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Marc Bolan - Marc Bolan at the BBC - Radio Sessions And Broadcasts 1967 -1977 (2013) {6CD Box Set Universal 534 309-2}
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© 1967-77, 2013 BBC Worldwide / Universal Music | 534 309-2
Rock / Glam Rock / Proto-Punk / Folk Rock / Freakbeat / Psychedelic / British Invasion / Mod

This set is said to combine all of the surviving BBC recordings with previously unreleased sessions taken from BBC Transcription Discs, off air recordings made on reel-to-reel tape recorders and the occasional cassette tape. The box contains 16 previously unreleased Tyrannosaurus Rex tracks, and over 20 T.Rex tracks never before issued. There are also a dozen interviews many of which have never been commercially available. The 117 track box set kicks off with some June 1968 John’s Children recordings and the curtain closes at the end of disc six with a couple of T.Rex tracks broadcast on the David Hamilton show, less than a month before Bolan’s untimely death.

Michael Jackson - Bad 25 (2012) {3CD+DVD Deluxe Edition Set, Sony Music Japan, EICP-1541~4}
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© 1987, 2012 Epic / Sony Music Japan | EICP-1541~4
Pop / R'n'B / Dance Pop

Deluxe edition of "BAD" release from Michael Jackson. This deluxe edition consists of three CDs, a DVD, two color booklets, a double-sided poster, and a sticker. Disc 1: The original album featuring 2012 rematering. Disc 2: A CD containing previously unreleased material recorded during the BAD sessions, unreleased demo tracks, and remixes by popular artists. Disc 3: A CD featuring his concert held on July 16, 1988 at Wembley Stadium. Uses the multitrack-recorded master. Disc 4: A DVD featuring his concert held on July 16, 1988 at Wembley Stadium. Also comes with a Japanese description and lyrics. Bonus Track: Japan edition bonus track.

Frankie Miller - Blackland Farmer - The Complete Starday Recordings and More (2008) {3CD, Bear Family BCD16566CH rec 1957-1969}
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© 1957-69, 2008 Starday / Bear Family Records | BCD16566CH
Country / Honky Tonk / Rockabilly

Good-natured and unassuming, and possessing an easy, slightly raspy baritone voice that brought an everyman feel to everything he sang, Frankie Miller ought to be a household name in country circles, but he isn't, and his relative obscurity as the 21st century opens is as much a mystery as it is unforgivable. Although he recorded often, Miller's key years were with Don Pierce's Starday label out of Nashville in the late '50s and early '60s (roughly 1959 to 1963), the time period covered by this marvelous three-disc anthology from Bear Family Records.

Robert Walter's 20th Congress - Giving Up The Ghost (2003) {Magnatude Records MT-2302-2}
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© 2003 Magnatude Records | MT-2302-2
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Soul Jazz / Organ

Robert Walter continues to balance on twin peaks of dance and jazz cultures with Giving Up the Ghost, whose breezy grooves cool sizzling keyboard and sax lines down to a simmer. The band includes alumni from Black Eyed Peas, T.J. Kirk, and Walter's own Greyboy Allstars, which means that the playing is consistently top-notch. There's enough angularity in the arrangements to bear occasional comparison to Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House - January 1975 (2014) {Promising Music 441202CD}
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© 1975, 2014 Radio Bremen / Promising Music | 441202CD
Jazz / Fusion / Modern Jazz / Jazz Rock / Guitar

In Memoriam. Larry Coryell, a guitarist who played rock 'n' roll as a teen but wound up pioneering jazz-rock fusion starting in the mid-1960s and then psychedelic fusion in the early '70s, died on Feb. 19. He was 73. RIP Mr. Coryell. In the 1970s, Germany's Radio Bremen simulcast a series of modern jazz concerts from all across the spectrum, and wisely archived them. Record producer Consul Bodo Jacoby was looking for a new project after losing the rights to reissue the MPS catalog and recalled them. His Promising Music label is issuing a number of these vintage performances in what he calls the Livelove series, of which January 1975 is the first volume.

Buck Owens - Buck 'Em! - The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967) (2013) {2CD Omnivore Recordings OVCD-75}
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© 1955-67, 2013 Omnivore Recordings | OVCD-75
Country / Bakersfield Sound / Honky Tonk / Traditional Country

Omnivore's 2013 double-disc set Buck Em! The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967) provides an interesting spin on Buck Owens: through a collection of mono singles, live tracks, alternate takes, early 45s, and other rarities, it tells an alternate history of Buck's prime years. If there's a hit on this 50-track collection, it's almost always in a version that's slightly different than what usually shows up on a standard greatest-hits. "Second Fiddle," "Love's Gonna Live Here," "I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)," "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail," and "Before You Go" are all in mono, there's an early version of "Ain't It Amazing Gracie," and "Act Naturally" is live, so they're familiar enough to not feel jarring and they do provide the core of a collection that winds up wandering into some pretty interesting territory.

The Stanley Brothers - Ralph & Carter: The Later King Years (1958-1965) {Ace Records CDCHD 1167 rel 2007}
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© 1958-65, 2007 King Records / Ace Records | CDCHD 1167
Bluegrass / Country / Traditional Bluegrass / Bluegrass Gospel

During the final part of their career, the Stanley Brothers did most of their recording for the King label, laying down almost 200 sides for the company between 1958 and 1965. All of those tracks are available in box set form should you want them, but the ordinary fan will be satisfied with more selective samplers such as this one, which has a couple dozen cuts originally released in 1961-1966. The Stanley Brothers were a consistent enough act that the songs picked for best-of comps are pretty much up to the taste of the compiler, but this does a fine job both in the quality and the variety of the material presented. In addition to plenty of originals, there are also interpretations of songs by A.P. Carter, Alton Delmore, and traditional items.

Various Artists - Jazz From Atlanta 1923-1929 {Timeless Historical CBC 1-038 Jazz rel 1997}
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© 1923-1929, 1997 Timeless Records | Timeless Historical Series | CBC 1-038 Jazz | Mono
Jazz / Early Jazz

The main jazz recordings were made in New York, Chicago, and to a lesser extent New Orleans, but Timeless has produced a series featuring the territory bands. This CD features two fine outfits which recorded in Atlanta during the twenties. Charles Fulcher is represented by two sides recorded for Okeh in 1923, and thereafter for Columbia; five in 1925 (two by his Dance Trio), and one apiece in 1926 and 1929. It's worth noting that all were written by him, including "My Pretty Girl", the most famous version of which was by Jean Goldkette.