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Mojo Music Newsletter Vol 7 No10 December
2009
Here's what will be available during the next few weeks at
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Rolling Stones
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
Deluxe Box Set
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The Doors
6 CD
Box Set
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This Deluxe Box Set comes in two configurations. Box Set 1 - 3 CDs, 1 DVD, a 56-page Collectors Book and a postcard replica of the original Rolling Stones 1969 tour poster. CD One is a remastered version of the original "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" release. CD Two has 5 unreleased tracks by The Stones from the original Madison Square Garden concert. CD Three contains 12 never before released tracks by opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner.
The DVD contains songs performed by The Stones from the 2 night concert at Madison Square Garden, as well as backstage footage; scenes of Keith Richards in the studio; and footage of the Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out album cover shoot, all shot by Albert and David Maysles. The 56-page Collectors Book includes photos and an essay by photographer Ethan Russell, an article by Lester Bangs and remembrances from concert-goers.
Box Set 2 - Contains all of the above plus 3 x180 gram LP records !!
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The latest addition to the band's acclaimed series of archival concert releases, this 6-disc collection contains all four of The Doors' performances - in their entirety - recorded in 1970 at the Felt Forum in New York City.
Recorded just a few weeks before the release of Morrison Hotel - these concerts find Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek locked in tight as they deliver smoking takes on soon-to-be-classics from their forthcoming album, including “Roadhouse Blues,” “Peace Frog,” “Ship Of Fools,” & “Maggie M'Gill.”
The shows also feature a number of driving blues covers, such as Bo Diddley's “Who Do You Love,” Howlin' Wolf's “Back Door Man,” and John Lee Hooker's “Crawling King Snake.”
Sadly, these shows represent The Doors' final New York City performances with Morrison, who passed away July 3, 1971. Great sound, killer sets !! |
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Tom Waits
Glitter and Doom
2CDs / 2 LPs |
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The Hitmen
Tora Tora DTK
2 CDs |
17 live tracks recorded at 10 different shows during his sold-out tour of the United States and Europe, from Atlanta, Georgia to Paris, France. The second disc Tom Tales features 40-minutes of Waits’ stage banter touching on topics as far-ranging as romantic spiders to injured vultures.
A vinyl version of Glitter and Doom Live comes in a gatefold sleeve with live photos from the tour and contain the 17 live tracks along with downloading instructions for Tom Tales. The songs, as expected ,are about hanged men, woebegone sailors, sword swallowers, fugitives, shamans, ghosts, dance instructors and prison guards..
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'Tora Tora DTK' was the band's swansong live album, recorded in 1984 during what was their farewell tour at the time. Includes all their classic tracks, like 'Didn't Tell The Man' and 'I Don't Mind' and their killer covers of "Shake Some Action" and " Solid As A Rock". Expanded 2 CD version includes 33 bonus tracks !!
'Tora Tora' now includes 6 more tracks from the same shows, including stage favourites 'Suspicious Minds', 'Search & Destroy' and 'Louie Louie'. The second disc includes the band's '91 comeback album 'Moronic Inferno' in its entirity (featuring Deniz Tek), plus outtakes, plus the earlier 'E.U.L.A' EP, plus Chris Klondike Masuak's 'Cowboy Angel' mini-LP .
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Complete Introduction
to Northern Soul
Various Artists
4 CD Box Set
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2010 Blues Calendar
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100 tracks over 4 discs compiled by legendary Wigan Casino DJ Russ Winstanley. Anthems, Floorshakers, Hidden Nuggets and Motown Memories. Rare gems from Cameo, Probe, Mercury, London, Philips, V.I.P, Cadet, Tamla Motown and more.Complete with stunning booklet with rare photos. |
The much loved Blues Calendar not only has the usual amazing artwork, but it also includes a CD featuring 19 classic Pre-War Blues songs from such artists as: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, Blind Blake, Robert Wilkins, Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Tommy Johnson and more!! The Blind Blake track is previously unreleased !!!!
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Morning of the Earth
2 DVD / Book
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Tom Waits
Orphans, Brawlers
& Bastards
7LP Box Set
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Now issued as a Deluxe 2 Disc Edition in a hardcover digibox, it includes includes a 60 page book of photos,authoritative new essays from Toby Creswell and Monty Webber, plus interviews and analysis.
