CALVIN RUSSELL - The Last Call, In The Heat Of A Night (2011)

Calvin Russell (November 1, 1948 – April 3, 2011) was an American blues rock/roots rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born Calvert Russell Kosler, at the age of twelve he started to learn guitar and at thirteen joined a band called 'The Cavemen'. In 1989 he met Patrick Mathe of the French record label New Rose. After his first album was released, Russell started touring in Europe in 1990, and became quite popular there while remaining fairly unknown at home. Russell died on April 3, 2011 in Garfield, Texas of cancer at the age of 62.

Live at L'Atabal (Biarritz, France), 19th of June, 2009

TRACKS: 01. Freight Train Blues 02. Texas Blues Again 03. Halloween 04. 5m2 05. Behind the 8 Ball 06. Rats & Roaches 07. Soldier 08. Rolling Wheel 09. Dawg Eat Dawg 10. Are You Waiting 11. Ain't Leaving Your Love 12. Too Old to Grow Up Now

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Aloe Blacc - Good Things

All the promise of his debut comes true on Aloe Blacc’s sophomore release, Good Things, a vintage sound meets modern problems release with a way too modest title. Right from the opening “I Need a Dollar” -- which could be passed off as unreleased Bill Withers, no problem -- the album offers grand things, providing listeners with that solid, but not polarizing, style of social commentary Withers perfected. On the following cut, positivity is pushed (“Something special happened today/I got green lights all the way”) in a manner that’s far from sugary, but this singer who offers such warmth and humility on his smooth soul tracks is well aware of sin, and can get slinky in a Al Green style when warning against loose women on “Hey Brother.” An even better example of this is his cover of the Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale,” which becomes much more than a clever choice, thanks to a convincing performance that suggests he’s been there. The organic production, real horns and all, is left up entirely to the Truth & Soul Productions crew (Jeff Dynamite and Leon Michels) but Blacc’s delivery is less traditional with phrasing and some slang left over from when he was a 24-7 rapper. Anyone with a taste for neo-soul should try Good Things unique flavor. It comes on familiar and comfortable and becomes more rich and rewarding with every return visit.
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PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here [Experience Edition] (2011)

The breakthrough success of Dark Side of the Moon made Wish You Were Here a crucial follow-up in strictly commercial terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first recording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band only provided Roger Waters more fodder for his lyrics, which glanced at the band's roots as well as their new responsibilities. The mechanized throb of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a repeat-echo unit, signals the opening bars of "Welcome to the Machine," a diatribe against an industry more concerned with money than creative music-making. "Have a Cigar" further establishes Waters' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role of a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pink?" The remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casualty of Pink Floyd's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett. The 20-minute-plus "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" has its roots in earlier pieces like "Atom Heart Mother Suite" and "Echoes." But rather than just another Floydian soundscape, its lyrics make it a paean to Barrett's genius and a requiem for his subsequent breakdown. The first five of the song's nine movements open the album with sax player Dick Parry wailing as effectively as he did on Dark Side of the Moon. The final four sections, which close the album, form a reprise that starts with the sound of wind and David Gilmour's guitar screaming and crying. The band then settles into a laid-back jam that ends with Richard Wright's billowing synth delicately fading out. The title track deals also with Barrett, as well as the tension the idealist Waters was feeling in battling the greed that surrounded the band's success. The themes of disillusionment planted throughout Wish You Were Here would eventually sprout full-blown on The Wall.

DISC 1 - Wish You Were Here (Digitally Remastered by James Guthrie)
01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5) 02. Welcome To The Machine 03. Have A Cigar 04. Wish You Were Here 05. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)

DISC 2 - Previously Unreleased Live and Studio Recordings
01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-6) [live at Wembley November 1974, 2011 mix and previously unreleased] 02. Raving & Drooling [live at Wembley November 1974, 2011 mix and previously unreleased] 03. You’ve Got To Be Crazy [live at Wembley November 1974, 2011 mix and previously unreleased] 04. Wine Glasses [from the unreleased Household Objects project] 05. Have A Cigar [alternative version, previously unreleased] 06. Wish You Were Here [featuring Stephane Grappelli, previously unreleased]
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