Out Dec. 10, 2013
The world's longest-running sci-fi series is celebrating its 50th
Anniversary with an explosive special, The Day of the Doctor, coming to
DVD and 3D Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. The special stars Matt Smith, David
Tennant, and Jenna Coleman with Billie Piper and Academy Award nominee
John Hurt. It promises to be an adventure for the ages and a celebration
of Doctor Who unlike any other.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
The Johnson City Sessions 1928-1929: Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?
Out Dec. 10, 2013.
(4-CD LP-Sized Box-Set with 136-page hardcover book; 100 tracks, over 5 hours of music) The famous 1927 Bristol Sessions, produced by VICTOR RECORDS in Bristol, Tennessee are known as ''The Big Bang Of Country Music.'' But don't overlook the recordings made in nearby Johnson City by COLUMBIA RECORDS in October 1928 and October 1929. Collectively, the Johnson City recordings are regarded by scholars, collectors, and lovers of old-time music as a distinctive cross-section of Appalachian music, captured on the cusp of the Great Depression. Indeed, the final recordings of the 1929 session took place on October 24 - the infamous 'Black Thursday' when Wall Street crashed.
BEAR FAMILY RECORDS has gathered the entire issued output of the 1928-29 Johnson City sessions. This is the first time all 100 songs have been issued together... and the first time many have been heard since the Depression. The accompanying 136-page, LP-size hardcover book contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and the artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs. Also included are complete song lyrics and a detailed discography.
Three of these performances were chosen by the pioneering scholar Harry Smith for his 1952 compilation Anthology Of American Folk Music - a seminal source for the urban folk revival of the 1950s and '60s: The Coo-Coo Bird by Clarence (Tom) Ashley, Old Lady And The Devil by Bill and Belle Reed, and Down On Penny's Farm by The Bentley Boys - the inspiration for Bob Dylan's Hard Times In New York Town and Maggie's Farm. Other gems include a topical best-seller of the Prohibition era, When the Roses Bloom Again For The Bootlegger, the Grant Brothers' Tell It To Me, revived by the Old Crow Medicine Show, and many more.
Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music? is packed with stringband tunes, ancient ballads, sacred songs, hillbilly blues and blue yodels the entrancing musical world of old Appalachia.
(4-CD LP-Sized Box-Set with 136-page hardcover book; 100 tracks, over 5 hours of music) The famous 1927 Bristol Sessions, produced by VICTOR RECORDS in Bristol, Tennessee are known as ''The Big Bang Of Country Music.'' But don't overlook the recordings made in nearby Johnson City by COLUMBIA RECORDS in October 1928 and October 1929. Collectively, the Johnson City recordings are regarded by scholars, collectors, and lovers of old-time music as a distinctive cross-section of Appalachian music, captured on the cusp of the Great Depression. Indeed, the final recordings of the 1929 session took place on October 24 - the infamous 'Black Thursday' when Wall Street crashed.
BEAR FAMILY RECORDS has gathered the entire issued output of the 1928-29 Johnson City sessions. This is the first time all 100 songs have been issued together... and the first time many have been heard since the Depression. The accompanying 136-page, LP-size hardcover book contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and the artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs. Also included are complete song lyrics and a detailed discography.
Three of these performances were chosen by the pioneering scholar Harry Smith for his 1952 compilation Anthology Of American Folk Music - a seminal source for the urban folk revival of the 1950s and '60s: The Coo-Coo Bird by Clarence (Tom) Ashley, Old Lady And The Devil by Bill and Belle Reed, and Down On Penny's Farm by The Bentley Boys - the inspiration for Bob Dylan's Hard Times In New York Town and Maggie's Farm. Other gems include a topical best-seller of the Prohibition era, When the Roses Bloom Again For The Bootlegger, the Grant Brothers' Tell It To Me, revived by the Old Crow Medicine Show, and many more.
Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music? is packed with stringband tunes, ancient ballads, sacred songs, hillbilly blues and blue yodels the entrancing musical world of old Appalachia.
John's Children - A Strange Affair: The Recordings 1965-1970
Out Dec. 3, 2013
John's Children were the quintessential cult 60s Mod/Psych band, controversial, sharply dressed and subsequently the stuff of legend. The band were fronted by Andy Ellison (later with Jet and Radio Stars) and boasted Marc Bolan within their ranks during their short life. A Strange Affair" for the first time " boasts the entire Johns Children output between 1966 and 1970. The package includes: Two singles for EMIs Columbia label: The Love I Thought I'd Found and Just What You Want " Just What You Get. Four singles for The Whos label Track Records: Desdemona, the legendarily withdrawn Midsummer Night's Scene, Come And Play With Me In The Garden and Go-Go Girl. Their mock-live album Orgasm! which was belatedly issued on US label White Whale in 1970. Andy Ellisons subsequent solo singles It's Been A Long Time (Track), Fool From Upper Eden (CBS) and You Can't Do That (SNB). Three tracks by pre-Johns Children band The Silence. A raft of rare and previously unissued alternative versions and mixes.
