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| Real Gone Music To Roll Out Unreleased Glen Campbell Live Album Real Gone Music, the new indie label headed by reissue gurus Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana will roll out a never-before-released Glen Campbell live album, Bill Medley's post-Righteous Brothers solo albums for MGM, a 1975 album by Maggie & Terre Roche of the Roches, a retrospective of country singer Jody Miller's Epic Records years and two new Dick's Picks volumes from the Grateful Dead for their January 2012 lineup of reissues. According to a press release, the January releases will also feature, as part of the label's ongoing partnership with ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., The Tymes' So Much in Love and the complete Cameo recordings of stratospheric jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. The multi-talented Glen Campbell, who has enjoyed a half century as a singer, guitarist and television personality, is the recent recipient of much warm sentiment as he embarked on his final tour supporting his final album. Campbell's 1975 Live in Japan was originally issued only in Japan, but the album will receive its worldwide release on January 24, 2012. In Live in Japan, Glen is at the peak of his powers, pulling favorites from his vaunted songbook while displaying his usual tasteful choice of covers (Paul Anka's "My Way" and Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe"). The album was released in a beautiful gatefold package that Real Gone has faithfully reproduced along with other graphic elements. It's a timely tribute to one of the great American music entertainers. Also on January 24, Real Gone are releasing reissues from Bill Medley and Maggie & Terre Roche and a Jody Miller compilation. Bill Medley recorded two late '60s albums for MGM Records — Bill Medley 100% and Soft & Soulful — after his split from fellow Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield. Fans of the Righteous Brothers' blue-eyed soul will find plenty to get into as the two reissued albums feature their signature combination of pop and R&B with the studio chops you'd expect from an artist who learned from Phil Spector. Seductive Reasoning, the 1975 Columbia Records album by sisters Maggie and Terre Roche of the Roches, features the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section with Paul Simon contributing production and some background vocals as well. This 36-year-old hybrid of country, folk and pop sounds like it could have been made this year, with its post-feminist attitudes toward love and sex and stream-of-consciousness urban streetscapes, all leavened by a sweet vulnerability. Maggie Roche contributed notes and photos from her private archive to be coupled with the release. With The Complete Epic Hits, Real Gone shines a long-overdue light on pioneering country-pop crossover artist Jody Miller, who answered Roger Miller's "King of the Road" with her 1965 "Queen of the House." After a move to Epic Records from Capitol, she had a stretch with plenty charting hits throughout the '70s with the help of countrypolitan production guru Billy Sherrill. All 25 of those hits are featured on this 69-minute collection, including Top 10 hits "He's So Fine, " "There's a Party Goin' On, " "Darlin' You Can Always Come Back Home" and "Good News." The Grateful Dead's Dick's Picks series, curated by the band's fabled archivist Dick Latvala, continues to chronicle the band's long strange trip with Dick's Picks Vol. 33 — Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA 10/9 & 10/10/76 and Dick's Picks Vol. 32 — Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI 8/7/82 — both due out January 24, 2012. The former finds the Dead back on the road following an 18-month touring hiatus and back to full two-drummer strength opening for the Who as part of Bill Graham's historic Day on the Green concerts. The latter finds them at Alpine Valley performing bluesman Jesse Fuller's "Beat It On Down the Line" and the Memphis Jug Band's "On the Road Again, " both part of the pre-Dead repertoire of the Warlocks in the mid-'60s. These are two of the most sought-after volumes in the series. Finally, the Real Gone/ABKCO releases feature two famous artists from the hallowed Cameo-Parkway label vaults. The first, The Tymes, were among the label's big stars, notching such hits as "So Much in Love" and "Wonderful! Wonderful!." Both of these are part of Real Gone/ABKCO's first-time-on-CD release of the group's first album. Also included is "Roscoe James McLain, " the rare non-LP B-side of the "So Much in Love" single as well as "Surf City" from the multi-artist Parkway album Everybody's Goin' Surfin'. The second, Maynard Ferguson, needs little introduction as he was one of the most celebrated trumpeters in jazz. This release, sourced from a series of jazz albums that Cameo released in 1963 and 1964, is comprised of Ferguson's two 1963 albums for the label. The first, New Sounds of Maynard Ferguson now also includes "The Song Is You, " a never-before-released gem from the session that was discovered while researching tapes for this album. The track makes its debut on this release. Come Blow Your Horn was Ferguson's second album for Cameo; both albums represent his complete recordings for the label, documenting a long-overlooked chapter in Ferguson's career that came between better-known stints with Roulette and Mainstream. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Jazz News :: home page |