASE BEST OF LIVE “WORKING MEN” CD

Anthem Entertainment has announced the release of Working Men, the first ‘best of’ live performance compilation from renowned rock trio Rush. Released in the UK on Monday November 16th, this outstanding live collection is released on CD and digital download by Atlantic Records.

Culled from Anthem Entertainment and Zoë Vision’s three other Rush releases – Rush in Rio, R30 & Snakes & Arrows Live – the Working Men album features live recordings of the band’s greatest hits as well as one previously unreleased track, One Little Victory (see track listing listed below).

RUSH, comprised of Geddy Lee (vocals, bass, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitar, vocals), and Neil Peart (drums and percussion), are, without question, one of the most inventive and compelling groups in rock history, equally famed for both their virtuoso musicianship and provocative songwriting.

Just last year, a career-chronicling Rolling Stone feature praised the band for its continuing artistic vitality, noting that, “It’s true that Rush doesn’t mean today what it did in ’76 or even ’96. It may mean more.” The sentiment was echoed in subsequent pieces published in North America earlier this year in Entertainment Weekly and Spin.

Rush’s enduring pop culture relevance is perhaps best evidenced by a pair of high-profile appearances – a rare national television performance and interview on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” in 2008 (the band’s first TV appearance since 1975), and a pivotal role in the storyline of the hit comedy film, I Love You, Man. Released this past spring, the band made a cameo in the film, which starred Paul Rudd and Jason Segal.

Since releasing their self-titled debut album in 1974, Rush has achieved worldwide sales exceeding 35 million units, including such acclaimed works as 1976′s “2112,” 1981′s Moving Pictures, 1996′s Test For Echo, and 2002′s Vapor Trails. The band’s most recent studio collection, 2007′s Snakes & Arrows, made a triumphant debut on the Billboard 200 upon its initial release, entering the chart in the #3 spot. The album’s success marked Rush’s highest chart debut since 1993, as well as the group’s eleventh top ten album in the U.S.

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Tracklist:

1. Limelight (S&A live)
2. The Spirit of Radio (R30)
3. 2112 (Rush in Rio)
4. Freewill (S&A live)
5. Dreamline (R30)
6. Far Cry (S&A live)
7. Subdivisions (R30)
8. One Little Victory (previously unreleased, R30)
9. Closer To The Heart (Rush in Rio)
10. Tom Sawyer (S&A live)
11. Working Man (R30)
12. YYZ (Rush in Rio)

TODD WOLFE RELEASES NEW ALBUM

Todd Wolfe is set to release his latest studio album, “Stripped Down at the Bang Palace” on 10 November.

Due to the overwhelming response from blues fans and DJs clamoring for more “down home music,” this stripped-down, live in-studio recording consists of three originals and 10 covers. The CD will satisfy fans and new listeners alike! Sure to be a radio hit, with 200 stations being serviced in the US and Canada.

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Track Listing:
01. Wing Of A Dove
02. Stranger Blues
03. She’s Nineteen Years Old
04. Bad Boy
05. Black Night
06. Roll Over
07. Come In My Kitchen
08. Evil
09. Mississippi Queen
10. Three O’Clock Blues
11. It’s All Over Now
12. Light Of Day
13. Wreck My Life

Todd Wolfe live in Mook, The Netherlands – Live for Blues Moose Radio live at VOF de Poort, Mook 12 April 2009

NEW YORK DOLLS GUITARIST STEVE CONTE & THE CRAZY TRUTH RELEASE CD

“There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment – but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!”
- Steve Lillywhite (producer of U2, Rolling Stones, Morrissey)

To rock and rollers around the globe, the legendary Steve Conte is probably best known as the lead guitarist, songwriter/and backing vocalist in the New York Dolls. Conte is also the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for a raft of other bands including Crown Jewels, The Contes, and his latest incarnation – Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth.

Sonically, The Crazy Truth lies somewhere between garage rock and punk blues with hints of Latin-soul in a dark, smoky lounge. It’s the Stooges and the Stones versus Morphine and Tom Waits. The vibe is best described by Conte as “classic roots with a modern twist.”

