New Releases: March 10, 2017
New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Daymé Arocena | “Cubafonía” (producer: Dexter Story; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour)  |
(Brownswood Recordings) |
| Cindy Lee Berryhill | “The Adventurist” (producers: Sheldon Gomberg, David Schwartz, etc.; guests: DJ Bonebrake, Probyn Gregory, Nelson Bragg, Syd Straw, Michael Jerome Moore, etc.; first single: “American Cinematography”; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Omnivore Recordings) |
| Pieta Brown | “Postcards” (features collaborations with Mark Knopfler, Calexico, Mason Jennings, David Lindley, Mike Lewis, Carrie Rodriguez, etc.; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Lustre) |
| Bush | “Black and White Rainbows” (first single: “Mad Love”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Zuma Rock) |
| Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band | “Big Machine” (producer: Jim Sutherland; guests: Teddy Thompson, MC Dizraeli, Damien Dempsey; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Topic) |
| Chickenfoot (Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith) | “Best + Live” (best-of, with a second CD featuring a 2009 concert in Phoenix, plus a new song “Divine Termination”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; Merch) |
(Chickenfoot, LLC / eOne Music) |
| Circa Waves (Liverpool quartet) | “Different Creatures” (first single: “Wake Up”; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Virgin) |
| Shelby Earl | “The Man Who Made Himself a Name” (producers: Martin Feveyear, The Spectacles, Earl; guests: Eric Anderson, Josiah Johnson; first single: “The Man Who Made Himself a Name”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Nine Mile) |
| Fairport Convention | “50:[email protected]” (a mixture of studio tracks and live songs to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary; producer: John Gale; guests: Robert Plant, Jacqui McShee; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; Merch) |
(Matty Grooves) |
| Greg Graffin | “Millport” (featuring the rhythm section of Social Distortion; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| Ha Ha Tonka | “Heart-Shaped Mountain” (first single: “Race to the Bottom”; Hear/read here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Bloodshot) |
| Jesse Harris | “Music for Chameleons” (Hear here; On Tour) |
(Sunnyside) |
| Honeymoon Suite | “Hand Up” (the Canadian band’s first album since 2008; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Independent Label Services, Inc.) |
| Hurray for the Riff Raff | “The Navigator” (first single: “Rican Beach”; Hear here; Read here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ATO) |
| Valerie June | “The Order of Time” (features piano accompaniment from Norah Jones on three tracks; producer: Matt Marinelli; first single: “Astral Plane”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Concord) |
| Jan Lisiecki (21-year-old Canadian pianist) | “Chopin: Works For Piano & Orchestra” (recorded with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| The Magnetic Fields | “50 Song Memoir” (five-CD box set chronicles 50 years of frontman Stephin Merritt’s life with one song per year; producers: Merritt, Thomas Bartlett, Charles Newman; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Nonesuch) |
| Laura Marling | “Semper Femina” (producers: Marling, Blake Mills; first single: “Soothing”; See here; Vinyl; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(More Alarming) |
| Mallory Knox (U.K. rock quintet) | “Wired” (first single: “Giving It Up”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(RCA) |
| The Motels | “If Not Now Then When” (27-song double album; MP3) |
(Sunset Blvd.) |
| Peter Murphy | “Bare-boned and Sacred” (live album includes a cover of David Bowie’s “Bewlay Brothers”; Hear here; Merch) |
(Metropolis) |
| The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band | “Front Porch Sessions” (Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Family Owned) |
| The Picturebooks (German blues-rock duo) | “Home Is a Heartache” (new single: “I Need That Oooh”; Hear/read here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Another Century) |
| K Phillips (Nashville-based Americana artist) | “Dirty Wonder” (producer: Gordy Quist of The Band of Heathens; guest: Adam Duritz; first single: “Hadrian”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Rock Ridge Music) |
| The Shins | “Heartworms” (producer: James Mercer; first single: “Name For You”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour; Merch)  |
(Aural Apothecary / Columbia) |
| Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives | “Way Out West” (producer: Mike Campbell of The Heartbreakers; first single: “Whole Lotta Highway [With a Million Miles to Go]”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Superlatone) |
| Sunny Sweeney | “Trophy” (four of the 10 songs were co-written with Lori McKenna; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Aunt Daddy / Thirty Tigers) |
| Thelma (Brooklyn alt-cherub band) | “Thelma” (Read here; MP3) | (Tiny Engines) |
| Josh Turner | “Deep South” (first single: “Hometown Girl”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(MCA Nashville) |
| Tyce (NYC-based actor-singer) | “Hero” (producer: Zak Lloyd; covers of Jim Steinman-written songs, with seven bonus acoustic tracks; Hear here; Read here) | (Broadway) |
