Tag: 2022
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Ella Fitzgerald, Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook, 2022 on Verve
Recorded in August 1958, but not released until 2022, this concert followed the release of the Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook LP. The concert was conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, who had played the same role in the LP. There’s an animated video for Puttin’ on the Ritz, one of the songs…
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Magnolia Record Club Presents Spotify Singles Vol. 2, 2022
Second volume in the series – see Magnolia Record Club Presents Spotify Singles for the first volume. Manufactured and distributed by Dualtone, but labelled only as Magnolia Record Club. This one includes: It’s a great collection – mostly from the Spotify studios. Likely digitally recorded though they don’t say, but sounds great.
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Dawes, Misadventures of Doomscroller, 2022 on Rounder
I’m a huge fan of Dawes going back to Nothing is Wrong in 2011 and look forward to everything they put out. (They’re also playing the Cabot Theater in December). There’s more long-form instrumental work here – two tracks clocking in at 9 minutes plus. Those longer, proggier songs may be to distract you from…
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Erika Lewis, A Walk Around The Sun, 2022 self-released
I knew Erika Lewis from Tuba Skinny, of which I’m a huge fan, so I picked up this solo album when I heard it had been released. It was produced by John James Tourville of The Deslondes. It’s a different register than the Tuba Skinny repertoire – more in a roots / americana / even…
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Stella Donnelly, Flood, 2022 on Secretly Canadian
Nothing to do, so far as I can tell, with the They Might Be Giants album of the same name. Donnelly is Australian in the vein of Courtney Barnett and cites Barnett and Billy Bragg as influences. This was her second solo album and was written at least partly during the pandemic. Co-produced by Donnelly…
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Various Artists, Magnolia Record Club Presents NPR Tiny Desk Concerts, 2022 on Dualtone
Sadly, heard last week Bob Boilen is retiring from NPR Music. This record collects some strong performances from the Tiny Desk concert series – but really there are so many gems in the series it is just a bit of a taste: Selections make sense for Magnolia Record Club and fit generally their curation (it…
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The Replacements, Unsuitable for Airplay: The Lost KFAI Concert, 2022 on Twin/Tone.
Recorded live at the 7th St Entry on January 23rd, 1981 and released on vinyl as part of Record Store Day in April of 2022, this was also included (on CD) as part of the Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash box set. Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars, Bob Stinson and Tommy Stinson in…
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Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, 1966 on Columbia
Dylan’s catalog is so extensive and so amazing it’s hard to keep track. Most of it just feels like it’s always just been there – part of the atmosphere. Blonde on Blonde came out in 1966, which feels impossibly early, even given Dylan started releasing albums in 1962. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (aka…
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Nancy Sinatra, Boots, 1966 on Reprise.
Sinatra’s debut full-length on Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label, produced by Lee Hazlewood and arranged & conducted by Billy Strange. My copy is one of the Light in the Attic reissues – volume 2 in the Nancy Sinatra Archival Series – via Amazon, which adds an Amazon Music wrapper to the release. Very fond of the…
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Angel Olsen, Big Time, 2022 on Jagjaguwar.
I’ve long been a fan of Angel Olsen, going back to Burn Your Fire For No Witness in 2014. This release was a Secretly Society selection in June of 2022. Jonathan Wilson (who has also produced albums by Dawes, Mia Doi Todd , Bonnie Prince Billy, Billy Strings, and Father John Misty) produced, alongside Olsen.
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Johnnie Taylor, Wanted: One Soul Singer, 1967 on Stax
Taylor replaced Sam Cooke in The Soul Stirrers before becoming a solo artist, and went on to have a big it in the mid-seventies with “Disco Lady” (1976). This album is recorded with the Stax house band, including Booker T & The MGs, and features five songs written by Isaac Hayes & David Porter as…
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Tears for Fears, The Tipping Point, 2022 on Concord
I was such a huge fan of The Hurting, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith’s 1983 debut album – I think it was the first CD I ever had (and it was recorded at such low volume I had to crank the CD player to hear it). After Seeds of Love, Orzabal and Smith split, and…
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Courtney Marie Andrews, Loose Future, 2022 on Fat Possum.
Andrews’ latest, produced by and recorded with Sam Griffin Owens, joined by Chris Bear, Jared Samuels and others. My copy is a Vinyl Me Please edition on orange vinyl. I love her unique voice and her songwriting – been a fan since Honest Life, though I know there are many earlier LPs to pick up.
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Clem Snide, The Ghost of Fashion, 2001 on Cooking Vinyl
Originally released (on CD) by SpinART in the US and Cooking Vinyl in Europe, then released in 2011 on vinyl by Microfiche Records. My copy is a 2022 deluxe reissue on Dot Matrix that I got via Vinyl Me Please. (I think the color vinyl is exclusive to VMP, but the pressing is also available…
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Dawes, All Your Favorite Bands, 2015 on HUB Records
I’m a huge Dawes fan and this is classic Dawes. My copy is a 2022 reissue on 180g green vinyl via Rounder Records – a limited edition of 500. They’re joined by David Rawlings (guitar on “Somewhere Along the Way,” backing vocals on “I Can’t Think About it Now” and Gillian Welch (backing vocals on…
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Toro y Moi, Mahal, 2022 on Dead Oceans
Via Secretly Society, a red and white marble smoke edition of Toro y Moi’s first release on Dead Oceans. The Mattson 2 get co-billing on “Millenium.” Mahal is a Tagalog word meaning “expensive.”
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Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra, Afro, 1954 on Norgran Records
While this came out in 1954 on Norman Granz’s Norgran Records, my copy is a Vinyl Me, Please reissue from 2022, via UMG Recordings/Verve. When Granz formed Verve in 1956 he carried over the Norgran (and Clef) catalog. Verve then was sold to MGM in 1960, Polydor in 1972, and then became part of Universal…
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Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine, 2005 on Epic / Clean Slate
My copy is a 2022 reissue by Vinyl Me, Please. This was Apple’s third LP. The album was initially completed in 2003 with production by John Brion, but the label shelved it. Various tracks and versions started to leak online, but Apple went back into the studio and the record came out in 2005 with…