John's Children were the quintessential cult 60s Mod/Psych band, controversial, sharply dressed and subsequently the stuff of legend. The band were fronted by Andy Ellison (later with Jet and Radio Stars) and boasted Marc Bolan within their ranks during their short life. A Strange Affair" for the first time " boasts the entire Johns Children output between 1966 and 1970. The package includes: Two singles for EMIs Columbia label: The Love I Thought I'd Found and Just What You Want " Just What You Get. Four singles for The Whos label Track Records: Desdemona, the legendarily withdrawn Midsummer Night's Scene, Come And Play With Me In The Garden and Go-Go Girl. Their mock-live album Orgasm! which was belatedly issued on US label White Whale in 1970. Andy Ellisons subsequent solo singles It's Been A Long Time (Track), Fool From Upper Eden (CBS) and You Can't Do That (SNB). Three tracks by pre-Johns Children band The Silence. A raft of rare and previously unissued alternative versions and mixes.
Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat (3CD - 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
Out Dec. 3, 2013.
The Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat is one of the most confrontational and inspirational second albums ever made by a rock band. Recorded in a matter of days at the end of the summer of 1967, a season in which everything seemed possible in rock and much of it happened at now-mythic speed, White Light/White Heat is an album that reeks of the gritty NY street life and could only have been made in New York, by one band. And that group is the classic-quartet lineup of The Velvet Underground - singer-guitarist Lou Reed; bassist-organist and viola player John Cale; guitarist-bassist Sterling Morrison; and drummer Maureen Tucker.
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, is a three-disc, 30-track set featuring both the original stereo and mono releases, completely remastered, with bonus tracks including alternate versions, unreleased outtakes, John Cale's last studio sessions with the band, and the official release of their complete show at The Gymnasium in New York recorded on April 30, 1967, which includes five previously unreleased performances culled from John Cale's personal copy. The Super Deluxe Edition includes four newly prepared remixes, including the earliest known, previously unreleased version of 'Beginning To See The Light,' and previously unreleased versions of 'The Gift (vocal version)' and 'The Gift (instrumental version).' Exclusive to this limited Super Deluxe Edition is a 56 page hard bound book with rare photos, memorabilia and David Fricke Essay/interview with John Cale and Lou Reed from 2013. The 45th anniversary editions were developed in conjunction with Lou Reed and John Cale.
'No one listened to it. But there it is, forever - the quintessence of articulated punk. And no one goes near it.' - Lou Reed, August 2013
'Cited by nearly every group in punk's long lineage and by more than a few arty types, the Velvets defined New York rock, poised between street-level grit and literary irony, rock simplicity and minimalistic drones, clarity and noise.' - The New York Times
The Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat is one of the most confrontational and inspirational second albums ever made by a rock band. Recorded in a matter of days at the end of the summer of 1967, a season in which everything seemed possible in rock and much of it happened at now-mythic speed, White Light/White Heat is an album that reeks of the gritty NY street life and could only have been made in New York, by one band. And that group is the classic-quartet lineup of The Velvet Underground - singer-guitarist Lou Reed; bassist-organist and viola player John Cale; guitarist-bassist Sterling Morrison; and drummer Maureen Tucker.
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, is a three-disc, 30-track set featuring both the original stereo and mono releases, completely remastered, with bonus tracks including alternate versions, unreleased outtakes, John Cale's last studio sessions with the band, and the official release of their complete show at The Gymnasium in New York recorded on April 30, 1967, which includes five previously unreleased performances culled from John Cale's personal copy. The Super Deluxe Edition includes four newly prepared remixes, including the earliest known, previously unreleased version of 'Beginning To See The Light,' and previously unreleased versions of 'The Gift (vocal version)' and 'The Gift (instrumental version).' Exclusive to this limited Super Deluxe Edition is a 56 page hard bound book with rare photos, memorabilia and David Fricke Essay/interview with John Cale and Lou Reed from 2013. The 45th anniversary editions were developed in conjunction with Lou Reed and John Cale.
'No one listened to it. But there it is, forever - the quintessence of articulated punk. And no one goes near it.' - Lou Reed, August 2013
'Cited by nearly every group in punk's long lineage and by more than a few arty types, the Velvets defined New York rock, poised between street-level grit and literary irony, rock simplicity and minimalistic drones, clarity and noise.' - The New York Times
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