The bonus disc features 12 short films thematically linked to the original film and chosen from filmmaker Albert Falzon’s extensive body of work ."Morning of the Earth "is the "Easy Rider "of the Australian post 60’s hippy experience. Where the newly designed shortboards head north and into the sunset, Hopper’s Choppers travel south and into hell. It is universally regarded as one of the great Australian films and one of the world’s great counterculture or lifestyle films with a great Australian rock soundtrack.
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Finally, 3 years after the CD release, this collection sees a very limited 7 LP box/ 32 page book set which includes 6 unreleased songs.
This box set redefines the words "Deluxe" or "Collectors Edition." 7 LPs on 180 gram vinyl, six previously unreleased songs, a 32-page book featuring lyrics and insight, and a beautiful hardbound box.
The fact it won't be around for long means the usual rule applies - first come, first served. Order now.
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Dave Rawlings
A Friend of A Friend
CD
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Soul Power
Various
Artists
DVD
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The much anticipated debut album from Gillian Welch’s secret weapon, Dave Rawlings, includes appearances by Ketch Secor, Willie Watson, Kevin Hayes, Morgan Jahnig (Old Crow Medicine Show), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes) and Karl Himmel (Neil Young), as well as Gillian herself. It’s a coming out party for an unsung hero of American roots music.
With Gillian Welch's last album 'Soul Journey' now six years old, anticipation for anything from Gillian is huge. Dave is Gillian's full-time musical partner - co-performer, co-writer, co-producer. This release basically sees the couple trading places - Dave's upfront, but Gillian is still there throughout.
The album includes a great version of 'To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High), which Dave co-wrote with Ryan Adams, and which Ryan kicked off his classic first album 'Heartbreaker' . Also includes covers of Bright Eye's 'Method Acting' and the Neil Young classic 'Cortez The Killer'.
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In 1974, the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Africa for a 12-hour, three-night long concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire. The dream-child of Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine, this music festival became a reality when they convinced boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with “The Rumble in the Jungle,” the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, previously chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary When We Were Kings.
Soul Power is a verité documentary about this legendary music festival (dubbed “Zaire ‘74”), and it depicts the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, among a host of others.The concert has achieved mythological significance as the definitive Africa(n)-American musical event of the 20th Century.
Soul Power is crafted from the extensive “outtakes” that remained after making When We Were Kings, which documented the epic title fight, but relegated the music festival to a small, supporting role. The “outtakes” have remained vaulted for the past 34 years, until now.
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David Bowie
The Man Who Sold The World
CD
In between the dreamy Space Oddity and the poppy/singer-songwriter Hunky Dory, Bowie put together this metal infused album in 1970- which is undoubtedly one of his best efforts.
For starters, the album has at its core, what would become the Spiders From Mars band (Mick Ronson, Trevor Boulder and “Woody” Woodmansey) as well record producer supremo Tony Visconti. The opening track is the opus "Width of A Circle" – Bowie’s acoustic guitar - which was so prevalent on the Space Oddity album – is still here – but it’s counterpointed by Ronson’s crunching Les Paul Gibson which is turned up to eleven as he rips off killer lead licks and chunky rhytm with aplomb . It’s a song which has a great descending riff and some nifty changes of pace that twist and turn towards a climatic finish.
This is followed by the mesmerising" All The Mad Men", a song that meanders here there and everywhere - it has stops and starts - "kooky" wind instrumentation - and a spoken word part - but at its heart, it has a great chorus and a gorgeous lead melody line.
Other highlights include "Black Country Rock" - a metal song with a tinge of country - again Ronson's lays down some killer guitar riffs; the rockin' "Running Gun Blues"; the lead guitar pyrotechnics of "She Shook Me Cold" ; and the Friedrich Nietzsche influenced "Supermen" - with its atmospheric backing vocals that make it sound like it comes from another world.
Of course the title track - The Man Who Sold The World - became one of Bowie's classics - and who could forget the cover version performed by Nirvana in their unplugged MTV performance?