Steve Conte delivers the power, soul and raunch. He’s a runaway guitar hero on the edge of falling apart – with the voice of a derelict angel. Drummer Phil Stewart is equal parts Max Roach and Keith Moon while bassist Leeko was weaned on The Clash and old school reggae. Says Conte, “This album sounds like a band playing live because it’s drums, bass and guitar together in one room, solos recorded live on the basic tracks, rough and tough. It was like doing a gig. I love playing live with this band because it’s all about interplay and the moment. We don’t just deliver the songs…we JAM!”

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TRACKLISTING:

1. This Is The End
2. Gypsy Cab
3. Texas T
4. The Goods Are Odd
5. Get Off
6. The Truth Ain’t Pretty
7. Her Highness
8. Busload of Hope
9. Strumpet-hearted Monkey Girl
10. Indie Girl
11. Junk Planet

Lyrically, the songs reflect two decades of life and excess in New York City…the distractions troubled souls move toward to fill the emptiness. Dive bars, gambling, sex and drugs. It’s all there, but not celebrated with the traditional macho rock attitude. It’s more about redemption.

On The Truth Ain’t Pretty, Conte sings, “I’m always putting the last things first, that’s why I’m starting out with the second verse,” while on The Goods Are Odd he croons “Drag queens, drama queens, future ex-porn stars, we’re all looking for lovers with beautiful scars.”

Whether he’s the morally bankrupt guy “coming downtown in a Gypsy Cab” (from the standout track Gypsy Cab) or riding a Busload of Hope to Atlantic City, Conte offers a sense of optimism in the song This Is The End – “In the end we transcend – we’re divine”.

Special guests on the album includes David Johansen (New York Dolls) on harmonica, Catherine Russell (David Bowie) and Nicki Richards (Madonna) on backing vocals, plus Danny Ray (Sylvain Sylvain/Johnny Thunders), Kiku Collins (Beyonce) Tom Timko (Stevie Wonder) on horns.

The album was mixed by the legendary Niko Bolas (Neil Young, Keith Richards) and mastered by Richard Dodd (Tom Petty, Green Day).

BILL COSBY SOUNDS THE ALARM FOR ‘STATE OF EMERGENCY’ CD

Socially Conscious Hip-Hop Project Launches Oct. 19 Via Virtual Town Hall In New York City

Listen to the tracks for free from Bill Cosby’s Cosnarati, State of Emergency available at billcosby.com

LOS ANGELES – Bill Cosby rekindles hip-hop’s socially conscious flame on “Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency,” an album of music with messages reflecting today’s most critical issues affecting young people. Created to engage listeners and lead them to take action, the CD’s empowering and dialogue-provoking themes will be spread throughout the Internet via the comedian/actor/author’s extensive social media network and an interactive new web site, billcosby.com, designed to build a grassroots campaign of activist-led house parties and town halls.
On Oct. 19, Cosby and the Cosnarati Band will kick off the project with a virtual town hall meeting in New York City. Presented in association with Ustream, the town hall starts at 7pm EDT (4pm PDT) on urban radio station web sites across the country as well as billcosby.com and facebook.com/billcosby. A highlight of the 90-minute event will include a first time ever performance by Cosnarati specifically for the town hall event of a few songs from the record. The songs will be available at digital retailers on Oct. 20, to be followed by the album’s Nov. 24 physical and digital release.

Audience members can tweet @BillCosby before and during the live town hall using http://www.tinyurl.com/ASKCOSBY and connect with him directly at http://twitter.com/BillCosby

During the town hall, Cosby will simultaneously relaunch billcosby.com – supported by Blue State Digital, a leading online marketing agency – and announce the house party campaign. Visitors to the site will be able to obtain the “Emergency” CD, its lyrics and a copy of Cosby’s 2007 best-seller, “Come On People: On the Path From Victims to Victors.” It’s all part of a grassroots effort to foster ongoing community dialogue and action by way of listening parties held at homes, community centers, churches and other locales.

Cosby executive produced the project and conceived the songs’ story concepts. “I don’t like referring to the music as ‘clean,” says Cosby, who does not rap or sing on the album. “What I like is what you’re not going to do. You’re not going to curse. You’re not going to put women down. You’re not going to put the glory of the gun somewhere. And you’re not going to put a whole lot of violence up front like that’s the thing that will cleanse you and make you feel better.”

