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Lady Blackbird didn't mean to soundtrack a revolution. But last spring, that's exactly what she did. On May 27, 2020 Los Angeles-based singer Marley Munroe released her debut single. Now, "the Grace Jones of Jazz, " as dubbed by BBC's Gilles Peterson, presents her debut album, Black Acid Soul. Minimal yet rich, classic yet timely, the album connects backwards to Miles Davis (his pianist, Deron Johnson, plays Steinway Baby Grand, Mellotron and Casio Synth throughout) and forwards to Pete Tong (he made the Bruise mix of 'Collage' his Number Two Essential Selection tune of 2020) and, yes, Victoria Beckham - Matthew Herbert's remix of second single "Beware The Stranger" soundtracked the designer's Spring/Summer 2020 Fashion show. It's 11 tracks have a sound, feeling and attitude that speak of Lady Blackbird's deep experiences in music, stretching all the way back to infancy. This is Black Acid Soul, and this is the first crucial album of 2021. Are you ready to fly with Lady Blackbird?

Tracks

1. Blackbird
2. It's Not That Easy
3. Fix It
4. Ruler Of My Heart
5. Nobody's Sweetheart
6. Collage
7. Five Feet Tall
8. Lost And Looking
9. It'll Never Happen Again
10. Beware the Stranger
11. Black Acid Soul

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany

Blue Note Records has announced the continuation of the Classic Vinyl Reissue Series which presents 180g vinyl LP reissues in standard packaging mastered by Kevin Gray and manufactured at Optimal. The pressings are all-analog whenever an analog source is available, with Gray mastering directly from the original master tapes.

When Lee Morgan recorded his album Caramba, he was only months away from his 30th birthday, making the fact that this was his twenty-third Blue Note recording even more astounding. A full-fledged master, his technical prowess on the horn matched by the emotional depth of his playing, and a composer who could conjure different moods and styles with his writing.

Tracks

1. Caramba
2. Suicide City
3. Cunning Lee
4. Soulita
5. Helen's Ritual

Music on Vinyl press. 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Includes insert. Featuring the number 1 hit "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" duet with George Michael, produced by Narada Michael Walden. Sleeve artwork by Andy Warhol. Black vinyl. The 1986 self-titled Aretha Franklin album was a successful one, notable for containing five R&B hits, including the number 1 hit "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" and "If You Need My Love Tonight". Aretha herself says on the liner notes that this is one of her favorite albums, and it's easy to see why.

Tracks

• 1 Jimmy Lee
• 2 I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) Duet with George Michael
• 3 Do You Still Remember
• 4 Jumpin' Jack Flash
• 5 Rock-A-Lott
• 6 An Angel Cries
• 7 He'll Come Along
• 8 If You Need My Love Tonight Duet with Larry Graham
• 9 Look to the Rainbow

Ten Bands One Cause Pink Colored Vinyl Reissue!

Ten bands re-issue their albums on pink colored vinyl, all for one cause. This is the eighth year for the initiative that has raised over $250,000 for Red Door Community, an organization that provides community support for both those diagnosed with cancer and their caretakers. 2021's set includes releases by The Hold Steady, Grandaddy, The Allman Brothers, Bush, Plain White T's, Less Than Jake, Primal Scream, Umphreys' McGee, Minus The Bear and Tom Tom Club.

2015's American Nights marked Plain White T's' first independent album since 2001. American Nights focuses on everything fans have come to expect from the Plain White T's - summery anthems, heart-on-the-sleeve lyrics, acoustic love songs - while still breaking new ground. It's an album about freedom. An album about looking back while still moving forward. It's also the most collaborative thing the guys have ever done, with three of the band members contributing their own songs to the track list. Tom Higgenson wrote six. Guitarist Tim Lopez wrote four. And guitarist Dave Tirio wrote one.

Tracks

1. American Nights
2. Pause
3. Never Working
4. Heavy Rotation
5. Stay
6. You Belong
7. Dance Off-Time
8. Someday You're Gonna Love Me
9. Love Again
10. Time To Move On
11. Here Come That Sunrise

Released on the legendary Dutch jazz label Timeless Records, Chippin' In features ten sublime tracks recorded at Rudy van Gelder's Recording Studio in February 1990. Although Art Blakey passed away just eight months after these tracks were cut you certainly can't tell by the performances. For these specific recordings, The Jazz Messengers were expanded from its usual quintet or sextet into a septet and they showcase their energetic signature sound with remarkable style, musical knowledge, a dash of good humor and camaraderie you'd expect from a world-class outfit. The line-up on these fantastic sessions includes non-other than Essiet Okon, Geoff Keezer, Dale Barlow, Javon Jackson, Frank Lacy, Steve Davis and Brian Lynch...impressive to say the least!