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Ugly Things - Issue 29
Another monster issue from the best music zine on the planet. Cover stories include a huge feature on our own mighty Masters Apprentices as well as a tribute to the late, great Sky Saxon of the Seeds. Also in-depth stories on ‘60s beat group The Fenmen (featuring pre-Pretty Things members), UK pop-psych faves the West Coast Consortium, outrageous LA proto-punks The Imperial Dogs, and seminal California garage folk-rockers The Wildflower. Also, Doug Sheppard unravels the twisted tale of ‘70s hard rockers Stepson, Ron Ryan reveals the juicy details of his role as the ghost writer of some of the Dave Clark Five’s biggest early hits, and Phil Milstein relates his experiences with doomed junkie chanteuse Nico
.All this plus Midwest garage combo The Nomadds, Ollie Halsall and Timebox, French Riviera punks Dentist, The Remains, The Shadows of Knight, and an exclusive chat with Tony Cahill of The Easybeats.
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Nev's Nuggets
In 1972 Harley Cokeliss completed his remarkable documentary Chicago Blues - which detailed not only the history of this great music, but some of its' key figures. In recent tmes, this film was released on DVD and it has since become one of my fave titles as it has some fantastic footage of some of my heroes.
After doing some homework on this DVD, it turned out there was an audio recording made specifically for this film which featured the complete tracks from the doco, along with a bunch of other tracks that didn't make it.
Further investigtion revealed that all these tracks were live - with most of them recorded at Rose and Kellys 308 Pershing Chicago over a 2 month period in 1970. Needless to say, I had to get my hands on this - if it was anything like what was on the DVD, then it was going to be REAL good!
Eventually, I was able to source it from a small boutique supplier in Germany and my hunch was right - it
was a complete ball tearer! The 6 tracks from Buddy Guy and Junior Wells show them at their funky blues best with rippin' guitar solos and great fatback drumming. Muddy holds the crowd in the palm of his hand as the women in the audience yelp and holler as he performs his 3 tracks. With performances by Koko Taylor,and Chicago guitarist Underdog Johnny Young, this is one of my "must haves" of the year.
If you get a chance - listen to JB Hutto's "Come on Back Home" - with the volume cranked up to FULL - and enjoy a great blues rip snorter!
Nev
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The Mojo Playlist
Charile Parr - Roustabout
Tim Buckley - Live 67
Sonnyboy Williamson with Auger and Page
Canned Heat - Boogie House Tapes
JB Lenior- Parrot Sessions
Daptone Label - Various
Emitt Rhodes - 69-73
My Guitar Wants To Kill Yo Mama - Various
Mike Bloomfield - Live at The Waldorf
The Yardbirds (with Jummy Page) - Live! 1968
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Top of the Box Sets
Fearless Leader
John Coltrane
This 6 CD box set gathers all the tracks (including out-takes etc) that John Coltrane recorded for the Prestige label as a band leader in an 18 month period in the late 50s - just before he went to Atlantic to record the landmark Giant Steps.
This collection includes such great albums as Soul Trane, Lush Life and Traneing In amongst others - with the difference being that all the tracks are presented in chronological order as opposed to album sequence. What this allows the listener to do is to see how Coltrane develops as a player from the first to final label sessions and marvel at the progress he makes in such a short space of time.
Most of these recordings feature a stellar cast of jazz luminaries and sidemen including Red Garland, Jimmy Cobb, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Art Taylor, Paul Chambers etc.
As for the music - it is of its time and yet it is timeless - as it still sounds so hip today. Whether it's a ballad, a blues or something straight ahead - Coltrane and co. are usually on the money with what is mostly classic bop jazz .
The sound is first rate - with a superb 24 bit remastering job doing justice to Rudy Van Gelder's detailed recordings.
The box is beautifully presented with a 60 page booklet written by Lewis Porter, author of the definitive Coltrane biography "John Coltrane, His Life and Music" and includes an extensive number of photos( such as original album artwork and the musicians at the recording sessions) . It also details the recording sessuions themselves.
I got this collection when it first came out a couple of years back and it is still one of my all-time favourite box sets.
Fearless Leader normally retails for over $100 - but for newsletter subscribers it's only $70 (mention your email address or email us). There are only three copies at this price so be real quick....
Dot Man
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