Two years in the making, “State of Emergency” adds new meaning to the phrase “message in the music.” Tackling such social issues as self-respect, peer pressure, abuse and education, the CD is the aural companion to Cosby’s “Come on People,” co-authored with Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint. The project’s 14 tracks integrate frank, positive messages with a progressive mix of hip-hop, R&B, jazz, pop, funk and rock. The result is a strong, cohesive narrative that doesn’t rely on profanity, misogyny, materialism or ego exercising to deliver its powerful impact.

“State of Emergency” was produced by Cosby’s longtime musical colleague, William “Spaceman” Patterson. The musician/arranger’s extensive list of credits include “The Cosby Show,” Miles Davis, LL Cool J, Eric Clapton and Alicia Keys. In addition to his production partner Ced-Gee, co-founder of the pioneering hip-hop group Ultramagnetic MCs, Patterson recruited three guest rappers for “State of Emergency”: Jace the Great, Brother Hahz and Supa Nova Slom.

Brother Hahz and Jace the Great set the stage on the opening title track, which features a no-holds-barred chorus: “Let the horns blow; it’s a state of emergency/This whole world needs surgery/Every soul breeds perjury/And I got the urge to speak my mind.” Other standout tracks include the New Orleans-jazzed “Where’s the Parade?,” which salutes powerful black women; the introspective “Where Did I Go Wrong?”; the funky yet hard-hitting “Dad’s Behind the Glass”: and the R&B-empowered “Get on Your Job.”

Notes Patterson, “We want people to receive ‘State of Emergency’ the way we made it: as a gift; an opportunity for dialogue between children and parents and an alternative to the cookie-cutter sound that’s out here. Hopefully, we can tear down some walls and be part of the solution, not the problem.”

By using the universal language of music, “Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency” delivers a powerful wakeup call – one that everyone should heed. “Do me a favor,” adds Cosby. “Just listen. Please.”

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JOHN FOGERTY RELEASES ROYAL ALBERT HALL SHOW ON DVD

Rock & Roll Hero John Fogerty’s New DVD ‘Comin’ Down The Road: The Concert At Royal Albert Hall’ To Be Released Nov. 3 On Fortunate Son Records / Verve Forecast

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty’s new DVD ‘Comin’ Down The Road: The Concert at Royal Albert Hall’ will be released November 3 on Fortunate Son / Verve Forecast. The historic concert features Fogerty roaring through hits from both his solo career and his days leading Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Preview of the DVD:

Fogerty said, “The Royal Albert Hall. It’s hard to imagine that I am walking on to this stage that I left 37 years ago. I had no idea coming off that stage what was ahead me. I sure didn’t know it would take so long to come back! Tonight is a celebration of my music and my personal revival. And when I walk off this stage tonight it will be with a happy heart.”

Fogerty’s band includes Kenny Aronoff (drums), Billy Burnette (guitar), Jason Mowery (fiddle/mandolin), Matt Nolen (keyboards/guitar), Hunter Perrin (guitar), David Santos (bass). The concert also features guest appearances from John’s sons Shane & Tyler on guitar.

‘Comin’ Down The Road: The Concert at Royal Albert Hall’ track listing

01. Comin’ Down The Road
02. Born On The Bayou
03. Lookin’ Out My Backdoor
04. Rambunctious Boy
05. Don’t You Wish It Was True
06. My Toot Toot
07. Commotion
08. Creedence Song
09. Ramble Tamble
10. Gunslinger
11. I Will Walk With You
12. Somebody Help Me
13. Broken Down Cowboy
14. Keep On Chooglin’
15. Southern Streamline
16. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
17. Almost Saturday Night
18. Rock And Roll Girls
19. Down On The Corner
20. Hey Tonight
21. Up Around The Bend
22. Old Man Down The Road
23. Fortunate Son
24. Travelin’ Band
25. Rockin’ All Over The World
26. Proud Mary

For more than four decades, John Fogerty has been an American treasure: one of the most revered and influential artists to emerge in the ’60s, and still a vital part of the musical landscape. As lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of Creedence Clearwater Revival and as a GRAMMY-winning, chart-topping solo artist, Fogerty’s sound has encompassed everything from blues to country and southern swamp rock and roll. Known as one of the greatest songwriters, singers, and guitarists of all time, Fogerty was inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

THE BEATLES BOX OF VISION

THE BEATLES Box Of Vision®
Finally Available in the UK and Europe

Deluxe Companion to the Newly Re-mastered BEATLES CDs Includes First LP Size Book Of Complete Album Artwork And Storage For The Entire Beatles CD Catalogue

Following hot on the heels of the 09 September 2009 release of The Beatles’ digitally
re-mastered catalogue, the highly anticipated THE BEATLES Box Of Vision® is finally available in the UK and Europe through www.BoxOfVision.com and www.HardDaysNightShop.com, plus select retailers this coming Christmas holiday season.

