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Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Deluxe Edition

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by Doug Collette
August 29, 2015

In combination with the 2015 'Zip Code' tour, on which the band played the album in its entirety more than once, the reissue of the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones Records, 1971) is a valiant and fully-justified effort to restore the significance of the album, the importance of which has suffered over time in comparison ...

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Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4

by Doug Collette
August 24, 2015

There's a theory a nascent jazzlover could build an estimable collection of the music simply by picking and choosing from the discography of Miles Davis and the various musicians with whom he's collaborated over the years. Likewise, the mercurial alterations of style enacted by the man with the horn reflect the evolution of the music itself, ...

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Jimi Hendrix: Freedom-Atlanta Pop Festival

by Doug Collette
August 23, 2015

Jimi Hendrix' performance at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, NY may be his most iconic single live performance, but as the conclusion of the August 1969 event, it was offered in front of approximately half the 300-400,000audience he faced at the Atlanta Pop Festival roughly a year later. Contained on two-disc ...

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Warren Haynes featuring Railroad Earth at Waterfront Park Burlington VT 2015 Lake Champlain Maritime Festival

by Doug Collette
August 22, 2015

Warren Haynes featuring Railroad Earth Waterfront Park Lake Champlain Maritime Festival Burlington, VT August 9, 2015 With the warm breezy notes opening their introductory set August 9th Railroad Earth set the tone for the evening at Burlington's Waterfront Park. In short order too they reaffirmed why they deserve their ...

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Grateful Dead: The Best of the Grateful Dead

by Doug Collette
August 9, 2015

As with so many aspects of the Grateful Dead oeuvre, there's more to The Best of the Grateful Dead than meets the eyes and ears. An embossed cover the glossy likes of which don't usually adorn such compilations, plus the presence of sound arising from brand new remastering done on the bulk of the thirty two ...

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Sly and the Family Stone: Live at The Fillmore East October 4th and 4th 1968

by Doug Collette
August 9, 2015

Sly and The Family Stone's galvanizing appearance at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in August of 1969 may well represent the pinnacle of their career, but their rise to this apogee of recognition was the culmination of a long slow climb to fame dating back even further than Sylvester Stewart's, nee Sly, tenure as a ...

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Dawes at Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT

by Doug Collette
August 1, 2015

Dawes Higher Ground South Burlington, VT July 21, 2015 Dawes is making up for lost time in 2015. The Los Angeles-based band reasserted themselves as recording artists in the studio with All Your Favorite Bands (Hub Records, 2015) and is now taking the next logical step in their development as a ...

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Phish: Amsterdam

by Doug Collette
July 25, 2015

Delving in sequence into this eight CD set of the shows recorded in February and July of 1997, it sounds like the band really takes flight during “Timber" from the initial show. But Phish shows from throughout their history inevitably exhibit a relativity of momentum, the dynamics of which are dependent upon, but not limited by, ...

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Fare Thee Well: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the Grateful Dead, July 3,4 & 5, 2015

by Doug Collette
July 18, 2015

Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, Jeff Chimenti Fare Thee Well: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the Grateful Dead Soldier Field Chicago, IL July 3, 4, 5, 2015 Fare Thee Well: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the Grateful Dead was one ...

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From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971

by Doug Collette
July 18, 2015

Somewhat late to the archival exploration of their fifty-year plus vault, the Rolling Stones are making up for lost time with titles like this. The Marquee Club Live in 1971 reaffirms the notion the conic British group were never a better band than at this juncture of their career. Recorded with impeccable sound by ...