Position and Insinuation.  (less)

Includes three bonus tracks, 'Cotton Fields', 'You Can Tell the World', & 'Old Dog Blue'. A 'Collectors' Choice Music' release!  (less)

Francisco Bay (Version 2); Bay of Mexico; Someday Baby; Ja-Da; Stackolee; Two Hoboes', and a studio version of 'One Quick Martini'. Plus, the unreleased 'It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad' and 'San Francisco Bay (Version 1)', the unreleased (except for on a long out-of-print compilation) 'Mary Wore Three Links of Chain; I May Be Right', and 'Greenland Whale Fisheries', and the single 'Rag Mama.'  (less)

my perceptions." The Delaware native serves up 12 songs, which he either wrote or co-wrote, based on his observations of life in Los Angeles. Like F. Scott Fitzgerald, who chronicled the golden era of Hollywood's Jazz Age in the 1920's, Islam spins engaging yarns about the denizens of La La Land: the upstarts, the scions of the celebrated, the fallen stars, and, on a more personal note, the quest for love in a transient culture with a diminished attention span. Once again working with Edward Tree ("a producer's best friend"), Islam has recorded in analog to capture a warm, organic sound for his hybrid of country, rock, and folk. For the sessions, Islam & Tree assembled veritable legends, who, between them, have recorded and/or to...  (less)

were the lowest he'd ever experienced in his entire career. By the early '90s, he was without a label for the first time in four decades. Longtime fan, label owner and producer Rick Rubin stepped in, asked Johnny to return to his roots and together, they re-created the legend of the Man In Black. Features Cash performing his own compositions as well as songs from Loudon Wainwright, Leonard Cohen, Nick Lowe, Tom Waits and Glenn Danzig. American Recordings earned Johnny a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. A stunning return to form. Warner.  (less)

of ethnographic material in the world. It includes more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of motion picture film, hundreds of photographic prints and negatives, over 120 linear feet of correspondence, field notes, research files, and much more. While recording for the Library of Congress in the 1930s, Lomax made trips to Haiti and the Bahamas. The recordings made in Haiti in 1936 37 provide a window on Haitian expressive culture recorded soon after the departure of the American Marines, while Haiti was in the throes of a nationalist and africentric movement. This groundbreaking production of the story, the sounds, and the sights of the legendary musicologist s trip to Haiti features 10 CDs, two books containing extensive notes and Lomax s journal, a replica...  (less)

but with better sound than the three disc box set, Jefferson Airplane Loves You , this 32 track compilation covers the band’s seven albums and two live offerings, giving nearly equal time to all. Not held in as high esteem as their Bay Area compatriots the Grateful Dead, the Airplane successfully combined Marty Balin’s expressive voice on such lovely folk-tinged love songs as "Comin' Back to Me," the apocalyptic visions of "Wooden Ships" (co-written by the Airplane’s Paul Kantner with David Crosby and Stephen Stills), the edgy, psychedelia of "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" and the politically charged rallying cry of "Volunteers." Singer Grace Slick provided a photogenic focal point and dynamic int...  (less)

charts smash with the title track "All I Need" For some odd reason, the album was never officially released on compact disc in North America, and to the dismay of his huge fan base, the album itself has been out of print for over a decade. That is until now! The nice folks at Friday Music are finally issuing the fine "All I Need" album for the first time ever on compact disc in the good old U.S.A. This time around, you get a wonderful remastering by the award winning Joe Reagoso, as well as incredible new liner notes from the superstar producer/ songwriter and original co-producer of this album Glen Ballard ( Alanis Morissette, Chicago, Aerosmith) This album is filled with 10 incredible performances from Jack including the #1 title track, the fol...  (less)

for Glory)—immediate notice of a major new songwriting talent on the scene. When we were surveying the Elektra catalog to determine which albums to reissue, we were surprised, nay, astonished to discover that the first two albums by Phil Ochs had fallen out of print! These are only two of the most important albums of the early-to-mid-’60s folk music explosion, sporting some of the most barbed topical songs of the decade, and they are reissued here with new notes and mastering. A pair of indispensable exclusives!  (less)