Officially licensed by The Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd., the stunning collection, previously only available in North America, includes the following Beatles’ collectible content:

Book One – ‘The LP Sized Album Artwork Book’
The book includes 200 pages of The Beatles’ LP artwork, brilliantly restored in pristine new art prints. This marks the first time all the Beatles U.K. and U.S. album artwork has been collected together in a single LP sized book. From Please Please Me and Meet The Beatles through Love, the book includes front covers, back covers, gatefolds, inserts, and the complete LP booklets from Magical Mystery Tour, Let It Be…Naked and Love.

Book Two – ‘The Catalography’
An extensive, all-new, full color discography guide jam-packed with photos, text and track-listings providing the first-ever side-by-side presentation of the U.K. albums and their U.S. counterparts. A must for all Beatles completists!!

Book Three – ‘The Box of Vision Storage Book’
A highly collectible, unique and stylish way for Beatles fans to organize and display all 32 discs of The Beatles’ core catalog. Beatles fans will have the opportunity to insert CDs and booklets from their existing Beatles collections or the recently released digitally re-mastered versions. The Box of Vision storage book was specifically designed to store and display the digi-pack boxes that house the newly re-mastered CDs.

Ideal for fans, collectors and Christmas gift giving, all three Beatles books are housed in an elegant black, linen-covered box with silver embossed Beatles logos and faux Beatles LP spines. The 13″ x 13″ box features the iconic image of The Beatles photographed by Robert Freeman for the original album cover for With The Beatles.

Once a fan inserts their CDs into the Box of Vision storage book, they’ll be able to store and display the entire body of work of The Beatles in one complete book.

For a “virtual tour” and more information about THE BEATLES
Box Of Vision please visit: www.BoxOfVision.com

THE BEATLES ‘Box of Vision’ was conceived by Jonathan Polk, a music industry veteran with more than 20 years experience. “It’s the ultimate fan piece,” says Polk, who served as Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer for Capitol Records during the time when they released The Beatles Love album, Let It Be…Naked, and The Beatles Capitol Albums Vol.1 and Vol.2. “The Beatles invented the rock album format and it was my goal to help ensure that fans can continue to discover and appreciate this single greatest catalog of music the way it was originally created.”

“I have always been frustrated with the available options for organizing and storing CDs,” continues Polk, who is also the inventor of the Box of Vision’s patented CD storage structure. “And, I hated the fact that the beautiful LP artwork I grew up with was reduced to almost postage stamp size on CDs. The Box of Vision gives fans the best of all worlds.”

The first printing of THE BEATLES ‘Box of Vision’ sold out in North America based entirely on pre-orders leading up to the 09 September release, temporarily delaying its worldwide availability. The second printing is now finally available for immediate shipment throughout the UK and Europe.

Early consumer feedback has been outstanding; to see what fans have had to say about THE BEATLES Box of Vision, visit http://store.boxofvision.com/pages/reviews.

What the press are saying about
The Beatles Box of Vision -

“If you’re a Beatles fan – and this is a good time to be one – Box of Vision will keep your eyes full as you listen to the Beatles’ remastered CDs…. Strumming through Box of Vision was a real treat. This is the actual art from the Beatles’ albums, the way the Beatles wanted us to see them – not reduced to baseball-card size and stuck behind hard plastic on a CD.” -
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

“John Polk was thinking ‘inside’ the box when he envisioned The Beatles Box of Vision nearly 10 years ago. His elaborate companion to the newly remastered Beatles CDs holds a 200-page linen-covered book of album artwork, a comprehensive discography and storage for 32 discs, providing a single lavish receptacle for storing and displaying the band’s entire body of work” -
USA TODAY

“Can’t wait to open those new Beatles re-mastered single CDs or box sets that Amazon’s already sold out of? Try opening the extraordinary Beatles ‘Box of Vision’ box. But please, don’t call it a box. According to the much-needed instructional insert that pops out of the box that contains the Box of Vision box, the massive, monumental, 13 x 13-inch 13-pound coffee table slab is a patented “CD Storage Structure.” Once you unravel several layers of bubble wrap and unpeel the protective clear plastic wrapper, you understand why.” – MANHATTAN EXAMINER

TIMOTHY B. SCHMIT NEW SOLO ALBUM

He’s the Eagle who isn’t Don Henley or Glenn Frey or Joe Walsh.

