Everybody Fine

This fine twofer is very much tied in with Ace’s history, especially with original Chiswick label. The first album on Chiswick in 1977 was 'Hollywood Rock’n’Rol'” which contained some tracks by Glen Glenn that attracted appreciative reaction from European fans. Ace founder Ted Carroll met Glen near Los Angeles soon after and was able to assemble a new album that included alternate takes of his best-known songs plus some radio and TV performances.
This was issued as 'The Glen Glenn Story' in 1982, once again to much acclaim around the UK and Europe, which spurred Glen to return to the studio to make a new album, 'Everybody’s Movin’ Again', released on Ace in 1984…

Don Ewell - Man Here Plays Fine Piano! (1957) {Good Time Jazz GTJCD-10043-2 rel 1995}
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© 1957, 1995 Good Time Jazz / Fantasy | GTJCD-10043-2
Jazz / Stride / Classic Jazz / Piano

During a two-day period in 1957, pianist Don Ewell teamed up with clarinetist Darnell Howard, bassist Pops Foster, and drummer Minor Hall to record enough music for two albums, this one and Free 'N Easy. In addition to six fine quartet pieces (including "Everybody Loves My Baby" and "Keepin' out of Mischief Now"), there are four solo performances that fully showcase the underrated but talented New Orleans piano of Don Ewell. Easily recommended to fans of classic jazz.

The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We (1993) {2018 25th Anniversary, standard version, remastered}
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© 1993, 2018 Island Records / UMC | 6769045
Rock / Alternative Rock / Celtic Rock / Irish Pop

Title aside, what the Cranberries were doing wasn't that common at the time, at least in mainstream pop terms; grunge and G-funk had done their respective big splashes via Nirvana and Dr. Dre when Everybody came out first in the U.K. and then in America some months later. Lead guitarist Noel Hogan is in many ways the true center of the band at this point, co-writing all but three songs with O'Riordan and showing an amazing economy in his playing, and having longtime Smiths/Morrissey producer Stephen Street behind the boards meant that the right blend of projection and delicacy still held sway.

Joe Louis Walker is one of the most interesting guitarists on the contemporary blues scene, not to mention one of the most prolific; 2015's Everybody Wants a Piece is Walker's 25th album since he made his debut with 1986's Cold Is the Night, and it hardly sounds like the work of someone padding his résumé. Walker is a player who keeps his music lively by mixing up the formula, folding plenty of rock, R&B, and Latin influences into his work instead of laying out the typical 12-bar figures all over again, and Everybody Wants a Piece finds him shaking it up with impressive results, especially on the wah-wah-fortified and rocked-up cover of "Witchcraft," a slinky interpretation of "Wade in the Water" that mixes up gospel and funk influences, the rollicking boogie-woogie of "Buzz on You," and the slide guitar shuffle of "35 Years Old"…

Sony's 2016 Legacy edition of Everybody's in Show-Biz turns the 1972 double-LP into a double-CD set by mining the March 1972 Carnegie Hall recordings that provided the album with its live second disc. Thirteen of the 17 songs on the second CD come from these live tapes, the exceptions being the unreleased completed outtake "History" – a slightly dreamy, wry look back at the past that feels like a gateway to Preservation – the backing track to "Sophisticated Lady," and alternate mixes of "Supersonic Rocket Ship" and "Unreal Reality." These are nice footnotes, but the story lies in the live tracks, which offer more of the same from the original record.

Horton was tragically underrecorded as a bandleader; this album certainly attests to his talents in that regard, whether romping through a joyous "Everybody's Fishin'" or elegantly exmaining the tonal possibilities of the Duke Ellington chestnut "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." John Nicholas provides sympathetic backing on both guitar and piano, and Kaz Kazanoff is the stellar saxman.

2009 compilation from the Glam popsters. This holiday-themed release brings together some of the band's best loved hits (including, of course, 'Merry Xmas Everybody'), creating the perfect Rock compilation for your annual Christmas party. With their unique blend of Pop-perfect Rock 'n' Roll, outrageous flamboyance and sense of fun, Slade are one of the best loved British bands of all time. Since forming in 1966, they notched up 23 Top 20 singles (including six #1s) and six hit albums. In the early '70s, Slade were, without doubt, the biggest band in the UK charts: they scored an incredible eleven Top 5 singles between 1971 and 1974 alone. Features 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now', 'C'mon Feel the Noize' and 'Skweeze Me Pleeze Me'.