Tidal Waves Music proudly presents the first ever vinyl release of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers' Chippin' In on deluxe colored 180g vinyl 2LP with an obi strip. The jacket features exclusive session pics shot by legendary Dutch photographer Joost Leijen (known for his work with artists such as Chet Baker and Pharoah Sanders), plus an insert with liner notes by renowned author and producer Russ Musto. Chippin' In sounds as vibrant as ever here! Expect supercharged hard bop with striking notes, no-holds-barred musicianship, high swinging solos, screaming choruses and plenty of solid virtuosity to spare. This electrifying set of tracks contains both originals and several eclectic versions of standards...making this release a bonafide hit and a must-have for any self-respecting jazz fan or collector.

Musicians:
Art Blakey, drums
Essiet Okon, bass
Geoff Keezer, piano
Dale Barlow / Javon Jackson, tenor saxophone
Frank Lacy / Steve Davis, trombone
Brian Lynch, trumpet

Features:
• Deluxe colored 180g vinyl 2LP
• First time on the format
• Includes obi strip
• Exclusive session pics shot by Dutch photographer Joost Leijen
• Insert with liner notes by renowned author and producer Russ Musto

1. Brain Stormin'
2. Byrdflight
3. Hammerhead
4. Aquarius Rising
5. Kay Pea
6. Chippin' In
7. Raincheck
8. Chandek's Den
9. Kenji's Walk
10. Love Walked In

Split in two volumes, here is the sum of James Brown's early five-year period 1956-1960, when JB (and his Famous Flames) was obsessively searching for his own sound. Selected from a bunch of 19 two-sided singles, and including super hits such as "Please, Please, Please", "Try Me", and "I'll Go Crazy", this collection represents James Brown's fundamental groundwork for the coming soul music revolution.

1	Please, Please, Please
2	Why Do You Do Me
3	I Don’t Know
4	I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
5	No, No, No, No
6	Hold My Baby’s Hand
7	Chonnie-On-Chon
8	I Won’t Plead No More
9	Just Won’t Do Right
10	Let’s Make It
11	Gonna Try
12	Can’t Be The Same
13	Messing With The Blues
14	Love Or A Game
15	You’re Mine, You’re Mine
16	I Walked Alone

Drive-By Truckers released The Unraveling in January 2020 and set out for what was supposed to be a full year of touring. Needless to say it did not go as planned. The New OK is a phrase Patterson Hood found himself saying a lot these past few months. This new album, made up of songs left over from The Unraveling sessions and new ones written and recorded since, hopefully balances out the darkness of our current situation with a hope for better days and nights ahead.

1. The New OK
2. Tough To Let Go
3. The Unraveling
4. The Perilous Night
5. Sarah's Flame
6. Sea Island Lonely
7. The Distance
8. Watching The Orange Clouds
9. The KKK Took My Baby Away

It probably doesn't come as much of a surprise that the good-natured Ringo Starr was the first Beatle to produce an official Christmas album. Ringing in the new millennium with I Wanna Be Santa Claus, the spirited 12-track collection is wonderfully rooted in Starr's famous sense of humor and his former group's signature sound. Available on vinyl for the first time, hear Ringo's charming takes on evergreens like "Winter Wonderland," "The Little Drummer Boy," "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "White Christmas"; compelling originals "Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On" and "I Wanna Be Santa Claus"; and of course the album stealing version of The Beatles' "Christmas Time Is Here Again."

1. Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On
2. Winter Wonderland
3. I Wanna Be Santa Claus
4. The Little Drummer Boy
5. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
6. Christmas Eve
7. The Christmas Dance
8. Christmas Time Is Here Again
9. Blue Christmas
10. Dear Santa
11. White Christmas
12. Peace Be With You

2LP 180g black vinyl. Experience the raw power of Ministry's "The Land of Rape and Honey (Deluxe Edition)." This definitive collection includes iconic tracks like "Stigmata" and the haunting title track, plus exclusive remixes and extended cuts. Dive into the intense energy and industrial ferocity of this genre-defining album.

Janelle Monáe's The Electric Lady album is pressed on a two clear LPs and is a one-time pressing. This vinyl is a part of Atlantic Records' 75th Anniversary vinyl collection.