That would be Timothy B. Schmit, the bass player who joined the mega-selling rock band in time to record one album before it broke up in 1980, a split that left him “pretty shocked.”

To make matters worse, he was undergoing a divorce at the time, and he struggled to stay afloat in the ensuing decade as he rebuilt his life with a new family.

No job was too small for his ageless tenor vocal and multi-instrumental prowess. Japanese albums. Records for Twisted Sister and Poison. Tours with Toto and Jimmy Buffett.

He released three solo albums before the Eagles reunited in 1994. A fourth followed in 2001, and his fifth one comes out next Tuesday through Lost Highway Records, making him the only Eagle to release any solo discs this millennium.

Schmit, 61, recorded “Expando” on his own dime at his home studio in Los Angeles during breaks from the Eagles, who have been on the road on and off since May last year.

He recruited some high-profile friends for select tracks, including Graham Nash, Dwight Yoakam and Kid Rock on background vocals; blues guitarists Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Keb’ Mo’; Van Dyke Parks on accordion; Gary Burton on vibes; and keyboardists Garth Hudson of the Band and Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers.

“ORGANIC” RECORDING

Unlike the 2007 Eagles album “Long Road Out Of Eden,” for which Schmit co-wrote the title track, the recording was not done through the exchange of email files.

“As corny as it sounds, I wanted to keep it as organic as possible,” Schmit told Reuters in a recent interview. “Everybody who did appear on the record came through my studio doors here.”

That includes the Blind Boys of Alabama, who showed up in their van — someone else was driving — singing along to a Schmit demo that was blasting from their CD player.

Schmit deliberately did not involve his fellow Eagles on the project, in part because he viewed it as a modest hobby with “zero pressure.” Also, his bandmates scatter to the four winds when they’re off the clock.

Even though Schmit cut his teeth in the country rock genre, first with the Buffalo Springfield offshoot Poco and then in a watered-down hugely commercial fashion with the Eagles, “Expando” showcases his first love: folk music. As the comically funky autobiographical track “White Boy From Sacramento” goes, “I think the Kingston Trio is so gear.”

“The first singing group I was in, we were such fans of the Kingston Trio that we dressed exactly like them and sang their songs,” he recalled, pulling out a photo of his 14-year-old self rehearsing for his group’s first gig. “Don’t get me started! They were definitely a big influence on me.”

Schmit befriended Kingston Trio co-founder Nick Reynolds in the six months before he died last October, and is the proud guardian of the tenor guitar that Reynolds played on such hits as “Tom Dooley.”

Schmit veers towards the introspective on such tunes as “Compassion,” “Melancholy” and “Downtime.” And he croons sweet nothings to his wife of 25 years in “Ella Jean,” not that it gets him out of doing the dishes.

“She’s not particularly impressed, in general,” he said. “The first night I met her, I asked her if she wanted to hear some music. She said, ‘Sure.’ She thought I was going to play her some tapes or something. Well, I picked up the guitar and started singing. She was so unimpressed, which completely attracted me.”

He makes it a family affair on “White Boy From Sacramento,” which features lead guitar from his youngest son Ben, a 19-year-old student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

With the Eagles off the road until “some time next year,” Schmit will hit the road with a small band to play a selection of club shows, beginning Wednesday in Los Angeles.

“I don’t have a big solo record of hits,” he said. “I’m going to hit this album a lot, and hopefully have a good time doing it.”

