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Gregg Allman 1947–2017
Robert Baird  |  May 29, 2017  |  5 comments
His finest moments came just after the death of brother Duane in 1971 and then-bassist Berry Oakley a year later.
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Joe Walsh on 200gm LP from Analogue Productions
Robert Baird  |  May 26, 2017  |  7 comments
Another week, another beautiful-sounding, wonderfully packaged reissue from Analogue Productions.
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Garland Jeffreys' New Album
Robert Baird  |  May 19, 2017  |  1 comments
He's made a career out of being hard to describe, impossible to pigeonhole.
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Chris Cornell & the Singles Soundtrack
Robert Baird  |  May 18, 2017  |  2 comments
Was just listening to the deluxe edition of Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, which is to be released tomorrow, May 19, when the news of Chris Cornell's unexpected death was announced. Very sad news and our sympathies go out to his family and all who loved his music in Soundgarden and Audioslave, and on the solo records.
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Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan's Small Town on ECM
Robert Baird  |  May 16, 2017  |  3 comments
On Small Town, Bill Frisell's latest album, a program of duets with bassist Thomas Morgan recorded live at the Village Vanguard in NYC and produced by the founder, owner, and visionary behind ECM Records, Manfred Eicher, Frisell again shows his affinity for American roots music.
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Bash & Pop on Vinyl
Robert Baird  |  May 13, 2017  |  1 comments
The final utterance of a great band dissolving has completely stood the test of time.
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Ella on Record at 100
Robert Baird  |  May 09, 2017  |  0 comments
Fitzgerald's influence on jazz vocals, celebrated in a flurry of reissues from Universal Music, is almost unimaginably vast.
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First Listen: The 2017 Sgt. Pepper Remix
Robert Baird  |  Apr 29, 2017  |  16 comments
We are all going to be buying "new" Beatles reissues for the rest of our time upon this mortal coil.
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Record Store Day 2017 a Success
Robert Baird  |  Apr 24, 2017  |  12 comments
These kids were focused and motivated. In other words, RSD works.
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Record Store Day Saturday Marks 10th Anniversary
Robert Baird  |  Apr 21, 2017  |  7 comments
Robert Baird gets ready for the big day with a special reissue on two 180gm LPs of Elton John's live 17-11-70 album. (Photo: Jana Dagdagan)

Are record stores who have the product in hand breaking ranks and selling on eBay to the highest bidders?

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"We Are Stereo, Hear Us Roar!"
Robert Baird  |  Apr 16, 2017  |  12 comments
"Phase 4 stereo can only be described as a marvel of sound, a radically new and dramatically potent concept in the art of high fidelity reproduction . . . it stands for motion and an uncanny sense of spatial realism unapproached by conventional disc standards."

Uh huh. And we have a miraculous vintage tube amp out in the swamps, spanned by the Brooklyn Bridge, that we want to sell you!!!

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Lightnin' Hopkins on an Analogue Productions LP
Robert Baird  |  Apr 07, 2017  |  6 comments
Is there such a thing as a bad Lightnin' Sam Hopkins record? No, but there are a lot of badly recorded Hopkins records. Happily, Goin' Away originally released in 1963 on the Bluesville label (an imprint of Prestige Records) isn't one of them. And the already good sonics have even been improved in yet another superb 180gram Analogue Productions LP reissue.
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Crate Diggers?
Robert Baird  |  Mar 31, 2017  |  3 comments
Put the expression "crate-diggers" into any sentence and it will catch my eye. The Warner Music Group has launched Run Out Groove, a new fan-driven, vinyl-only label that is going to let the public, or more accurately the crate-diggers among us, choose which records from the WMG trove of labels this new label will release.
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Gil Evans and Ten
Robert Baird  |  Mar 28, 2017  |  0 comments
If arrangers and orchestrators are the secret weapons of jazz, Evans on this new LP from Analogue Productions is revealed to be the atomic bomb.
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The Imperfect Art of the Steal
Robert Baird  |  Mar 27, 2017  |  1 comments
Innocents waiting to be taken advantage of are few and far between on record collector sites like Discogs and eBay.
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