Music - Rock
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Bob Dylan Live, 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall Concert"
- The best album of 1998 was recorded in 1966. After decades of moldering in the vaults of Columbia Records, the fabled "'Royal Albert Hall Concert'" finally surfaces sounding clean and supreme. One disc of acoustic Dylan & a second charged set with Hawks covering Dylan's back while the crowd screams for his head. (2 CD set)
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Dig My Mood
- Nick Lowe
- Three decades on, Nick Lowe has evolved from British pub-rock pioneer (with Brinsley Schwarz) to new wave godfather (producing Elvis Costello, among others) to postrock crooner. It's a surprising but convincing transformation, |
Painted From Memory
- Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach
- Two towering talents in one recording studio can lead to a
hundred disasters. Here's one meeting of masters in which each man's skills complement the other's. Costello's lyrics and vocals provide the ache; Bacharach's melodies and arrangements add the drama. |
Loud, Fast & Out Of Control [BOX SET]
Rock & roll in its '50s infancy goes through periodic revivals for the same reason '20s jazz never falls out of
favor. Rhino's 4-disc '50s collection brings together artists as diverse as Elvis Presley & Bobby Darin, Joe Turner & Wanda Jackson in a time when a new generation of musicians shook, rattled, and rolled the world.
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Guilty: 30 Years Of Randy Newman [BOX SET)
- Yes, this four-disc anthology offers up the "hits," such as they are. But the real treats here are found on the odds and
ends disc, which is laden with Newman's dark-tinged demos. An exemplary examination of a much-misunderstood songwriter. |
Pet Sounds
- The new edition of "Pet Sounds" presents the original and the first true stereo mixes of the Beach Boys' towering
masterpiece back to back. If ever there was a collection to be given such scrupulous treatment, this "greatest album of all time" (so says the Brit music mag Mojo) is it.
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Californication
- The old "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" is together again now that John Frusciante is back in the fold after a seven-year
absence. It turns out the off-the-wall guitarist may have been the missing spark plug; the Peppers' signature lineup scores again after their disappointing previous album, "One Hot Minute."
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Long Train Runnin' [BOX SET]
- DOOBIE BROTHERS.
New re-release, available September 1999. Four discs of Doobies dating back to "Rockin' Down the Highway," "Listen to the Music," and a bunch more '70s radio
staples.
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"Blues" by Eric Clapton
- The new two-disc retrospective "Blues" bundles 25 familiar and previously unreleased tracks the great guitarist cut
over a 10-year period beginning with his classic 1970 "Layla" sessions. Here's Clapton drawing on heroes such as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and Robert Johnson for inspiration.
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The John Lennon Anthology [BOX SET]
- John the primal screamer, John the street politician, John the L.A. party boy, and John the house husband. The John Lennon Anthology provides a window into all those phases of the artist's post-Beatles career. Compiled under the watchful eye of Yoko Ono, this rich stash
of demos, studio outtakes and chatter, and live and alternate versions serves as both historical artifact and source of entertainment.
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