Track List

1. Suite IV Electric Overture
2. Givin' Em What They Love (Feat. Prince)
3. Q.U.E.E.N (Feat. Erykah Badu)
4. Electric Lady (Feat. Solange)
5. Good Morning Midnight - Interlude
6. Primetime (Feat. Miguel)
7. We Were Rock and Roll
8. The Chrome Shoppe - Interlude
9. Dance Apocalyptic
10. Look Into My Eyes
11. Suite V Electric Overture
12. It's Code
13. Ghetto Woman
14. Our Favorite Fugitive - Interlude
15. Victory
16. Can't Live Without Your Love
17. Sally Ride
18. Dorothy Dandridge Eyes (Feat. Esperanza Spalding)
19. What An Experience

The Very Best of Talk Talk is the most comprehensive retrospective assembled on the synth group to date, following the band from its new wave origins to its latter-day atmospheric new age recordings. Although the compilation features nothing from 1991's Laughing Stock and all of the songs from 1988's Spirit of Eden are presented in edited versions, the disc remains a good overview of the band's evolution and features all of their big hits, including "Talk Talk" and "Today." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The American rock band Cracker origins from Bakersfield, California and was formed in 1990 by lead singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman, who both came from the band Camper Van Beethoven. For their fourth album Gentleman's Blues, which was released in 1998, they fall back to a 70's sound, mixing up blues and rock. Tracks from the album are "The World Is Mine", The Good Life", "Star" and "Hallellujah". The track "Cinderella" features vocals by LP, also known as Laura Pergolizzi the American singer, musician and songwriter. Gentleman's Blues is available on vinyl for the first time and includes a 4page booklet with lyrics.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 The Good Life
• 2 Seven Days
• 3 Star
• 4 James River
• 5 My Life Is Totally Boring Without You
• 6 Been Around the World
• 7 The World Is Mine
• 8 Lullabye
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Waiting for You Girl
• 2 Trials & Tribulations
• 3 Wild One
• 4 Hold of Myself
• 5 Gentleman's Blues
• 6 I Want Out of the Circus
• 7 Wedding Day
• 8 Hallelujah
• 9 Cinderella

Childish Gambino - Atavista - Vinyl 2 LP

For years, Childish Gambino’s Atavista hid in plain sight. When he released an unfinished version of the record on March 15, 2020, it spent just 12 hours on his website before he pulled it down. Reappearing on streaming a week later as 3.15.20, the project brought up almost as many questions as sparkling neo-soul anthems, which still sounded slicker than the average as raw cuts titled after timestamps.

Atavista is an ode to impermanence, never more directly than over the glimmering guitar of “Time” with Grande. (“One thing’s for certain, baby/We’re running out of time,” they harmonize on the chorus.) But in Gambino’s capable hands, Atavista also slows down to enjoy the view, the sonic equivalent of a luxe leather-interior BMW cruising an open California highway. “I did what I wanted to,” he revels on closing track “Final Church.” Atavista took many shapes over the years to reach a final form. In each warm refrain, tight sequence, and carefully chosen collaborator, Gambino demonstrates why some things are worth waiting for.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Atavista
• 2 Algorythm
• 3 Time Feat. Ariana Grande
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Psilocybae (Millennial Love) Feat. 21 Savage, Ink & Kadhja Bonet
• 2 To Be Hunted
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Sweet Thang Feat. Summer Walker
• 2 Little Foot Big Foot Feat. Young Nudy
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Why Go to the Party
• 2 Human Sacrifice
• 3 The Violence
• 4 Final Church

About the album
“Webster explores themes of different relationships through her
broody tunes, tackling the notion of writing only sad songs by writing
her “saddest song” yet. In a way, the record feels like a comingof-
age for the singer-songwriter into her own perfectly curated
moment, which surely will lead to bigger and better things.” (NYLON)
“Faye Webster is filled with lush bluegrass sounds, featuring plenty
of slide guitar and the occasional trill of a fiddle, which Webster’s
fragile voice flits through like that of a younger Natalie Prass.” (W
Magazine)
“…a soulful offering heavily inspired by the country and western
music she grew up listening to.” (Pitchfork)
“Her self-titled record will win fans across the musical spectrum for
its left-of-center approach to folk. Webster is a lifelong student of
country-western songwriting and Americana sound (her mom plays
fiddle; her grandfather is a bluegrass guitarist). But she punctuates
her own tunes with subtle flourishes of funk. Her voice hits a sweet
spot somewhere between bluegrass powerhouse Alison Krauss,
Natalie Prass, and Tennis’s Alaina Moore, whose light vocals glide
across any melody.” (VICE)

Luke Bryan - Mind Of A Country Boy - Vinyl 2 LP

Five-time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan is releasing a brand-new album, Mind of a Country Boy, featuring 14 tracks including his latest single, “Love you, Miss you, Mean It.” “This song was special from the first time I heard it,” said Luke. “I knew it would resonate. It’s about young love and that whole process of trying to make relationships work through the on-again and off-again cycles. My wife and I went through that journey during college, and I know a lot of people out there have too.” During his career Luke has performed for more than 14 million fans inclusive of his numerous headline tours, “Crash My Playa,” “Luke Bryan: VEGAS” and “Farm Tour.”

