The Buttshakers Dream on

2019 release. The great Grover Washington, Jr. Discovered, nurtured and produced Pieces of a Dream while they were teenage phenoms still in high school.

Breaking out in the mid-2000s, singer/songwriter Kristian Matsson's the Tallest Man on Earth alias channeled troubadours of the '60s folk movement, his first albums offering an indie update on Dylan's earliest material. Matsson's style grew as the years went on, opening up from a spare instrumentation of rural folk instruments to more orchestrated takes on his bright, optimistic sounds. Fifth album I Love You. It's a Fever Dream continues this expansion, augmenting the lonely sound he built his name on with swimmy synths and other colorful tones as Matsson meditates on various travel and touring experiences.

Someone interested in La Monte Young's music faces a challenge: none of his works are available. Until Young signed to Gramavision in 1987, his recorded legacy was issued by a series of obscure labels, all of which have since disappeared. The Well-Tuned Piano, The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From the Four Dreams of China and Just Stompin' managed to obtain the releases only for it to get deleted all of Young's titles when Gramavision was taken over by Rykodisc.

After two albums of neo-traditional Irish music, Mike Scott brings The Waterboys back to the big rock sound of earlier albums like This is the Sea. Coming after the remarkably accomplished Fishermen's Blues and Room to Roam, Dream Harder is a bit of a disappointment. Its best material doesn't carry the same weight as compositions from Blues – compare the simple beauty of Fishermen's Blues' "Has Anyone Hear Seen Hank" to Dream Harder's overblown "The Return of Jimi Hendrix." Scott can still bang out some good songs, but on Dream Harder there aren't as many as on previous efforts. ~Allmusic

BBM ("Bruce Baker Moore") is the name of the short-lived power trio formed in 1993 by long-established artists, bassist Jack Bruce, guitarist Gary Moore (both of whom had collaborated previously on Moore's Corridors of Power album) and drummer Ginger Baker. They released just one studio album, entitled Around The Next Dream, which was released on the Virgin record label.

Demon Music continue with their year-themed Marc Bolan / T. Rex releases with CD and vinyl box sets focused on 1973 called Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream?
The 4CD and 5LP sets include the Tanx and Zinc Alloy albums, along with the non-album hit singles & B-sides, including ‘Children Of The Revolution’, ‘Solid Gold Easy Action”, ‘20th Century Boy’ and ‘The Groover’ as well demos and outtakes from both albums. The sets also focus on Marc’s initial forays into the world of soul music and highlights from the unfinished album he wrote and produced for the American singer ‘Sister’ Pat Hall.

Alfredo Rodríguez's fourth studio album was recorded in just two days, with a majority of the songs being done impressively in one take. Over the past decade he has gone from a young local Cuban artist to a globally recognized Grammy®-nominee. As jazz music sees a resurgence in younger audiences, Rodríguez is leading the way for the new wave of Cuban musicians.