stark contrast to the orderly mysticism conveyed on the front of her previous release, DAYS OF OPEN HAND. Producer MitchellFroom surrounds her strong songs with surprises in instrumentation, arrangement, and mix. The set opens smartly with a couple of selections that stand in stark contrast to the more traditional folk bearing of her previous output. By the third song, "In Liverpool", things break open to reveal a lushand popish heart. The title song is a dazzling groove of fuzzy and staccato guitar chords cast over layered percussion and her lilting vocal. An array of superb players, includingdrummer Jerry Marotta, guitarists David Hidalgo and RichardThompson, and bass player Bruce Thomas accompany her. While it represented a bit of an unexp...  (less)

Appleseed label for a delightfully buoyant and positive new CD aimed at teaching kids some of life's basic lessons in 18 exuberant, non-preachy songs. The joyful sound of six magically interwoven voices and upbeat advice - utilizing folk, gospel, jazz, blues and even rap styles - will appeal to children and parents alike. The CD's colorful packaging - an eyecatching digipack and a 16-page booklet in the style of a school composition notebook - contributes to the theme of learning through music. Children from the ages of 9 to 12 pose questions about the mysteries of the adult world in print, and the members of Sweet Honey (six vocalists at the time of this recording, now five, not counting their onstage ...  (less)

JOAN BAEZ, the duo was poised for greatness. Then, suddenly and sadly, Dave Carter died of a heart attack in July 2002 while the duo was on tour in Massachusetts. He was 49. With SEVEN IS THE NUMBER, Tracy Grammer fulfills her promise to bring the last Dave & Tracy project to fruition. Begun in the duo's home studio during the winter of 2001-2002, SEVEN is essentially a re-recording of songs from Carter's out-of-print solo album which had been released prior to his collaboration with Grammer. SEVEN was unfinished at the time of Carter's death; Grammer and engineer Mark Frethem finished the tracking, mixing and mastering in May 2006. SEVEN IS THE NUMBER brings together dustbowl drifters, evangelists and prisoners, politicians...  (less)

for years, this one's regarded as an absolute classic of the 'progressive bluegrass' genre, featuring Peter's signature tune 'Midnight-Moonlight' as well as such tasty folk and country-rockin' numbers as 'Take It As It Comes; Me Loving You; Old Silver; Thunder on the Mountain; Beggar in Blue Jeans; Do Right; Man-Woman; Pieces on the Ground' and 'Here Today-Gone Tomorrow'. New notes are added to the original artwort. Collectors' Choice Music.  (less)

he has found his own bold and compelling songwriting voice. After being screwed around by major labels for the better part of the 1990s, Nelson finally emerged in 1998 with the provocative Last Hurrah , a record that is edgy and brassy yet oddly soothing. His musical settings range from Stones-like jangle and swagger to warm acoustic strumming, but they are merely springboards for his world-weary lyrics. In the end, what comes across is a man who's been beaten down (by the world and by his own behavior) yet finds beauty in the cycle of it all. Nelson is part quick-witted poet, part depraved miscreant--in short, just your typical Austin musician. --Marc Greilsamer  (less)

The group's indoor/outdoor audio assaults in upper and lower Manhattan are the stuff of legend, but on Live at Ken's Electric Lake the band took a distinct turn, crossed the Canadian border, and made a sudden diaspora to a rural retreat in the country for a full day's session of acid-head tribal percussion clatter that is utterly different than anything they had put on the public record up to that time. Looser, groovier, and more in the communal hippie state of mind than ever, NNCK's long out-of-print fifth release from 1998 ranks among the finest displays of tribal churn and choogle in the band's thirteenyear history. Neo-dada attacks were swapped for psychedelic good vibrations, and midrange mystery for outdoor atmospherics. This is a peak communal groov...  (less)