Something Just Like This

1The Grammy Nominees is a series of various artists compilation albums celebrating the best of the music industry. Albums are released before the airing of the annual Grammy Awards. All of the songs on the albums are Grammy nominated in the year released. The first one of these albums was released in 1995 and has been released every year since to date. Each one through the 2007 edition has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while the 1996 and 2000 editions have also been certified Platinum.

'Just Like That.' was recorded in the summer of 2021 in Sausalito, CA. The players include two longtime members of Raitt's band, bassist James 'Hutch' Hutchinson and drummer Ricky Fataar, as well as two new musicians, Canadian Glenn Patscha on keyboards and backing vocals and Nashville guitarist Kenny Greenberg. Her longtime guitarist/songwriting partner George Marinelli also joined in, playing and singing on 'Livin' for the Ones', the song they co-wrote for the album.

Music Brokers Presents Vintage Chic 100 - Part Five contains the defining tracks of the decade and features some of the biggest hits from artists including Ituana, Sarah Menescal, Francoise Sanders, Amazonics and many more.

Three CD collection. After the stellar success of the Jazz Sexiest Ladies series, Music Brokers releases the first Volume of it's male counterpart: Jazz Sexiest Crooners. As usual, this set features 36 sultry and sexy songs from the last four decades, reinvented in lounge form. Classics from Lenny Kravitz, Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie and Led Zeppelin are combined with recent smashes from Beyoncé, Amy Winehouse and Bruno Mars in fantastic reworked versions by jazz artists such as Jamie Lancaster, Apollinare Rossi, James Farrelli and The George White Group. With stellar artwork and remastered sound, this is another essential addition to your lounge music collection.

Something about the 1975 Loss Leader, I Didn’t Know They Still Made Records Like This, seems a little different… yet the same. Starting with the album cover, whose design reeks of some long-ignored graphics designer and photographer teaming up to hatch a surefire scheme to meet hot cover models. Then there’s the curious song selection. It’s always great to hear Van Morrison’s “Moondance,” but the album it came from was released five years prior, in 1970, while Randy Newman’s “Mama Told Me Not To Come” comes from his already ancient ’71 live album. Joni Mitchell’s “Carey” is from her 1971 LP, Blue, and Arlo Guthrie’s cover of “City Of New Orleans” was first issued in 1972. Now… these are all great songs, and considered ‘should-owns’ for any collection, but on the surface it looks like Warners didn’t have any new music to promote. Perhaps they were just pushing the back catalog, or maybe it’s as the cover suggests… they don’t make records like this anymore, and here are some of them again to remind you. The uncredited liner notes offer no reasoning, and are more historical than revelatory. So, I Didn’t Know They Still Made Records Like This ends up being an oddball entry in the ongoing series… one that wasn’t even advertised all that much (if at all) via inner sleeves, either. All the while stylistically seeming like an earlier edition in the series, thanks to the older material. Something I didn’t know (or just refused to remember) is that Leo Sayer’s career was kickstarted when The Who’s Roger Daltry specifically picked him to write songs for his debut solo album. Now you know who to blame.