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Mind of a Country Boy
• 2 Love You, Miss You, Mean It
• 3 Country Song Came on
• 4 Pair of Boots
• 5 But I Got a Beer in My Hand
• 6 Kansas
• 7 Country on
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Fish on the Wall
• 2 She's Still Got It
• 3 Closing Time in California
• 4 For the Kids
• 5 Southern and Slow
• 6 I'm on a Tractor
• 7 Jesus 'Bout My Kids

Double colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. This 30th Anniversary edition of Above The Rim (The Soundtrack) will be the first vinyl release ever with the complete 21 song tracklisting. All previous vinyl releases were 18 tracks. Contains the songs "Pain", "Mi Monie Rite!" and "Loyal To The Game".

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Side A - Anything - SWV
• 2 Old Time's Sake-Sweet Sable
• 3 Part Time Lover - H-Town
• 4 Big Pimpin' - the Dogg Pound Gangstas
• 5 Didn't Mean to Turn You on - 2nd II None
• 6 Side B - Doggie Style - D.J. Rogers
• 7 Regulate - Nate Dogg & Warren G
• 8 Pour Out a Little Liquor - Thug Life
• 9 Gonna Give It to Ya - Jewell & Aaron Hall
• 10 Afro Puffs - the Lady of Rage
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Side C - Jus So Ya No - Cpo-Boss Hogg
• 2 Hoochies Need Love Too - Paradise
• 3 I'm Still in Love with You - Al B. Sure!
• 4 Crack 'Em - O.F.T.B
• 5 U Bring Da Dog Out - Rhythm & Knowledge
• 6 Blowed Away - B-Rezell
• 7 Side D - It's Not Deep Enough - Jewell
• 8 Dogg Pound 4 Life - Tha Dogg Pound
• 9 Pain - 2Pac & Stretch
• 10 Mi Monie Rite! - Lord G
• 11 Loyal to the Game - 2Pac, Treach & Riddler

30th Anniversary Edition of Stevie Nicks' fifth studio album, pressed on transparent red vinyl. Originally released in 1994, the album peaked at #45 in the US, and #16 in the UK. The Gold-certified album features the singles "Blue Denim", "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind," & "Street Angel" featuring David Crosby.

1981's October saw U2 rising not only to the usual challenges of proving that you're more than a one-album wonder, but to the specific pressure of creating new work as the clock ticked ever louder. Where Boy had only brushed against a mainstream audience in the UK, peaking at No. 52, October reached No. 11. "Fire" was the opening shot, and it made some noise. The song was their first hit single at home, reaching the Top 5 in Ireland, and gave U2 their first UK Top 40 entry. Next came "Gloria," the second single and the opening track. The song's Latin chorus foretold an LP with strong religious themes, but also with a developing sense of the band's songwriting maturity and instrumental dexterity. The innate percussive tension of "I Threw A Brick Through A Window" and urgency of "Rejoice" were offset by the measured, near-instrumental "Scarlet" and the affecting piano balladry of "October" itself.

1. Gloria
2. I Fall Down
3. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
4. Rejoice
5. Fire
6. Tomorrow
7. October
8. With A Shout
9. Stranger In A Strange Land
10. Scarlet
11. Is That All?

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Metal Health is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. It's one of the early metal albums that reached worldwide success.

R.E.M. -"Around The Sun" - Around The Sun is R.E.M.'s 13th studio album, released in 2004. The album hit #1 on the UK albums chart and #13 on the Billboard 200. Includes the singles "Leaving New York," "Aftermath," "Electron Blue," and "Wanderlust." Also features "The Outsiders" with guest vocals from Q-Tip. This 2-LP set is pressed on 180-gram vinyl and comes housed in a gatefold package with printed inner sleeves.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Leaving New York
• 2 Electron Blue
• 3 The Outsiders
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Make It All Okay
• 2 Final Straw
• 3 I Wanted to Be Wrong
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Wanderlust
• 2 Boy in the Well
• 3 Aftermath
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 High Speed Train
• 2 The Worst Joke Ever
• 3 The Ascent of Man
• 4 Around the Sun

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Blue Note Tone Poet Series release. The All Seeing Eye is Wayne Shorter's brilliant and multi-layered album for Blue Note. His goal was to use "a wider range of colors and textures" while continuing his explorations of "life and the universe and God." Joining Shorter are Freddie Hubbard, Grachan Moncur III, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers, and Wayne's brother Alan Shorter on flugelhorn.