Source: Reuters

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SHERYL CROW’S TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB – DELUXE EDITION ADDS CD OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS AND OTHER RARITIES PLUS DVD OF CLASSIC VIDEOS AND A NEW TOUR DOCUMENTARY TO ONE OF ROCK’S MOST POPULAR ALBUMS

The spectacular debut album that launched Sheryl Crow into rock music consciousness has been expanded both musically and visually for the 2CD/1DVD Tuesday Night Music Club – Deluxe Edition (A&M/UMe), released November 17, 2009. Along with the original 1993 album, the package adds a second CD containing B-sides, rarities and out-takes, as well as a bonus DVD featuring the album’s videos (“Leaving Las Vegas,” “All I Wanna Do,” “Strong Enough,” “Can’t Cry Anymore,” “Run, Baby, Run” and “What I Can Do For You,” plus a rare alternate version of “All I Wanna Do” directed by Roman Coppola) and a newly produced documentary comprised of on-the-road, backstage, soundcheck and live footage from the original album tour.

Highlighting the bonus CD for Tuesday Night Music Club – Deluxe Edition are four previously unreleased recordings from 1995 that were intended for the follow-up album–“Coffee Shop,” “Killer Life,” “Essential Trip Of Hereness” and “You Want More”

–each only now mixed by original Tuesday Night Music Club producer Bill Bottrell. In addition, Bottrell remixed the album’s “I Shall Believe” specifically for this Deluxe Edition. The bonus CD also includes a trio of U.K. single B-sides (“Reach Around Jerk,” an alternate “The Na-Na Song” titled “Volvo Cowgirl 99” and a cover of Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself”), a tribute album cover of Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Mak’er,” and “On The Outside,” a contribution to an X-Files soundtrack album.

Tuesday Night Music Club has proved to be a landmark achievement even beyond propelling Crow’s own formidable career by inspiring and influencing countless female singer-songwriters, perhaps even saving that genre from extinction in the grungy days of the early ‘90s. Certified seven times platinum and charting at #3, the album spawned five Grammy® nominations and three wins: Best New Artist and a pair for “All I Wanna Do,” including Record of the Year. Three songs reached the Pop Top 40–the gold “All I Wanna Do” (#2), “Strong Enough” (#5) and “Can’t Cry Anymore.” “Leaving Las Vegas” cracked the Modern Rock Top 10.

“Somehow amidst the dance divas of MTV and the dark angst of Seattle grunge,” writes her manager, Scooter Weintraub, in the liner notes, “Sheryl’s salty voice, twangy Telecaster, frayed Levis, red curls and bent upper lip scratched their way into the musical culture.” In 1999, she was ranked among VH1’s “100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.”

Since Tuesday Night Music Club, Crow has released five studio albums (each charting Top 10, four of them platinum-plus), a triple-platinum greatest hits collection, and more. She has also been nominated for 27 more Grammys, winning six more. Her most recent nomination was for her most recent album, 2008’s Detours, which reunited her with producer Bottrell and returned her to the spirit of Tuesday Night Music Club.

SHERYL CROW

TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB DELUXE EDITION

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1 RUN, BABY, RUN
2 LEAVING LAS VEGAS
3 STRONG ENOUGH
4 CAN’T CRY ANYMORE
5 SOLIDIFY
6 THE NA-NA SONG
7 NO ONE SAID IT WOULD BE EASY
8 WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU
9 ALL I WANNA DO
10 WE DO WHAT WE CAN
11 I SHALL BELIEVE

DISC TWO: B-sides, Rarities and Out-takes

1 COFFEE SHOP
2 KILLER LIFE
3 ESSENTIAL TRIP OF HERENESS
4 REACH AROUND JERK
5 VOLVO COWGIRL 99
6 YOU WANT MORE
7 ALL BY MYSELF
8 ON THE OUTSIDE
9 D’YER MAK’ER
10 I SHALL BELIEVE (2009 REMIX)

DISC THREE: Bonus DVD

1 VALUABLE STUFF:
A documentary featuring on-the-road, backstage, sound check and live footage recorded during the Tuesday Night Music Club tour, 1993 -1995.

