Modesto, CA s influential indie-rock group Grandaddy celebrates the 20th-anniversary of their classic second LP, 2000 s The Sophtware Slump with a brand-new solo piano recording of the album by principal songwriter Jason Lytle. The candid arrangements reveal new layers of meaning embedded in The Sophtware Slump s melancholy and touching vision of the future….
Studio album, concept album, Grande Loge took a step out of their confort zone releasing Unruh.Unruh was created in accompaniement of the book Soliloquium in Splendor, by Oksana and Gil PROU, released march 1st 2023 Ed. Rivière Blanche.Without being chronologically accurate, it takes inspiration in the book s characters and universes, and suggests a 45…
Studio album, concept album, Grande Loge took a step out of their confort zone releasing Unruh.Unruh was created in accompaniement of the book Soliloquium in Splendor, by Oksana and Gil PROU, released march 1st 2023 Ed. Rivière Blanche.Without being chronologically accurate, it takes inspiration in the book s characters and universes, and suggests a 45…
Grant Green began his lengthy and prolific Blue Note career with the 1961 release of his debut album Grant s First Stand, a stellar soul jazz outing that featured the guitarist in an organ trio with Baby Face Willette on Hammond B3 and Ben Dixon on drums. When he returned to Van Gelder Studio next…
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold tip-on jacket. The trio of Grant Green, Larry Young and Elvin Jones had a unique alchemy from the first time they got together on 1964 s Talkin About. For 1965 s I Want To Hold Your Hand, they added Hank Mobley to the mix for sophisticated renditions…
The complete Grant Green LP Remembering Grant Green, a wonderful trio session on which he is backed only by Wilbur Ware on bass and Al Harewood on drums. This was an unusual setting for the guitarist, who was most often captured with an organist in this intimate format. No other recordings by Green with this…
History and legend have often found their way into my songs, reflects Grant-Lee Phillips. But sometimes, I don t have to look quite so far to find inspiration. Walking in the Green Corn by Grant-Lee Phillips is ten songs drawn from Phillips intensive investigations into his native lineage. Phillips, who is Muskogee (Creek), elliptically explores…
1971 Mix 2018-2019 Remaster In 1969, for their third album, the Grateful Dead eschewed outside producers and created Aoxomoxoa themselves, beginning a run of self-produced albums that would continue until 1977. Scrapping the first sessions, which were recorded to eight-track tape, the Dead now had 16 tracks with which to experiment on their psychedelic sound, with an album that…
The Grateful Dead s final studio album, released in October 1989, contains some of the strongest songs of the later-era Grateful Dead, including “Foolish Heart,” “Standing On The Moon,” and Brent Mydland s “Blow Away.” Brent had three songs on the LP, demonstrating his importance to the band with his strong vocal and musical contributions….
Dick’s Picks Vol. 2 has always been one of our favorites here at Real Gone, and not just because one of our two partners spent much of his misbegotten youth at the venue where it was recorded, the Ohio Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. Which, if you’ve never been there, is one of those grand movie…
The fourth night of the famed Fillmore West run that produced the bulk of Live Dead is an exceptional example-going back more than 54 years-as to why you never miss a Sunday show. Opening (!!) with what would later be known as the Live Dead suite, 3 2 69 demonstrates the Dead had not only…
The penultimate studio album from the Grateful Dead, released in 1987, it was their first Top 10 album, with their first Top 10 hit song, Touch Of Grey. Many of the songs had been in the repertoire since 1982-1983, along with 1985 and 1986 additions, and songs to this day are considered bona fide classics,…
180-gram 5 LP set, limited to 10,000 copies Rock s longest, strangest trip, Grateful Dead, was the psychedelic era s most beloved musical ambassadors as well as its most enduring survivors. They spread their message of peace, love, and mind-expansion across the globe throughout three decades. The group had popular music s most fervent and…
The first Arista Grateful Dead album, and the first studio album featuring an outside producer their debut album a decade earlier, Terrapin Station is one of the deepest, densest, most ambitious album in the entire Dead catalog. Arista president Clive Davis vowed to get the Dead a hit record (that would take another 10 years),…
50th Anniversary Remaster of the debut album from the band’s own label, GRATEFUL DEAD RECORDS. With the recent passing of founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and temporary exit of drummer, Mickey Hart, this 1973 release introduces a fresh lineup that includes newest members Keith and Donna Godchaux on keys and vocals. Features“Eyes Of The World,”…
In the Summer of 1989, word was out that the Grateful Dead were recording their summer tour for an upcoming live album. Thankfully, word later spread that they were also recording the magnificent Fall Tour of 1989. And then the equally great Spring Tour of 1990. Just before the Dead split for Europe in the…