Label: Proper

UK four CD collection. Without any doubt this set is the most thorough and definitive audio document of the career of The Louvin Brothers, one of the most popular acts in Country music history. The Louvins were an important building block in the Alternative Country music movement and their influence can be felt in the work of some of modern music's most vital artists such as Johnny Cash, the Everly Brothers, Gram Parsons, Jack White, Beck, and many, many more. 112 Songs make up this this massive release, and the story of their remarkable career is within an informative 24 page booklet together with complete discography and rare photos. All of their important recordings are here including all of the tracks from their classic Satan Is Real and Tragic Songs of Life albums. Proper.

From a basement in New Jersey, Tommy Falcone remade himself into a DIY Phil Spector. From 1962 to 1970, he founded and ran Cleopatra Records. With a whirlwind imagination and an omnivorous approach to genre, Falcone discovered and mentored young Garden State talent, wrote songs and produced wild studio effects, and quit his day job to promote it all himself.

Nick Lowe's debut album Jesus Of Cool (titled Pure Pop For Now People in The US) is one of the true underappreciated gems in music history. Released in 1978, this 30th anniversary edition provides not only the UK tracks, but the US tracks as well as songs released on his Bowi EP (a classic Lowe tongue-in-cheek joke at David Bowie who released his Low album in 1977) and b-sides. The songs do sound like they are from a different era and that's not a bad thing. They still crackle and sparkle and have an immediate freshness and vibrancy. "So It Goes" is a masterpiece. It is three minutes of simple yet sophisticated pop music that rivals anything Brian Wilson every recorded. "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" has a hypnotic, pulsating beat and "Heart Of The City" dips back into the sound of his pub rock days. "Marie Provost" is a whimsical ditty about a former movie star who ended up becoming puppy chow which Mr. Lowe based on a story he read in the paper.