THE VIDEOS:
2 LEAVING LAS VEGAS
3 ALL I WANNA DO
4 STRONG ENOUGH
5 CAN’T CRY ANYMORE
6 RUN, BABY, RUN
7 WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU

BONUS:
8 ALL I WANNA DO (Alternate Version)

Source: Universal

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ROLLING STONES LIVE ALBUMS REISSUED

The live adventures of the Rolling Stones

Universal Music Group is pleased to announce the reissue of five Rolling Stones live albums on November 10, 2009 in the US. Recorded between 1975 and 2002, Love You Live, Still Life, Flashpoint, the much-loved Stripped and Live Licks, showcase the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in its natural habitat–on stage. Taped in front of rapturous audiences in stadiums and arenas, and also documenting the more informal theatre and club shows beloved of their diehard fans, these albums feature high-octane renditions of the group’s biggest hits – “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Brown Sugar,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Miss You,” “Start Me Up” – as well as great covers of material originally recorded by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, the Miracles, the Temptations, Bob Dylan and B.B. King.

Continuing UMG’s comprehensive release program which has already seen reissues of the group’s post-1971 studio albums, as well as the reappearance of the Jump Back compilation, these five albums bring the story of the Stones as a peerless live attraction up to date, and will be available in stores and digitally. The reissue of these five Rolling Stones live albums will be launched in conjunction with the digitally remastered release of Live at the Max celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels tour.

Originally issued as a double-vinyl album in October 1977, Love You Live captures the band at a time when their Canadian escapades were making headlines around the world. Released a year after their triumphant appearance at the Knebworth Fair, it made the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic. The album includes the acknowledged classics “Honky Tonk Women,” “Happy” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and the medley “If You Can’t Rock Me/Get Off Of My Cloud” taped during the band’s record-breaking run at London’s Earls Court in May 1976. Going back to their rhythm ‘n’ blues roots as if they were at the Crawdaddy Club or Eel Pie Island in the early sixties, they revived “Mannish Boy,” a song most commonly associated with the father of Chicago blues, Muddy Waters, the Willie Dixon composition “Little Red Rooster,” made famous by Howlin’ Wolf and a chart-topper for the Stones in 1964, and two more Chess label favorites–Bo Diddley’s “Crackin’ Up” and Chuck Berry’s “Around And Around.”

Still Life (American Concert 1981), the album’s full title, was released in the summer of 1982, just as the group was headlining stadiums across the world, and also made the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic. Arguably the Stones’ most commercially successful live recording to date, it spawned two hit singles, their infectious take on the Miracles’ “Going To A Go-Go,” and their revival of Jerry Ragovoy’s “Time Is On My Side,” popularized by Irma Thomas and first recorded by the group in 1964. It also includes a swaggering cover of Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock” as well as romps through the Stones’ sixties classics “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Under My Thumb” and “Let’s Spend The Night Together.”

First issued in April 1991, Flashpoint is a Stones live album with a difference, since it boasts two studio cuts exclusive to this release, the politically charged “Highwire,” a comment on the Gulf War reminiscent of the group’s epochal “Street Fighting Man,” and the louche “Sex Drive.” The album featured outstanding versions of “Ruby Tuesday” and “Paint It, Black” alongside the rockers “Sad Sad Sad” and “Rock And A Hard Place” from the Steel Wheels album, as well as the rarely played “Factory Girl,” from the seminal Beggars Banquet, while guitar hero Eric Clapton guested on “Little Red Rooster.”

Having pioneered the concept of alternating big shows and back-to-basics gigs, the Stones put yet another spin on the live album with Stripped in November 1995, and were duly rewarded with another transatlantic Top Ten entry. During the Voodoo Lounge tour, their first with bassist Darryl Jones, the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world simply kicked back in Lisbon and Tokyo studios and revisited Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away” and “Little Baby,” the Willie Dixon composition first recorded by Howlin’ Wolf. They also cherry-picked highlights – “Shine A Light,” “Angie” – from intimate shows at legendary venues like the Paradiso in Amsterdam or the Olympia in Paris. This low-key approach afforded the group the opportunity to explore its acoustic, country-flavored repertoire, “Wild Horses,” “Dead Flowers” and “Sweet Virginia” in particular, though their inspired reworking of Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone,” from their memorable gig at London’s Brixton Academy, remains the album’s undisputed highlight.

