Gordon Lightfoot

This exclusive triple CD compilation soundtracks the exhibition You Say You Want a Revolution: Records and Rebels 1966-1970. With 64 tracks spanning 3 discs, it celebrates pop stars and protest singers, revivalists and revolutionaries, baroque pop hits and psychedelic curiosities all born of the social, cultural and political ferment of the decade that changed it all. Featuring Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, The Beach Boys, Cream, Joan Baez, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and many, many more.

Rhino Entertainment presents: Just Acoustic: 80 Classic Acoustic Songs - 80 acoustic songs featuring Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Duran Duran, Chicago, Kate Bush, Yes and many others.

Internet musician extraordinaire Jonathan Coulton is back with a new album for 2019. On the heels of a successful Kickstarter campaign, the new record Some Guys, a collection of ’70s soft-rock cover songs performed as close to the originals as possible. If anyone can pull something like that off, it’s Jonathan Coulton. His previous album Solid State leaned into a softer performance and he’s been keeping busy writing songs for SpongeBob SquarePants: the Musical and being the in-house co-host/troubadour for NPR’s Ask Me Another, so a new Jonathan Coulton album is something worthwhile.

It may not be the "ultimate" collection of hits from the 1970's, but this ten disc set does indeed offer 198 of the songs that helped define the decade. Happily, they are all original recordings by the original artists, as they were heard on the radio. True, in a few cases that means the selections are "radio edits" (Rod Stewart's 1971 hit "Maggie May", for example, is missing the 30 second instrumental introduction that was included on the original album, but rarely played over the airwaves), but why quibble? The songs, though not necessarily remastered, all sound great, and the set includes some genuine treasures that have not (yet) been offered on other compilations. Highly recommended!