| Various artists | “Beauty and the Beast (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (live-action remake of Disney’s 1991 animated film of the same name opens March 17, starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, et al; See here; MP3) | (Walt Disney) |
| Various artists | “The Music of Nashville – Original Soundtrack: Season 5, Volume 1” (MP3) |
(Big Machine) |
| The Yugos (Cincinnati alt-rock quartet) | “Weighing the Heart” (Hear here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Old Flame) |
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New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| John Andrews & The Yawns | “Bad Posture” (first single: “Drivers”; See here; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Woodist) |
| David Bazan (former Pedro The Lion leader) | “Care” (Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Undertow, March 7) |
| Black Map (Bay Area rock trio) | “In Droves” (first single: “Run Rabbit Run”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(eOne Music) |
| Jackson Boone (Portland lo-fi folk singer-songwriter) | “Organic Light Factory” (producer: Riley Geare; first single: “Mystic Winds [From the East]”; Hear here) |
(Raindust) |
| Edge of Paradise | “Alive” (five-song EP; producer: Chuck Johnson; See here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ILS / Universal) |
| Fink | “Fink’s Sunday Night Blues Club, Volume 1” (producers: Fink, Flood; first single: “Boneyard”; See here; iTunes) |
(R’COUP’D) |
| Joanna Forest (British classical crossover soprano) | “Stars Are Rising” (recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Arts Symphonic Orchestra; Hear here) | (Arts) |
| Tow’rs (Arizona folk duo) | “Grey Fidelity” (Hear here) |
(Tow’rs) |
| The Variety Hour (Tacoma alt-rock band) | “Motivacancy” (six-song EP; Hear here) | (Swoon) |
More Digital Releases for March 10 »
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Adventures | “The Sea of Love: Expanded Edition” (1988 album; remastered, with eight bonus tracks; Read here) |
(Cherry Red) |
| Marc Almond / Soft Cell | “Hits and Pieces – The Best of Marc Almond and Soft Cell” (two-CD collection to celebrate Almond’s 60th birthday on July 9; MP3; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Mercury / UMe) |
| Neko Case | “Live From Austin, TX” (one-CD, one-DVD set captures her “Austin City Limits” performance on Aug. 9, 2003; Merch) |
(New West) |
| David Cassidy | “Home Is Where the Heart Is … / Gettin’ It in the Street” (1976 albums on one CD; remastered) |
(Glam / 7T’s) |
| Norman Connors | “Valentine Love: The Buddha/Arista Anthology” (two CDs, 34 songs, including “You Are My Starship”; Hear here; Read here) |
(U.K. – SoulMusic) |
| Bob Dylan | “The Legendary Broadcasts 1960-1964” (Merch) |
(BDA) |
| Steve Earle | “Live From Austin, TX” (one-CD, one-DVD set captures his “Austin City Limits” performance from 1986; Merch) |
(New West) |
| Eddie Davis | “The Prestige Collection 1958-1961” (four CDs) |
(Enlightenment) |
| Jerry Garcia Band | “GarciaLive Volume Eight: November 23rd, 1991 Bradley Center” (two CDs; Merch) |
(ATO) |
| Johnny Griffin | “The Riverside Collection 1958-1962” (eight remastered albums on four CDs) |
(Enlightenment) |
| Gregory Isaacs | “The Best of Gregory Isaacs” (two CDs, 40 songs) |
(Trojan) |
| Judge Dread | “The Best of Judge Dread” (two CDs, 40 songs) |
(Trojan) |
| Vera Lynn | “Her Greatest From Abbey Road” (includes “We’ll Meet Again,” “The White Cliffs of Dover” and a tribute to Sir Tim Rice) |
(U.K. – PLG Catalog) |
| The Skatalites | “The Best of the Skatalites” (two CDs, 40 songs) |
(Trojan) |
| Elliott Smith | “Either/Or: Expanded Edition” (1997 album; remastered, with a second CD containing five live multitrack recordings from the Yo Yo A Go Go Festival in Olympia, Wash., in 1997, plus three previously unreleased studio recordings and one B-side, “I Figured You Out”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3; iTunes; Merch) |
(Kill Rock Stars) |
| Soundgarden | “Ultramega OK (Deluxe Edition)” (1988 album; remastered, with six bonus tracks; MP3; On Tour; Merch) |
(Sub Pop) |
| Bruce Springsteen | “Sweden Broadcast 1988” (Merch) |
(Hobo) |
| Various artists | “Soul of the ’60s” (nine-CD, 151-song box set; Track list) | (Time Life) |
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Terence Blanchard | “Terence Blanchard” (1991 album), “Romantic Defiance” (1995 album; On Tour) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Brotherhood (power-rock band led by former Paul Revere & The Raiders member Phil “Fang” Volk) | “Brotherhood” (1968 album), “Brotherhood Brotherhood” (1969 album; Hear here) |
(RCA / Legacy) |
| Brownsville (aka Brownsville Station) | “Air Special” (1978 album) |
(Epic / Legacy) |
| Ray Conniff | “Rhapsody in Rhythm” (1962 album), “Ray Conniff’s Concert In Stereo: Live At The Sahara / Tahoe” (1970 album) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Charlie Daniels Band | “Volunteer Jam VI” (1980 album) |
(Columbia Nashville / Legacy) |
| Dennis Day | “Irish Favorites” (1997 compilation) |
(RCA / Legacy) |
| Les Dudek | “Les Dudek” (1976 album) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Percy Faith | “My Love” (1973 album) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Smile Empty Soul | “Rarities” (Merch) |
(MRAfia) |
More Digital Releases for March 10 »
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Eric Clapton | “Live in San Diego With Special Guest JJ Cale [DVD]” (filmed on March 15, 2007; Blu-ray; On Tour; Merch) |
(Reprise) |
Next Week: March 17, 2017
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