Documenting the lengthy 2002-2003 tour in support of the career retrospective 40 Licks, Live Licks is another great addition to the Stones’ catalog of concert recordings, and put in a strong chart performance on its release in November 2004. The shows mixed best-loved songs with unexpected gems from the band’s huge back catalogue, and the two CDs mirror that approach. The first one comprises favorites such as “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)” and “Gimme Shelter” while the second one relies on rarely played deep cuts like “Monkey Man,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” “Rocks Off,” “Beast Of Burden,” “When The Whip Comes Down,” “Neighbours” and “Worried About You” from the chart-topping albums Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street, Some Girls and Tattoo You.
These albums all retain the original track listings and sleeve design.
The Shine A Light soundtrack is still available from Universal. Released in 2008, this live double album was recorded during two memorable nights at New York’s Beacon Theatre in 2006 and featured in the ultimate Rolling Stones concert film SHINE A LIGHT from Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese.

TRACKLISTINGS

Love You Live

Disc 1
Intro: Fanfare For The Common Man
Honky Tonk Woman (Live)
If You Can’t Rock Me/ Get Off of My Cloud
Happy
Hot Stuff
Star, Star
Tumbling Dice
Fingerprint File
You Gotta Move
You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Disc 2
Mannish Boy
Crackin’ Up
Little Red Rooster
Around And Around
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll
Brown Sugar
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Sympathy For The Devil

Still Life

Take The A Train
Under My Thumb
Let’s Spend The Night Together
Shattered
Twenty Flight Rock
Going To A Go-Go
Let Me Go
Time Is On My Side
Just My Imagination
Start Me Up
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Flashpoint

Continental Drift (Intro)
Start Me Up
Sad Sad Sad
Miss You
Rock And A Hard Place
Ruby Tuesday
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Factory Girl
Can’t Be Seen
Little Red Rooster
Paint It, Black
Sympathy For The Devil
Brown Sugar
Jumping Jack Flash
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Highwire
Sex Drive

Stripped

Street Fighting Man
Like A Rolling Stone
Not Fade Away
Shine A Light
The Spider And The Fly
I’m Free
Wild Horses
Let It Bleed
Dead Flowers
Slipping Away
Angie
Love In Vain
Sweet Virginia
Little Baby

Live Licks

Disc 1
Brown Sugar
Street Fighting Man
Paint It Black
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Start Me Up
It’s Only Rock N’ Roll
Angie
Honky Tonk Women
Happy
Gimme Shelter
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Disc 2
Neighbours
Monkey Man
Rocks Off
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
That’s How Strong My Love Is
The Nearness Of You
Beast Of Burden
When The Whip Comes Down
Rock Me, Baby
You Don’t Have To Mean It
Worried About You
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

Shine A Light (Already released – 2008)

Disc 1
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Shattered
She Was Hot
All Down The Line
Loving Cup (with Jack White III)
As Tears Go By
Some Girls
Just My Imagination
Faraway Eyes
Champagne & Reefer (with Buddy Guy)
Tumbling Dice
Band Introductions
You Got The Silver
Connection

Disc 2
Martin Scorsese Intro
Sympathy For The Devil
Live With Me (with Christina Aguilera)
Start Me Up
Brown Sugar
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Paint It Black
Little T&A
I’m Free
Shine A Light

SOURCE Universal Music Enterprises

MARILLION NEW ALBUM “LESS IS MORE”

Hailed as one of the English music scene’s best kept secrets; Marillion were chart aficionados during the eighties have since been one of the few names in pop to get more and more creative and fascinating album after album. The band are constantly reinventing themselves while keeping the unique sound that made them loved by millions of fans all over the world.

The new studio album “Less Is More”, released in cooperation with the band’s own label Intact, sees the band performing hits from their back catalogue in an acoustic style. It’s a chance for Marillion to shine a new light into their songs, pushing them into unexpected new musical territory that showcases the essence of their songs in an alternative, intimate and exciting format. Less is more…

Marillion have created an album of pop avant-garde experiment, depriving the songs of their original dress and reconstructing them with a new, minimal and intimate approach.

Says Steve Hogarth – “This album has exceeded our own expectations in every way – musically, spiritually and sonically so it’s perfect that fate has decreed that we work with earMUSIC/Edel – a label we respect – and Max Vaccaro, someone who demonstrably understands us and is driven by a genuine enthusiasm for our music.”

In addition to the highly anticipated release of “Less Is More”, the band will play a series of low-key acoustic concerts in the UK and Ireland.

Buy your copy here if you live in Europe.
Buy your copy here if you live in the USA.

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